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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

I hope you are feeling better. I had a chesty cough/cold last week and sugars hit the roof e.g 20 + mmol. I suggest mild exercise to sweat it out plus a stable diet
 
Some of yesterdays cooking efforts were consumed, but the most interesting part of the day was testing a new (to me) food and getting my absolute favourite kind of result at 1.5 hour retest
I finally got some of the Lidl high protein rolls and had half of one toasted with butter as my test item (how the hell anyone could eat a whole one in one sitting escapes me - they are so filling)
Result - a blood sugar change of minus 1.2 mmol!
My freezr is becoming more eccentric by the day - it now has 1 drawer full of tubs of Oppo ice cream and bags of organic berries, another full of home made low carb muffins and soups while the third is destined to fill up with Lidl rolls alongside pkts of josephs low carb mini pitas and laavash wraps asap
 
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Thanks everyone for the good wishes - @maglil55 @Chook @heh @Andreja1973 @ziggy_w

Feeling a bit better this evening, despite having to go to work. But spoke too soon about the blood sugar levels - after a great fasting number this morning (5.0) have been running about 1mmol higher than usual all day.

Breakfast - was unusually hungry this morning and very little in the way of breakfast food in stock, especially as the last 2 eggs were reserved for dinner. Settled for a bag of Awfully Posh pork crackling.

Lunch - out at an all day meeting so picked something up at M&S. Santini tomato side salad and a pack of wafer thin roast beef.

Dinner - Diet Doctor baked omelette with bacon and spinach, topped with Parmesan. Reduced the quantity of bacon and swapped enormous suggested portion of butter (75g) for frying with a small amount of olive oil. Obligatory 2 squares of Lindt 90%

Drinks - 3 mugs tea - 1 with cream and 2 with milk (at meeting in freezing air conditioning); 1 Diet Coke; sparkling water and tap water
 
Goonergal said:
Thanks everyone for the good wishes - @maglil55 @Chook @heh @Andreja1973 @ziggy_w

Feeling a bit better this evening, despite having to go to work. But spoke too soon about the blood sugar levels - after a great fasting number this morning (5.0) have been running about 1mmol higher than usual all day.

Breakfast - was unusually hungry this morning and very little in the way of breakfast food in stock, especially as the last 2 eggs were reserved for dinner. Settled for a bag of Awfully Posh pork crackling.

Lunch - out at an all day meeting so picked something up at M&S. Santini tomato side salad and a pack of wafer thin roast beef.

Dinner - Diet Doctor baked omelette with bacon and spinach, topped with Parmesan. Reduced the quantity of bacon and swapped enormous suggested portion of butter (75g) for frying with a small amount of olive oil. Obligatory 2 squares of Lindt 90%

Drinks - 3 mugs tea - 1 with cream and 2 with milk (at meeting in freezing air conditioning); 1 Diet Coke; sparkling water and tap water
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I'm with you on the fats. Love Diet Doctor but some of their fat quantities are insane.

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badcat said:
Some of yesterdays cooking efforts were consumed, but the most interesting part of the day was testing a new (to me) food and getting my absolute favourite kind of result at 1.5 hour retest
I finally got some of the Lidl high protein rolls and had half of one toasted with butter as my test item (how the hell anyone could eat a whole one in one sitting escapes me - they are so filling)
Result - a blood sugar change of minus 1.2 mmol!
My freezr is becoming more eccentric by the day - it now has 1 drawer full of tubs of Oppo ice cream and bags of organic berries, another full of home made low carb muffins and soups while the third is destined to fill up with Lidl rolls alongside pkts of josephs low carb mini pitas and laavash wraps asap
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I ate a whole Lidl roll once - didn't want to eat again. Since then I've stuck to a half. They do taste good though.

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B- Scrambled egg on burgen bread
L- nothing
D- trout (caught by myself) green beans, green salad
2 black coffee 1 green tee water throughout the day
 
Bed last night 5.1 FBG 6 and pre breakfast was 6.5. Good figures for me. Felt in need of a decent breakfast after yesterday's cleaning efforts so....
B. 2 rashers of crispy back bacon, 1 piece of black pudding, 3 cherry tomatoes and 2 fried eggs (burst the first one then burst the second too!)
Tassimo Americano Grande with a dash of cream.
L. Nothing apart from water. Too busy reorganising kitchen and cleaning.
D. Starving! Remaining bit of last night's Diet Doctor Sesame salmon with remains of lime mayonnaise. Another Diet Doctor recipe that is as good cold as hot. Lettuce, 4 cherry tomatoes, 1/2 avocado, 1 oz red Leicester cheese, 2 baby beets , tablespoon of prawns and 1/2 Lidl high protein roll with lurpack.


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Tea
B: Weetabix additions (coconut & raisin?) x 2 with skimmed milk & 2 eggs & mushrooms.
L: Chicken & ham salad, 12 grapes & activia zero vanilla yogurt
T: Pork chop, roasted med veg & Tilda coconut rice & a glass of vin rouge
Also made a courgette loaf and just had a piece - won't bother making it again :yuck:
 
B: bacon, mush, cheese on 5 -seed toast (2 slices)
L: slice of melon
D: LC lasagne. made with aubergine, cheese, toms etc as usual. BUT I experimented and made one layer butternut squash. My carboholic dau who puts up with dads cooking and weird diet with a gentle (?) mutter, declared this as a winner, and, like my LC Pizza, is now declared repeatable YEH! I just winged it having never made lasagne before whether as full frontal carb, or LC Bit of this, bit of that. lumpy gravy (NO, lumpy cheese sauce - get it right!) Will never make B/O (Lol) But no alcohol, so still keeping to diet.
Pre meal BGL = 7,1 mmol/l 2hrPP = 6.7 mmol/l 4hrPP = 5.0 mmol/l
 
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B: one slice of gluten free bread with lashings of butter. I was going to skip breakfast completely, until the Sadist with whom I cohabit toasted another of his gluteny cinnamon bagels.
L: bacon and egg with a half dozen excellent chips
D: leftover feta olive chicken DietDoc thing, broccoli and konjac noodles.
S: a blob of vanilla Haagen Daazs

Not one of my better days, but very enjoyable.
 
Goonergal said:
Feeling a bit better this evening, despite having to go to work. But spoke too soon about the blood sugar levels - after a great fasting number this morning (5.0) have been running about 1mmol higher than usual all day.
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I am glad, @Goonergal, you are feeling a bit better and hope your blood sugar readings will soon come down too.

Yesterday's menu:

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and a bit of xylitol.

Snack: About 50g of 85% chocolate -- a bit much, probably due to not having breakfast.

Lunch: Two scrambled eggs, Greek yoghurt with olive oil, home-made low-carb bread.

Dinner: To celebrate the arrival of my new low-carb ketchup (made with xylitol instead of sugar) -- A hamburger on a home-made low-carb bun with cheddar, pickled cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, mayonnaise, Dijon mustard and said low-carb ketchup. Blood sugars half an hour after the burger were even a bit lower than before dinner. (Didn't measure at one and two hours.)

Late night snack: Some brazil nuts and almonds.
 
ziggy_w said:
I am glad, @Goonergal, you are feeling a bit better and hope your blood sugar readings will soon come down too.

Yesterday's menu:

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and a bit of xylitol.

Snack: About 50g of 85% chocolate -- a bit much, probably due to not having breakfast.

Lunch: Two scrambled eggs, Greek yoghurt with olive oil, home-made low-carb bread.

Dinner: To celebrate the arrival of my new low-carb ketchup (made with xylitol instead of sugar) -- A hamburger on a home-made low-carb bun with cheddar, pickled cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, mayonnaise, Dijon mustard and said low-carb ketchup. Blood sugars half an hour after the burger were even a bit lower than before dinner. (Didn't measure at one and two hours.)

Late night snack: Some brazil nuts and almonds.
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That burger sounds so good ziggy I can almost taste it. I was due to be making burgers and low carb rolls this week but the mince became chilli con carne for my brother and my husband so it will have to be another week.

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maglil55 said:
That burger sounds so good ziggy I can almost taste it. I was due to be making burgers and low carb rolls this week but the mince became chilli con carne for my brother and my husband so it will have to be another week.

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Hi @maglil55,

The chili con carne sounds absolutely delicious. How do you prepare it?

When first diagnosed, I used to make it with pinto beans (or alternatively black beans). However, I didn't have a meter back then and don't know how the beans impacted my blood sugars. Today, I worry a bit about the legumes (or pulses).
 
Thursday...

Breakfast: Eggs, bacon, chipolatas, grilled tomato, mushrooms

Lunch: 10g almonds, 10g walnuts, 10g macadamias

Dinner: Lamb chops, leftover cauliflower mash, runner beans from my garden and purple sprouting broccoli also from my garden (loads as the leafy green veg plants has been loving the rain and are producing a huge amount)

Evening: few walnuts

Drinks: Coffee with breakfast and mid-morning, sparkling mineral water the rest of the day.
 
Today will be:

B: none
L: none
70% dark choc as necessary, max 4 squares
D: Gluten free battered fish and chips. Previous experience has shown that if I have gluten free batter, I can eat half the chips without going above 7.5. However, ordinary batter and fewer chips would spike me to 12 or so. Go figure. The meal will be in a sports bar, because of the excellent food they serve, and the f&c is on Special on Fridays. So while the meal will be superb, I will have to suffer golf and other assorted sports blaring from every screen, and 'vintage' 80s music. But it is bearable because of the food.

We won't have pud, but I shall see if I can wrangle a takeaway pot of their divine handmade truffles. They usually come in coffee, orange and honeycomb, rolled in cocoa powder. Last time there was a single blob of homemade rose nougat too. The place is next to a very nice restaurant, and they share the kitchen and the chefs. Very nice indeed.
 
ziggy_w said:
Hi @maglil55,

The chili con carne sounds absolutely delicious. How do you prepare it?

When first diagnosed, I used to make it with pinto beans (or alternatively black beans). However, I didn't have a meter back then and don't know how the beans impacted my blood sugars. Today, I worry a bit about the legumes (or pulses).
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Hi ziggy - because it was for my carb eating Hubby & brother it did have beans in it (red kidney beans).
For a keto version substitute chopped up peppers and chorizo. This recipe is quite good but I'd use beef mince and I'd add chopped chorizo and garlic. I did mine in an Instant Pot in 25 mins but chilli is also good made in a slow cooker.
Format is always the same saute the onion, garlic , chorizo then brown the mince. Saute the chopped peppers for a couple of mins separately but don't add to the chilli until later (added too soon whether slow cooked or under pressure they will disappear). If you are adding red wine put that into the browned mince mix and saute off some of the alcohol, add a cup of strong stock and then chopped tomatoes. Slow cooked just shove it on low and check the seasoning after a few hours. Pressure cooked take the pressure off after 10 mins and check the seasoning. I added some hot chilli to it too. Put the chopped peppers in and bring the pressure back up for another 10 - 15 mins or slow cooked pop them in about 90 mins before serving.
I found with the pressure cooked version I had to switch to Saute with the lid off to boil off some of the liquid as it was a bit too wet. Rapid boil solved that. You do need to keep checking the seasoning as you add particularly with chorizo in the mix. Sorry it's a bit mixed up but I always adapt recipes.

https://eatketo.com/chili-con-carne/

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Thanks @maglil55,

This recipe looks really good. I am especially intrigued by the red wine and the peppers in the recipe. I also used to add a bit of cinnamon, balsamico and cheese. I miss having chili, so will give it a try.
 
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