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Vegetarians: What have you eaten today?

B: Blueberry muffin & latte

L: Baked potato & cheesy beans

Snack: Dextrose, chocolate hobnob & HP toast -> This was because I managed to hypo despite all the previous carbs - doh!

D: Roasted beet, carrot & onion tarte tatin, Parmentier potatoes, wheat berries & lentils. Hazelnut & chocolate gelato.

I wish I could say I spent hours slaving over a hot stove for my beloved, but Waitrose reduced it to minutes! No bubbly for me, but it was all very pleasant.
 
Avocado Sevenfold said:
On holiday today and became the proud owner of two aubergines and four courgettes :D

Brunch: fry up with all the trimmings

Dinner: tried something new - Za'atar rubbed baked aubergine

http://www.onearabvegan.com/2015/11/zaatar-rubbed-baked-eggplant/

I used Alpro yogurt instead of labneh (?) and had it with olives, cherries, mint, walnuts and hummus blobs. Tasty.

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You make your meals look very posh xxx
 
Ledzeptt said:
B: Blueberry muffin & latte

L: Baked potato & cheesy beans

Snack: Dextrose, chocolate hobnob & HP toast -> This was because I managed to hypo despite all the previous carbs - doh!

D: Roasted beet, carrot & onion tarte tatin, Parmentier potatoes, wheat berries & lentils. Hazelnut & chocolate gelato.

I wish I could say I spent hours slaving over a hot stove for my beloved, but Waitrose reduced it to minutes! No bubbly for me, but it was all very pleasant.
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Sounds lovely :) we had marks x
 
Ledzeptt said:
I ate better today...

B: Jamie's granola dust (I still have plenty left)

L: A crumpet

D: "Paella" (I used veg sausage and brown rice, so not remotely authentic, other than the saffron!)
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When I do "paella", with cauli rice, we call it "Pretendy Paella". Actually, it tastes incredibly similar. :)
 
B: Egg & mushroom on HP toast

L: Hummus & olive sandwich

D: Roast veg & pasta. This isn't a particularly exciting photo, but I wanted to show off my courgette; almost a shame to eat it :-)

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B: golden milk

L: peanut butter on hp toast, two cherry tomatoes

D: courgetti in pesto with mushrooms, sun dried tomatoes and flaked almonds

Snack: cashews
 
Avocado Sevenfold said:
B: golden milk

L: peanut butter on hp toast, two cherry tomatoes

D: courgetti in pesto with mushrooms, sun dried tomatoes and flaked almonds

Snack: cashews
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Avo - Could you tell me again how you make your golden milk?
 
Avocado Sevenfold said:
Here we go

http://www.whereismyspoon.co/turmeric-paste-for-golden-milk/

I use unsweetened almond milk and add a pinch of Truvia while warming the paste in the milk.
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Hmmmm.

I had made the paste some days ago, and I have used it in some recipes requiring turmeric (like this evening, The Incredible Spice Men's Spicy burger,......... nom, nom, nom). I did also try Golden Milk, using almond milk I had in the pantry and whilst the paste is pretty decent in food recipes, I didn't care too much for the golden milk. I'll try it again, with less paste and less sweetener as it tasted very sweet to me, but also had a very bitter aftertaste.

I was really hoping to like it. :(
 
AndBreathe said:
Hmmmm.

I had made the paste some days ago, and I have used it in some recipes requiring turmeric (like this evening, The Incredible Spice Men's Spicy burger,......... nom, nom, nom). I did also try Golden Milk, using almond milk I had in the pantry and whilst the paste is pretty decent in food recipes, I didn't care too much for the golden milk. I'll try it again, with less paste and less sweetener as it tasted very sweet to me, but also had a very bitter aftertaste.

I was really hoping to like it. :(
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Hmmmm indeed.

I've just googled that spicy burger.

*points at naughty step*
 
Hi @AndBreathe

When I made golden milk, I found it was the milk that affected the flavour the most. Best was Alpro unsweetened roasted almond milk.

I didn't add any sweetener, artificial or otherwise.

If I make it again, I'll add more ginger next time, although that's my personal taste. (The recipe of 1/2 a thumb is a little vague anyway.)
 
Breakfast I has a small cheese omelette. Lunch a salad and dinner some vegetable soup followed by a few strawberries in a smoothie with some almond milk and plain full fat greek yoghurt. My glucose level was 6.2 before the dinner and only 5.7 two hours later. :)
 
Hi @Avocado Sevenfold

I'm enjoying Tescos' high protein bread you recommended, although I'm sure one reason it's low in carbs is simply that the loaf is quite small.

Anyway, I'm supposed to eat more protein, so that's fine by me.
 
Hi all :)

Just catching up. Been awol for a while! Chuckling at the courgettes and aubergines saga. Bizzarely enough here in darkest Northumberland we've had plenty of both, but on a couple of supermarket visits not a single tomato for sale!

I've been really struggling with low carbing. It's like once I let myself have a little treat the floodgates are opened. This week I'm on a huge effort to get back to where I was though. I've made a load of fat bombs again - cacao & brazil nut, and tonights dinner was baked eggs, tomatoes, onions, peppers & avocados.

Going to start making a seed porridge in the mornings. I've never been a breakfast person, but I'm still struggling with really high morning readings, and if I don't eat they just keep going up.

Just kind of fed up with everything right now. I've always been a huge foodie, and I love cooking and baking for the family. It was probably my biggest hobby tbh. I had a lot of enthusiasm at the start, and I naively imagined I'd somehow 'cure' this with diet. Now I can see that I'm going to be in this for the long haul I feel pretty dispirited.
 
PurpleArmadillo said:
Hi all :)

Just catching up. Been awol for a while! Chuckling at the courgettes and aubergines saga. Bizzarely enough here in darkest Northumberland we've had plenty of both, but on a couple of supermarket visits not a single tomato for sale!

I've been really struggling with low carbing. It's like once I let myself have a little treat the floodgates are opened. This week I'm on a huge effort to get back to where I was though. I've made a load of fat bombs again - cacao & brazil nut, and tonights dinner was baked eggs, tomatoes, onions, peppers & avocados.

Going to start making a seed porridge in the mornings. I've never been a breakfast person, but I'm still struggling with really high morning readings, and if I don't eat they just keep going up.

Just kind of fed up with everything right now. I've always been a huge foodie, and I love cooking and baking for the family. It was probably my biggest hobby tbh. I had a lot of enthusiasm at the start, and I naively imagined I'd somehow 'cure' this with diet. Now I can see that I'm going to be in this for the long haul I feel pretty dispirited.
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Chin up @PurpleArmadillo Carbs are so addictive so it is no wonder we all fall a bit sometimes. Pringles were not joking when they came up with, "Once you pop, you can't stop!" I think this applies to all carby stuff when we have insulin resistance so don't be hard on yourself.

I find I have better morning readings if I don't eat after 7pm the previous evening.

You are dispirited at having to eat delicious, healthy, veggie food for the long haul? Is that a typo? :wideyed:;) Welcome back x
 
Hi @PurpleArmadillo

I'm sorry to learn you've been struggling, but pleased you're making a fresh start.

I can't help you with LCHF but I find plenty of tips and encouragement on change and habits on Zenhabits.com, including this one: https://zenhabits.net/start/

You may think it easy for me to say so, but rather than let diabetes and dieting get you down, once you get your BG in range, won't you feel much better and then won't have to worry about complications?

Focus on today and don't worry that you slipped off the LCHF diet in the past.

Back on thread: enjoy all those courgettes and aubergines- you won't need any tomatoes (I think they're about 70% carbs!).
 
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