Eating out

The other night, Jack and I went to dinner and a movie with friends. Not looking for anything fancy, they had asked ahead of time if Panda Express was okay. Since this would be my first time eating out, I knew I had to plan ahead. After choosing the day before what I would take and eat cold (tuna and cottage cheese) while everyone else ate restaurant food, I decided to check Panda's website to see if they listed nutrition information for the food they served. I was pleasantly surprised to discover 3 dishes with quite low calorie, carb, and sugar counts. Two were my favorites that I almost always ordered when going there - Mushroom Chicken and Beef and Broccoli (the third was String Bean Chicken). I also realized that they also sold butterflied, breaded, and deep-fried shrimp, which I love. So I talked with Jack, and he agreed to get the Mushroom Chicken, Beef and Broccoli, and Fried Shrimp along with his side of chow mein noodles and share with me what I could eat. I took along a plastic knife, a little spoon, and a 2-ounce measure, peeled the breading off two shrimp, and cut up the shrimp and enough beef and chicken to equal 3-1/2 ounces. Then cut up zucchini and mushrooms to fill the other 1/2 ounce and dumped it all together on a little plate. Yummy! It was a perfect fit with what I am supposed to be eating, and it tasted heavenly!