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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No! Don't say a thing! My god. [b]Clean your plate is a great path to obesity[/b] and if you suggest the smaller entree u will look cheap. It is once a year. Let it go.[/quote]

Hmmm, no, it's not. It's all the junk you eat. I ate actual food growing up, and was always reminded to clean my plate, both so as not to be wasteful and also out of politeness. I had my meals and didn't munch constantly like most people seem to do nowadays. At 47 years of age, I'm still a size 2. It's appalling to me to watch adults encourage their children to throw barely-touched proper food away because "well, they're just not hungry, and it's good that they assert that" only to turn around and feed them snacks and dessert when they eventually want to eat. Talk about obesity. [/quote]

A shrimp cocktail, a three pound lobster, and a slab of cake is a huge meal.  No one needs this much food.  This isn't a meal.  It's enough for three people.[/quote]

A 2.5 lb lobster has under 300 calories.  Obviously the butter and the sides will add up, but it's really not going to feed 3 people.  The cake is over the top, but maybe not for an active teenage boy.

I would just take home the leftovers and have a nice lobster salad the next day.  You can make a decent lobster roll with half a tail of a large lobster.[/quote]

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