Whoopee! Saturday is splurge day!

Finally!  Saturday came and I was able to eat all those things I'd been dreaming about.  First off was a big  bowl of strawberries for breakfast.  Don't they look delicious?  I ate about half of the ones in that bowl.  My kids scammed the rest.

Then it was time for some bagels.  I've been wishing for some every morning - I'm a lot hungrier for them than these egg and turkey bacon breakfasts, but hey, I'm losing weight, so I won't complain.  Sadly the only bagels I had were from Panera.  So they're more like round rolls than authentic bagels.  I had a jalapeno chesse one and a cinnamon one.  They weren't actually as good as I thought they'd be...

...but the banana was!  Then my husband came back from the farmers market in Old Town with some pastries.  I hardly ever have the pastries because, you know, I'm trying to loose weight.  But on Saturday, I now get to eat whatever I'd like on Saturdays!

What's better with pastries than a tall glass of milk?

I actually only had half of the croissant because my daughter came along, and so I shared.

Then there was a little bowl of fresh pineapple.  And a vanilla milkshake.

And some more bagels at lunchtime.

And some of Trader Joe's frozen mushroom turnover appetizers.  My daughter scammed one of the ones on my plate.

A little afternoon snack.  Isn't Krispy Kreme delicious?  The chocolate cake doughnut had just come down the conveyor belt and was piping hot.  The chocolate frosted one had custard inside, in case anyone's curious.  My favorite!  I went with my kids.  No one wanted milk but me - and then they drank most of it!  Of course, if I'd ordered a bottle of milk for each of us, no one would have wanted any.

We went out for dinner to a place we enjoy called Rustico on Slaters Lane in Alexandria.   I ordred a beer - it was tasty.

I nearly forgot to take a photo of the appetizer we shared - it was a delicious zucchini "carpaccio" with shaved parmesan cheese, pesto and roasted tomatoes.

Rustico has the best eggplant Parmesan I've ever had.  It is so good, with a delicious zucchini mousse, and not much tomato sauce - and the little sauce there is has a real tomato flavor.  It's not that abysmal thick corn-syrupy tomato sauce.  The salad that accompanied it had kalamata olives and thin strips of fennel.  There wasn't anything terribly tempting on the dessert menu, so we stopped at Ben and Jerry's on the way home.

I got a little distracted by my ice cream, but here's a picture of what was left by the time I remembered to take a photo.  Later on that evening,  I enjoyed the yummy cantelope from the farmers market - I figured I'd better eat it while I could, because it won't be any good next Saturday.

All in all, it was a pretty fun day!  I think that with having next Saturday to look forward to, I will be able to stay on track.  I hope so, anyway.