For the first 13 years of my relationship with Chad, I soooooooooo looked forward to the nights we would go out to eat. Toss in a movie with popcorn, pop and Milk Duds after that, and it was a date made in heaven as far as I was concerned!!
Needless to say, our idea of “fun” changed quite a bit once we started to learn about what exactly we were putting into our bodies on date nights like these!
Nowadays, we just prefer to make our own meals at home because:
A) Then we know for sure what we are eating.
B) I am extremely sensitive to glutamate, and it’s not worth the risk to eat out at most restaurants.
C) Now that we know how to cook for ourselves, we are generally disappointed with most restaurant fare – - and we’d prefer to cook our own meals, rather than pay twice the price for something we like half as much!
However, on occasion we do end up at an eating establishment for fellowship purposes (e.g., meeting up with friends) or because we are on vacation, etc. Today was one such occasion.
Shortly after sitting down to my lunch at Jason’s Deli this afternoon, I began to realize that my version of dining at the “all you can eat” salad bar was attracting a wee bit of attention from passers by. So I did what any dedicated blogger would do… I snapped a quick picture of my plate. Hmm….ya… now that I think about it, I suppose this wouldn’t strike most folks as a lunch worth eating. LOL! But it was actually VERY tasty…and filling!
Oh, and I even managed to find some dessert that seemed pretty “safe” for me to eat. At the waaaaaaaaaaaaay end of the salad bar there was some organic granola — it was very tasty…almost suspiciously tasty. LOL! I was pretty darn full from my plate o’ veggies, but I still managed to pack in some granola for good measure! Ya know, for “research purposes.”
P.S. – Jason’s Deli even offers quite a few organic options, both on their salad bar and as choices in their other menu selections.
P.P.S. – Don’t let my plate scare you away from Jason’s Deli. There were countless other super tasty-looking items on that salad bar, including salad and a variety of dressings (which just happen to be “off limits” to me). So don’t feel like you’d be relegated to my kind of “feast” should you decide to dine there 
