What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Dinner: avocado which was replaced with a small chunk of Brie as it wasn’t ripe enough, with prawns and coleslaw.

 

[shelley262]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Dinner: avocado which was replaced with a small chunk of Brie as it wasn’t ripe enough, with prawns and coleslaw.

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Hug for your unripe avocado what a disappointment for you.

 

[LivingLightly]

Morning all. Today's food; Minced beef casserole with carrot, onion, celery and swede with cauli mash. Tea, Boiled ham with salad and perhaps a boiled egg. Levels are getting better and my A1c is down to 56 from 59. Not really good enough but I'll get there. Have a good day everyone.

Heading in the right direction @RosemaryJackson.
Steer clear of the carbs and, barring infection or injury, you'll soon be back on track.

 

[LivingLightly]

Today for tea I had bacon, eggs, mushrooms and tomatoes. Hardly elegant, but I was using up stuff I had in the fridge. Plus it was lovely!

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Looks like a bit of all right @IanBish, as Mary Berry would say.

 

[LivingLightly]

Dinner: avocado which was replaced with a small chunk of Brie as it wasn’t ripe enough, with prawns and coleslaw.

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Evening @Rachox. Like all fruits, the flavour of an avocado varies with its degree of ripeness and it's a shame to peel and eat them when not quite ready.

I keep newly-purchased avocados in date order in the cupboard over my oven for up to 3 days. Once ready, they're transferred to my fridge until needed. It's not foolproof, but seems to work most of the time.

 

[LivingLightly]

Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter and avocado, seasoned with black pepper and a wedge of Gorwydd caerphilly.
Water to swallow tablet.
Double espresso.

L: Packed lunch made with leftover mushroom and spinach frittata
Celery sticks and baby plum tomatoes with Little Gem lettuce cups for scooping and a dollop of home-made mayonnaise for dipping.
Prawns and mussels.
Almonds, hazelnuts. and walnuts.
Water to drink.

D: Smoked salmon and cream cheese salad made with rocket, celery, baby plum tomatoes, salad onions, Nocellara olives and Romano peppers, dressed with olive oil, lemon verbena and a touch of lemon juice, topped with pecan halves.
Water to wash down tablets.

 

[Rachox]

Evening @Rachox. Like all fruits, the flavour of an avocado varies with its degree of ripeness and it's a shame to peel and eat them when not quite ready.

I keep newly-purchased avocados in date order in the cupboard over my oven for up to 3 days. Once ready, they're transferred to my fridge until needed. It's not foolproof, but seems to work most of the time.

It was a pack of two, described as ripe and ready to eat…. this one this evening most definitely wasn’t! The second one is out in the warm kitchen, I’m hoping the sun will come out tomorrow so I can put it on the window sill!

 

[LivingLightly]

It was a pack of two, described as ripe and ready to eat…. this one this evening most definitely wasn’t! The second one is out in the warm kitchen, I’m hoping the sun will come out tomorrow so I can put it on the window sill!

Yes @Rachox. I've come unstuck with packs of two avocados labelled "perfectly ripe and ready to eat." The wrapping prevents you from inspecting the contents properly. One was over ripe and mushy. At best the flavour of the others was disappointing and I no longer risk buying them.

I find it's safer to buy avocados when they're still rock hard, store them at room temperature for 3-4 days (depending on their best before date) and enjoy! Then, in the unlikely event they're not eaten right away, refrigerate until needed.

 

[MommaE]

Where is the hug shopping centre we'd all like to go there !

Maybe that’s where @Antje77 has been going

 

[RosemaryJackson]

Morning all. Lunch today will be the same as yesterday. I made enough for 3 meals and one has gone in the freezer. I have a tin of red salmon for tea plus salad. Have a lovely weekend everyone.

 

[Antje77]

Very busy day yesterday, doing all kinds of stuff.
Brought chicory and hummus, and LC bread with Muenster with me so I had that during the day.

Evening meal was the same quick meal as yesterday, more LC bread with marmite, fried turkey eggs and Muenster cheese, this time with two eggs.

Right before bed a generous portion of crisps to prevent the weekly nighttime hypos. Didn't work this time, went hypo anyway but still had a lovely night.

Where is the hug shopping centre we'd all like to go there !

Have you searched in the back of your garden?
Works for me!

Maybe that’s where @Antje77 has been going

Yup!

 

[jpscloud]

Hi all,

Busy day in the garden again today.

10.30am
Glass Kefir
3 eggs with cheese

2pm
Pork puffs

5pm
Beef mince with marrowbone broth
Greek yogurt and cream

 

[IanBish]

Chopped up some bacon and chorizo, threw in a few prawns and some peas, fried it up with cauliflower rice and curry powder, and threw on a couple of boiled eggs. Not my best dish, but it was edible.

 

[MrsA2]

I find it's safer to buy avocados when they're still rock hard, store them at room temperature for 3-4 days

Often it's over a week or even 10 days for mine. Some never seem to soften, just go straight from hard to bad. I buy the small ones so there's less to throw away if that happens.

 

[filly]

Coffee and cream
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Smoked Mackerel salad with cheese and tomato
Smoked salmon

 

[MrsA2]

Skipped breakfast as out to early yoga.

Brunch at 11, 2 soft boiled eggs with hm lc soda bread soldiers. Some leftover shwarma chicken. Half a protein pot dessert, hazelnut latte flavour.

Trying to update the kitchen a bit. Painted the kick boards. Should have been easier than it was. We have 2 types of cabinet paint and one paints like tar and the second is too light both in coverage and colour. At least it kept me active, lots of bending.

D: cheeses and some leftover shwarma meat mixed with mayo. Bit of salad.
Second half of the dessert pot. Supposed to be sugar free but the sweeteners feel very sticky.

 

[shelley262]

Brunch hm kefir then one fried egg on LC toast and a bit of comte cheese followed by a few squares of 100% chocolate
Dinner steak with mushrooms, onions and a few tomatoes with glass of red then LC brownie and decaffeinated coffee.

 

[Antje77]

Earlier today a fishy mayo thing on LC bread, I still love this newly discovered bread.

Evening meal was shawarma meat fried with onion, on a slice of LC bread with raw endive and some more onion, with a generous serving of garlic sauce (mayo, garlic, drop of water).
No insulin taken for it, the bread was meant to nudge my BG up a little because I kept dropping despite having taken a very low amount of insulin for my usual two beers.

I'm expecting some crisps before bed will be wise tonight, no matter if I sleep at home or with my neighbour, and I'll start lowering my basal tonight.

 

[MommaE]

Yesterday breakfast was lc toast with egg, six blackberries and chia seed “pudding”
Lunch, Cheese and cucumber on lc bread with pickled red cabbage
Dinner, cauliflower shawarma, zhug, cucumbers, arugula, tomato with lemon tahini sauce on half regular naan. Declared delicious by all.

Today is rainy so probably knitting and seed transplanting.
breakfast, peppers, onion and egg on zucchini fritter with hollandaise sauce
Lunch, lc sandwich of cheese, cucumber and tomato
Dinner will be Mahi Mahi in lemon spinach and artichoke sauce. A recipe I haven’t made before but I have half a jar of marinated artichokes to use.
I’ve baked a grape and citrus cake for those who will eat it. Mainly because I love baking, feeding others and had bags of frozen grapes to be used up before this summers vines start producing again.

have a lovely weekend everyone.

 

[MommaE]

Chopped up some bacon and chorizo, threw in a few prawns and some peas, fried it up with cauliflower rice and curry powder, and threw on a couple of boiled eggs. Not my best dish, but it was edible.

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Sounds delicious to me.