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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

DJC3 said:
Well I never! That looks great, and it brings me neatly to another topic I was going to ask you or maybe @maglil55 about - namely dehydrators, can you recommend one? Daughter 1 and I were looking on Amazon tonight with the intention of getting one between us ( mostly for dog treats but hopefully biltong too) There seems such a range of prices though and I can’t see much difference.
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Son has this one but it's currently unavailable on Amazon. You can use it in a number of ways and add extra layers.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B073NVLWTR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
 
We have one of these
https://www.lequip.com/product/lequip-filterpro-food-dehydrator/

Love it. But I really don’t make enough use of it nowadays to justify its footprint on the countertop.

Today, haven’t had much appetite.

B: bone broth
L: 3oz Wensleydale
D: Moo Grob with chilli sauce

Day 5 of this virus. Really should be feeling better than this by now! Left ear v deaf. Right ear slightly deaf. And have slept in reclining chair for last 4 nights because lying flat is just causing constant coughing. Enough is enough!!!
 
Well yesterday we moved to Manchester Airport as SIL & BIL started the long haul back to Australia today (they've just landed in Dubai). Bed on Saturday was 6.2 FBG 7.5. Had my final breakfast in Chester before setting off by coach for Manchester Airport. Quite down in the dumps.
B. Pot of coffee with cream. Usual fry up - fried egg, slice back bacon, 2 GF sausages, 1 slice GF black pudding, mushrooms and my slice of GF toast.
L. Consisted of a rhubarb and ginger gin in the Airport Hilton with SIL while OHs watched the football.
D. Campari and soda and shared a bottle of white with SIL. Starter of goats cheese, beetroot and pine nut starter. Butterfly chicken breast done in lemon, parsley and chilli with a mixed salad. Americano with cream.
All very emotional saying goodbye as SIL preferred to deal with the emotion at night rather than the morning as they were off early.
Today - Monday. Still feeling pretty down in the dumps (it got worse). Bed 6.9 FBG 6.7. Spent the morning rejigging cases and messaging SIL before heading off to Manchester Airport train station to head home.
B. Americano with cream and my final hotel fry up. 2 GF sausages, slice back bacon, 1 slice GF black pudding, fried egg and 1/2 tomato.
L. Changed from transpennine to virgin at Preston. 2 vodkas and diet Pepsi, bottle of water and managed to get a quiche of feta, tomato and spinach which I was able to remove from its pastry case and leave that bit. Couple of black coffees.
Picked up some bits and bobs in M&S in Waverley, headed home and went to open the windows as the house is very hot and to my horror a large portion of our bedroom ceiling now resides on our bed. Spent quite a while on the phone to the insurance emergency number and a plumber has now arrived. No idea yet if it's a leak or the roof. Either way I wont be in my own bed tonight as fibreglass insulation bulging down overhead isn't inspiring sleep!
Ah well just have to wait and see. Hope it isnt the roof as thunderstorms are forecast. Don't think we'll eat anything else tonight.
 
maglil55 said:
Well yesterday we moved to Manchester Airport as SIL & BIL started the long haul back to Australia today (they've just landed in Dubai). Bed on Saturday was 6.2 FBG 7.5. Had my final breakfast in Chester before setting off by coach for Manchester Airport. Quite down in the dumps.
B. Pot of coffee with cream. Usual fry up - fried egg, slice back bacon, 2 GF sausages, 1 slice GF black pudding, mushrooms and my slice of GF toast.
L. Consisted of a rhubarb and ginger gin in the Airport Hilton with SIL while OHs watched the football.
D. Campari and soda and shared a bottle of white with SIL. Starter of goats cheese, beetroot and pine nut starter. Butterfly chicken breast done in lemon, parsley and chilli with a mixed salad. Americano with cream.
All very emotional saying goodbye as SIL preferred to deal with the emotion at night rather than the morning as they were off early.
Today - Monday. Still feeling pretty down in the dumps (it got worse). Bed 6.9 FBG 6.7. Spent the morning rejigging cases and messaging SIL before heading off to Manchester Airport train station to head home.
B. Americano with cream and my final hotel fry up. 2 GF sausages, slice back bacon, 1 slice GF black pudding, fried egg and 1/2 tomato.
L. Changed from transpennine to virgin at Preston. 2 vodkas and diet Pepsi, bottle of water and managed to get a quiche of feta, tomato and spinach which I was able to remove from its pastry case and leave that bit. Couple of black coffees.
Picked up some bits and bobs in M&S in Waverley, headed home and went to open the windows as the house is very hot and to my horror a large portion of our bedroom ceiling now resides on our bed. Spent quite a while on the phone to the insurance emergency number and a plumber has now arrived. No idea yet if it's a leak or the roof. Either way I wont be in my own bed tonight as fibreglass insulation bulging down overhead isn't inspiring sleep!
Ah well just have to wait and see. Hope it isnt the roof as thunderstorms are forecast. Don't think we'll eat anything else tonight.
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Oh no!

What a thing to greet you on your return!
 
One of my birthday cards today! Luckily as this is a low carb thread I didn’t obey the card! I’ve been absent a few days because of complex caring stuff but hope to catch up soon and meanwhile thought I should post my birthday days food. Think of you all and hope to get back to regular posting if / when life gets less care worn!
Breakfast smoked salmon and scrambled eggs
Lunch out gammon and eggs
Dinner steak, mushroom sauce and onion with glass of prossecco and glass red wine, followed by strawberries and cream andbit of hotel chocolatebirthday choc. 9C90C934-AB82-47F9-9681-6B59F1FE3C72.jpeg
 
shelley262 said:
One of my birthday cards today! Luckily as this is a low carb thread I didn’t obey the card! I’ve been absent a few days because of complex caring stuff but hope to catch up soon and meanwhile thought I should post my birthday days food. Think of you all and hope to get back to regular posting if / when life gets less care worn!
Breakfast smoked salmon and scrambled eggs
Lunch out gammon and eggs
Dinner steak, mushroom sauce and onion with glass of prossecco and glass red wine, followed by strawberries and cream andbit of hotel chocolatebirthday choc. View attachment 34688
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Happy birthday!
 
shelley262 said:
One of my birthday cards today! Luckily as this is a low carb thread I didn’t obey the card! I’ve been absent a few days because of complex caring stuff but hope to catch up soon and meanwhile thought I should post my birthday days food. Think of you all and hope to get back to regular posting if / when life gets less care worn!
Breakfast smoked salmon and scrambled eggs
Lunch out gammon and eggs
Dinner steak, mushroom sauce and onion with glass of prossecco and glass red wine, followed by strawberries and cream andbit of hotel chocolatebirthday choc. View attachment 34688
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Happy birthday @shelley262 xx
 
@Brunneria & @Goonergal - thankfully it isn't the roof. Emergency Kevin - very nice guy has just left after capping the offending pipe. We have a combi boiler and mains water but they left our cold water storage tank in the attic. If the water gets too high it's supposed to go to the overflow but it had broken and with us not being here and no water being used the tank overflowed , soaked the fibreglass and brought down the ceiling. So water has stopped, we'll decant to the boys bedrooms, Kevin will return tomorrow to bypass the water tank and I'll spend even more time on the phone to tell the Insurance the leak has been dealt with but we need a loss adjuster in to sort out the damage. Ah well, that bedroom still had nobbly artex on the ceiling so at least it will get plastered smooth. Only thing is I can't do anything about cleaning up until a loss adjuster comes in.
I have however now eaten 60g of cheddar and am having a coffee. I feel better now knowing the roof is intact.
 
shelley262 said:
One of my birthday cards today! Luckily as this is a low carb thread I didn’t obey the card! I’ve been absent a few days because of complex caring stuff but hope to catch up soon and meanwhile thought I should post my birthday days food. Think of you all and hope to get back to regular posting if / when life gets less care worn!
Breakfast smoked salmon and scrambled eggs
Lunch out gammon and eggs
Dinner steak, mushroom sauce and onion with glass of prossecco and glass red wine, followed by strawberries and cream andbit of hotel chocolatebirthday choc. View attachment 34688
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Happy birthday
 
Happy Birthday @shelley262 !
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch was skipped, unusually for me but was accompanying a family member to a hospital appt which ran way longer than expected.
Mid afternoon: pork scratchings and chia pudding and black coffee.
Dinner: ‘spaghetti’ carbonara made with edamame ‘pasta’ with a sprinkling of mature cheddar followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.

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maglil55 said:
Well yesterday we moved to Manchester Airport as SIL & BIL started the long haul back to Australia today (they've just landed in Dubai). Bed on Saturday was 6.2 FBG 7.5. Had my final breakfast in Chester before setting off by coach for Manchester Airport. Quite down in the dumps.
B. Pot of coffee with cream. Usual fry up - fried egg, slice back bacon, 2 GF sausages, 1 slice GF black pudding, mushrooms and my slice of GF toast.
L. Consisted of a rhubarb and ginger gin in the Airport Hilton with SIL while OHs watched the football.
D. Campari and soda and shared a bottle of white with SIL. Starter of goats cheese, beetroot and pine nut starter. Butterfly chicken breast done in lemon, parsley and chilli with a mixed salad. Americano with cream.
All very emotional saying goodbye as SIL preferred to deal with the emotion at night rather than the morning as they were off early.
Today - Monday. Still feeling pretty down in the dumps (it got worse). Bed 6.9 FBG 6.7. Spent the morning rejigging cases and messaging SIL before heading off to Manchester Airport train station to head home.
B. Americano with cream and my final hotel fry up. 2 GF sausages, slice back bacon, 1 slice GF black pudding, fried egg and 1/2 tomato.
L. Changed from transpennine to virgin at Preston. 2 vodkas and diet Pepsi, bottle of water and managed to get a quiche of feta, tomato and spinach which I was able to remove from its pastry case and leave that bit. Couple of black coffees.
Picked up some bits and bobs in M&S in Waverley, headed home and went to open the windows as the house is very hot and to my horror a large portion of our bedroom ceiling now resides on our bed. Spent quite a while on the phone to the insurance emergency number and a plumber has now arrived. No idea yet if it's a leak or the roof. Either way I wont be in my own bed tonight as fibreglass insulation bulging down overhead isn't inspiring sleep!
Ah well just have to wait and see. Hope it isnt the roof as thunderstorms are forecast. Don't think we'll eat anything else tonight.
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Nooooooooooooo. What a home-coming!

Hopefully your insurers will be helpful and easy to deal with.
 
Happy birthday @shelley262 hope it’s been a lovely day.
@maglil55 I can’t believe your rotten homecoming! When you were feeling glum anyway, to walk in to your ceiling down must have really been the pits. Glad it’s not the roof though, and hope it is soon fixed. At least you weren’t in bed when it happened!
Many thanks to @DCUKMod @Brunneria ( also hugs for your persistent bug) and @maglil55 for dehydrator tips. Daughter and I are meeting up at the weekend to discuss our research and decide what to get. I’m sure she said she was in a Facebook dehydrator group but I may have dreamt it.
 
Just home and catching up but before my food post. @maglil55 I am sorry for the shock you got on your return home. You had great presence of mind to deal with it so quickly and efficiently. I hope it all gets resolved without too many issues and to your satisfaction. @shelley262 happy birthday and hugs for all the caring responsibilities. What would we all do without people who do what you do with so much love. I somehow managed two meals today, I am calling it UIF unintentional intermittent fasting! Brunch with son mid morning and caesar chicken & bacon salad at Dublin airport which was surprisingly good at about 4.30pm.
 
No breakfast as I was driving my husband on a 1 hr 30mins round trip to drop him at work for a week. Because somehow he lost the key between 5.25am and 5.30am.
Lots of exercise as I stripped the house down to search for them when I got back. No luck though.
Someone coming to sort it tomorrow.
No lunch either. A small handful of Brazil's.

Big dinner though... in comparison with what I've been eating.

Chicken thigh stuffed with mozzarella and sundried tomato and wrapped in bacon with mushroom cauliflower rice. Delicious.

I am concerned I'm not eating enough though. Carbs nice and low but not many calories. Regularly less than 800 a day. Advice???
 
04-08-19
Breakfast, nut granola, scrambled eggs and mushrooms served in a croissant, sounds goid but actually thought the croissant was too sweet, maybe from a different baker?
Biscuit and tea mid morning.
Lunch Salad, chicken thigh, coleslaw, carrot and Apple salad, one spoonfuls of potato salad.
Glass of rose, fed up of waiting for them to finish work.
Dinner: 8.30 ish Hake fillet, left the men in charge, so was overcooked:(, new potatoes, frozen beans and peas.
Pistachio pudding, raspberries and cream. Good thing it was the last one. They are very Moreish. Shared a bottle of cremant with son2, could be why I felt the need for coffee at bedtime?
 
mouseee said:
No breakfast as I was driving my husband on a 1 hr 30mins round trip to drop him at work for a week. Because somehow he lost the key between 5.25am and 5.30am.
Lots of exercise as I stripped the house down to search for them when I got back. No luck though.
Someone coming to sort it tomorrow.
No lunch either. A small handful of Brazil's.

Big dinner though... in comparison with what I've been eating.

Chicken thigh stuffed with mozzarella and sundried tomato and wrapped in bacon with mushroom cauliflower rice. Delicious.

I am concerned I'm not eating enough though. Carbs nice and low but not many calories. Regularly less than 800 a day. Advice???
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Hello mouseee, are you wanting to lose weight? If not you will need to increase your calories. Possibly even double them.
For me breakfast is important. Not only does having a substantial breakfast stop the dawn phenomenon, it also keeps me full until lunchtime, making resisting unhealthy mid morning snacks a lot easier.
 
05-08-19
Breakfast, 2 egg omelette with a few mushrooms thrown in. Tea.
Lunch was soup, slightly chilly day and MrSlim is has a summer cold, se eral slices of seeded bread with mine. Total weight guesstimated at 30g.
The men went shopping and came back with cakes. Got roundly told off for commenting on the carb content.
Dinner was Normandy pork with cream and apples, no idea of calories or carbs. We had potatoes, two for me, carrots, green beans and cauliflower. Several glasses of rose. Large chunk of emmental demolished during the evening. Not happy with today's meals
 
DJC3 said:
Happy birthday @shelley262 hope it’s been a lovely day.
@maglil55 I can’t believe your rotten homecoming! When you were feeling glum anyway, to walk in to your ceiling down must have really been the pits. Glad it’s not the roof though, and hope it is soon fixed. At least you weren’t in bed when it happened!
Many thanks to @DCUKMod @Brunneria ( also hugs for your persistent bug) and @maglil55 for dehydrator tips. Daughter and I are meeting up at the weekend to discuss our research and decide what to get. I’m sure she said she was in a Facebook dehydrator group but I may have dreamt it.
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Funnily enough I said the same thing to Hubby as the bulk of the collapse is on his side of the bed. In fact the largest chunk would have landed on his head!
 
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