Simple dishes you can make ahead of time include pasta salad, chilled soup or gazpacho, salsa and guacamole.

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Fitzpatrick and Link, who supervise security checkpoints at New York City's LaGuardia Airport, are going Italian on Thanksgiving Day and will be making pasta salad and baked ziti, respectively, for staff potlucks.

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On a typical game day, the players are provided with a "potpourri of just about anything you'd want to eat" for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch and a dinner spread of chicken, steak or fish, pasta, salad and vegetables, Hina said.

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The express lunch menu includes salmon tartare with salad or braised oxtail with pappardelle pasta.

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Still at least he was looking after himself as he munched on chicken and salad while the rest of us ate pasta and lemon pie.

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These are the materials used to form dishes such as the warm salad of prawn tails, fish stew or pasta with sea urchin roe served in the restaurants of Villasimius.

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The counselor helped her change her diet -- choosing a salad for lunch instead of a burger, forgoing pasta and potatoes at dinner -- and encouraged her to walk a few times a week in addition to her regular exercise as goalie in a women's soccer league.

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