Starting with me, my food habits are, for the most part, are pretty standard American. I wake up and skip breakfast most days, or have the occasional bowl of cereal, and then for lunch I eat school lunch, god help me. Dinner is usually home-cooked by my mother, or ordered in when not. I'm not cautious of eating at fast food restaurants, regardless of how fattening the food may be. I do count calories, though, whatever that may mean. I try to keep it all within a 2,000 calorie diet. I think carbs might outweigh proteins in my diet, something I am working on changing.
My family does food in a very traditional irish way. We all sit down for dinner, provided we're all home, and we all eat together. Food is varied, based on what new food item my mother saw on some episode of Rachel Ray. There is usually ample carbs and meat to go with it, usually salad as well. Salad containing nuts, raisins, tomatoes, lettuce in a few colors, and croutons. With italian dressing. Food usually spiced with some herbs, or something. When we have big sunday dinners, its always some classic meal of porkchops and mash or steak and mash or lampchops and spuds. Always. I guess we're pretty white. We take around 30-45 minutes to eat based on the food, after which my brother and I do dishes while my dad retreats to watch some TV or read a book, and my Mom gets ready to go to work. My sister might do something as well, usually glued to the television.
White corporate america does dinner the way I just described above. Mom/wife makes food, family all joins in to eat it, kids do cleanup while parents relax a little bit. The foods represented by corporate Americans are very rich and full, glistening turkeys and glazed hams, always an ample supply of it, regardless of whether or not the family will manage to finish it all.
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I doubt that in most households the kids do the clean up.
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