Valentine's day

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  • AigreDoux
    AigreDoux Posts: 594 Member
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    We went out this past weekend. I had swordfish with arancini and he had scallops with risotto. We had a pecan bread pudding and a warm blueberry cake for dessert. Yum.

    Tonight I'll make one of his favorite at-home dinners, seared tuna with sesame seeds and wasabi aioli, spinach, and rice.

    His birthday is Friday, so we get to celebrate again! Thinking of steamed lobsters with butter, and cake for dessert!
  • sgt1372
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,988 Member
    edited February 2017
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    Had a pre-Vday dinner a one of our favorite restaurants 2 weeks ago. Cost me $500.

    Don't like going out on Vday - - too busy and limited to fixed menus.

    My SO and I are staying home tonight and I'm preparing our favorite at home meal - - 2 steamed dungeness crabs w/ginger sauce, sourdough bread, corn on the cob and a bottle of Domaine Caneros sparkling wine.

    Yum!
  • Rage_Phish
    Rage_Phish Posts: 1,507 Member
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  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
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    sgt1372 wrote: »
    Had a pre-Vday dinner a one of our favorite restaurants 2 weeks ago. Cost me $500.

    Don't like going out on Vday - - too busy and limited to fixed menus.

    My SO and I are staying home tonight and I'm preparing our favorite at home meal - - 2 steamed dungeness crabs w/ginger sauce, sourdough bread, corn on the cob and a bottle of Domaine Caneros sparkling wine.

    Yum!

    Sounds amazing.

    But $500 dinner?!?!? Holy crap.
  • Madwife2009
    Madwife2009 Posts: 1,369 Member
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    Nothing special, I hate the commercialism of it all. It's a huge con.

    But I did get some strawberries for my husband <3 and promptly ate half of them :) We waited until the children went to bed though!
  • 3rdof7sisters
    3rdof7sisters Posts: 486 Member
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    Madwife2009 wrote: »
    Nothing special, I hate the commercialism of it all.

    ^True. I was just out for lunch and they were already moving in items for the next holiday (Easter). They don't even let the current holiday get over.
  • lulalacroix
    lulalacroix Posts: 1,082 Member
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    My hubby and I went to Texas de Brazil on Friday to celebrate. He is now out of town for the next month. :(
  • Rebecca0224
    Rebecca0224 Posts: 810 Member
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    sgt1372 wrote: »
    Had a pre-Vday dinner a one of our favorite restaurants 2 weeks ago. Cost me $500.

    Don't like going out on Vday - - too busy and limited to fixed menus.

    My SO and I are staying home tonight and I'm preparing our favorite at home meal - - 2 steamed dungeness crabs w/ginger sauce, sourdough bread, corn on the cob and a bottle of Domaine Caneros sparkling wine.

    Yum!

    I'm so cheap spending $500 on one meal would give me an anxiety attack.
  • 3rdof7sisters
    3rdof7sisters Posts: 486 Member
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    Rebecca0224 wrote: »
    sgt1372 wrote: »
    Had a pre-Vday dinner a one of our favorite restaurants 2 weeks ago. Cost me $500.

    Don't like going out on Vday - - too busy and limited to fixed menus.

    My SO and I are staying home tonight and I'm preparing our favorite at home meal - - 2 steamed dungeness crabs w/ginger sauce, sourdough bread, corn on the cob and a bottle of Domaine Caneros sparkling wine.

    Yum!

    I'm so cheap spending $500 on one meal would give me an anxiety attack.

    ^Me too! I thought it was outrageous when a co-worker came in yesterday and told me that she & her husband went out to dinner for his birthday and spent $300 (not including drinks and tip). Everything on the menu was a la carte.

  • Rage_Phish
    Rage_Phish Posts: 1,507 Member
    edited February 2017
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  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    edited February 2017
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    annacole94 wrote: »
    Cooking a special dinner: spinach salad with hot bacon dressing, lemon and garlic scallops, mushroom risotto, and chocolate lava cakes.

    I've got today pre-logged and it fits. I need to exercise to get some beer/wine calories. ;)

    Mmm that sounds like a Delicious dinner, enjoy! Reading, I paused at the spinach salad with hot bacon dressing but as I began to post only then did I see the rest of the meal described!

    .. WOW, all of it sounds lovely, definitely a special dinner for you both! ;)

    Happy Valentine's Everyone <3
  • alyssa0061
    alyssa0061 Posts: 652 Member
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    Well, I thought my first Home Chef delivery was today so I was going to make the steak. Turns out it's next Tuesday so I just ate tortilla chips and mini kit kats.
  • starfruit132
    starfruit132 Posts: 291 Member
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    Made creme brûlée tradition for 15 years :) for the family. Tried to make it low cal one year, and it was a total disaster. So, logged calories and did it right. Also, pork loin, leftover rice and cauliflower.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,121 Member
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    Rebecca0224 wrote: »
    What are you meal plans for Valentine's day? Are you going out or having a nice meal at home or is it just another day?

    On Saturday, my husband and I cycled 100 miles together. We do tend to cycle long distances to celebrate stuff. For example, we rode 100 miles on our wedding day too. :)

    On Sunday, we went sightseeing in the area we were visiting and stopped for lunch at a chocolate café where we shared a basket made of chocolate with 4 different flavours of ice cream.

  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
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    Stayed in with hubs (of 15 years) and made taco salads. I did eat the delicious cookies that were delivered to my office today too.
  • GemstoneofHeart
    GemstoneofHeart Posts: 865 Member
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    I had the worst food day that I've had in a long time. I still tracked all my food though. Holidays are when I really wish I didn't work in a office because it's just an abundance of garbage. Ugh I feel awful
  • LZMiner
    LZMiner Posts: 300 Member
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    Fun day here. Gifts, chocolate and cards for my teenage daughters, tulips and a card for me, card and licorice for spouse, homemade sugar cookies from my bff, and filet mignon, roasted asparagus, mashed potatoes and sautéed mushrooms for dinner....glass of wine now.
  • Brithicks
    Brithicks Posts: 148 Member
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    Hubby got our girls flowers. I made a delicious dinner of chicken thighs with lemon rosemary potatoes, shredded brussel sprouts and spring greens mix salad, and chocolate silk pie for dessert (I had chocolate protein powder mixed with ff greek yogurt). SO GOOD and I have just enough calories left for a big glass of malbec! My kids were SUPER into Valentine's day this year so we ate on pretty plates and they had sparkling juice in real champagne flutes with their dinner and a day full of giving and receiving cards and candy.
  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,572 Member
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    I benched, squat, and deadlifted. Ate 1600 calories which is 100 cals under my goal at the moment. Nice day.
  • ccems1634
    ccems1634 Posts: 45 Member
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    I did my exercises, cleaned the house, played mommy and enjoyed a 600 calorie dinner. Got my hubby candy (he doesn't worry about calories) and he bought me a movie haha. He said he would have bought me candy but he didn't want to hurt my weight loss goal. He knows I can't resist chocolate if it's there lol. Such a supportive man!!!!

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