So, my daughter, Kelsey,comes home from college for a few days and all my good intentions fly out the window. We went out to dinner at Charlie Brown's. All was A-O.K. I had the salad bar making all good choices, and had the appetizer crab cakes of which I ate one of two and took the other home. The waitress asks if we want dessert. I don't but Kelsey and my husband, Neil do, but they are full and want to bring it home. >Sigh<. I made it through dinner and now they are bringing home dessert, temptation #2. Not only that but Kelsey gets carrot cake, my favorite. I suppose that if it had been a "normal" slice of carrot cake I would not have been tempted to indulge, after all it was HER dessert, not mine. But what do we find when we open the styrofoam to-go container? A slab of cake large enough to feed a small family. When you look at the photo imagine just the top 2 layers on a plate and that alone would have been a huge serving. 1/12th of a 9" carrot cake is 16 Points on Weight Watchers. So just the top 2 layers of that cake had to be at least 20 points. Times that by 2.5 and that whole piece of cake was 50 points. (maybe even more). I weighed it on my scale and it was 16.30 oz. I weighed the styrofoam container later and it was .30 oz. That was a 1 POUND piece of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Kelsey put the cell phone in the picture to try to show the size of this enormous thing. OK, so I ate the bottom 2 layers since it had less frosting. Was it worth 20 points you ask? You betcha!!!! Everything in moderation :)
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Thank you Luanne! This blog is just what I needed today. My business partner Annie went to Sam's Club this morning and bought my absolute favorite HUGE carrot cake for my birthday. Reading your blog made me realize once again that I absolutely cannot afford eating it. I have already filled out my journal for today, and I made all the good choices (we are going to Red Lobster tonight), so all I will try from that cake is piece of layer size of a thumb tip with no frosting on it. Thank again! Love your monthly newsletters!
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