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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Yesterday was Tea for B; avocado, mackerel and 50 gms Lidl coleslaw for lunch; Evening was shin of beef casserole with mashed swede and cavolo nero - 0.5 rise @ 2 hrs so not great there but surprisingly edible - thanks @DCUKMod. Today B= tea then avocado and h/b egg salad for lunch; had a bovil stock cube as I was chilly this afternoon and evening was a CCB and almond milk cocoa. Frankly, I have no idea how to manage bg control, daily odd effects of the combination of drugs being thrown at me and my personal food preferences. That menu could just as easily be very harmful as any good. Latest fun is a weird raised set of "bubbles" in a circle under the skin on both palms. Cetirizine seems to work well on the previous issue but not this one. Pharmacist baffled and no Drs appt until 2045 or something like that.
 
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Evening all.
2 meals today, starting with lunch out at the Lost Gardens of Heligan - fennel and something frittatata with a couple of salads - they always have such a good veg selection, all grown on site.
Dinner was DD Asian cabbage stir fry. I love the wasabi mayonnaise with this.
Have found some good food news and some not so good. First was a couple of spoons of dal my daughter made to go with dinner on Sat. Bg rise within acceptable limits yay! Not so good was butcher’s home made ‘Grandad sausages’ tasted great but big bg rise.
@Annb my mouth dropped open reading of your overturned soup tureen! How horrible, must have made such a mess. Glad you had help clearing it up
@ianpspurs sorry your meds are playing such havoc with you. The palm blisters sound quite unpleasant. I think your bg is still remarkably well controlled and is probably the least of your concerns atm.
 
Gee @Annb, that was quite a day. Glad to read most things sorted themselves out. Well done you for all the community effort though. I tried very hard to get into the forum yesterday but it refused to load up on any of my tech so 2 days today.

Monday - bed 6.7 FBG 6.3. Up early for the school run but only one today. Youngest was going out with American Nana so it was a nice peaceful trip both to school and afterwards with no bickering! Hubby decided we were going to view the TVs again after my Aqua class and was delighted that No 1 grandson was on his side. He agreed 65" was too big as he thought I'd have to take the photos off the wall.
B. TAG with ADOC. School run and then off to Aqua.
L. On the TV hunt. Did one thing right. I'd spotted that there was a code for another £125 off TVs as one of their offers and that they would remove and recycle old TV for £15. Salesman didn't know about either but found them quick enough when I said we can order online. No food but TV is finally ordered but the 55"one - Boo!
D. 2 beef olives casseroled with carrot/onion and a stir fry of sprouts/spinach/pancetta. Raspberries & cream. Hubby finally spotted the new Hotel Chocolate at the Fort - visit coming up soon!

Today Tuesday (although I thought it was Wednesday). Bed 6.4 FBG 6.4. Back to normal school run although not nipping at each other for once.
B. TAG with ADOC and when I got back had a slice of high protein toasted with Philadelphia & ham.
L. After being overruled on the TV I felt myself being drawn to Lakeland (well they did send me a load of different vouchers which were running out of time). Bought 2 of the smaller drying Pods (one for DIL one for me), 2 packs of the poachettes for poached eggs which have returned, 2 egg separators that are a bit spider like, a new Microban board and a microwave grill/toastie maker. A very enjoyable outing! Got 20% off, lady on checkout managed to get it to accept another 3 x £5 vouchers I had and I had another 7% cashback offer on my bank card for shopping at Lakeland.
D. Hubby was having steak pie which I got at the butchers when out. I opted for a salad of lettuce, tomato, avocado, boiled egg, tuna, remains of a prawn cocktail and helmans.
Having removed another DGF Millionaire shortbread from the freezer it would be unkind not to eat it. Must order more!
 
Yesterday:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: cold roast chicken with cauliflower and broccoli salad followed by Greek yoghurt, raspberries and macadamia and coconut keto granola.
Mid afternoon: coffee chia pudding and black coffee.
Dinner: ‘spaghetti’ carbonara (made with Explore Cuisine edamame pasta) 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: cold roast chicken with leafy salad and two orange reptare tomatoes followed by Greek yoghurt, blueberries and macadamia and coconut keto granola.
Mid afternoon: coconut chia pudding and black coffee.
Dinner: Sweet and sour chicken with cauliflower rice followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
 
maglil55 said:
Hubby decided we were going to view the TVs again after my Aqua class and was delighted that No 1 grandson was on his side. He agreed 65" was too big as he thought I'd have to take the photos off the wall. [/USER]
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That's why I don't allow photos on my walls
 
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ianpspurs said:
Yesterday was Tea for B; avocado, mackerel and 50 gms Lidl coleslaw for lunch; Evening was shin of beef casserole with mashed swede and cavolo nero - 0.5 rise @ 2 hrs so not great there but surprisingly edible - thanks @DCUKMod. Today B= tea then avocado and h/b egg salad for lunch; had a bovil stock cube as I was chilly this afternoon and evening was a CCB and almond milk cocoa. Frankly, I have no idea how to manage bg control, daily odd effects of the combination of drugs being thrown at me and my personal food preferences. That menu could just as easily be very harmful as any good. Latest fun is a weird raised set of "bubbles" in a circle under the skin on both palms. Cetirizine seems to work well on the previous issue but not this one. Pharmacist baffled and no Drs appt until 2045 or something like that.
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Glad the shin was acceptable. Did you do the Keto one we do, or sort of make it up as you went (which are often the best, but if I do them, can't replicate!)
 
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Glad the shin was acceptable. Did you do the Keto one we do, or sort of make it up as you went (which are often the best, but if I do them, can't replicate!)
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We stuck fairly closely to the keto version - subbed some chopped frozen onions for shallots. Changed time to 30 minutes from 25, added mushrooms. Your tip about reducing liquid by 1/2 was very helpful. The shin came from 2 different sources and some chunks were a little dry so not sure who was at fault there. Not quite ox cheek like but will work for me.
 
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@PenguinMum which supermarket had your chicken shishlak? It is a favourite of mine :wacky:

@Annb that soup nightmare sounds awful. The cleanup must have been terrible. Any milk in the soup? Spilled milk in car carpets is a special form of torture.

since I got home on Sat, have had chicken kebabs, chunks of cheese, cheesy mince, sausage chaffles and too much Lindt 70%.

and today Mr B was in York and brought me back some very dark hotel chocolat batons. So that is breakfast sorted for the next many mornings (4 batons whipped in hot water til velvety frothy, with double cream and erythritol.)
Breakfast of Champions.
 
Lunch yesterday (Tues): Toasted cheese and tomato sandwiches.
Dinner: Spicy seafood mariana, small portion of reheated pasta, couple of glasses of red ned.
Breakfast: Usual c&m omelette, bacon, tomatoes.

Drinks: Black coffee no sugary, water, Merlot.

The units where we live had the plumbers in to fix a blockage in the sewer pipe leading to the main pipe. Lot of effort, time and water was flushed away amongst other things.

All good now...
 
Evening all. Missed everybody yesterday.

@shelley262 don’t know about being hungrier, certainly a lot greedier recently. @ziggy_w and @DJC3 know what you mean about being easier to not eat than stop once started

@ianpspurs and @DCUKMod interesting to read about the beef shin - bought it for the first time last week and will be experimenting in due course

Speaking of experimenting, much of tonight’s consumption has been chocolate chip cookies. Been testing recipes for Halloween bash at work. Didn’t manage to get consistency right for using my skull cookie cutter, but batch number 3 with less liquid and no egg plus some added nuts proved to be the best, if a little fragile (broken ones duly eaten :D)

Aside from that Nando’s for lunch - welcome lunch for 2 new colleagues. 2 plain legs and a side of Halloumi followed by a little too much 90% chocolate. Dinner was a 30g piece of cheese plus the chocolate chip cookies.

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@Annb good gracious what an eventful and exhausting day you had. You went out of your way in so many ways to help so many people and it would seem you were ambushed at every turn. The overturned soup must have been the last straw even if it was an accident! I am just glad you enjoyed your steak and tomatoes.
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Actually, I wasn't feeling very happy about the whole day but today is another day and today I can laugh at it all. It was quite amusing in its own way - especially the way the animals piled out of the house and got stuck in!
 
Goonergal said:
Evening all. Missed everybody yesterday.


@ianpspurs and @DCUKMod interesting to read about the beef shin - bought it for the first time last week and will be experimenting in due course
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By coincidence, last week, I bought half a beef shin - about 2 kg - to experiment with butchering the cuts that I wanted out of it. It's on the bone - I also wanted a bone to make bone broth. That's tomorrow's job.

My grandmother was a great cook - having been a professional cook in one of the "big" houses in London (not the same thing as a modern day chef). The only thing she couldn't cook to modern tastes was cabbage. Her cabbage was boiled to within an inch or less, of its life. She always used beef shin to make her beef pies - first the beef was cooked as a stew for hours on end and then it was put into the pie with (I think) kidneys, onions and once in a while, oysters. The gravy was really rich and the meat melted in the mouth. Pastry was wonderful as well - a kind of puff pastry made in a different way to modern methods. Heavenly! She also used to make my absolute favourite which for some reason she called China pudding. It was a bacon roll in feather light suet pastry, boiled in a cloth in a huge pan. Wonderful. I tried to replicate it for years, without success (and so did my mother) but now that I am low carbing, I've given up. ,
 
Hello all,

Finally back after the forum outage.

@Goonergal, @maglil55, @DJC3 and @shelley262 -- Thanks for sharing your experiences with increased hunger and your advice on how to deal with it. Have eaten a bit less the last two days, but still way more than a couple of months ago.
@maglil55 -- Congrats on the new TV and the kitchen gadgets. Hope you enjoy both. Also what is "TAG with ADOC"?
@Annb -- Really empathize with you on the day of mix-ups leading to so much leftover food and the spilled soup in the trunk.
@ianpspurs -- Hope the blisters disappear again. Why will it take so long to see a GP? (Sorry if the answer might be obvious, but I don't know much about the British healthcare system).
 
So, on to the daily food report.

Today ...

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and erythritol. A hamburger patty (made from ground ribeye, I know what a waste, but seriously so much better than regular ground beef, almost reminds my of bacon) with a slice of cheddar melted on top.

Lunch: Nothing.

Dinner: Out celebrating my birthday at a rodizio, enjoying various meats (chicken was best as it was juicier than the other meats) with herb butter. Fried sardines, olives, boiled egg quarters and feta from the salad bar. Two glasses of dry red wine. They also had flan on the desert bar (my absolute favorite), so couldn't resist. Luckily portions were very small (guess around 20g to 25g), so had about 3/5th of one, my husband prevented worse by eating the remainder before I could get to it. (Blood sugars were 6.7 half an hour later, but had returned to 4.8 after we got home approx. one hour after this).

As you will have noticed, no chicken cracklings today. Have unfortunately run out of them (could it be due to overconsumption?). Was so happy to get a note from Amazon.co.uk that they were back in stock. Note came in at 6:10 p.m., just checked about an hour ago and they had already run out of them again. Stock didn't even last 12 hours. Must have become really popular.
 
ziggy_w said:
So, on to the daily food report.

Today ...

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and erythritol. A hamburger patty (made from ground ribeye, I know what a waste, but seriously so much better than regular ground beef, almost reminds my of bacon) with a slice of cheddar melted on top.

Lunch: Nothing.

Dinner: Out celebrating my birthday at a rodizio, enjoying various meats (chicken was best as it was juicier than the other meats) with herb butter. Fried sardines, olives, boiled egg quarters and feta from the salad bar. Two glasses of dry red wine. They also had flan on the desert bar (my absolute favorite), so couldn't resist. Luckily portions were very small (guess around 20g to 25g), so had about 3/5th of one, my husband prevented worse by eating the remainder before I could get to it. (Blood sugars were 6.7 half an hour later, but had returned to 4.8 after we got home approx. one hour after this).

As you will have noticed, no chicken cracklings today. Have unfortunately run out of them (could it be due to overconsumption?). Was so happy to get a note from Amazon.co.uk that they were back in stock. Note came in at 6:10 p.m., just checked about an hour ago and they had already run out of them again. Stock didn't even last 12 hours. Must have become really popular.
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Happy birthday @ziggy_w
 
Hello everyone so I hadn't been able to log on then discovered that they were doing an upgrade to the site.

So What have I eaten I only can remember from dinner last night and breakfast which was Grilled quail (Yamam mashwi) with side of saurakrate, baked potatoes and baby tomatoes. It was so yummy. Breakfast poached eggs bacon and slice of sourdough toast actually managed to eat breakfast today!

My meals have been so yummy but my appetite is ridiculous at the moment. I'm embarrassed to actually write what else I've eaten ... I'm finding somedays I'm not feeling hungry in the morning so eat a small amount but by dinner I'm eating my house down. I've been reading about the meds I'm on and starting to wonder if tablets that increase your insulin intake will that also increase appetite. I have no idea but a combination of steroids T2D, medication and UC &, B.E.D I often wonder am I fighting a loosing battle. sorry didn't mean to go on. So signing off 20191029_184408.jpeg
 
Good morning, @Goonergal. Thank you so very much for the birthday wishes. You're up early today. Do you get up at this time of the day?
 
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annabell1 said:
Hello everyone so I hadn't been able to log on then discovered that they were doing an upgrade to the site.

So What have I eaten I only can remember from dinner last night and breakfast which was Grilled quail (Yamam mashwi) with side of saurakrate, baked potatoes and baby tomatoes. It was so yummy. Breakfast poached eggs bacon and slice of sourdough toast actually managed to eat breakfast today!

My meals have been so yummy but my appetite is ridiculous at the moment. I'm embarrassed to actually write what else I've eaten ... I'm finding somedays I'm not feeling hungry in the morning so eat a small amount but by dinner I'm eating my house down. I've been reading about the meds I'm on and starting to wonder if tablets that increase your insulin intake will that also increase appetite. I have no idea but a combination of steroids T2D, medication and UC &, B.E.D I often wonder am I fighting a loosing battle. sorry didn't mean to go on. So signing off View attachment 36431
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Hi @annabell1,

Definitely empathize with the hunger ... and yes, more insulin can increase appetite, I believe.

Btw, food looks delicious.
 
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