For the love of hot dish

Well here's some more about the librarian convention. Now I love the Twin Cities and Minnesota but I have to say they are not known for their food. Except for hot dish. Which is in case you don't know is simply this: take a can or two of veggies, a can or two of soup, add meat, and macaroni. Then bake in the oven at 350 degrees for an hour or two. That's hot dish. Now hot dish can be tasty and if I only could have found some in the cities. This is the first vacation I have ever went on and lost weight. We were staying in the downtown area of Minneapolis and there weren't very many places to eat. In the downtown area there was not one fast food place. And everywhere we went to eat the food was awful. They even have an area of town called Eat Street. This is where the supposedly good places are to eat. So not true! We ate at a place called "The Bad Waitress". While the decor was great the food sucked and was priced high. It should of been called The Bad Food Joint. We stop at Micky D's on the way back to downtown and that was the best meal I had on the trip. One night while the kids went to a reception I stayed back at the hotel. I got 3 menus from the front desk for pizza. Now I live in a city known for it's pizza and I wasn't expecting it to be like home. But when I read the 3 menus I was appalled. All of them had the following pizzas: A Reuben (corned beef sauerkraut), a Rachel (a Reuben with turkey), hot dogs and tater tots, and one with garlic mashed potatoes. After seeing what they put on pizza I could not order one. I would be kicked out of my hometown if I did. So I went to the vending machine and had candy bars for dinner.
So if you want to save money forget the fancy weight loss spas just head for the Twin Cities. No decent food and the downtown has miles of a skywalk to get lost on. But, if your like me, pack like you're going to a third world country. Bring food!