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.