I am discovering that eating out cheaply is difficult, as is eating with friends. Having said that, I am proud of the choices I made last night. We went to a Harvester-type place to eat. I had 'Italian Style Chicken'. I swapped the chips for boiled new potatoes and it came with a nice salad too.
Unfortunately, the salad came dressed, the potatoes came with packets of butter on the side and the chicken came in breadcrumbs with cheese and a tomato sauce on the top.
It all looked delicious, and I could happily have eaten it all.
Instead, I scraped off the cheese (shame it took the tomato based sauce with it!), peeled off the breadcrumb outer and had just the lean chicken. I refused the butter and removed it from my plate to remove the temptation. There wasn't much I could do about the salad dressing so I counted it with my syns.
I felt empowered and determined.
On the other hand I felt like this eatery was trying to trip me up. I thought I had made a good choice, and out it came with all these hidden extras, forcing me to make a real hash of eating my dinner in front of my friends. I don't want to become a martyr to dieting.
Next time I go there I will specify no salad dressing, no butter and I'll choose the salmon. Surely they won't breadcrumb that!?
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