Folgers
_____Coffee House Series
__________100% Columbian
_______________"Med Dark" (ground coffee)
Dinner: Homemade spaghetti sauce (hamburger, garlic and tomato sauce), spaghetti noodles and a bottle of Mic Lager. The surprising thing is that my blood sugar 2 hours later was only 143!
1/2 cup sugar 1/3 cup cocoa 3 tbsp corn starch 2 cups milk or light cream 1/2 cup choclate chips 1 tsp vinelli
Lunch: South Beach Diet™ Caprese Style Chicken with Broccoli (Breast Srips with rib meat in a Marinara Sauce with ricotta sand mozzarella, served with broccoli)
Dinner: [projected to be a salad...]
and so it was! A salad, that is...
"One Asian salad with broiled chicken and one club salad with crispy chicken."
The clerk replied "did you say two Asian salads, one with crispy chicken and one with broiled?" "
No! I said one Asian salad with broiled chicken and one Club salad with crispy chicken!"
"Thank you, please pull up to the next window."
Lunch: Two large hotdogs on two slices of whole wheat bread and a DP.
Post Blood donation "snack": A small bowl of watered down potatoe soup and several carrots and a couple of cream filled cookie thingies. Also, a cup of weak iced tea and a couple of cups of water.
Snack: Some folks came in to work on our radar (WSR-88D) and brought in fresh Krispi Kreme donuts. I can now see why folks love those fuckers: when fresh they are irrestable and seem to meld in my mouth. Not exactly what a diabetic needs to be eatting. However, four of these fuckers proved to be completely irrestable.
Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast (with Gravy, Carrots, Roasted Potatoes and Apple Raisin Crisp). They seem to have forgotten the "Raisins" and I can only "THANK YOU!" and hope this is a trend!
Pre-Bed snack: this and that and nothing much of anything...no booze...
1 pint half and half
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup Irish whiskey (Canadian Club works too)
2 tblsp. chocolate syrup
dash cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla
I bought the Owens barf-on-a-biscuit at the 14th Street Dillions...)
Lunch:
Dinner:
Dinner: Marie Callender's Complete Dinner Country Fried Chicken & Gravy White Meat Chicken, Mashed Potatoes & Corn of the Cob plus a DP...
Snack: Toppers dipped into peanut butter...
Lunch: Casey's Cown Town: Chicken Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, small bowl of cottage cheese and two glasses Diet Pepsi...
Dinner: The "French" beef and chicken and pork stew over store bought mashed potatoes and a Miller Genuine Draft beer.
Lunch: Casey's Cown Town: Chicken Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, small bowl of cottage cheese and two glasses Diet Pepsi...
Dinner: Dillon's Salad and Water....
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Lunch: One half a MMMMMM (Montana Mike's Mighty Meat Meal done Medium): That is, about half of a 20 oz steak, a "loaded" baked potatoe, biggg roll and salad.
Desert: A moderate and then a small piece of Kathie's birthday cake.
Dinner: Healthy Choice Flavor AdventuresTM Grilled Chicken Marianara (Chicken Breast in Marinara Sauce over Pasta with Broccoli)
Lunch: A Wendy's chicken salad and a baked potatoe with cheese and a Diet Coke(?)
Dinner: Healthy Choice Mesquite Chicken BBQ (White Meat Chicken with BBQ Sauce, Vegetables and Roasted Red Skin Potatoes and a can of D.P.
Lunch: Large hamberger with bacon stripes, large French Fries and 2 glasses DP at Caseys. The service was fairly good and for Casey's, excellent!
Dinner: Boston (Home Style Meals) Market Lasagna with Meat Sauce (Layered with Ricotta & MOzzarella Cheese) plus those crackers. Oh, yeah, I also had a can DP...
Snack: A little bit of the left over stew, half a baggle and a beer...
Lunch: An Arby's salad and DP...
Snack: the last several sugar covered mini-donuts and coffee (I've had a sugar craving all afternoon since eating this...)
Dinner: A Lean Cuisine cheese lasagna florentine bake with marinara sauce, mozzarello, ricotta and romano cheeses and a can DP.
Snack: some crackers, peanut butter and a Michelob Lager...
Snack: some dark choclate with low cal whipped creame...
Dinner: Something at Applebys (our plan, anyway...)
what I actually had...
Snack: A can Michelob Lager...
Lunch: Wendy's double hamberger, baken ptoatoe with butter, chives and sour cream, DIet Pepsi.
Dinner: Kathie's chicken cooked in soy sauce and water seasoned with ginger root and sessime seeds and garlic over her rice pilof and a gin and tonic.
Post dinner: Another gin and tonic and probably yet a third. Alchohol isn't a carb and so alcohol isn't as bad for me as I used to think; nonethe less, my fahter felt the same and the diabetics heklped kill him...)
Lunch: At the Boot Hill Museum restraunt: a very nicely done roast beef samwhich with barby sauce, french fries and a large glass of DP...
Snack: Some no-fat/no-sugar cooked vinalli pudding.
Dinner: Swedish Meatballs withi pasta in a savory gravy (it was good but I'm not sure I'd call it "savory"...)
Lunch: Salad from the 14st Dillions...
Snack: Half a serving of cooked no fat/no sugar vinelli pudding.
Dinner: Healthy Choice Sweet and Sour Chicken (Battered Chicken Breast Chunks with Sauce, Rice, and Brocolli) plus a Sunshine CHEEZE-IT Baked Snack Crackers "contains 100% REAL CHEESE (I'd hate to try the "unreal" cheese; actually, I already have! That's what they call "processed" cheese...)
Lunch: At Casey's: a large hamberger, with strips of bacon, french fries and two Diet Pepsis. (Unlike last week, the first glass actually tasted like a Diet Pepsi. Unfortunately, the waitress is a bit overworked and I had to remind her of my free refill twice; at Montana Mike's, a fresh glass would have been brought out before I'd finished my first glass. Mike Casey has still got a continuing problem with his "wait staff"...)
Snack: I finished off the rest of my "no fat/no sugar" cooked choclate pudding.
Dinner: Boiled rice, can of cream of chicken soup, big can of cooked chicken, shredded cheese and water added. With dinner, I had oyster crackers. I ate about 7:25 (roughly 7.5 hours after eatting lunch) and this was a mistake. I ate too much and had an upset stomach for most of the evening...
Tomorrow night I'm taking a "Healthy Choice" meal...
Lunch: Cooked the two pork chops bought last week (finally!), some of Kathie's rice pilof, two DP and some homemade "no fat/no sugar cooked choclate pudding".
Dinner: Healthy Choice Flavor Adventures Creamy Dill Salmon (Wild Salmon Fillet SLices in a Creamy Dill Sauce over Pasta with Broccoli). Quite good actually...
Snack: A large hot dog (katchup and mustard added) and a Michelob Lager
A strong beer brewed traditionally by Belgian abbeys for the brothers to enjoy as "liquid bread" during their Lenten fasting. Bless them.
This is:
- well cooked bacon,
- scrambled eggs!
- 2 slices of toast (made into a bacon samwhich and
- some pan fried frozen shredded potatoes (I did this and it rather sucked...
Dinner: Kathie's baked boneless, skinned chicken with her rice pilof and a glass of water.
Post Dinner: I had two gin and tonic...
This was a mistake. I kept waking up feeling like I was going to throw up but I didn't qutie get sick enuf to do so...
Lunch: Wendys: A double hamberger, baked potatoe with sour cream and butter (but they saved me from the horror of butter by not putting any on the baked potatoe) and a Diet Pepsi...
Dinner: 14th Street Dillion's salad and part of a batch of "no sugar, no fat" cooked choclate pudding (to which I'd added some dark choclate chips)
Lunch: Three bar-b-qued hot dogs, some sour kraut, my home made ice cream (vanillla and choclate) with Larry Ruthi's choclate sauce.
Dinner: At Applebees: Beef and Chicken on those Mexican pancakes, red rice, 2 glasses Diet Pepsi and a nice soup before hand.
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Breakfast: Lean Cuisine lemongrass chicken (roasted chicken tenderloins in lemongrass-coconut sauce, brown rice and vegeatbles (I wasn't bothered by the "coconut", which I didn't know about until I typed in this note...)
Snack: Cheese-its and most of a DP.
Lunch: Healthy Choice Chicken Parmigiana Breaded Chicken Breast with Tomato Sauce and Cheese, Fettuccini Pasta and Broccoli Quite good!
Snack: Three banannas (not too ripe), a DP and another cup of coffee.Lunch: At Wendy's: Half pound "classic" hamberger, with baked potatoe, Diet Coke.
Dinner: A salad from 14th Street Dillions and water. My blood sugar was 116 two hours after I finished eating so I guess these salads are good for me. I'm just getting so tired of eatting them...
Lunch: At the Boot Hill Museum dining room: a briskey samwhich, fries and a Diet Pepsi. It was quite good...
Dinner: A "14th Street Dillions" salad my wife made and a bottle of "Miller Genuine Draft" (cold filtered) beer. None of that Pisswiser* or Coors and definitely none of that "lite beer" crap!!!
* How could a company which makes the magnificant Michelob create Pissweister -er- Budweiser and the perverted "Michelob Ultra"???
Snack: A bag of those 50¢ crackers from the machine in the office "kitchen".
Lunch: Chicken Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes with white gravy, roll and cottage cheese. The waitress said they had corn for the veggie so I ordered the CFC; they had green beans. I asked her to replace the green beans with cottage cheese; she gave the plate to another diner and brought me what I wanted. She was a good waitress, who provided Good Service! I told her this in front of Mike Casey's office manager (who was working the till).
Lunch: "Stouffer's LeanCuisine baked chicken chicken tenerloins with cornbread stuffing & whipped potatoes" I liked it. Too bad I was hungry again less than 10 minutes after finishing. I'll just have to distract myself...
Dinner: Three small Pan fried sound steaks (I picked on appearance and the price reduction from just over $8 to just over $5 - my wife said "you got very tender meat". It was an accident...), boiled corn, boiled carrots and here we split: Kathie had the left over rice pilof and I had the left over "store bought" mashed potatoes. We both liked ouor choices. My drink of choice was cold water...
I had bought some melons for desert but neither of us "had enough room" for them. So, we skipped it...
Two hours after finishing eating, I tested my blood sugar level: it was 174. This is high but not too high given I'd eaten corn and mashed potatoes. A confirmaton this wasn't too high is the simple fact I slept through the night without having to get up even once to pea. Since post-bedtime urination is natures way of dumping excess sugar, I can only conclude the carrots and steak trumped the corn and mashed potatoes (if that is possible...)
Ouch!!! On the one hand, this isn't going to help on the November 2006 A1C test but on the other hand, that is five (5!) months from now and plenty of time for me to be good...
I told her I wasn't anger but I guess I still am...
Breakfast: Aunt Jamami pancakes and sausage, some low sugar syrup and margarine and a DP. :(Couldn't have any coffee as we're out; one person who could resupply is in Topeka and the other has today off but will be in tomorrow morning...) Maybe I'll be reduced to stealing a bag of black tea from an old box in the office kitchen...
Snack#2: I'm hungry; I'm going to have a Sunshine CHEEZ-IT Baked Snack Crackers.
Lunch: Applebys where I had the 9 oz sirlon steak, garlic mashed potatoes, somewhat crispy boiled brocolli flowers (with a hint of cheese and crotons on them) and glasses of Diet Pepsi. Since this was a date - and meant to be a pleasant occasion! - I ordered a desert for Kathie and me. She said she didn't want any but I've only known her for 31 years and figured she like it.
She did...
Let's see, how would I compare this "chain" with the "hometown made restraunt owned and operated by a 'local boy'?"
I wrote a bit of a diabribe about the service last time we were there...
Dinner: We went to the Pratt Lions Club 85th Anniversary. The meal was roast beef, bar-b-qued beef, cheedar cheese mashed potatoes with chunks, a hamberger bun and choclate cake with choclate frosting. It was really quite good!
As an aside: I believe it was eating the pieces of "bad" roast beef that gave me a serious case of diarehia (literally the Hershey drips) and I'm going to wait a few days before discretely dumping the left over roast beef under the trees in the neighbor's yard. (It is a vacant house.) It might cause trouble for the neighborhood stray dog's but it seems better than shit canning or dropping it through the sink garbage shredder...
1/4 cup sugar
1/6 cup cocoa
1.5 tablespoons flour (I didn't have any corn starch)
1 cup 2% milk (I didn't have any regular milk or light cream)
1/4 cup chocolate chips (actually I put in a handful of dark
chocolate chips)
½ teaspoon vanilla extract (I actually "measured" this by eye
and don't know how much went in...
______We were seated with no problem. The waitress seemed very young and very new to waiting and didn't seem to know what she was doing. Kathie asked for a wine list and the waitress trundled off to get it. I looked towards where she'd gone and looked at Kathie and said in a wry voice "I guess I'll ask for water when she returns."
I was up nearly all night whilst walking in the 2006 "Relay Walk For Life. An hour or so after drinking the chocklate, I was back home, showered and in bed. Then, I had to get up for painkillers and Ben Gay.
"Long Island Ice Teas” (two recipes): These are stealth drinks by the way!
Achung Bay Marina1 oz Vodka
1 oz Gin
1 oz Light Rum
1 oz Tequila
1 oz Scotch or
1 oz Cuiacoa /Pour over ice and top off with Pepsi or Coke
Trench Room
Naval Air Station, Agana, Guam
1/2 oz Gin
1/2 oz White Rum
1/2 oz Vodka
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1/2 TequilaLemon Twist
Sweet and Sour Mix
Pour over ice and top off with Pepsi or Coke
I forgot to mention! When I wrote those bar tenders, I seem to recall getting their permission to reprint their recipies. (I think...)
......At Arby's I ordered "the Number one, with drink and a large order of moterillo sticks instead of fries. Can you do that?" "Yes, sir." I got the order and took the sacks to Kathie (we were eatting at her office). I had the feeling the kid at Arbys had fucked up my order but I wasn't going to worry about it.
......I was wrong. He'd fucked up Kathie's order.
......She was pissed and insisted that I return to Arbys to get her motzerillo sticks; she wasn't going to wait till I was done with lunch!
......So, taking her car instead of Lumox (my 1984 Suburbon), I went back to Arbys. There was a very large croud of people waiting but I wasn't about to wait in line. I went to the side of the line and stated "I'd like to speak with a manager please!"
......She came over and I explained how I'd ordered the motzerillo sticks but not gotten them. I said I'd like to get them. She asked, "which register did you buy them at?" I pointed to the one closest to me. The kid behind the counter said "it was me". I respect the boy for having the courage to admit that. (He was still working at Arby's on 6 June 2006.)
......Another boy brought over the sticks, plopped them down on the counter in front of me and turned away.
......I said "I'd like some sauce, please."
......He plopped two containers in front of me and started to walk off.
......I said "This is carry out. Could I have a bag?"
......He asked the manager what I was talking about. She said something at amounted to "bag" and pointed him to them. The boy put a bag on the counter in front of me. He made no effort to bag the sticks.
......I did not attempt to get him to come back. (He was not working at Arby's on 6 June 2006.)
.....I was afraid he'd fuck up the sticks!
......So, I looked at the manager, she looked embarrassed and I packaged the sticks myself. She also gave me a $4.31 refund for my having to come back...
......I don't look gift horses in the mouth.
Snack: At the "Relay For Life" Building, after I turned in our team's forms, several cups of orange juice, a cup of coffee and some casserol consisting of a lot of shredded spuds, sausage, cheddar cheese and a sauce.
Lunch: Some low cal lassonia.
Dinner; Healthy Choice, Beef Tips Portobello with Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Vegetables and Apple Cherry Crisp. This was good but I won't repeat buying it. There is the:
A few minuts after writing this, events escallated to a bit of vomiting...
Then, I spent a couple of hours at home sitting on the couch feeling miserable and occasionally trundling into the bathroom for more vomiting and diahria. Twice, I fertalized the lawn - vomit that is - (outside the fence), showered and went to bed with chills. Not a really good way to end the day...
* 1-cup extra virgin olive oil
* 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
* 3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped very fine, or, preferably crushed with a pestle
* 1, 2-oz can flat anchovy fillets packed in oil, drained, chopped very fine
Prepare the vegetables that you choose to serve by slicing them thinly or in strips.
Melt the butter in a deep earthenware bowl or saucepan over very low heat, making sure butter does not bubble - just long enough to get butter hot.
As soon as the butter is melted add the olive oil and let it heat through.
Add the garlic and sauté for an instant or two, (if crushed will cook faster than chopped) Do not let the garlic color at all. Remove.
Add the anchovies, stirring and mashing them with a wooden spoon.
Simmer for 3 or 4 minutes over very low heat, stirring continuously.
Sauce is ready when smooth in texture.
Keep the sauce warm over a spirit flame or canned heat burner.
Dinner: Salad...
Breakfast: Black Bear (restraunt in Beaverton, Oregon): chicken fried steak, hash browned potatoes, 2 eggs over medium and coffee.
For me, this was a shockingly high value. I just knew that it really help fuck up my A1C test in late May (and I rather think that it did!). Alas but it did give me a really strong hint on what I shouldn't eat. Also, I could take comfort in the fact that I go to this restraunt perhaps once a year and almost never go to Chinese elsewhere. Kind of a reassurring thougth, kind of...
Of course, I being a highly intelligent type who takes bad news in stride and knowing that I should do nothing to jack that frigging reading, didn't go out for a walk but had a beer instead...
Ok, I may be fairly intelligent but sometimes I just sigh and do the easy but bad things...
Besides, I felt better after having that beer. (I didn't get around to telling me wife just how bad bad was...)
Events have consequences and so did my "little" binging...
Then, 2 hours and 30 minutes later, I took my "two hours after eatting blood reading" (the above figure of 201!).
For most folks, that might seem too high. But for me, it is quite high and will probably fuck up my A1C test in late May! (28 May 2006: This little binge probably had it's part in my getting an increase in A1c from 6.8 to 7.0! in late May!) However, it was well worth it!
of my being diagnosed as a Type two diabetic.
Since I was in a rather morbid mood, I thought it would be fine to cerebrate. I thought we could to this Champaign Brunch" at this little Mexican restraunt we went to and have the brunch and Champaign. I even thought to have Champaign to toast "My Second Anniversary".
My wife thought it was a bad idea. At the time (7 May 2006), I thought she'd made a bad choice in talking me out of this. Later (28 May 2006), I suspect she may have been correct. Cerebrating such a morbid day probably isn't such a good chioce. But, since I don't expect to be back in Oregon with family on 7 May 2007, I will have champaign that day...
Lunch: not annotated
Dinner: Bar-B-Qued steak, corn on the cob, DP, Henrie's and salad
Lunch: Ham and Turkey samwich, potatoe slices, 2 cans Diet Pepsi and a piece of "the rat" (ok, KFC chicken...)
Dinner: Caesar salad (what little I ate was fine), pieces of Italian bread dipped into olive oil, lasuani (not enough noodles), part of a custard desert I ordered and part of a piece of cake someone else ordered. Also (since I was the designated driver), a couple of glasses of Diet Papei.
Afterward and at Dave and Sheron's house, a bottle of Henries (what else?)
Lunch: Fish and chips and salad at a nice restraunt in Corvallis, Oregon
Dinner fried chicken, mashed potatos, wrteched gravy and all from the Rat!...(That night, Kathie and I both had the trots and I came close to blowing chunks...>
As a Desert, I had a Henries...
Lunch: Moe's in Newport, Oregon: Bowl clam chowder, fish and chips and a Diet Pepsi.
Dinnert: Salad and two cups chicken/wild rice soup, spegetti with meatballs at Galucchi's in Lincoln City, Oregon. (The spegetti was a little too sweet and reminded me of canned stuff and was thus, significanly ordinary; the remainder of the meal and Kathie's pizza was was most definitely adequate!)
Lunch: hamburger, fries, Diet Pepsi at Dairy Queen
Dinner: Steak, baked potato, salad at Maxine's at Lincoln City, Oregon.
Lunch: At Yamhill Grill in Newberg Oregon: Split an order of onion rings, a cup of a wonderful tomatoe brisk{sp} sout, "French Dip" samwhich (actually a piece of prime rib) and Diet Pepsi.
DInner: Slices of broiled London Broil, a little bit of mashed potatoes, brocolli, a Diet Pepsi and a bottle of Henry Weinhart's Private Reserve (still a very nice beer and I don't understand why restraunts in the Portland area refuse to sell it. Sure, a bunch of fucking Cali-fornacators bought Henry's and are making it in Cali-fornia but it is still a very well made beer. It turely beats Pissweiser -er- Budweister...)
A snack: First a gin-and-tonic and then another Henrys...
I figured I'd blown the blood sugar totally and yet, when I did the fasting test the morning of two-de-May-oh, it was only 109!
That is quite low for me...
