Greg's Running Blog

Today was another turkey day. Every time I have turkey I get great results in terms of protein. Apparently turkey is just awesome for protein intake. I’m not even sure if I should mention what I had for breakfast. If you had guessed yogurt and nuts you guessed right. For lunch I went out with the guys from work, something I haven’t done in a long time. This time it was to meet one of the guy’s fiancé. Next week we’ll have a company birthday lunch again. Today we went to Red Hot & Blue. Never mind that I just had dinner there with the family on Saturday, I could eat there every day if I had to.

Last time I wrote how I thought I was cheated on the meat. I sent Red Hot & Blue a letter and complained about their lacking nutritional info and about the meet discrepancy on what I was promised and what I received. Be as it may their regional guy responded to my e-mail today:

Dear Greg,

Thanks for taking the time to visit our website and email your comments. First, allow me to apologize for not having all the information on our website. I will pass this on to the franchisor who edits the content of the website.

In response to your concerns about plate size and weight, I cannot begin to speculate on what happened with your meat portioning but clearly we fell short of meeting your expectation. I would like to make this up to you, simply reply to this  email with your postal address and I will send a gift certificate for your next visit.

Thanks for being a loyal guest, I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,

Peter Lehrfeld
Director of Operations – D/FW
Red Hot & Blue – Texas Franchisee

I was pretty impressed my their response even though they still haven’t cleared up the size question. I responded to him, thanked him for his help and gave up the free meal as that was not the reason I wrote the letter. But today I asked the waiter (a different one) again to check on the dinner plate meat size. Today the answer was 6 oz which is exactly what I have received last time. So now I know that it’s 6 oz and that’s how I’ll count it. I ordered green beans and sweet potato again. Given on the math I have done I was going to eat the whole giant sweet potato but I just couldn’t. I simply wasn’t that hungry so I took it home for tomorrow’s lunch side.

Dinner was the same stewed turkey cutlet I had yesterday but instead of the roasted potatoes I just made three slices of whole wheat toast and some broccoli. I wasn’t in the mood for making some complicated side. I still had anough meat left that I can eat it for tomorrow at lunch with the sweet potato. My meal plan for the week is looking pretty darn good right about now.