Day 41: Baby Shower

So, I had a baby shower to go to today.  I have been working most of the week on the cookie favors and the cake for the shower.  I was not privy to what food would be served at the shower beforehand, so didn't really know how to plan and prepare for it.  The best I could come up with was to have breakfast, and a filling snack before the shower, and to try to make healthier choices while at the shower.  I knew the cake that I was making would not be low in points either, and I wanted to have a piece, so that was more incentive to choose wisely!

I had a packet of oatmeal (4P+) and two cups of milk (4P+) for a total of 8 Points Plus for breakfast before leaving the house (I had a two and a half hour drive to the shower). 

I brought a packet of oatmeal (4P+) with some frozen fruit in it to eat before the shower started. 

While at the shower, there was lots of food available to choose from: chicken wings, keilbasa, pasta, swedish meatballs, finger sandwiches (chicken salad, egg salad, tuna salad), fruit, veggies, half tortilla roll-up sandwiches, soda, punch (both spiked and not), and of course the cake.

I chose to have two of the half rollup sandwiches (roast beef and cheese) (8P+), five slices of keilbasa (5P+), celery, grape tomatoes, and lots of veggies. So, the food was relatively good at 13 Points Plus.

Then, I had a slice of cake.  This was chocolate cake with a peanut butter/reese's pieces filling, and frosting in regular buttercream icing.  I figured the points out whe nI returned home, and it turned out that one slice of the cake was 16 Points Plus.  Yes, you read that correctly - 16 Points!  It was delicious, but don't know if I'd have had a full slice had I known that going into it!

I was hungry for dinner, so picked up a Subway Veggie Delite sub for (7P+) and two cups of milk (4P+) for a total dinner of 11 Points Plus.

So, I ended up eating 52 Points Plus today, using 17 of my Weekly Points Plus Allowance, leaving me with 15 weeklies left for Monday.

Here is a pick of the cake that I made:

Yes, that's a cake.  The lampshade is not edible, but the lamp base (between the faux wooden planks) is.  The cake mimics the lamp that she picked out for the nursery.