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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

I’ve been busy in the kitchen too.
Had a large celeriac so I have made some into a soup, mash to go with my cod which will be my dinner later and some that i have par boiled and tossed in oil and paprika, these will be cooked tomorrow as chips.
I’ve also made a lo dough quiche.

Tesco. com have stopped selling coconut cream (essential ingredient for my coconut ‘porridge’) and celeriac, so every few weeks I’m ordering from Waitrose to stock up on coconut cream and I noticed they do celeriac, this week it’s Waitrose so celeriac is back on the menu :) Have you discovered any good way to freeze any left overs @jayney27
 
Today was part harvest day and part clearing the freezers day. The harvest part involved pulling very baby carrots and beetroot, pruning curly kale (caterpillars have shredded lots but chickens eat those) , picking tomatoes and digging potatoes for Mrs P and Mil. Found last year's apples and celeriac in freezer. @Rachox celeriac freezes fine and the CCB idea was all my own.
Menu was:
Breakfast: Reheated coffee and cream; tea
Mid morning snack: Filter coffee with double cream
Lunch: Pork shoulder; crackling; kale; celeriac mash; roasted baby carrots, beetroot, tomatoes, elephant garlic, broccoli and cauliflower, raishes; h/m apple sauce with liquid sweetener; single glass size bottle of Rioja
Afternoon snack: Tea
Evening meal : Tea,
@DJC3 I knew you would surrender to temptation. @CranberryIce Amazon is the place and Mrs P worked out this was far cheaper than buying bars. The current bag is the 2nd bag this year.
 
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I've been very strict with carbs and I've lost more weight. Also trying not to stress (but not easy with all the family illness as you know). I've also got a new gym so I've upped the Aqua fit and gym sessions although I have a niggling shoulder injury. My BGs can still go up when illness is setting in although not as bad as previously.
Monk Fruit sweetener has been a fairly recent introduction for me. I came across it on a site where there are some rather good Keto Asian recipes www.betterthanbreadketo.com
The monk fruit I use is the Lakanto. There's golden classic which is like a brown sugar and also a white granulated. Very little effect on the BGs. Interestingly it makes wonderful caramel which should interest you. They also make a maple syrup substitute from monk fruit.
I had an experiment going not so long ago as I found a Keto instant pot recipe for creme brulee. Monk Fruit did caramelise with a blow torch but the clear winner for the toffee crack (thanks to @ianpspurs) was inulin. You would never know it was not a 'normal' creme brulee. Monk Fruit wins hands down for caramel though.
Keto sticky toffee pudding is next but how Keto I can get it will be a challenge!

Really wonderful results and well deserved, @maglil55. Your blood sugars are noticeably lower now.

Also thanks for the info on the monk fruit and the inulin. Really have to try this. Do you have a recipe for the sticky toffee pudding? Sounds wonderful. Definitely can't say we are deprived eating low carb, can we?
 
Tesco. com have stopped selling coconut cream (essential ingredient for my coconut ‘porridge’) and celeriac, so every few weeks I’m ordering from Waitrose to stock up on coconut cream and I noticed they do celeriac, this week it’s Waitrose so celeriac is back on the menu :) Have you discovered any good way to freeze any left overs @jayney27
Hi Rachel, I’m sure that any of the things I made today would freeze, I’ve frozen my homemade cauliflower soup and it was ok when defrosted and re heated so I would be happy to do the same with the celeriac, I have also par boiled and frozen potatoes in the past then roasted straight from the freezer so again the chips I’ve prepped would work. Not freezing anything today though as I’ve just eaten the mash and the chips will be cooked and served with the soup tomorrow, as the soup is fairly thick I think they will be nice as a dipping chip, well that’s what I’m hoping.
 
Evening all. Bit of an indulgent day today.

Lunch - a bit later than normal as ran an errand for a friend who is very unwell. Waitrose beef steak hache and 1 fried egg followed by 2 CCBs with extra thick double cream. Not a good idea. Had to eat something savoury to counteract false sugar high! Cue half bag pork crackling, which I didn’t enjoy and 1 mini babybel. Resulted in a 0.2mmol drop in BG.

Dinner - beef short rib. No dessert as had plenty at lunch!

Editing to say @maglil55 I have ordered some Monkfruit (the Lakanto brand). Still no inulin as it seems outrageously priced.
 
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Hi,
Weather has been a complete washout today so we’ve had a quiet home day.
I’ve managed to be creative with a celeriac and made 3 things from it, however I went into the kitchen to make cauliflower and broccoli cheese bake and have a go at the granola recipe, got sidetracked by the celeriac as it needed to be used within the next 2 days and I didn’t want to waste it.
No breakfast, woke later then usual and was pleasantly surprised that my monitor didn’t flash a horrendous number at me despite being quite naughty last night eating at bedtime. Just had a coffee with cream
Lunch was more like a breakfast we had bacon and omelette with cheese and tomato
MAS cappuccino and half a PhD smart bar
D celeriac mash and cod in a curry sauce which was very tasty and satisfying small slice of zucchini lemon cake with cream and a glass of red
 
Really felt hungry this morning, so pigged out a bit.

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and erythritol. Some leftover fried asparagus from yesterday. Two Wiener sausages. A sliver of the carrot-zucchini cake. A DD keto roll with mayonnaise, beef salami and gouda. Some Greek yoghurt. About 15g of 85% chocolate.

Lunch: Nothing.

Dinner: Fried mini asparagus. Lamb with onions, mushrooms, parsley and creme fraiche. Lettuce with a homemade sauce of mustard, lemon and low-carb honey. A glass of red wine.

Edit to add:
For desert just had two scoops of Oppo's salt caramel icecream with caramelized sesame crackers.
 
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Well thank you for inventing CCBs @ianpspurs i can tell from the smell and the little taste I had that I’m going to enjoy them :)
I think I’ll go for par boiled celeriac chips if there’s any celeriac left. I do mine with paprika too @jayney27
 
Well thank you for inventing CCBs @ianpspurs i can tell from the smell and the little taste I had that I’m going to enjoy them :)
I think I’ll go for par boiled celeriac chips if there’s any celeriac left. I do mine with paprika too @jayney27
Snap mine too, I have also added curry powder in the past.
 
Really wonderful results and well deserved, @maglil55. Your blood sugars are noticeably lower now.

Also thanks for the info on the monk fruit and the inulin. Really have to try this. Do you have a recipe for the sticky toffee pudding? Sounds wonderful. Definitely can't say we are deprived eating low carb, can we?
I've got a few. I'm going to fiddle about With them and will probably end up with a combo. Caroline Ketchum's from all day I dream about food looks sensible but it's the wrong colour for me. Sticky toffee pudding should be dark. I'll need to experiment this week.
 
A wet and grotty day here, visiting my daughter, she’s got the heating on!
B: bacon sandwich made with the 90second microwave bread and fried after construction in the bacon fat.

L: Went to Wheal Martyn ( clay mining museum) with family and had lunch in their lovely cafe. A bacon brie and cranberry burger without the cranberry, bun or chips. Could only eat 1/2 of it though.

D: will be a take out curry - saag paneer and chicken tikka starter portion

Ive got the orange jelly setting at home to make those Jaffa cakes you posted last week @maglil55 ( if there’s enough of the Callebaut chocolate left!) well done on the weight loss and increased activity by the way.

@Rachox I made the chocolate granola a couple of weeks ago - I loved it but irritatingly so did everyone else and 2 daughters have taken 1/2 each away with them so I’ve got to make more too.
I’ve also frozen celeriac successfully, usually parboiled.
 
Bed 4.8 FBG 5.1. Pouring rain all day. Good opportunity to clean the cooker. Nipper free today. Hubby decided he'd like a fry up so it would be rude not to join him.

B. Tassimo Americano grande with a dash of cream. 3 rashers crispy streaky bacon, fried egg , slice of the wee black pudding and 3 mini plum tomatoes.
L. Nothing busy With dinner.
D. Usual campari and soda. In my experimentation with fast food decided today would be a kebab day. Tasted nothing like the kebab you'd buy but tasty none the less. Skewered pepper, onion, mushrooms drizzled with olive oil and seasoned. Other skewer was chicken thigh with herbs, seasoning , chilli. 30 mins in the oven. Chopped up salad with grated carrot and red pepper. Added some pickled red cabbage. Used some garlic dressing and hot red pepper.
I have a chia pudding made which is coming my way with 6 raspberries.
Back to normal tomorrow at least until Friday which is when the relatives from Australia arrive. I'm looking forward to my double trip in October now.
 
Had a lovely holiday and food wasn't really an issue but I'm a bit relieved to be back in charge of what's on my plate!

Breakfast - overnight oats small portion plus berries

Mid morning snack - handful of pecans

Lunch - lo dough 'toast' and paté

Dinner - oven baked salmon with chilli and garlic stir fried veg. SF jelly.

A quick question for the honourable members - has anyone tried blending a bit of cocoa powder into a nut butter to make a choc nut spread? I tried making 'notella' with avocado but it was horrid
 
A quick question for the honourable members - has anyone tried blending a bit of cocoa powder into a nut butter to make a choc nut spread? I tried making 'notella' with avocado but it was horrid

Haven’t made a spread (are you looking for something to put on toast or bread?) but using chocolate rather than cocoa mixed with almond butter is very tasty, especially mixed with extra thick double cream. I use it as a dessert, but sure it would work as a spread - melt some high percentage cocoa chocolate (I use Hotel Chocolat 100% buttons), add cream and almond butter, stir. Tastes great and is very addictive.

Glad you had a good holiday.
 
Haven’t made a spread (are you looking for something to put on toast or bread?) but using chocolate rather than cocoa mixed with almond butter is very tasty, especially mixed with extra thick double cream. I use it as a dessert, but sure it would work as a spread - melt some high percentage cocoa chocolate (I use Hotel Chocolat 100% buttons), add cream and almond butter, stir. Tastes great and is very addictive.

Glad you had a good holiday.
Oh that sounds ideal! Yes, a spread to go on toast. I bought a three nut spread (almonds, pecans and peanuts) and thought about adapting it to make it chocolatey
 
Oh that sounds ideal! Yes, a spread to go on toast. I bought a three nut spread (almonds, pecans and peanuts) and thought about adapting it to make it chocolatey

Agree with you on the avocado. I had one failed experiment with making chocolate avocado truffles. Never again!
 
Had a lovely holiday and food wasn't really an issue but I'm a bit relieved to be back in charge of what's on my plate!

Breakfast - overnight oats small portion plus berries

Mid morning snack - handful of pecans

Lunch - lo dough 'toast' and paté

Dinner - oven baked salmon with chilli and garlic stir fried veg. SF jelly.

A quick question for the honourable members - has anyone tried blending a bit of cocoa powder into a nut butter to make a choc nut spread? I tried making 'notella' with avocado but it was horrid

Glad you had a good holiday, I know exactly how you feel about the relief at being back in control of what you’re eating. It sounds like the food you had was tasty and low carb though.
 
A wet and grotty day here, visiting my daughter, she’s got the heating on!
B: bacon sandwich made with the 90second microwave bread and fried after construction in the bacon fat.

L: Went to Wheal Martyn ( clay mining museum) with family and had lunch in their lovely cafe. A bacon brie and cranberry burger without the cranberry, bun or chips. Could only eat 1/2 of it though.

D: will be a take out curry - saag paneer and chicken tikka starter portion

Ive got the orange jelly setting at home to make those Jaffa cakes you posted last week @maglil55 ( if there’s enough of the Callebaut chocolate left!) well done on the weight loss and increased activity by the way.

@Rachox I made the chocolate granola a couple of weeks ago - I loved it but irritatingly so did everyone else and 2 daughters have taken 1/2 each away with them so I’ve got to make more too.
I’ve also frozen celeriac successfully, usually parboiled.
Hi, loving the new avatar.
I’d forgotten about the Jaffa cakes please let me know how you get on.
Your breakfast sounds almost perfect I think that might be mine tomorrow :)
Weather here has been awful too hopefully tomorrow will be brighter, bet your bottom dollar it will be lovely on Tuesday just in time for going back to work!
 
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