I ate a lot of food last night, but I don't think I hurt the diet too bad. I had bought a big 20oz package of portabella mushrooms from Costco earlier, and I decided to fry them up. They were really good. My wife had some, but I must have eaten nearly a pound of them.
The good news of course, is that mushrooms don't have a whole lot of nutrient value. A whole pound of these is only 120 calories (and very filling, so I may be onto something). On the other hand, there's all that fat from frying. I used 4 tablespoons of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, at 90 calories each (mostly unsaturated, and with no cholesterol or trans fats). That's 360 calories for the whole batch, or maybe 270 for my share, for a total of about 400 calories for dinner. Now that assumes that all the fat went into the mushrooms. I doubt that since there was some still in the pan, some soaked up when I dabbed them with paper towels, and something was going up as vapor while I cooked...
Still, a pound of food for 400 calories isn't too bad.
