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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

dunelm said:
The midges in Scotland are nasty little things.Mainly in the highlands and always on nice calm days. I recommend a net and some Avon Skin so Soft - been using it for years.
If you want to be extra cautious then get some Smidge.
This page will give you some info:

https://must-see-scotland.com/midges-in-scotland
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Thanks for that - I’d heard of the Skin So Soft option and have already stockpiled several bottles to take. I’m going to try @DCUKMod ‘s home made repellant too though
 
I live on reclaimed marshland - reclaimed in the 1600s - and we get loads of gnats - great tumbling clouds of them on still evenings. They don't seem to like me any more (since low carbing) but they do target Mr C. We can sit next to each other and they'll feast on him and won't touch me at all. Mr C uses Skin So Soft as its the only thing that seems to work reliably.

About food.... do you all plan your daily menus in advance or wing it? I plan breakfast and dinner but lunch is pretty much what I feel like its the time (if anything)

Today....

Breakfast: Egg mayo on checkerboard
Lunch: celery dipped in houmous or cream cheese
Dinner: Today duck legs and spicy red cabbage
Dessert: the last of the spiced rhubarb with last of the Turkish yoghurt and some flaked almonds on the top
Drinks: BDC, SSW
 
ianpspurs said:
Read the article mostly in sadness as we are selling this property with 12 well established varieties of apple tree. Noticed it argued for a tennis ball sized apple - limits the varieties I know of somewhat.
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Half an apple would work too.
It’s sad leaving somewhere you’re happy, especially if you have roots there. I’ve moved around my whole adult life - roots would be good. Though actually they’re originally in Suffolk! :))
 
Chook said:
I live on reclaimed marshland - reclaimed in the 1600s - and we get loads of gnats - great tumbling clouds of them on still evenings. They don't seem to like me any more (since low carbing) but they do target Mr C. We can sit next to each other and they'll feast on him and won't touch me at all. Mr C uses Skin So Soft as its the only thing that seems to work reliably.

About food.... do you all plan your daily menus in advance or wing it? I plan breakfast and dinner but lunch is pretty much what I feel like its the time (if anything)

Today....

Breakfast: Egg mayo on checkerboard
Lunch: celery dipped in houmous or cream cheese
Dinner: Today duck legs and spicy red cabbage
Dessert: the last of the spiced rhubarb with last of the Turkish yoghurt and some flaked almonds on the top
Drinks: BDC, SSW
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Oh yum. I started reading your menu backwards Chook. As I often do (magazines etc). Spiced rhubarb, yoghurt, almonds. Drool.
Then duck with red cabbage. More drool. Humus!! Oh dear. Can I move to eat with you?
Sometimes I plan, other times it just works out. Dinner tonight includes left over oven roasted veg. With some input from his lordship.
 
Viv19 said:
Half an apple would work too.
It’s sad leaving somewhere you’re happy, especially if you have roots there. I’ve moved around my whole adult life - roots would be good. Though actually they’re originally in Suffolk! :))
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What I tend to do now is pick an apple that looks just how I like them, take a few bites and give the rest to the chickens. Suffolk is our destination and space for chickens is a factor in choice of property - eggs seem to be central to many LC diets.
@Chook as you know this woe baffles me somewhat so my menu planning may not be helpful. I use fbg, weight, the day's schedule and how well the previous day stayed in as a guide. Tend to run things through chronometer these days for carbs and nutrients. Result? useless but it keeps me off the streets.
 
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ianpspurs said:
What I tend to do now is pick an apple that looks just how I like them, take a few bites and give the rest to the chickens. Suffolk is our destination and space for chickens is a factor in choice of property - eggs seem to be central to many LC diets.
@Chook as you know this woe baffles me somewhat so my menu planning or no may not be helpful. I use fbg, weight, the day's schedule and how well the previous day stayed in as a guide. Tend to run things through chronometer these days for carbs and nutrients. Result? useless but it keeps me off the streets.
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You’ll be joining all the rich and famous who are moving to the countryside in Suffolk. ;))
 
Viv19 said:
You’ll be joining all the rich and famous who are moving to the countryside in Suffolk. ;))
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I am already much more in the countryside here in Cambridgeshire. Better class of yokel dontcha know
 
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Chook said:
I live on reclaimed marshland - reclaimed in the 1600s - and we get loads of gnats - great tumbling clouds of them on still evenings. They don't seem to like me any more (since low carbing) but they do target Mr C. We can sit next to each other and they'll feast on him and won't touch me at all. Mr C uses Skin So Soft as its the only thing that seems to work reliably.

About food.... do you all plan your daily menus in advance or wing it? I plan breakfast and dinner but lunch is pretty much what I feel like its the time (if anything)

Today....

Breakfast: Egg mayo on checkerboard
Lunch: celery dipped in houmous or cream cheese
Dinner: Today duck legs and spicy red cabbage
Dessert: the last of the spiced rhubarb with last of the Turkish yoghurt and some flaked almonds on the top
Drinks: BDC, SSW
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Thanks for another endorsement of the Skin So Soft spray. It’s really interesting that the gnats don’t feast on you now you are eating lc. Your blood must taste boringly savoury now. I’m hoping the same might apply to midges.
Your menu sounds absolutely delicious. How do you cook your red cabbage? I’ve had a few tasty suggestions from the gang on here in the past.
Rgarding your question about meal planning - I go through phases. I found the DD menu planner very useful for a while and would plan a week’s worth and print a shopping list. It’s something I’ll go back to if I start going off track or bg starts rising. For now though, (because I’m trying to live within my means - retirement is fantastic but I have to keep an eye on the bills more than I once did) I tend to walk to the shops every day - helps to get my step count up - and I get whatever has a yellow reduced sticker and work around that. There are fabulous bargains to be had at my local Sainsbury’s and M&S if you get there at the right time.
 
Chook said:
About food.... do you all plan your daily menus in advance or wing it? I plan breakfast and dinner but lunch is pretty much what I feel like its the time (if anything)
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Depends. Sometimes I map out the whole week, other times I just wing it. More often I have dinner planned and decide whether or not to eat lunch on circumstance - plenty of options to grab near work and being in London, never far from low carb options if unexpected hunger strikes. Have been known to change my mind - sea bass currently sitting in fridge for tonight but I really don’t fancy it so who knows what I’ll end up with.
 
B: 2 boiled eggs with a buttered microwave flaxseed cracker ( sorry @zauberflote I just can’t call them Crispy Dunnies but agree they need a shorter name - I could go CD’s and just never think of what it stands for?)
L: Tin of sardines in olive oil with salad of green leaves, avocado, about 50g feta and some chia and pumpkin seeds. Gk yog afterwards to see if my tum still complains - it did. No idea why Gk yog has that effect but I still enjoy it. Just have to be careful about when and where.
D: Indian styled meat and 2 veg: lamb steak rubbed with chilli oil. Cabbage poriyal and alloo gobi without the spuds, just cauli. Few strawberries and cream.
Few CWCs through the day, lots of tea, black chai and a diet Coke.
 
Hi all
Hope to be off to London tomorrow later in the day to go to the low carb conference which is on Saturday and Sunday, so may be on catch up in a Day or two - meanwhile another busy day today.
Breakfast bacon and egg
Lunch bits of cheese, too many nuts and four squares of 100% choc
Dinner Barnsley lamb chop, cauliflower cheese, mushrooms, medicinal merlot followed by sf jelly with extra thick double cream.
 
Hi all.

A bit too much chocolate consumed today and a match on the Arsenal pitch.

Pre-match meal of Awfully Posh pork crackling.

Post match meal of 2 fried eggs and 3 rashers bacon followed by Hotel Chocolat mini hazelnut praline buche and 20g 90% Lindt

Dinner was @dunelm s carnivore pizza with pepperoni and Polish sausage topping and another 20g 90% Lindt.
 
Goonergal said:
Hi all.

A bit too much chocolate consumed today and a match on the Arsenal pitch.

Pre-match meal of Awfully Posh pork crackling.

Post match meal of 2 fried eggs and 3 rashers bacon followed by Hotel Chocolat mini hazelnut praline buche and 20g 90% Lindt

Dinner was @dunelm s carnivore pizza with pepperoni and Polish sausage topping and another 20g 90% Lindt.
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Winner for the match and looking amazing
 
dunelm said:
Lunch; bacon, egg, mushroom, tomato.

Dinner; Pizza and salad. I used a recipe for the pizza base that has chicken, cheese and an egg. Interesting result and Mrs Miggins enjoyed it also.
@Goonergal (and anyone else interested); recipe and crazy video for the pizza base here; https://www.ketoconnect.net/no-carb-pizza/
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How does it compare to your original one? A can of chicken? That’s a first.
 
I was hungry today so had breakfast, toasted LC roll and scrambled eggs.
Lunch was cheese (cheddar and Bavaria blue) on LC bread.
Some sneaky nuts, and Halo ice cream.
Dinner was the rest of the oven roasted veg with strips of fried chicken.
Yoghurt with raspberries and blueberries.
Drinks, coffee, tea and a glass of red.
Mm that’s actually a lot more than I usually eat.
 
So on to Thursday when me and Jess G don't wear makeup if you remember. B was at least four 1.5 pint mugs TWAM then hoover, dust, polish, tidy ready for viewers until 13.00 when my body needed food. What it received was a sandwich made of 2 romaine lettuce leaves, with layers of jarslberg h/m mayo and corned beef plus 4 baby plum tomatoes and CWM. Evening meal was mushroom and cheese omelette followed by s/f jelly, Fage 5% and h/m LC choc granola. Chrononeter seems to have mushrooms and cheddar cheese much higher carbs than elsewhere. Also seems I don't do cals on Thursdays but I'll stick at this level of fat for now and leave the trots with Jezza and the evil shi'ites with the dark side.
 
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Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: 2 x boiled eggs with Marmite soldiers made from 1 slice of LivLife bread followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries.
Mid afternoon: coffee chia pudding and black coffee.
Dinner: courgette topped with bolognese, cheese and mushrooms followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola and a small piece of Lindt dark choc Easter egg.

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