Through 18 years of marriage and for several years of single motherhood after, I tried to live up to the picture I held of a with-it woman who could keep her man happy, use a power drill, edge the yard, and whip up a mouth watering dinner in a sparkling kitchen looking like it came right out of a magazine while she looked effortlessly fabulous the whole time.
Sometimes we have nothing but water for dinner.
"You can't just drink water for dinner".
So, if you serve only broth, you are serving water for dinner".
"Sometimes I like water with dinner and wine on its own".
That evening, we celebrated another day on the water with dinner at the Fisherman's Return in Winterton-on-Sea.
Many Cubans went hungry; a Party official confessed to me that his family sometimes had little more than sugar water for dinner.
You think having bread and water for dinner because Dad couldn't scrape together enough money for meat again was a trial?
As the sun dove for the horizon, I popped the top of the Volkswagen in a skinny site overlooking the water, made dinner and sat at a picnic table overlooking Paradise Cove and the great brown hump of Point Dume.
"It's different every day," Ms. Butler says, describing the sunsets, the foliage, the skating and the ducks that along with the lakefront residents who boat across the water to dinner, stop this way for something to eat.
For example, if a child is significantly overweight, a parent might suggest having a glass of low-fat milk or bottled water with dinner rather than a soda, or substituting fruit and a cookie for rich desserts, Dr. Kreipe said.
