One Expensive Evening

So it has been confirmed. Eating within a normal range of Weight Watcher points at Quicken Loans Arena is very difficult if not downright impossible. I think I knew this before making the trip, but alas, we decided to re-shelve the pork chops I had planned to make before the game in lieu of grabbing something there.

So once we found our seats we went back out to check out our dinner options. Sadly the new "B-Spot" restaurant I've heard all about was closed as were a lot of vendors since it was still early and not open to the public yet. You see we were there for the Cub Scout Night at the Q event, with a free ticket for Zach, compliments of his great popcorn selling gig! But I digress...

Zach knew what he wanted. He saw the personal size, red pizza boxes as we were coming in and he says to me, "hey, mom, I want one of those 'Smart Ones' pizzas!" First I was excited thinking, "Wow, the Q really has Weight Watchers products - yahoo!" I quickly realized that Zach mistakenly thought the red Dijorno's pizza box that they were handing out looked like the healthier red box (Smart Ones) version we have in our freezer at home. One pizza imposter coming up! Meanwhile, Mike headed for the "Downtown Dog" - (read: a pricey hot dog), nachos, soda and peanuts,for me as a potential healthy snack later. I now have to decide between the hot dog and the pizza and my logic is that there is more protein in the pizza so I go for that. And it couldn't be that bad in points right? Oh, how wrong I was. So, our tab so far is two pizzas (one pep and one cheese) and two sodas - $21.00; hot dog, nachos, drink and peanuts - $18.00 and then later the boys got two huge, hot pretzels - $12.00 got a grand total of $51.00. Our seats cost as $45.00!!

As I did my tracking when I got home that evening (like a good little Weight Watcher!) my mouth dropped when I found out that the personal cheese pizza I so enjoyed that evening was a whopping 16 points! Yikes! For those of you who do not speak pointeese I'll put it in perspective for you...one day for me consists of 18 points!!!! Saved again by the 35 weekly floater points and the extra cash I found in my jeans. Ha!