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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

DJC3 said:
D: my family’s fave lchf meal - meatza made with a rolled out M&S Aberdeen Angus burger as the base topped with sour cream instead of tom puree ( simply because I prefer it) mozzarella, chorizo, olives, chilli spinach and goat cheese washed down with a glass of red. A few strawberries and cream soon too.
I agree with tomatoes as a non negotiable, I don’t have many but would miss them too much to avoid completely, wine is another ( in moderation obvs) and a slice of cake now and again.
I am indebted forever to the good people here who have shown me with various low carb recipes that it is still possible. Utter joy.
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@DJC3 We loved the meatza too.- meat and cheese 2 of my non negotiables. I am glad you found cake recipes to enjoy. Wish I could find bread recipes that work.
 
ziggy_w said:
The roles are easy to make. It takes about 20 minutes to mix all the ingredients and form the roles and another hour and a half in the oven. The recipe is from diet doctor.com (www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/the-low-carb-bread). The recipe says to use five quarter cups of almond flour and a little bit more than a quarter cup of psyllium husks, salt, a cup of hot water, 3 egg whites, baking powder and vinegar.

I have replaced some of the almond flour with linseed flour, coconut flour, hemp flour and lupine flour, which are even lower carb, I also add sesame and chia seeds. Spices include nigella seeds, caraway seeds and ground coriander seeds and some salt. I found I don't need the egg whites. I also replaced the vinegar with cream of tartar. Because some of the flours absorb more water than almond flour, I found I need to add about 2 1/2 cups of boiling water.

I make a batch of about 6 or 7 roles about once a week. When I have one of the roles with butter, it doesn't seem to raise my blood sugars at all. It's also helpful to have the roles around when I get home from work. Due to a long commute, I often spend 12 to 14 hours away from home and don't feel like cooking when I get home.
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@ianpspurs here's @ziggy_w ’s recipe. She and @shelley262 were discussing them more recently but I can’t find those posts.
 
maglil55 said:
Could you have a bug coming on? I find my BGs start to rise a couple of days before any lurgy appears.
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Could be a possibility, my other half has been sneezing a lot lately. Sugars haven't come down today either so maybe it is something like that! Thanks for the idea, I hadn't considered it!
 
Well today my food plans went pearshaped. I was going to do interesting things with pork ribs this evening, but then ran out of time, so went for easy quick options.

1pm ended up having the last of the chicken breast (150g) in cheese sauce
6pm 200g of SPAM chopped in 2 scrambled eggs. Next time, less SPAM, more egg. :)

May have a little goatsmilk yog and cream later.
 
Brunneria said:
Well today my food plans went pearshaped. I was going to do interesting things with pork ribs this evening, but then ran out of time, so went for easy quick options.

1pm ended up having the last of the chicken breast (150g) in cheese sauce
6pm 200g of SPAM chopped in 2 scrambled eggs. Next time, less SPAM, more egg. :)

May have a little goatsmilk yog and cream later.
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@maglil55 Mystery solved, have now got a runny and stuffy nose! Thanks for the heads up about illness, didn't know it could affect sugars. Nice to know it's just my body doing its thing and nothing I'm doing wrong!
 
vanillapie said:
@maglil55 Mystery solved, have now got a runny and stuffy nose! Thanks for the heads up about illness, didn't know it could affect sugars. Nice to know it's just my body doing its thing and nothing I'm doing wrong!
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Well I don't like it really , never great being ill , but you just have to ride it out and not worry about your BGs. Mine get into double figures when I'm Ill sometimes. Plenty water, paracetamol and it does go back to normal. xx
 
ianpspurs said:
Thanks @Goonergal will have a look as I can't remember if that is one I have tried.
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They shouldn't be too far back. That was the conversation over the hollow rolls. I made a batch just after that and they do taste pretty good. The original recipe was a Diet Doctor one for Keto rolls but we are all fiddling with the combinations to get the perfect mix.
 
maglil55 said:
They shouldn't be too far back. That was the conversation over the hollow rolls. I made a batch just after that and they do taste pretty good. The original recipe was a Diet Doctor one for Keto rolls but we are all fiddling with the combinations to get the perfect mix.
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Thanks for that @maglil55. I have the original recipe with some tips from @ziggyw as well. Now waiting for 500gms psyllium hush powder from amazon tomorrow.
 
ianpspurs said:
Thanks for that @maglil55. I have the original recipe with some tips from @ziggyw as well. Now waiting for 500gms psyllium hush powder from amazon tomorrow.
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Morning @ianpspurs my adaptation first time was to use fibreflour as a trial and the rolls looked amazing - like the Lidl ones but when sliced were completly hallow ! Crusts were good though really tasty! last time only adapts I made to original recipe were to add extra seeds to the mix including grinding a few in the grinder. @ziggy_w dosent add the egg whites but I did both times as thought it helped the rise. I also used extra water on ziggys advice and cooked for longer. They do taste good and I froze some of them - so will last a while. Good luck with them. I’m planning doing again when these are gone. I’ve also got livlife in freezer which I love toasted or fried and is my favourite supermarket low carb at 3.8g per slice. Dd rolls are less than 2g though.
Hope all have good weekend I chose a cauliflower curry last night and my low carb tiramisu - bgs okay this am so looks like choice was ok. Beautiful evening we all sat outside - felt like summer is back.
 
shelley262 said:
Morning @ianpspurs my adaptation first time was to use fibreflour as a trial and the rolls looked amazing - like the Lidl ones but when sliced were completly hallow ! Crusts were good though really tasty! last time only adapts I made to original recipe were to add extra seeds to the mix including grinding a few in the grinder. @ziggy_w dosent add the egg whites but I did both times as thought it helped the rise. I also used extra water on ziggys advice and cooked for longer. They do taste good and I froze some of them - so will last a while. Good luck with them. I’m planning doing again when these are gone. I’ve also got livlife in freezer which I love toasted or fried and is my favourite supermarket low carb at 3.8g per slice. Dd rolls are less than 2g though.
Hope all have good weekend I chose a cauliflower curry last night and my low carb tiramisu - bgs okay this am so looks like choice was ok. Beautiful evening we all sat outside - felt like summer is back.
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Thanks @shelley262 all tweaks gratefully accepted. I too use Livelife seems to keep a very long time in the fridge and freezes well.
 
ianpspurs said:
Thanks for that @maglil55. I have the original recipe with some tips from @ziggyw as well. Now waiting for 500gms psyllium hush powder from amazon tomorrow.
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Like shelly262 I use the egg whites too but I whisk them into soft peaks before adding to the mix. I find that helps with the rise as well. First batch I made were difficult to bind - not wet enough. Second batch I thought were too wet but as shelley262 says got a really crisp outside and I discovered they keep fine in the fridge and crisp up again in the oven.
 
maglil55 said:
Like shelly262 I use the egg whites too but I whisk them into soft peaks before adding to the mix. I find that helps with the rise as well. First batch I made were difficult to bind - not wet enough. Second batch I thought were too wet but as shelley262 says got a really crisp outside and I discovered they keep fine in the fridge and crisp up again in the oven.
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Thanks again, bread or rolls is far more to my taste than sweet things
 
Since you have shared bread recipes I thought it only fair to share just about the only LC cake I like. We use this for my birthday in June and celebrations. I detest frosting or icing of any kind so we add a ganache of 100% chocolate , cream and sweetner. We have tweaked a it by making coffee and walnut version and adding the sour cherries Lidl sell in jars. It makes one beast of cake size wise!
https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/c...sour-cream-frosting-low-carb-and-gluten-free/
 
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