New Year's Eve

Breakfast: a little bit of cherios and coffee (something made me sick, I wonder if it was the milk?)

Lunch: boiled noodles and left over turkey and ham and water

Dinner: baked chicken, boiled rice and boiled broccoli and iced water

30 December 2010

Breakfast: egg salad made from two hard boiled eggs on a hamburger bun and coffee

Lunch: a McDonald's

• quarter pounder without cheese (both sides of the beef patty were covered with cheese!)
• large fries
• medium chocolate milk shake with whipped creamme (must be a Christmas thing?)

Dinner: Healthy Choice Classic Meat Load (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

30 December 2010

Breakfast: creamme of wheat, slice of toast and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown,

• chicken tenders
• french fries
• corn
• iced water

Snack: some orange Sherbet with chocolate topping and a cup of coffee

Dinner: I decided to try something different and had a ham sandwich, a ½ turkey sandwich, carrots and iced water

28 December 2010

Breakfast: mixture of wheaties and cheerios and coffee

Lunch: Healthy Choice roast beef (chunks of roast beef, chunks of potatoe, slices of carrots and brown gravy) and water

Snack: a small amount of orange sherbet with chocolate sauce and then (at work) a piece of chocolate pie

Dinner: two Bierocks, white hominy covered with black pepper and with a chunk of margarine and water

Snack: another small piece of chocolate pie (I can't complain about my brother Charlie; neither of us could resist temptation!)

27 December 2010

Breakfast: two slices of sour dough bread in milk toast and coffee

Lunch:  a sliced turkey/ham sandwich and carrots with bottled water

Snack: orange sherbet with chocolate topping

Snack 2: some crackers with sliced sausage, sliced cheddar cheese and mustard at work

Dinner: Marie Callender's Country Fried Chicken & Gravy (White Meat Chicken, Cheddar Topped Mashed Potatoes & White and Yellow Corn) and iced water

Snack: several Ritz crackers

Christmas Day

Breakfast: We had forgotten to buy bacon the day before so Kathie lost her temper. I had scrambled eggs and coffee.

 

Lunch:

 

Dinner: we went to the Casino for their buffet and I had:

• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• small piece of boneless, skinned chicken in a fancy sauce
• some little chunks of potatoe
• a big slice and a little slice of roast beef grilled to make it more well done
• a MIller Genuine Draft beer
• two types of desert: flan and something harder to describe

What was sad is that I could not finish all the roast beef and they would not let me take the left over slap of beef out; this was a buffet and they dindn't want me to take food simply to haul it out. I had intended to eat it all but could not. So, a nice piece of roast beef, sliced and grilled for me, had to me shit canned...

 

The food was excellent, the service quite nice and the atmosphere not too bad...

Christmas Eve

Breakfast: I'm writing this on the 26th and have forgotten...

 

Lunch: hamberger, fries and Diet Pepsi

 

Dinner; at Kathie's Aunt, sliced ham and a nice potatoe dish and a slice of choclate fudge desert

 

Sadly, it was the combination of three strange dogs, "little old lady house spell" and whatever but I had a real asma attack. I had forgotten my inhailor and had trouble breathing until we were about half way back. It included constricted breathing and dry throat. I was fine by the time we got back home; I should have treated this like a long distacne trip and packed the inhailor...

23 December 2010

_____Breakfast: not a traditional one but

• stewed pork chops
• rice
• coffee

________Lunch: I went to that new Italian place and had

• two slices of loaf shaped white bread (think 'Wonder Bread") dipped in sauce
• two and a half spiced bread sticke
• dipped in olive oil and
• spaghetti in meatless sauce
• two glasses of Diet Coke

_______Dinner: We went to the new place at the public golf course club house, Mariah Hills Restaurant and had

• nice salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• excellent steak with "Ham's topping" (butter and spices)
• baked potatoe
• small piece of desert
• water

I ate about half of my dinner and ate the left overs for breakfast the next mooring.

I think it is safe to say this is the finest Steak place you can go to in Dodge City Kansas. This is because

• the food is simply excellent
• the service is very good
• the view from the dining room windows is great and
• the owner ("Ham") has "worried feet" and checks the customers to see is the customers are happy and if everything is going well

In "Kitchen Confidental",  Anthony Burdoine wrote of the need for the manager to have "worried feet". That is, for the manager of the restaurant to make sure everything is going well and that only happy customers will walk out. It is a well known fact that angry customers will tell at least ten (10!) other people of their dissatisfaction. I personally try for higher numbers. Happy customers don't tend to tell as many people.

So, as a happy customer, I can safely say go to Mariah Hills for a great steak dinner!

Pre-Bed Snack:  gin-n-tonic

22 December 2010

Breakfast: not a traditional one but

• stewed pork chops
• rice
• coffee

There are left overs for tomorrow morning.

Snack: a piece of coffee cake and coffee

Lunch: Went to McDonald's and ordered

• A third pound hamburger with just catchup and mustard  (It took a couple of tries before this seemed to sink in and I guess the two slices of "processed cheese" just magically appeared on their own!)
• fries
• Diet Coke, no ice

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meatloaf, mashed potatoes and  brown gravy, corn and iced water

As an aside, the Burger King was back in service. My wife wanted to go there for lunch but I convinced her we should let them fully clean up after whatever maintenance they did.

21 December 2010

Breakfast: An odd mixture of instant grits and additions:

• two packets of instant grits
• a small piece of well cooked hamburger, chopped up...
• three hard boiled eggs
• squirt of mustard (too much as it turned out...
• coffee

Lunch: We argued and finally decided on Burger King. However, when we got to Burger King, Kathie commented: "I wonder if they're open; there aren't any cars". We pulled up to the front and saw a sign on the door which read "We're closed for maintenance and regret any inconvenience this causes." [definitely words to that effect, in other words, I'm not remembering the whole sign!]

I looked in the window and saw a woman looking back. I could not tell if she was drinking something or smoking a cigarette. The chairs were up on the tables. This is a very bad sign; usually, chairs on tables means a restaurant is going to be closed for a long time...

We decided to go to McDonald's but clearly a lot of Burger King fans had decided to do the same thing and the drive through line a McD's was backed up into the street. So, we went to Pizza Hutt. In the past, I have bitched about the

• poor service
• merely adequate food
• slow resupply of pizza
• slow refill of my "Diet Pepsi, no ice"

I now repent this. They have a new manager and he really has turned this Pizza Hut around!

• the service is now much better
• the food tastes better
• they resupply the pizza much quicker and
• I get refills of my Diet Pepsi without having to ask for them.

Dinner: a Healthy Choice Steamer meal and refrigerator cold water...

20 December 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and peanut butter and grape jelly on a hamburger bun and coffee

Snack: little Oreos and coffee

Lunch:  We went to "King's Buffet" and had a mixture of beef and chicken dishs, some rice, some sliced potatoes and choc pudding. Our waitress, who is Oriental (Chinese?) and who speaks English as a second language, had no problem with the "Diet Pepsi, no ice".

Dinner: Healthy Choice beef, potatoes, carrots, apple crisp and refrigerator water. (Oh, yeah, a gin-n-tonic...)

20 December 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and peanut butter and grape jelly on a hamburger bun and coffee

Snack: little Oreos and coffee

Lunch:  xxx

Dinner: xxx

19 December 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: hamberger and bowl of tomoatoe soup (with oyster cracker) and refrigerator water

Snack: (at the local movie theater): popcorn and most of a large "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: Healty Choice roast beef, potatoes, carrots and apple crisp with water and a gin-n-tonic for "desert"

18 December 2010

Breakfast: Egg salad sandwich and chips, plus coffee and cold water

Lunch: At this Mexican Place at the local mall:

• taco
• hamburger wrapped in dough (I don't recall the name)
• red rice
• glass Diet Pepsi without ice...

Unless I am totally wrong, those are "ice cubes" in my "Diet Pepsi, no ice".  My wife reminded me the waitresses are so used to putting ice in drinks that she probably wasn't aware of icing up my "Diet Pepsi, no ice". Still it annoys the crap out of me...

The service was simply awful! I mean really, really poor. They put us in a bad location (against a wall and hidden by the bar) and then ignored us until the waitress trundled up to take our order. I ordered Flan for desert and she wanted to bring it to me before the meal! Right there, I realized we were going to have problems! (This was a mall so being "Anglo" in a place with lots of Mexican customers should not have a problem.) We got the chips and salsa and eventually the food. "Our" waitress kept going to the other tables and I ended up having to wave at her to get her to come over and refill my drink.

When the meal was over, and "our" waitress came over to clear the table, my wife reminded her: "Where is his Flan order?"

"Oh."

We had to go to the cashier's station to get our bill. The Flan order was on the bill and we could well have paid for flan not received if we had not been so pissed off that we carefully read the bill.

That took about another eight minutes to get the Flan and the flan was fine

We had to go to the cashier's station to get our bill. The Flan order was on the bill and we could well have paid for flan not received if we had not been so pissed off that we carefully read the bill.

The service sucked; I hope my wife remembered that when she left the tip, in cash, on the table. But, knowing her, she had to have over tipped...

Dinner: We had the office Christmas Party at Casey's Cowtown. The meal consisted of:

• salad with a white dressing
• overcooked ribeye steak
• baked potatoe
• roll and butter
• iced water

The steak was a bit overdone but then Mike Casey had a house full of people doing Christmas Parties. So, it was excusable.

14 December 2010

Breakfast: wheaties, a banana and coffee

Lunch: Buffet at the "new" Mexican place owned by Mike Casey and a couple of "Diet Pepsis"

 Dinner:  We went to the new Miara {sp} Hills restaurant and I had

• small salad with a spicy Thousand Island Dressing
• a 12 oz (yes twelve ounce!) Fillet Mignon and
• a nice sized baked potatoe plus (since I was the designated driver)
• several glasses of ice water

In early April, we went to a place called "Hams", said to be the "best steak house in Dodge City". This restaurant was small and looked like a roadside diner; the steak was excellent and the side dishes very nice. They even had a nice selection of beers (that is, beers whose names did not include the words "Light" or "Lite" or "Ultra") and I was the designated drinker vice designated driver for a change...

The owner of Hams got the contract to run a restaurant at the city owned clubhouse at the city owned golf course. So, of course, we went. (Actually, I think Kathie looked at the "Healthy Choice" meals she had just brought home from Dillions and was thinking "I could go for an unHealthy Choice". I was game for "unHealthy" myself. Of course, I was game for "unHealthy"! If I wasn't, I might not be a diabetic looking at having to use Levemir injected insulin in about 1½ months!)

The service was fine, the food excellent, the view from the dining room quite nice and all-in-all, it was an excellent evening at a very nice place.

It looks like Dodge City has got a new and best-in-town steak house!

13 December 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: at "Pizza Hut" (and what is it my wife sees in this place?)

• several (3) pieces of meat pizza
• two slices of apple pizza
• small dish of pudding
• "Diet Coke"

The service was good; out waitress actually came over with the drink refill pitcher and insisted on refilling my drink ... as we were rising to leave!

None the less, she made the effort and we tipped her for it. I must have gotten too much sugar because I felt wretched for most of the rest of the afternoon.

Dinner: A Healthy Chice Bar-B-Que chicken, potatoe and apple desert and refrigerator cold water

12 December 2010

Breakfast: Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and coffee

 Snack:a couple of glazed donuts and my bad coffee from this morning...

Lunch: We had "breakfast for lunch" and this was:

• well cooked bacon
• scrambled eggs
• Serra Lee Coffee Cake
• water

 Snack: We saw a cute movie and had popcorn and "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: Kathie made her rice pilof and put canned chicken in. The pilof was fine but the chicken sucked! I ended up putting lime juice and Worcester Sauce on it to kill that flavour that came with the chicken...

Knight cap of gnt...

11 December 2010

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean sausage and pancakes and coffee

Lunch: rest of the left-over tuna noodle casserole, cottage cheese and grape jelly and refrigerator cold water...

Dinner: We went to "King's Buffet" for the usual assortment of chicken dishes, some beef, rice, potatoe and desert (and iced water)

Snack: a gin-n-tonic...

10 December 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: Went to a new place where the "Safe" (a cafe) used to be. They had the same waitress but the cooks seemed different. The food was somewhat similar to the cafe which went out of business...

• small salad with Thousand Island dressing (this was new)
• "elephant stew": This is a beef and pork stew with potatoe, carrots and onions (oh yes, fungus er mushrooms)
• a glass of "Diet Coke"

It was quite nice...

Snack: I had a serious case of the munchies and went to Dairy Queen where I got a banana split, with all fudge topping and whipped creamme. I should not have but I did have a serious case of the ice creamme munchies...

Dinner: We're on a "Healthy Choice" kick and I had their

• meatloaf
• mashed potatoes
• brown gravy
• corn
• apple desert
• refrigerator cold water

9 December 2010

Breakfast: We went to Burger King and I had their new breakfast of

• scrambled eggs
• potatoe thingies (tater tots?)
• sausage patty
  
• three medium pancakes and
• coffee

This is their reply to the McDonald's "Big Breakfast" and has  better scrambled eggs than McD; these taste fresh made and are not dried out.

Lunch: We went to Olive Garden in Wichita and I had:

• salad
• bread sticks
• spegethie with meat sauce and meat balls
• 2 glasses of Diet Pepsi
• had this little choclate moose in a shot glass (very nice!)

Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for their Thorsday night sea food and I had:

• salad
• small piece of salmon with some kind of sauce
• several smallish scrimp (they didn't say if these were Gulf Coast or not...)
• three slices of well done roast beef!
• some dish based on sliced potatoes
• two little rolls with butter
• iced water

It was all quite good and the service today (Olive Garden and Casino) was good.

On the way from Wichita back to Dodge, I kept nodding off so we stopped at the Pratt McDonalds for coffee. That helped...

8 December 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown: steak sandwich, fries and iced water

Dinner: tuna noodle casserol (tuna fish, boiled noodles, tuna fish, big can of Creamme of Mushroom soup and potatoe chips on top), baked at 350º F and refrigerator cold water

"Desert": a double gin-n-tonic...

Pearl Harbour Day (69th Anniversary)

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: two bierocks (from Dillions), a can of Creamme of Chicken Soup (Campbell's) and a bottle of Diet Pepsi.

Dinner: some chicken I baked yesterday, boiled broccoli, a baked potatoe and iced water.

Snack: a hard shell taco with thin bean sauce (before dinner) and another hard shell taco after my 2-hours-past-dinner-blood-test.

6 December 2010

Breakfast: cheerios, a slice of toast with peanut butter and grape jelly and coffee

Lunch: My wife and I went to Sonic and I ordered

• #1 hamburger with mustard (it came without the usual ketchup)
• fries
• medium "Diet Coke" with no ice (this actually came with out  ice!)

Now, normally Sonic is very tight with handing out ketchup. I expect 2 or 3 little bags of the "precious" substance so I asked for "a lot of ketchup, please". When the order was read back, it included "extra ketchup". I knew better than to get excited about this...

When we sorted out the contents of the box lunch came in, I added up the "extra ketchup" and we had

 #####
#     #
      #
 #####
#
#
#######

little bags of ketchup. Yup, we really got the "extra ketchup"!

Dinner: chicken I baked yesterday, a potatoe I baked today, boiled broccoli and some iced water.

5 December 2010

Breakfast: creamme of wheat, a toasted hot dog bun and coffee

Lunch: We went out to breakfast and I had

• corned beef hash
• two eggs over medium
• slice of whole wheat toast with grape jelly
• coffee

Next time, I will get the

1. eggs over medium
2. hash browns
3. whole wheat toast with grape jelly and of course,
4. coffee...

Dinner: baked boneless chicken and baked potaoes

4 December 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: canned speghettie and "meatballs" and a slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and grape jelly

Dinner: Healthy Choice Meatloaf, mashed potatoes with brown gravy, corn, some kind of apple desert and iced water

Snack: some cheese

3 December 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: chicken noodle soup from Quixos and since this didn't fill me up, an 8" "diet" pizza with tomatoes and "exotic" cheese (and water)

Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino and had dinner there. Since I was still doing the "don't-eat-red-meat" test of digestive track (which involved collecting fecal samples...), I could not have red meat. I told the waitress that I could not eat red meat ("doctor's orders") and she pointed out the fish section. So, I had...

• salad with Thousand Island dressing
• a very small cup of a homemade noddle soup with a couple of chicken chunks in it
• Mississippi deep fat fried catfish (good stuff!)
• french fries
• weird cole slaw
• roll with butter and
• split a "death by choclate" cake with Kathie.

Neither of us finished out meals so we ended up taking about ¼ to a third of our meals home. (I have to remember to finish off the desert tomorrow!)

We had very good service; it is so nice when the waitress actually cares about serving the customer and then does so well.

sick as a dog (and he was too!)

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown:

• chicken tenders
• french fries (probably the best in town)
  
• large ear corn on the cob
• roll with butter and
• iced water

This was the good chicken, the good corn, the good meal; what followed was not..

Dinner: I went to the Rat KFC...

• two piece breast and wing, extra crispy
• mashed potatoes and brown gravy
• small piece of corn on the cob and
• biscuit

The wing was mostly breading and the breast was greasy; still, I was hungry and ate it...

My dog isn't so picky; he ate as much of the chicken as I gave him. I did notice it didn't taste quite up to par but I was hungry and had paid for the food.

The mashed potatoes must have been instant. They were the kind for which the phrase "hunger is the best appetizer" was invented; sadly, I wasn't hungry enough for this "Delicacy" (sarcasm!) ;-)

The small piece of corn on the cob was soggy and clearly had been stewing in the cooking water for waaaay too long!

The biscuit was crumbly and they didn't put any honey or "butter" in the bag (it tasted fine). However, I have grape jelly at home...

I drank a glass of cold water from  my refer; this was clearly the best part of the meal!

About an hour after going to bed, I was rolling around on the bed, barfing in my mouth and swallowing. I finally got up and stood over the toilet till all the dinner came back up. To paraphrase Vir Coto "It tasted so good going down, not so good  coming back up." It didn't taste so bad...

About 2 am, I woke up with my wife fussing with the dog (who had been sleeping between us). She got him to the end of the bed and I was wondering what was going on (sometimes being very hard of hearing can be a blessing!) Well, the poor dog barfed on the outer blanket. My wife stripped the blanket off the bed, walked the dog and came back to bed. Now, it could be argued that I should have been the one to take the dog outside. However, it was about 2 am and I had to un-rack (get out of bed) about 3:14 am. Had I walked the dog, I would have been so awake that I'd have lost my last hour of sleep...

So, what did dog and man have in common?

We both ate from the same piece of KFC extra crispy chicken breast!

This may be spurious reasoning but...

28 November 2010

Breakfast: wheaties, a banana and coffee

Lunch: two Rubins and potatoe chips and a bottle of Diet Coke

Dinner: chicken, rice and boiled broccoli plus iced water

27 November 2010

Breakfast: cherioes and coffee

Lunch: We went to the Italian place at the Garden City Airport. I had spethettie with meat sauce and meatballs, homemade rolls with butter and "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: left over turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy (with iced water)

Snacks: some peanuts and 4 little Oreos...

Thanksgiving 2010 (25 November 2010)

Breakfast: we had

• bacon
• scrambled eggs
• Seri Lee coffee cake
• coffee...

Lunch: traditional Thanksgiving fare of:

• turkey
• dressing
• mashed potatoes
• broccoli
• gravy
• rolls with pseudo butter and grape jelly
• cold water

Dinner: A Healthy Choice TV dinner and iced water...

Snack: a small piece of pumpkin pie with whipped creamme (shared with my dog, of course) and some turkey (which my dog also enjoyed...)

20 June 2010

Breakfast: at the Boot Hill Casino restaurant: SOS on hash brown potatoes, well cooked bacon stripes, a couple of well cooked disks of sausage, what must have been cheddar cheese scrambled eggs, coffee and iced water

Snack: a small piece of sliced turkey in a wrap and a sip of some God Awful "energy drink" (even Kathie didn't like it...) and then a small bottle of ice cold water (rather hard to screw up the taste of water!)

Lunch: home made speghettie sauce (2 pounds of hamberger, 2 cans of tomatoe sauce, around 1/4 cup of red whine, two tablespoons of brown sugar) over noodles and garlic bread with coldwater

Dinner: Marie Callender's Beef & Broccoli (Sliced Beef with Rice & Broccoli in a Savory Sauce) and iced water...
 

10 June 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: one (1!) slice of meat pizza and 3 little chunks of cake and a small amount of cole slaw.

Snack: a couple of little chunks of cake (the left over pizza from the office luncheon consisted solely of pizza contaminated with olives, mushrooms, onions and other crap...

Dinner: Marie Callender's Beef & Broccoli (Sliced Beef with Rice & Broccoli in a Savory Sauce) and iced water

11 May 2010

Breakfast: grits and coffee

Lunch: yogurt with frozen strawberries, later, three deep fried chicken legs (less what my dog begged from me!) and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Snack: I planned on having salad for dinner (around 7:30 pm) and about 5:25 pm, I was getting very hungry. So, I ate part of a pork chop and some rice that I had at work (left overs from 6 May)

24 November 2010

Breakfast: creamme of wheat and coffee

Lunch: a 2X hamberger Chulupia, hard shell taco and "Diet Pepsi" at Taco Hell Bell

Dinner: Hungry Man Boneless Pork Ribs: two textured slabs of boneless meat, small amount of mashed potatoes, red (tomato) gravy, a brownie and iced water

23 November 2010

Breakfast: left over hamberger from last night, mixed with two packets of instant grits, butter and water to make the instant grits and coffee

Lunch: left over baked chicken and rice pilof and a can of "Pepsi One"...

Dinner: at Montana Mike's:

• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• 8 oz fillet
• "loaded" baked potatoe
• about ½ of a "Mudslide" (brownie, vanilla ice creamme, whipped creamme and chocolate fudge drizzle)
  

22 November 2010

Breakfast: (late) a small piece of keech and some fruit at "Cup of
Jo~nes" in Dodge City

Lunch: a 6" ham and turkey sub with lettuce, chips and a medium "Diet
Pepsi" at "Subway Sandwiches". They are cutting back on what they have
available and that really upset my wife, especially since they were
still advertising a sandwich (which she wanted) that had been
discontinued at least a week ago. They took that item off the menu...

Dinner: homemade pizza crust (slightly burnt) with topping and
hamburger. I made the mistake of putting dried onion flakes on it and I
had indigestion all night and slept very badly...

19 November 2010

Breakfast: first, I boiled two eggs and then added instant grits and cooked it. Alas, I burned some of the egg and had to throw it out; actually, I gave it to my dog who thought it was just fine!

Lunch: We went to "King's Buffet" and had chicken, rice, beef, a small amount of french fries, choc pudding and some vinallia pudding and Diet Pepsi. All stuff that probably wasn't good for me...

Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast (Roasted Beef with Cabernet Gravy, Carrots, Red Potatoes & Appled Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Then, a bag of popcorn for "desert"...

18 November 2010

Breakfast:  left over roast beef, some mixed gravy and finely chopped potatoes and carrots and a slice of bread plus a cup of coffee

Lunch: Burger King XT burger, fries and a "Diet Coke" (I thought this was supposed to have a layer of crispy onions and cheese but it had neither. I wonder what they actually gave me?)

Dinner: Hungry-Man Boneless Pork Ribs (Pork patties glazed with barbeque sauce with home-style mashed potatoes and sweet corn - includes a chocolate brownie) and iced water

17 November 2010

Breakfast: leftover tuna noodle casserole and coffee

Lunch:  at Casey's Cowtown:

• roast beef
• mashed potatoes and
• brown gravy plus
• a roll and butter
• with iced water

Snack: a cup of vanilla ice creamme and a chocolate cookie

Dinner: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Cajun Style Chicken & Scrimp (Chicken Tenderloin & Scrimp with Rice and Vegetables in Spicy Cajun -Style Sauce) and iced water (with two little Oreo cookies for an appetizer)

16 November 2010

Breakfast: corned beef hash and 2 eggs cook with this and coffee

Lunch: at a fairly new "Mexican" place, several hard shell tacos, refried beans and red rice, some other stuff and "Diet Coke"

 Snack:a choclate chip cookie (big mistake, it made me feel ill and I think it was an excessive sugar thing...)

Dinner: two chicken breasts, left over from this past Sunday; some boiled broccoli; some rice; iced water

 Snack: two little Oreo cookies

Jamie Bielinsi's "Swedish Meatballs"

Swedish Meatballs by Jamie Bielinski

1 10oz Jar Grape Jelly
1 10oz Bottle La Choy Sweet & Sour Sauce
1 10oz Bottle Heinz Chilli Sauce
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire Sauce
1 Tbsp. Lemon Juice

Place meatballs in slow cooker with mixture and heat until warm.
________________

The recipe doesn't state the source of meatballs.

23 October 2010

Breakfast: scrambled eggs (2) and a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and a cup of bad coffee

Snack: a couple of chocolate chip cookies at a Health Faire we attended (we represented Kansas Lions Eye Bank)

Lunch: we had

• steak
• very small baked potatoe
• broccoli and
• cold water

Dinner: I had the left overs from Montana Mike's

• the rest of my steak
• remnants of two baked potatoes
• about a roll
• iced water

15 November 2010

Breakfast: peanut butter and jelly sandwich and coffee

Lunch: at Pizza Hutt, a couple of slices of meat pizza, a slice of apple desert pizza, a small cup of choclate pudding and a salad with 1000 Island dressing

Dinner: Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Jamie Bielinsi's "Swedish Meatballs"

Swedish Meatballs by Jamie Bielinski

1 10oz Jar Grape Jelly
1 10oz Bottle La Choy Sweet & Sour Sauce
1 10oz Bottle Heinz Chilli Sauce
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire Sauce
1 Tbsp. Lemon Juice

Place meatballs in slow cooker with mixture and heat until warm.
________________

The recipe doesn't state the source of meatballs.

9 November 2010

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Bacon (Eggs, Potatoes, Bacon & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Snack: two thick slices of sour dough bread, with low-fat margarine, toasted in the office toaster/oven

8 November 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: chopped up left over roast beef, potatoes, carrots and gravy (and water)

Dinner: a TV dinner of chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes, carrots and gravy (and water)

7 November 2010

Breakfast: sausage and pancakes, a peanut butter and grape jelly on toast and coffee (we had this at a hotel in McPherson Kansas)

Lunch: 6" Subway meatball sub, chips and a "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: meat pizza and some orange sherbert with choclate sauce for desert (and water...)

1 November 2010

Breakfast: a hodgepodge of left overs: part of a Ruben, part of a cheese sandwich (Tillamook Sharp Cheddar and Gudda), some over oven baked chicken and coffee

Lunch: baked pork chops and boiled rice plus a can of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: a Healthy Choice chicken meal and water, then, a gin-n-tonic and sunflower seeds for desert

31 October 2010

 Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: we went to Montana Mike's for:

• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• ribeye steak done medium (I took the remnants home and will have them for breakfast later this week)
• baked potatoe
• roll with honey butter
• 2 glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

We have very good service from a young waitress who was very cute...

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meatloaf/mashed potatoe/corn/apple crisp dinner and a couple of pieces of dark chocolate my wife took from the goodies bowl for trick and treaters...

30 October 2010

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Sausage (Eggs, Potatoes, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Snack: a small piece of the pork chop I baked for lunch (but will have tomorrow) and a small amount of the rice...

Lunch: One and a half Ruben, some potatoe salad and water

Dinner: boneless chicken I fried in my cast iron fry pan and some homemade bread (made from a can of bread dough) and a bottle of beer (I seem to be losing my taste for beer). As desert and after Kathie got back from a birthday party, a gin-n-tonic.

30 October 2010

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Sausage (Eggs, Potatoes, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Snack: a small piece of the pork chop I baked for lunch (but will have tomorrow) and a small amount of the rice...

29 October 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and donuts and coffee

Lunch: Progresso Traditional Chicken & Wild Rice with a bag of Cheeze-Its added and a Pepsi One.

Dinner: a bowl of Campbell tomatoe soup with chunks of sausage, a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and a small amount of orange sherbet

My post dinner blood sugar was too damn high, especially considering how little I had for dinner and the low levels of carbs...

29 October 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and donuts and coffee

Lunch: Progresso Traditional Chicken & Wild Rice with a bag of Cheeze-Its added and a Pepsi One.

25 October 2010

Breakfast: piece of sausage, milk toast and coffee

Snack: a small bowl of orange sherbet and chocolate topping (I felt completely drained after working out...)

Lunch: at Pizza Hut, salad, two slices of meat pizza, slice of desert pizza, some awful tasting chocolate pudding
I have to admit that while the selection wasn't too great, the service was fine.

Snack: a small bowl of orange sherbet and chocolate topping

Dinner: instant left overs made from a cheap steak, two chopped up and boiled potatoes, and broccoli
It was good but I felt the urge for something sweet after dinner and had to resist the urge to buy Oreos...

I broke down and bought some little cookies...

24 October 2010

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:

• well cooked bacon,
• scrambled eggs,
• Serri Lee coffee cake
• coffee

Lunch: We went with a nice Sunday lunch of:

• baked whole chicken
• stuffing
• broccoli
• small baked potatoe (which I had) and
• iced water

Snack: a cup of coffee and a square of dark chocolate (This was a real big mistake; I had indigestion for hours afterward.)

Dinner: Lean Cuisine Meatloaf with Mashed Potatoes (savory meatloaf with gravy and creamy red-skin mashed potatoes) and iced water with a couple of little Oreo cookies for desert (and the subsequent heart burn...)

22 October 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: the rest of the left over sheghetti and iced water

Dinner: the usual mix with rice at King's Buffet and ice creamme for desert

Snack: two gin-n-tonic

21 October 2010 (updated)

Breakfast: cheerios with two bananas and coffee

Snack: left over spaghetti from the other night

Lunch: chicken and fish plus fries and a medium "Diet Pepsi" at Long John Silvers.

Dinner: a Healthy Choice Meat Loaf diinner and water

Snack: a double gin-n-tonic

21 October 2010

Breakfast: cheerios with two bananas and coffee

Snack: left over spaghetti from the other night

20 October 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown:

• bar-b-qued ribs
• mashed potatoes with brown gravy
• roll with butter
• water

Dinner: at Montana Mike's

• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• big steak
• baked potatoe with butter and sour creamme
• roll with cinnamon butter
• ice water

17 October 2010

Breakfast: piece of sausage and part of a bowl of wheaties; it wasn't so good and I think the milk has gone bad

Lunch: two brats boiled in cheap beer with chunked up green pepper, onion, garlic and the aforementioned brats (with a bottle of Diet Pepsi...)

Snack: some "homemade" bread (made from a can of "French Bread") and cold water

Dinner: a Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast (Roasted Beef with Cabernet Gravy, Carrots, Red Potatoes & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water and for desert (a couple of hours after dinner): 6 little Oreos...I was very hungry. Unfortunately, about an hour after eating them, I felt ill...

16 October 2010

Good news: I had an A1C test done at the Health Faire today and my A1C had dropped from 8.5 to 8.3. So, I'm happy...

Breakfast: at Dodge House,

• scrambled eggs from a pan,
• a slice of bacon,
• several link sausage,
• SOS (with sliced link sausage) on hash browns
• a biscuit with grape jelly and
• coffee and ice water

The parking lot of the first place we went to was crammed and we simply could not find a parking place. We went to the Dodge House...

Lunch: at Applebys,  where I had the fahetias with steak and chicken, grilled onions, chopped tomatoes, white cheddar cheese, finely sliced lettuce and two glasses of "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner: a Healthy Choice "Classic Meat Loaf (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Snack: bag of popcorn and 2 Reese's Cups...

15 October 2010

Breakfast: grits with some pseudo-butter (but not enough) and two "thick" slices of baloney (sliced up) and coffee

Lunch: Went to Taco Bell and had a large (2x) steak Chalumpa {sic} and hard taco with a medium "Diet Coke" (just a little touch of Dr. Pooper Pepper in it...).  I have to admit, this was the best I've eaten at Taco Bell in well over a decade. It really was good! (Of course, "hunger is the best appetizer".)

Snack: didn't have one.  I sat down on the couch and started reading "Mission of Honor" by David Weber. My dog sat down next to my left leg and my older cat used my right leg as a pillow. I simply didn't want to disturb either one and didn't want to put the book down. Without giving a spoiler, I was reading the horrifying "Oyster Bay" (Manticore) section...

I did make the mistake of drinking a strong cup of coffee before going to work (about 2:30 pm while I was walking my dog) and then maybe ¼ to a ½ cup of coffee after I got to work. My stomach was upset for at least 3 hours after this. Tomorrow, no caffeine after noon!

Dinner: a fine mixture of left overs, fresh and canned

• the rest of the baked and then boiled steak from yesterday
• a can of sliced potatoes (which gave me a day's worth of salt!)
• a bunch of over boiled broccoli florets
• iced water
  

14 October 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's, a hamburger, fries and water

Snack: some more orange sherbet with chocolate topping

Dinner: a couple of small steaks, baked and then boiled, rice and boiled carrots

Snack: Oreo cookies (6), I was very hungry...

14 October 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown, the special: Spaghetti with meatballs and a red sauce (and iced water)

Snack: some sherbet with chocolate topping and a cup of coffee

Dinner: a hamburger patty, small baked potatoe and boiled carrots (and iced water)

Snack: a bag of popcorn and two Reese's'  cup

I was delighted that Mike Casey (owner of "Casey's Cowtown") has finally decided to serve spaghetti with meatballs and a red sauce; I have been bugging him for years on the subject and I think he came through well. I hope he has this available tomorrow and if so, I will order it.

12 October 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast (Roasted Beef with Cabernet Gravy, Carrots, Red Potatoes & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Snack: Cheeze-It Baked Snack Crackers and iced water

Snack: some orange sherbet 

Dinner: We  went to the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant for Tuscan Tuesday:

• salad
• some great pork and beef lasagna
• a strange white sauced substance
• green dough made with spinage

I asked the waiter what "pasta bar" meant. It turned out the two guys at a table were running a pasta bar and not a desert bar. I went back. The cook sauteed garlic, chopped tomoatoes, chunks of chicken in olive oil and added the red sauce and spaghetti noodles. (All of this is what I asked for.)

11 October 2010

_____Breakfast: at McDonalds, the "Big Breakfast" of

• scrambled eggs
• potatoe thingies
• biscuit with grape jelly
• coffee

________Lunch: From Subway, a foot long on whole wheat with ham, turkey, lettuce and a glass of "Diet Coke"
_______Dinner: rice with Chinese chicken and two scoops of orange sherbet with chocolate topping

10 October 2010

_____Breakfast: at Casey\'s Cowtown:

• a small pork chop
• hash browns
• 2 eggs over medium
• 2 slices whole wheat toast with grape jelly

________Lunch: two hamburgers and chicken noodle soup plus a bottle of Diet Pepsi
_______Dinner: balooney sandwich and some other stuff...

9 October 2010

_____Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of

• bacon
• scrambled eggs
• Sari Lee coffee cake
• coffee

Snack A Starbuck's Mocha and part of a chocolate chip cookie:
________Lunch:  at the Airport Restaurant in Garden City

• excellent rolls and butter
• spaghetti with meat sauce with meat balls and sausage
• Diet Coke

_______Dinner: a can of Tomatoe soup and a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich

               Snack: I attended the "Dora Hand" play in Dodge City Kansas. After the play, I had a wine punch and a very small choclate chip brownie (the smallest I could find...)

I enjoyed the play, which was very well done. I would put a link to it if I could find one in the Dodge City Globe.

          Dinner #2: a baloney sandwich on crusty "Italian" bread
 
Pre-Bed Snack: bowl of orange sherbet with chocolate topping

8 October 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: French dip, fries and "Diet Coke"

Snack: small amount of orange sherbet with chocolate topping

Dinner: small piece 8% fat hamburger, baked potatoe, 2 bananas broccoli and iced water

7 October 2010

Breakfast: cheerios, a banana and coffee

Lunch: from Sonic, a hamburger, fries and medium "Diet Coke"

Dinner:  Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes , Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

6 October 2010

Breakfast: left over steak and the rest of the leftover rice pilaf and coffee

Lunch: roast beef, mashed potatoes and brown gravy and a fine roll at Casey's Cowtown (and ice water)

Snack: ice creamme with chocolate sauce

Dinner: Healthy Choice Chicken Romano Fresca (chicken tenderloins with whole grain pasta, broccoli, red peppers in romano cheese & butter glaze) and cold water.  Desert: some  more ice creamme and choclate chip cookies (2)

5 October 2010

Breakfast: small piece of steak and some left over rice pilaf and coffee

Lunch: We went to a fairly new place, "Bella Italia Ristorante". This is our second visit. I had lasagna, two slices of white bread and 2 glasses of "Diet Coke". The lasagna was quite good, the bread needs improvement and the service fine.

They seriously need to decorate the place; they need some pictures and there are two electrical outlets that should be removed, with all traces of their existence destroyed (this "Ristorante" used to be a photo shop.)

Given the number of hamburger joints, "Mexican" restaurants, and quick food places, "Bella Italia Ristorante" is a sorely needed addition to the local restaurants selection.

All things considered, I hope they stay in business.

Snack: a piece of chocolate cake and some vanilla ice creamme. (Given how crappy I felt about 10 minutes after eating this, I kind of wish I had not...)

Pre-dinner Snack: two ripe bananas

Dinner: left over beef stew and cold water

4 October 2010

Breakfast: small piece of pork chop, peanut butter and grape jelly on sour dough bread and coffee

Lunch: Pizza Hut for

• a salad
• two slices of meat pizza
• slice of apple desert pizza
• small cup of choclate pudding
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

The service was quite good! I hereby repent all the obnoxious remarks I made in the past about Pizza Hut; they seem to have gotten the hang of customer service. (I just hope they can maintain it...)

Snack: small slice of low sugar apple pie when I got to work (it was sitting out on a table being a perfect target for flies and germs...)

Dinner: home made stew with

• stewed (cheap) beef steak
• stewed pork chops
• potatoe
• carrots
• various seasonings...

and cold water with the stew.

3 October 2010

Breakfast: Kathie's big breakfast of

• well cooked bacon stripes
• scrambled eggs
• Serri Lee coffee cake
• coffee

Lunch: a ham sandwich, tomatoe soup with oyster crackers and a bottle of Diet Pepsi (the first I've brought home in a long time!)

Dinner: boiled pork chop and boiled potatoe and cold water

2 October 2010

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: at the Boot Hill Casino, I had

• salad and
• a small part of a cup of soup (there were too many mushrooms...)
• pot roast with
• mashed potatoes and brown gravy plus
• a medley of veggies (I ate the broccoli florets and yellow squash) and we
• split a piece of chocolate/caramel cake

I had a glass of Diet Pepsi after lunch

Dinner: pizza and a MGD

Post dinner "snack": a double gin-n-tonic...

29 September 2010 (updated)

  Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Sausage & Gravy (Potatoes, Eggs,Country Gravy, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Snack: popcorn and coffee

Lunch: from Casey's Cowtown, a big hamburger, french fries and iced water

Snack: a small amount of orange sherbert with choclate topping

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meal of roast beef, potatoes, carrots and apple crisp desert (with cold water to drink)

29 September 2010

 Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Sausage & Gravy (Potatoes, Eggs,Country Gravy, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Snack: popcorn and coffee

28 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Snack: 2 chocolate chip cookies

Lunch #1: "fresh baked" bread

Lunch #2: (after blood drive) a ham sandwich, chips, little Oreo cookies and coffee

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meal of "meatloaf", mashed potatoes, corn and water and for desert, some orange sherbet with chocolate topping

27 September 2010

Breakfast: from Burger King, SOS on biscuits, potatoe thingies and coffee

Lunch: a chicken sandwich from Sonic, onion rings, medium Diet Coke

Dinner: left over pizza from last night and water

26 September 2010

_____Breakfast:  at the Kansas City Mo airport,

• scrambled egg
• bacon
• spiced potatoe chunks
• 2 slices toast with grape jelly
• and coffee
  

There was something about the meal that disagreed with me and I did good to keep the breakfast down...

________Lunch: Also at the Kansas City airport:

• two little pieces of chicken breast
• mashed potatoes with some kind of spice
• veggies (carrots and squash)
• two glasses of Diet Coke

_______Dinner: at home, pizza from Pizza Butt Hutt and a beer
Pre-Bed Snack: a double gin-n-tonic

25 September 2010

_____Breakfast: at the Minneapolis Hilton

• bacon, sausage,onion omelet
• hash browns
• bacon
  

I compare my hand size with the "sandwich" here and the "sandwich" is about the width of my palm!
________Lunch: at the Lions Forum, IT WAS SMALL!

• about a 1/3 of a sliced meat and tomatoe sandwich
• small amount of potatoe salad on a single leaf of lettuce
• a dollop of whipped creamme on a chocolate chip cookie
• coffee

We went to the Hilton Bar and had several bowls of popcorn and three draft beers - MDG. It was excellent and makes me sad to think that while this bar had ten (10!) different good beers on tap, Dodge City bars have maybe four (4!) "light" or "lite" or "Ultra" beers and one of two dark or wheat on tap. Our bars are "uncompromisingly inferior" (to quote a character from "Andromeda Ascendant").

_______Dinner:at the Convention Center, we had

• salad with some kind of white dressing
• a chunk of well cooked roast beef
• mashed potatoes
• various veggies
• cheese cake
• 2 cups of "decaf" coffee
• and water

Of all the meals we had at the Convention Center, this was the only good one we had. Even then, the portions were skimpy...

23 September 2010

_____Breakfast: from the Milwaukee Hilton for breakfast:

• omelet with
  
  • bacon,
  • sausage,
  • ham,
  • cheese,
  • green leafs
  • and onion
• hash browns
• bacon
• coffee

________Lunch:  from a little diner, literally a hole in the wall, a

• beef sandwich
  
  • with cheese,
  • lettuce
  • and tomato
• chips
• can of Diet Pepsi

_______Dinner:  A group of us went to an Italian Restaurant run by the Corleone family (I didn't make any jokes about the Corleones being the drug dealer villains in "Miami Vice"!). There, I had:

• a MGD on tap and
• a bottle of "Blue Cow" and then it was dinner with
• excellent spaghetti, meat sauce and meatballs,
• decent bread and
• another bottle of "Blue Cow"

Fortunately, none of the deserts appealed to me so I was spared that sugar spiking...

22 September 2010

_____Breakfast: Kathie made:

• scrambled eggs
• bacon
• and I buttered the Serra Lee coffee cake and
• coffee

________Lunch:  We barely made our connecting flight in Kansas City Mo and "lunch" was a shared bag of potatoe chips and bottle of Diet Coke

Snack: two chocolate chip cookies on the flight to Minneapolis Wisconsin. They were fresh baked and very nice...
_______Dinner:  We ate at the Hilton (their "informal" bar/restaurant). I had

• a ½ pound hamburger with
• cheese and
• lettuce
• french fries
• 2 MDG on tap (one before going to dinner)
• and at the bar after dinner
• a double Beefeaters gin-n-tonic and
• a single Beefeaters gin-n-tonic (I didn't want an upset stomach later...)

We went out for a walk near the Minneapolis Hilton and I had a scoop of chocolate ice creamme at a mall. It was fairly good but probably not a good mix with the booze...

Post-Bed Time "Snack" (in a manner of speaking): I had a serious case of vomiting and Kathie the trots. I think the food was richer that what we're used to and I drank about a fortnight's worth of beer and almost a month's worth of gin-n-tonic in a couple of hours...

21 September 2010

Lunch: from Wendy's a quarter pounder with a baked potatoe and most of a medium Diet5 COke. I didn't finish th edrink because a fly dived into the drink and died.

 

Dinner: the left over steak and baked potatoe from last night and water

21 September 2010

Snack: piece of spice cake

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima Pancakes and Sausage and coffee

20 September 2010

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: a small can of stewed beef and gravy over a small baked potatoe (from last night)

Snack: the rest of the pork roast (a chunk about 3" by 2" by 2")

Dinner: I bought a box of small steaks and had

• about 1 and a ¼ small steaks
• most of a baked potatoe
• a lot of boiled carrots
• three small scoops of orange sherbet with chocolate shell
• cold water

I worked out after lunch - treadmill for a half hour and weight lifting - and didn't feel so great later in the afternoon. It could even have been low blood sugar; something that verges on a miracle but even so, it could have happened. Still, feeling slightly ill, I didn't have much of an appetite at dinner.

20 September 2010

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: a small baked potatoe with canned beef and gravy (and iced water...)

19 September 2010 (updated)

Breakfast: oatmeal, a small slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and coffee

Lunch: left over spaghetti from the other night and a bag of Cheeze-Its, plus cold water

Snack: a hot dog bun with peanut butter and grape jelly (My dog was not alert and missed his chance to demand his tithe.)

Dinner: Using the 3 portion plate my diabetes adviser/coach taught me:

• ½ of the plate for non-carb veggies,
• ¼ of the plate for starches and
• ¼ of the plate for protein,

I had

• broccoli
• baked potatoe
• pork roast

I did not have a very small glass of milk or the fruit.  I should have had the fruit. Later, I had a single shot gin-n-tonic.

19 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal, a small slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and coffee

Lunch: left over spaghetti from the other night and a bag of Cheeze-Its, plus cold water

18 September 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Snack: a chunk of hamburger I overcooked in the oven last night, with ketchup and mustard and coffee (No, I did not put coffee on the meat.)

Lunch: two hot dogs and cold water

Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino (for the penny slots) and then for dinner of:

• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• small cup of excellent potatoe/cheese soup
• a largish (16 oz) piece of prime rib
• baked potatoe
• a small amount of "Indian" (curry) rice
• cold water

Dessert: a couple of little scoops of orange sherbet with chocolate sauce

17 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: the left over steak and baked potatoe and roll from the other night and both iced water and cold coffee

Snack: some dark chocolate

Dinner: homemade spaghetti sauce over noodles and garlic bread (plus a bottle of MDG)

15 September 2010

_____Breakfast: Wheaties, coffee and a single slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter
________Lunch: At Casey's cowtown, chicken sticks and french fries and iced watrer
_______Dinner: at Montana Mikes:

• salad with Thousand Island dressing
• a very large sirloin steak (I took half home)
• baked potatoe with the full loading of butter and sour creamme

14 September 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and a slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and coffee

Lunch: Pizza Hut. I went in expecting

1. bad service
2. bad selection

The service was fine and the food selection the best I've seen at either Pizza Huts in a very long time.  It was so good, I had trouble believing I was in a Pizza Hut.

Dinner: Healthy Choice Classic Meat Load (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

13 September 2010

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: From Arby's, a Gyro, "curly" fries and a medium "Diet Pepsi".

Snack: a small piece of dark chocolate

Dinner: a Marie Callender's Meat Lasagna (with Ricotta & Mozzarella Cheeses in Hearty Marinara Sauce) and iced water

Snack: a couple of chocolate chip cookies (I will so have to bring a good snack tomorrow night!)

12 September 2010

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:

• well cooked bacon
• perhaps 2½ to 2¾ eggs scrambled
• ¼ of a Serri Lee Coffee cake
• coffee (of course)

Lunch: 1½ Rubens and cold water

Snack: a single small Oreo cookie (which I found in my junk bag whilst looking for my evening pills...)

Dinner: The left over roast beef and gravy (plus one pathetic little potatoe and about a ¼ of a carrot) and around ¾ a cup of boiled white rice and iced water. Then, too, three little Oreo cookies for "desert".

11 September 2010

Breakfast:  We went to a breakfast place on West Wyatt Earp. I had

• two "dollar sized pancakes" that were full sized (and more than I wanted...)
• a 6 oz ribeye steak
• hash brown
• two eggs over medium
• coffee

Yup, I am a "meat and potatoes" type of guy...

Lunch: rice with the left over chicken from the other day (and a couple of chunks of dressing thrown in ) and a cup of very bad coffee (instant I made...)

Dinner: Another case of leftovers. I had a bunch of left over roast beef, some potatoes and a big carrot plus iced water

Afterward, I had quite a sugar craving that I ignored...

10 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: the left over half of dinner from last nigth: the (roughly) half double whopper, some fries and coffee

Lunch 2: some of the left over Chinese chicken from the other night and more coffee

Dinner: Since the Dodge City Lions Club came in second place in the Salvation Army bell ringing this past Thanksgiving and Christmas, we were invited to a celebration dinner. This was held at the Elks Club (just south of Beeson) but the Elks have folded. So, it was held at Fort Dodge. The meal consisted of:

• a small bowl of salad with a zingy dressing
• well cooked roast beef
• mashed potatoes
  
• brown gravy
• an excellent roll
• a chunk of a nice marble cake

This meal was, to quote Anthony Bourdain, "made with love".

It was excellent!

Two hours after dinner, I did my Friday "two-hours-after-eating-blood-check" and got a score of 206!  This is horrible but I am getting used to horrible results. As my wife said "you ate the cake..."  Yup, guilty as charged!

She offered me a gin-n-tonic, which was too strong but what I needed...

9 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal (fresh made!) and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown: steak sandwich, fries and iced water.  The service was fine!

Dinner:  Kathie called Appleby's "Curbside Service" to order take away but got put on terminal hold. After 3 minutes on hold, she hung up and went to Burger King. (I'd have to say the Appleby's service was not fine!)

For dinner, she brought me a double whopper and fries. I was feeling ill and ate about half of it. The next morning, about 4:20, I checked my blood sugar and it was 159! Ah, I am so going to be going on Levemir after I bomb the A1C test in November  :-[ (November is when I get my annual VA checkup...)  I am going to power up the movie camera and have Kathie film my first self stabbing; how am I going to tell my relatives I've finally lost the battle against the needle?)

8 September 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Snack: a piece of choclate cake left over from yesterday's office luncheon (I guess there is a reason I should not drop my breakfast off in the office refer at 5 am; there might be the remnants of someone's luncheon... :-)

Lunch: will be at Casey's Cowtown

Dinner: will

7 September 2010

_____Breakfast: From Burger King, a big omelet sandwich, tater tots, coffee
________Lunch: We went to the new Italian Restaurant on Front Street, in the old camera store. I had

• two slices of bread and butter
• spaghetti with a spicy tomato sauce with meat
• two glasses of "Diet Coke"

There was a  problem in that the kitchen sent out the wrong food so we had to send the plates back for the real food. We liked the waitress; she was at "Vernon's Place" and then the "Hitching Post" and is now here. I handed the tip to her and said "this tip is for you and not the cooks". She nodded and stashed the tiip.

_____ Dinner: Homemade boiled roast beef with potatoes and carrots and water.

I had browned beef bones yesterday and took a shot at making brown gravy. It was a total flop...

6 September 2010

_____Breakfast: 
________Lunch: KFC for chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and desert and 2 glasses of Diet Pepsi
_______Dinner: a nice little TV dinner
Pre-Bed Snack: gin-n-tonic

5 September 2010

Breakfast:  We went to Mike Casey's "Casey's Cowtown" for breakfast. I had

• 2 eggs over medium
• a thin ham "steak"
• hash browns
• 2 slices of whole wheat toast
• coffee
• iced water

The food was fine, the service adequate.

Lunch: Kathie made baked chicken with dressing and aspargius; I had cold water and later some coffee.

Snack: I had an irrestible craving for something decadent and got myself a medium choclate Frosty from Wendys. It was good...

Dinner: I had a Healthy Choice Classic Meat Load (Meat loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and a couple of little Oreo cookies. I found these cookies going thru my junk bag

Then, I had a bag of popcorn.

Feeling decadent, I had an ice creamme sandwich.

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A note on service: I have not been thrilled with the restaurant service lately.

 You should not have to flag down a waitress to get a drink refill.

You should not be handed your bill before you are offered the chance to order desert. In fact, if a restaurant offers desert, you should be asked if you want any. Now, speaking as a diabetic, I should not have desert and I suppose the "wait staff" is doing me a favour. However, since they don't know of my health concerns, I think the "wait staff" apparently are simply not interested in doing further business with me/us after we've finished the meal.  Thus, they lose a sale and get a smaller tip.

The service in Dodge City has simply been poor; sadly, this is no change from what it has been for perhaps 10 - 14 years...

4 September 2010

Breakfast: a double portion of creamme of wheat (what I normally think of as being one serving!), two slices of sour dough toast and coffee

Lunch: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for lunch. There, I had:

• a meat and veggie soup. The meat might have been beef but it and the soup tasted like it should have been a shoulder of ham soup
• a 14 oz charcoal cooked rib eye (good but I'm not used to charcoal cooked steak)
• a baked potatoe
• two little rolls
• split a "Suicide by Choalate" cake with Kathie
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

We got good service and the waitress made a fine effort to remember what I like to drink with lunch ("Diet Pepsi, no ice"). She didn't remember it all but that is fine; she made the effort!

Post-lunch, I had some more coffee (actually, about a ½ cup) and not quite that much before going to work in the late afternoon.

Dinner: After the bigness of my lunch, I had a Healthy Choice meal for dinner: Beef Pot Roast (Roasted Beef with Cabernet Gravy, Carrots, Red Potatoes & Apple Cranberry Mutigrain Crisp) and iced water

3 September 2010

Breakfast: about 1 cup (the last of) my homemade beef stew from this past weekend, a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and coffee

Lunch: We went to the "North" Pizza Hut. I went inside expected

1. the buffet line to be anemic
2. service to be poor
3. have to go to the counter to get a refill of my soft drink.

Given these exceptions, I was "disappointed" by:

"Disappointment #1": There actually had a fine selection of items and enough stuff to make a decent salad.

"Disappointment #2": There was only one waitress working the place so I really didn't expect much service. When I went to get some desert, the waitress hustled over with a pitcher of "Diet Pepsi" and filled my glass as I put some apple pie pizza on my plate.

I shouldn't refer to these two good items as "Disappointments" but then my sense of humour sometimes isn't the best... ;-)

The food selection was actually quite good and the service quite adequate and better than we've gotten the last several times we've gone to Pizza Hut.

For lunch, I had:

• salad with "bacon", cheddar cheese and Thousand Island dressing
• piece of pepperoni pizza
• piece of hamburger pizza
• piece of apple pie pizza
• some noddle stuff with red sauce
• a piece of sticky pastry
• the aforementioned glasses (2) of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: A Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

2 September 2010

Breakfast: some corn beef hash, two fried/scrambled eggs and coffee

Lunch: at the new Mexican place in what used to be Mike Casey's 2^nd place: an "open face" taco, two items wrapped in dough, great re-fried beans and rice. I also had two "Diet Cokes" without ice; I would have ordered a desert but the waitress dropped our bill off without asking "would you folks like desert"? I took this as a strong hint: don't order desert!  So, I did not order desert.

There were only two waitress in the place and service was quite slow. When I finally got "our" waitress' attention and asked for a refill, she said :"oh, you want a refill"? "No, I just like waving my glass in the air!" Actually, I said "yes".

Well, yet another place in Dodge City with decent food and not so good service. This seems to be a pattern...

Snack: I had some orange sherbet and coffee; tomorrow, I will not drink coffee after 1 pm. I suspect that has been upsetting my stomach in the late afternoon lately.

Dinner: I had the rest of the left over stew and iced water. Afterward, I felt sick to my stomach and am wondering why I seem to have stomach problems a lot lately...

1 September 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: a steak sandwich, french fries and iced water at Casey's Cowtown
I don't know what set it off but I was reasonably sick to the stomach after lunch. Now, at 9:23 pm, I'm fairly over whatever it was...

Dinner: left over beef stew (from day before yesterday) and iced water

31 August 2010

Breakfast: I put the required amount of water for a double serving of grits into a small sauce pan, brought the water to a boil, dropped in two eggs and waited till the eggs were fairly well cooked (cooked a poached eggs) and then added the grits. I put some spread (not butter) and a pinch of red peppers in with the raw grits and cooked this mess as if it were grits. This and coffee made for a fine, if seldom, meal.

Lunch: two bierocks and a bag of cheezets and water.

Dinner: home made beef stew, some garlic bread and a MGD beer.

my recipe collection

A bad day of pork chop cooking or "I filled the house with smoke..."

Aunt Noreme's sour creamme coffee cake recipie

Basic white sauce

cornbread recipie

A great choclate pudding recipe

Choclate liquor

Dad's marinade recipe

Diabetic Forecast tomator soup recipie

Diabetic's choclate pudding

My Mother's all meat" meal. Something she did not let my brothers and I try and which she claimed to not remember decades later. (I believed her.)

Tuna noodle casserol

Choclate Liquor Recipe

1½ cup Sugar
¾ cup Water
3 cups Vodka
5 tablespoons Unsweetened cocoa
1 each Vanilla bean, split

Combine sugar and water in small saucepan; cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture boils. Reduce heat to low; simmer, stirring occasionally, until sugar has completely dissolved. Remove from heat; cool to room temperature. Measure 1 cup of the mixture; combine with vodka, cocoa and vanilla bean in clean 2-quart glass container. Cover tightly; keep in cool dark place for 14 days, shaking thoroughly every 2 days. Strain liqueur through dampened coffee filter paper into clean glass container. (Change filter paper in mid-process or, if necessary, let drip overnight as cocoa residue is very thick.) Repeat straining process if residue remains. Remove vanilla bean. Cover tightly; let liqueur age in cool, dark place for at least 1 month. About 1 quart. 

From: Hershey's Chocolate Treasury Submitted By PAT STOCKETT On 04-07-95

19 August 2010

_____Breakfast:

• scrambled eggs (2)
• grits
• slice of sour dough toast with peanut butter and grape jelly
• coffee
  

________Lunch: the very rest of yesterday's lunch
_______Dinner: from Applebys:

• 12 oz rib eye steak
• baked potatoe
• we split a desert of ice creamme and whipped creamme on a very large chocolate chip cookie

Pre-Bed Snack:

My Dad's birthday or 28 August 2010

_____Breakfast: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for

• scrambled eggs
• SOS on hash browns
• bisqujit with grape jelly
• 3 big strawberries
• a couple of chunks of mellon
• coffee

I think we've been here too often as I've gotten a bit tired of the food...

________Lunch: From Walmart

• "Chinese" orange chicken
• Chicken chunks
• potatoe wedges

_______Dinner:  some left overs from lunch
 
Pre-Bed Snack: a double gin-n-tonic and a single gin-n-tonicv

NOT FOR MY WIFE'S EYES or Honey, I burned the pork choips

http://dying-by-fork.blogspot.com/2008/11/14-november-2008.html

NOT FOR MY WIFE'S EYES

    There was a bit of a problem with boiling the pork chops [on 14 November 2008].

    I had worked the 4 am to noon shift and was very tired. So, after I put the pork chops on hot, to bring the water to a boil for a few minutes, I sat down by the computer and zoned out. I completely forgot the boiling water, which I had planned on reducing to a simmer after a few minutes.

    I didn't remember them until the house was filled with dense smoke and the smoke detector went off. I checked the pork chops and the bottoms were burnt black, while the top was seriously overcooked.

    The important thing is the house was filled with smoke and it was November. The good think is that it was a nice day and when I opened the window in the main bedroom; both my cats went up onto it. I then turned the fans on in both bathrooms and over the stove. I also opened both the front and back doors and started waiting for the house to air out.

    It took almost three hours before the house stopped smelling like smoke. I waited a bit longer and then shut the windows, the doors and turned the fans off.

    When Kathie got home, she mentioned how smoky the house was. I didn't have the nerve to tell her what happened [and that the house had been a lot worst earlier].

Text in black is from my initial reporting of the event and text in blue is from 28 August 2010.

27 August 2010

My pre-breakfast score was 202!

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: a bowl of chicken noodle soup (from Quinox) and small bag of potatoe chips and a medium "Diet Pepsi"

I was feeling ill at noon so I didn't go beyond the soup; now, I'm feeling very hungry (it is 7:16 pm) and looking forward to my dinner...

Dinner: a homemade "treat" of:

• boiled pork chops
• boiled potatoes
• sour kraut

and iced water

I scored 149

Snack: I've been eying the "Dove SILKY SMOOTH DARK CHOCOLATE" bar in the work freezer for some time. Since no one has eaten it, I finally convinced myself that it was one I put there a year or so ago.

26 August 2010

Breakfast: cherrieos and coffee

Lunch: various at PIzza Hut: a couple of pieces of pizza, desert pizza, cottage cheese and salad and the "Diet Pepsi, no ice" (I ordered) and the "Diet Pepsi, lots of ice" (which I got when I finally waved down the waitress for a refill). We had the misfortune to get the side of the PH that apparently was not assigned a waitress...

Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef pot Roast (roasted beef with Cabernet Gravy, Carrots, Red Potatoes & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Desert: the choclate chip cookie left over from last night...

25 August 2010

Breakfast: the left over bacon from yesterday between two slices of sour dough toast (didn't taste like the pan...) and a bowl of cheerios. The bacon must have been fine since my dog ate his "tithe" without complaint; that is, I doubt he even chewed it!

I felt reasonably horrible after the milk with breakfast and then walking on the treadmill and lifting weights. There must be something going around.

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown, a little steak sandwich and french fries plus one glass of iced water.

Desert: I had a small container of chocolate ice creamme (and my dog got his "tithe" as well... ;-)  )

Dinner:  Kroger "healthy meals made simple" lemon herb chicken with brown rice (boneless chicken breast with rib meat in a light lemon herb sauce) with iced water

This tasted good but definitely not good enough to have again. The lemon was too strong and it actually tasted too sweet; what a surprise given that "sugar" is listed as the 4^th ingredient.

Snack: a choclate chip cookie; I left the other for tomorrow night...

24 August 2010

Breakfast: using my cast iron fry pan, I

• fried bacon
• cooked two eggs in the fat
• toasted two slices of sour dough bread
• made bad instant coffee

My stomach was upset afterward which makes me wonder if there is something with the fry pan that upsets my stomach (which never happens if I let the good cooked on it set in the refer) or if it simply was the amount of grease on the bacon...

Lunch: We went to Sonic and I ordered:

• double hamburger with no cheese
• french fries
• medium "Diet Pepsi" with no ice

They confirmed that I did not want cheese.  Not only did my burger come with cheese slathering the meat, both patties  looked like they had been dipped in cheese sauce. Mine appeared to have more cheese than my wife's burger and she asked for cheese...

Pre-dinner blues: I have a slight headache, slight nausea and pangs of hunger and this matches what Wikipedia had for hyperglycemia.  What a surprise!  =-O

Dinner: A TV dinner, Maríe Callender's Country Fried Beef Steak, with mashed potatoes, gravy and glazed carrots and iced water