27 January 2010

Breakfast: grits and two scrambled eggs and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown: large hamburger, fries and water

Dinner: TV dinner

25 January 2010\

Breakfast: left over spegethi from yesterday and some of the left over
tuna noodle casserrol

Lunch: plain yogurt with strawberries, a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich and later, two chicken legs (from Dillons) and a bottle of DP.
Both the chicken and DP were mistakes: the chicken was too greasy and
I've lost my taste for soft drinks...

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

23 January 2010

Breakfast: at the 2010 Dodge City Lions Club pancake feast, two pancakes (Kathie and I mixed the batter), sausage and coffee

Lunch: anther pancake and sausage and coffee

Dinner: tuna noodle casserol and water

22 January 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

 

Lunch: from PIzza Hut, slice of pepporini pizza, small amount of pasta, bowl of potatoe/bacon/cheddar soup and DP.

 

DInner: at the 2010 Dodge City Lions Pancake Feast, a scrambled egg (2), sausage (2) sanwhich on sour dough bread with a pancake chaser

 

Snack: a "small" (one shot) gin-n-tonic...

21 January 2010

Breakfast: chicken noodle soup and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with coffee

 

Lunch: fried chicken, potatoe wedges (both from Wally World) and a bottle of DP.

 

Dinner: pancakes and sausage and coffee at the Lions Pancake Feast

 

Snack: a double gin-n-tonic (well, t\wo...)

20 January 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: hamberger and fries at Casey's Cowtown

Dinner: a noodle and scrimpt dish in white sauce and broccoli floretes,
with a gin-n-tonic before going to bed; that g-n-t was a mistake...

19 January 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee (plus Tums)

Lunch: diet TV dinner (noodles, gravy and "meatball") plus water

Snack: four "Little Debbies" small powder coated donuts

Dinner: small steak broccoli and homemade "French Bread"

How was the dinner? To quote Vir Koto: "It tasted so good going down,
not so good coming back up". About an hour after dinner, I realized
that dinner wasn't meant to stay down so I walked my dog in the back
yard and vomited over the fence into the vacant lot north of my house.

Re: Martin Luther King, Junior Day 2010 (updated)

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Snack: Grandma's homestyle Chocolate Chip cookies (2) and coffee

Dinner: two pieces boiled boneless skinless chicken breasts and rice

Martin Luther King, Junior Day 2010

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Snack: Grandma's homestyle Chocolate Chip cookies (2) and coffee

17 January 2009

Breakfast: 6 oz sirloin steak, two eggs fried over medium, hash browns,
2 slices toast with grape jelly and coffee in Salina KS at the hotel the
Lions Mid-Winter Rally was held (the Ramada Inn)

Lunch: 12 oz ribeye steak with baked potatoe (sour creamme and butter)
and a salad with 1000 Island Dressing at the Montana Mike's in Great Bend KS

Dinner: soft taco (2) with refried beans, cheddar cheese, hamburger,
sour creamme, green onion, tomatoes and water

13 January 2009

Breakfast: A cup of milk (I was getting a medical exam)

Lunch: A cheese sandwich, at the Dole Medical Center, consisting of cheddar cheese on white bread with mustard and wter

Dinner: At Applebys:

• French onion soup
• steak and chikcen fahietas
• rice
• cheese, sour creamme and sauteeded onion
• two MGD (as usual, quite good)
  

The service was nice and the food was typically good. Appleby's has come back to their usual standards. However, the manager did not come around...

5 January 2010

Breakfast: a chunk of "French bread" with cheddar cheese melted onto it,
another chunk of "French Bread" with peanut butter and coffee.

Lunch: various at "King's Table" (a popular Oriental/American place),
ice creamme for desert and two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: Boston Market Meatload (with homestyle mashed potatoes & gravy)
and water

Snack: a cookie...

3 January 2010

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: a half pound hamberger, fries and some of Kathie's onion rings at
Montana Mike's and a couple of glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: a stew of boiled boneless chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions,
homemade egg noodles andn speghetti noodles and water

Pre-bed snack: a gin-n-tonic, potatoe chips and cottage cheese and some
peanut butter on a half slice of whole wheat bread...

2 January 2010

Breakfast: At "Vernon's Place", a 10 oz steak (next time I go with bacon
instead...), two eggs over medium, hash browns, whole wheat toast with
grape jelly and 2 cups of coffee

Lunch: roasted chicken, dressing, broccoli and water

Dinner: Smart Ones "Traditional Lasagna with Meat Sauce" and some
popcorn (plus iced water)

New Year's Day 2010

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls: Bacon (Eggs, Potatoes, Bacon &
Cheddar Cheese) and too much coffee

Snack: the last pork chop from last night's dinner

Lunch: most of a large turkey sandwich and potatoe chips dipped into cottage cheese and water

Snack: movie popcorn and a largish "Diet Pepsi"

Diner: We went to Appleby's and decided to give them a second chance. They have earned their redemption and have redeemed themselves! (Such a nice change from the piss poor service we hae several weeks ago!)

We were seated and a waiter was there immediately. He took our orders quickly and was friendly; a friend of my wife walked over to visit as well. That was nice, even though I was pissed at "our" waiter visiting with the folks across from us last time we went to Applebys.

The food was done correctly and our waiter came by to ask if I wanted another beer and asked if we wanted desert. (I did.)

For dinner I had:

• a nice steak with
• baked potatoe and
• "Death By Choclate" for desert and
  
• a lartge beer
  

This was a nice meal. My angry report was
http://dying-by-fork.blogspot.com/2009/12/bad-service.html

New Year's Eve Celebration, 31 December 2009!

What celebration? I had to get up at 3:15 am the next morning so I was
in bed about 7:30 pm and sleep through midnight. Kathie racked out about
10 pm (or so she told me this morning) and slept through midnight as
well. So, no celebration and if I toasted the New Year, it was with a
sip of water after rinsing my mouth post teeth brushing around 7:10 pm...

We really know how to party! ;-)

Yup, that was irony.

New Year's Eve 2009

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Snack: the left over piece of boiled chicken breast from last night

Lunch: plain yogurt with strawberries and later, peanut butter sandwich

Dinner: two overcooked fried pork chops, a baked potatoe, boiled
broccoli florets, some "home made French Bread" and water

30 December 2009

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's: a nice soup and grilled cheese sandwich and water

Dinner: boiled chicken, noodles, broccoli and water

advise from Higgins of "Magnum, PI"

There was an episode of "Magnum, PI" in which a villain, who had done something to Thomas Magnum and Higgins said "what are you going to do about it".

Higgins replied "I am going to write about it."

This was a serious threat as Higgins was a well respected writer and his writing about what the villain had done would cause said villain a lot of trouble.

If Higgins can write about something that has angered him, so can I!

No, I don't remember any other details about this show as it played about 24 years ago.

bad service

Bad service can be had from the "wait staff" and the kitchen (as well as the bar and the person doing the seating).

In the past couple of weeks, we have experienced first bad service from a waiter (and good kitchen service) and excellent service from a waiter and piss poor service from a kitchen.

Appleby's redeemed themselves to my wife and me last night with excellent service and won their way back into our hearts (and wallets). My report:

http://dying-by-fork.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-years-day-2010.html

First, there was our visit to Appleby's in Dodge City around 10 December 2009:

We were seated at Applebys and apparently we were at a table between waiters/waitresses. We started waiting and no one would wait one us! One waiter kept going past us and kept stopping at the table across us. After a while, my wife tapped this waiter on the arm as he went past us, completely oblivious to our presence. My wife asked "are we at a table without a waiter?"

He said "I'm your waiter. Are you ready to order?"

We said "yes" and we ordered. It took a while for a runner (not the waiter) to bring out plates.

The food was good and thus, the kitchen service was good.

I was thinking of ordering a second beer, to wash down the rest of my chicken fajitas (it was my turn to be the "DD" (Designated Drinker) and not the Designated Driver (I almost never drink at a bar or restaurant anymore).

However, I didn't get the chance to order that second bottle of MDG or to convince my wife we should order "shooter" deserts. "Our" waiter walked by, put the bill between Kathie and I and wished us a pleasant evening. This was so unlike Appleby's that we just looked at each other in shock.

We were hoping the Manager would come around but none did. (Another un- Appleby-like action).

We ended up paying but flagging down a passing waitress and she took our bill.

The problem was "our" waiter had an obvious GAF attitude. "GAF" is/was a US Navy slang term from the early 1970s and comes from "I don't Give A Fuck [man]".

Then, there was our meal last night at the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant:

First of all, we had a great waiter at the Boot Hill Restaurant! He was a young fellow who did a fine job and earned his tip!

We ordered the 14oz Ribeye steak with baked potatoes and water. It took a long time for the meal to come. In fact, our waiter dropped by the table, apologized for the wait and went back to the kitchen to check on our meal.

A couple of minutes later, a runner brought the food out, our waiter gave us the plates and we were ready to go.

Kathie took a small bite out of her potatoe and said "this potatoe is cold".

I touched my potatoe and sure enough, it felt as cold as if it had just came out of the refrigerator. I was pissed off!

We called the waiter over, told him both potatoes were cold (I repeated what I'd said about it feeling like it just came from the refrigerator) and he took the plates back to the kitchen.

Our waiter came back and said "it will take 20 minutes to cook more potatoes.

I said "put them in the microwave oven".

He said they could not and asked if we wanted mashed potatoes and brown gravy. We agreed to this.

No manager came around to apologise for the cold baked potatoes and in fact, we didn't see a manager at all!

I suppose the focus at Boot Hill Casino has been on the gambling and not the food. Well, I'm not much on gambling but do like a nice meal.

Last night was the third time we've eaten at the Boot Hill Casino and the first two time were excellent! We have heard people bitching about bad food at the BH Casino and we thought they had to be wrong.

It now appears the quality has moved downhill since the BHC restaurant opened and that has only been 11 days!

Events Have Consequences

We have not been to Appleby's since "our"waiter was so damned rude and GAF. We thought about going there may be a week ago but decided to have dinner at home. So. in a manner of speaking, that Appleby's waiter has helped us to save money! Thanks GAFman!

My wife knows one of the Boot Hill Casino Managers and sent him a strongly worded email today. Hopefully, this will help.

She made a point of telling this friend that our waiter last night was excellent and that we were quite pleased with the service that we got. I hope this young man doesn't get hurt in any blowback.

Update: 2 January 2010:

We went to Applebys last nigh, had excellent service, typically good food and heard "our" waiter from 3 weeks (or so) ago had actually been a cook sent out front.

My wife emailed an exec (friend of ours) of the Boot Hill Casino about the

• wait at the bar,
• piss poor service at the bar,
• long wait for dinner and
  
• refrigitator cold baked potatoe,
  

the last time we went there for dinner. We talked with folks at Applebys last night and one young man talked about being cut off at the Boot Hill Casino bar at 1:40 am. The normal cut off time, for Kansas bars, is 1:55 am. Perhaps he'd had too much to drink but he said the bartender had cleaned up the bar by 1:35 am and was clearly ready to leave early.

This was the wrong thing to do; a true professional would have stayed open and kept serving the drinks (and making money for the Boot Hill Casino bar).

28 December 2009

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: this was so unmemorable that I didn't remember the next evening...

Dinner: At the resteraunt at the Boot Hill Casino:

1. a veggie soup
2. salad
3. 14 oz Ribeye steak (a bit tough and overcooked)
4. a baked potatoe that felt cold enough that we thought it had been taken straight out of the refrigerator
5. mashed potatoes and brown gravy
6. two rolls
   
7. iced water
8. and a great choclate cake!

Pre-Bed Snack:gin and tonic

First of all, we had a great waiter at the Boot Hill Restuarant! He was a young fellow who did a fine job and earned his tip!

We ordered the 14oz Ribeye steak with baked potatoes and water. It took a long time for the meal to come. In fact, our waiter dropped by the table, appologized for the wait and went back to the kitchen to check on our meal.

A couple of minutes later, a runner brought the food out, our waiter gave us the plates and we were ready to go.

Kathie took a small bite out of her potatoe and said "this potatoe is cold".

I touched my potatoe and sure enough, it felt as cold as if it had just came out of the refrigerator. I was pissed off!

We called the waiter over, told him both potatoes were cold (I repeated what I'd said about it feeling like it just came from the refrigerator) and he took the plates back to the kitchen.

Our waiter came back and said "it will take 20 minutes to cook more potatoes.

I said "put them in the microwave oven".

He said they could not and asked if we wanted mashed potatoes and brown gravy. We agreed to this.

No manager came around to appologize for the cold baked potatoes and in fact, we didn't see a manager at all!

I suppose the focus at Boot Hill Casino has been on the gambling and not the food. Well, I'm not much on gambling but do like a nice meal.

Last night was the third time we've eatten at the Boot Hill Casino and the first two time were excellent! We have heard people bitching about bad food at the BH Casino and we thought they had to be wrong.

It now appears the quality has moved downhill since the BHC restaurant opened and that has only been 11 days!

The last time we went to the Dodge City Applebys, we had very poor service and haven't gone back since (this visit was around 10 December 2009).

Christmas Day 2009

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

Lunch: Christmas lunch of turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy,
rolls and water (we didn't remember to buy a pie...)

Dinner: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Grilled Chicken Marinara (Chicken
Tenderloins with Whole Grain Penne Pasta & Broccoli in a Zesty Marinara
Sauce) and water

I did have some brownies someone brought in...

Christmas Eve 2009

Breakfast: grits with two hard boiled eggs and coffee

Lunch: plain yogurt with strawberries and then later, two bierocks and a
bottle of Diet Pepsi. I also had a choclate cupcake...

Dinner: Boston Market Lasagna with Meat Sauce, a bag of Cheeze-Its, two
banannas and iced water

16 December 2009

Breakfast: two scrambled eggs, a couple of slices of beef sausage and
two cups of coffee (and I wonder why my stomach went south later this
morning?)

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown: chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes and
white gravy, corns, a roll with some butter and iced water

Dinner: canned chicken, a can of white hominity, a bag of Cheeze-Its and
water

Snack: Grandma's Homestyle Choclate Chip Cookies (2)

15 December 2009

Breakfast: peanut butter sandwich and coffee

Breakfast #2: Wendy's cheese and scrambled egg bisquit, potatoe disks
and coffee

Lunch: little bowl plain yogurt with strawberries

Lunch #2: two bierocks from Dillions (one was overcooked) and a bottle
of DP...

Dinner: Boston Market Meatload (with Homestyle Mashed Potatoes & Gravy)
and water

6 December 2009

Breakfast: grits with two chunked up hotdogs and butter plus a big cup
of coffee

Snack: Cheeze-Its and some more coffee

Re: 5 December 2009

Breakfast: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Cajun Style Chicken & Shrimp and
coffee

Snack: Cheeze-Its and coffee

Lunch: At Mike Casey's "Delmonico's" (formerly "Peppercorns") a
hamburger with fries and bowl of tomatoe soup and "Diet Pepsi"

What is the difference between Peppercorns and Delmonico's?

First, the menu is the same, however, the food seems to taste better!

The layout of tables is better and there is no smoking at all! This is
a significant improvement. There were a lot of folks who
proclaimed/forecast that restaurant attendance in Dodge City would go
down if the smokers could not puff on their precious f***ing coffin
nails. Well, Delmonico's was crowded and more people were coming in as
we were leaving. I guess the nicotine addicts were surviving a meal with
out a fix.

Dinner: two hot dogs and a can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup.

To quote Vir Koto (and don't well all?), "it tasted so good going down
and not so good coming back up". Well, something upset my stomach and
dinner came back up a couple of hours after I went to bed...

Not that this is anything new for me...

5 December 2009

Breakfast: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Cajun Style Chicken & Shrimp and
coffee

Snack: Cheeze-Its and coffee

4 December 2009

Breakfast: from Burger King, Big Omlette Sandwich, potatoe thingies
(over cooked and way too crispy) and coffee

Lunch: A Burger King "Angus" burger, fries and a medium "Diet Coke"

Dinner: boiled chicken, boiled rice and water (I ended up with a decent
sugar level - 146 - in spite of the rice!

29 November 2009

Breakfast: left over turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy and coffee

Lunch: 1.5 Rubans and water

Dinner: At Applebys, split the big appetizer plate with Kathie and had a
bowl of "French" onion soup

The dinner was selected to minimize the chances of me losing my dinner a
couple of hours after going to bed; it didn't work. To paraphrase Vir
Koto: "It tasted so good going down, not so good coming back up."

15 November 2009

Breakfast: At "Vernon's Place" (ok, "Golden Pancake House, the
intersection of Wyatt Earp Blvd and the Overpass in Dodge City): two
eggs over medium, hash browns, bacon, two slices whole wheat toast with
grape jelly and several cups of coffee.

Lunch: a balony sandwich, bowl of cream soup with chicken and potatoes
and a bottle of DP

Dinner: left over beef stew with a bag of Cheeze-It crackers and water

5 November 2009

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: some homemade corn bread, several bowls of different chilli (we
had a chlli contest at work...) and some ice creamme and a couple of
glasses of bottled Diet Pepsi

Snack: some ice creamme with a nice and bad-for-me choclate covering

Dinner: Boston Market Meatload with Homestyle Mashed Potatoes & Gravy
and ice water

Thanksgiving Day 2009

Breakfast: "Big Omlette" sandwich and potatoe "disks" and coffee from
Burger King

Lunch: turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, 2 rolls with grape
jelly and two glasses of White Zin

Desert: slice of pumpkin pie with no-sugar whipped creamme

Dinner: peanut butter and jelly on a single slice of sour dough bread
and water

25 November 2009

Breakfast: (late) Golden Pancake House (AKA "Vernon's Place") pork
chops, hash browns, 2 fried eggs over medium, whole wheat toast with
grape jelly and coffee

Lunch: plain yogurt with strawberries

Dinner: at Casey's Cowtown: cheese sticks, fried chicken (dry and I
should have had a steak), baked potatoe and water

Post-Dinner: a gin-n-tonic

24 November 2009

Breakfast: bowl of grits with two poached eggs and coffee

Lunch: at Pizza Hut, some pizza and salad and desert and 1.5 glasses of
"Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: minute steak and rice and iced water

23 November 2009

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: small bowl plain yogurt with strawberries

Dinner: Boston Market Meatload (With Homestyle Mashed Potatoes & Gravy)
and iced water

Snack: some little Orego cookies...

21 November 2009

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of scrambled eggs, Serri Lee coffee
cake, a bacon sandwich (shared with my dog, of course!) and coffee

Lunch: Two brats and a bottle of Diet Coke (both were mistakes...)

Snack: four Little Debbie powder sugar donuts and a cup of coffee
(later, I couldn't tell which made me feel more jittery and which upset
my stomach more: the sugar or the caffein. Regardless, I won't be having
that again soon...

Dinner: stewed pork chops, sour krat, rice and broccoli and I wish I had
some Pepto Bismol for desert!

20 November 2009

Breakfast: cherrios and coffee

Lunch: plain yogurt with strawberries and then a bowl of homemade (and
great!) ham and potatoe soup at a place called "The Safe" at 740 North
2nd in Dodge City. After that and thinking if I could have 2nd lunch at
a local small shop, I could get a big mocha latte at another local spot:
House of Jones (coffee shop)

I congraduated the cooks at "The Safe" and asked their schedule; I plan
on taking my wife there for lunch on Tuesday, 1 December as I think
she'll like the soups...

Dinner: steak, baked potatoe, broccoli and later, a single shot
gin-and-tonic (which I kept down amazingly enough given the fat in the
steak and the volume of the gin-n-tonic!)

19 November 2009

Breakfast: an egg salad sandwich and coffee

Brunch: another egg salad sandwich and still more coffee

Lunch: after donating blood, a sloppy joe, a can of no sugar added
"orange juice" and water

Dinner: a Subway sandwich (roast beef) and a bottle of MGD

15 November 2009

Breakfast: At "Vernon's Place" (ok, "Golden Pancake House, the
intersection of Wyatt Earp Blvd and the Overpass in Dodge City): two
eggs over medium, hash browns, bacon, two slices whole wheat toast with
grape jelly and several cups of coffee.

Lunch: a balony sandwich, bowl of cream soup with chicken and potatoes
and a bottle of DP

Dinner: left over beef stew with a bag of Cheeze-It crackers and water

12 November 2009

Breakfast: left over roast beef, gravy, a little bit of potatoes and
carrots and bread

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown: "French" dip sandwich, fries (my wife says
they are the best in town and I think she is right) and water

Snack: a bag of 4 "Little Debbie" powder sugar donuts and a bottle of
Diet Pepsi

Dinner: Marie Callender's Pasta Al Dente "Old World Rigatoni Bolognesse"
(Rigtoni in Slow-Simmered Tomato Sauce with Tender Beef, Vegetables, and
Parmesan Cheese) and ice water

Snack: popcorn and water

10 November 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and water

Snack: coffee

Lunch: the left over rice pilof and chicken (stewed yesterday), a bag of
Cheeze-Its and ice water

9 November 2009

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: hamburger, fries and a "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: At Applebys: their steak and chicken fahietas, onion soup and water

4 November 2009

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown (with the Lions): a steak sandwich (quite
good!), french fries and water

Dinner: store bought beef chunks stewed with gravy over rice and water

3 November 2009

Breakfast: grits, a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and coffee

Lunch: plain yogurt with strawberries and later, a corned beef on sour
dough sandwich and a biggish bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: Healthy Choice4 Cafe Steamers Grilled Basil Chicken (chicken
tenerloins with linguini & vegetables in fire-roasted tomato basil
sauce) and iced water

recipe I'm going to try on Thursday

HOMEMADE CORN BREAD from HOMEMADE CORN BREAD

(http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/838649-HOMEMADE-CORN-BREAD)

1 cup flour

1 cup corn meal

3 tsp baking powder

½ tsp soda

1 egg

1 cup buttermilk

pinch of salt

2 Tbsp oil

Option: Some use 1 cup sweet milk and 1¾ tsp cream of tartar

Bake at 425 degrees for 20-25 minutes

2 November 2009

Breakfast: large dish of grits and a peanut butter and grape jelly
sandwhich (with coffee)\

Lunch: plain yogurt with strawberries and later, a half peanut butter
and grape jelly sandwich with a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Cajun Style Chicken & Shrimp and
then a bag of popcorn and water

1 November 2009

Breakfast: McDonald's Big breakfast of sausage patty, scrambled eggs,
potatoe thingie and coffee

Breakfast #2: (from the "enhanced Contiental Breakfast") at the motel we
stayed in a McPerson: a hard boiled egg, sliced, and between two halves
of a slice of bread

Lunch: at Perkins in Great Bend: roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy
and corn. I had "Diet Coke" to drink.

Dinner: two hot dogs, a can of chicken noodle soup and potatoe chips
with cottage cheese

Snack: a single shot of gin-n-tonic and it stayed down...

October 2009 results

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29 October 2009

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Sausage (Eggs, Potatoes, Sausage &
Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Lunch: two peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches on sour dough bread,
some cheese crackers and iced water

28 October 2009

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: steak salad and a side of cottage cheese at Casey's Cowtown...

Dinner: at the Spearville restaruent with the Spearville Lions: chips
and sausa; small bowl of fine homemade potatoe soup; chicken fried steak
with mashed potatoes and white pepper gravy and water.

"It tasted fine going down, not so good coming back up" [to paraphrase
Vir Coto]

It was a little too much and a little too greasy a little to close to my
bedtime...

27 October 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch:

Dinner: fried snack foods at the Montezuma Library as we were
visiting the Montezuma Lions Club. Not too bad and didn't screw up my
blood sugar although my stomach let me know I'd had greasy food...

26 October 2009 revised

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: a bag of popcorn (I didn't feel like eating the TV dinner I
brought in) and ice water

Lunch 2: corned beef cooked in a small lidded saucepan with an egg on
top of the corned beef. (I was still burping this up about 6 hours later...)

Dinner: a TV dinner featuring slightly greasy fried chicken, overly
processed mashed potatoes and margarine I added, corn and a brownie; I
drank ice water. (This wasn't too bad for a I'm-too-lazy-to-cook-tonight
meal. Kathie had to work late and I had to "fend for myself"...)

26 October 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: a bag of popcorn (I didn't feel like eating the TV dinner I
brought in) and ice water

25 October 2009

Breakfast: grits with butter and hot dogs and coffee

Snack: a little bag of 6 Oreos and coffee

Lunch: large hamberger and potatoe chips with cottage cheese

Dinner: "Breakfast for Dinner": scrambled eggs, well done bacon, Serri
Lee coffee cake and water

24 October 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee with 3 little donuts (I was hungry)

Lunch: the left over half a roast beef sub sandwich from several days
ago and a small amount of coffee...

23 October 2009

Breakfast: McDonald's "Big Breakfast" of scrambled eggs (that looked
like they'd been cooked there...), potatoe thingie, bisquit with grape
jelly and coffee

Lunch: the stew left over from the other night, water and a cup of coffee

Dinner: tuna noodled casserol (tuna, noodles, canned creamme of mushroom
soup, potatoe chips) and water

My 2-hour-past-eating blood score was 128! This was a bit hard to
believe given how much noodles I'd eaten and the 240 I got last night
from eating mostly veggies. This blood sugar stuff makes no sense. As an
aside on the meal: "It tasted so good going down; not so good coming
back," to quote Vir Coto (and don't we all?) Maybe it was the 2 1/2
glasses of water I drank right before going to bed?

22 October 2009

Breakfast: from Burger King, their "Big Sausage Sandwiche", potatoe thingies and coffee.

I asked them for a "double bacon egg CROISSAN'WICH^® meal". The girl young woman who took the order asked the man who made it: "double bacon, yes"? He replied "double bacon!"

When I got home, my wife discovered it was the usual bacon and sausage; the problem with this is my wife does not like their sausage. She was pissed off and what could I say beside "they told me it was 'double bacon'!"

This has been a persistent problem for several years.

Burger King is now off our "go to breakfast" list...

They are still on our lunch list.

Lunch: tomatoe sauce over spaghetti noodles and water

Dinner: home cooked roast, with potatoes and carrots cooked in the juice. The meat was very tough and this was one very tough meal. So, Kathie has agreed to let me slow cook the next roast; at least it might be tender even if more well done than Kathie approves of...

21 October 2009

Breakfast: Cheerios and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown: roast beef, mashed potatoes with brown gravy, corn, a roll with butter and water

Dinner: at King's Buffet, a variety of chicken and beef dishes with rice and later, vanilla ice creamme covered with chocolate pudding.

My 2-hour-after-eatting blood sugar count was 240! sigh... I've have thought the amount of meat I ate should have lead to a much lower score (i.e. 140!)

19 October 2009

Breakfast: big bowl of cheerios and coffee

Lunch: two cheddar cheese, "egg" crosaunts and coffee

18 October 2009 (amended)

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: the rest of the corned beef in a sour dough sandwich and water
Desert: some mini-Oreos and water

Snack: three chocolate chip cookies at the Santa Fe Trail Association
meeting in Cimarron

Dinner: Chicken/Steak fahetias as Appleby's with their fancy ice creamme
desert

I didn't plan on ordering this desert since I am obsessed about my A1C
test in late November. But, the waitress said Appleby's is canceling
this desert and it is (was?) my wife's favorite. So, when she ordered
it, I didn't argue. The moral of the story is simple: Sometimes, a
husband must make the wrong choice for the right reasons rather than the
right choice for the right reasons. The reason is simple: by going
along with her choice, I got a fine desert and my wife was happy. If I
had taken a stand against the desert, I would have pissed my wife off
for years to come (and not helped lower my A1C at all!).

So, to reiterate:
Sometimes, a husband must make the wrong choice for the right reasons
rather than the right choice for the right reasons.

18 October 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: the rest of the corned beef in a sour dough sandwich and water
Desert: some mini-Oreos and water

17 October 2009

Breakfast: last of the wheaties, a couple of banannas and water

Lunch: a corned beef sandwich and water

Real Lunch: at the Garden City Airport Resteraunt, spgettie with a very
nice meat sauce and meatballs plus great rolls (and real butter!) and
two glasses of "Diet Pepsi". The lunch prices were nice (about $6.90 per
meal as I recall), the food excellent and it was worth driving from
Dodge City to Garden City in order to get a great lunch! (We also went
to Garden to shop a Sam's but that is a different story...)

Dinner: 3 eggs scrambled, grape jelly between two slices of sour dough toast, with water. For desert, cottage cheese with grape jelly.

16 October 2009

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Sausage & Gravy (Potatoes, Eggs,
Country Gravy, Sausage & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

Snack: A bananna and 2 apples

Lunch: Burger King double hamberger, fries and medium Diet Coke

15 October 2009

Breakfast: From Burger King, the SOS with extra potatoe thingies and coffee

Lunch: Plain yogurt with strawberries and later, a chicken breast and water

Dinner: an Arby's roast beef sandwich, some cheese sticks and water

Post Dinner: a gin-n-tonic

14 October 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: steak salad and water

Dinner: At Montana Mike's, a steak, baked potato, salad and two bottles of Coors

Pre-Bed Snack:

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: yogurt with strawberries and then a bierrock and a bottle of DP

Dinner: 1½ baloney sanwhichs, a little amount of sour krat and an apple

Pre-Bed Snack: a gin-n-tonic and some peanuts

Columbus Day 2009

Breakfast: hamberger and rice and coffee

Lunch: yogurt with strawberries and most of 4 chicken legs later (my dog
enjoyed what I didn't eat...)

Dinner: Boson Market Meatload with homestyle mashed potatoes and gravy
and water

11 October 2009

Breakfast: At "Vernon's Place": two eggs over medium, hash browns, well
done bacon, whole wheat toast with grape jelly and 3 cups of coffee

Lunch: Two hambergers and water

Dinner: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Cajun Style Chicken & Shrimp
(Chicken Tenderloin & Scrimp with Rice and Vegetables in Spicy
Cajun-Style Sauce) and water

Snack: 1.5 oz bag of Cheez-Its

10 October 2009

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Snack: a donut and coffee and then a bananna

Lunch: the last of the beef stew, a peanut butter sandwich and coffee

Dinner: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Chicken Margherita (Chicken
Tenerloins with Angel Hair Pasta & Roasted Garlic in Balsamic
Vinaigrette Sauce) and water

9 October 2009

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: half the left over beef stew and coffee

Snack: a small piece of Anniversary Cake

Dinner: "breakfast for dinner": scrambled eggs, Serri Lee coffee cake,
well cooked bacon (you could almost hear it crunch when my dog ate "his"
share of my bacon...) and water

Snack: a single shot of gin-n-tonic to wash down a slice of left over
Anniversary Cake

A puzzler: why was my 2 hour post dinner blood sugar so good (133)
given I had Serra Lee with dinner and that little piece of cake?

9 October 2009

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: half the left over beef stew and water

Dinner:

Pre-Bed Snack:

8 October 2009

Breakfast: two hard boiled egg sanwhichs

Lunch: At DCasey's Cowtown: roast beef, corn, a roll and water

Dinner: From the Dodge City Applebee's curbside service, a hamberger and fries and ice water

When Kathie got home from Applebee's, we fou8nd they had left out the french fries from my order and the chips from her order. So, she had to return and pick these up. That meant I had to microwave my hamberger...

the meal was fine but having to go back to their curbside service and retrieve half the meal was a pisser...

7 October 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown: steak and salad and water

Dinner: homemade beef stew, "baked fr4om a can" French bread and water

Pre-Bed Snack: a gin-n-tonic

I made the mistake of eating a greasy meal too late and had a gin-n-tonic as well. I ended up barfing and that wasn't any fun...

My beef stew recipe:

• ½ onion
• 2½ lbs tenderized stew meat
• ⅔ cup red whine wine
• 1 quart beef brooth
• about ⅔ pound sliced carrots
• several large potatoes

I sauteed the onion in olive oil in the pan, breaded the beef stew chunks and sauteed them as well. Then, I added the beef brooth and wine and brought it to a boil. After letting it cook for around 1½, I added the carrots and potatoes, brought them to a boil and let it all simmer for almost another hour.

It was quite nice, with the bread.

5 October 2009

Breakfast: Wheaties and banana and coffee

Lunch: plain yogurt with strawberries

Dinner: 1½ corned beef sandwhichs and water

At the movie: popcorn and Diet Pepsi

Pre-Bed Snack:gin n toinic

4 October 2009

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast: Serri Lee coffee cake, scrambled
eggs, 5 slices well done bacon and coffee

Lunch: 1.5 Rubins, potatoe chips and cottage cheese and water

Dinner: a slice of all meat pizza, a large corn beef samwhich and water

3 October 2009

Breakfast: cherios with a banana and coffee

Lunch: hamberger, home fries and "Diet Pepsi" at Casey's new place...

Dinner: Marie Callender's Fettuccini with Chicken & Broccoli (Chicken
Breast in Creamy Alfredo Sauce) and water

2 October 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: plain yogurt with strawberries and later, a corned beef samwhich
and a bottle of DP.

Dinner: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Chicken Red pepper Alfredo (chicken
tenderloins with Linguini & broccoli in roasted red pepper alfredo
sauce) and water

Desert: 6 little Oreo cookies

1 October 2009

Breakfast: milk toast with sour dough bread and coffee

Lunch: yogurt with strawberries and later, a bierrock and bottle of DP

Dinner: Boston Market Meatloaf, with mashed potatoes and brown gravy
and iced water

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30 September 2009

Breakfast: cherrios and coffee (the cherrios that spilled off my bowl
were appreciated by my dog...)

Lunch: a large hamburger and fries at Casey's Cowtown

Snack: some choclate ice creamme

Dinner: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Chicken Margherita (Chicken
Tenderloins with Angel Hair Pasta & Roasted Garlic in Balsamic
Vinaigrette Sauce) and iced water

22 September 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Snack: the rest of the left over choclate pudding; this really upset my
stomach...

Lunch: a small container of strawberry yogurt and later, a bierrock and
bottle of DP

Dinner: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Cajun Style Chicken & Scrimp
(Chicken Tenderloin & Scrimp with Rice and Vegetables in Spicy
Cajun-Style Sauce) and iced water

21 September 2009

Breakfast: left over roast beef, little bits of potatoe and lots of gravy

Lunch: low cal yogurt with strawberries and after lunch, 2 chicken legs
and a can of DP

Dinner: Boston Markey Meatload (with homestyle mashed potatoes & gravy
and iced water

This sounds like a nice recipe and I intend to made it.

14 September 2009

Breakfast: wheaties with two banannas and coffee

Lunch: the left over stewed beef on boiled rice and potatoe, plus more
coffee

Snack: Two Gransma's Homestyle Fudge Choclate Chip cookies and water

13 September 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: stewed beef on top of boiled rice and a small boiled potatoe

Snack: several cookies at a Lions Zone Meeting I held

Dinner: Hamberger (large) and potatoe chips with cottage cheese and a
Fosters' (not the oil can size)

12 September 2009 (actual)

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: a piece of left over pizza (only about a week old...)

Snacks: Dillions had freeby/sample stands and I ate too many sweet;
that meant my body was dumping sugar all afternoon (micturate ergo sum)

Dinner: steak, baked potatoe and aspargus
Snack: gin-n-tonic (Bombay gin, so expensive I won't be drinking it
very often...)

13 September 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: a piece of left over pizza (only about a week old...)

Snacks: Dillions had freeby/sample stands and I ate too many sweet;
that meant my body was dumping sugar all afternoon (micturate ergo sum)

Dinner: steak, baked potatoe and aspargus

Snack: gin-n-tonic (Bombay gin, so expensive I won't be drinking it
very often...)

Rich Choclate Pudding recipe

Here is a recipe I plan on trying:

Rich Chocolate Pudding

http://recipies.prevention.com/Recipe/rich-choclate-pudding.aspx

* 1/3 C packed brown sugar
* 1/4 C unsweetened cocoa powder
* 3 tbsp cornstarch
* 1 tsp instant espresso powder (optional)
* 1/8 tsp ground cinnamon
* pinch of salt
* 2 C 1% milk, divided
* 1 lg egg
* 2 oz bittersweet chocolate bits (about 1/3 c)
* 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

1. Whisk sugar, cocoa, cornstarch, espresso powder (if using), cinnamon, salt, and 1/2 cup of the milk in medium saucepan.

2. Pour remaining milk into sugar mixture while whisking. Bring to a simmer over medium-low heat. Simmer, whisking constantly, until slightly thickened, about 2 to 3 minutes.

3. Beat egg lightly in small bowl. Pour in 1 cup of the hot milk mixture while whisking. Pour egg mixture back into pan. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring, 2 minutes.

4. Remove pan from heat. Add chocolate. Whisk until mixture is smooth. Stir in vanilla extract.

5. Pour mixture into 4 serving dishes. Chill 2 hours or overnight, covered.

10 September 2009 or DDC Lions Picnic

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with left over steak (my dog liked both!) and coffee

Lunch: plain yogurt with strawberries and later, two chicken legs from Dillions

Dinner: the Lions had a dinner at Lions' Park and we had

1. KFC fried chicken (origional)
2. two types of scalloped potatoes (the cheezy was best),
3. I made Zatarain's (A New Orleans Tradition Since 1889) New Orleans Style Dirty Rice Mix,
4. a couple of pieces of great choclate cake and
5. two little bottles of cold water

Pre-Bed Snack: a gin-n-tonic

8 September 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Snack: about half a corned beef sandwich

Lunch: yogurt with strawberries

Post Lunch snack: a deep fat fried chicken breast and chicken leg from
Dillions. The leg was better than the breast and I should have gone
with maybe 3 legs...
I had a bottle of Diet Pepsi with this.

Dinner: A Burger King double hamburger, fries and water.

Post Dinner Snack: a single shot gin-n-tonic. About an hour after going
to bed, a mouthfull of Malox {sic} for the GERP. From what my wife said
this morning, she would have benefited from a "man sized dose" of Pepto
Bismol (said "man sized dose" is about twice the recommended dose.
After all, "the best dose is an overdose"...)

6 September 2009 (final version)

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Snack: most of a corned beef on sour dough bread sandwich and coffee

Lunch: a couple of brats, soaked in and then boiled in, really cheap
cooking beer (if Dillions analyzes my buying habits, they'll think I
only drink beer about once a year and cheap bad beer that that!) with
peppers.

Snack: at the "Sam's Club" in Garden City, Kansas, where we grazed on
the freebie's...

Dinner: About a half of three quarters of a medium "Sam's Club" all meat
pizza and a bottle of MDG. Big mistake, eating "Italian" and drinking a
beer to close to me bedtime; I kept waking up with GERP most of the
night...

[Fwd: [Fwd: Fwd: 2008 Womans Driver Awards]]

6 September 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Snack: most of a corned beef on sour dough bread sandwich and coffee

5 September 2009 (updated)

Breakfast: a sausage, "egg" and cheese breakfast bisquit and part of a
chunk of home made "French Bread" (taken from a can) and coffee

Lunch: the rest of yesterday's stew, coffee and a "Grandmas Homestyle
Fudge Choclate Chip" cookie and coffee (I would be better off if I
didn't get the munchies...)

Dinner: steak, baked potatoe with cottage cheese, broccoli and water

Snack: a gin-n-tonic

Big problems ensued in that I ate dinner too late and the gin upset my
stomach. (I'm writing this the next day.) I had trouble getting to sleep...

5 September 2009

Breakfast: a sausage, "egg" and cheese breakfast bisquit and part of a
chunk of home made "French Bread" (taken from a can) and coffee

Lunch: the rest of yesterday's stew, coffee and a "Grandmas Homestyle
Fudge Choclate Chip" cookie and coffee (I would be better off if I
didn't get the munchies...)

4 September 2009

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: stewed pork chops, chicken, potatoes, corn and sour krat, with
water and coffee

Snack: a Diet Root Beer float at A&W

Dinner: a three piece (2 breast, 1 wing) roasted chicken meal at KFC
with mashed potatoes and brown gravy and corn on the cob

2 September 2009

Breakfast:  two boiled eggs in a sandwich and coffee

 

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown, a steak and onion salad

 

Dinner:  At Casey's Cowtown, salad wityh 1000 Island dressing, steak, baked potatoes, roll and creamme boulee

 

Snack:  gin-n-tonic before bed

1 September 2009

Breakfast: most of a bowl of wheaties (with a bandanna). What I didn't
finish, my dog took care of! ;-)

Lunch: plain yogurt with strawberries and water

Snack: They had a luncheon at work so they had left over cooked
hamburgers. I ate a patty with mustard on it. (The gas I got made me
regret this...)

Dinner: Boiled chunks of pork chop, boiled potatoes and some boiled
sour kraut (I'll take this home with me, drain the juices and add the
rest of the bottle of "Frank's Sour Kraft" and that should taste good!)

Snack: some sausa on chips...

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