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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

I think I forgot to post my meals yesterday so catching up now.

Yesterday:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: small portion of left over carbonara followed by Greek yoghurt, raspberries and macadamia and coconut keto granola.
Mid afternoon: coconut chia pudding and black coffee.
Dinner: brocolli and cauliflower cheese with roasted Mediterranean veggies (made from this recipe @SlimLizzy :
https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/low-carb-cauliflower-cheese/servings/2
followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.

Today:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: left over cauliflower cheese and Mediterranean veggies followed by Greek yoghurt, raspberries and macadamia and coconut keto granola.
Mid afternoon: coffee chia pudding and black coffee.
Dinner: mushroom and mature cheddar omelette with leafy salad and two orange rapture tomatoes followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
 
From 4.30 to 10.00 am tea then a CCB - taste of Callebaut doesn't improve but I can't bring myself to throw them :banghead: Cheesey skinny bread sandwich (cheese) for lunch then 2 rows chocologic Belgiun chocolate. Evening was egg and avocado salad. Would be heartening if I saw any benefits from this diet but such is life. #9667
 
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Evening all.

@DJC3 thanks for the heads up about Copy Me That. Just checked and the app still opens and all stored recipes are there.

@shelley262 enjoy a very well deserved break.

Two meals today. Lunch was my staple visit to the local cafe for eggs, bacon and grated cheese. Also had one of the leftover wings from yesterday’s Nando’s. Not nearly so nice cold.

Dinner was slow cooked oxtail. Yum. Followed by a brisk 2 hour walk. Encountered a friendly fox.

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shelley262 said:
Looks like I’m off on my holidays for a week, a few hours from now - respite care amazingly all in place.
Breakfast bacon and egg and half a slice of Hilo toast
Snacks while out caring DGF millionaire shortbread and a few squares of 100% chocolate.
Dinner lamb and last of home made coleslaw, lc mousse and glass of dry red wine.
May well not post until back from Dubrovnik will see how it goes!
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Have a wonderful time, I’m so glad its all fallen into place with the respite care. Hope you find some good low carb local food.
 
Goonergal said:
Evening all.

Also had one of the leftover wings from yesterday’s Nando’s. Not nearly so nice cold.
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I’ve never managed to keep any Nando’s until the next day, but I expect I’d agree that it wouldn’t be so nice cold.
The rest of my family all like leftover curry and Chinese takeaway for breakfast which has always made me shiver in horror.
 
DJC3 said:
I’ve never managed to keep any Nando’s until the next day, but I expect I’d agree that it wouldn’t be so nice cold.
The rest of my family all like leftover curry and Chinese takeaway for breakfast which has always made me shiver in horror.
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Yuk! I ditched the remaining wings, really weren’t great cold. How is your shoulder?
 
Lunch yesterday: Mud crab sandwiches.
Dinner: Home made snags and veggies.
Breakfast: Usual c&m omelette, bacon, tomatoes, spudlite. They must have paid the cage chooks penalty rates for laying the extra large eggs in the latest dozen we opened.

Drinks: Black coffee no sugars, water.
 
25-09-19
Have been feeling a bit "off" for a while. Little energy or motivation, last two days making a big effort to overcome this.

breakfast, was late, (BG gone up to 6.2 ) nut granola. cup of tea. thought about eggs, but didn't fancy them.
Mid morning - more tea
lunch - ham and cheese melt in short piece of baguette about 40g, french style salad. In other words mostly lettuce with dressing. Yoghurt and raspberries. Added a dash of creme Entier.
tea in the afternoon,
dinner - glass of wine while cooking, smoked chicken, cauliflower cheese, runner beans and carrots. finished up the rice pudding.
another glass of wine then coffee with cream in the evening.

Moved some stuff ( spare matresses, bedding etc) downstairs, now second bedroom is unusable, but stuff will be out of the next build zone.
MrSlim fixed a leak behind washing machine for the fourth time... Complicated plumbing with many joints. Perhaps this will be the last one? Am convinced the vibration of washing machine causes them. Took load of stuff to the tip, (Small town. Tip opens few hours monday and wednesday pm and on saturday morning) wasnt busy, hardly surprising as was raining. Soggy cardboard - ugh.
@Rachox would that recipe work with creme entier? ( UHT 30%fat) No cream cheese here, or could I use creme fraiche instead?

@shelley262 have a relaxing holiday, am sure you need it
@maglil55 back in your own room at last. must feel wonderful
 
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I tried chips for the first time since dxd.
OH craving chippy chips as he's poorly. Oh, they looked so good so I had a little experiment. About 10 chips. Boy they were good!
5.4 before 13.5 1 hour after. I won't be making a habit of it, but I already knew that!

The rest of the day LC and back to LC again tomorrow. I have only strayed occasionally.
 
SlimLizzy said:
@Rachox would that recipe work with creme entier? ( UHT 30%fat) No cream cheese here, or could I use creme fraiche instead?
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Having Googled both of those things, the cream sounds like a suitable substitute and the creme fraiche too however I think it’d come out more runny, so maybe up the brocolli content to thicken it up more?
 
2.45 pm had some proscuitto and some tea.
7.45 pm steamed/fried salmon on a bed of spinach.
Lost count of the cups of tea during the day and I think it was probably less than I should have had. Too late now to do anything about it.
I realised that some of the meat and fish I bought at my last shop were approaching, or past their sell-by date so I had to set to and cook it all. That's why I had the salmon. I poached the haddock in milk and cream and then flaked it and now have 4 small pots of haddock in a cream sauce. I chucked out the chicken breast - it didn't smell too good - and roasted the chicken thighs and a piece of lamb shoulder. All boxed up and in the fridge overnight before going back into the freezer tomorrow. I'll probably have some of the haddock tomorrow.
 
Last day at hol cottage. Been a fab week.
Carnivore with tawny sloe port, chocolate and v small amounts of potato (frankly potato may raise my bg a bit, but it does a lot less gut damage than veg. Haha)
Not a bad life!

We’ve been home for each breakfast (which I have skipped), and out for each lunch (pubs, cafes, carveries, garden centres...) where it is fairly easy to order a halfway decent meat option, snaffle a chip or 5 and ignore the veg/garnish. Then home each evening for an airfryer meal of either chicken kebabs, chicken wings, or lamb chops.

Knees are usually bad on hol due to incidental glutening, but this time i have been absolutely rigidly GF and they (the knees) are doing v well indeed.

Had a fab time.

So have the dogs.
Here they are, somewhat soggy and VERY tired, after bouncing all over the Robinhoods Bay beach while we (successfully) hunted fossils, and then climbed the hill back up to the top.

 
Evening all. Your holiday sounds fab @Brunneria and glad the knees held up.

Went to heaven at lunchtime. Was out at a meeting all morning and needed to grab lunch on the way back to the office for more meetings. Passed some little food stalls in Shoreditch, one of which was selling pork. Wow, crispy pork loin, sliced and chopped up for me, sans the bread and salad also on offer. Really crispy skin which had been well salted and flavoured with garlic. Topped off with a fried duck’s egg. No picture as too busy scoffing! Now plotting how I can make sure I’m in the area at lunchtime more often.

Editing to add a link to an article about the stall: http://www.foodtripper.com/Restaurants/Article/Home/1111/TheKingsofCracklingareonPiglingStreet.aspx

Dinner was a comparatively dull affair of 4 air fried chicken drumsticks that had been marinated in olive oil, lime, garlic and salt.

Four days straight now with no chocolate, almond butter or anything resembling a dessert.

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26-09-19
breakfast, nut granola and cream, we are out of milk so also coffee with cream.
lunch, some veg soup more coffee.
shopped, so tea in the afteroon.
dinner- Cottage pie, was going to put cauliflower rice and cover with potato slices, but MrSlim has bought cakes, so am leaving out the potato on my half and hoping that will help. Carrots, broccolli and few runner beans. water to drink.
Have been experinmenting with some of the apples. Apples are on MrSlims good-for-him list. Surely with 21 apple trees some of them must be fit to eat? 1st tree apples discolour almost immediately, they keep their shape after cooking for 10 mins, but are not at all attractive to look at and have no flavour. Tree no 1 is right by the vegetable patch and is a large and productive tree. Perhaps try again in a month, when the apples may be riper.
Tree two, is behind the sheds, there are two trees with fruit very similar, possibly the same. Attractive yellow and red streaked fruit, getting more red as it ripens. Some decent sized fruit, more small, but many have infestation marks, chose the best I could find from the windfalls. These appear to be ready to eat now. Pips are all dark. Slow to discolour, cooked down to soft pulp in 10 mins, tart, not hugely flavoursome, but useable. Might need a little sweetener.
Tree three. By the lean-to out the back, has huge amount of fruit, large, green with red streaks. Obviously unripe fruit, pips still pale. Fruit slow to disclour, starting to break down after 10 mins, but little flavour. Will need repeat experiment with ripe fruit. Am hoping to make apple jelly, or chutney. Possibly to give as presents. Found a recipe for apple and walnut chutney today, we are picking up kilos of walnuts now so that would be a great use for them. The pickled walnuts made earlier look ok, its still not time to sample them.
Think will be neccessary to number all the trees with paint, as the numbers used today bear no resemblence to their position in the orchard. Today chose the trees by productiveness and position. No point in trying out dying trees - or ones marked to go.
BG before meal 5.7,
one hour 6.2
two hours 8.4
two and a half hours 9.4 (was hoping it would go down, but was feeling overheated and guessed it was still rising)

It was stupid of me to have cake, but its been a long time since last indulgence in french pattisierie. Now seeing the numbers rising am feeling slightly sick from anxiety. Will test again in 30 mins.
40 mins later 8.2
30 mins 7.8
well that is a definite no to cake.
 
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