31 May 2006

Breakfast: cream of wheat and a cup of coffee.

Lunch: At Casey's: Roast beef, scoop of mashed potatoes, corn and two glasses of Diet Pepsi.

Post Lunch: A no-sugar choclate covered ice cream bar and I'm about to have a bisquit (left over from yesterday)

Dinner: Marie Callender's Country Fried Beef Steak with Mashed Potatoes, Gravy & Glazed Carrots

30 May 2006

Breakfast: Leftovers from Ar by: Some chicken, some steak, a small blob of mashed potatoes, a brocolli flower, a small piece of toasted bread and a DP.

Lunch: At that seafood place: Kagun soup (a cup), fish and chips (made from trout), french fries, salad and split a piece of choclate cake and a scoup of vinelli ice cream. Several glasses Diet Coke.

Dinner: A McDonald's ¹/₄-pounder (no cheese), french fries and a Diet Pepsi.

Food with the Metformin? A choclate chip cookie...

Tuna Noodle Casserol

Tuna Noodled Casserol

* boil about 2.5 cups of square noodles,
* three cans of tuna fish (no mammals, please),
* two cans cream of mushroom soup,
* cheddar cheese (1/2 cup Tillamook and 1/2 cup of Dillion's...)

After boiling the noodles, mix the above ingredients and put in an oven baking dish. Then, put crumpled potatoe chips on top of the mixure and make until completely warmed through. You want the cheese melted so I go with about 15 to 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

You could try the traditional 325 degrees...

29 May6 2006

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

Lunch: Arby's chicken club salad and a DP.

Movie snack: chips and melted cheese dip and a DP.

Dinner: Tuna noodle casserol and a glass of water.

Michael Garibaldi's "Bagna Cauda"

Bagna Cauda

* 1-cup extra virgin olive oil
* 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
* 3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped very fine, or, preferably crushed with a pestle
* 1, 2-oz can flat anchovy fillets packed in oil, drained, chopped very fine

Prepare the vegetables that you choose to serve by slicing them thinly or in strips.

Melt the butter in a deep earthenware bowl or saucepan over very low heat, making sure butter does not bubble - just long enough to get butter hot.

As soon as the butter is melted add the olive oil and let it heat through.

Add the garlic and sauté for an instant or two, (if crushed will cook faster than chopped) Do not let the garlic color at all. Remove.

Add the anchovies, stirring and mashing them with a wooden spoon.

Simmer for 3 or 4 minutes over very low heat, stirring continuously.

Sauce is ready when smooth in texture.

Keep the sauce warm over a spirit flame or canned heat burner.

28 May 2006

Breakfast: McDonalds's Big breakfast (scrambled eggs, sausage, bisquet, grape jelly, coffee).

Lunch: Salad and a DP.

Dinner: brats first soaked in a mixture of green peppers, onion and beer; boiled corn on the cob and a DP.

27 May 2006

Obviously, I ate but I didn't note down what I ate...

26 May 2006

Breakfast: left ovdr baken skinless boneless chicken, rice pilof and a DP.

Lunch: Arby's chicken salad and an hour later, "Healthy Choice" something or another (very badly written notes), chicken soup and a slice of what bread with peanut butter and a DP...

Dinner: South Beach Diet Orange Beef (Beef slices and Brown rice in orange sauce with brocolli, bamboo shoots and carrots)

25 May 2006

Breakfast: oatmeal, coffee, two whole wheat bread slices of toast with peanut butter.

Lunch: Arby chicken salad and DP

Dinner: Healthy Choice Chicken, brocolli Alfredo (Chicken breast and brocolli in Alfredo sauce with GFettuccini pasta.

24 May 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes...

Lunch: Casey's chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, cottage cheese and DP.

Dinner: Boston Market "Meatloaf" with home style mashed potatoes and gravy...

23 May 2006

Breakfast: Two glasses of water (It was my physical day...)

Lunch: Wendy's double burger, baked potatoe and sour cream and chives, diet coke.

Snack: the small McDonald's choclate milk shake (I do know how to parr-tee!)

Dinner: Healthy Choice: Mesquite chicken BBQ (strange tasting sauce...)

22 May 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami's pancakes, slice whole wheat bread with peanut butter.

Lunch: Arby's salasd and two of my own cans DP...

Dinner: Healthy CHoice chicken brocolli Alfredo and some cheetos.

21 May 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes...

Lunch: Arby's Gyro (not too bad), fries and a DP.

Dinner: salad, cream of chicken noodle soup...

20 May 2006

Breadkfast: Aunt Jamami

Lunch: McDonald's salad and a DP

Dinner: McDonald's Quarter Pounder, Fries and a Diet C0ke.

19 May 2006

Breakfast: left over (so to speak) chunks of port chiop, cheese, potatoe and sour kraut.

Lunch: McDonald's salad and a DP

Dinner: Kathie's baked bonless, skinned chicken and her rice pilof.

18 May 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and a DP.

Lunch: Office lunch: lazannia, salad, garlic bread, vinalli ice cream.

Dinner: Steak, baked potato, salad at Montana Mikes...

17 May 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamima pancakes, sausage and coffee.

Snack: small bag cheese-its.

Lunch: At Casey's Cowntown: Chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes & brown gravy and DP. I made the mistake of asking for brown vice white gravy. I had to ask our new waitress for white gravy for the uncovered "chicken". It took a while!

Dinner: Salad...

16 May 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jamima pancakes, a DP and coffee.

Lunch: Healthy6 choice "Beef Pot Roast" with gravy, carrots, Roasted Potatoes and Apple/Raisin Crisp.

Dinner: A salad, baking soda bisquits, mashed potatoes with homemade gravy, "Salsbery Steak" (ground mystery meat) covdred with gravy and water. (I wish I'd written down where I'd eatten; I'm transcribing from my paper notes to blog...)

15 May 2006

Breakfast: rice and Bush's beanless chilli

Lunch: McDonald's chicent salad and a can of DP

Dinner: An Arby "French Dip" samwhich, fries and a small coffee of White Zin...(Yes, we took the food home.)

14 May 2006

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, big piece of ham and coffee.

Lunch: Tyro, two large (I can't read my scribbling) and a Diet Pepsi...

Dinner: A piss poor hamberger, wretched potatoe chips and a Diet Coke

Snack: A cheese, egg, sausage crosaunt samwhich with the evening Metformin...

13 May 2006

Breadkfast: Left over spegetti from Nonna Emilia

Lunch: I failed to write this down...

Dinner: Bar-B-Que turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls and a Henries...

12 May 2006

Breakfast: Black Bear (restraunt in Beaverton, Oregon): chicken fried steak, hash browned potatoes, 2 eggs over medium and coffee.

Lunch: The Portland Oregon Athletic Club where the Portland Downtown Lions Club meets: salad, broiled salmon, potatoe chunks and 2 diets drinks.

Dinner: At the Golden Crown in Beaveron, Oregon, the number 9 and a beer.

This food was quite good but was quite bad for me! Two hours after eatting, I had the highest blood sugar reading I've ever recorded! This was:

For me, this was a shockingly high value. I just knew that it really help fuck up my A1C test in late May (and I rather think that it did!). Alas but it did give me a really strong hint on what I shouldn't eat. Also, I could take comfort in the fact that I go to this restraunt perhaps once a year and almost never go to Chinese elsewhere. Kind of a reassurring thougth, kind of...

Of course, I being a highly intelligent type who takes bad news in stride and knowing that I should do nothing to jack that frigging reading, didn't go out for a walk but had a beer instead...

Ok, I may be fairly intelligent but sometimes I just sigh and do the easy but bad things...

Besides, I felt better after having that beer. (I didn't get around to telling me wife just how bad bad was...)

11 May 2006

Breakfast: 2 small pancakes (homemade from a mix) and coffee.

Lunch: ham samwhich and Betty crocker "Suddenly Soup" Creamy potatoe soup.

Dinner: Nonna Emilia Ristorante Italiano, (an Italian restaraunt located in the ALOHA area of Washington county in Oregon), where I had a salad, spegetti with meat sauce and meatballs, a kind of choclate cake for desert. Kathie agreed to drive so I for once got to drink a couple of beers whilst out to dinner...

It was a very large serving of spegetti so I took about half the plate home with me; the waitress voluenteered to add more meat sauce to the noodles as I'd eatten most of the sauce. I'd asked her "how much is your smallest container of take home sauce". This was very kind of her.

The leftovers made a very nice breakfast later that week.

10 May 2006

Breakfast: shredded wheat

Lunch: Greek gyro, potatoe slices and a Diet Pepsi (this was at a little place in Washington Square, a mall near Beaverton Oregon).

Dinner: chicken, potatoe salad and a diet pepsi (or two)

Afterwards, four glasses of White Zinfadel. I was watching the Dave Chappelles show. I had been disappointed in much of the previous shows but found this one was really, really good! I told my wife that and she asked me "how much wine have you drank"? I realized that I'd drank three glasses of White Zin right before seeing this show.

I guess I was just a tad bit drunk...

9 May 2006

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: Geovanis open face meatball samwhich

Dinner: chicken, potatoe salad and DP

Filling them in...

I am entering a month's worth (damn near anyway) of my food diary from the hand scribbled version. I should say hand written but my hand writting often sucks (and not very well at that...)

8 May 2006

Breakfast: bran flakes and coffee.

Lunch: leftover steak, french fries, some bacon and D.P.

Dinner: At the High Street Brfewer and Cafe in Eugene Oregon:

Appetizer: tater tots with cheese dip

Hamberger (1/3 pound) with Tillamooh cheedar cheese and a fried egg

plus great french fries

and two glasses of a great microbrew beer!

The hamberger was so good it deserves to be mentioned by it's name ("Wilbur's Jumbo Deluxe Burger") and it's description "Bacon,Tillamook cheddar, & a fried egg" on their menu.

Events have consequences and so did my "little" binging...

Then, 2 hours and 30 minutes later, I took my "two hours after eatting blood reading" (the above figure of 201!).

For most folks, that might seem too high. But for me, it is quite high and will probably fuck up my A1C test in late May! (28 May 2006: This little binge probably had it's part in my getting an increase in A1c from 6.8 to 7.0! in late May!) However, it was well worth it!

Second Anniversary of Being Diagnoses as Diabetic...

of my being diagnosed as a Type two diabetic.

Since I was in a rather morbid mood, I thought it would be fine to cerebrate. I thought we could to this Champaign Brunch" at this little Mexican restraunt we went to and have the brunch and Champaign. I even thought to have Champaign to toast "My Second Anniversary".

My wife thought it was a bad idea. At the time (7 May 2006), I thought she'd made a bad choice in talking me out of this. Later (28 May 2006), I suspect she may have been correct. Cerebrating such a morbid day probably isn't such a good chioce. But, since I don't expect to be back in Oregon with family on 7 May 2007, I will have champaign that day...

7 May 2006

Breakfast: steak, french fries, DP and (of course) coffee.

Lunch: Same as breakfast...

Dinner: Same as lunch but without DP and with a gin and tonic, strawberry daheria and some snacks...

Even if it wasn't the "Champaign Brunch", it was at least a good post dinner event. Also, I helped dispose of the left over steak...

6 May 2006

Breakfast: piece of of chicken breast (boneless, skinned), two fried eggs, coffee and a D.P.

Lunch: not annotated

Dinner: Bar-B-Qued steak, corn on the cob, DP, Henrie's and salad

Cinco day May-oh ("Cinco de Mayo")

Breakfast: left over KFD chicken (breast and thigh), mashed potatoes and wretched brown gravy.

Lunch: Ham and Turkey samwich, potatoe slices, 2 cans Diet Pepsi and a piece of "the rat" (ok, KFC chicken...)

Dinner: Caesar salad (what little I ate was fine), pieces of Italian bread dipped into olive oil, lasuani (not enough noodles), part of a custard desert I ordered and part of a piece of cake someone else ordered. Also (since I was the designated driver), a couple of glasses of Diet Papei.

Afterward and at Dave and Sheron's house, a bottle of Henries (what else?)

4 May 2006

Breakfast: bowl cherry ohs, grape jelly on a toasted bagel, coffee

Lunch: Fish and chips and salad at a nice restraunt in Corvallis, Oregon

Dinner fried chicken, mashed potatos, wrteched gravy and all from the Rat!...(That night, Kathie and I both had the trots and I came close to blowing chunks...>

As a Desert, I had a Henries...

3 May 2006

Breakfast: Bowl cherrios, 2 slices toast (wheat), coffee

Lunch: Moe's in Newport, Oregon: Bowl clam chowder, fish and chips and a Diet Pepsi.

Dinnert: Salad and two cups chicken/wild rice soup, spegetti with meatballs at Galucchi's in Lincoln City, Oregon. (The spegetti was a little too sweet and reminded me of canned stuff and was thus, significanly ordinary; the remainder of the meal and Kathie's pizza was was most definitely adequate!)

2 May 2006

Breakfast: two slices of pan warmed ham, two scrambled eggs, two slices toasted sour dough bread, a cup of coffee (in the "Bear" coffee cup) and a Diet Pepsi...

Lunch: hamburger, fries, Diet Pepsi at Dairy Queen

Dinner: Steak, baked potato, salad at Maxine's at Lincoln City, Oregon.

May Day 2006

Breakfast: shredded wheat, two slices toast and coffee.

Lunch: At Yamhill Grill in Newberg Oregon: Split an order of onion rings, a cup of a wonderful tomatoe brisk{sp} sout, "French Dip" samwhich (actually a piece of prime rib) and Diet Pepsi.

DInner: Slices of broiled London Broil, a little bit of mashed potatoes, brocolli, a Diet Pepsi and a bottle of Henry Weinhart's Private Reserve (still a very nice beer and I don't understand why restraunts in the Portland area refuse to sell it. Sure, a bunch of fucking Cali-fornacators bought Henry's and are making it in Cali-fornia but it is still a very well made beer. It turely beats Pissweiser -er- Budweister...)

A snack: First a gin-and-tonic and then another Henrys...

I figured I'd blown the blood sugar totally and yet, when I did the fasting test the morning of two-de-May-oh, it was only 109!

That is quite low for me...