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

What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Think I'm done for the day so agent carrot cruncher reporting in. No B except Moana @ 6.00 and several huge mugs of TWAM. Cocoa around 12.00. 14.20 hrs 2 slices Schneiderbrot protein bread toasted with smashed avocado and 3 poached eggs from our gals. Just finished duck (whole duck £3.00 - probably cost more in cartridges to shoot one) stir fry with extra beansprouts. Just sesame oil and gluten free soy as sauce. All adequate but highlights of the day were Woolwich Nomads losing and some random baby doing her old gits visiting - kept checking to see if I still had a pulse.
 
Last edited:
Evening all. Posting from the train to report a bit of an indulgent day.

Brunch was bacon and eggs with 30g almonds.

Afternoon snack before leaving my Dad’s was extra thick double cream mixed with almond butter. Afternoon snack after leaving my Dad’s was a delicious Hotel Chocolat hot chocolate made with cream with extra cream on top.

Dinner was a Five Guys bunless bacon cheeseburger with mayonnaise and a bit of onion on Birmingham New Street station.

8BA2E633-AB28-4B33-BB1B-6F2F2621040B.jpeg

Edited to correct typo.
 
Last edited:
Hi all
@Goonergal safe journey that hot choc looks amazing!
Breakfast one each of Waitrose I sausage, bacon and egg
Lunch few almonds and a selection of cheese and four squares of montezumas 100% choc
Dinner chicken with cauliflower cheese and glass of wine followed by one scoop of oppo vanilla and one chocolate oppo with some double cream.
All packed up and ready for our trip tommorow morning to Scotland. Looking forward to our first class train experience and the complimentary coffee and tea! Packing tub of cream to make the most! Think food will be carby but taking nuts with me and hoping there may be cheese! Will let you know ..........
 
Checking in.
Breakfast : usual 1 slice HiLo toast butter and tea. You have no idea how happy that one slice of 5g makes me in the morning.
Lunch: tomato, cucumber, 2 cocktail goats cheese peppers, celeriac remoulade.
Supper: ham, double egg and chips for the men. Spinach omlette for me.
Eye has been achy like a nagging toothache today, expect it was the anaesthetic wearing off, dont know. Took some codeine this morning.
@Chook you have very sophisticated dogs.
@ianpspurs hugs, really get what you are saying, we have our house on the market and are downsizing but we really made this house ours and I will miss the kitchen most. Dont tell OH. But its time in our lives to simplify things and help the boys if we can, we just need to get it right. This is going to be a tough year and it may take a lot longer before Mr PM can ease up on his crazy working life.
Before I go SOS ..made some good mackerel pate this morning which OH had for lunch do you think I can freeze the rest. Forgot he’s away for a few days. Its mackerel, cream cheese, lemon, herbs and chilli. TIA
 
A sort of brunch today, at about 11am; dry fried halloumi cheese (squeak squeak) topped with bashed up avocado with salt and lime and some pickled radish.

Mid afternoon; made an olive oil chocolate cake and had to have a chefy taste with some soured cream.

Dinner; I made some chicken stock yesterday so a soup - slow fried onions, some fennel seeds, chilli, tumeric, garlic, ginger, then ladle in the chicken stock, add some carrot and celery- bubble bubble then blitz - add chopped bok choi, cream and serve with coriander and some crispy lardons.
Will definitely have a slice of that choccy cake later on.
 
Last edited:
Seems to be Omad for me today - just CWC and TWAM this morning.
Round daughter’s for lunch: she supplied glorious topside from her friend’s farm. Cooked in IP ( 4 minute beef) I sorted veg which was roasties for them plys cauli cheese, cabbage cooked in butter and roast broccoli. Mr C was sommelier so champagne to start then a nice red with the meal. DCWC afterwards.
Just got home and had a HC 100% choc baton.

@PenguinMum I don’t know about freezing your pate but I’ll be interested in the replies. I make something along those lines and don’t usually use it all at once. Hope your poor eye improves, I expect you’re really conscious of it now.

@Goonergal I don’t think I’ve been to a HC cafe - only the shops, but I’m going to search one out now, that looks so indulgent.
@shelley262 have a wonderful holiday. First class travel is a brilliant way to start your break ( but taking cream is always a good move)
@ianpspurs hope the kon marie workout is progressing well. @dunelm your experience of it mirrors mine
Agree with all previous posters that an immersion blender is a wonderful thing.
 
@Goonergal, @Brunneria - as I said I don't go in for the spark joy malarky. I'm very much keep, charity, recycle but, her folding method does make a lot of sense and it isn't much different to normal folding - only difference is the last bit where you fold again in 3rds so you can stand it in the drawer rather than stack them flat. It saves a huge amount of space and you can see everything. Some people can get very extreme with it. I must confess to having short sleeves together and long sleeves but I dont go to the extreme of having the colours in order. I've been folding this way for over a year now and it has made a difference. @ianpspurs - I didn't have you as a Marie Kondo type anyway
I am still having BG issues - bed last night 8.3 and FBG was also 8.3. It did drop overnight according to Libre but it is taking a while to drop during the day. Think I have some OMADS coming on.
B. TAG with ADOC
L. Before heading off to swimming lessons with the boys. 2 Morrisons pork, tomato, mozzarella sausages, 3 rashers of crispy streaky bacon, fried egg and 1 mushroom.
D. Hubby back from football - small bit smoked trout, spoonful of prawn cocktail and shredded lettuce.
A bit later - campari and soda, lamb kebab with herbs and mint, veggie kebab of onion, mushroom and red pepper and and little salad of shredded lettuce , 4 mini tomatoes and 1/2 avocado plus a little more mint sauce. I dont get this , mint sauce is another thing I loathed yet now I yearn for it?
Finished with a low carb, raspberry creme brulee with its caramelised inulin top. Made the in the IP while I was putting the swimming bags together. Only variation is I put 4 raspberries in each brulee before they went into the IP and, of course, I caramelised with inulin not Monk fruit as inulin was the most authentic brulee top in my experiments. I'd forgotten how good the brulee is and the raspberries certainly add something.
Still got 4 left too!
 
DJC3 said:
It’ll be a wrench to leave I’m sure, but being near the family/grandchildren will hopefully be compensation.
Click to expand...
I'm very near mine 0.7 mile - it can have its downsides as well No 1 announced today that when it's time for Senior school he'd like the one beside the sports centre because I could still collect him!
 
shelley262 said:
Hi all
@Goonergal safe journey that hot choc looks amazing!
Breakfast one each of Waitrose I sausage, bacon and egg
Lunch few almonds and a selection of cheese and four squares of montezumas 100% choc
Dinner chicken with cauliflower cheese and glass of wine followed by one scoop of oppo vanilla and one chocolate oppo with some double cream.
All packed up and ready for our trip tommorow morning to Scotland. Looking forward to our first class train experience and the complimentary coffee and tea! Packing tub of cream to make the most! Think food will be carby but taking nuts with me and hoping there may be cheese! Will let you know ..........
Click to expand...
Are you travelling with Virgin west coast or LNER? It was nice again today BTW. Both do a decent breakfast but can be a bit hit and miss after that. After 11am they do bring around the alcohol and their wine is ok.
 
PenguinMum said:
Checking in.
Breakfast : usual 1 slice HiLo toast butter and tea. You have no idea how happy that one slice of 5g makes me in the morning.
Lunch: tomato, cucumber, 2 cocktail goats cheese peppers, celeriac remoulade.
Supper: ham, double egg and chips for the men. Spinach omlette for me.
Eye has been achy like a nagging toothache today, expect it was the anaesthetic wearing off, dont know. Took some codeine this morning.
@Chook you have very sophisticated dogs.
@ianpspurs hugs, really get what you are saying, we have our house on the market and are downsizing but we really made this house ours and I will miss the kitchen most. Dont tell OH. But its time in our lives to simplify things and help the boys if we can, we just need to get it right. This is going to be a tough year and it may take a lot longer before Mr PM can ease up on his crazy working life.
Before I go SOS ..made some good mackerel pate this morning which OH had for lunch do you think I can freeze the rest. Forgot he’s away for a few days. Its mackerel, cream cheese, lemon, herbs and chilli. TIA
Click to expand...
Hope you manage to downsize and Mr PM can ease up. We may end up with a bigger house but far less land. Not quite sure how that will suit me. AFAIC one of the biggest parts of my control of T2 has been working on the land, at least as big as diet.
 
Last edited:
ianpspurs said:
Hope you manage to downsize and Mr PM can ease up. We may end up with a bigger house but far less land. Not quite sure how that will suit me. AFAIC one of the biggest parts of my control of T2 has been working on the land, at least as big as diet.
Click to expand...
Agree its such a tricky thing to get right. We just dont know how we will find something smaller, not with road noise, not a wreck, etc etc not to mention price. We tried last year within 10 mile radius with no luck. Sorry shoud be talking food....in the end had spinach omlette, yogurt, 4 squares Lindt 90. Whatever!
 
maglil55 said:
Are you travelling with Virgin west coast or LNER? It was nice again today BTW. Both do a decent breakfast but can be a bit hit and miss after that. After 11am they do bring around the alcohol and their wine is ok.
Click to expand...
Both - virgin up to Edinburgh and then lner to Dundee so breakfast with virgin. Going back lner to ed and then virgin again to brum. Weather looks good thankfully will wave x
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: roast chicken, one small roast potato, mixed veg and gravy thickened with flax, followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
Mid afternoon: raspberry phd bar and black coffee.
Tea at ILs: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake!
 
shelley262 said:
Both - virgin up to Edinburgh and then lner to Dundee so breakfast with virgin. Going back lner to ed and then virgin again to brum. Weather looks good thankfully will wave x
Click to expand...
Virgin breakfast is pretty good. As well as the full English minus the hash brown and toast, they do scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. I found they served you coffee until you were sick of it.
LNER to Dundee they will probably have cheese but take your own crackers. Otherwise it will be sandwiches, fruit and gourmet sausage rolls - all really good stuff for us! Fear not, there's an M&S outlet in Edinburgh Waverley where I stock up for train journeys if you have time.
 
Been AWOL again, no particular reason, just busy and got out of the habit of posting. Hope everyone is doing okay, I'm not sure I'll be able to catch up with all I've missed.

Today's menu looked like this....
No breakfast, just coffee and cream.
Brunch was LC waffles with HM chocolate sauce (100% choc, cream, butter, sweetener) and a few berries. Cappuccino with almond milk and dash of cream.
Dinner: Goulash cooked in the slow cooker, cauli rice. Pud was the rest of the choc sauce mixed with thick cream to make a mousse of sorts, topped with almonds. Decaf coffee and decaf tea.

OMAD for me tomorrow....weight loss still stalling.
 
Lunch yesterday: Last of the easter prawns in a sandwich or two.
Dinner: Spag bol, small portion of reheated pasta spirals.
Breakfast: Cheesey omelette, bacon, tomato. (be glad when I get mushrooms back on my order).

Drinks: Black coffee, water, staminade.

I got the first of the "specials" emails from my online grocery shop, 3 x points for every $1.00 spent this week.

Better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick... :D
 
Back
Top