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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oops, didn't get the memo. Ate a full lamb stew dinner with saffron rice. I don't like eating cold meals unless the weather is boiling. I think people might get confused over one thing - grazing doesn't necessarily mean less calories or healthier meals. It really depends what you're eating.

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It’s not about cutting calories. It’s about snacks for dinner when no one is looking. [/quote]

For you, maybe. But the implication behind the term "girl dinner" is that women look for less caloric options, or healthier options. Snacking by its very nature can be a slippery slope because while your brain is thinking "oh, I'm just grazing", your body is picking high-calorie foods and eating too much of it, and then you may end up eating too fatty or too salty. A cheese or charcuterie board for example, isn't a great choice. The OP's only healthy suggestion was yogurt of hummus with crackers.

Sorry for taking a lecturing tone. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I've seen women think they're eating healthy and then wonder why they're gaining weight and feeling blah.
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No, the implication behind "girl dinner" is that I am freed from the burden of cooking for a night, and I want to make as little effort as possible.[/quote]

If that were the case, there would be no need to genderize the term. Society believes men don't like to cook or clean up! "Girl" dinner clearly implies "girl eats like a bird, and grazes on minute amounts of healthy things". That is the idea behind girl dinner, and most people end up not making their snack/grazing plates in that way. PPs have suggested pretty unhealthy things on this thread.

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Regardless of your utopian notions, in the vast majority of families, it is a woman doing the cooking.[/quote]

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