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My father said that all he could afford to eat was an ovo frito, egg on bread, and that would be his one meal a day.

"Every caterer has had to take some money off the meal plate," he said.

A few years ago, I wrote about the comforting magic of "soft and pliant" egg noodles, the base for one of my all-time favorite meals: my Nana's cream chicken.

As an advocate for better food in schools and hospitals, she sees her love of “cheats” as a tool to help institutions create better meals without overburdening their staff.

If your meal isn’t cooked properly, say the meat on your plate is raw, alert the staff.