After a rendezvous with the dog sitter, and a last dinner of wilted salad, we set our phone alarms, hoping there would be enough charge to get us up in time.

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For example, when comparing the cost of a steak dinner (complete with soup, salad, and aparagus) at Outback Steakhouse to eating at home, they figured in the cost of an entire bag of salad as well as an entire bunch of asparagus.

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Dinner selections include Brittany lobster with truffle oil and crunchy vegetable salad, and braised veal cheek with morels and asparagus.

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On a typical game day, the players are provided with a "potpourri of just about anything you'd want to eat" for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch and a dinner spread of chicken, steak or fish, pasta, salad and vegetables, Hina said.

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Dinner is amazingly healthy: stuffed tomatoes and zucchini with curry rice, beet salad, avocados, spaghetti, stewed turkey with prunes.

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The counselor helped her change her diet -- choosing a salad for lunch instead of a burger, forgoing pasta and potatoes at dinner -- and encouraged her to walk a few times a week in addition to her regular exercise as goalie in a women's soccer league.

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