Of all my meals, lunch was one of them...

Of all my meals, lunch was one of them...

An article I once read in "Proceedings" made fun of the Air Force Officer Fitness Report (FITREPs) system. This author said that there were three types of FITREPS:

1. Those officers the reporting senior wants promoted,
2. Those officers the reporting senior wants shitcanned and
3. Those officers "good to go" for seveal more years of service...

A typical comments on a FITREP of the third category would be "of all the officers serving me, XXX is definitely one of them!" Can you say "damnation by faint praise"?

The lunches my wife and I "enjoyed" fit into the category of "of all the meals served us, this was definitely one of them!" We chowed down (I won't dignify it with "ate" or "dined") at the 14th Stree Dillions here in Dodge. And it wasn't even served to us, we had to pay for each item separately. We had:

My wife: chicken breast, chicken wing and two moterillo {sp} sticks,
Me: chicken breast, chicken leg, mashed potatoe, gravy and two sticks.

It was bad enuf that they "unbundled" the meal and made us pay for each item separately but the quality rather sucked and the price was comparable to that of "the Rat" (ok, KFC). KFC would have been far better but we were getting tired of the

* Better attention at KFC,
* Better food and
* Better food for the buck at KFC.

OK, that was a joke. But seriously, we had gotten tired of "The Rat".

Ah, well, I guess you have to endure the occasional bad meal to appreciate the better meals...

breakfast on 29 December 2005

My breakfast was Aunt Jamima pancakes and sausage "cooked" in the microwave oven. It was good and I washed it down with a couple of cups of coffee. Simple and kind of hard to argue with...

what of 28 December 2005?

Breakfast: several slices of bacon and a big slice of Neome's coffee cake.

Lunch: a bacon and roast beef sandwich at Arby's with fries and a diet Pepsi.

After getting home, I got hit with diaherra. I figured it was just a delay reaction to the morning metformin and nothing to worry about. After she got home, I noticed my wife was visiting the bathroom quite a bit. It turned out she had diaherra that afternoon as well. Given that she is not a diabetic and doesn't take metformin, I can only conclude that we got an introduction to some new intestinal crap at Arby's... Oh, well...

Dinner: steak, broccoli and some boiled white rice.

After dinner, we had a gin and tonic...

Got to get that vitamin ethanol!

so much for eating right on 27 Dec 2005

I probably did a fine job of not eatting fine today.

For breakfast, left over Christmas Chicken (about gone!),
dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy. Also, a cup of coffee
and a can or two of Diet Pepsi. (I don't recall right
now...)

Lunch was a Bugger -er- Burger King. This was a default as
neighter of us wanted to eat at "The Rat" (KFC) or Arbys.
So, I flipped a coin and went for the double whopper vice
the Angus "steak" burger. Had it medium sized and a diet
Pepsi with it.

Dinner was half a Kroger's Jumblila {sp}. This was a lot
of wild rice, some Kagun {sp} spices and slices of
sausage. It tasted fine enought and now the question will
be: two hours after eatting, what will my blood sugar
reading be?

This last was written at 907 pm and I'll be testing the
blood sugar level at 925 pm.

My score was 143. This is fairly good for me and means it
will be going down overnight. I'm pleased...

Kroger's "Chicken and Dumpling" for dinner...

For dinner, I had half (well, maybe 60%) of a "family
size" Kroger "Chicken and Dumplings" mircowave meal. It
was really sufficient for two adults.

The meal was basically "dumplings", with some chunks of
chicken. It had to have a lot of starch and therefore,
will jack my blood sugar readings. However, even through
tomorrow morning (Tuesday, 27 December 2005) is one of my
"test the blood sucrose after fasting all night" mornings,
experience tells me that I'll have burnt off the excess
blood sugar by then...

Of course, the 1000mg metformin will really "kick ass" in
surpressing the production of blood sugar by my liver. (I
wonder if that will eventually harm my liver?)

so much for lunch...

Taco Bell is improving my immune system...

That is a bit of irony; Taco Bell did it's part to
improving my immune system at lunch by "challenging" it.

I had the "number 3" or three hard shell tacos, with sour
cream and a bit of tomatoes. My wife and I split something
made of nachos covered with a little meat, some beans and
cheese. A couple of hours later, my stomach was upset. At
first, I thought it was due to me drinking too much
coffee. Then, I realized that I'd felt slightly ill before
drinking the cold coffee.

For the next couple of hours, I was wondering if I'd hold
lunch down. I did...

The local Taco Bell hires folks just up from Old Mexico
and we joke about "our immune system being challenged" by
the bacteria endemic to Old Mexico being introduced to us.
Of course, I could be wrong. The employees could be as
addicted to washing their hands as a surgical team but I
respectfully discount this possibility...

NOREME's COFFEE CAKE

NOREME'S COFFEE CAKE

Noreme is an old friend of my mother, someone she went to college with in the late 1940s. So, this recipe has been tested by my family for about 55-57 years now ...

1 stick oleo (or butter)

1 cup sugar
 2 eggs
 1 tsp vanilla
 1 cup sour cream
 2 cups flour
 1 tsp baking soda
 1 tsp baking powder


Mix sugar and oleo until puffy. Add eggs, vanilla and sour cream, then beat. Add dry ingredients and mix. Pour half of batter into greased baking pan (a loaf shaped pan).


Mix 1/2 cup sugar with tsp cinnamon. Pour half of this over the batter.
Put remainder of batter into pan and pour remaining topping over this batter. Bake in 350 F oven for 45 to 55 min.

Breakfast on 26 December 2005...

For breakfast, I had leftover baked chicken, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, a slice of "Noreme's Coffee Cake", a cup of coffee and two Diet Pepsis. (Must be sure to drink properly!)

Obviously, I should have had oatmeal, one cup of coffee and maybe a slice of "Noreme's Coffee Cake". But, the last time we had baked chicken, etc., we left the leftovers in the refrigerator, top shelf. That being at least two weeks, that chicken is probably turing green and about to crawl off! (Just a joke, sort of.) So, being afraid to look inside the plastic container, Kathie and I have left it there...

Perhaps I'll take it to work with me tonight and dump the contents out near the work parking lot. The worst that could happen is cayotes eat it; I'm not fond of cayotes: they tend to eat the jack rabbits and cottontails the infest -er- live near the office.

I've realized for some time that if I merely think I'm eatting correctly, I must be eatting correctly. Kind of good diet by fiet or perhaps, lying to myself. (To be political, we have a President who lies about much more significanat matters. Perhaps, he is merely lying to himself?)

When we were in Overeaters Anonymous, we had to keep track of our eating. That was a real bitch...

We would do well for the week and then go to the meeting. After the meeting, we always binged out at Dairy Queen.

Well, I'm going to start listing what I eat daily. It should go well the first couple of days and then I'll start slipping. Such is life...