Quote Originally Posted by capecoddah View Post
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I bet the Rockmomanov girls will do well.
$20 says they can cook more than 4 different meals.
$20 more says they can separate Dark, White and Delicate wash.

If I lose (and I won't) I'll donate the $ to my local library. Katzner Dictionary....
hahahahaha... well you have to split it! The older one... she already knows that she needs to marry a rich man as she needs to have a servant and a cook as she would rather not eat than get up and cook something. She won't even make tea for herself. She knows how to boil water and that is about it. Now, the younger one, who is graduating a year early (so the older one is hoping she will go to the same college with her and will wait on her hand and foot) she can cook and bake up a storm and do the laundry. She even makes eggs for her dad and sister and she doesn't even like them!

As for the Freshman 15, that has does have a little to do with it. I think if you don't know how to cook and have not really experienced "good" food, than you tend to put on the weight. I know my mom did not cook at all when I was growing up and as a result neither my sister nor I knew how to cook. My sister packed on those pounds at school as it was the first time she had decent FOOD on a regular basis.

Once I got out into the "real" world I started ordering appetizers just so I could try so many different things to see if I liked them. I found that things my parents had cooked and I hated, I actually liked. When I got to New York, I worked in an Italian restaurant and the owner was really nice about cooking special foods for me just so I could try them and he wasn't upset if I didn't like them. Those lesson helped me as a mom when I tried to teach my girls about trying new foods.