Valentines Dinner for Two

You won't believe this is diet food, and I really need to stop using that  D word because, really, this is  a lifestyle change.  But believe it or not, all this yummy food was on our plan.  The Plan (TP) calls for us to eat between 45-60 carbs for our dinner meal and a total WW daily point total of 38. 

I planned this meal in advance and got the two smallest top sirloin steaks  I could find at the local Jewel store.  They were each about 3 oz.  I also bought 2 lobster tails.  I researched the best way to cook lobster tail and while mine didn't look exactly like the picture, it was very delicious.  I bought frozen creamed spinach for me (I make a fabulous creamed spinach but hey, I'm not making it for one person if I can get a reasonable facsimile with the nutritional information right on the package!) and lima beans for him.  A friend of mine asked me if lima beans are punishment and I told him my husband is a glutton for punishment - at least this kind of punishment! 

We had a medium sized baked potato with 1 T of lite sour cream and snipped chives, the steaks cooked to a perfect medium-rare, our veggie of choice and a glass of wine.

This is mine, with the spinach.  I thought the envelope on my card said "To my lovely, scary wife" but it's just his horrible hand-writing - he assures me the word was actually "sexy" ...

His, with the yucky lima beans.

Dessert will be our evening snack, which we can eat in exactly 12 minutes from now.  I can't wait.  I combined a couple of different low-cal/low-carb recipes with an idea I saw on Fox and Friends on Friday morning.  They made what they called "whoppie pies" by taking a sheet cake and cutting it into heart shapes with cookie cutters, then putting some kind of filling between two of the heart shapes and sprinkling it with powdered sugar.

In anticipation of just such an occasion, I had already bought some powdered sugar substitute online and it was waiting for me in my pantry.  I didn't even know they made such a thing!

The first recipe I used was the cake portion of a S'more Please Trifle I found on the Taste of Home website.  I made it in a sheet pan, and I would say this isn't the best method for a thin cake, because it developed cracks, which I had to cut around.  Next time I would try the same cake mix but baked according to the directions on the package.   I lightened it up even more by  using a sugar-free cake mix.  Pillsbury makes them in both chocolate and yellow cake varieties.

The filling is from this Chocolate Raspberry Torte recipe and I lightened it by using sugar free seedless raspberry jam but made it more "fluffy" by adding cool whip.  I didn't use much of it, so later this week I will re-engineer it into a mousse by adding some sugar free pudding.

I sprinkled them with additional powdered sugar substitute and topped them with some fresh raspberries.  Here's the finished product, which I am about to devour:

Hope your Valentines Day was as special as mine!