[Perfesser]

So Peanut and I were up in the Cities the other day and decided to eat at one of our favorite restaurants of all time - The Machine Shed. Some of you in the Midwest may know what I'm talking about. Good food, generous portions, realistic pricing.

She ordered a pork loin shish kabob, and I had burnt ends, which is chunks of the crusty outside carved from their beef and pork roasts. They start off by bringing out a bowl of cottage cheese and one of coleslaw to get things going. (Gooood coleslaw, too!!) Also a small loaf of their fresh-baked bread and a couple of pieces of spice cake (which was pretty good, too, as I recall!)

I ordered my dish with baked beans and sweet potato fries, and Peanut got the garlic-mashed potatoes and mixed veggies.

You can see how much was left when we got full and quit!! Her kabob had four medallioins of pork on it - she ate one and a half and had a few carrots. (She'd also had a spoon of cottage cheese and one of coleslaw, and a small piece of bread! And two of my fries.) The picture is too bright to really tell, but the two bowls in front (cottage cheese on the right, slaw on the left) are pretty close to full still. She may have had three small bites of her mashed spuds. That's the BBQ sauce above her plate in a small bowl, so she could control the amount by dipping instead of having them pour it on.

My bowl of burnt ends has a few missing, and I had maybe a dozen fries. You can see the damage I did to the beans too (not!!!!) That's a piece of bread on my side plate. I drank a bit of water before it all came, as you can tell from the glass on my side. And I had a bite of her pork. MMmmmmmm ...

They brought us a bunch of boxes and a big sack and we ate on this stuff for three days!! (Only thing we left was the spice cake. We used to fight over that back in our growing days!!) When you break down the total cost (including tip) and divide it by the number of meals it gave us, it set us back about $5- a meal.

This, folks, is how you do that!! Welcome to your new life!!



CT

[mj2903]

I used to love eating lunch at the Machine Shed when I worked in Urbandale. I don't remember the spice cake though. But for lunch I remember they had a pretty good diet tomato salad dressing of some sort. I don't know that I have ever eaten dinner there, but unless you want to be really sick, do not ever order the cinnamon roll they have, it could feed a dozen hungry men with food leftover... one big downfall of being allergic to eggs is that it can make breakfast out very difficult, especially if you aren't fond of pancakes.

Thanks for the memories CT!! I think I will leave them as memories for a while though. I still throw a lot of leftovers away.

[Perfesser]

Peanut and I went there for breakfast once and shared a cinnamon roll - for two days!! I saw a guy leaving with one wrapped to go - darned near puked at the thought! 1/2" of sugar icing on top ...

CT

[Jaimem]

Way to go! xoxoxoxo

[dixieladybug]

It is amazing to me how large the portion size is now when eating out. I never noticed it before. It is no wonder why there is such an obese population now. Funny I use to be a member of the clean your plate club. My how that has changed. They look at me so funny when I ask for a to go box and take out what I should have and save the rest to take home...
C T and Peanut isn't it great to know that our pouch is still working and in charge??? lol