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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

maglil55 said:
It's Stornaway black pudding. You should come across it in the butcher shops as it's common here. I think I got ours in Dobbie's butchers. Some are GF some are not. This one is about 5g carbs for quite a big slice.
I hope Scotrail behave themselves. They have been in quite a stooshie lately with breakdowns and delays. It's a lovely line though. Scenery is amazing.
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Will look out for the black pud thanks. The jpurney was beautiful, and the sun has been shining on us in Oban all afternoon. Can’t believe it.
 
maglil55 said:
Brisket came out really well. It was like cutting through butter. There's many cacciatore sauces. Mine, after browning the brisket in the IP, I deglazed with slice onion and garlic, loads if sliced mushrooms and sliced assorted peppers. Added small bottle of red and reduced. Added 400 mls beef stock then 300 mls chopped tomato, oregano and thyme. Set on meat for 65 mins for the size of joint. Slow release 30 mins then removed the joint, tented with foil and left to rest while the sauce went back onto saute to reduce. Delicious!
What's the issue with brisket @ianpspurs? Must admit it's not a cut I would normally buy but cooked this way it was super tasty. I paid less than £5 for the joint and we'll be eating it tomorrow too.
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Congratulations on the brisket @maglil55. We have tried every way imaginable to make it edible and it always ends up being fed to the dogs. It is tender enough but arid. May use the idea for other meat though. @shelley262 enjoy your break when you eventually manage to take it. @Goonergal congratulations on your recent election and sorry to hear you are out of sorts. @DJC3 your day sounds lovely so I am very happy for you. I enjoy reading of other people's hols but never feel any urge to indulge in one - reading about one is close enough for me (but Julie seems to find them useful). Anyone else feel that way? No - just me then in the no brisket, no hols club.
 
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maglil55 said:
Brisket came out really well. It was like cutting through butter. There's many cacciatore sauces. Mine, after browning the brisket in the IP, I deglazed with slice onion and garlic, loads if sliced mushrooms and sliced assorted peppers. Added small bottle of red and reduced. Added 400 mls beef stock then 300 mls chopped tomato, oregano and thyme. Set on meat for 65 mins for the size of joint. Slow release 30 mins then removed the joint, tented with foil and left to rest while the sauce went back onto saute to reduce. Delicious!
What's the issue with brisket @ianpspurs? Must admit it's not a cut I would normally buy but cooked this way it was super tasty. I paid less than £5 for the joint and we'll be eating it tomorrow too.
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Sounds wonderful - have you typed it into your CMT so I can find it again? Otherwise I’ll just ask for a recap when I’m home - I’ll never find this post again after a week!
 
DJC3 said:
Sounds wonderful - have you typed it into your CMT so I can find it again? Otherwise I’ll just ask for a recap when I’m home - I’ll never find this post again after a week!
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I'll type it up and add it.
 
Brunneria said:
@maglil55 you have inspired me.
Brisket is going on the shopping list!

Today:
NE1: 3 slices of gouda
NE2: cheesey mince
NE4: not yet decided, and I need to make a decision or it will be too late to digest before bed :nailbiting:
Inspiration is not striking me...
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Thanks for the Olga da Polga tip. He's mesmerized with the books. He was reading the book to me going and returning from swimming and giggling at Olga's antics. He said he'll never part with the books.
 
maglil55 said:
Thanks for the Olga da Polga tip. He's mesmerized with the books. He was reading the book to me going and returning from swimming and giggling at Olga's antics. He said he'll never part with the books.
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That was my reaction, as well.
They are golden memories from my childhood. :D
Do the ones you bought have the original illustrations? They are magical too.
 
Late night last night so here’s yesterday and today’s food:

Saturday:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: fry up of egg, bacon, mushrooms and two mini plum tomatoes followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries.
Mid afternoon: SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola and black coffee.
Dinner: donner kebab (only ate two mouthfuls of the pitta) after watching my son’s band at a gig.

Sunday:
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 :D
 
Lunch yesterday, Barbequed drummies, peri peri dipping sauce.
Dinner: Corned silverside hot out of the slow cooker, spudlites, brocko.
Break fasting: Black coffee and bacon and eggs tomato at the Atrium Cafe in a at the private hospital where the pathology shop in a hour and bit

Drinks: Black coffee so sugar / sweeteners, water.
 
Tipetoo said:
Lunch yesterday, Barbequed drummies, peri peri dipping sauce.
Dinner: Corned silverside hot out of the slow cooker, spudlites, brocko.
Break fasting: Black coffee and bacon and eggs tomato at the Atrium Cafe in a at the private hospital where the pathology shop in a hour and bit

Drinks: Black coffee so sugar / sweeteners, water.
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Best wishes for the bloods and enjoy the breakfast.
 
Glad you're feeling better @maglil55 . Like the sound of the chilli black pudding, I'll have to seek that out.
@DJC3 Enjoy your hols!

We've had a lovely evening, after deciding to fire up our wood fired beehive oven in our garden. It has been used in the past as a pizza oven, but you can get really good results roasting meat and veg too. We didn't get to use it last summer, as Mr B was so poorly, so nice to dust it off this year.

B: Almond Chia pudding with strawberries. Coffee.
L: Spinach and cheese omelette, hm coleslaw, salad leaves, radishes, cucumber and tomato
Mid afternoon: Almond milk cappuccino with cream
D: Wood roasted chicken and Mediterranean roast veg (courgette, aubergine, peppers and shallot) basil, Parmesan shavings and pine nuts. And for pudding one of these (without the frosting, as I didn't think they needed it): https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/low-carb-cinnamon-roll-cheesecakes/. Just sipping a lovely decaf coffee with cream now.
 
Please forgive me for not reading all the posts this week. Mr C and I don’t spend an awful lot of time together so it’d be rude to be spending it all tapping away on my phone.
We’ve had a lovely and surprisingly sunny afternoon in Oban finishing at a great seafood restaurant. We had locally caught langoustines with garlic butter then ‘Sole of the day’ today was Witch sole, with hazelnut butter, asparagus and red cabbage slaw in place of the spuds.
Earlier for breakfast I had scrambled eggs, 1 rasher bacon, a bit of a black pudding slice and a lot of mushrooms. CWC
Snack lunch on the train was 25g bag of almonds and a bit of that 100% chocolate I posted yesterday. It was over twice the price of Montezuma’s but tbh I didn’t like it as much. Too citrussy.
Thanks for the Lidl cheese tip @Goonergsl and @shelley262 I will definitely look that one up when I’m home.
 
maglil55 said:
Bed 5.8 FBG 6.6 - I'm beginning to feel a bit human again (touch wood, touch wood, touch wood). Hot shower last night, coating of Vics, another hot shower this morning. I was so congested last night I didn't think I'd ever feel human again but hot showers plus Vics has helped. I was sweating buckets overnight - whether that was down to the paracetamol or my body finally expelling infection I don't know. Main thing is I don't feel like a wrung out dish rag. Boys have swimming lessons today so I've left Hubby with instructions on what I need prepped for tonight's dinner.
B. TAG with ADOC. Slice of GF chilli black pudding (heat helped bug clearance), 3 morrisons GF chipolatas, 1 mushroom and a fried egg.
L. Will be just water at the swimming.
D. Instant Pot on the go when I get back. I needed something hearty so am making a brisket cacciatore. I know it's usually chicken but I reckon it will work with beef too. I'll make some cauliflower mash too. Usual campari and soda. I might make a LC raspberry mousse if I can find it again or I may settle for berries and halo top.
@DJC3 - enjoy your holiday. Weather is better on our side of the country but that's not unusual! I assume you were flying with Fly maybe from Newquay? They used to drive us up the wall when we worked as they were very prone to delays/cancellation.
Are you going straight to Mallaig or making stops en route? There are so many lovely places to stop off on that line. Are you on the steam train or Scotrail? I must take the boys on that route on the steam train one day simply for the Glenfinnan Viaduct. They'd be thrilled to think they were going to Hogwarts.
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Hi Maglil - Glad you're feeling a bit more like yourself.

Could I just ask you to clarify something for me? You mentiond hot sweats and paracetamol? Do you have sweats when using paracetamol?
 
Tea
Breakfast: scrambled eggs, LC roll toasted. 1 spoon of hm plum jam
Lunch: yoghurt and berries
Evening: not too hungry so I had a knackebrot with cottage cheese, end of blue cheese. 4 cherry toms. Some walnuts.
In between today more cwc, tea, and a white wine spritzer this evening.
I didn’t know that the cortisone/voltaren injection I had midday would make my bg levels go so high. That was a shock. After all the various things happening this last week, my back was incredibly painful - the aim of the injection was to make the next few days away more survivable. I hope the levels go down quickly. It was going so well.
 
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I had a nice breakfast at the Atrium, bacon, eggs, snags, tomatoes and mushrooms, the black coffee was a life saver.

Had a good table companion a Chines doctor on a break, who was interested in the medication I was washing down there. I explained about the metformin and how I hope to stop taking it this week. He wished me the best of luck on that.
 
DCUKMod said:
Hi Maglil - Glad you're feeling a bit more like yourself.

Could I just ask you to clarify something for me? You mentiond hot sweats and paracetamol? Do you have sweats when using paracetamol?
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Yes sometimes. Mostly when I'm really not well.
 
An unplanned and probably not right 4 hour eating window today - 3.00 to 6.40. By the time I had drunk many pints of tea, done some gardening, watched some cricket and a few other duties I realised I was very hungry - and it was 3.00 pm. Double flaxseed cracker, butter, 2 slices tongue and some Shropshire blue made NE1 - afternoon tea? 6.40 ish I had next feeding frenzy. 3 egg omelette (they are stacking up again) asparagus (looking like the last of ours), mushrooms, baby spinach.kale mizuna etc and h/m mayo followed by 150 gms Fage 5% yog and 80 gms strawberries. Nothing to get excited about but I don't see anything evil in there either.
 
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Hi all Big dash around today sorting out last min caring stuff. I’m all packed up for early morning trip to York’s to mums to pack her, sort stuff out at hers, quick trip to drs etc and get her on holiday flight with us very very early Wednesday morning - wheelchair assistance booked which should be interesting as first time I’ve managed to get her to agree, hoping it should be easier!
Breakfast bacon and egg
Lunch a few cheeses, lc crispbreads and four squares of 100% choc with decaf coffee and cream
Dinner chicken omelette, green salad with lc seeded crispbreads with white wine spritzer followed by lc lemon mousse and yoghurt.
May be missing on holiday for a while will see how it goes! It’s a half board buffet tourist hotel so, in my experience, will only be a few certain lc options. Last year even the bacon was in a syrupy sauce and veggies often served with dressings or sauces hoping this different more expensive hotel may have more options but taking mum for the sun rather than the culinary experience! Weather forecast excellent in southern Spain so sun, relaxing and swimming will be order of the day.
 
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