With a bad food weekend comes a long post!

So I started my weekend at a Dodgers game on Friday night with the rents and my boyfriend.  Dodgers stadium has been trying really hard to appeal to picky eaters.  They recently teamed up with Kaiser Permanente to offer better foods.  I had heard about this so I decided to research it before going.  Here's an article form LA Times that I found:http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/12/science/sci-stadiumfare12.  (I am not going to get into the article that much, they determine health as most people do, by calories, not by what you're actually eating. Since i'm trying to move away from that mind set, I am going to just tell you about the game, cool?)  So I decided to seek out this new healthy alternative at the Dodger game.  It looked so sad.  The little cart had a couple of cartons of sushi, but honestly, it didn't look that great.  The fresh fruit salad was super expensive like 8 dollars or something and looked like it was mostly cantaloupe.  I like cantaloupe, but it's definitely a fruit salad filler.  So that didn't look very good, and there were a only a few salads left, so I decided to pick up a thing of grapes.  Doh!  They're probably imported and full of chemicals!  I should have known since each one was perfectly big, round and crisp.  Though, they satisfied my need for something sweet after my Veggie Dog!!  Woo hoo, finally, something that isn't beef or beef byproducts.  I don't know that the veggie dog is really that great either, but as a girl who grew up going to games with the family and chowing down on all sorts of delicious and unhealthy stadium food, it has been hard for me to find a satisfying substitute at the games since I cut out red meat 10+ yrs. ago.  It's hard to "root root root for the Dooodgers"  while you have salad in your lap!  So I got my fill of nostalgia by hitting up the condiment station with the rest of the fans!!
Then we had some Dreyer's Dibs, not as good as the chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich I was eying, but at least we shared the Dibs.. Don't get me started on dessert.  It's a problem and I know it, but it must be handled delicately, so until I have the time to deal with finding better ways to satisfy my chocolate and ice cream cravings (and cookies and pie, and..) I will continue to derail...Sorry!  

So moving on.  Saturday we got a late start and ended up getting some pre-made wraps and tea at Whole Foods, not bad but not really something I mulled over since we were late for DISNEYLAND!!  We had a fabulous day and weren't hungry but finally got a frozen strawberry lemonade (first 3 ingredients:water, sugar, corn syrup) and I didn't eat much of it because it was too syrupy, the bf was surprised!  I like my sweets to be real!  No more fake stuff.  The bf LOVES popcorn.  Sweets are my obsession, Salt is his (he ate most of the peanuts at the game Friday night, sucking off every last salt piece..ew)  So we got some "street" side popcorn, delicious, but I didn't eat all of my half.  My bf thanked me for that later. I really wanted to check out the healthy carts they have set up now, but when we walked past one, I just saw some dehydrated fruit snacks that I know I don't like and Odwalla. I obviously wasn't trying hard enough since I wouldn't even stop.   I made reservations at Blue Bayou for dinner, I figured it was his first time at Disneyland, we should make it good.  I'll rate the service on yelp later, but the food was AWESOME!  Seriously, I was totally surprised.  I had some sautéed spinach with huge portabella mushroom steaks marinated in an awesome sauce and couscous (omg i LOVE couscous)  mixed with peppers and corn.  Wow, I ate 'til i was stuffed!  On our way out we stopped on Main St for an amazing chocolate chip cookie ice cream sundae.  They said it was "old -fashioned and all natural." Don't know if I believe them, but again..I am not tackling sweets just yet, so give me this one!

Sunday wasn't too bad, we ate at some local restaurants and at least the breakfast place was local and noted a lot of organic ingredients on their menu.  We also went to the farmer's market to make sure I get back on track for the week. Organic strawberries, cherries, peaches.. man I love summer fruits!

I am hoping not to derail too much this coming weekend, but we are going wine tasting..hmm..Organic wine, please!