Eating Out on a Low Carb Diet

Awesome Lasagna!

It's going to happen.   You will need to go out with family or friends and they may choose a place which is serving some great lasagna that everyone is raving about.  Hopefully you can order off the menu but sometimes, you can't.  I had that experience recently.  A fundraiser for school.  A lasagna dinner.

At each table was an older student to welcome a younger student. It was a nice touch, except at our table, was the daughter of the mother who made all the lasagna for the evening. When I found that out, I explained to her, that I was certain that her mother's lasagna was fantastic, but that I would only be eating the meat and cheese.

That's right, I ate the lasagna filling, but not the pasta.  I'm sure I need to account for some transfer carbs, but pretty much I successfully removed the lasagna pasta from the dinner.  It was great.  Here's what my projected Carbometer is on the filling and side salad:

1/4 ground beef cooked: 0 carbs : 0 fiber
1/2 cup tomato sauce (likely less but wanting to be generous): 9 : 1.4
1/2 cup mozzarella cheese: 0 : 0
spices? - I haven't yet found spices with carbs.

Side salad:
1 cup iceberg lettuce: 2.3 : .9
scant carrot shavings: 1 : .3
1/2 oz of walnuts: 2 : .9
(The salad also had dried cranberries, which I removed as they are 23 carbs per oz)

Total Carbometer: 14.3 carbs: 3.5 Fiber

If I would have eaten the cranberries, I would have gone over my target.  That would be fine of course, that's a personal choice what to do in this situation.  The tomato sauce is a secret carb holder for sure!

I'm trying to get more exercise and walking/hiking in each day.  I'm trying to break through my plateau so that on Saturday, I can share some progress.  I tried a pilates class over lunch yesterday.  Interesting. It was with balls, not machines.   I do think I need to do some of this work as well, I've hit the stage where I need to tone.

I like to get on the scale everyday.  I actually spend a bit of time there, still in wonderment of the number I'm actually seeing and that it's below the one on my driver's license always brings a smile to me.

Happy Carb Counting!