29 September 2011

Breakfast: from McDonald, their big breakfast of

• scrambled eggs
• potatoe wedge
  
• biscuit and grape jelly
• coffee

Lunch: From the Rat, fried chicken legs, baked chicken legs, a wing and a small breast, mashed potatoes, brown gravy, "Diet Coke"

Dinner: a Healthy Choice Meatloaf dinner and cold watger

28 September 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown for the Lions Club meeting:

• fancy chicken soup, a cup of
• salad
• two pork chops with fancy sauce
• baked potatoe with butter and sour creamme
• two Budweiser

I was appalled by the poor choice of beers at the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant. With the exception of Budweiser and another beer (whose name I've forgotten), all their beers were "light" or "lite". (At least they didn't have any Michelob, which is really another way of saying no Michelob "Ultra" [piss poor}.) So, I went with two Bud; one with the appetizer and the second with the pork chops. It wasn't too many years ago that I would have turned up my nose at a Bud but then I could have bought

• Tooth's KB Lager
• Henry Wenihart Private Preserve
• Michelob Lager
• MGD
• Fosters (in the "oil can")
• and decent local micro brew beers!

Now, we've turned into a nation of phonies obsessed with "Low carbs", who don't drink real beers. If you want to do some real drinking, have a couple shots of vodka and chase them with cranberry juice. The vodka gives you the Ethanol (C2H₅OH) and the cranberry juice flushes your bladder, which is a property of beer. I've drank cranberry juice to see what the fuss was about. I imagine it would go down smoother after a couple of shots.

Kathie and I went to Milwaukee a couple of years ago (a USA-Canada Lions Leadership Forum) and went to a couple of bars. Their selection of real beers was fantastic! We surely could use bars with such a old fashioned, manly, beer selection.

28 September 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: Subway Sandwich meatball sandwich, chips and a medium "Diet Coke"

Dinner: Hungry Man Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and cornb and a
couple of little Oreos and iced water

Snack: at home: gin-n-tonic

25 September 2011

Breakfast: two orders of home made SOS on fresh baked biscuits, sausage patty with orange juice and fresh brewed coffee.

The Santa Fe Trail Association symposium sponsored a trail breakfast. This was a couple, re-enactments, who go around the country with a cattle drive cook wagon and cook food in the old style. That is, the hamburger and sausage were cooked over a wood fire and then the SOS was cooked over one of the two wood fires. I had SOS on biscuits at Burger King yesterday and barely finished it; this SOS on biscuits was so good I went back for seconds!

There was just something about eating food cooked over a wood fire in an outdoors setting that was so much nicer than Burger King.

Lunch: We went to Montana Mikes and I had:

• we split an order of onion rings (actually, the order came so close to our meals coming out that we took nearly all of the onion rings home with us...)
• salad with French Dressing (I had ordered Thousand Island...)
• a rib eye steak medium rare (I had ordered medium...)
• baked potato with everything on it (this came along just fine!)
• rolls and butter (I used about ½ of one to sop up meat juices) and
  
• a glass of "Diet Pepsi", no ice The first glass was fine. Then, I asked for a refill and it came back very weak; they were basically running out of syrup and the waitress said "we're out of syrup"...

We asked and they actually had all the ingredients for the "Mudslide" desert (i.e. brownie, ice creamme, whipped creamme, fudge syrup and - what a waste! - a cherry) today. The pity is they had all the ingredients and that both of us were stuffed and could not have eaten this desert. This is the first time in many years they have had everything as well as the brownies not being burnt!

Dinner: a box of marie Callender's Meat Lasagna and iced water plus a small Oreo cookie. (I will have something better for dinner tomorrow night...)
Then, several  more as post dinner snacks...

25 September 2011

Breakfast: at Burger King for their SOS on biscuit and potatoe thingies and coffee (I discovered I've gotten very tired of this meal and think I'd rather have my home made SOS on cast iron fry pan fried shredded potatoes).

Lunch: at the Santa Fe Trail Association lunch, at the new convention centre, where I had

• a ham sandwich with tomatoe slices, cheese, slice of lettuce and mayo and
• a bottle of water

The only drinks the convention centre provided were Pepsi, Dr. Pooper Pepper, Diet Dr. Pooper Pepper and a couple of minor brands. I told their head chef that I could not drink regular soda as it had too much sugar and that I didn't think Dr. Pepper was drinkable. He seemed puzzled by my attitude...

I wasn't pleased with how they let the coffee run out during the convention speeches and how the large and excellent chocolate chip cookies ran out very quickly. They simply did not put out enough (I wonder if this is a systemic flaw for the special events centre catering?)

Dinner: Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf and iced water...

I felt more hungry after eating this dinner and got a bit of a case of the shakes...

23 September 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: the very last of the home made broccoli, potatoe, carrot "soup", with two ¼ hot dogs and a can of Pepsi One.

Dinner: We went to the Santa Fe Trail Association Convention dinner at Boot Hill Museum where I had:

• chilli seasoned potatoe chunks
• chips and salsa
• bar-b-que sandwich
• desert
• a small glass of white wine

22 September 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: homemade broccoli, carrot, potatoe, onion "soup" with a ¼ pound hot dog and more coffee
While eating, I realized I was shaking, had a cold sweat and was incredibly hungry. It was enough to make me think I had hypoglycemia...

Snack: small bowl of orange sherbert and a couple of mouthfuls of bad coffee

Dinner: We attended the Santa Fe Trail Association dinner held at Fort Dodge. I had:

• a couple of buffalo "hamburgers"
• some chunks of buffalo hump (very tough and a fine test of my teeth!)
• peach cobbler
• iced water

Snack: small bowl of orange sherbert and a mug of cold water. I took a muslinex but this didn't help, my breathing was labored when I went to bed and laid down. I had to use the asthma inhalator to get normal breathing back. This was the fourth night in a row I have to use the inhaler...

20 September 2011

Breakfast: from McDonalds, 3 pancakes, a sausage patty and coffee
Lunch: we went to buffet at the Dodge City Casino Restaurant for

• a small boneless skinned chicken breast
• a small piece of sausage
• a thin slice of roast beef
• spegethie with red sauce and two meat balls
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: a bowl of mashed potatoes with butter and some extra sharp Tillamook cheddar cheese melted on it and the left over Prime Rib from last night. Then, peanut butter and grape jelly on a slice of sour dough bread.

19 September 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee
Lunch: pizza and desert at Pizza Hutt and Diet Pepsi
Dinner: we went to the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant for

• salad
• some kind of soup
• prime rib
• baked potatoe with everything
• apple pie with a small scoop of ice creamme
• water
  

18 September 2011

Breakfast: We went to Casey's Cowtown where I had SOS on 4 bisquits with no eggs over medium and lots of coffee

Lunch: The Santa Fe Trail Association Meeting was held at Boot Hill Museum and I had some fried chicken, my wife's chicken and rice pilof, three chocolate chip cookies and about a spoonful of a boiled barley mixture and a 22oz bottle of Diet Pepsi.

Dinner: a Hormel Completes Roast Beef & Gravy with mashed potatoes and iced water and later some Oreo cookies

17 September 2011

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, Serri Lee
coffee cake and coffee

Lunch: brats boiled in beer and a 20 oz Diet Pepsi

I made some creamme of broccoli/potatoe/carrot soup but put too much
black and red pepper in it so it was too spicy to drink. I put some into
two little covered bowls and will drink one tomorrow and the other
Moanday. I'll make the next batch with no spices and mix it with the
left overs (about 60% of today's batch) and this should thin out the
pepper and harshness of the onions from our garden. This soup is
awaiting me in the freezer...

Dinner: Healthy Choice roast beef meal. What they say about hunger being
the best appetizer is correct: I ate dinner about 8:20 pm due to work
load (I worked the 3 pm to 11 pm shift). I had a couple of little Oreo
cookies. Then, some popcorn.

15 September 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: salad and then meat speghetti and rolls from Napolini's Italian
restaurant

Dinner: Maire Callender's pork chop, mashed potatoes and white gravy and
apple stewed and iced water with little Oreos for desert

14 September 2011

Breakfast: milk toast and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown for a tuna sandwich on a big hamburger bun,
gfries and iced water

Dinner: can of corned beef hash and iced water (it was, as I hoped, easy
on my sore tooth)

13 September 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: a can of all meat, no beans chilli and some crackers and a can of
Pepsi One (also pain killers for my sore tooth)\

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meatloaf meal and water

Snack: a gin-n-tonic before going to bed...

11 September 2011

_____Breakfast: McDonalds for 2 breakfast burritos and coffee
________Lunch:  at the Kansas Stgate fair in Hutchinson, for some "Chinese" and then a bowl of ice creamme and some Diet Coke
_______Dinner:  We tried going to a nice Italian place but it was closed so we went to McDonalds and I had a "quarter pounder, no cheese", fries, and a medium "Diet Coke".
             When I picked up our order, the clerk said "quarter pounder, no cheese". The "quarter pounder, no cheese" had cheese on top and bottom of what didn't look like a quarter pound of beef...
Pre-Bed Snack: water and some pain killers for my tooth ache...

10 September 2011

_____Breakfast: cherios and coffee
________Lunch:  Healthy Choice roast beef and coffee
_______Dinner:  at the Boot Hill Casino for:

• salad
• cup  of a nice rice soup
• really big steak
• baked potatoe
• rolls (2)
• part of a chocolate cake
• water

I  took about half the steak, part of the potatoe and a roll home.

Pre-Bed Snack: gin-n-tonic

9 September 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: various chicken, mashed potatoes with cottage cheese and brown gravy, apple crisp, roll with honey and "Diet Coke"

Snack: a little ice creamme and a couple of Oreo cookies (I had the shacks - possible hypoglycemia - and was very hungry)

Dinner: boiled hot dogs (2 of the ¼ pound variety), a couple of red potatoes bought at the Farmer's Market, a couple of onions grown in our garden and a bunch of broccoli florets, an Oreo cookie and iced water

8 September 2011

Breakfast: two slices of sour dough bread with peanut butter and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown (Lions Club Board of Directors meeting) for

• a steak sandwich (the special)
• french fries
• iced water

Snack #1: strawberry sherbert in a coffee cup with chocolate shell and coffee

Snack #2: sI was feeling shaky and hungry (hypoglycemia again?), so I ate part of a Grandma's Home Style Peanut Butter cookie that was left out on the office break room table. It tasted a bit off so I checked the expiration date: September 7 and that was fine, today if the 8th. Then, I realized the expiration year was 2010...  I think I'll get something else to jack my blood sugar with... :-[

Dinner: I wasn't in the mood to cook so I took the easy way out and got a can of beanless chilli, to which I added Cheeze-Its and some iced water. It was quite adequate but I had spells of feeling crappy after eating it...

7 September 2011

Breakfast: peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich on sour dough bread with coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown: roast beef, mashed potatoes with brown gravy and cottage cheese (the veggie was originally green beans but I asked the waiter to switch to cottage cheese)

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf, mashed potatoes and brown gravy, corn and apple crisp. I did "cheat" and have a small piece of the leftover no-sugar chocolate cake from the other day (at work) with some vin ice creamme. Oh, well, I gave into temptation...

6 September 2011

Breakfast: creamme of wheat and two slices whole wheat toast and coffee

Snack: a couple of tablespoons of that home made chocolate pudding and coffee

Lunch: three Taco Bell tacos and a medium "Diet Coke"

Snack: slice of chocolate cake

Dinner: one of my boiled messes consisting of:

• an ear of corn
• a ¼ pound hot dog (all beef...)
• a bunch of boiled broccoli
• a small slice of that chocolate cake left over from the office luncheon and
• iced water
  

Labour Day

Breakfast: wheaties and a chunk of bread with peanut butter and grape
jelly and coffee

Lunch: Arby's for a "French Dip" sandwich, curly fries and a medium
"Diet Pepsi"

Snack: a coupe of teaspoons of homemade chocolate pudding (with a small
amount of milk)...

Dinner: a can of spaghetti and "meatballs", a chunk of sour dough bread
and water