Mark Day #3 - Needs Ketchup.

Breakfast
1 bowl of Cheerios (at 10:30! yahoo for sleeping in on Saturdays)

Lunch
Salad. Lettuce, black beans, tomatoes, avocado, cheese, and light chipotle ranch dressing.

Snacks
Grapes.

Dinner
Steak. Barley Mac and Cheese. Green Beans. Ketchup.

Dessert
Jr. Oreo Sundae from Sonic

-----

Today we made our first big grocery trip. It definitely took a long time to sort through all the foods and find stuff that would fit our new found restrictions. Surprisingly, checkout was actually cheaper than expected. We spent just under $100, which is high for a normal trip but not when you consider how many groceries we bought. Looking back on the trip we realized that many of the big carb items (chips, carb snacks, drinks) are also kind of expensive. We'll see if that trend holds up over several weeks.

Also, don't be fooled by dinner. It may look good on paper, but it was pretty bad. (I made it so it's ok for that kind of commentary from me.) We were out of propane so I did the steak on the stove top and it came out way too done and chewy.

Next, I was trying a mac and cheese recipe that used barley instead of macaroni and somewhere along the way I forgot to add milk. So the barley and cheese was a big fail.

This dinner monstrosity did give us the opportunity to check out the carb counts in our favorite condiments. There are 3 grams of carbs in a tablespoon of A1 and 4 grams in a tablespoon of ketchup. These carbs were well worth it on this meal!

After dinner we thought we deserved some dessert. We had only done about 20 carbs at dinner and right now we're allowed between 40 and 60 carbs for any meal. We checked out the Sonic nutritional facts online and their Jr. Sundaes fall between 22 and 27 grams of carbs so we opted for the lowest on the list, the Jr. Oreo Sundae. It was good and given the meal we had finished earlier, it tasted like a 5 star dessert.

So that was Day #3. Worth noting, Day #3 was the first Saturday of college football. I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss the Dr. Pepper, chips and queso, and wings that usually accompany this occasion. There's always next year! :)