Did you know the average restaurant meal contains more than 1,000 calories? Even breakfast fare such as pancakes, waffles, and French toast, served in restaurant-sized portions can contain as many as 900 calories. And studies show that kids eat nearly twice as many calories when eating a restaurant meal compared with eating a meal cooked and served at home. With all these extra calories, it's easy to sabotage your diet. Plus, we all want to get our money's worth and because we're often paying a lot more for food served at a restaurant, we may use the prices themselves as justification for cleaning the plate.