Out

We went out to eat on Tuesday night. Normally this is not a momentous event at all but it is the first time we've done it since we hit the hard core health kick just after New Year's Day. All things considered, it was decent, but here are the lowlights:

1. I went to a restaurant that I knew had at least a few semi-healthy options. Their menu has changed since the last time I ate there...for the worse. Who does that in 2010? Restaurants of every type are making things healthier, yet I found a menu that offered me almost no solid options.

2. Bread and pasta=health fail. I had more bread than I should have. Same for the angel hair pasta. I've barely touched either the last three weeks, so it's fine. But I could have done better with a little less of each.

3. Salmon. One of the healthiest foods out there, and something I make at home about once a week now. And I like mine better. The restaurant salmon was overcooked and came with a citrus-balsamic glaze that tasted good, but was probably a little too loaded with sugar and badness.

4. Sauteed spinach. Wildly undercooked and especially bland. Or perhaps I just overcook mine at home and prefer it that way. But wow, I thought this would be the one sure thing going for me on my plate. I had to salt it up to make it halfway decent.

It was nice to get out. The kids were both good (for the most part, aside from A.J. climbing in the booth a little) and it was nice to have a quiet dinner away from home. But from a nutrition and taste point of view, it was frustrating just because the best parts of the dinner were the things that weren't good for me. And that's fine. It just reinforces the fact that I'm doing the right thing by having almost all of my meals at home.

EDIT: I wrote the above before I went to the gym on Wednesday morning...where I proceeded to have a great workout. I felt strong and added some weight to my upper body lifting routine. So the moral of the story seems to be that mixing in some somewhat bad carbs every now and then probably isn't bad at all.