Year 3, Day 116: Date Night with Cranberry Walnut Crisps

So much to tell! Today me and another Domaniac went for a walk because we thought the heat had abated. Alas, it was nearly 93 degrees when we got to Russo's and luckily we ran into another Domaniac who was buying lunch. Celebrating this coincidence we took the ride home and relished our meat-locker temperature office as we enjoyed our lunch. So it was about half a walk. Then Emily and I played tennis but what should have been 90 minutes was more like 40 minutes after which she could no longer even speak to announce the score. We adjourned and had dinner at the Met Bar.

Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean!
Heritage Flakes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Banana
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Coffee

Snack
4 Sticks Beef Jerk
1.5 oz Boston Lite Popcorn

Lunch; Russo's $5.65
Romaine, red pepper, red onion, feta
chicken, broccoli, mushrooms
balsamic vinegar, pepperocini

Dinner: Met Bar
Salad
Arctic Char
Bread Basket

One of the things the South Beach Diet book tells you to do is to get rid of the bread basket as soon as you get to a restaurant. This ordinarily is not a problem since most restaurants serve white, flavorless bread that's room temperature, or worse, cold. The Met Bar, which is already one of the greatest places to eat, serves a bread basket that is comprised of the world's greatest corn bread (probably above the Mason-Dixon line) and Cranberry Walnut Crisps—as described on their Web site: "A thin flat crisp bread with cranberries and walnuts; a tasty treat to include in a bread basket or enjoy as a snack." HELL yeah, you could eat three packages of those things and not bat an eye! If you asked me three years ago what would make me go ga-ga off the diet, I never would have said "Cranberry Walnut Crisps." In fact, two of the three things in the title aren't really things I even LIKE. Yet the alchemy somehow made us eat them all up and honk for more.