Summertime…just that one word gives me flashbacks to high school and back to 1991 - when Will Smith belted out that famous hit. But it also reminds me of vacations, baseball, Louisiana heat and humidity and cold treats like ice cream. In fact, food can be associated with all of those things I mentioned above. As you all probably know, Jonathan and I LOVE college baseball: Tulane, UNO, Southern Miss…we follow them all. In fact, we took Maddie to her first college baseball game last night – UNO at Southeastern.
One of the greatest things about going to the ballpark is the food. Of course, there’s the all-American hot dog, but there’s also the burgers, chicken tenders, fries, popcorn and even at Tulane, the pulled-pork nachos…unbelievable. So needless to say, attending baseball games has been a bit tough to adjust to with the journey that I’m on. We’ve stayed strong: watching Morgan eat popcorn while we sipped on water, but the scent of a baseball park can be amazing.
On Sunday afternoon, we took Morgan to Cold Stone Creamery. I fully expected to sit back and watch Jon and Morgan eat ice cream, but I decided to ask the manager for nutritional information. She was so awesome…she grabbed the list and walked me through all of the low fat, no fat, low calorie items. It turns out that they have a fat free/low cal sweet cream made with Splenda. She gave me a taste and it was delicious. So this “Like It” size only had 170 calories and 0 grams of fat.
When I got home, I decided to look up what the regular sweet cream was. For the big size, it was 790 calories and 48 grams of fat. Wow. I can't believe there can be so much fat in something that's not even a meal. Here is the info from Cold Stone. And here is Morgan enjoying her strawberry ice cream with rainbow sprinkles.
One more thing to share about this week…I was DYING for seafood. I mean, it’s Lent in Southeast Louisiana and it’s EVERYWHERE. So I decided to go to lunch yesterday at New Orleans Food & Spirits in Downtown Covington. If you’ve never been, it’s AMAZING. So I decided to get the grilled shrimp salad. Now, if you have been to New Orleans Food & Spirits, you know that they give you enough food for 2 people. My advice is to ask for a to-go box as soon as they set your plate down and box up ½ of it…I guarantee you will NOT leave hungry. So here is what my salad looked like before I boxed up ½ for later. There were at least 3 dozen grilled shrimp on top of mixed greens. It was delicious. Just the pic makes my mouth water for it again.
Only 3 days left until my first 5K walk/run. I am excited about that as well as the very busy weekend we have planned with other family events, etc. Stay tuned and remember: don't forget to ask for nutritional info from the manager of a restaurant. You may be pleasantly surprised and it can be a whole lot better than sipping on water!
Janel
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