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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

ianpspurs said:
Thanks. Cream maybe a little too rich for me just now. I do like the idea of shortbread but how do you make anything crisp in LC?
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I didn't make the shortbread, but I'm sure it must be possible. I served it with some spiced Swiss biscuits (Ottolenghi recipe), they were lovely but not particularly crisp. I think I recollect you're not keen on coconut, but is almond flour / ground almonds okay?
 
BibaBee said:
I didn't make the shortbread, but I'm sure it must be possible. I served it with some spiced Swiss biscuits (Ottolenghi recipe), they were lovely but not particularly crisp. I think I recollect you're not keen on coconut, but is almond flour / ground almonds okay?
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Yes, I can do almond flour - we make our own almond milk and dry then grind the slurry as well as buying the flour. Mostly, the texture/mouthfeel of anything baked with almond flour is not to my taste. My wife has made the olive oil choc cake and lemon drizzle - she likes them but after a couple of slices I am in no hurry for any more.
 
ianpspurs said:
Yes, I can do almond flour - we make our own almond milk and dry then grind the slurry as well as buying the flour. Mostly, the texture/mouthfeel of anything baked with almond flour is not to my taste. My wife has made the olive oil choc cake and lemon drizzle - she likes them but after a couple of slices I am in no hurry for any more.
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Well, I'll let you know if I discover a crisp LC shortbread style biscuit recipe. I'm still quite new to LC baking, but always happy to try new things.
 
Hi All,

Yesterday was a lot of carbs:
B: a 2 egg scramble with chilli flakes
L: a huge mixed grill, half the chips and 2 blobs of delicious icecream. Gorgeous!!!
D: absolutely not needed! But I did snaffle some cheese around 9pm

Today:
B: 2 fried eggs in butter
L: prawns in mayo
D: cheesy mince (an oldie but a goodie

Someone upthread ^^^ mentioned rhubarb and yogurt.
I nearly drooled.
Must be the carb cravings after yesterday.
 
Evening all. Late posting for me but had to go to work an hour early so could finish an hour early to get daughter to a birthday party on time, then went straight back out once finished to fit a swim in - have become somewhat obsessed with the pool! But in amongst all that busy evening the boiler got fixed :D house is back to feeling warm and cosy!
Breakfast - protein peanut & chocolate bar with cup of tea, closely followed by coffee - my eyelids weren’t impressed at the earlier get up for work and needed help to stay open!
Lunch - chicken breast, a huge chunk of Canadian mature cheddar with lettuce, spinach, rocket, cucumber and a tiny bit of grated beetroot with mayo followed bg a coffee and 2 squares of green & blacks orange and almond chocolate
Then had a cappuccino whilst sat at the party
No dinner as just got back from swimming and definitely too late to eat.
 
D4FA303A-3A75-42FD-9191-42169EE0C157.jpeg Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: cold bbq chicken, leafy salad, one cherry tomato, cucumber and duck scratchings followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
Mid afternoon: Starbucks coconut cappuccino and a raspberry Phd bar.
Dinner in the Indian restaurant here on holiday. I’ve always found Indians hard because of all the carby stuff, naans, rice and sugar in the curries etc... But the waitress spoke to the chef who did me a lamb bhuna and mushroom side dish without sugar or any thickeners. It was delicious and my blood sugar actually went down! This is how it arrived at the table! Well I suppose us Type 2s are kind of allergic to carbs! :joyful:
 
@shelley262 thanks for ideas! I can’t fast like y’all do because of a strictly scheduled med I take that requires a meal with it to do its work. I think I’m just enjoying my fats too much. I think I have my annual winter-itis, so ingrained responses send me to food. As I mentioned, traded one addiction for another.
@maglil55 all I can think of when I read Ezekiel’s story is my formerly bad hips, which now appear to have some bursitis, go figure. I can’t lie on my side for even 390 minutes! I think the dung would have been a common fuel anyway - I know dried cow pats burn clean. May I have some of your cupboard space please? Mine are neat as a pin, already crowded (and half my stuff is still packed in boxes waiting for us to move to permanent housing!), and if I’m going to add an IP, I may have to store it out on the sunporch!
@ianpspurs I’m sorry the back is that kind of problem. Back surgery is not fun to contemplate And my worrd! What an orchard you’ve got. I am drooling! Best I ever did was sour cherry, and this house came with volunteer blackberries.
Hubby’s family, all ~50 of us (so far), all share a kitchen at the vacation house. That kitchen is an archeological dig, and every female in 3 current generations has her own way of organizing the STUFF. So every time anyone goes there, we play “where’s the big green bowl now??”
@Chook and maglil my kids were brought up in a vegetarian house (poor Mr ZF, long-suffering soul) until the elder hit puberty and began going out to McD’s with friends. Chicken and beef entered my repertoire for the growing boy and his dad.
. @DJC3 I can smell that garlic all the way over here!
@dunelm I so respect the people who take care of communications! My dad was “Sparks” in his war, and used to sign his notes to Mom in Morse slang ️
@Rachox that looks delicious!!!
Whew, takes me all day to read everything....
 
DJC3 said:
I’m watching GPs Behind Closed Doors - a lady came in with burning on passing urine, doc did a finger prick and it was 18.6. He told her it was very high and she would need to go on medication and to come back when lab test was done. No mention of diet at all. Sounds very like my initial diagnosis.
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My take on it, DJC3, was that the lady was already diabetic, so it was "moving on". I'm also very, very conscious these videos will be edite. I'm sure the fab Brum videos (Do you do autographs?) recently posted by DCUK aren't in their totally original state.
 
Today was a bit of a game changer.

In this hacienda we love belly pork, roasted low and slow, but a mega-blast at the end to crisp the crackling, to be "the thing".

Having spent a couple of weeks eating down a fridge and freezer (for cleaning and turning off (we have 2), I decided to do some belly pork slices tonight (we usually have a slab), and as I was on my own and a little tight on time, I elected to do them in the airfryer. I don't usually fine belly slices, done in the oven, to my liking (it's hard to get them just right - meat cooked, and tender, and fat wel, well rendered), but tonight, I did them in the air fryer at 160c, for around 20 minutes, beforer turning the slices over, and increasing the temperaturee to 185c for almost 10 minutes. Oh boy.

OK, there was never going to be crackling as the rind had gone, but the meat was succulent and the fat rendered beautifully.

This experience will be repeated. I just hope it is repeatable!
 
I’m getting an IP for my birrrrthdaaay
Bfast 1/2 avocado, really hardboiled egg smushed with yogurt, decaf/soy/cream, and a little cinnamon chia pudding made with come of the coffee. For fiber.
Then there was a wren in the house. It had to get through a 6’x6” opening onto the porch, and then through a small cat hole at the bottom of the storm door to the house. Not the brightest bird. Locked it into a small bedroom with many many moving boxes stacked against the walls. Contemplating trying to move all those boxes, or perhaps being very low on water caused post-bfast BG to be up 30%! Drank water!
Lunch celery, lc tortilla spread with almond butter/butter mix. BG rose an appropriate amount for meal but was still way high.
Snack (stress eating, I swear) other half avocado for fiber, too much super aged Vermont cheddar, which I was packaging up for the freezer.
Pre-supper bg back to ordinary. Must have been all the water I poured in.
Supper green beans, cherry toms, tin of no salt added sardines in olive oil, and a very greedy chunk of swiss cheese. Do want chocolate but it would disrupt my sleep.
Supper was supposed to be creamy cheesy tomato-y celeriac soup but I ran out of time. Tomorrow.
As always, bedtime snack of some yogurt with some of the cream I’m trying to use up fast bc it’s thinking of turning. Good excuse, eh!
 
zauberflote said:
@shelley262 thanks for ideas! I can’t fast like y’all do because of a strictly scheduled med I take that requires a meal with it to do its work. I think I’m just enjoying my fats too much. I think I have my annual winter-itis, so ingrained responses send me to food. As I mentioned, traded one addiction for another.
@maglil55 all I can think of when I read Ezekiel’s story is my formerly bad hips, which now appear to have some bursitis, go figure. I can’t lie on my side for even 390 minutes! I think the dung would have been a common fuel anyway - I know dried cow pats burn clean. May I have some of your cupboard space please? Mine are neat as a pin, already crowded (and half my stuff is still packed in boxes waiting for us to move to permanent housing!), and if I’m going to add an IP, I may have to store it out on the sunporch!
@ianpspurs I’m sorry the back is that kind of problem. Back surgery is not fun to contemplate And my worrd! What an orchard you’ve got. I am drooling! Best I ever did was sour cherry, and this house came with volunteer blackberries.
Hubby’s family, all ~50 of us (so far), all share a kitchen at the vacation house. That kitchen is an archeological dig, and every female in 3 current generations has her own way of organizing the STUFF. So every time anyone goes there, we play “where’s the big green bowl now??”
@Chook and maglil my kids were brought up in a vegetarian house (poor Mr ZF, long-suffering soul) until the elder hit puberty and began going out to McD’s with friends. Chicken and beef entered my repertoire for the growing boy and his dad.
. @DJC3 I can smell that garlic all the way over here!
@dunelm I so respect the people who take care of communications! My dad was “Sparks” in his war, and used to sign his notes to Mom in Morse slang ️
@Rachox that looks delicious!!!
Whew, takes me all day to read everything....
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I put the leftover garlic sauce in the fridge last night stupidly, and now everything in there has a garlic tang.

Completely get the ‘where’s the big green bowl now’ game - we had the same over Christmas when there were a lot of people washing up - nothing ever went back in the same place, it was chaos but I couldn’t really moan, I was just glad someone else was doing it.

I love your volunteer blackberries!
 
Rachox said:
View attachment 30796 Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: cold bbq chicken, leafy salad, one cherry tomato, cucumber and duck scratchings followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
Mid afternoon: Starbucks coconut cappuccino and a raspberry Phd bar.
Dinner in the Indian restaurant here on holiday. I’ve always found Indians hard because of all the carby stuff, naans, rice and sugar in the curries etc... But the waitress spoke to the chef who did me a lamb bhuna and mushroom side dish without sugar or any thickeners. It was delicious and my blood sugar actually went down! This is how it arrived at the table! Well I suppose us Type 2s are kind of allergic to carbs! :joyful:
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Lovely that they did this for you Rachel and love the flags
 
It's lethal outside today. My neighbour fell over on the ice today while trying to get in to her car (lock was frozen) and broke her ankle - so be careful everyone.

Today is OMAD and that one meal will be roast chicken.

Drinks: Black decaff coffee and water

I'm monitoring the amount of protein I'm eating. I've found it a bit worrying how my FBG is still just as high as when I was eating normal keto although the DP is much reduced (or not at all like it was yesterday) it MUST be gluconeogenesis - there can't be any other explanation. So I'm going to restrict protein to 1.2g per kg. Fingers crossed that it works.
 
Chook said:
It's lethal outside today. My neighbour fell over on the ice today while trying to get in to her car (lock was frozen) and broke her ankle - so be careful everyone.

Today is OMAD and that one meal will be roast chicken.

Drinks: Black decaff coffee and water

I'm monitoring the amount of protein I'm eating. I've found it a bit worrying how my FBG is still just as high as when I was eating normal keto although the DP is much reduced (or not at all like it was yesterday) it MUST be gluconeogenesis - there can't be any other explanation. So I'm going to restrict protein to 1.2g per kg. Fingers crossed that it works.
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@Chook
Have you ever come across this article?
http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2017/07/gluconeogenesis.html
It is very useful at discussing gluconeogenesis in much more commonsense depth than you usually come across on the Interweb. So many myths abound. :)
 
Brunneria said:
@Chook
Have you ever come across this article?
http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2017/07/gluconeogenesis.html
It is very useful at discussing gluconeogenesis in much more commonsense depth than you usually come across on the Interweb. So many myths abound. :)
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Excellent article thank you for this @Brunneria particulary interested in the bits about ketones and what high levels mean @Goonergal think you’ll be interested in this article if you haven’t seen it before. I found article very reassuring and backed up my experience I think.
 
Hungry19 said:
Breakfast:Hibiscus tea/cinnamon/salt. ACV water. Greek yogurt.
Lunch: Chicken Bone Broth/Nutritional yeast. Bread/butter.
Dinner: chicken roast/parsnip/yorksire/stuffing/cream cauliflower cheese/ no potatoes or gravy.
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Welcome to the thread are you type 1 or type 2? Looks like you’re working at lowering your carbs what no of carbs are you working with at the moment? Some of us on this thread work on under 20/30 others operate under about 100/120 especially when starting out. I started on about 60/80 g of carbs for a few weeks while I adjusted but now 18 months later I’m still sticking to below 30 as it works well for me.
 
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