Empty-nesters eating out
WE always end up ordering too much food. We know it’s just the two of us, and we don’t want to get a doggie bag of leftovers we will just stick in the refrigerator for nobody to eat, but we pore over the menu and choose enough dishes to fill two tables anyway. Habit, maybe. It could also be a subconscious yearning for the good old days of big family gatherings. Or merely a case of greedy eyes (takaw mata) coupled with an utter lack of self-discipline. It’s true, not too long ago we sat around long tables with everybody telling interminable stories while wolfing down enormous quantities of oily, fatty, carbo-loaded unhealthy food, because family days were always diet-cheat days. But now it’s just the two of us.