What to do when you want to enjoy a french fry? 21 day challenge

Sometimes you just have to have a snack and that is perfectly fine.   I have been really good at staying within the boundaries of this diet. As far as only having color coded items and making sure that everything I eat is pretty nutrient dense. However, yesterday I had an activity, mutual, with the young women in my church and there are always snacks for these weekly activities.  The snacks last night were french fries and tater tots.  I told myself have a snack but make it small so that you don't disappoint yourself.  I believe when I make myself a promise to do something I should follow through because if I can't trust myself then who can I trust?  Also I knew ahead of time to give myself the goal of not overindulging.  So I went to the snack line and got myself 3 tatertots and 1 french fry OMGosh those tater tots were sooo yummy and you know even with a half a serving of them I felt completely satisfied and even proud of myself for keeping my goal.   I can eat these items with the 21 day fix however, a serving of them has 170 calories in only 9 pieces.  So generally I try to choose something a little less taxing on the calorie intake. Also the cheat came into play because I had already had my allotted grains and carbs for the day.

So I have my cheat days as Tuesdays and Sundays now so that way I don't feel bad about having a treat and also so that I can eat Sunday dinner with family and not worry to much about what they are serving.  This being said, I still try to stay at about 1500-1600 calories on my cheat days.

As for today I don't get the opportunity to go over my grains so I started off the day with the Naked green machine smoothie mostly because I was running late. I love these drinks when I'm in a hurry. . They are packed with fruits as well as veggies and have healthy sugars in them rather than refined. My kids also love them so generally I get a large bottle that we can share over the course of a couple of days.  It is important to read the serving size because generally a small bottle has about 2. = a yellow container because it is a juice.
http://nakedjuice.com/our-products/juice/green-machine


For lunch:  I went on a date with my husband and had a Subway  chicken salad.  These salads are huge so I generally split the salad in half and then I get their sweet onion teriyaki sauce for dressing.  I also have them put the dressing on the side so that way I have a meal for lunch the next day as well. Another trick to eating at Subway is to ask for spinach instead of iceberg lettuce.  = 1 green serving and 1/2 red serving since there was chicken

Snack;  I had nuts with craisins= orange container not sure about the craisins probably 1/4 purple serving.

Dinner; I am going to be making a salmon fillet with steamed veggies and quinoa or brown rice.= green serving, yellow serving, and red serving.

Dessert; Mangos = purple serving.    Did I mention my kids love fruit as dessert! Im a really lucky mom.