Atkins Gal and I were having dinner at The Cheesecake Factory last night, and on our pager (which the restaurant gave us to hold while waiting for a table) sported a double-sided advertisement reading:
ONLY 6 NET GRAMS OF CARBS! CHEESECAKE MADE WITH SPLENDA©!
After almost ten days of induction, we gave in readily to the delightful notion of having a real dessert.
It looked like real cheesecake. It smelled like real cheesecake.
It felt, poking it with a fork, like whipped tofu. And it tasted like nothing. Oh, it was sweet, and the thin brown crust on the bottom had some pieces of some kind of nut mixed in, but there was no way anyone could possibly mistake that slice of white stuff for cheesecake.
I think I'll broil myself up a steak tomorrow night to help me forget the disappointment. Ah, the trials of Atkins eating.
1 comment:
I thought it was pretty good. It approximated the cheesecake experience for me, without all the thick icky fatty feeling.
- Atkins Gal
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