About me...

I have dieted for many years and was even in "Overeatters Anonymous". The irony of OA is that my wife and I would be "good" all week and then feel absolutely compelled to stop at Dairy Queen on the way home. That sucked...

27 February 2006

Breakfast: cream of wheat, two slices wheat toast and 2 cups coffee (oh, yeh, two dark choclate Hershe Kisses...)

26 February 2006

Breakfast: McDonald's big breakfast. (I had left over chilli around 6 am with crackers...)

Lunch: Olive Garden, salad, spegetti with meat sauce and meat balls and diet coke.

Dinner: Another bloody salad and a small bowl of cream of brocolli soup.

25 February 2006

Breakfast: tomatoe soup

2^nd Breakfast: We went out; two fried eggs over medium, two pork chops, hash browns, toast with grape jelly and too much coffee...

lunch: baked chicken, dressing, aspargius and Diet Pepsi.

dinner: Another salad...

24 February 2006

Breakfast: Small bowl Bush's beanless, all-meat chilli and a 1.5oz bag of "Cheez-It" Baked Snack Crackers (they were in the office "gedunk" machine and what is chilli without crackers) and a Diet Pepsi. Hopefully, a Diet Pepsi I brought in last week; if not, I just snagged (and drank) someone's unname/labeled drink. It was quite good!

Lunch: salad

Dinner: A croc pot version of Beef Strogonoff {sp} and a beer (MGD)

23 February 2006

Breakfast: Left over stewed meatballs and noodles and tomatoe sauce and grated pharachon cheese.

Snack (decadance): I'd thought we were going to have an office luncheon so I brought in ice cream (venilla and choclate chip) and extra dark choclate). The luncheon had been cancelled after I'd gone home the day before but the ice cream was enjoyed...

Lunch: Salad

Dinner: A T-bone steak, baked potatoe, salad, two (2!) MGD (Miller G Draft) beers and a White Russian at Casey's Cowtown!

22 February 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamama pancakes, a Diet Pepsi and coffee.

Snack: bag of popcorn and a Diet Pepsi.

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown: chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes and white gravy, corn and Diet Pepsi.

Dinner: Small salad and bowl of chicken noodled soup (overcooked from sitting in the warmer too long but it was good!) and a MGD (Miller Genuine Draft) beer. This was a real beer and not one of those awful "lite" beers!

21 February 2006

Breakfast: leftover chicken, rice pilof and Diet Pepsi. (Actually, I mixed these items with the brocolli water of last night, stewed them and mixed in three teaspoons of homemade mustard. That was almost more than enough...)

Lunch: Pizza and salad bar with way too much and choclate pudding. I felt the results of too much sugar a couple of hours afterwards.

Dinner:

Healthy Choice - Chicken Parmigiana adn water but hopefully not my current #1 desert:

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Homemade Mustard

Mike's Homemade Mustart®

I found this recipe on the internet; unfortunately, I don't recall where I found it...

¹/₄ cup Cain's Ground Mustard

¹/₄ cup water

Mix the Mustard power with the water and you'll find it to be very strong. It'll have to age and "gentle" for several days.

The ® is a little joke...

20 February 2006

Breakfast: leftover chicken, rice pilof and Diet Pepsi. (Actually, I mixed these items with the brocolli water of last night, stewed them and mixed in three teaspoons of homemade mustard. That was almost more than enough...)

Lunch: Sonic burger, fries and a "large" Diet Coke.

Dinner: salad and ...

19 February 2006

Breakfast: Oatmeal and coffee and a little bit of no sugar diet vinilla pudding.

Lunch: baked chicken, rice pilof, brocolli flowers and a couple of Diet Pepsi.

Dinner: A crock pot stew of chopped tomatoes, tomatoe sauce and meatballs. Expect to have a beer with this...

18 February 2006

Breakfast: bowl shredded wheat and coffee and somthing else that escapes me now. Oh, yes, a bag of popcorn in mid morning...

Lunch: Burger King chicken samwich, fries and Diet Pepsi. I had order an "Angus" burger (a #5, actually...)

Dinner: Small salad and a Lean Quizine (I think) featuring beef chunks, spuds, gravy and carrots (I think)

17 February 2006

Breakfast: cream of wheat, two slices of toast and coffee.

Lunch: Salad and a bottle of Diet Pepsi.

Dinner: A "Papa Merphy's" pizza. It was quite good but not good for me. My A1C was way too high two hours after eatting...

16 February 2006

Breakfast: Left over spegetti and Diet Pepsi.

    Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown, a large hamburger, fries and a Diet Pepsi

           (This was at the Lions Board of Directors meeting and the joy of 
            being ignored when I tried to speak was so "wonderful" that I
            damned near resigned from the Board!)

   Dinner: On impulse, I bought a Beef Stronoff{sp} mix that merely required
           the addition of beef, water and 2% milk and a couple of glasses of 
           Foster Beer and Dessert Can you guess what?

15 February 2006

Breakfast: A double bisquit SOS at Wendys.

Lunch: Chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes and
white gravy and cottage cheese at "Casey's Cowtown".

Afternoon decadance: Diet Root beer float at the reopened A&W.
It was damn fine!

Dinner: Twelve oz steak, garlic mashed potatoes, undercooked sautaed onions and the Triple Choclate desert.

The onions, being undercooked, probably lead to the diahrea I had
after getting home...

Alas...

14 February 2006

Breakfast: Some no sugar vinilla pudding and shredded wheat.

Lunch: Chicken club salad and Diet Pepsi.

Dinner: Cheap steak, some white rice and brocolli.

13 February 2006

Breakfast: a bagel with peanut butter and Aunt Jamami pancakes and coffee

Lunch: hamburger, fries and diet Root Beer from A & W.

Dinner: Pizza from Dillions.

I should have dropped the Dillions' Pizza when I realized that it was "formerly frozen" and gone to WalMart and bought a hand made pizza from a vendor there. I fried up "ground sirlion" and put this on both halves of the pizza. Then, I put anchovies on Kathie's half.

It tasted adequate. What was it that the Babylon 5 character Vir Kotto said: "it tasted so good going down but not so good coming back up". After I went to bed, I woke up with my mouth full of an acid bitter liquid (digestive juices). Finally, I woke up with a load of this acid flowing through my nose. I wiped this liquid crap off my chin and chest and
blew my nose. Then, my wife told me "don't stick you finger down your throat, you'll just make things worst". Good point; I drank some water and felt better...

12 February 2006

Breakfast: left over stewed pork chops,potatoes, sour
           krat and some garlic, plus Diet Pepsi and coffee...

    Lunch: Roasted chicken, dressing and aspargius.

   Dinner: Hot dogs and Diet Pepsi.

11 February 2006

Breakfast: Pancakes, sausage paddies and coffee...

    Lunch: Salad

   Dinner: Homemade spegetti sauce and spegetti.

    Extra: A gin and tonic and desert:

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A recipie blog...

I was randomly reading blogs appearing on the "read me" section of the blog webpage and found this. I wonder if the writer had non-beef recipies?

10 February 2006

Breakfast: Cream of Wheat, slice of toast and coffee...

    Lunch: From "Sonics", a double hanberger, fries and Diet Pepsi.
           I was hungery.

   Dinner: Pancakes, sausage and coffee at a pancake dinner fund raiser
           put on by a Lions Club.

I was really thirsty and had a gin and tonic after getting home and 
showering. I like the taste of the tonic water and lime and simply 
drink that at times...

9 February 2006

Breakfast: Cream of wheat and coffee.
    Lunch: Salad-Arby's Chicken Southwest Salad and diet pepsi
   Dinner: Three pancakes and five or six sausage paddies and coffee.

Relaxing afterwards: A big honking gin and tonic and a little one. I
                             was very thirsty...

8 February 2006

Breakfast: cream of wheat, two slices toast and coffee.

    Lunch: At "Casey's Cowtown", one of the specials:
            chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes and white gravy, corn
            and Diet Pepsi.

   Dinner: "Montana Mike's" where I had the "Montana Mike's
            Mighty Meat Meal" - a 22 oz Sirlon steak, "loaded" 
            potatoe, salad and (living righteously!) a glass
            of ice water with several chunks of lemon it it!

Basically, my lunch and dinner aren't going to help the A1C test much but
then both Kathie and I getting tired of my "eatting right". Oh, well, the
damned thing is in only a week and I doubt that I'll finese it too much...
 
Before going to bed, I put part of a can of Fosters beer into some stuff
I'm slow cooking (well, cooking on top of the stove). Then, I drank the
rest of the can. It was my first booze in about a month and really
hit me hard! I ended up flushed and feeling slightly ill. I guess getting
reacclimiated to alcohol is going to be harder than I would have ever
thought it could be...
 
 
 

 

7 February 2006

Breakfast: cream of wheat, two slices toast and coffee.

    Lunch: At Arby's an Angus burger, fries and Diet Pepsi.

   Dinner: A salad.

    Snack: Slice of bread with catsup on it.

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.

6 February 2006

BREAKFAST: Something different: The last of the leftover steak from this
           past weekend, two scrambled egges, two slices of toast and
           coffee...

    LUNCH: At Taco Time, we had their new fried thingie, a hard shell
           taco and a large Diet Pepsi. I knew the "hard shell taco"
           was hard since it came to me in pieces...

   DINNER: The leftovers of the crockpotted pork chop, small potatoe and
           some sour krat from this past weekend. Then, still being
           hungry, ate a bag of microwave popcorn.
   

SNACK:

There was an irony with the leftover steak I had for breakfast. Last night, I had about half of it as a snack (enough to cover the palm of my hand) and had an immediate alergic reaction). I had to take the MucinexDM to control the itchiness of the nose and sneezing; even so, I woke up around 3 am with a completely snuffed up nose and it took a long to clear up. Having said that, the steak I ate for breakfast seemingly had no ill effects on me.

5 February 2006

Breakfast: Oatmeal and coffee
    Lunch: Baked chicken legs, brocolli and rice pilof.
                             Two cans Diet Pepsi.
   Dinner: Most of a medium meat lovers pizza.
    Snack: I had about half of the leftover steak (enough
                             to cover the palm of my hand) and had an immediate
                             alergic reaction).

I had to take the MucinexDM to control the itchiness of my nose and sneezing; even so, I woke up around 3 am with a completely snuffed up nose and it took a long time to clear up.

crock pot liner...

My wife bought some "Reynolds Crockpot liners" last week and I used one with our new crockpot yesterday. It worked quite nicely and I'm looking forward to cleanup being simply lifting the used liner out and throwing it away. Of course, I will have to do this carefully...

It did remind me of a condom...

4 February 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamima pancakes and coffee.

    Lunch: Salad

   Dinner: Fried pork chops that I then put into a crock pot, with three small
           potatoes, covered with "Franks" sour kraut and slow cooked from about
           7:15 am to just after 2 pm. Very tender...

Pre-bed
    snack: Small piece of steak left over from yesterday.

3 February 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamima pancakes, 1/2 Ruben and two much coffee...

    Lunch:"At the Rat..." -er- KFC: Two piece chicken (breast
           and wing) extra crispy, sides of corn on the cob and
           mashed potatoes and gravy.

   Dinner: Steak, rice and boiled carrots.

2 February 2006

Breakfast: oatmeal and a toasted baggle with peanut butter. Coffee
           and a Diet Pepsi.

    Lunch: Left over mixture of boiled tomatoes, tomatoe paste,
           stewed stew meat, ground onion flakes, choclate baking
           powder and chilli powder.

   Dinner: Rubens and veggies.

1 February 2006

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

    Lunch: hamburger and fries, Diet Pepsi, at Casey's Cowtown.

   Dinner: leftovers: leftover pork chop and veggies and some    
           leftover chicken and etc. from the other night.