Other options include frozen or regular yogurt topped with dried fruit and nuts, a big slice of banana bread and milk, or even a bowl of pasta tossed with olive oil and parmesan cheese.

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The worst offender: Applebee's grilled cheese sandwich on sourdough bread with fries and 2% chocolate milk.

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They'd have some bread, milk with a little coffee, walk out the door and turn down the sidewalk toward Galileo High...then they'd wander off to the park.

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It was always the same: a great wedge of papaya with limes, a crisp thin omelette with green chilis mixed in, two slices of inch-thick white-bread toast, a dollop of red jelly and of margarine, and a pot of coffee with milk.

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