11 April 2011

Breakfast: milk toast made with sour dough bread and coffee

Lunch: chicken fingers and fries at Arbys plus "Diet Coke"

Snack: small amount of ice creamme with chocolate topping (I was starting to get my appetite back...)

 Dinner: a mixture of

• boiled broccoli florets,
• two hot dogs,
• two ripe bananas and
• iced water (supposedly ice cold drinks screw up digestion enzymes but the office water tastes putrid sans ice)

Snack: small amount of peanuts...

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10 April 2011

Breakfast: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for breakfast. I had:

• a waffle with whipped butter and zero sugar syrup
• a small amount of bacon
• SOS over hash brown potatoes
  

Lunch: Kathie made

• baked chicken with
• bread stuffing and
• boiled broccoli florets preceding this

The one nice thing about being sick the day before is my appetite is suppressed and I didn't eat all my meal. Now, if this suppression (and vague feelings of nausea when eating) were to remain, I might finally lose some weight!

Dinner: Marie Cal lender's Beef Pot Pie (Tender Beef) and water

The food was fine but it took a long time to eat; I am still "off my feed". My stomach was upset after eating so I guess my poor dog won't get a treat tonight (his "share" of my midnight snack :-D   )


Post Note: I got home about 11:15 pm, walked the dog, took a couple of pain pills and Musinex {sp}, then went to bed. Everything came back up about an hour and a half later. The upside is my blood sugar the morning of the 11th was the best it's been in a long while: 119. So is that the secret to low blood sugar? Eat very little with dinner and don't let it stay down?

I would rather not be sick and have to worry about the blood sugar level than to be sick and wonder how long I'll be sick...

10 April 2011

Breakfast: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for breakfast. I had:

• a waffle with whipped butter and zero sugar syrup
• a small amount of bacon
• SOS over hash brown potatoes
  

Lunch: Kathie made

• baked chicken with
• bread stuffing and
• boiled broccoli florets preceding this

The one nice thing about being sick the day before is my appetite is suppressed and I didn't eat all my meal. Now, if this suppression (and vague feelings of nausea when eating) were to remain, I might finally lose some weight!

Dinner: Marie Cal lender's Beef Pot Pie (Tender Beef) and water

The food was fine but it took a long time to eat; I am still "off my feed". My stomach was upset after eating so I guess my poor dog won't get a treat tonight (his "share" of my midnight snack :-D   )

9 April 2011 (updated...)

Breakfast: Kathie's big breakfast of:

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

It was quite nice.

Lunch: We had

• 2 hot dogs in buns
• cottage cheese and
• potatoe chips and
  
• cold water

Dinner: I had a small Wendy's chocolate frostie. This is not the kind of thing a diabetic should have but I fear it was about all that I could have kept down. I started feeling sick shortly after I left the house to drive to work.

I went into a hardware store to buy some red onion bulbs for our garden. The clerk did not know how much to price the bulbs. I spoke my math out loud and convinced her that my 6 little bulbs would be 6¼¢. She could not enter this figure on her register and entered 6¢. The machine definitely added state/county/city sales tax and I have to fork over 8¢. Such a high price  :-D and I do hope this does my part in curing the state's budget deficit!

I went to work and was feeling worst. My pay forms were "locked in stone" on Wednesday and so it would be very hard to change the work schedule to let me take sick leave. I barfed twice in the early evening (or I should say I barfed multiple times at two different periods tonight.) I thought about the left over steak and baked potatoe from this past Tuesday (or Thursday?) and realized that I could never keep it down. I had boiled broccoli before leaving home but the small amount of olive oil and "butter" I'd mixed with the boiling water would probably resulted in the meal coming back up.

One of my co-workers was asking another fellow if he'd like something from Wendy's? I asked the guy on the phone to have Fred, the man calling, bring me a small chocolate Wendy's frostie. Fred brought it and it not only went down well but has stayed down... :-)

I'm trying to figure out what whacked me so hard. It just isn't normal for me to start barfing in the middle of the afternoon. (One to two hours after going to bed is far more normal). So, it could have been:

• heat stroke as I felt better when I went inside at the Hardware Store. But, I didn't feel better when I went inside at work. I was thirsty but feared that I'd barf if I drank water. I drank a small amount of water and felt better until I barfed it up...
• hypoglycemia: I am a type 2 and simply don't get low blood sugar. However, the Wendy's frozen desert has sugar and after eating 3 or 4 spoon fulls, I felt much, much better. Maybe it was the hypoglycemia?
• It could have food poisoning. I may not have rinsed the fry pan off good enough and will really rinse it good before we use it next! (I don't give a shit if you aren't supposed to immerse it!)

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After I got home, I disappointed my dog by not eating anything. I went to bed and was worried that I wouldn't keep my pre-bedtime glass of water down. I kept having trouble breathing so I finally took a Musinex {sp} for that. I should have taken a couple of (anti)-pain pills as I kept tossing and turning. I finally took a couple and actually slept from around 3:30 am - 4 am till 8 am.

Sunday night, I am going to take that Musinex and the two (anti)-pain pills. They probably won't be necessary but it won't hurt...

9 April 2011

Breakfast: Kathie's big breakfast of:

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

It was quite nice.

Lunch: We had

• 2 hot dogs in buns
• cottage cheese and
• potatoe chips and
  
• cold water

Dinner: I had a small Wendy's chocolate frostie. This is not the kind of thing a diabetic should have but I fear it was about all that I could have kept down. I started feeling sick shortly after I left the house to drive to work.

I went into a hardware store to buy some red onion bulbs for our garden. The clerk did not know how much to price the bulbs. I spoke my math out loud and convinced her that my 6 little bulbs would be 6¼¢. She could not enter this figure on her register and entered 6¢. The machine definitely added state/county/city sales tax and I have to fork over 8¢. Such a high price  :-D and I do hope this does my part in curing the state's budget deficit!

I went to work and was feeling worst. My pay forms were "locked in stone" on Wednesday and so it would be very hard to change the work schedule to let me take sick leave. I barfed twice in the early evening (or I should say I barfed multiple times at two different periods tonight.) I thought about the left over steak and baked potatoe from this past Tuesday (or Thursday?) and realized that I could never keep it down. I had boiled broccoli before leaving home but the small amount of olive oil and "butter" I'd mixed with the boiling water would probably resulted in the meal coming back up.

One of my co-workers was asking another fellow if he'd like something from Wendy's? I asked the guy on the phone to have Fred, the man calling, bring me a small chocolate Wendy's frostie. Fred brought it and it not only went down well but has stayed down... :-)

I'm trying to figure out what whacked me so hard. It just isn't normal for me to start barfing in the middle of the afternoon. (One to two hours after going to bed is far more normal). So, it could have been:

• heat stroke as I felt better when I went inside at the Hardware Store. But, I didn't feel better when I went inside at work. I was thirsty but feared that I'd barf if I drank water. I drank a small amount of water and felt better until I barfed it up...
• hypoglycemia: I am a type 2 and simply don't get low blood sugar. However, the Wendy's frozen desert has sugar and after eating 3 or 4 spoon fulls, I felt much, much better. Maybe it was the hypoglycemia?
• It could have food poisoning. I may not have rinsed the fry pan off good enough and will really rinse it good before we use it next! (I don't give a shit if you aren't supposed to immerse it!)
  

8 April 2011

Breakfast: I made a form of home made quiche out of

• a baked pie pan,
• about 6 oz cooked ham sliced and sprinkled on the pan bottom
• 4 eggs mixed with a big shot of 2% milk
• sharp cheddar cheese spread on the pan bottom with the ham and
• uncooked frozen hash browns spread on the top of the egg mixture.

I cooked this for about 30 minutes, removed it from the oven, let is cool and took it to work.

Lunch: the rest of the breakfast quiche and cold coffee

Dinner: since we expected the "R"s to shut down the government, we decided to splurge and have one more night on the town before we went into Mike_the_government_worker_reports_to_work_as_usual_and_gets_paid "in the sweet by an by".  We went to Mariahah Hills, (aka "Ham's" place). We had quite a wait in the bar before we got seated. We wanted to go here since they have the best steaks in Dodge City and I like the view (Kathie thinks Casey's Cowtown has a better atmosphere but I know when to change a subject and so I did...)

I had:

• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• large fillet with "Ham's sauce" (the waitress offered us a steak sauce and I replied that it would be a sacrilege to put such a think on one of "Ham's fillet". She said a lot of people tell her that...
• large baked potatoe with sour creamme and butter
• roll with butter

and certainly no desert! My steak was one of the best I've had in years and Kathie's lobster tail equally good!

 I've read that if you eat slowly, your meal will fill you up and what I has tonight certainly did. We then did some shopping (Mr. G's Liquor and the 14^th Street Dillions). I waited till 2 hours past "fork down time" to test my blood sugar. I recall it was 143, which is fine for me! Then, some gin-n-tonic and we watched the season finale of "Merlin". It is amazing how Merlin (AKA Emers) can keep fooling folks he is around so often. i.e. Arthur and Gwen. They finally revealed that Gaius, the step-father of Merlin, is also a wizard!

I am so looking forward to next season...

7 April 2011

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: egg salad sandwich, bag of chips and water

Dinner: Healthy Choice chopped roast beef with mashed potatoes, brown gravy, carrots and apple crisp

We had two Healthy Choice meals left (chopped roast beef and meatloaf) and we both like the "meatloaf" meal. So, I put one in each hand, held them behind my back and asked her to pick. She picked the hand with the chopped roast beef and looked upset. So, I asked her "would you like the meatloaf?" "Yes", was her answer so I gave her the meatloaf meal. I wanted it too but I wanted her to be happy more than I wanted that meatloaf...

6 April 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown, a steak salad with sauteed onions and a small bowl of cottage and cold water

Snack: banna split with only chocolate syrup at Dairy Queen...

Dinner: at Montana Mike's:

• salad with French Dressing,
• roll with butter,
• most of a nice steak (took the rest home)
• most of a baked potatoe (took the rest home),
• no desert (they lacked some of the ingredients for the "Mudslide") and
• glass of iced water...

5 April 2011

Breakfast: McDonald's big breakfast of

• scrambled eggs
• sausage patty
• potatoe slab
• biscuit with "butter" and grape jelly
• coffee

Lunch: Healthy Choice chopped roast beef, chopped potatoes and gravy, carrot disks, apple crisp and a Diet Pepsi

Dinner: white sauce with boiled scrimp over spaghetti noodles and a beer (MDG), with a gin-n-tonic before bed...

3 April 2011

Breakfast: at the Pancake house for

• SOS over hash brown potatoes
• some bacon
• a bisquit with grape jelly and
• coffee

The service was poor because this restaurant was quite crowded. None the less, since we were two of many who took the buffet, the two waitress should have had time to come around with coffee a lot more than they did!

My wife felt sorry for "our" waitress and over tipped her. For the "gift" of coffee, I thought a $2 tip was fine; she insisted on giving "our" waitress $3.

I'm not normally tight with tips. If we had ordered off the menu, I would have been willing to tip higher; if we'd gotten coffee refills without me having to wave my hand and finally, wave my coffee cup (which is rude, I admit), I would not have minded a $3 tip (or even higher). :-(

Lunch:  at El Zarpatia, the "new" Mexican place. I recently bad mouthed them based on their being busy and crowded during a buffet on Tuesday. Today, we ordered off the menu and

• the food was much better,
• the service was much better (especially when compared with breakfast) and
• our waitress topped off our drinks before they were empty.

So, I recommend this place and repent my earlier bad recommendation.  I had:

• their Supreme meal and
  
• the free order of desert and
• Diet Coke

Dinner: A Healthy Choice meatloaf meal and water

Snack: a co-worker brought in a tamalis and they were quite nice.

garden (the beginning)

We rented a 15 by 20 foot plot to garden on. After about 15 minutes of
hoeing, we realized this wasn't working. Fortunately, a friend of ours
was watering his plot near us, came over to visit and suggested we have
our plot roto-tilled. We went to the garden shop we rented the plot from
and got the name of a fellow "farmer" who also did roto-tilling. We gave
him $10 and he said he would till our plot today.

We're going out tomorrow to plant the broccoli, radish, carrot seeds. We
can't plant the watermelons until mid-May. We going to buy and plant
tomatoes in late May. I'm thinking of seeing if I can still buy potato
"starts" and broccoli "starts" and plant them tomorrow.

I'll have to post pictures as the garden progresses to my photo blog and
facebook page.

April Fool's Day 2011

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat (my dog liked "his" share) and coffee (which my dog won't touch... :-D )

Lunch: at Wendy's for a

• ½ pound hamburger with bacon
• baked potatoe with butter and chives
• medium "Diet Coke"

Snack: some ice creamme...

Dinner: this was meant to be a science experiment at seeing if I could get a low blood sugar reading; it failed as I "scored" 230 from:

• 1.5 small pieces of pork chop (about ½ pound of pork chops)
• two small potatoes, boiled
• a bunch of broccoli florets and
• iced water

Snack: a couple of saltine crackers

31 March 2011

Breakfast: a fried egg and two slices of sour dough toast and coffee

Lunch: from King's Buffet, a mixture of chicken and beef and pork, rice and desert and two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: Unlike a week or so ago, I did not destroy the pork and I had:

• pork chops, fried and baked,
• boiled rice,
• boiled broccoli and
• cold water
  

30 March 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown for

• a salad with French dressing,
• "chicken fingers",
• large order of French Fries,
• a roll with butter and
  
• iced water

Snack: a small bowl of chocolate ice creamme, which my dog graciously finished off for me! ;-)

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

28 March 2011

Breakfast: The left over steak and baked potatoe from Saturday night and coffee

Lunch: Healthy Choice, the roast beef chunks, potatoe chunks, carrots, brown gravy, apple crisp and a bottle of Diet Pepsi...

Dinner: We went to Applebys and I had

• fahetias with steak and chicken,
• rice
• chopped cheese, sour creamme and sauteed onions,
• split a desert of chocolate cupcake, ice creamme and fudge sauce plus
• iced water

27 March 2011

Breakfast: We went to the Casino and I had:

• freshly made waffle with whipped butter and whipped creamme (I cooked the waffle),
• bacon, well done...
• SOS over hash browns
• coffee

 Lunch: We went to Sam's in Garden City, Kansas for shopping and for lunch, the great Italian Restaurant at their Airport for:

• freshly made bread with real butter!
•  speghtetti with
• meatballs and
• meat sauce
• and a bottle of Bud (I normally would not drink Bud but it was about their only non-lite or non-light beer!)

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meal (chunks of roast beef, potatoes, brown gravy, corn, apple crisp) and cold water. This was the meal on top of the stack of "Healthy Choice" meals in the freezer

Snack: gin-n-tonic, 2 each...

26 March 2011

Breakfast: Kathie's Big breakfast of

• well cooked bacon,
• scrambled eggs,
• Serri Lee coffee cake (which I "cooked" in the microwave oven... :-) )
• and coffee

Lunch: At Montana Mike's for

• ½ pound hamburger
• fries
• a couple of glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: Kathie made:

• steak (I ate most of it, put the rest in the refer)
• baked potatoes (ate most of, saved the rest)
• asparagus
• cold water and
• a bottle of MDG (a real beer!)

25 March 2011

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Lunch: Healthy Choice meatloaf, mashed potatoes, brown gravy,  corn and apple crisp and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: boiled pork chiops, a baked potatoe and the left over boiled broccoli florets (from the other night) and water. Desert: some mini Oreos (I had the munchies...)

24 March 2011

Breakfast: the uneaten 6" chunk of Subway sandwich from the other day (this was a meatball/pepporini cheese lettuce mix) and coffee

Lunch: chicken, mashed potatoes, a roll with honey, apple cobbler and two glasses of "Diet Pepsi" at the Rat -er-KFC...

Dinner: Healthy Choice roast beer, potatoes, carrots, apple crisp and iced water

Snack: bag of popcorn

23 March 2011

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown,

• chicken fingers
• mashed potatoes and brown gravy
• roll with butter but
• since I ordered fries, the waitress brought out a "free" side order of fries (I took a number of them home with me...)

Snack: piece of my left over cake...

Dinner: a homemade mess of

• two pork chops (which I overcooked horribly)
• a small baked potatoe and
• a bunch of over-boiled broccoli

Truly,  the worst meal I've made for myself in a very long time... :-[

21 March 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: half of a foot long meatballs and pepporini and lettuse and mayo
sub from Subway sandwich, chips and a medium Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi
(whichever...:-D )

Dinner: Healthy Choice Classic Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, gravy and
apple crisp desert and iced water

20 March 2011

Breakfast: We went to Casey's Cowtown for breakfast:

• SOS on biscuits (The gravy was very bland and the meat was little cubes of mystery meat; this wasn't very good)
• two eggs over easy (much better than the SOS)
• coffee

Lunch: at the Santa Fe Trail Association Meeting:

• several pieces of chicken from Wally World
• a small amount of some kind of carrot dish
• corn bread in a cast iron skillet (which I made...)
• desert: I brought a chocolate cake to celebrate the 30^th Anniversary of my being commissioned a USN Ensign on 20 March 1981)
• a small piece of some kind of brownie
• water and coffee

Dinner: two hot dogs and can of tomatoe soup with oyster crackers and a gin-n-tonic about an hour or so after dinner...

19 March 2011

 Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:

• scrambled eggs
• well fried bacon
• Serri Lee Coffee cake and
• coffee

Lunch: at Montana Mikes:

• split an order of hot (seasoned) scrimp with Kathie
• ½ lb hamburger
• fries
• "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: two hot dogs and can of chicken noodled soup

Snack: a gin-n-tonic

17 March 2011

_____Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat

________Lunch: two egg salad sandwiches and a "Pepsi Zero" 

_______Dinner: We went to  Casey's Cowtown

• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• corned beef
• boiled potatoes
• cabbage
• a glass of a strange beer on tap (it has a strong lemon taste)
• desert at Dairy Queen for a banana split

Mike Casey's shef did a very nice job on the corned beef dinner!

Pre-Bed Snack: two gin-n-tonics

16 March 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Snack: a pork chop and can of "Pepsi One"

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown:

• salad with Thousand Island dressing
• chicken "fingers"
• fries
• iced water

Snack: some vanilla pudding

Dinner: Healthy Choice  "Meatloaf" and cold water

Ides of March 2011(take 2)

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Snack: a little bit of chicken, from the other day, that I had in a plastic container in the office refrigerator as well as some Cheeze-Its.

Lunch: leftovers from last night at Applebys:

• left over steak
• left over baked potato
• left over boiled (but crisp) carrots and broccoli
• a "Pepsi One"

Dinner: something different from "Healthy Choice",

• shrimp salad with crotons and Thousand Island Dressing
• a boiled pork chop (about ½ pound)
• small baked potatoe
• cold water

Snack: a small number of sunflower seeds...

Ides of March 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Snack: a little bit of chicken, from the other day, that I had in a plastic container in the office refrigerator as well as some Cheeze-Its.

Lunch: leftovers from last night at Applebys:

• left over steak
• left over baked potato
• left over boiled (but crisp) carrots and broccoli
• a "Pepsi One"
  

14 March 2011

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: hamburger (from last night) mixed with boiled rice flavoured with a mixture of onion soup and some beef sour and coffee

Dinner: at Applebys,

• broccoli and cheddar cheese soup, a cup of...
• 12 oz steak
• baked potatoe
• boiled carrots
• ice water

I took part of everything home with me (except for the soup)

Snack: a gin-n-tonic...

I was feeling a bit ill when when went to dinner but I felt better after eating. Then, about 3 hours or so after dinner, dinner came back up; an hour after going to bed in other words. ("It tasted so good going down, not so good coming back up." paraphrase of Vir Coto). I'll have to wash the foot rug in front of the toilette...

13 March 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Snack: I took a can of canned chicken and sampled it. It was worst than bland; it tasted awful (albeit not rotted). I poured Worcestershire Sauce over it, let it soak and it tasted much better. I emptied the chicken into a plastic bowl and spooned some into a paper bowl and put mustard on it. The mustard and  sauce  really gave this chicken flavour...

Lunch: A really nice lunch of:

• rib eye steak
• baked potatoe
• boiled asparagus
• cold water

Snack: I went to the local gas station and made a house payment for some oil well owner (not quite that bad!) and bought an ice creamme bar of a type that I've not seen in decades. The train blocked 14^th Street south and this gave me time to eat my snack...

Snack #2: We watched the last several episodes of the 1943 "Batman" movie serial. It wasn't too bad and was period correct in the way the white folks hated "the Japs". I made popcorn for Kathie and me.

Dinner: a Healthy Choice "meatloaf" and water...

13 March 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Snack: I took a can of canned chicken and sampled it. It was worst than bland; it tasted awful (albeit not rotted). I poured Worcestershire Sauce over it, let it soak and it tasted much better. I emptied the chicken into a plastic bowl and spooned some into a paper bowl and put mustard on it. The mustard and  sauce  really gave this chicken flavour...

12 March 2011

Breakfast: I made an attempt at a Jimmy Dean potatoe, sausage, egg, cheese mix and not a very good attempt...

• two medium potatoes chopped up, covered with "Italian Seasoning" and olive oil and baked at 400º
• chopped up Gouda cheese put on top of the potatoes about 10 minutes into the cooking
• three eggs scrambled with a shot of milk and poured over the potatoes then
• cooked for another 20 - 25 minutes

I drank some coffee with this...

Snack: some little Oreos. Tomorrow, I'll bring fruit or veggies as a snack.

Lunch: homemade pizza with hamburger, Gouda cheese, Tillamook sharp cheddar and water

Snack: at the movie, some popcorn and "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: From Sonic,

• a hot dog with sour krat and sauteed onions,
• large order of fries
• and refrigerator cold water

This was fine but it didn't have enough onions and I had trouble finding the sour krat. Next time, I'll cook a ¼ hot dog with the sauteed onions right next to the "dog" and enough sour krat as to practically hide the "dog"!

12 March 2011

Breakfast: I made an attempt at a Jimmy Dean potatoe, sausage, egg, cheese mix and not a very good attempt...

• two medium potatoes chopped up, covered with "Italian Seasoning" and olive oil and baked at 400º
• chopped up Guda cheese put on top of the potatoes about 10 minutes into the cooking
• three eggs scrambled with a shot of milk and poured over the potatoes then
• cooked for another 20 - 25 minutes

I drank some coffee with this...

Snack: some little Oreos. Tomorrow, I'll bring fruit or veggies as a snack.

11 March 2011

Breakfast: McDonald's Breakfast of

• scrambled eggs
• potatoe slab
• sausage disk
• bisquit with ½ covered with grape jelly and the other ½ covered with strawberry jam
• coffee

Lunch: We went to King's Buffet and I had a mixture of chicken, beef, rice and desert with two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meatloaf meal and water

7 March 2011

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: ham sandwich and bottle Diet Pepsi

Snack: a small amount of Orange Sherbert with choclate topping...

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf and water

6 March 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: Kathie made baked chicken stripes, aspargius and her rice pilof

Snack: at the local movie theater, popcorn and a medium "Diet Pepsi". It would have been fine if the clerk had refrained from charging us for two orders of popcorn and soft drink. The clerk, who didn't know how to handle an over ring, had to get the manager over to issue the refund...

Dinner: a ham and turkey sandwich, bowl of tomotoe soup and cold water

5 March 2011...second try

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: a can of spaghetti and meatballs and water

Snack: some pan fried "popped" popcorn, made with a little margarine mixed with olive oil and seasoned with ground pepper

Dinner: at Montana Mike's:

• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• 12 oz rib eye (I took about a third home with me)
• loaded baked potatoe (I took the skin home with me)
• iced water

5 March 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: a can of spaghetti and meatballs and water

Dinner: at Montana Mike's:

• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• 12 oz rib eye (I took about a third home with me)
• loaded baked potatoe (I took the skin home with me)
• iced water

4 March 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: from Sonic,

• foot long hotdog
• fries
• "Diet Coke"

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf and cold water

3 March 2011

Breakfast: 2 soft boiled eggs and coffee

Lunch: We went to "the Rat" (KFC) for chicken, mashed potatoes and brown gravy, desert and glass of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: a Healthy Choice pot roast meal and cold water

2 March 2011

Breakfast: from McDonald's

• pancakes
• sugar "Maple" syrup
• coffee

Lunch: from Casey's Cowtown

• steak sandwich (some very strong seasoning that I didn't like so I didn't finish it...)
• french fries (as always, very well made)
• iced water

Dinner: We were going to have Healthy Choice but were running late and neither of us could face H.C. so we went to Taco Bell and I had

• some kind of fehita with meat, rice and I don't know what else (I didn't look too closely in case it was black olives!
  
• we split an order of nachos
• iced water

1 March 2011

Breakfast:  8 oz ham "steak" and a small potatoe chopped up and boiled, plus coffee

Lunch: at "La Bella Restaurante" (the Italian place on Frontage Street)

• garlic stick dipped in olive oil (had to ask for this...)
• spaghetti with meatballs and meat sauce (it is not on the menu but if you ask for it, you can get it...)
• slice of white bread with butter (good for dipping in the sauce)
• a couple of glasses of "Diet Coke"

Snack: a couple of chunks of slightly burnt hamburger left over from the office lunch today (which I didn't attend... :-) )

Dinner: beef stew and water

28 February 2011

Breakfast:

• three chunks of sour dough bread "cooked" in the oven and ate with butter and grape jelly (my dog loved this!)
• wheaties
• coffee

Lunch: at Arbys

• the large order of "chicken fingers"
• curly fries
• an overly large glass of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner:

• a baloney sandwich made of meat from the deli in Libenthau Kansas on sourdough bread
• carrots
• a banana

27 February 2011

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of

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

Lunch: We were both home today and so we had something special:

• roast chicken
• bread dressing
• broccoli florets
• ^*orange sherbet with chocolate shell and
• ^*a bottle of Diet Pepsi

^*This was soooo decadent...

Dinner: left overs from the new restaurant at the golf course the other night:

• about half of my steak (still very nice warmed up in the microwave...)
• baked potatoe
• iced water

Snack: several (literally) peanuts

26 February 2011

Breakfast: at the Boot Hill Casino

• SOS on hash browns
• sausage patties
• a largish (8") waffle with butter and whipped creamme
• and coffee
  

Lunch: two hot dogs and cold water

Dinner: Healthy Choice "Classic Meat Loaf" (meat loaf with rich brown gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet corn blend & apple cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water

Snack: a couple of chocolate chip cookies

25 February 2011

Breakfast: wheaties with 2 bananas and coffee

Lunch: Healthy Choice roast beef, potatoes, carrots and apple crisp (and a bottle of Diet Pepsi)

Dinner: at the Mariaha Hills Restaurant:

• salad with French dressing
• 16 oz steak (I took about ½ home with me)
• large baked potatoe (also took about ½ home with me...)
• a darkish ale
• a bottle of Coors lager
• around ½ or so of a small chocolate desert
• desert at home: 2 gin-n-tonics (I guess I go to excess with the C₂H₅OH several times a year...)

24 February 2011

Breakfast: At work, a Jimmy Dean scrambled eggs, potatoes and sausage meal. I had a couple of small pieces of chocolate cake before breakfast; I was hungry and heard about eating this from a friend (he did not approve)

Lunch: Pizza Hutt for salad, chocolate pudding desert and all meat pizza with a glass of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: Left over spaghetti and a slice (chunk actually) of sour dough bread with butter and garlic salt on it (and I wondered why my mouth tasted so bad the next morning... ;-) )

24 February 2011

Breakfast: At work, a Jimmy Dean scrambled eggs, potatoes and sausage meal. I had a couple of small pieces of chocolate cake before breakfast; I was hungry and heard about eating this from a friend (he did not approve)

22 February 2011

Breakfast: from Burger King

• their SOS on two biscuits
• potatoe thingies ("tater tots")
• coffee

Lunch: from Dillions lunch room:

• a chicken breast
• two chicken legs
• mashed potatoes with
• white gravy
• and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

I reacted poorly to the grease in the fried chicken; I was belching up stomach acid before leaving the Dillions (Kathie and I did some post lunch shopping)

Dinner: just a collection of stuff from around the house...

• two hot dogs
• big bowl tomatoe soup
• chunks of sour dough bread
• cold water

Well, our latest "Do NOT Eat At List" now consists of:

• the "Mexican" place where Pepercorns used to be (poor service, mediocre food and they ran out of food last Monday; they got overwhelmed) but they don't necessarily have to remain on this list. I won't be going back for at least a month though...
• Dillions' luncheonette...their fried chicken has always been too greasy (but better than WallyWorlds) and Kathie didn't like their "Chinese")
• that steak house in the old Train Station. Although I have not been there this Millennium, I still remember the allergic reactions I had from their steak seasoning; one should not need the Asama inhalator post dinner...

Off the list: ChaCha's place since ChaCha apparently has a gambling problem and didn't pay her taxes. Her place was shut down several months ago.

Washington's Birthday (21 February 2011)

Breakfast: my own cooking...

• bacon
• two attempts at soft boiled eggs (so I got about 1.5 eggs...)
• two slices of toast
• coffee

Lunch: Healthy Choice meatloaf with a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: Homemade speghetti, garlic bread and water

20 February 2011

Breakfast: at IHOP in Hays (we could not face the same food as yesterday's breakfast!)

• chicken fried steak
• two eggs over medium
• hash browns
• two pancakes
• coffee
  

Lunch: at Applebys,

• ribeye steak
• baked potatoe with butter and sour creamme
• mixture of broccoli florets and several boiled carrots
• a Sundae in a large shot glass
  

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

No quarters to buy snacks at work, therefore, no snacks...

19 February 2011

Breakfast: at the hotel,

• pre-made microwave "omelets" that looked like semi-circles of egg material
• clunked potatoes
• a waffle I made with syrup
• coffee

Lunch: at the Hays State University Student Union 2^nd floor meeting room

• ham and cheese wrap
• a noodle salad
• ice creamme with a chocolate chip cookie
• iced tea
• coffee

Dinner: at the same place as lunch:

• salad with vinaigrette dressing
• 3 slices of roast beef
• mashed potatoes
• brown gravy
• two rolls with butter (I had a second roll as I was hungry!)
• vanilla/chocolate parfait with whipped creamme
• decaf coffee
• iced water

Snack: two glasses of something called "Mudslide" and beef jerky

18 February 2011

Breakfast:  cheerios and coffee

Lunch:

• hamburger,
  
• fries,
•  Diet Coke from Burger King

Dinner: at Thirsty's in Hays, Kansas,

• salad with french dressing
• cup chouter
• rib eye steak
• baked potatoe
• Texas toast

Desert at the hotel: ice creamme with chocolate coating

17 February 2010

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: at Burger King,

• a ½ £ hamburger
• fries
• medium "Diet Coke"

(Note: £ is the English pound - currency - and my joke is that it is also "pound" as in weight...)

Dinner: left over beef stew, cheeze its and iced water

Later, for a snack, I ate four little Oreo s as I was hungry. After eating this, I wasn't hungry and regretted what I'd done...

16 February 2011

Breakfast: the left over pizza from the other night and coffee

Lunch: salad with sliced grilled streak and sautaed onions, Thousand Island Dressing and a small bowl of cottage cheese and ice water

Desert: a fellow Lion had his birthday today and we celebrated with his birthday cake. It was choclate cake with chocolate frosting and strawberries. The cake came from "Home of Jo-nes". I'll have to remember this come August, when I turn 60 and a friend turns 55...

Dinner: home made beef stew made with:

• stewing beef
• carrots
• corn
• hash brown potatoes
• some onion flakes
• seasoning
• beef stew seasoning

I had wanted to try a beef stew with hash brown potatoes and it turned out fine. But, I was at work and had to use a paper bowl in our kitchen. So, I didn't get a lot of stew and didn't want to go back for "seconds". Thus, I was hungry later and had a bag of microwave popcorn.

15 February 2011

Breakfast: fried boiled corn meal (turned out badly) and the left over hamburger and sausage from the other night (on a slice of sour dough bread) and coffee

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

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meatloaf and cold water, with 2 gin-n-tonic for desert...

14 February 2011

 Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: at the "Mexican" place where "Peppercorn's" used to be. I had the lunch buffet of:

• tacos
• some kind of pork soup on rice
• rice over runny refried beans
• "Diet Coke"

The place was crowded; they ran out of food a couple of times and ran out of plates once. The service was slow (the help was somewhat overwelmed). The experience was so bad we're not going back anytime soon. In fact, they have dropped below the Rat  KFC on our "don't eat at list".

Dinner: We went to Montana Mike's for Valintine's Day. They are not normally open on Mondays but opened anyway...

We had:

• "potatoe boats" for the appitizer
• salad with French Dressing
• Large (and rather odd) "Prime Rib"
• mashed potatoes with brown gravy (I should have gone with baked potatoes)
• ice water

Snack: a gin-n-tonic...

13 February 2011

Breakfast: Kathie's big  breakfast of

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

Lunch:

Dinner:

12 February 2011

Breakfast: at the Pancake House,

• well done bacon
• two eggs over medium
• hash browns
• two slices whole wheat toast with grape jelly
• coffee

Lunch: at the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant:

• ½ pound hamburger

• bacon

• fries

• "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: homemade pizza with hamburger5 and an oil can of Fosters beer

 

11 February 2011

Breakfast: creamme of wheat, a slice of toast and coffee

Lunch: various "Chinese" styles of chicken or beef at "King's Buffet", white rice, a little pudding for desert and "Diet Pepsi"

Snack: a slice of the roast beef I slow cooked for tonight...

Dinner: roast beef and rice and iced water

A couple of hours after dinner (and with 227), I was hungry and had desert...

11 February 2011

Breakfast: Since I was nearly out of milk (which didn't smell good anyway), I fried some hash brown potatoes and had them with catsup and cold water.

Lunch: We went to Casey's Cowtown, for the monthly Lions Board meeting and were the only ones there! So, I had

• chicken tenders
• french fries
• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
  
• and iced water

Snack: I was still hungry and having seen a History Channel show about snacks last weekend, I went to Dairy Queen for a medium choclate dipped cone

Dinner: A Healthy Choice meatloaf with mashed potatoes, brown gravy, corn and apple crisp and iced water

Snack: popcorn

9 February 2011

Breakfast: some bacon and a couple of semi-fried/semi-scrambled eggs and coffee

Lunch: at Montana Mike's:

• ½ pound hamburger with bacon
• two slices of "American" cheese (on the side)
• fancy "French Fries" and
  
• 2 glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast, a banana and water

8 February 2011

Breakfast: a chunk of freshly baked "French Bread" (from a can of dough) with peanut butter and grape jelly and coffee

Lunch: from Burger King, a double hamburger, french fries and a medium "Diet Coke"

Dinner: a Healthy choice "Roast beef with potatoes, carrots and apple crisp" and an apple and glass of iced water

Snack: 6 little Oreo cookies...

7 February 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: at the "new" Mexican place, several tacos, red rice and refried beans, honey in pastry and a couple of glasses of "Diet Coke"

Snack: one of the left over pastries I made yesterday...

Dinner: A Healthy Choice meal: meatloaf etc and iced water

I have been peeing a lot today and after a morning score of 170, I was curious what my 2-hour-post-eating score would be...

The score was 190 and this was much higher than what I had hoped for.  What can I say?

micturate ergo sum

6 February 2011

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of

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

Lunch: We had

• baked chicken with
• bread dressing and
• broccoli and
• cold water

Snack: I made a sugar-free donut recipe. It was fine but needed more flour as it was too sticky and I probably should have let the water cool a bit more before putting the yeast in as the dough didn't rise much.

Dinner: I had

• hot dog
• can of chicken noodle soup
• peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich

Snack: a couple of gin-n-tonics...

5 February 2011

_____Breakfast: left over steak, baked potatoe, corn from Casey's Cowtown. Good stuff!
________Lunch:  about 1/2 of the overcooked roast beef I cooked and froze
Snack:a large amount of theater popcorn and a medium "Diet Pepsi"
_______Dinner:  2 hot dogs and a can of Campbell's tomatoe soup
Pre-Bed Snack: a gin-n-tonic

Sadly, something disagreed with me and I ended up vomiting about an hour after going to bed. I'll blame the popcorn so that I might eat the roast beef but I know damn well that I'll never eat the roast beef. There is just enough doubt in my mind that I'll not trust the beef to safe for eating.

You see, I put the beef in the over at about 250F for most of a day, froze it, thawed it at 250F again and ate about ½ the beef. It looks like Buster, a hugh choclate lab, is going to have a treat tomorrow...

4 February 2011

_____Breakfast: a variation on the "Amish Cook's" recipe. I made an egg dish with:

• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup of light creamme
• about 1.5 teaspoons of flour
• some fennel
• some dried onion
• a pinch of baking soda
• a pinch of baking power

I mixed this all up and baked it in a pre-baked pie dish. It took a while for the egg mixture to fully set up but it was fine. The mixture spread out in the pie pan and was thinner than when I cooked it the first time in a sauce pan. I think having it thick (as it was the first time) made it better.
________Lunch: We went to Pizza Hut where I had spaghetti with meat sauce, a bread stick and a "single visit to the salad bar" and a couple of glasses of "Diet Pepsi".

The fairly new manager - Jerry - has really turned this Pizza Hutt around.

• The seating is much quicker than before,
• the food is better and more quickly supplied,
• the salad bar is much better and
• the service is much better.

Jerry has simply turned this place around from his predecessor and I like going.
_______Dinner:  A Healthy Choice chopped roast beef, potatoe chunk, gravy, carrot disk and apple crisp meal.

3 February 2011

Breakfast: wheaties (lots of wheaties!) and coffee

Snack: some ice creamme (I was hungry and didn't want to bother with popcorn at 11:40 given than I get off work at noon.)

Lunch: A Healthy Choice meal (Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, corn, apple crisp, brown gravy) and water

Dinner: we went to Casey's Cowtown and I had:

• salad with tangy Thousand Island Dressing
• a 24 oz T-bone streak (I took a large amount of this home)
• baked potatoe with butter and sour cramme
• roll with butter
• apple pie
• iced water

Snack: a single shot of gin-n-tonic

2 February 2011

Breakfast: left over hot dog/cheese/sour krat and potatoe stew from yesterday, coffee and a small amount of "Diet Pepsi" (very unfizzy)

Snack: some cake with vinillia ice creamme and water

Lunch: (at Casey's Cowtown)

• roast beef with barby sauce
• potatoe salad
• corn
• iced water

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meal (their roast beef chunks, chunked potatoes, corn and apple crisp) and cold water

1 February 2011

Breakfast: a delayed breakfast as fasting lab work was done at 8 am. I had:

• Burger King's new "cheesy" something. (scrambled eggs, potatoes thingies and cheese in a roll of something)
• potatoe thingies
• coffee

This was not a very tasty meal. It was a good thing I had lots of catchup for the potatoe thingies as they helped with the "cheezy" thingies...

Lunch: at the office, I had

• my hot dog/boiled potatoe/sour kraut/cheese (sharp cheddar and Gouda)
• a multi-meat sandwich
• some cake and ice creamme
• bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: a Subway sandwich: turkey and ham and a glass of water. Had a gin-n-tonic for desert

My A1C was higher than I liked (8.2) but after discussion with Dr. Hoteter, I avoided shots and went with a new pill. Apparently this stuff can screw up the stomach and I confirmed that this morning (can you say "diarrhea"?)

Breakfast: at the hotel, an omlette with ham, bacon, sausage, saluaed
onions and cheddar cheese.

Lunch: at this nice chicken place in Abiline Kansas, we had fried chicken,
mashed potatoes, creamme corn, light brown gravy, cole slaw, scoup of home
made vinialla ice creamme and three glasses of "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner: at the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant, I had a largish hamburger (1/2
pound), fries and two bottles Budweiser.

Someone should do a double blind test to see if anyone can tell if they are
serving light beer or "ultra" and if the customers can tell what they are
drinking...

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19 January 2011

Breakfast: at the hotel (Merriott Courtyard in Juntion City Kansas)
restaurant, I had:<ul><li>omlette
with<ul><li>ham,<li>bacon,<li>cheese,<li>onions and<li>garlic</ul>,<li>two
disks of overcooked sausage,<li>chopped up potatoes with kethup,<li>iced
water and<li>coffee</ul>

Lunch: at the hotel conference room,<ul>,<li>,<li>salad,<li>small amount of
lazana,<li>speghetti with meat sauce,<li>bread stick,<li>iced water</ul>

Dinner: at the hotel conference room,<ul><li>salad with stringent tasting
Thousand Island Dressing,<li>small pieces of roast beef,<li>big scoup of
mashed potatoes,<li>brown gravy,<li>whitish cake,<li>iced water</ul>

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Breakfast: two small porkchops, rice and coffee

Lunch: We went to the Rolling Hills Musium and I had a hamburger, fries and
Diet Coke.

Snack: some crackers with chese and summer sausage

Dinner: at the hotel, we had:<ul><li>salad with feta cheese and
strawberries and strawberry vinairgrette,<li>roll and butter,<li>a small
potatoe,<li>some carrots,<li>iced water,<li>and a vinillia and choclate ice
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27 January 2011

_____Breakfast: From McDonalds, a bacon/egg/cheese sandwich, potatoe thingies and coffee
________Lunch:  At Boot Hill Museum, I had a box lunch of ham/cheese sandwich, apple, little chunk of cheese (processed cheddear), some awful animal cookies and watrer. I was role playing the Banker at one of the January school kids visiting Boot Hill Museum.
_______Dinner:  Home made pizza (overcooked -er- burnt on the bottom) with hamburger and lots of cheese and a MGD beer.
Pre-Bed Snack: a single shot of gin-n-tonic

25 January 2011

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

 Lunch: Bierock and coffee

Lunch 2: after giving blood at the blood drive, I had a ham sandwich, chips, little Oreo cookies, coffee and water

Dinner: We went to Montana Mikes and I had:

• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• 16 oz ribeye (took some home for breakfast tomorrow for me and my dog)
• baked potatoe

23 January 2011 (updated)

Breakfast: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast and coffee (I had planned on bringing wheaties and cheerios but brought the wrong container; fortunately, I had this Healthy Choice sitting in the office freezer for the past several months...)

Snack: cheeze-its and hot chocolate

Lunch: hamburger and tomatoe soup and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Snack: a couple of chocolate chip cookies at the Santa Fe Trail Association meeting

Dinner: steak, baked potatoe, asparagus and cold water

23 January 2011

Breakfast: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast and coffee (I had planned on bringing wheaties and cherios but brought the wrong container; fortunately, I had this Healthy Choice sitting in the office freezer for the past several months...)

Snack: cheeze-its and hot chocolate

12 January 2011

Breakfast: at the Lions Pancake feast: pancakes and a couple of sausage
paddies and coffee

Lunch: a couple of sausage paddies

Dinner: at Appleby's steak and chicken fieta, rice and ice water

18 January 2011

Breakfast: a hamburger bierock and coffee

Lunch: a Burger King large hamburger and fries and a medium "Diet Coke"

Dinner: Lean Cuisine Three Meat Pizza:

• pepperoni,
• Italian sausage
• and seasoned ground beef with
• reduced fat mozzarella cheese

Snack: a small amount of corned beef hash

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Breakfast: bowl cottage cheese with grape jelly and the left over eggs from yesterday plus a cup of coffee

Lunch: at King's Buffet, lots of pseudo-Chinese and "American" stuff and a couple of glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

Snack: some freshly baked bread with grape jelly

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf and iced water, with a small piece of homemade bread and a bananna.

I felt ill from the late afternoon on and I'm wondering if it was something I ate for lunch or if my blood sugar is really off?  With a 2-hours-past-finishing dinner of 224, I think I really am ill tonight. I'll have to check the blood again tomorrow and see if it goes down any when I am (I hope!) feeling better.

16 January 2011

Breakfast: a kind of scrambled eggs, whose recipe I got from the Daily Globe. This was taken from a column written by an Amish woman (called the Amish Cook). As I recall, the recipe was
<blockquote>

• 5 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 heaping tablespoon flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• "pepper to taste"

Mix the ingredients in a large bowl, then pour into a well greased skillet. Put a tight lid on the skillet and put over "medium heat. When half done, take the lid off", quarter the cooking eggs mixture, turn them over and finish cooking.

The cook did not say

• if this was supposed to be baked or cooked on the stove,
  
• didn't say how long it would  take to cook or
  
• how to tell when the meal was done.

I gave it about 8 minutes per side and checked how done it looked.

I'm thinking this somewhat bland meal could be spiced up with

• sauteed onion and
  
• sauteed garlic and
• chunks of ham and
• maybe light cream vice milk?
  

</blockquote>

Lunch: we had brots boiled in beer with green peppers and onions and iced water

Dinner: I had a "Healthy Choice" beef pot roast dinner with iced water

15 January 2011

Breakfast: At Boot Hill Casino Restaurant:

• waffle with butter and whipped creamme (very good!)
• SOS over hash browns
• small amount of crispy bacon
• 3 sausage patties
• coffee
• water

Lunch: a Healthy Choice meal (chunked beef, chunked potatoes, brown gravy, carrot disks and apple crisp) and iced water

Dinner: leftovers:

• the left over steak from last night,
• a freshly baked potatoe
• boiled broccoli
• boiled corns
• iced water and
• a bag of popcorn as a late desert...
  

14 January 2011

type 2 for 6 years, 8 months, 8 days...

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Snack: a bierock (hamburger) and coffee

Lunch: a Healthy Choice meal (meatloaf) and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: We went to the Miriah Hills Restaurant and I had:

• salad with French dressing
• ½ of an order of Mozzarella sticks
• a 16 oz rib-eye steak done medium
• baked potatoe with sour creamme and butter (I asked for more butter and got a little container of melted butter vice a chunk and that was a very nice touch!)
• two bottles "Coors Original" (this was one of the very rare occasions when I was the "Designated Drinker" vice the "Designated Driver"

The food was excellent and the only problem I had was the steak was not cooked to "medium" but to "medium rare". This often happens when Kathie and I both order steak; the cooks put both on and they both come out "medium rare". I probably should have bitched to the owner (Ham) but didn't feel like it.

Our waiter was on his 3^rd night working there so we decided to cut him some slack (also, Kathie knows him from work...). He kept forgetting to bring my water (I like more than a beer with dinner!) and started to pick up my plate after I asked for a box to take the left overs home in. The cheese sticks and salad was enough that I could not finish my steak and baked potatoe; I intended to take it home and did not want the restaurant to shit can my leftovers. After all, if I didn't eat that left over steak, my dog would surely eat it!

On a different issue, why is that local restaurants can't seem to get it through their heads that some of don't like diet -er- light/lite/Ultra beers and want a real beer such as:

• Mic Lager
• Coors Original
• Fosters Lager
• Henry Weinharts Private Reserve and even
• A Bud Lager

It must be a sign of the times?

12 January 2011

Breakfast: chopped sliced ham mixed with a can of yellow hominy and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown:

• chicken fried chicken
• mashed potatoes with
• white gravy and
• a roll with butter
• and iced water

Snack: some left over corn bread with grape jelly

Dinner: baked hamburger on top of oven baked hash brown potatoes with beef gravy and cold water

I had some Pepto Bismo after eating this and that settled my stomach right down...

11 January 2011

Breakfast: Kathie made

• well cooked bacon
• scrambled eggs and I
  
• microwaved Serri Lee coffee cake
• and I had coffee

Snack: I helped judge Science Fair entries in Pratt and had a couple of cheese sticks, some coffee and several dark chocolate squares (I was hungry)

Lunch: at a little place in Pratt, I had

• fried chicken (two breasts and a thigh),
• mashed potatoes with
• white gravy and
• a roll with butter, washed down with
  
• two glasses of "Diet Coke"

Dinner: some homemade corn bread with grape jelly and baked hamburger and iced water and a beer (MGD)...

9 January 2011

Today is 6 years, 8 months and 2 days...

Breakfast: We went to the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant and I had the Sunday "Breakfast Club":

• waffle with butter and whipped creamme
• some bacon
• a couple of sausage patties
• SOS over hash brown potatoes
• coffee

We had good service.
I drank a small glass of "Diet Pepsi" while investing $3.00 (for a return of $3⁶⁰) in a penny slot machine.

Lunch: something special:

• a ribeye steak with margarine mixed with garlic powder and onion powder
• baked potatoe with margarine and sour creamme
• broccoli
• bottle of Diet Pepsi

Snack: some little Oreo cookies...

Dinner: Had a Healthy Choice meatloaf with mashed potatoes and brown gravy and apple crisp and iced water

Snack: bag of popcorn

8 January 2011

My life changed radically 7 May 2004 or 6 years 8 months 1 day ago...
I don't know if this could have been avoided but it might have been put off.

Breakfast: Kathie's big breakfast of

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

My dog enjoyed his share from both of us...

Lunch: at Appleby's

• cup of onion soup
• "sizzling fahiates"{sp} with
  
• steak
• chicken
• white cheddar cheese
• sauteed veggies
• sour creamme
• desert of chocolate moose in a large "shot glass" and
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

There was a man (in his late 20s) with a little girl (about 6 years old) seated at the table across the divider from us. At first, I thought he was talking to the air, like a classic lunatic, but he turned his head and I could see he had a little phone in his left ear. He simply looked like a head-case talking to the air. He got done with his "urgent" call, promised to call back and split out several statements at the child. It was apparent he was a "non-custodial parent" taking his daughter out to lunch and he didn't know how to engage the child in conversation. She continued coloring her Appleby's place mat and didn't reply. (Maybe I simply could not hear her?) He stopped trying to talk with the girl and Kathie and I went back to our conversation.

Several minutes later, he was back talking to the air and the girl was silently watching him. This time, it was easier to block him out.

Eventually, I noticed he was gone. Kathie had been watching him and told me he had never gotten a menu and thus, had never ordered. This was clearly not a case of "the customer is always right". He simply rubbed the waitress and waiter wrong and they admitted this when Kathie asked them.

He probably told his friends of his bad service at Applebys and that is a shame as it was his bad manners that lead to the "wait staff" not wanting to serve him. One of the many extra things kids in school apparently should be taught  is "pay attention to the person you took out to lunch!" That just seems like good manners and common sense to me...

Dinner: I had

• a largish ham sandwich
• bowl of corn (which I had to cook in the microwave) and
• iced water

This is a meal I won't be repeating soon! The ham was limp and the corn simply lacked flavour; I should have spiced it up with whatever I could have found in the spice cupboard!

7 January 2011

Diagnosed type 2 on 7 May 2004 or 6 years 8 months 00 days ago
I am somewhat calmer about the prospect of being on insulin than I was...

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

Lunch: from Arby's, a beef sandwich, "curly" fries and a medium "Diet Pepsi"

They stopped serving Gyros which irritates me. I liked them...

Dinner: Marie Callender's Country Fried Beef Steak with mashed potatoes, gravy and glazed carrot and iced water (an appetizer of a small amount of ice creamme)

6 January 2011

Diagnosed type 2 on 7 May 2004 or 6 years 7 months 30 days ago
I am somewhat calmer about the prospect of being on insulin than I was...

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: At Pizza Hutt,

• a couple of pieces of meat pizza,
  
• a salad,
  
• apple pie pizza (one slice),
  
• a small cup of chocolate pudding and
  
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

The new manager (who has been there for a couple of months) has really done a change around in Pizza Hutt. The service is much better, the pizza is resupplied much quicker and it is a generally better "eating experience". I can now recommend eating here.

Snack: a couple of chunks of yellow cake and ice cramme

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

Snack: popcorn...something my Father ate a lot of after he was on insulin; he was told it would help his appetite and it did.

5 January 2011

Diagnosed type 2 on 7 May 2004 or 6 years 7 months 29 days ago
I am somewhat calmer about the prospect of being on insulin than I was...

Breakfast: my left over steak and baked potatoe, from last night and coffee

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown, a steak sandwich, their great French fries and iced water

Dinner: left over beef stew and iced water; I later had some ice creamme...

4 January 2011

Diagnosed type 2 on 7 May 2004 or 6 years 7 months 28 days ago
I am somewhat calmer about the prospect of being on insulin than I was...

Breakfast: oatmeal with coffee

Lunch: We had an office luncheon and I had:

• my homemade beef stew
• a bowl of homemade potatoe soup with cheddar cheese
• a couple of slices of home made (not mine!) bread
• some ice creamme with whipped creamme
• a couple of glasses of bottled Diet Pepsi

Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for dinner and I had

• salad with "French" dressing and a small amount of cottage cheese
• most of a 16oz T-bone steak
• about half a baked potatoe
• chocolate cake
  
• water

We went there planning on going to the Casino's "Tuesday Night Italian Night" and found out they had stopped this effective the 4^th. It seems they were not getting enough customers. Well, I thought the idea of individually created sauces (either white or red and the extras you pick out) was good except I am a beef eater and there was no option to have ground round in one's red sauce.

This may have irritated more than just me; it may have been the kiss of death for many people.

So, Mike Casey had Spaghetti just once at "Casey's Cowtown" and that leaves the Italian place on Front Street. (This is a nice place but has no atmosphere.) I guess I have the choice of the Front Street place for OK Italian or the place at the Garden City airport for good Italian (about 2 hours round trip) or 5 hours round trip time to Wichita for really good Italian. It looks like it will be Front Street.

3 January 2011

Since diagnosis: 6 years, 7 months, 29 days

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: at Olive Garden in Wichita,

• salad with bread sticks
• spaghetti with meat sauce and meatballs
• Diet Coke with no ice

We had a few problems, which we told the manager about:

• the waiter brought Kathie's meal with the wrong type pasta
• there was ice in my drink
• I had to flag down the waiter to get a refill

I admit the waiter was busy and his area was divided into two by a wall. Still, it looked like he was giving those on the other side of the wall much more service. I didn't mention  this to the manager. A waiter should realize that folks our age (I'm 59) often either tip lightly or tip a lot and it depends on the service received; I don't go for the automatic, obligatory, given the "wait staff" the maximum politically correct tip. That takes really good service (or the waitress being a friend of my wife).

Dinner: We were on the way back from Wichita and stopped at a Taco Hell Bell. One counter fellow said they had what my wife wanted and the other said they were permanently out of this item. We almost left...

Instead, we stayed and I had:

• 3 hard shelled deluxe tacos and
• split a nachos with hamburger, beans and cheese
• had a medium Diet Coke (or what it Diet Pepsi?)

It was eatable...

Snack: a gin-n-tonic after we got home and emptied the car of everything bought at Sam's and Borders, showered etc.

2 January 2011

Breakfast: I went to the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant for breakfast and had:

• scrambled eggs
• SOS on hashed brown potatoes
• well cooked bacon
• sausage patties
• biscuit with grape jelly and
• coffee

I think I hurt the waiter's feelings by not eating all that I took. I just wasn't hungry...

Lunch: Two bierocks and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: hamburger and baked potatoe and water

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...