What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[shelley262]

Hi all, just a quick check in, I have had a couple of oopage moments but not done any major damage.
I have decided to enjoy my holiday and try to relax my strict control re food choices will I’m away, I very rarely give in to temptation and will often go without while others tuck in, (sometimes this is done with a bit of a sulk) but in fairness to my partner and to fully enjoy everything this holiday has to offer I am going to release the reins a little bit. I anticipate there may be days when I let them go completely! Breakfast however are easy here as lots of low carb choices and things I enjoy so I won’t be in a state of complete abandonment lol. Lunch and dinner will be more relaxed as I will indulge in some treats. I had 2 very small slices of a lovely dark bread last night, it had seeds in and little bits of raisin, it was amazing, I did trowel on grass fed butter to lessen the guilty feeling, I shall indulge in this delight as I won’t be able to repeat it at home so will enjoy and savour it for the next 6 days. I discovered yesterday that there is a complimentary hot dog station near the carrousel on one of the decks so I can treat myself there minus the bun of course and this will be better than the complimentary pizza I will try to stay away from!

Enjoy your cruise sounds amazing

 

[shelley262]

B. Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon
L. Leftover Sicilian cauliflower rice pilaf, grilled artichokes, a few cubes of baked sweet potato and feta. Delicious! Half pink grapefruit (10-12g carb)
Snack. Mixed nuts
D. Vodka, fresh lime and diet ginger beer.
Spanish style quorn sausage casserole followed by some Greek yoghurt and damson puree.
Off for my first ever trip to Scotland this week. Beware those tattie scones (deep fried Mars Bars?).

Enjoy Scotland but there are lots of high carb temptations on offer! Definitely avoid the chip shops!

 

[DJC3]

Poor Mr C pleased you’ve kept him company with the red wine! Interesting about DD - so you feel it may be the percentage of fat that makes the difference? It’s a hard one as we’ve had so many years of the low fat mantra it’s difficult to go hard core on the fat! This is recipe I used for the beef and I cooked a piece of rib roast that I marinated from yesterday
https://www.everynookandcranny.net/instant-pot-4-minute-beef/
I’ve got some left that I’ll makeinto a curry tomorrow night.

The beef looks great. Funnily enough Ive just been chatting to no 1 daughter about who is getting the beef for Christmas.

Re DD: The fat definitely seems to make the difference. I think that although I was cutting carbs quite significantly I was probably overdoing the protein. Using the DD recipes and quantities has probably sorted out the ‘macros’

I think I feel more comfortable with olive oil and nuts as fat sources rather than quite so much cream and cheese and dairy generally. (Mince fried in butter is a bit daunting!)

I’m hoping that a week or 2 of this will help me reset and hopefully figure out a woe that’s sustainable.

 

[DCUKMod]

@DJC3 - Have you discovered this yet? http://home2.btconnect.com/balloon/...HA-2zwxfM8gHFy8REme9TA12gEiIzHIePyPR9Tk#Sauce Quite obviously they're not all LC friendly, but useful for ideas. They're all tried and tested by folks on the FB group

 

[DJC3]

@DJC3 - Have you discovered this yet? http://home2.btconnect.com/balloon/...HA-2zwxfM8gHFy8REme9TA12gEiIzHIePyPR9Tk#Sauce Quite obviously they're not all LC friendly, but useful for ideas. They're all tried and tested by folks on the FB group

No I hadn’t, thank you. What a great repository, and such a lot of currys: heaven!

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: left over portion of sweet chilli curry from the freezer with runner beans followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
Mid afternoon: raspberry chia pudding with a black coffee.
Tea at ILs: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake.

 

[DJC3]

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Tea at ILs: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake.

Your one Jaffa cake still makes me smile

 

[Brunneria]

Ive had 2 days following the DD menu plan and surprise surprise! My bgs have stayed in the 5s since pre breakfast reading of 6. This is a vast improvement on recent weeks but I’m finding the amount of fat I’m eating a bit intimidating. Not sure I could manage full blown keto long term. Nevertheless I will crack on for a couple of weeks and see how it pans out.
B: DD keto pancakes with extra thick cream and 3 raspberries. Probably wouldn’t bother with these again, a bit boring and too much effort and washing up for breakfast.
L: smoked salmon and avocado with olive oil - couldn’t face the suggested mayo.
Mid aft snack: CCB not part of the plan and I’m annoyed with myself for giving in to it - I wasn’t even hungry, just a bit bored.

D: Pork chop and green beans with garlic butter.

A couple of glasses of red with Mr C who has spent all day travelling back from Cornwall on the train - don’t know if you’ve seen it on the news but rail travel from the west country has been pretty chaotic today, poor bloke has been travelling for 8and a half hours, including a 1 hr wait in the pouring rain for a rail replacement bus at Exeter.

Hi, when I did the DD menus I found the amount of food intimidating! Ended up dropping breakfast very quickly.

Also had to remind myself that the portion sizes (including the fat) are portioned for the average person. My husband is 6’1” with broad shoulders and quite a lot of muscle. Whereas I am 5’7” and sedentary. So it was absurd that we portion the same. I felt fine cutting portions for me and sliding them sideways onto his plate.

Still didn’t lose weight - but then I never do! But he did, quite significantly. Lol

 

[Rachox]

Your one Jaffa cake still makes me smile

I can’t sit and watch them all eating cakes and ice cream, and it’s the only thing for dessert that is an easily controllable amount. The rest of the meal is virtually carb free, so I can afford the 8g carbs in a Jaffa

 

[ziggy_w]

Youngest asked for the version he always had!! Maybe next time I’ll try the LC version!

Would be interesting to see what he thinks of it!

I would dare most people that they won't be able to taste the difference.

Wonderful, @shelley262, that you enjoyed your time with your family.

 

[DJC3]

Hi, when I did the DD menus I found the amount of food intimidating! Ended up dropping breakfast very quickly.

Also had to remind myself that the portion sizes (including the fat) are portioned for the average person. My husband is 6’1” with broad shoulders and quite a lot of muscle. Whereas I am 5’7” and sedentary. So it was absurd that we portion the same. I felt fine cutting portions for me and sliding them sideways onto his plate.

Still didn’t lose weight - but then I never do! But he did, quite significantly. Lol

Good point re the portion sizes. Did your bgs come down?

 

[Brunneria]

Good point re the portion sizes. Did your bgs come down?

A bit. But I was already on that carb level. I would say that my bg evened out, but didn’t drop.
I had two issues with the DD menu plan. First was the amount of cooking - fresh new meal, cooked from scratch every breakfast and dinner, leftovers for lunch, then start again... the second was the amount of boring washing up that created. Even filling the dishwasher got old! Lol.

Eventually I just drifted back into my prev cooking mode, which is batch cooking and freezing, a lot of one-pot stuff, curries and instant pot stuff.

But the DD food, variety, flavour combinations and use of herbs was truly inspiring. I still cook several of their recipes, which have become firm favourites. Also the flavoured butters and mayos are divine.

 

[Goonergal]

Morning all. Just catching up on the past 4 days - wow so many posts!

@ziggy_w sitting in Hannover airport as I type. Very interesting reading all the chatter on that topic - @DCUKMod how right you were about this being a great place to explore. And @ziggy_w one of the places I ended up eating a couple of times listed a branch in Wuppertal, somI thought of you: Food Brother. Does a mean burger but naked burgers not a big thing here: request drew looks of surprise and lack of cutlery made eating them a challenge.

@Pipp another swimmer here. Hadn’t been for years and recently back into it. Love it.

@Rachox the 1 Jaffa cake thing fills me with admiration - great restraint!

@shelley262 glad your celebration went well

@jayney27 holiday sounds great

@DJC3 glad diet doctor is working for you

@maglil55 thought of you at Paddington as I wandered into Hotel Chocolat for some 100% batons.

Now on t food. Day of flight had planned OMAD as evening flight. Having eaten large lunch of doner kebab (no bread) ended up finding so many low carb options while browsing shops in the airport I ate more than if I’d planned a meal. Cheese, peperami, nuts etc. Oh and Pret Almond Butter squares (hadn’t seen before, nice but a bit too sweet) and did I mention an entire bar of Green and Blacks 85% (which I paid for the next morning). And succumbed to a pack of crisps from the free mini bar on arrival at hotel.

While away ate mostly naked burgers and assorted cold meats and nuts from supermarkets. Have some purchases from Aldi for the flight home.

 

[maglil55]

Good point re the portion sizes. Did your bgs come down?

I did the 2 week DD at the same time as @Brunneria. My BGs did come down because previously I'd been more of a 40 - 60 g carb person. Totally agree over portions though it was way too much food. I much prefer having breakfast so I'd tend to have breakfast but skip lunch. Some days I'd just have dinner with additional veg or salad.
Good thing now is the meal planner is a lot more adaptable and can cope with OMAD, substitutes etc. It was also amusing. We got the cabbagevon the shopping list horribly wrong and could barely move for the stuff! What was good though was knowing in advance what you were eating and exactly what you needed to buy in. I did join afterwards. The recipe/meal planner is a lot more user friendly and the videos educational stuff is very useful.

P.S. I'm still away. Just passing a little time as it is chucking it down outside.

 

[DCUKMod]

Morning all. Just catching up on the past 4 days - wow so many posts!

@ziggy_w sitting in Hannover airport as I type. Very interesting reading all the chatter on that topic - @DCUKMod how right you were about this being a great place to explore. And @ziggy_w one of the places I ended up eating a couple of times listed a branch in Wuppertal, somI thought of you: Food Brother. Does a mean burger but naked burgers not a big thing here: request drew looks of surprise and lack of cutlery made eating them a challenge.

@Pipp another swimmer here. Hadn’t been for years and recently back into it. Love it.

@Rachox the 1 Jaffa cake thing fills me with admiration - great restraint!

@shelley262 glad your celebration went well

@jayney27 holiday sounds great

@DJC3 glad diet doctor is working for you

@maglil55 thought of you at Paddington as I wandered into Hotel Chocolat for some 100% batons.

Now on t food. Day of flight had planned OMAD as evening flight. Having eaten large lunch of doner kebab (no bread) ended up finding so many low carb options while browsing shops in the airport I ate more than if I’d planned a meal. Cheese, peperami, nuts etc. Oh and Pret Almond Butter squares (hadn’t seen before, nice but a bit too sweet) and did I mention an entire bar of Green and Blacks 85% (which I paid for the next morning). And succumbed to a pack of crisps from the free mini bar on arrival at hotel.

While away ate mostly naked burgers and assorted cold meats and nuts from supermarkets. Have some purchases from Aldi for the flight home.

You know, I think we need to know how @Rachox tackles this solitary Jaffa Cake.

Rachox, do you have it in one mouthful, break it down into sponge, jelly and chocolate for three mouthfuls, or tackle it with a dessert fork? Of course, you could mix it up and vary your tackling tactics each time.

Are we all getting a bit fixated on this lonely JC?

 

[ianpspurs]

You know, I think we need to know how @Rachox tackles this solitary Jaffa Cake.

Rachox, do you have it in one mouthful, break it down into sponge, jelly and chocolate for three mouthfuls, or tackle it with a dessert fork? Of course, you could mix it up and vary your tackling tactics each time.

Are we all getting a bit fixated on this lonely JC?

What is a jaffa cake and why is just 1 worthy of comment?

 

[Brunneria]

I used to be a Jaffa Nibbler.

Started eating the outer ring, in little bites, leaving the orange jelly round middle untouched.
Then, in one fell chomp, the whole central section would go in one gloriously orangy mouthful.

Then I would reach for another...

Can’t remember when I last had one.

 

[Rachox]

You know, I think we need to know how @Rachox tackles this solitary Jaffa Cake.

Rachox, do you have it in one mouthful, break it down into sponge, jelly and chocolate for three mouthfuls, or tackle it with a dessert fork? Of course, you could mix it up and vary your tackling tactics each time.

Are we all getting a bit fixated on this lonely JC?

Ha ha! I nibble it very slowly and savour every bit, making it last as long as possible!

What is a jaffa cake and why is just 1 worthy of comment?

I can’t believe you don’t know what a Jaffa cake is @ianpspurs ! Here’s a picture, they are a little layer of sponge with an orange jelly disc on top, covered in dark chocolate

 

[Goonergal]

For years I used to insist on any IT training being delivered by a particular company in London by the name of Happy Computers. The two major benefits were an unlimited supply of Jaffa Cakes to nibble on and a rule that at 4pm everyone had to stop for an ice cream.

@ianpspurs one of anything dessert like is worthy of admiration in my book.

 

[DCUKMod]

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Ha ha! I nibble it very slowly and savour every bit, making it last as long as possible!





I can’t believe you don’t know what a Jaffa cake is @ianpspurs ! Here’s a picture, they are a little layer of sponge with an orange jelly disc on top, covered in dark chocolate

I think Ian had just blocked their special orangey loveliness out of his mind.

Not being a sweet person (probably in any sense of the word - Yes, I took the words from your collective minds), I didn't go a bundle on them, although the texture of the sponge layer was always nice.