Good luck on Monday I’m sure it will be immaterial as part of the hbaca1 don’t forget the really low readings you don’t take during the night. Also sometimes meters @nd strips do funny things. Remember my last weeks 12! Meant I had to get a replacement meter. Did you retest several times and then average? I always do if get unexpected reading.
Menu as follows:
Hi @ianpspurs I would never dream of buying a kit to pickle cabbage, it's not needed. Salt, a weight and shredded cabbage in a big pot and time and time aka patience
@SueJB I would generally agree but we have always pickled with vinegar. The big book of posh sauerkraut says one must use a cabbage mashing stick to make the pukka stuff and I am a sucker for a piece of orfentick smutter. My wife doesn't like vinegar but would be prepared to try this method of pickling so it may be politic to fork out for the lovely ceramic jar, weight, basher etc
@ianpspurs I lived in Poland for 7 or 9 years... can never remember exactly probably the result of too much Zubrowka!! I used a saucepan or a bottle to mash before I bought a rolling pin. That was on the advice of a Polish friend so I think that's quite authentic. Me thinks you've taken on a "alf J" accent.
One likes to think one still stays true to one's roots
@ianpspurs There's no vinegar in sauerkraut or kimchi for that matter. It's not pickled, it's fermented. There's absolutely no need for the basher but I would happily go along with buying a wide-mouthed ceramic, hand-thrown, wide-mouthed pot just because I love them.
I know there's no vinegar which is why my dear wife would probably try this method. I think way back in the mists of time, before freezers, relatives preserved green beans in a similar way. We have been bottling tomatoes and some fruit for a few years but lacto fermentation is now in vogue and promises a health dividend as well as a new taste.
Choc olive oil unfortunately tastes wonderful warm !Hi everyone, well today was 2nd HbA1c test since diagnosis, HCA taking my blood assumed it was an annual check up, offered to do full bloods so may get a bit more info when results come back?
Breakfast was livlife toast with some peanut butter
Morning snack a couple of salami crisps, celery and cream cheese
Lunch - low carb pitta rolled with roast beef, sliced baby tomato, sliced gherkin and mayo
Evening meal of some Indian tikka masala with cauliflower rice
I have also had a bash at making the chocolate olive oil cake, it smells delicious but may have to wait until tomorrow to try it
@shelley262 Funny you should say that as my wife said she thought it would be really nice warmed and I wondered if @jayney27 was a new poster to this thread before realising she had changed her avatar
By the way, in my food list I mentioned we tried the keto pastry for the first time - it worked really well and yes, real men do eat quicheYes Shelley I imagine it tasting better warm, a little bit gooey maybe, either way I think it will be a little slice of heaven, not had chocolate cake since before I was diagnosed. I did have a little slice of cake at Christmas and from my granddaughters first birthday cake in April, so this will be a very welcome treat. That said my eldest grandson will be five this weekend so there will be cake then too, good job my blood test was today.
I warm it a lot - Pastry sounds good@shelley262 Funny you should say that as my wife said she thought it would be really nice warmed and I wondered if @jayney27 was a new poster to this thread before realising she had changed her avatar
