Army SOS recipe

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30 August 2012

Breakfast:	From McDonalds wherre I had: scrambled eggs sausage patty bisquit with grape jelly coffee
Snack:	dark chocolate
Lunch:	From Long John Silvers, where I had: three fish sticks french fries "Diet Pepsi"
Snack:	potatoe chips
Dinner:	I decided to do something else: two ears of corn broccoli soup made a small boiled onion a bunch of broccoli florets I boiled these and put them into the blender I also added some spices Into the blender went some Tillamook extra sharp cheddar cheese Finally, several pieces of boneless, skinned chicken pan fried
Snack:	a gin and tonic

Blood sugar:  AM 85  PM 127
Exercise: 74 minutes of pushing the lawn mower...

28 August 2012

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

 

Lunch: some Mexican at Tri Amigos and a Diet Pepsi (slow service)

 

Snack: some ice creamme

 

Dinner; Marie Callander's Country Fried Pork Chop, mashed potatoes, white gravy and apple desert and iced water

27 August 2012

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

 

Lunch: at KFC for

• several pieces of chicken
• mashed potatoes with brown gravy and cottage cheese
• two types of desert
• "Diet Pepsi"

Snack; some dark chocolate

 

Snack 2: I was feeeling very hungry, sore back so I had some Oreos. This didn't help much so I took some painkillers and everything got better; I guess I overdid it on the treadmill this morning...

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf and iced water

Pre-bed snack: romman noodles and a LandShark

26 August 2012

Breakfast:	left over steak, baked potatoe and coffee
Lunch:	We went to Napolis at the Garden City airport and I had: freshly baked rolls, still hot enough to melt the butter speghetti with Italian sausage a meatball meat sauce two glasses of "Diet Pepsi, no ice" (and it didn't have ice!)
Dinner:	Healty Choice chicken dinnerer and iced water
Snack:	Oreos and water
Pre-bed:	two left over lunch rolls with grape jelly
SEervicek:	ttttt

Service: the service was very prompt and the food excellent at Napolis (of course, we were the first customers in and the waiter had time to attend to us and several subsequent parties; still, I've seen this situation in Dodge where the waiters simply ignored customers. I won't go back to that "Mexican" place at the mall!)
Blood sugar:
Exercise:

25 August 2012

 Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:

• Serri Lee coffee cake
• scrambled eggs
• bacon
• coffee

Lunch: from Burger King:

• Whopper
• fries
• small "Diet Coke", no ice

Snack: some home made chocolate pudding and a cup of coffee

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Meatloaf dinner and iced water...

 

 Snack: popcorn and some Oreos

 

24 August 2012

_____Breakfast:  Wheaties and a banana and coffee
________Lunch:   bowl of Healthy Choice chicken noodle soup and a can of Pepsi One.
              Lunch 2:   I was still hungry so I went to A & W and had three chicken stripes
                Snack:   I went to a movie and had nochos with cheese and a medium "Diet Pepsi"
_______Dinner:   We went to Casey's Cowtown where I had:

• salad with French dressing
• a very tender T-bone steak (I took about half home)
• baked potatoe
• split a very nice piece of chocolate cake with my wife
• glass of LandShark on tap

Comments: I got great service at A & W; certainly better than I generally get at the Boot Hill Casino or Applebys.

We had really great service at Casey's Cowtown; our waitress

• was very attentative
• offered us desert
• quickly brought water and offered another glass of wine to my wife

The owner, Mike Casey, stopped by two times to ask how we liked the meal and chatted several minutes.

23 August 2012

_____Breakfast: cheerios and coffee
_
_______Lunch:  a boiled mixture of rice, spaghetti noodles,  two hot dogs and catsup with a

"Pepsi Zero"

____Dinner: Subway subs, a 6" steak and cheese, with lettuce and a small "Diet Lemonade"

 

22 August 2012

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

 

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

 

Snack: a chocolate covered ice cramme bar

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice chicken pharmajohn {sic} and cold water; later a gin-n-tonic for "desert"...

21 August 2012

Breakfast:	A home made one, consisting of: two hamburger patties a couple of slices of bacon two eggs boiled in the mixed grease coffee
Snack:	coffee and dark chocolate
Lunch:	from Jarold's Place a 6 inch meatball sub potatoe chips a medium "Diet Coke"
Snack:	several little powder donuts and cold water
Dinner:	Kathie made two  items: She cooked a meat pizza a co-worker sold for his kids and a hamburger plus a bottle of LandShark (excellent beer!)
Snack:	skipped it tonight as I  had to test my blood sugar right before going to bed...

Blood sugar:  AM 110   PM 158
___Exercise: 35 minutes on the treadmill

I suppose I could have done push-ups and sit-ups but I didn't think of this until after dinner and shower...

LandShark is an excellent beer in a land of watered down grain beverages called "lite" or "light" or (gag) "Ultra".

In the past and only a couple of times, I have knocked back a shot of booze chased it with a beer. I sincerely think that "Ultra" drinkers should chug that piss-beer and chase with a shot of rot gut. At least they will taste something!

Boot Hill Casino, an evaluation of

I am sad to report that Boot Hill Casino has a number of problems:

The Casino appears to operate as four different businesses; originally, it was six. In Vegas, the Casinos are true multifunction places that support each other. Sadly, this is not the case at the Boot Hill Casino.

The Casino operates the games but keeps the money for itself.

The restaurant originally did breakfast. In fact, they had a breakfast club and when you had a breakfast, they checked off your card. Have eight meals and you get a breakfast for free. They no longer serve breakfast and my last breakfast card merely takes up space in my wallet.

They seem to have gone to buffet vice off the menu for lunch. They put in a hot dog stand at the entrance but it was shut down last night. This suggests the hot dog stand did not appeal to the hungry or the gamblers and so they have “cut their losses” and have stopped supporting it. This is a pity.

Anthony Bourdain wrote that restaurants need managers with “nervous feet”. That is, a manager who is watching his floor and is going around asking customers how they like the dining experience, who see problems with the waitresses/waiters and the food before the customers can bitch.

It is better for the irate customers to tell the manager about problems than for the pissed off customers to tell their friends. They don’t have such a restaurant manager and folks like me must bitch, verbally and in blogs.

They originally had a bar and a Saloon. The bar used to have a fine selection of tap beers and now it is “lite” or “light”beers. (Do you remember when this was a country of Real Beer Drinkers?) They have a very limited selection of bottle beers. (Why don’t they carry Michelob Lager and why do they always assume that you want that watered down piss beer, “Michelob Ultra”, when you ask for a “Mic” or “Michelob Lager”?)

They had a Salon, which served LandShark on tap and other fine real beers. It was supposed to be open last night but was not. Several months ago, the Salon bar tender was serving the runners as much as the other bar was.

Maybe the bar and Saloon were not doing enough business so they laid off the Saloon keeper (bar tender) and cut the available product line. Maybe they dropped the available selection and that resulted in reduced demand?

They used to have a gift shop. This was shut down and that room turned into a room of high stakes slot machines. They didn’t get many customers at the gift show probably because the prices were too high!

There is a display of souvenirs in the snack bar. The prices seem much more reasonable.
An aside: the Casino was going to have vans going from the Casino around town. I live just off one major road and 30 feet from a semi-major road. If they drove down these streets, I would be willing to drink at the casino.

If I knew I didn’t need to drive home, I will be willing to drink at the Casino (I am normally the designated driver). If I drank at the Casino, I would be willing to gamble more as I get a “what the hell” attitude after several drinks. Then, I could be in trouble.

Thus, the Casino protects me from me and loses money. This strikes me as a win (for me) lose (for them) situation. I like it…

They need a complaint desk for all aspects of the Casino. If you go to the Players Desk, you just get to talk about gaming. They don’t talk about drinking or food. Nor will these "complaint people" direct you to the correct restaurant or bar mangers...

An update on 7 September 2012 that isn't real good news.

20 August 2012

This is my second try at writing this entry. The fucking blog simply ate the first try and I guess tghe "save" routine didn't do any good...

Breakfast: creamme of wheat and coffee
     Lunch: We went to King's Buffet and I had a variety of chicken and beef dishes, rice, ice creamme and "Diet Pepsi"
    Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for dinner. There, I had:

• small amount of chili from a little cup of chili
• salad
• 9 oz prime rib
• slightly undercooked baked potatoe "fully loaded" (unfortunately, with those little rocks called "bacon bits"
• iced water and
• two Bud (the Saloon was closed and the other bar didn't have LandShark beer)

I am sad to report that Boot Hill Casino has a number of problems:

The Casino appears to operate as four different businesses; originally, it was six. In Vegas, the Casinos are true multifunction places that support each other. Sadly, this is not the case at the Boot Hill Casino.

The Casino operates the games but keeps the money for itself.

The restaurant originally did breakfast. In fact, they had a breakfast club and when you had a breakfast, they checked off your card. Have eight meals and you get a breakfast for free. They no longer serve breakfast and my last breakfast card merely takes up space in my wallet.

They seem to have gone to buffet vice off the menu for lunch. They put in a hot dog stand at the entrance but it was shut down last night. This suggests the hot dog stand did not appeal to the hungry or the gamblers and so they have “cut their losses” and have stopped supporting it. This is a pity.

Anthony Bourdain wrote that restaurants need managers with “nervous feet”. That is, a manager who is watching his floor and is going around asking customers how they like the dining experience, who see problems with the waitresses/waiters and the food before the customers can bitch.

It is better for the irate customers to tell the manager about problems than for the pissed off customers to tell their friends. They don’t have such a restaurant manager and folks like me must bitch, verbally and in blogs.

They originally had a bar and a Saloon. The bar used to have a fine selection of tap beers and now it is “lite” or “light” beers.  (Do you remember when this was a country of Real Beer Drinkers?)  They have a very limited selection of bottle beers. (Why don’t they carry Michelob Lager and why do they always assume that you want that watered down piss beer, “Michelob Ultra”, when you ask for a “Mic” or “Michelob Lager”?)

They had a Salon, which served LandShark on tap and other fine real beers. It was supposed to be open last night but was not.  Several months ago, the Salon bar tender was serving the runners as much as the other bar was.

Maybe the bar and Saloon were not doing enough business so they laid off the Saloon keeper (bar tender) and cut the available product line. Maybe they dropped the available selection and that resulted in reduced demand?

They used to have a gift shop. This was shut down and that room turned into a room of high stakes slot machines. They didn’t get many customers at the gift show probably because the prices were too high!

There is a display of souvenirs in the snack bar.  The prices seem much more reasonable.

An aside: the Casino was going to have vans going from the Casino around town. I live just off one major road and 30 feet from a semi-major road. If they drove down these streets, I would be willing to drink at the casino.

If I knew I didn’t need to drive home, I will be willing to drink at the Casino (I am normally the designated driver). If I drank at the Casino, I would be willing to gamble more as I get a “what the hell” attitude after several drinks. Then, I could be in trouble.

Thus, the Casino protects me from me and loses money. This strikes me as a win (for me) lose (for them) situation.  I like it…

They need a complaint desk for all aspects of the Casino. If you go to the Players Desk, you just get to talk about gaming. They don’t talk about drinking or food. Nor will these "complaint people" direct you to the correct restaurant or bar mangers...

19 August 2012

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:

• well cooked bacon
• scrambled eggs
• Serri Lee coffee cake (which I nuked)
• coffee

Lunch: We went to the Santa Fe Trail Association meeting and had:

• Dillions chicken (2 legs and one breast)
• a rather nice casserol (I wish I knew what was in it)
• two cookies
• iced water and
• a little bit of iced tea

Snack: some chips and a little bit of coffee at work

 

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner and iced water

 

My stomach was rather "delicate" most of the day after blowing chunks aroun 3 am - 3:30 am this morning.

18 August 2012

Breakfast: at the recently reopened "Inn Pancake House"

• 6 oz "breakfast" steak
• two eggs over medium
• hash browns
• two pancakes
• lots of coffee...

The service was good. Anthony Bourdain wrote something to the effect that if a restaurant has a dirty men's room, then it is likely to have a dirty kitchen. Their men's room was remarkably clean, so I will give them the benefit of the doubt regarding the kitchen cleanliness.

Lunch: two hots dogs and a small amount of potatoe salad. I had cold water.

Snack: a chunk of dark chocolate and coffee

Dinner: A traditional mixture of hamburger, pan fried chunked potatoes and boiled broccoli. This is the kind of stuff I used to eat routinely and which I gave up on for several years. Having eatten it again, tonight, I can kind of see why I quit. While I liked it, it was rather bland.,..

Desert: some little Oreos.

Pre-bed: a hot dog and slice of sour dough bread with grape jelly and an MGD

I had two bouts of vomiting a couple of hours after going to bed. I suspect it was my dinner. My hamburger was too greasy and I cooked the potatoes in a mixture of veggie oil and olive oil.

17 August 2012

Breakfast: Wheaties and coffee

Lunch: at Bella Italia Ristorante, where I had:

• salad
• lasagna with added cheese
• bread sticks
• "Diet Coke"

Dinner: Marie Callender's Fettuccini wsith Chicken,  Broccoli, two little Oreo cookies and iced water

15 August 2012

Breakfast: Burger King SOS on biscuits with some of their potatoe disks and a medium coffee

 

Snack: a small piece of my birthday chocolate cake and coffee

 

Lunch: from Casey's Cowtown, chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes and white gravy, cottage cheese (with a tomato slice) and iced water

 

Snack: a medium chocolate Frosty from Wendy's (I should have had a small)

 

Dinner: I had the left over beef stew, some corn chips ("Scoops") and iced water

 

Snack: I anticipate having some of my birthday cake after I get home...

My 61st birthday...

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

 

Lunch: homemade beef stew with beef, carrots, corn, potatoes and garlic seasoning, onion seasoning and "Italian Seasoning" plus a Pepsi Zero.

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice (tentatively) and bottled water

 

Sadly, since we have our semi-annual physicals tomorrow, I can't have birthday cake (like a piece of cake is really going to make a difference on the A1C? )  Still, once this twice yearly "joy" is done, we can arrange for me to have a nice chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and maybe some vanilla ice creamme. The only question will be do I take most of the cake to work or to Kathie's work place? I'm inclined to take it to my work place...

Grandma Lil's Birthday

Breakfast:	cheerios and coffee
Snack:	ark chocolate
Lunch:	Abby's for a chicken sandwich and iced water
Snack:	dark chocolate and popcorn
Dinner:	Healthy Choice Meatloaf and iced water
Snack:	ttttt

Five days of not using the inhaler

11 August 2012

_____Breakfast: at the McPherson Best Western, where we had the free breakfast:

• SOS on a biscuit
• a pancake from a pancake machine
• sausage sticks
• coffee
• orange ju8ice

________Lunch:  We went to Montana Mikes and ran into 7 other Lions. So I had

• salad with French dressing
• chicken fried streak (very large and very good!)
• mashed potatoes with white gravy

       Snack:two strawberry Daiquir at Montana Mikey's bar

_______Dinner:  Dinner: The convention center where our dinner was catered in for a buffet:

• salad with
• Thousand Island Dressing

veggie mix of

• carrots
• broccoli

mashed potatoes with brown gravy

stewed roast beef

roll

apple strudel

Pre-Bed Snack: cookies and iced water at the Lions Hospitality Room.

The Kansas Lions in McPherson sponsored  the Hospitality Room with

• cake
  
• cookies
  
• meat
  
• crackers
  
• coffee
  
• water

10 August 2012

_____Breakfast:  Cheerios and coffee
________Lunch:  Healthy Choice chicken
_______Dinner: at the Best Western in McPherson, Kansas,. at the Lions Convention
                Snack: two bottles of MDG

• salad
• small piece of chicken fried steak
• mashed potatoes with white gravy
• water

This meal was catered by the McPherson Kansas Montana Mikes.

The Kansas Lions in McPherson sponsored  the Hospitality Room with

• cake
• cookies
• meat
• crackers
• coffee
• water

9 August 2012

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

 

Snack: dark chocolate and coffee

 

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown for the monthly Lions Board Meeting:

• french dip sandwich
• french fries
• glass of "Diet Pepsi"
• iced water

Snack: some Little Oreos and coffee

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner and iced water...

7 August 2012

Breakfast:	Milk toast and coffee
Snack:	coffee and piece of dark chocolate
Lunch:	tat Taco Hell Bell for: three tacos and split an order of Nachos with Kathie and a "Diet Coke"
Snack:	little piece of cake at work
Dinner:	two pieces of Dillions deep fat "fried" chicken at work and cold water
Snack:	an MGD beer and slice of dour dough bread with peanut butter and grape jelly

6 August 2012

Breakfast:	cherios aqnd coffee
Snack:	dark chocolate
Lunch:	We had lunch at "Bella Italia" and were very favourably impress with both the service and the food. They have changed cooks since we were there last and it really shows. Also, the waitress was extremely attentive without being overbearing. This is a hard balance to reach but this young lady did it! I had lettuce salad with vinigar and oil, speghetti with meat sauce and a couple of glasses of "Diet Coke, no ice".

We are planning on going back after our semi-annual MD physicals so it will be around 18 August 2012. I plan on having the lazanna.

Snack:         asmtha inhailor and coffee
Dinner:        Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner
Snack:ttttt

Blood sugar:
Exercise:

5 August 2012

Breakfast:	we went to the Knights Of Columbus for their breakfast supporting Breast Cancer Support. I had: excellent SOS on a biscuit a superb egg, cheese casserole two sausage patties a ½ of a pastry cup of coffee glass of orange juice glass of water (I was really thirsty)
Snack:	ttttt
Lunch:	Kathie made turkey sandwiches and I had one with a glass of cold water.
Snack:	strawberries and melted dark chocolate and later, a 12 oz bottle of Lost Trail Diet ROOT BEER.
Dinner:	At the Rodeo where I had a small Pizza Hutt pizza and bottle of water. Then, I bought a funnel cake, which we split.
Snack:	gin-n-tonic

Exercise:

4 August 2012

Breakfast:	McDonald's for two bacon egg and cheese sandwich, the potatoe slabs with I took home and put in the refer (and will probably throw out in a couple of weeks). It was not what anyone could have called a special meal; we had planned on going out for a special breakfast...
Snack:	dark chocolate and coffee
Lunch:	Montana Mike's for a half pound hamburger with bacon and fries and "Diet Pepsi" We had to tell our waitress the cooik had left the bacon off both our hamburgers. She immediately brought out a couple of slices for both of us. That was a nice touch and helped her tip out...
Snack:	ttt.
Dinner:	We ushered at the Dodge City Roundup Rodeo and had a hamburger and bottle of water each. Later, we split an pastry (funnel cake), covered with strawberry sauce and strawberry.
Snack:	just some water and mucinex

Exercise:  I stood around being an usher at the Dodge City Roundup Rodeo and this counts for about  2½ hours of "walking under 2 mph" (according to the Presidents Exercise committee web page)

¿So we wanted a nice sit-down Saturday breakfast?

Kathie and I have the day off and decided to go some place nice for a sit-down breakfast. I talked her into ordering off the menu vice doing a buffet. I was looking forward to a special morning...

We decided to go out for breakfast and  decided to go to the "Inn Pancake House". There were no cars in the extra parking lot across the street and an elderly woman walking toward the only car in their parking lot.  Kathie said "they must be closed" and we drove around the front of the Inn Pancake House. There was a sign that read We are closed for updates to better serve you.

This is the Dodge City Rodeo Days and there are a lot of people in town. This is a wonderful time for a restaurant to make money. My wife suggested they must have been closed by the Health Department.

We then went to the Dodge House and their parking lot was crammed. We didn't even bother trying to go in...

We went by Kathe's and they were closed.

We went by Mike Casey's "Casey's Cowtown" and there were only two cars out front (including the owner's sister's car).

Kathie was not pleased with "Home of Jo-nes" the last time she went there so we didn't go there. I was happy with them the last time I went there.

"Montana Mike's" and "Applebee's" simply don't serve breakfast!

We tried going to a restaurant my wife had heard of but simply could not find it!

 

We refuse to go to "Cha-Cha's" Place for various reasons (mainly fucking over the waitresses, not paying her taxes and spending operating funds at the casino in the silly hope she could recoop her business loses...). If the only

We thought about going to a nearby town to have breakfast but didn't feel like driving that far.

We went to McDonald's because they have decaf coffee and Burger King does not. Both are nice places to grab a quick breakfast early on a work day.

Neither are "special" as in "a special place to have a nice sit down breakfast".

As an aside, we were ushers at the Dodge City Rodeo and only paid $2 for the meal and a can of Diet Pepsi.


P.S.: It was only after we had "breakfast" that I remembered that Sonic and Subway Sub have "breakfast". That is, they serve items  from that meal but nothing very great.

Update 4 August 2012: My wife knows some of the waitresses at "Inn Pancake House". She was told that about three weeks ago, the waitresses were yelling at the cooks to get them to work faster. To me, this sounds like a work slowdown on the part of the cooks. Speculation is the cooks were fired and management is rebuilding. 

Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain  wrote you that you can tell the cleanliness of the kitchen based on the cleanliness of the public toilets. I've always thought their toilets were reasonably clean and does my wife. Thus, their kitchen is probably clean.

Update 5 August 2012: We discussed this with comeone well connected in the business community and found out "Inn Pancake House" was shut down by the state for cleaniness purposes.  I am quite disappointed. 

3 August 2012

Breakfast:	grits and butter and coffee
Snack:	some dark chocolate and coffee
Lunch:	We went to King's Buffet and I had rice, various chicken and some beef dishes, ice creamme and chocolate pudding plus two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"
Snack:	coffee and a chunk of dark chocolate
Dinner:	I went to the Dodge City Roundup Rodeo (same as last night) and had: barbecued pulled beef with Bar-b-que sauce a roll ear of corn on the cob can of Diet Pepsi I was still hungry and since the price for this fine meal was only $2, I had seconds!  Actually, I wanted a second ear of corn and figured "what the hell" and had some more beef...,
Snack:	gin-n-tonic and a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich (I had forgotten to take my evening pills before dinner)

Exercise: I ushered for about 2½ hour, which meant I was on my feet the entire time and walking under 2 mph.

2 August 2012

Breakfast:	eggs cooked in the omelet maker and a pork chop.
Snack:	ttttt
Lunch:	piece of sirloin steak
Snack:	a medium Dairy Queen ice creamme cone dipped in chocolate and later, some dark chocolate at home
Dinner:	First, a little pizza and later, a peanut butter  and grape jelloy sandwich
Snack:	gin-n-tonic

Exercise: I ushered for about 2½ hour, which meant I was on my feet the entire time and walking under 2 mph.

1 August 2012

_____Breakfast: Cheerios and coffee
_
_______Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown for:

• chicken strips
• french fries
• roll with 
• top ½ grape jelly
• bottom ½ with strawberry jelly
• cold water

_______Dinner: boiled pork chops, boiled spaghetti noodles and cold water

                Snack: orange sherbet with dark chocolate shell

31 July 2012

Breakfast:	cherios and coffee
Snack:	little Oreostt
Lunch:	can of Healthy choice chicken and noddle soup
Snack:	I was still hungry so I had three chicken legs from Dillions, some of the fancy "baked" potatoes, and later, some chervbert and chocolate syhrup.
Dinner:	Healthy Choice chicken and cold water
Snack:	gin-n-tonic

Blood sugar: AM 95, PM 132
Exercise: