9 October 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Snack: bag of popcorn and more coffee

Lunch: leftover Zatarans from last night's dinner and the rest of my
morning coffee...

Dinner: Kathie made steak, baked potatoes and asparagus. I ate all the
asparagus and had leftover steak and potatoe (good for part of a lunch
later this week) and a bottle of MGD.

8 October 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: left over steak and potatoe from the other night and a piece of
left over chicken from around Moanday. (This spelling taken from a
Harlan Ellison short story collection.)

Snack: a Dairy Queen banana split; Kathie had the munchies and I didn't
argue...:-)

Dinner: Zataran "Dirty Rice" and broccoli crowns (one of my favourite
meals) and an MGD.

7 October 2011

_____Breakfast: Burger King SOS on bisquits, potatoe thinges and coffee
________Lunch:  at King's Buffet for rice, various chicken and beef dishs and desert (and Diet Pepsi)
_______Dinner: 
Pre-Bed Snack:

32nd Anniversary

_____Breakfast: milk toast and coffee
________Lunch:  at the new Italian place,

• bread dipped in olive oil
• spaghetti with meat sauce and meatballs
• 2 glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

_______Dinner:  from Miraha Hills Restaurant, where I had:

• 10oz Fillet Miyon with "Ham's special seasoning" (very nice)
• baked potatoe with butter, cheese and bacon
• iced water

The service was good and the food very, very good. It was quite expensive but worth every penny we spent. We also had the strange feeling of seeing a couple of the richer folks in town come in after us. The first was an MD was is also head of the rodeo; the second was our dentist (they came in with their wives).

As I said, the food was very, very good and the service good but we simply can't afford to go there often. Sure, we arranged to get a table with a great view of the golf course; normally, any view we get is of a busy street. I suspect the next time we go here will be my wife's birthday next July...

2 October 2011

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: peanut butter sandwich, chips and a Pepsi One

Dinner: steak, baked potato, broccoli and a bottle of beer (MGD)

1 Octobre 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: can of corned beef hash with two eggs cooked on top of them and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: Healthy Choice fish meal with rice and broccoli and apple desert and a bottle of MGD

29 September 2011

Breakfast: from McDonald, their big breakfast of

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

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

Dinner: a Healthy Choice Meatloaf dinner and cold watger

28 September 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

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

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

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

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

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

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

28 September 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

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

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

Snack: at home: gin-n-tonic

25 September 2011

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

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

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

Lunch: We went to Montana Mikes and I had:

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

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

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

25 September 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23 September 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

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

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

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

22 September 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

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

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

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

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

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

20 September 2011

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

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

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

19 September 2011

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

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

18 September 2011

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

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

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

17 September 2011

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

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

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

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

15 September 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

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

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

14 September 2011

Breakfast: milk toast and coffee

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

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

13 September 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

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

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meatloaf meal and water

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

11 September 2011

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

10 September 2011

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

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

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

Pre-Bed Snack: gin-n-tonic

9 September 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

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

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

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

8 September 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

7 September 2011

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

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

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

6 September 2011

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

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

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

Snack: slice of chocolate cake

Dinner: one of my boiled messes consisting of:

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

Labour Day

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

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

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

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

30 August 2011

Breakfast: wheaties with a banana and coffee

Snack: banana and yet more coffee...

Lunch: the last of the left over beef stew and a can of PEPSI ONE.

Dinner: We went to Montana Mikes and I had

• salad with French Dressing (our waitress brought the wrong dressing and had the integrity to admit her error and bring out a second salad with the correct dressing; I took this second salad home with me)
• 22 oz steak (ate half and will finish this off with breakfast tomorrow)
• large baked potatoe (ate about ¾ of this and will take the rest to breakfast tomorrow)
• a couple of glasses of iced water

We wanted desert but they didn't have the brownies needed for the "Rocky Mountain" desert (brownie, vin ice creamme, whipped creamme and fudge syrup) or the slice of chocolate cake. The chocolate cake could have been made elsewhere and shipped in with their weekly resupply yesterday. For that matter, the brownies could have been shipped in frozen. They like to bake the brownies at the Montana Mikes and that would explain the times the brownies were burned or overcooked.

We had a new waitress; she said it was her second shift. The young lady came here from a places in Hays, where she had been well trained. She did all the things the hospitality class Kathie took said a waitress/waiter should do. She came to our table within a minute of our being seated. (This was not the sometimes up to 10 minute waits to receive menus that we've gotten used to.) She came around to check our water, ask if Kathie wanted another drink, to see how our meals were.

The big item was she asked us if we wanted desert or wanted to get the check. This is what hospitality 101 preaches; we've been to places in town so many times where they do not ask "do you want desert". The waiter/waitress either drops off the bill, almost in passing, or tells us they will be our cashier and hands us the bill. It is as if they don't want to sell us desert. Sometimes, I ask for the desert menu, just to be ornery (I don't usually order) or we just leave in a grumpy-at-the-waiter mood. Then I note this down in my daily food notes.

Our waitress apologized for the lack of desert. We told her it was not her fault.

This waitress was the 2nd best we've had in town. The first best is Karla at Casey's Cowtown. There are so many poorly trained waiters/waitress in town that need to be brought up to speed (or to get other jobs). It makes going to restaurants in other towns every better experiences.

29 August 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Snack: I had symptoms of hypoglycemia so I ate 6 little Oreo cookies
(and felt crappy in other ways!) and more coffee

Lunch: some cold left over stew (the office microwave crapped out...)

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf with mashed potatoes, brown gravy, corn
and apple crisp.

Snack: after checking my blood sugar (2 hours past when I started
dinner) and had a couple of slices of corned beef on a slice of sour
dough bread (I didn't eat it all; my dog insisted on his share...:-) )

28 August 2011

Breakfast: cheerios, a banana and coffee

Snack: a banana

Lunch: boiled chicken and boiled potatoes and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Snack: We went to Garden City Kansas and went to Target. I bought a small chocolate mocha latte and two chocolate covered graham crackers. I liked my cracker but Kathie wasn't happy with the one I gave her...

Dinner: we had seasoned beef, re-fried beans, chopped up tomatoes from our garden, cheese and salsa on tortilla shells and water. After dinner, we drank a couple of glasses each of a decent champagne*. This is something we do maybe once a year and generally only on our anniversary...

*Technically, a "sparkling wine" as this stuff never got within a thousand miles of the Champagne Providence of France... ;-)

27 August 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Snack: some of the left over spaghetti and coffee

Lunch: a couple of hot dogs and cold water

Dinner: omelet with Tillamook extra sharp cheddar cheese and some left
over steak and a glass of cold water

25 August 2011

_____Breakfast: McDonald's Big Breakfast of

• scrambled eggs
• potatoe slab
• sausage disk
• bisquit with grape jelly
• coffee

________Lunch: Long John Silver for chicken, fish, fries and "Diet Pepsi"

_______Dinner: home made beef stew made with

• stewing beef
• potatoes
• carrots
• an onion
• garlic powder
• "Italian" seasoning
• pepper

Pre-Bed Snack: a gin-n-tonic

24 August 2011

Breakfast: left over spaghetti and a 20oz bottle of Diet Pepsi

Snack: a couple of pieces of chocolate cake I baked last night

Lunch: at Casey's Cow. town, two bar-b-que ribs, corn, cottage cheese and iced water

Snack: a mocha latte that didn't seem to have any chocolate in it and a "biscotte" (that really sucked!)

Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill casino restaurant for dinner. The food was fine, the service sucked! At first, "our" waiter was being accompanied by a trainer waitress (who looked terminally bored). The waiter was slow, didn't come by our often and had to be reminded to bring our drinks. He brought out the rolls after we got salads from the salad bar. He brought out the meals before he brought out the water and Kathie's red wine.

When I was getting a salad, I saw another customer getting soup. I said "what is that"? Instead of answering, he pointed to a label that gave some name. I could not read it since it was around a corner of a pipe. He didn't need to be an asshole about the way he "answered" my question. He finally muttered what it was and commented the chilli looked too hot. Probably was...

We went on a Wednesday because that was prime rib night. I had:

• salad (aforementioned)
• prime rib, medium
  
• baked potatoe with butter and sour creamme
• split a piece of chocolate cake with Kathie
• and iced water ("our" waiter eventually got around to doing that fill the water glass thing...)
  

22 August 2011

Breakfast: leftover SOS on pan fried hash browns and a can of "Pepsi One".

Snack: some brownies that a co-worker brought in to get out of his house I am so going to make a birthday cake tomorrow and bring it in for him and the "birthday boy"...

Lunch: bowl of cheerios and water

21 August 2011

Breakfast: some homemade SOS on hash browns cooked in the microwave and coffee

Lunch: a can of Healthy Choice chicken and rice soup and yet more coffee

20 August 2011

Breakfast: mixed cherios and spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Lunch: peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and can of beef stew and can of "Pepsi One"

Dinner: at Applebys, split an order of cheese sticks with Kathie and had fahietas with steak and chicken, cheese and sour creamme and water

Snack: split the rest of my birthday cake with Kathie...

Fwd: 19 August 2011

Breakfast: mixed cheerios and spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Lunch: peanut butter sandwich, CHEEZE-ITs and a "Pepsi One"

Dinner: Healthy Choice roast beef with potatoes and brown gravy and apple crisp

Snack: some cottage cheese with grape jelly...

19 August 2011

Breakfast: mixed cheerios and spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Lunch: peanut butter sandwich, CHEEZE-ITs and a "Pepsi One"

10 August 2011

Breakfast: homemade SOS on sour dough bread and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown, an excellent cold cuts sandwich with bacon, tomatoe, 2 types of cheese, turkey, bacon and mayo and a big scoop of potatoe salad and iced water

Dinner: Healthy Choice roast beef meal with roast beef, mashed potatoes and brown gravy, carrots and a bottle of cool water

Pre-bed snack: a couple of tablespoons of peanut butter and some grape jelly

8 August 2011

_____Breakfast: oakmeal and coffee
________Lunch:  KFC for chicken, mashed ;potatoes and brown gravy, desert and "Diet Pepsi"
_______Dinner:  Healthy Choice meatloaf meal
Pre-Bed Snack: 2 gin-n-tonic

7 August 2011

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:

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

It was fine and enough food for me; my dog didn't think I gave him enough of my breakfast though...

Lunch: a beef pot pie and some Diet Pepsi in the bottle

Snack: I harvested a tomatoe from our garden. Part of the bottom had not formed properly as it had apparently been resting on the ground. I wiped the mud onto my trousers (they were dirty anyway :-[  ), cut the bottom off the tomatoe and rinsed it off very well. We both thought it was quite good!

There is something about tomatoes fresh from the garden that make them so much better tasting than those gotten in a store. I'm willing to eat the garden fresh tomatoes but not those that spent time in transit and then time in the store...

Dinner: roast pork (from Dillions) over mashed potatoes (also from Dillions) and a banana...

I ate this quite late since we were working severe.

6 August 2011

Breakfast: at Burger King for

• two little scrambled egg, potatoe disk and cheese wraps
• potatoe disks
• coffee

I went to the Community Gardens(Junior College) whee I watered my plants. I was feeling wea and simply tired. After getting home, I checked my blood sugar and it was 105!  As this a shockingly low figure. It meant that I was ni, what is for me, hypoglycemia!  So, I ate some snack chips and that helped a bit. Technically, they were not what I needed to take for hypoglycemia but they were what I had.

I bought some dark choclatge latger and a square (about 1" by 1") fixed nme right up. (This jacked my blood sugar and reveals Hershe's extra dark chocolae to be a threat!

Lunch: at "Bad Habits", where we had

• cheese sticks (which arrived less than a minute before our meals)
• hamburger
• home made french fries
• "Diet Pepsi"

The food was fine but the service was absolutely horrible! 

• We waited about 8 minutes before calling over to the bar our drinks. (We were seatged about 12 feet from the bar.) tghe bar tender bruoght them over.
• When we finally got a waitress, we told her what we wanted and that we watned cheese sticks as an appitizer. We got the cheese sticks lerss than a minute before the main couorse came out.
• We werre bot almost done with our merals and had not seen "our' wsaitress. Our drinks were empty when I flagged anotgher passing waitress and she brought replacement drinks. I didn't hold it against her that she brought me an iced tea with too much ice instead of the "Diet Pepsi, no ice" tghat I had ordered. She brought me a "Diet Pepsi, with ice" and I simply drank it.
• My wife gave "our" waitress a tip too large. She had notg earned it.(I wsuppose it was busy in ghere but other folks were getting service. What didn't we?)

Dinner: one of my favourite throw together meals: precooked beef over pre-made mashed potatoes  (This was a Kroger "braised beef pot roast and gravy with red skinned mashed potatoes, carrots [? there were?] and onions". For desert, the left over popcorn from last night...

5 August 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: a half Quisnos sandwich and bowl of chicken noddle soup with a
bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: Healthy Choice Cafe Steanmers Beef Teriyaki (Beef with Whle
Grain Brown Rice, Carrots, broccoli & Water Chestnuts in a Sweet
Teriyaki Sauce) and iced water

4 August 2011

Breakfast: left over SOS on 2 slices sour dough bread and coffee

____Lunch: at a Mexican place (El Zarape {sp}) for a mixture of stuff and rice on refried beans, desert and Diet Pepsi

___Dinner: some Zatarain's New Orleans Style Dirty Rice with Beef & Pork Zesty, Seasoned Rice with Ground Beef and Pork, Bell Peppers and Spices

3 August 2011

Breakfast: homemade SOS on chopped up sour dough bread (2 slices) and coffee

My homemade SOS recipe was stolen from an Army recipe that I read in the past couple of weeks. The computer this recipe was on croaked so I remembered it as:

• 1 pound of well browned hamburger
• a heaping tablespoon of flour (to which I added ground black pepper)
• 2½ cups of milk with
• 1 tablespoon of Worcester Sauce (I didn't have this so I used a squirt of Kik-O-Man...)

I mixed the flour mix with the hamburger, stirred in the the milk mixture and heated it till the gravy thickened. I had left over so I think I'll have it over fresh boiled potatoes or maybe grits tomorrow.

Lunch: at Mike Casey's, a bar-b-que sandwich and large scoop of potatoe salad and water. This was the first day of having the same meal provided to all the Lions; it seemed to work well and the price was fine...

Dinner: Marie Callender's Meat Lasagna (with Ricotta & MOzzarella Cheeses in Hearty Marinara Sauce) with cold water

I felt sick to my stomach several minutes after finishing this but I suspect I have been a bit under the weather lately. Tomorrow night, I think I'll go with a sandwich, veggies (carrots) and a piece of fruit.

July 2011 (final results)

                                     July 2011
==========================================================
  1 Mon   147   ---  The blood meter stopped working.   
  2 Tue   ---   ---   
  3 Wed   ---   ---  149 I replaced the meter battery and got this 'test score'.   
  4 Thu   147   187   
  5 Fri   ---   ---   
  6 Sat   113   160   
  7 Sun   ---   ---   
  8 Mon   121   123   
  9 Tue   ---   ---   
 10 Wed   ---   ---   
 11 Thu   129   149  With a different meter, 110 at 3:40 pm   
 12 Fri   ---   ---   
 13 Sat   128   168   
 14 Sun   ---   ---   
 15 Mon   ---   ---   
 16 Tue   ---   ---   
 17 Wed   ---   ---   
 18 Thu   131   149   
 19 Fri   ---   ---   
 20 Sat   111   160   
 21 Sun   ---   ---   
 22 Mon   146   140   
 23 Tue   ---   ---   
 24 Wed   ---   ---   
 25 Thu   117   156   
 26 Fri   ---   ---   
 27 Sat   128   118 Pre-dinner test of 113 
 28 Sun   ---   ---   
 29 Mon   121   127   
 30 Tue   ---   ---   
 31 Wed   ---   ---  

At the advise of my diabetes educator, I did multiple tests on the 22nd, 25th and 27th. The test results for the 22nd were:
    am 146
4 pm  324       I seriously question the validity of this reading as it was the old meter with (possibly) old test stripes
   pm  140

Then, multiple tests on the 22nd

  802 am  117
1050 am  158
 203 pm  136
 404 pm  123  
 513 pm   96
 940 pm  156

In an episode of "Babylon 5", one character said "I'm Russian; we always question good news and never question bad news." [or words to that effect]  Thus, I question the 96 but don't question the 158 or 156...


Finally, the extra test on the 27th:

            am 128
pre-dinner 113
            pm 118

28 July 2011

Breakfast: two poached eggs on sour dough toast and coffee

Lunch: a single piece of pepporoni pizza, two slender slices of apple
pie pizza, a salad and red sauce on 4 little bread sticks at Pizza Hut.

They kept putting out meat pizza contaminated with various veggies that
I would never eat anyway let alone eat on pizza! The one redeeming
feature of this meal was the service was quite good...

Dinner: Marie Callender's Country Fried Pork Chop with Cheddar Topped
Mashed Potatoes and Gravy with Cinnamon Glazed Apples and iced water

July 2011 results

      July 2011
===============================================================================
  1 Mon   147   ---  The blood meter stopped working.   
  2 Tue   ---   ---   
  3 Wed   ---   ---  149 I replaced the meter battery and got this 'test score'.   
  4 Thu   147   187   
  5 Fri   ---   ---   
  6 Sat   113   160   
  7 Sun   ---   ---   
  8 Mon   121   123   
  9 Tue   ---   ---   
 10 Wed   ---   ---   
 11 Thu   129   149  With a different meter, 110 at 3:40 pm   
 12 Fri   ---   ---   
 13 Sat   128   168   
 14 Sun   ---   ---   
 15 Mon   ---   ---   
 16 Tue   ---   ---   
 17 Wed   ---   ---   
 18 Thu   131   149   
 19 Fri   ---   ---   
 20 Sat   111   160   
 21 Sun   ---   ---   
 22 Mon   146   140   
 23 Tue   ---   ---   
 24 Wed   ---   ---   
 25 Thu   117   156   
 26 Fri   ---   ---   
 27 Sat   128   118   
 28 Sun   ---   ---   
 29 Mon   ---   ---   
 30 Tue   ---   ---   
 31 Wed   ---   ---   

27 July 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown: chicken filets, french fries, corn (but no
roll?) and iced water

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf meal and cold water

26 July 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

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

Dinner: the left over creamme of broccoli soup with chopped (pre-cooked)
potatoe and sausage added with some chips in this soup and iced water

25 July 2011

Breakfast: spoon size shredded wheat and coffee

Lunch: an Arby's chicken sandwich, curly fries and a medium Diet Coke

Dinner: homemade creamme of broccoli soup (broccoli, carrots, potatoe, onion in a chicken broth), a bierock and iced water

24 July 2011

Breakfast: two hot dogs on sour dough bread with coffee

Lunch: at Olive Garden (in Wichita Kansas),

• salad
  
• spaghetti with meatballs and extra meat sauce
• bread sticks
• "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: at the Hu-Hot "Mongolian" Restaurant in Wichita, Kansas where I had some pork, ham, beef, mixed veggies all fried and ate with white rice.

The rice had been sitting too long and was hard. The waitress did bring me extra glasses of diet coke without me having to ask for them. This was not the best Mongolian I've been to (that would be the "Top of the Mar" officer's club on Guam in the early 1980s) and not up to the standards of the second best Mongolian I've had, in Eugene Oregon (yet another reason to take Amtrak out to visit family in Oregon). Still, it was the first "Mongolian" we've had in a while and was worth the eating for that reason alone...

23 July 2011

_____Breakfast: buffet breakfast with scrambled eggs, SOS on hash browns and a bisquit with honey and coffee
________Lunch:  homemade French onion soup and a scrimp salad with lettuce from our garden and most of a bottle of Diet Pepsi
_______Dinner:  we had the Chuckwagon Dinner at Boot Hill Museum and this was

• bar-b-que beef
• hash browns
• creamme of corn
• bisqit with honey and a second
• apple crisp
• water

22 July 2011

_____Breakfast: wheaties and coffee
________Lunch:  at a local "Mexican" place
_______Dinner:  Healthy choice

20 July 2011

Breakfast: homemade omelet with cheese and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown: chicken "fingers", french fries, cottage
cheese and water

Snack: it was hot out so I had about a half cup of chocolate ice creamme

Dinner: one and a half of two hamburgers, potatoe salad and an MGD

July 2011

          July 2011
===============================================================================
  1 Mon   147   ---  The blood meter stopped working.   
  2 Tue   ---   ---   
  3 Wed   ---   ---  149 I replaced the meter battery and got this 'test score'.   
  4 Thu   147   187   
  5 Fri   ---   ---   
  6 Sat   113   160   
  7 Sun   ---   ---   
  8 Mon   121   123   
  9 Tue   ---   ---   
 10 Wed   ---   ---   
 11 Thu   129   149  With a different meter, 110 at 3:40 pm   
 12 Fri   ---   ---   
 13 Sat   128   168  I went back to the first meter to run out the test stripes.
 14 Sun   ---   ---   
 15 Mon   ---   ---   
 16 Tue   ---   ---   
 17 Wed   ---   ---   
 18 Thu   131   149   
 19 Fri   ---   ---   
 20 Sat   111   ---   
 21 Sun   ---   ---   
 22 Mon   ---   ---   
 23 Tue   ---   ---   
 24 Wed   ---   ---   
 25 Thu   ---   ---   
 26 Fri   ---   ---   
 27 Sat   ---   ---   
 28 Sun   ---   ---   
 29 Mon   ---   ---   
 30 Tue   ---   ---   
 31 Wed   ---   ---   

19 July 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and 1.5 oz bag of
Cheeze-It and can of "Pepsi One"

Dinner: a big chunk of lettuce from out garden with scrimp and Thousand
Island Dressing and bottled water. I had a chunk of sour dough bread
with extra shart Tillamook cheddar cheese microwave melted on it when I
got home.

18 July 2011

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: bowl of Healthy Choice chicken rice soup and a burieto and water

Snack: an ice creamme bar (it was hot and this tasted good!)

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf meal and water

17 July 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and cherios (mixed) and coffee

Lunch: first, the left over boiled broccoli, rice, onion and chicken. Then, I went to the Santa Fe Trail Association meeting and had

• several pieces of Dillion's fried chicken
• a small piece of corn bread with corn
• a small brownie and a piece of apple pie
• water

Dinner: two hot dogs and a salad, made with lettuce from our garden, and scrimp. It was fine but the lettuce didn't have that "professional" taste because it was a different "breed" of lettuce and water.

Kathie's Birthday (15 July)

Breakfast: From McDonalds, their Number 8

• 2 breakfast burritos
• potatoe slab
• coffee

Lunch: We went to King's Buffet where I had a variety of beef and chicken dishes, rice, ice creamme with chocolate pudding and a couple of "Diet Pepsis, no ice"...

Dinner: We went to Maria Hill Restaurant for Kathie's Birthday and I had

• salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• excellent steak (fillet) with "Ham's Special Seasoning" (which was simply outstanding!)
• baked potatoe
• "Texas Toast" with honey
• iced water (I was the designated driver... :-[  )

This place has the best service in town and outstanding food! The only drawback is that it is spendy...

16 July 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: some stewed broccoli, an onion from a friend's garden, chicken and rice
I had a sudden nose bleed between breakfast and lunch. It was rather hard eating lunch with Kleenex shoved up both nostrils. I am writing this on the 17^th and have gone back to putting Vasaline in my nostrils in the evening and in the morning. I hope the blood vessels will heal and I can go back to not having nose bleeds. I'll have to add this to my "must discuss" list for when I have my annual physical in early August...

Dinner: one and a half Rubens and a gin-n-n tonic for desert later

13 July 2011

_____Breakfast: one and a half peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches and cup of coffee
________Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown, a bar-b-que sandwich, fries and iced water
__ _____Dinner: Kathie's Mexican: a large flour shell with

• refried beans
• cheese
• seasoned hamburger
• sour creamme and
• lettuce

I had two of these, an ear of corn and an MGD

Pre-Bed Snack: a small gin-n-tonic

11 July 2011

Breakfast: cherios, a half slice of peanut butter and grape jelly on
sour dough bread and coffee

Lunch: egg salad sandwich on sour dough bread and a "Pepsi One" (it
didn't taste too hideous this morning)

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf meal and room temperature water...

July 2011 (to date)

             July 2011

=================================================================================
         AM    PM
  1 Mon   147   ---  The blood meter stopped working.   
  2 Tue   ---   ---   
  3 Wed   ---   ---  149 I replaced the meter battery and got this 'test score'.   
  4 Thu   147   187   
  5 Fri   ---   ---   
  6 Sat   113   160   
  7 Sun   ---   ---   
  8 Mon   121   123   
  9 Tue   ---   ---   
 10 Wed   ---   ---   
 11 Thu   129   ---   
 12 Fri   ---   ---   
 13 Sat   ---   ---   
 14 Sun   ---   ---   
 15 Mon   ---   ---   
 16 Tue   ---   ---   
 17 Wed   ---   ---   
 18 Thu   ---   ---   
 19 Fri   ---   ---   
 20 Sat   ---   ---   
 21 Sun   ---   ---   
 22 Mon   ---   ---   
 23 Tue   ---   ---   
 24 Wed   ---   ---   
 25 Thu   ---   ---   
 26 Fri   ---   ---   
 27 Sat   ---   ---   
 28 Sun   ---   ---   
 29 Mon   ---   ---   
 30 Tue   ---   ---   
 
High readings; low readings (both by my standards... :-)  )

10 July 2011

Breakfast: homemade egg, steak, sharp cheddar cheese omlette (using an omlette "form") and coffee

Lunch: 1 and a half peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches and a can of "Pepsi Zero" (which tastes wretched...)

Dinner: at "Bad Habits", I had

• "potatoe boats" with cheese, chopped up bacon, peppers
• salad with lots of croutons and thousand island dressing
• 12 oz rib eye steak
• a baked potatoe
• "Texas toast" with honey and
• ice water

The food was excellent, the service rather poor. We had to keep flagging down the waitress for extra water, to bring the bill, to collect our payment, to initially take our orders...

I had a gin-n-tonic after we got home; it had been a long day...

8 July 2011

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: four left over tacos and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf meal and water. Later, a peanut butter
and grape jelly sandwich on a slice of sour dough bread and a piece of
dark chocolate.

July 2011

             July 2011
================================================================================
  1 Mon   147   ---  The blood meter stopped working.  
  2 Tue   ---   ---  
  3 Wed   ---   ---  149 I replaced the meter battery and got this 'test score'.  
  4 Thu   147   187  
  5 Fri   ---   ---  
  6 Sat   113   160  
  7 Sun   ---   ---  
  8 Mon   121   ---  
  9 Tue   ---   ---  
 10 Wed   ---   ---  
 11 Thu   ---   ---  
 12 Fri   ---   ---  
 13 Sat   ---   ---  
 14 Sun   ---   ---  
 15 Mon   ---   ---  
 16 Tue   ---   ---  
 17 Wed   ---   ---  
 18 Thu   ---   ---  
 19 Fri   ---   ---  
 20 Sat   ---   ---  
 21 Sun   ---   ---  
 22 Mon   ---   ---  
 23 Tue   ---   ---  
 24 Wed   ---   ---  
 25 Thu   ---   ---  
 26 Fri   ---   ---  
 27 Sat   ---   ---  
 28 Sun   ---   ---  
 29 Mon   ---   ---  
 30 Tue   ---   ---  
 31 Wed   ---   ---  

7 July 2011

Breakfast: McDonald' Big Breakfast of

• scrambled eggs,
• sausage patty
• biscuit and butter
• coffee

They forgot to put the potatoe slab in...

Lunch: A Healthy Choice roast beef meal and water

Dinner: a peanut butter sandwich and bowl of Healthy Choice chicken and rice soup and cold water

We had originally planned on going out to dinner - I had planned on ribeye steak and potatoes - but Kathie wanted to go to a car faire first. We ended up checking out a Yarus and bought it. It took so long to go through the process of selling them ("trade in") our Echo and waiting for management to get around to talking to us that it simply was to late to go out to dinner after all was completed. Oh, well, we have our annual physical on 2 August so we're better off not having a nice dinner...

We'll go out to dinner on on Kathie's birthday...

5 July 2011

Breakfast: left over steak and baked potatoe from the other day and a bit later, two slices of sour dough toast in milk toast and coffee...

Lunch: a six inch subway sub meatball sandwich, potatoe chips and a medium "Diet Coke"

Dinner: a can of Dillions Store brand beef/potatoe stew, a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich on sour dough bread and iced water. The leftover chocolate milk shake from last night also.

Independence Day 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: four Taco Bell hard shell tacos and a medium "Diet Coke"

Dinner:  Marie Callender's  Country Fried Pork Chop with Cheddar Topped Mashed Potatoes & Gravy with Cinnamon Glazed Apples and iced water
I then had a small chocolate milk shake; I ordered it before eating dinner. Once again, I should have never been offered food by a "I fly" arrangement...

My bad...

June 2011 scores

        June 2011
=====================
01   Wed   128   182   
02   Thu   ---   ---   
03   Fri   130   182   
04   Sat   ---   ---   
05   Sun   ---   ---   
06   Mon   157   127   
07   Tue   ---   ---   
08   Wed   130   177   
09   Thu   ---   ---   
10   Fri   140   ---   
11   Sat   ---   102   
12   Sun   ---   ---   
13   Mon   134   170   
14   Tue   ---   ---   
15   Wed   122   161   
16   Thu   ---   ---   
17   Fri   126   100   
18   Sat   ---   ---   
19   Sun   ---   ---   
20   Mon   134   156   
21   Tue   ---   ---   
22   Wed   117   ---   
23   Thu   ---   ---   
24   Fri   118   111   
25   Sat   ---   ---   
26   Sun   ---   ---   
27   Mon   125   110   
28   Tue   ---   ---   
29   Wed   134   ---^*  
30   Thu   ---   107   
 

Red reports are high by my standards; Blue reports reports are low by my standards.

*I went to a formal Lions Club dinner. Doing my usual Monday/Wednesday/Friday evening blood test (2 hours past forks down) would have been after my bedtime and so I didn't do it. Since I was in a pattern of getting up at 4:15, I was going to bed early (8:15 pm - 8:30 pm).

3 July 2011

Breakfast: at Casey's Cowtown

• two eggs over easy
• ham steak
• hash brown potatoes
• two slices whole wheat toast with grape jelly
• coffee

Lunch: several items including:

• scrimp salad on lettuce a fellow gardener (from the community gardens) gave us
• ribeye steak
• baked potatoe with butter and sour creamme
• cold water

Dinner: various items including

• two hamburger patties,
• boiled rice,
• boiled carrots,
• two "Little Debbie" mini-powdered sugar donuts and
• iced water

2 July 2011

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:

• scrambled eggs,
• well cooked bacon wrapped in sour dough bread toast,
• Serri Lee coffee cake
• coffee

Lunch: We went to Montana Mikes and I had

• salad with French dressing,
• 12 oz ribeye steak
• "fully loaded" baked potatoe
• "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast and iced water and some Little Debbie mini-powdered donuts (I have my A1C in a month so I'm going to cut out what few sweets I allow myself to enjoy now.  I don't know that it'll do much good...

1 July 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: left Zaterans and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Snack: at the local movie theater, chips with cheese dip and a medium "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meal: meatloaf with mashed potatoes, brown gravy, corn, apple desert and water

Snack: gin-n-tonic

I would have tested my blood sugar (it being a Friday evening, after all) but my 7 year blood sugar meter apparently has died on me. I suppose I could try hunting down AAAA batteries...

29 June 2011

Breakfast: homemade omlette with eggs,

• extra sharp Tillamook Cheddar Cheese and
  
• chunked up hamburger and
  
• coffee.

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown:

• chicken fried chicken
• mashed potatoes with white gravy
• roll and butter

Dinner: also at Casey's Cowtown:

• salad with dressing
• grilled boneless chicken breast
• baked potatoe
• roll and butter
• and iced water

The dinner at Casey's was quite good; the chef did a fine job.

26 June 2011

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of

• scrambled eggs
• well cooked bacon (which I put in a sandwich) and
• Serri Lee coffee cake and
• coffee...
  

Lunch: turkey sandwich, Healthy Choice chicken noodle soup and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner:  Marie Callender's Country Fried Pork Chop with Cheddar Topped Mashed Potatoes & Gravy with Cinnamon Glazed Apples and iced water

25 June 2011

Breakfast: at McDonalds for a "Big Breakfast" of

• scrambled eggs
• potatoe slab
• piece of sausage
• bisquit with grape jelly
• coffee

Lunch: Mexican rice with beans, a hard shell taco and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: one of those Mexican items wrapped in a corn husk and the leftover pork, potatoe and carrot stuff from last night and some chocolate brownies I bought at lunch (it was a fund raiser)

24 June 2011

Breakfast: from the Inn Pancake House,

• SOS on hash brown potatoes
• one pancake with maple syrup
• several link sausage
• coffee

Lunch: from Subway Sandwiches,

• a 6" meatball sub
• chips
• medium "Diet Coke"

It seemed like "checkout clerk training day" as the clerk didn't seem to know she was supposed to put my and my wife's sandwichs and chips in a plastic bag; her trainer put the sandwichs in and I put the chips in. I also had to ask her for a drink carrying box.  I didn't know the change came out in a change box at a different location that the last time I was in there and she didn't think to say "your change is here".

Dinner: I had a home made mix of:

• boiled pork chops
• boiled white potatoes
• boiled carrots

My evening blood sugar reading, two hours after "fork down" was 111! This is amazingly low for me...c'est la guerre!

糖尿病
"sugar urine disease"

June 2011 blood sugar results

        June 2011
====================
           AM    PM
01   Wed   128   182   
02   Thu   ---   ---   
03   Fri   130   182   
04   Sat   ---   ---   
05   Sun   ---   ---   
06   Mon   157   127   
07   Tue   ---   ---   
08   Wed   130   177   
09   Thu   ---   ---   
10   Fri   140   ---   
11   Sat   ---   102   
12   Sun   ---   ---   
13   Mon   134   170   
14   Tue   ---   ---   
15   Wed   122   161   
16   Thu   ---   ---   
17   Fri   126   100   
18   Sat   ---   ---   
19   Sun   ---   ---   
20   Mon   134   156   
21   Tue   ---   ---   
22   Wed   117   ---   
23   Thu   ---   ---   
24   Fri   118   111   
25   Sat   ---   ---   
26   Sun   ---   ---   
27   Mon   ---   ---   
28   Tue   ---   ---   
29   Wed   ---   ---   
30   Thu   ---   ---   
31   Fri   ---   ---   

High by my standards; low by my standards. AM means immediately after getting out of bed and PM means a blood test two hours after finishing my evening meal.

23 June 2011

糖尿病
"sugar urine disease"

Breakfast: cherios and coffee and four little donuts

Lunch: the local Rat -er- KFC opened back up so I had chicken, mashed potatoes and cottage cheese with brown gravy and desert and a glass of "Diet Coke".  I confirmed I no longer like the "extra crispy" and now like the grilled chicken (and am not all that fond of this either...)

Dinner: another TV dinner: Marie Callender's Meat Lasagna with Ricotta & Mozzarella Cheeses in Hearty Marinara Sauce and iced water

23 June 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown during the Lions Club Meeting:

• large hamburger
• fries
• iced water

Our usual waitress was gone and we had a substitute. This truly showed, as my wife said "we're spoiled rotten"! We got used to really good service from our usual waitress and didn't really appreciate this until she was not there...

Dinner: Marie Callender's Country Fried Pork Chip with Cheddar Topped Mashed Potatoes & Gravy with Cinnamon Glazed Apples and iced water

21 June 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: two balony sandwiches, Cheeze-Its and a bottle of Diet Pepsi.

Dinner: small amount of boiled rice and noodles and two hamburger patties (pre-cooked), chopped up and mixed in with the "pilof". I had a glass of water with dinner and a gin-n-tonic after.  The next morning, I had a fine (117) blood sugar reading...

Leader Dog For The Blind LIver Doggie Treat

I I made the "Leader Dog For the Blind" liver treat for dogs. I used

• 1¼ pound of chicken liver (recipe called for 1 pound but the store carried only this size
• an egg
• a premixed dry mix of
  • 1 cup flour and
  • 1 cup of corn meal

 PUt the liver and egg in your blender and mix them into a bloody red mix. If necessary, add just enough water to allow the liver nad egg to be blended. Then, mix with the flour and corn meal and spread onto a flat pan sprayed with anti-stick stuff. Bake at 400º for 15 minutes. After it cools, slice it into chunks (not too big, not too small) and store them in your freezer in plastic bags.

The treat fresh out of the stofve and unsliced.
Here is the treat sliced with one piece missing (feed to my dog).

Your dog will love them; mine does!

19 June 2011

Breakfast:  three favouorites

• pancakes
• bacon cooked with the 10" cast iron fry pan
• a poorly cooked fried egg and
• cioffee

Lunch: (at 3:30 pm)

• baked chicken, 
• aspargius
• dressing
• a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: the rest of the Dirty Rice and water

18 June 2011

_Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of

1. well cooked bacon,
2. scrambled eggs,
3. Serri Lee Coffee Cake and
4. coffee

Lunch:We went to a place called "Bad Habits" and I had

• cheese sticks with
  • spicy "red" sauce and
  • Ranch Dressing
• French Dip Sandwich
• French Fries and
• Diet Coke (their "Diet Coke, no ice" really came without ice  _______ 

Dinner:  I made Zatarain's Dirty Rice and had a MGD with it

Pre-Bed Snack: 2 gin-n-tonic

17 June 2011

Breakfast: milk toast with four slices of white bread toast and coffee

Lunch: from Wendy's on Central (near the old bypass):

• ½ pound hamburger
• baked potatoe with extra butter and sour creamme asked for (I actually got one of each and no extras...)
• large "Diet Coke, no ice"  (see below...)
  

I don't know what those clear chunks are but they can't be ice as we specifically asked the drive up person for no ice!
(OK, so we got light ice... :-D  )

Dinner: two hamburgers and a lot of boiled broccoli and iced water.

June results to date...

June 2011
====================
           AM    PM
01   Wed   128   182   
02   Thu   ---   ---   
03   Fri   130   182   
04   Sat   ---   ---   
05   Sun   ---   ---   
06   Mon   157   127   
07   Tue   ---   ---   
08   Wed   130   177   
09   Thu   ---   ---   
10   Fri   140   ---   
11   Sat   ---   102   
12   Sun   ---   ---   
13   Mon   134   170   
14   Tue   ---   ---   
15   Wed   122   161   
16   Thu   ---   ---   
17   Fri   126   100   
18   Sat   ---   ---   
19   Sun   ---   ---   
20   Mon   ---   ---   
21   Tue   ---   ---   
22   Wed   ---   ---   
23   Thu   ---   ---   
24   Fri   ---   ---   
25   Sat   ---   ---   
26   Sun   ---   ---   
27   Mon   ---   ---   
28   Tue   ---   ---   
29   Wed   ---   ---   
30   Thu   ---   ---   
31   Fri   ---   ---   

Scores that are high for me or low for me.

16 June 2011

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: several Mexican dishes, rice and refried beans, desert at a local
Mexican place.

Dinner: Nothing because we're too busy and I didn't bring anything to
work that I could eat easily like a sandwich. I suppose I'll have
"dinner" when I get home at 11:15 pm and my dog will whimper and bark
for more than the usual...

15 June 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown, I had the special:

• bar-b-que pork sandwich
• french fries
• iced water

Dinner:  a simple mix of

• two hamburger patties
• some boiled rice
• some boiled broccoli florets and
• iced water

results for June 2011

           June 2011
====================
           AM    PM
01   Wed   128   182   
02   Thu   ---   ---   
03   Fri   130   182   
04   Sat   ---   ---   
05   Sun   ---   ---   
06   Mon   157   127   
07   Tue   ---   ---   
08   Wed   130   177   
09   Thu   ---   ---   
10   Fri   140   ---   
11   Sat   ---   102   
12   Sun   ---   ---   
13   Mon   134   170  
14   Tue   ---   ---   
15   Wed   ---   ---   
16   Thu   ---   ---   
17   Fri   ---   ---   
18   Sat   ---   ---   
19   Sun   ---   ---   
20   Mon   ---   ---   
21   Tue   ---   ---   
22   Wed   ---   ---   
23   Thu   ---   ---   
24   Fri   ---   ---   
25   Sat   ---   ---   
26   Sun   ---   ---   
27   Mon   ---   ---   
28   Tue   ---   ---   
29   Wed   ---   ---   
30   Thu   ---   ---   
31   Fri   ---   ---   

High for me; low for me.

13 June 2011

Breakfast: two peanut butter and grape jelly on hamburger buns (they stayed down about an hour or so; I haven't been this sick to my stomach in a long time)

Lunch: Long John Silvers for a mixture of

• 2 fish "planks",
• 3 chicken "planks",
• french fries,
• cole slaw and
• a medium "Diet Pepsi"

As meals go, it was adequate and one of many...

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf meal of meatloaf, mashed potatoes and brown gravy, corn and "Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp" and iced water

12 June 2011

Breakfast: We had Kathie's Big breakfast of:

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

Lunch:

Dinner: We had:

• steak
• baked potatoes
• asparagus
• water
  

10 June 2011 ore Relay For Life day/night

_____Breakfast: boiled eggs and coffee
________Lunch: Burger King chicken things and fries and a medium  Diet Coke
              Snack: a small A & W chocolate milk shake
_______Dinner: at the Relay Walk, two hamburgers, fries and a can of Diet Pepsi. The kids working the food area had to hunt through the soft drinks, in a large water and ice filled box, to find me the can of Diet Pepsi. I appreciate the work they did.
Late Night Snack: three pieces of beef pizza and bad coffee and a bottler of water

9 June 2011

Breakfast: wheaties with two (2) bananas and a chunk of the overly spiced chicken from the other day and coffee..

Lunch:: at Casey's Cowtown, chicken "fingers", fries, salad and water

Dinnn: Taco Bell for three fancy Tacos and chips wsith cheese etc and Diet Pepsi

8 June 2011

Breakfast: left over chicken, mashed potatoes and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown, a kind of homemade speghetti with meat balls,
meat sauce and a roll with butter. For once, I ordered a glass of "Diet
Pepsi" to go with a lunch.

Dinner: Healthy Choice roast, potatoes, gravy and apple crisp, with a
gin-n-tonic after I checked my blood sugar two hours post dinner...

67th Anniversary of D-Day

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: we had an office luncheon (I brought the ice creamme) and ate

• very well done hamburger
• very well done big hot dog
• not so burnt hot dog
• potatoe salad
• ice creamme with
  
• a very nice fudge topping (homemade by one of my co-workers) and
• a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf and water

6 June 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: bowl of Healthy Choice chicken noodle and coffee

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf and water

5 June 2011

Breakfast: a nice one...

• three egg omelet
• hash browns
• 2 slices whole wheat toast with grape jelly
• coffee

Lunch: at a Dairy Queen

• ¼ pound hamburger
• fries
• medium "Diet Coke"

Dinner: which I cooked

• about 1¼ boneless skinned chicken breasts boiled
• I cannot remember the "side dish" I had with the chicken

I can't believe just how badly my boiled chicken turned out. If this had been at a restaurant, I would have been bitching for weeks. Instead, it was my own bad cooking and I have half of what I cooked left over. I'll just have to figure some way to cover the taste and finish eating it because, even if it was in the manager's mark down area of the cooler, it was still spendy...

4 June 2011

Breakfast: Holiday Inn food:

• chicken fried steak
• 2 eggs over medium
• hash browns
• 2 slices whole wheat toast with grape jelly
• coffee

Lunch: turkey wrap and noddle salad and brownie

Snack: a couple of beers at the Holiday Inn bar with wife and other fellow Lions

Dinner: the last dinner of the Convention

• breaded meat over
• a bed of rice
• veggies
• roll
• brownie for desert

3 June 2011

Breakfast: a typical breakfast buffet of scrambled eggs, potatoe thingies, sausage and coffee

Lunch: at the Lawrence Holiday Inn (Lions Convention): bit salad with crumbled feta cheese and bacon chunks

Dinner: It was a nice buffet line and featured:

• roast chicken (a little dry)
• bar-b-que ribs (I only took one chunk, which was a shame, because these ribs were excellent. However, I wasn't about to be the only one going back for seconds...)
• some kind of potatoes and I've forgotten what the were
• salad
• brownie on the table

The family of a little girl, who just got over childhood leukemia, brought around chocolate cake as a celebration and thanks for everyone who worried about Taylor (the girl).