Wow - LeeBob and I went out for sushi dinner last night. I was good for the most part and stuck with sashimi and avoided the rice. Except I had to have a slice of the Rock & Roll my husband ordered (it's like a crabmeat & avocado California roll, but with grilled eel instead of crabmeat)

It worked out to a tasty and filling and reasonably low-points meal (I'm on WW so everything is in points for me).

Here's how I figured it, using the points lookup function on the WW web site:

1/2 cup edamame beans (before shelling) = 0.5 points

1 cup miso soup = 2 points

10 pieces of tuna sashimi @ 1 pt / 4 pcs = 2.5 points

An order of sunomono salad with a bit of crab on top, which I estimated at 2 points
(sunomono salad is very thinly sliced cucumber with slightly sweetened rice wine vinegar. Technically the cucumber is 0 points, but with the combo of the sweetening and the crabmeat I'm giving it 2 points, which is probably an overestimate)

1 piece of my husband's Rock & Roll = 1.5 points
(like a California roll but with eel instead of crab) - I'm giving it the points for 2 pieces to be on the safe side since it also had tobiko (flying fish eggs) and it was an inside-out style roll with extra rice.

This worked out to about 8.5 points for a really delicious and filling meal -- that's not bad for a dinner out.

The sunomono salad in particular was very filling and tasty with the loads of cucumber. I'm not a huge fan of cucumber, but when it's very thinly sliced like that it's really good.

My daily points allowance is 19 points, not counting the extra 35 points per week for splurging and such, and not counting the activity points I get (2 points for 30-45 minutes of moderate effort on my trainer, which is the best I can do right now). So a sashimi dinner ain't bad in the scheme of things.

Wow was this geeky WW post boring or what ?