A Trip to the Buffet

This morning, my husband said some of his favorite words. "Let's go to Furrs." I know this is one of his favorite places, and we haven't been in more than 3 months, so I thought about it for a bit and then agreed.

Ideally, a dieter, like me, should stay away from a buffet, but I felt like I could handle it, even if that meant making this my only meal of the day. So, how did it go?

I decided to start with a salad. We all know that starting with soup or salad helps us to eat less at a meal, so that was the idea. When I went to the buffet, I decided to skip the macaroni and cheese, which is one of my favorites, everyone's favorite, probably! I decided that if I tasted something and it wasn't great, then I wouldn't keep eating it. In addition, I made my plate like a "sampler" with no huge portions of anything. I also tried to purposely not finish everything on the plate. There's a pie at Furrs that I absolutely love, but they didn't have any today, so I skipped the dessert altogether. Usually, I would've just gotten something else. Here's what I actually ate at the buffet:

-green salad with fresh mushrooms, eggs, black olives, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, croutons, beets, drizzled with ranch--100 calories
-seafood pasta salad--50
-1 fried chicken tender (only one bite)--25 calories
-1 fried catfish fillet w/ tartar sauce (these are mini)--150 calories
-1 blackened tilapia fillet--75
-1/2 burger slider, lettuce, tomato, pickle, mayo--175
-roasted fall vegetables (red onion, butternut squash, sweet potatoes)--125
-baked potato casserole--100
-green beans--40
-steamed cabbage--25
-roasted red potato (literally only got one, ate half of it)--30

TOTAL 890

I felt extremely successful with managing my food intake at the buffet. I do believe the salad helped, and yes skipping dessert helped also. I enjoyed myself and enjoyed the food, and at the end of the meal, I told my  hubby "I don't feel like I overdid it." We usually do overdo it at that place. :p