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February 10, 2006
Eating Out
Yesterday turned out to be a big eating out day. First, I had my weekly lunch out meeting with my boss, Edward. We went to a place with a great salad bar that includes lowfat cottage cheese, so I had tons of veggies and cottage cheese, plus my favorite dessert that totally grosses Edward out: a plate of fruit (pineapples, melons, berries)topped with grape tomatoes, black olives, and a small sprinkling of freshly grated parmesean cheese. He says it's just wrong to mix sweet and salty tastes that way. I say he can't stop me.
Later on, I met my old co-worker VLC in the city for a drink after work. We met up at a vaguely Mexican/Cuban fusion type place in her neighborhood, and we both had the happy hour special margarita. I hadn't had a margarita in ages, and this one was quite delicious. So I didn't use my measuring cup this time... I'm being a little bit less religious about measuring now that my experiment is over, though still measuring everything almost every day. I also ate a cup of Cuban black bean soup, very beany and not creamy, to put something in my stomach before drinking the margarita. I'm sure yesterday was a higher than 1050 day, since there's no telling what's in restaurant food (though I can be fairly sure that the veggies on the salad bar really were what they claim to be!) Therefore, I'm going slightly under calories today. I had my quotidian breakfast + cheese, then my quotidian lunch, and tonight I'm just going to throw together a brewers yeast soup as I walk out the door to an 8 pm meeting. At least I'll have time to make a quick stop at the house, feed the cats and give Philomena her medication, before I leave for my meeting. I probably wont' get home till 10 or 11, then first thing in the morning I'm running to Whole Foods for the big shop. Tomorrow afternoon we're supposed to have up to a foot of snow! So I have to stock up before the storm. Hopefully the WF won't be TOO crowded at 8 am on a Saturday! And even though my trip to Whole Foods really will feel like a trip to Whole Paycheck, I will be so glad to be buying organic produce for two!
Posted by april at February 10, 2006 3:21 PM