Sweet Tooth Satisfied

Last night when I got home from work I realized that I'd only eaten 550 calories for the day.  Not nearly enough for being 6 pm!  Luckily I already had dinner made and all I needed to do was heat it up.  I made chili in the crockpot over the weekend so I heated that up with some spaghetti squash I made the night before, I also added a tablespoon of non-fat greek yogurt.  That filled me right up!  Chris asked me how many calories I had left for the day and I told him around 400.  We had some running around to do and Chris suggested as a treat on the way home that we get some frozen yogurt.  Ummmm, OK :)

After our errands we were driving home and realized the only ice cream places by us were Baskin Robbins and Dairy Queen, neither of which have frozen yogurt.  I suggested we go to Jewel and just pick out something to take home, that way we have the ability to manage what we get calorie/fat wise.  We spent probably about 10 minutes analyzing the ice cream section.  Chris said "no wonder we are all fat, look at the quantity of the ice cream aisle as compared to the other sections."  True, very true!  Anyway, the lowest calorie frozen yogurt I found was 90 calories for 1/2 of a cup.  Now I don't know about you, but 1/2 a cup of ice cream to me is about 2 bites :)  Then I saw a box of italian ice.  100 calories and 0 fat for a 6oz cup, that's already pre-packaged!  That's key to me.  If I had to measure out my own ice cream, I know an extra spoon full probably would have made it's way into my bowl.  This way it's all done for me.  I got the package that has 3 strawberry and 3 watermelon.  Chris was then able to get whatever ice cream he wanted since he doesn't really need to worry about calorie content.  He was willing to get the lower calorie ones for me though :)

We got home and both had our treats.  Now don't get me wrong, the italian ice will never be the same as having ice cream, however it was perfect for a little sweet evening treat.  Who goes out to get ice cream when it's -10 degrees and snowing?  We do :)