Wow, that Russian salad looks awesome. I'm salivating right now.
I've had three days in a row of eating out. I mentioned going out with my son and DiL on Saturday. I thought I did well with my food choice, but the scale was still up a pound the next morning.
Then on Sunday my sister took me out for lunch. I had a mozzarella omelet and for the first time in I don't know when I *ate some of the home fries* that came with the omelet! I'm not a huge potato fan, but omelets and home fries just seem to go together well. Naturally they serve way too much, but I moved aside about a 1/4 cup's worth and had that, and still kept within my carb and protein limits for the day.
Scale was up a second pound though on Monday morning.
Last night a friend took me out to dinner. We went to fancy "pan-Asian fusion cuisine" restaurant where they have a nice 3-course fixed price "early bird" menu for $20 (most of their other entrees are $25 and up and don't include any apptizers or coffee, etc). For first course we had a choice between a 'asian pear and goat cheese' salad, or grilled calamari. I adore* calamari, and so nice to find it grilled, not breaded and fried. I had to have it even though I knew it would put me right near my protein limit, even before getting to the main course.
For main course there was a choice between grilled shrimp on skewers with rice, grilled salmon with spinach and rice, or some sort of big noodle dish which sounded way too carby. I like shrimp and salmon both, but ordered the salmon as I wanted the spinach as well.
It came and had some good and bad. The bad? The menu said it came with 'Asian pesto sauce'. My friend asked, "Is this just like regular pesto sauce, made with basil? What makes it asian?" Our waiter said that it had some soy in it. "Hmm," my friend remarked, "A pesto sauce with a bit of soy..." but we both decided to go for it. And I think we both expected a classic pesto sauce made with oil and basil - with a splash of soy throw in.
And what we got? No clue why the called it pesto. Nothing the least bit 'pesto-y' about it. It was just sort of a typical thick, gluey, overly sweet soy-flavored glop probably filled with sugar and cornstarch. A major bummer. But I was able to scrape most of it off without problem. Also everything seemed to be on the very low fat side, with no way to get added fat into the meal.
And the good? In addition to the spinach it came with a couple asparagus spears, and they were tasty. Neither veggie was contaminated with the icky sauce. The 'spinach' was not spinach as I know it. I think it was actually the vegetable my Chinese daughter-in-law calls 'water spinach' which she buys at the asian supermarket. But it was very good indeed.
I cut off a small portion of the salmon, probably no more than about 2 oz worth, and ate that, and also had a little rice. But plain rice with no sauce or butter on it is not too appetizing.
So even with eating out I did pretty well at hitting my fat/carb/protein numbers for the day. And this morning the scale was not up any further, though neither was it down, so I'm still up two pounds from Saturday.
Today I brought in the remainder of the salmon (107g) and a small serving of the remainder of the rice (60g) to heat up for lunch. But I put a big healthy serving of BUTTER on top of the rice.
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