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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

@SlimLizzy that point about almonds is one I’ve been burying my head in the sand about since starting LC. I was a peanut butter girl all the way! I’d boycotted almonds for a few years before this... I wish I liked brazils. Love pecans. Aren’t macadamias a good choice also? $$
@Pasha wow thanks re selenium in brazils. Selenium and I don’t get along anyway.
@DCUKMod re skyr, odd! Mine is a brand called Siggi’s, and the type I buy is full-fat, with the label of “Icelandic Style Yogurt”. Its ingredients are milk and 5 live bacteria cultures. Tastes like yogurt only richer, tangier, and more like I remember yogurt from the 70’s. I looked up this quark cheese, and the image I saw looked nothing like what I eat, and has rennet in it?
@AllieRainbow what a great bread substitute!!
 
Chook said:
Pecans and Brazil nuts for me.

I recently bought a big bag of hazel nuts after reading about their health giving properties and now I can't remember what the health giving properties were. Probably something to do with memory. :confused:
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The Hotel Chocolat hazelnuts in 80% chocolate doubtless have even more health giving properties :D
 
Goonergal said:
The Hotel Chocolat hazelnuts in 80% chocolate doubtless have even more health giving properties :D
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When shopping last night I stumbled into a hotel chocolat and came home with a selection of flavoured dark chocolate delights. Know I can only eat one at a time but very excited at the prospect - never been in that shop before. I may well now be making monthly visits :D
 
Good day today for me - did Pilates class indoors whilst it was wet and windy this morning and then wind dropped and sun came out so went on a walk in my local forest. I’m doing a mindfulness course at the moment on being kind to yourself and it’s clearly working - my long boring to do list got ditched! It can wait until tomorrow when it’s rainy again!
No breakfast just coffee and cream before Pilates
Lunch 4 lc crispbreads with tin of sardines in olive oil with a mix of nuts and three 100% chocolate buttons (hc)
Dinner trout with lemon butter served on a bed of asparagus followed by lc raspberry mousse.
@Emma_369 hotel Chocolat is addictive! Enjoy your finds - as you say key is to ration them out.
 
Hi all

Concocted a new recipe last night which has turned out to be very successful.

Lunch - out with colleagues at Honest Burger. Bunless burger with bacon, cheese and mayonnaise with a (very) small portion of rocket and a little raw onion.

Late afternoon snack - one of those mini Sainsbury’s 85% chocolate bars donated by a colleague.

Dinner - chicken wings which had been marinated overnight in melted butter, lime juice and zest, chopped garlic and pink Himalayan salt. Cooked in the marinade and then finished off with a light drizzle of Hotel Chocolat chilli and cocoa finishing oil (a birthday present which waited until the end of Carnivore month for its first outing). Really tasty meal and will keep some of the butter marinade to melt on top of tomorrow night’s steak.

Just finishing off with 2 Hotel Chocolat 100% batons - another birthday pressie which the giver suggested I didn’t open until February. Had hidden away so successfully I just had to hunt for the package!

Off to Pilates now.
 
Good to have a storm named after an expensive but useless Spurs player. Walking the dogs was fun both ways. Outward was really hard to walk into the wind. Inward gusts nearly blew me over. Hope everyone had good days and all tiles, tress, fences and poly tunnels intact.
Breakfast and Mid morning; Tea - lots Lunch: 3 rashers nitrite free bacon (cooked to be used in salads but I thought it may come to harm on top of the cooker); some beef that looked sad and lonely so I rescued it; 2 eggs, mackerel and stilton salad - not as big as usual; Afternoon - Cocoa and a taster slice of flaxseed and hemp flour bread
Evening meal: Sausage surprise - the surprise is they weren’t from W and Partners but 97% meat (allegedly) ; small spring onion; garlic (lots); celery; mushrooms; little water and some coconut cream at the end to thicken a little (hiding in fridge from Tuesday)
Liked both meals and used IP so a result. Re #nutgate 2 nights this week I have had some walnuts and I like hazelnuts from time to time.
 
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@Goonergal The chicken wings sound lovely.
@Emma_369 You won't look back now you've discovered HC! We treated ourself to lots of goodies from there for Christmas to replace all our old traditional high carb treats. The nutty Yule log is long gone now, but we still have a small amount of stash left. It will soon be time to restock supplies!
@ianpspurs I'm glad to hear both meals hit the spot today. How was the flax and hemp flour bread?
 
Evenin’ All

Had the most frustrating morning in a very long time (w**k) so took that frustation on out on an entire bar of Lindt 70%.
Felt chocolated out after. :)

Didn’t need lunch, and just had pork ribs with garlic pickle. The pickle is part of a recent farm shop haul, and it is exquisite.
 
Well, I was thrown a slight curve ball for today. Mr B decided to have a funny turn and faint in the bathroom at 3.30am. It was scary for both of us and the poor lad didn't feel up to getting back to bed until 5.30. So, I just sat with on the bathroom floor until he felt well enough. :nurse: My alarm for work goes off at 6.15am! :bigtears: Thankfully, my boss is pretty understanding about these things. So, half a day of leave (to catch up on sleep) and half a day working from home. And poor Mr B feeling a bit sorry for himself. We're pretty sure this incident is BP related, as he has had the odd issue since starting on Ramipril back in June. Any sign of a repeat performance and he'll be packed off to the GP pronto.

Breakfast (very late): Strawberry & Lime Chia pudding. Coffee & cream
Mid morning: Almond milk cappuccino. Mr B had a pecan cookie.
Lunch: Mr B had grilled spiced chicken with fennel, avocado, cucumber and chilli salad with lime dressing. I wasn't that hungry, so I had a few nuts and a baby Bell.
Snacks: Mr B had a few nuts.
Dinner: Fathead pizza with thinly sliced asparagus, green olives prosciutto. Served with green salad. Cocoa with almond milk and cream.

The Fathead pizza was amazing and really hit the spot after all the stress of the early hours! Not quite sure how I managed to restrain myself and only had a quarter!
 

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BibaBee said:
@Goonergal The chicken wings sound lovely.
@Emma_369 You won't look back now you've discovered HC! We treated ourself to lots of goodies from there for Christmas to replace all our old traditional high carb treats. The nutty Yule log is long gone now, but we still have a small amount of stash left. It will soon be time to restock supplies!
@ianpspurs I'm glad to hear both meals hit the spot today. How was the flax and hemp flour bread?
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I like the friendly enquiry but can't abide the phrase hit the spot:arghh: The bread was a bit meh as bread(almost 8 month trial to make the centre of a flaxseed loaf cook) but will be fine as crispbread/croutons but thanks for asking. Honestly, I'm not grumpy just know what I like and maybe like what I know too much.
 
BibaBee said:
Well, I was thrown a slight curve ball for today. Mr B decided to have a funny turn and faint in the bathroom at 3.30am. It was scary for both of us and the poor lad didn't feel up to getting back to bed until 5.30. So, I just sat with on the bathroom floor until he felt well enough. :nurse: My alarm for work goes off at 6.15am! :bigtears: Thankfully, my boss is pretty understanding about these things. So, half a day of leave (to catch up on sleep) and half a day working from home. And poor Mr B feeling a bit sorry for himself. We're pretty sure this incident is BP related, as he has had the odd issue since starting on Ramipril back in June. Any sign of a repeat performance and he'll be packed off to the GP pronto.

Breakfast (very late): Strawberry & Lime Chia pudding. Coffee & cream
Mid morning: Almond milk cappuccino. Mr B had a pecan cookie.
Lunch: Mr B had grilled spiced chicken with fennel, avocado, cucumber and chilli salad with lime dressing. I wasn't that hungry, so I had a few nuts and a baby Bell.
Snacks: Mr B had a few nuts.
Dinner: Fathead pizza with thinly sliced asparagus, green olives prosciutto. Served with green salad. Cocoa with almond milk and cream.

The Fathead pizza was amazing and really hit the spot after all the stress of the early hours! Not quite sure how I managed to restrain myself and only had a quarter!
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Feeling for you. Has he had his bp checked recently? I started going very faint and dizzy about 18 months ago after losing weight rapidly and lowering bgs and when bps checked after my faint and dizzy spells they were really low. When started on meds I was about 180/79 now - with no meds at all often around 115/69 or lower - it can crash as you change. I’m not diagnosing just wondering?
 
Goonergal said:
Hi all

Concocted a new recipe last night which has turned out to be very successful.

Lunch - out with colleagues at Honest Burger. Bunless burger with bacon, cheese and mayonnaise with a (very) small portion of rocket and a little raw onion.

Late afternoon snack - one of those mini Sainsbury’s 85% chocolate bars donated by a colleague.

Dinner - chicken wings which had been marinated overnight in melted butter, lime juice and zest, chopped garlic and pink Himalayan salt. Cooked in the marinade and then finished off with a light drizzle of Hotel Chocolat chilli and cocoa finishing oil (a birthday present which waited until the end of Carnivore month for its first outing). Really tasty meal and will keep some of the butter marinade to melt on top of tomorrow night’s steak.

Just finishing off with 2 Hotel Chocolat 100% batons - another birthday pressie which the giver suggested I didn’t open until February. Had hidden away so successfully I just had to hunt for the package!

Off to Pilates now.
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That chicken is truly decadent:wacky:
 
BibaBee said:
Well, I was thrown a slight curve ball for today. Mr B decided to have a funny turn and faint in the bathroom at 3.30am. It was scary for both of us and the poor lad didn't feel up to getting back to bed until 5.30. So, I just sat with on the bathroom floor until he felt well enough. :nurse: My alarm for work goes off at 6.15am! :bigtears: Thankfully, my boss is pretty understanding about these things. So, half a day of leave (to catch up on sleep) and half a day working from home. And poor Mr B feeling a bit sorry for himself. We're pretty sure this incident is BP related, as he has had the odd issue since starting on Ramipril back in June. Any sign of a repeat performance and he'll be packed off to the GP pronto.

Breakfast (very late): Strawberry & Lime Chia pudding. Coffee & cream
Mid morning: Almond milk cappuccino. Mr B had a pecan cookie.
Lunch: Mr B had grilled spiced chicken with fennel, avocado, cucumber and chilli salad with lime dressing. I wasn't that hungry, so I had a few nuts and a baby Bell.
Snacks: Mr B had a few nuts.
Dinner: Fathead pizza with thinly sliced asparagus, green olives prosciutto. Served with green salad. Cocoa with almond milk and cream.

The Fathead pizza was amazing and really hit the spot after all the stress of the early hours! Not quite sure how I managed to restrain myself and only had a quarter!
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Did you manage to take his BP while he was on the bathroom floor? i ask this because while back I had my husband faint in the kitchen - it turned out that some meds he was on had lowered his BP to dangerous levels.

It was only after the kitchen episode that he told me that a few days before he had fainted while out walking the dogs. Scared the wits out of me because we live in a village on the edge of a big expanse of moorland and he walks the dogs on the moor - you can walk for hours there without seeing anyone.. After some stern 'prompting' from me he went back to the doctor's and had a meds review and they took him off some beta blockers and another medication was reduced and (touch wood) he hasn't had another episode since.

I know they say we are nagging when we insist they go to the doctor's but I consider it just being cautious.
 
Evening everyone.
Breakfast - 2 squares of Montezuma Black Forest gateau chocolate as soon as I woke up - after a long fast I thought I’d earned chocolate for breakfast :angelic: when I got to work I my new nut and salted chocolate protein bar with a cuppa
Lunch - 2 stout chicken thighs and half a dozen ribs of fire off the Morrison’s hot counter with a spoon of cheesy coleslaw
Dinner - chicken tikka, king prawns, red pepper, chopped tomato and mushrooms all in the wok for a type of dry curry. Followed by one of my hotel chocolat treats
 
ianpspurs said:
I like the friendly enquiry but can't abide the phrase hit the spot:arghh: The bread was a bit meh as bread(almost 8 month trial to make the centre of a flaxseed loaf cook) but will be fine as crispbread/croutons but thanks for asking. Honestly, I'm not grumpy just know what I like and maybe like what I know too much.
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I like it that you know what you like and you're not afraid to say it! You do realise I'm going to have to restrain myself from saying "hit the spot" at any given opportunity now! ;)
 
shelley262 said:
Feeling for you. Has he had his bp checked recently? I started going very faint and dizzy about 18 months ago after losing weight rapidly and lowering bgs and when bps checked after my faint and dizzy spells they were really low. When started on meds I was about 180/79 now - with no meds at all often around 115/69 or lower - it can crash as you change. I’m not diagnosing just wondering?
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You are right, we do need to check. The problem is that he has serious white coat syndrome. We even have issues monitoring at home. We had an incident a few months ago at the eye hospital when they checked and it was through the roof due to anxiety. Ever since, he's had an aversion to checking.
 
Chook said:
Did you manage to take his BP while he was on the bathroom floor? i ask this because while back I had my husband faint in the kitchen - it turned out that some meds he was on had lowered his BP to dangerous levels.

It was only after the kitchen episode that he told me that a few days before he had fainted while out walking the dogs. Scared the wits out of me because we live in a village on the edge of a big expanse of moorland and he walks the dogs on the moor - you can walk for hours there without seeing anyone.. After some stern 'prompting' from me he went back to the doctor's and had a meds review and they took him off some beta blockers and another medication was reduced and (touch wood) he hasn't had another episode since.

I know they say we are nagging when we insist they go to the doctor's but I consider it just being cautious.
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We do need to revisit his BP and meds. It's just all a bit tricky and very wrapped up with his anxiety issues.
 
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