If you don’t feel comfortable doing this, simply tell the waitperson that you are on a diet and will share a meal. Be sure they don’t bring you an extra plate and charge an extra

We are not asking you to become thin like some of your Hollywood stars. We encourage you to stay at home to save money (See our Couple Tips ), but when you dine at a restaurant, please share the meal with your mate.

Split your meal with your sweetie when you eat out. Earthling, you have to stop eating so much. We are amazed at how large the meals are when we go out in the public to eat. To survive the recession, you are going to have to start cutting down on everything. That includes your meals at a restaurant or at home.

"split plate" charge. We have seen some restaurants do this. Can you believe the cheesiness?

You won’t starve by sharing a meal. American humans throw away much of their food anyway. Eating less during recession allows you to lose weight, look better and fitter. This will enable you to have more passionate sex with your mate, or to help you find a new mate. We did not understand what the big fuss was about looking thin and fit when we landed here on Planet Earth. However, we successfully assimilated into the Earthling culture to understand that watching your weight is good for your health, body and mind.

Warning, Earthlings. Please do not share a meal with a complete stranger at the next table. We tried it once and it was not successful. We later learned that even if you are trying to pick up that stranger to be your future mate, so that you can have mad passionate sex with them, it is not proper to try to share a meal with them unless they are already your mate. Live and learn. We did.

Splitting with friends. Whether you can get them to agree to split a meal or not, at least split the tab during the recession.

Be lean and save money like us. Split your meals at restaurants.