• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

@Brunneria I love your dog story, can’t beat petting a dog ( or cat, or alpaca if you are so inclined, but dogs do it for me) for raising the spirits.

Bg has been rising steadily for a couple of weeks now. From days spent in 4s and 5s to 5s and 6s and today had a couple of 7s. Diet not changed but exercise has dwindled so need to up my game.
No breakfast ( mistake maybe as I reached 7.2 before lunch) just black coffee and 1 TWAM
Lunch: tuna melt muffin with salad of rocket, avocado pumpkin seeds. Walnut oil and acv dressing. HC Easter egg chunk.
D: 1/2 butcher’s sausage. 1/2 sirloin steak and 2 mushrooms stuffed with spinach and stilton. Gk yog afterwards and more HC egg
Nearly there @shelley262 .I know you have a lot on atm but its not long til you can unwind on your lovely Scottish holiday. Hope you can get everything done.
 
DCUKMod said:
A couple of days ago, a Tweet appeared on my phone, as an alert, but I seemed t lose it, before I could interogate the member. Her tweet was something like (paraphrasing",

" I really should write a book about eating carni on an extreme budget".

My impression the extreme meant low, not generous budget.

I wonder if there' a thread in us each chipping in one or two really cheap meal options? I'll ponder it.
Click to expand...
Just carni or low carb generally?
 
DJC3 said:
GOT for me too - I am already dressed in my dragon onesie to Mr C’s dismay.

Sounds like you are having a wonderful time with the grandchildren.
Click to expand...
Think you'll need your dragon onesie for next week and Mr DJC3 in an icy suit! Kind of feel they're setting us up for something horrible.
 
Thankfully, no stress or alarming phone calls for me today. 2 meals during the day - can't work out if they were 5 or 6 hrs apart. Lunch was a cheese sandwich (Schneiderbrot protein bread) cucumber and some smoked cheddar. Evening meal was an asparagus (h/g) and mushroom omelette then 3 x 100% and 3 x 85% HC batons. Not sure that is enough food but digestive system appears over keen to repel all invaders lately.
 
maglil55 said:
Think you'll need your dragon onesie for next week and Mr DJC3 in an icy suit! Kind of feel they're setting us up for something horrible.
Click to expand...

Haha he just stomped off looking horrified at me. He doesn’t watch it. Think you’re right though, next week should be a shocker.
 
maglil55 said:
Just carni or low carb generally?
Click to expand...

The Twittererererererer was talking about a carni diet, bit I sort of thought (but haven't yet done aything about it), we might be able to identify a threadful of cheap meat dishes, as heading for more meat and less filler, seems to be a general concern for new folks.

Interestingly, I'm on my lonesome for a few days, whilst MrB plays golf. I had rererason to pop into Morrisons (not my usual haunt), and bought a pork hock, thinking I'd use it for soup, but it was super-meaty (and £1.67), so I lobbed it into the IP for 30 minutes, then took off plenty meat, plus rind.

Whils not as fatty as belly pork, that made lots of fab Moo Grob and the bones and plenty meat went back into the pot to become stock, which will become soup, with the addition of a few veggies tomorrow. I'd guess I've got about 5 miles out of that £1.67, plus a few fridge veggies.
 
DCUKMod said:
The Twittererererererer was talking about a carni diet, bit I sort of thought (but haven't yet done aything about it), we might be able to identify a threadful of cheap meat dishes, as heading for more meat and less filler, seems to be a general concern for new folks.

Interestingly, I'm on my lonesome for a few days, whilst MrB plays golf. I had rererason to pop into Morrisons (not my usual haunt), and bought a pork hock, thinking I'd use it for soup, but it was super-meaty (and £1.67), so I lobbed it into the IP for 30 minutes, then took off plenty meat, plus rind.

Whils not as fatty as belly pork, that made lots of fab Moo Grob and the bones and plenty meat went back into the pot to become stock, which will become soup, with the addition of a few veggies tomorrow. I'd guess I've got about 5 miles out of that £1.67, plus a few fridge veggies.
Click to expand...
Morrisons butcher is pretty good. I've got 2 Morrisons nearby and I know the butchers in both of them. Very useful for getting what I want butchered!
 
@DCUKMod and @maglil55 I think this is a really good idea for a thread. It seems quite common for people to think it’s all about steak and more steak.
I’ve only recently discovered the delights of a slow cooked breast of lamb. A cut I used to avoid like the plague as it was so fatty and I wasn’t cooking it properly ( not slow enough).
There’s also a less appealing looking bacon joint than gammon in my butchers. It’s really cheap and is brilliantly tasty and tender when cooked in the IP. Plus you get all the stock for soup afterwards. I think its a neck ir something? (I usually just point)
 
maglil55 said:
Morrisons butcher is pretty good. I've got 2 Morrisons nearby and I know the butchers in both of them. Very useful for getting what I want butchered!
Click to expand...

MrB dosen't eat meat from any of the supermarkets, on the grounds of their slaughtering methods, so it was a rare trip for me. Our local butcher is excellent and really looks after us, but I was in that area for something else.
 
DJC3 said:
@DCUKMod and @maglil55 I think this is a really good idea for a thread. It seems quite common for people to think it’s all about steak and more steak.
I’ve only recently discovered the delights of a slow cooked breast of lamb. A cut I used to avoid like the plague as it was so fatty and I wasn’t cooking it properly ( not slow enough).
There’s also a less appealing looking bacon joint than gammon in my butchers. It’s really cheap and is brilliantly tasty and tender when cooked in the IP. Plus you get all the stock for soup afterwards. I think its a neck ir something? (I usually just point)
Click to expand...

I'll kick something off now.
 
Quick list
Two teas and then a yoghurt
Lunch sort of salad, all the bits in the fridge with small piece of bread, cheese and avocado.
Ha deal of nuts for snack
Then dinner was more bread and coleslaw with some beef slices and leftovers from lunch, one ripe pear and two macaroons,
Glass of Mouton Cadet, water and bedtime tea.
 
Thanks @shelley262 !
@maglil55 wow I am glad I'm in such good company! I must still be in a stage where the fallout from that reading will continue for awhile. No time to test until before supper. ....So will you do your washing in the sink? ;)
Glad somebody got to have a calm day @ianpspurs ! Your omelet sounds yummy.
@SlimLizzy !!! Great to see you
Bfast cinamnom chia pudding, egg, DWC
Lunch a handful of jumbo pecan halves leaped out of the freezer at me, and I couldn't bear to see them hit the floor! Seltzer
Supper many green things, trying to eat them all up. Celery, spinach, avocado, brussels sprouts, ETA and that disgusting stuff in the avocado is just mustard, but it sure looks nasty!, Cabot extra aged cheddar quiche, a flax muffin.
BG before supper had kindly fallen by 2.4, lowest of the day!

IMG_8115.jpg
Whew. Off to do allll the things that need doing before bedtime. Sleep well all!
 
Last edited:
I thought it was supposed to rain today - the garden really needs it.

Has anyone tried Jerusalem artichokes and tested to find out how BGs react? I've just been thinking about growing some and a seller on eBay says they are okay for people on keto?

Today....

Breakfast: Morrison's kippers (yuck) and scrambled eggs
Lunch: crispbread and Philadelphia
Dinner: same as yesterday - cheese, ham and egg mayo salad with little gem lettuce, cherry tomatoes, spring onions, baby beetroot
Drinks: Black decaff coffee and still spring water

The Morrison's kippers were very disappointing - unbelievably salty - nowhere near as nice as the M&S ones.
 
Chook said:
I thought it was supposed to rain today - the garden really needs it.

Has anyone tried Jerusalem artichokes and tested to find out how BGs react? I've just been thinking about growing some and a seller on eBay says they are okay for people on keto?

Today....

Breakfast: Morrison's kippers (yuck) and scrambled eggs
Lunch: crispbread and Philadelphia
Dinner: same as yesterday - cheese, ham and egg mayo salad with little gem lettuce, cherry tomatoes, spring onions, baby beetroot
Drinks: Black decaff coffee and still spring water

The Morrison's kippers were very disappointing - unbelievably salty - nowhere near as nice as the M&S ones.
Click to expand...
Only ever eaten the roasted artichokes from deli counter - love those. No idea re bg but most foods will be ok 1 day but not the next so who knows? I do have some seeds to have a go at growing a few.
 
Chook said:
Has anyone tried Jerusalem artichokes and tested to find out how BGs react? I've just been thinking about growing some and a seller on eBay says they are okay for people on keto?
Click to expand...

My memories of J artichokes can be summed up in a single word:- Flatulence

Actually, I tell a lie. There are two more words that apply:- Never Again
 
Brunneria said:
My memories of J artichokes can be summed up in a single word:- Flatulence

Actually, I tell a lie. There are two more words that apply:- Never Again
Click to expand...

I love them but, yes, they are windy. I used to grow them pre-d, we'd have them roasted with Sunday dinner and it was very Blazing Saddles (especially when we had them with sprouts). They are so easy to grow but some websites say they are okay because they contain inulin and some say they are high carb.
 
Chook said:
I love them but, yes, they are windy. I used to grow them pre-d, we'd have them roasted with Sunday dinner and it was very Blazing Saddles (especially when we had them with sprouts). They are so easy to grow but some websites say they are okay because they contain inulin and some say they are high carb.
Click to expand...
Do they actually have a taste as from memory the roasted ones just taste of the dressing - probably why I like them?
 
Back
Top