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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Bed 6.4 FBG 6.1. Thursdays should be my get stuff done at home day but this one was very busy. Last early morning trip to school before holidays. No 1 was having a very calm morning which was surprising as he was going to an athletics festival with his class and he doesn't transition well to new experiences. Still Mum was going with the class so I got out of school, nipped along for Mum and got her back to school. It was a great success. He did 7 out of 8 events and there were a lot of kids there (crowds make him nervous too) so big success.
B. Tassimo americano grande with a dash of cream and 2 Tesco rollitos.
After the back and forward to school got bag packed and off to aqua zumba (double checked swimsuit in bag).
L. More of the bits I had for dinner last night - mozzarella Pearl's, anchovies and the tuna, red onion and beans. Another coffee.
Had to pick up No 1 straight from school as he was going to the Harry Potter event at the library. Got him home to get dressed up for occasion and then him and Mum to the library. They did a great job decorating the place. Reading, magic and games. 2 hours later one happy boy appeared. Back to mine for dinner.
D. My dinner was much later. Mallard duck breast with wilted spinach and veggie chips. That was enough.
 
@Brunneria sorry about the w**k **#%! You must have been high as a kite for hours after that Lindt bar, wheeee! Garlic pickle! Is it sour, sweet, whole cloves, chopped up? I could get behind garlic pickle, it sounds delicious!
@BibaBee oh dear. I hope Mr B is recovered now, and any future episode happens at a more convenient time.
@Chook not only cautious re sending the men to dr, but I’m selfish! I want him around as long as possible thankyouverymuch!
@Rachox that fritatta photo ought to go on the cover of Southern Living magazine!! Or at least Martha Stewart (regardless of what I may think of her, the magazine is splendidly photographed!)
@maglil55 I am worn out just reading about your day! You are strong! Hubby carries an old worn out pair of trunks in his bag at all times in case he forgets, or, as happened once, the inseam fatigued to failure during a swim and he had the dickens of a time making it to his towel in decency
 
zauberflote said:
@DCUKMod[/USER] 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?
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I initially thought Skyr was yoghurt, until I tasted it. It then reminded me of the Quark I'd eat in Germany, so I looked it up. This is what Wiki has to say about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyr

Perhaps the US "recipe" is slightly different to that which we have in UK. It's amazing how the sneaky food manufacturers alter things to suit their local market's tastes.

This was my breakfast yoghurt the other day:

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It was packaged very much in the style of Danone Plain yoghurt, but was actually very sweet.

I'm sort of sussing the local labelling,............... a tiny bit!
 
@DCUKMod yeah, I’d read that article. The production method looks exactly how I learned to make yogurt in my hippy college days, with the addition of straining, and it seems rennet is optional. Is your skyr like chunks of feta cheese? (what the image I saw looked like) I saw on another thread you’re in SE Asia now- even your word for the thing that your OH is the main chef in came out in characters not letters! So what does your bfast yogurt taste like? Anything familiar?
Know what? I have an Icelandic friend - I’ll ask her what skyr was like 85 years ago when she was a little girl!
Edit to add: I think the food manufacturers *create* their customers’ tastes......
 
zauberflote said:
@DCUKMod yeah, I’d read that article. The production method looks exactly how I learned to make yogurt in my hippy college days, with the addition of straining, and it seems rennet is optional. Is your skyr like chunks of feta cheese? (what the image I saw looked like) I saw on another thread you’re in SE Asia now- even your word for the thing that your OH is the main chef in came out in characters not letters! So what does your bfast yogurt taste like? Anything familiar?
Know what? I have an Icelandic friend - I’ll ask her what skyr was like 85 years ago when she was a little girl!
Edit to add: I think the food manufacturers *create* their customers’ tastes......
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The Skyr/Quark I have had is like a set yoghurt, but with a very slightly, almost floury texture, or in fact, almost like a mousse. It probably would cut into slices or cubes, but it certainly isn't usually anywhere close to feta cheese in terms of firmness.

The other thing about Quark is it is usually marketed as low fat, high protein, so that might influence, depending on personal requirements.

Yes, I'm in SE Asia, and deliberately deployed Google translate to find me the Thai for "house". Clever thing Google traanslate, but they don't support photo-recognition yet for the Thai language.

The breakfast yoghurt was very sweet and had a slight coconut flavour to it. I haven't yet found a truly unsweetened yoghurt yet, but it's early days and there are so many other options for brekkers, I'm not going to spend my life looking for the specific when there are very acceptable alternatives out these. This morning's brekkers was a chuck of of a sharp, hard cheese, a chunk of local cucumber, for the bite, and a local tomato.

We have plenty eggs, there are all manner of sausages, and lots of pork products around, so I'm really not going to go in the least hungry, or under-nourished.
 
Hi all. Looking for some bone broth advice. Never made it before but now I have a slow cooker thought I would try it. Looking for bone to liquid ratio.

Have accumulated a few bones from last weekends short rib and lamb shanks. Have a bone-in sirloin tonight and short rib on Saturday so should have enough bones to get going on Sunday.

Editing to say also have a small piece of bone marrow in the freezer - add that too?

Any advice? Thanks.
 
DCUKMod said:
The Skyr/Quark I have had is like a set yoghurt, but with a very slightly, almost floury texture, or in fact, almost like a mousse. It probably would cut into slices or cubes, but it certainly isn't usually anywhere close to feta cheese in terms of firmness.

The other thing about Quark is it is usually marketed as low fat, high protein, so that might influence, depending on personal requirements.

Yes, I'm in SE Asia, and deliberately deployed Google translate to find me the Thai for "house". Clever thing Google traanslate, but they don't support photo-recognition yet for the Thai language.

The breakfast yoghurt was very sweet and had a slight coconut flavour to it. I haven't yet found a truly unsweetened yoghurt yet, but it's early days and there are so many other options for brekkers, I'm not going to spend my life looking for the specific when there are very acceptable alternatives out these. This morning's brekkers was a chuck of of a sharp, hard cheese, a chunk of local cucumber, for the bite, and a local tomato.

We have plenty eggs, there are all manner of sausages, and lots of pork products around, so I'm really not going to go in the least hungry, or under-nourished.
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So, like a softish tofu in texture. Very different from mine- would not cut at all unless you spread it out and let it sit to dehydrate! I wouldn’t know where to look for quark. I am very certain my Kroger deli cheese case full of artisanal cheeses does not have it.
Your food options sound delightful; enjoy your time sampling local cuisine.
 
Food was eaten. Nothing new, different, or non-boring. BGs continue very frustrating.
 
DCUKMod said:
I initially thought Skyr was yoghurt, until I tasted it. It then reminded me of the Quark I'd eat in Germany, so I looked it up. This is what Wiki has to say about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyr

Perhaps the US "recipe" is slightly different to that which we have in UK. It's amazing how the sneaky food manufacturers alter things to suit their local market's tastes.

This was my breakfast yoghurt the other day:

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It was packaged very much in the style of Danone Plain yoghurt, but was actually very sweet.

I'm sort of sussing the local labelling,............... a tiny bit!
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Yes, processed food is formulated specifically for the country it is sold in. Take care if you buy products in pound shops and such like, it could have been sourced from another country.
 
Goonergal said:
Hi all. Looking for some bone broth advice. Never made it before but now I have a slow cooker thought I would try it. Looking for bone to liquid ratio.

Have accumulated a few bones from last weekends short rib and lamb shanks. Have a bone-in sirloin tonight and short rib on Saturday so should have enough bones to get going on Sunday.

Editing to say also have a small piece of bone marrow in the freezer - add that too?

Any advice? Thanks.
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Hi @Goonergal, I make lots of bone broth as my butcher sells me a carrier bag full of bones for 60p which does 3 to four lots.
Generally, roast your bones first. Yes, add marrow bone in you like.

## Whatever you put into your slow cooker, cover it, just, with water as a guide. So, don’t completely fill your pot.

I switch mine on, put in the ingredients, don’t forget cider apple vinegar, then add boiling water.
Once going , turn down low.
I start it first thing in the morning then check before I go to bed. Probably a bit manic but there you go.
If, in the morning it looks a bit watery then drain the liquid into a pan and reduce. Not found that I need to do that.

I store a lot of mine in cubes so that I can add to cooking or just make a hot drink. Quite good also just put in a pan and then some chili flakes and sliced mushroom chucked in.
Have you also a pressure cooker - it does well there.

Here is one of a myriad of recipes available on the wonder web.

http://eatdrinkpaleo.com.au/how-to-make-nutritious-beef-bone-broth/

Making ghee at present so best get on with it.
 
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08-02
7.28am Pre breakfast 5.1
Tea, Peanut porridge, made with .25 cup of oats, .5 cup milk, 4 teaspoons peanut butter, served with .25 cup milk. Money saving it might be, but far too few calories@283, 25g carbs. Possibility of serving with cream? Probably too much fat for tummy to cope with. Maybe increase oats slightly to 33g? If BG still good. That wont help a lot though. Don't want to be on cheese or bacon as well, no point in low cost breakfast that needs a more expensive accompaniment.

8.15am Not sitting happily in tummy either, this experiment is a failure :(
8.28am 1 hour after breakfast BG 8.2 Double failure.
Forgot to do exercises, as planned 30 mins after meal. Did this contribute to spike?
9.29am 2 hour after meal 6.9

Am now wondering if all my previous "good" results @ 2 hours after meal are coming down from a spike?

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edited to add rest of day

12.46 pre lunch 5.2
Lunch: One slice Burgen bread toast, 90g pate, glass of water, satsuma, tea
One hour after lunch BG 8.4
Two hours after lunch 5.9 Looks as if my spike is earlier than 2 hours
4.pm coffee
Life gets in the way. Dinner very late.
8.35pm before dinner 5.9
Dinner, roast chicken, potato, swede, cauliflower, leeks, gravy. Yoghurt, berries, cream.
Not having wine now, just water. Want to see effect of food on BG.
One hour after dinner 6.8
Two hours after dinner 6.4

631 calories short today. Breakfast really didn't work. Cant be bothered to eat anything now. Just a cup of tea before bed.
Its looking ok for potatoes and swede
Thumbs down for porridge.

Bread, will try again, Maybe should have had my yoghurt at lunchtime? Cheese after dinner?
 
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SlimLizzy said:
08-02
7.28am Pre breakfast 5.1
Tea, Peanut porridge, made with .25 cup of oats, .5 cup milk, 4 teaspoons peanut butter, served with .25 cup milk. Money saving it might be, but far too few calories@283, 25g carbs. Possibility of serving with cream? Probably too much fat for tummy to cope with. Maybe increase oats slightly to 33g? If BG still good. That wont help a lot though. Don't want to be on cheese or bacon as well, no point in low cost breakfast that needs a more expensive accompaniment.

8.15am Not sitting happily in tummy either, this experiment is a failure :(
8.28am 1 hour after breakfast BG 8.2 Double failure.
Forgot to do exercises, as planned 30 mins after meal. Did this contribute to spike?
9.29am 2 hour after meal 6.9

Am now wondering if all my previous "good" results @ 2 hours after meal are coming down from a spike?

edited to add 2 hours result
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@SlimLizzy - you likely were coming down from a higher peak, but that's quite usual.

If you look up non-diabetic blood sugar profiles, you might be surprised.
 
Ok, so I have a new addiction.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferns-Garlic-Pickle-380g/dp/B0043VUFJI

I just had a teasp of it, with prawns and mayo.
Heavenly.

It is a curried pickle, quite spicy, with tons of whole wee garlic cloves in it. You know, those little cloves you find in the middle of the bulb? Dyed orange from all those heavenly spices.

I now have a dragon-like fire breath made up of equal parts garlic and chili and residual fumes.

What else can I put it on?
And do you think i could OD?

I’m kind of guessing that having it by the spoon, might make Mr B complain. Unreasonable man.
 
Brunneria said:
Ok, so I have a new addiction.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferns-Garlic-Pickle-380g/dp/B0043VUFJI

I just had a teasp of it, with prawns and mayo.
Heavenly.

It is a curried pickle, quite spicy, with tons of whole wee garlic cloves in it. You know, those little cloves you find in the middle of the bulb? Dyed orange from all those heavenly spices.

I now have a dragon-like fire breath made up of equal parts garlic and chili and residual fumes.

What else can I put it on?
And do you think i could OD?

I’m kind of guessing that having it by the spoon, might make Mr B complain. Unreasonable man.
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May well have to invest in this! I love garlic!!! And spice!!! Sounds amazing!!!
 
Shopping day :rolleyes: which is definitely more complicated at the moment due to both of us having food preferences from different shops. We ended up buying 4 x 1kg tubs of that yummy Turkish yoghurt (long use by date) and Elderflower tonic water from Asda, 2 packs of Wensleydale with cranberries, almond butter (£1.99) and other cheeses and frozen blackberries from Aldi, loads of salami with fennel seeds and yet more cheese from Lidl and fake spaghetti from Sainsbury - of course we didn't restrict ourselves to the specific thing we were looking for. Somehow, just for the two of us, we ended up with 12 carrier bags of 'stuff'.

Today...

Breakfast: Bacon and eggs

Lunch: Chunk of Wensleydale with cranberries

Dinner: (Mr C's day to cook) Prawns fried in butter with garlic, lemon and green chilli with a small green salad, followed by mussels cooked in white wine and garlic

Pudding/dessert: Strawberries and cream with melted 85% drizzled over

Drinks: Black decaff coffee for breakfast, mug of decaff tea with skimmed milk at lunchtime, still spring water during the afternoon with a couple of G&Ts later
 
For me, today's blood glucose dining lottery centred around a stir fried chicken with cashew nuts. It was quite sweet, so asked for some chilli sauce to perk it up (there's a real assumption all Europeans prefer bland. I blame the to series Goodness Gracious Me for it all).

All in al it was delicious, but I waited for the 2 hour mark with a little trepidation. It was slightly muddied that I hadn't tested before eating (OK, OK?....), but I'll take my 5.1 I think.

Another test in about 10 minutes for the 2.5 hour mark, just to make sure it wasn't still rising.

:nailbiting:
 
Testing! Have no idea what’s wrong with my app
 
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