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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

DCUKMod said:
There are several cream of brussel sprouts soups out there, including this one from Sainsbury's: https://recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/soups/brussels-sprout-and-cheddar-soup

I might be inclined to make it with ham stock, then crumble some very crispy cooked bacon on top. M&S cooked strips are plenty crispy enough, if you're feeling in low effort mode.

I'm a sprout lover, and MrB is a sprout loather, so it won't be happening on our house, any time soon. :(
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As I posted a few days ago, I made Brussels sprout soup with leftover cooked sprouts. The original stew had been made with lamb, but it had been cooked for so long there was no flavour left in it so I added a good, strong chicken stock and it worked very well. Would probably have been much better just with fresh shredded sprouts, good stock of some sort and cream/soft cheese added at the end. The ham and bacon idea sounds good though, but can't say I fancy the idea of cheddar or any other hard cheese. I never have like leafy veg with hard cheese, so that's just me.
 
DCUKMod said:
There are several cream of brussel sprouts soups out there, including this one from Sainsbury's: https://recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/soups/brussels-sprout-and-cheddar-soup

I might be inclined to make it with ham stock, then crumble some very crispy cooked bacon on top. M&S cooked strips are plenty crispy enough, if you're feeling in low effort mode.

I'm a sprout lover, and MrB is a sprout loather, so it won't be happening on our house, any time soon. :(
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I was also going to suggest bacon should be involved at some level @PenguinMum . Hope it goes well, please report which recipe you use ( if any)
 
annabell1 said:
Friday and Still at my mums place but christmas day and exhaustion for my mum although she cant do anything anymore due to her dimentia and mobility she gets very tired by having everyone over and by boxing night my mum had forgotten who I was. It took me a lot of strength to not get emotional I think mum was also upset she forgotten who I was but I tried to make light of it and made her laugh with some jokes... its amazing how this can trigger my anxiety and eating of sweets which it did and I ate some lollies for comfort... by bed time mum remembered who I was which is what happens.

Friday breakfast white bread toasted with butter and grilled cheese and a black coffee. After breakfast I took one of my sisters to a medical appointment then went to the Lebanese shop and brought some goat cheese and some nuts
Lunch I was given sweets again
Dinner more Christmas lunch left overs. I then packed my clothes and belongings said my goodbyes and drive home which takes over an hour. So got home around 9pm. my house was very warm so air conditioning was put on. Walked into my bathroom to being confronted with two large cockroaches I hate them errrrr so grabed the surface sprayed and killed those pests amd chocked myself up with the fumes but at least they are gone!!!!.

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Hug for what you are experiencing with your mother. I have twice been forgotten by my nearest and dearest - my father and my husband. It's very distressing when it first happens, but it's something you can get used to. It isn't personal - that's what has to be born in mind. Dementia is a cruel condition - sometimes I think it is crueller on the family who love the poor soul suffering from the disease than the person themselves - they may suffer frustration and other physical problems, but they are not aware of what they have forgotten, whereas those who love them have to see them suffering from the disease and also wonder "how can they have forgotten me? I was such a large part of their life." It gives a feeling of rejection. But you are not being rejected and you just have to continue loving and repeating necessary information for the person when they need it. No point, though, in saying "you know who I am, I am your wife/son /daughter" that would only cause more distress. Just smile and keep on giving of yourself. Hard not to weep sometimes though.

I also hate cockroaches and have been in quite a few situations where they are rife - even on a bullet train in Japan, which astonished me. I also hate spiders and most flying insects (oddly enough, not moths or butterflies). There is a spider in my bedroom at the moment - I almost caught it last night, but it was too fast for me. It's not big, but I hate even little ones. I slept with the light on last night to make it stay in hiding.
 
Evening all. Posting from the train home - lovely Xmas but more than ready for some alone time.

Breakfast today was 100% hot chocolate made with lactofree whole milk.

Lunch was pan fried wild Alaskan sockeye salmon with lemon butter sauce and cabbage / sprouts followed by 2 squares Godiva 90% chocolate melted and mixed with whipped cream.

Dinner was Hotel Chocolat 85% hot chocolate with extra whip and a bunless bacon cheeseburger with mayonnaise and grilled onions at Five Guys, but not before some retail therapy which saw the purchase of a half price pair of jeans and cashmere jumper!

@ziggy_w thanks for the kind wishes - foot is not great, so will need to take further advice. Glad to see you back posting on the thread.

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@annabell1 You have all got through that first Christmas as best you all could so that is good. I am sure it was upsetting with your mum’s dementia and always tricky when not at home as regards what you can eat. So now you’re home take good care!
@DCUKMod @Annb and @DJC3 thanksfor your replies re the sprout soup. I might give it a go in the next couple of days. My sprouts are still raw on the stalk and in the cold garage so should keep till I’m ready. Will let you know!
 
Had lots of drinks today - all non-alcoholic. Finally had 2 eggs scrambled at about 3 pm - wasn't feeling too bright (maybe another cold starting up; I often have nosebleeds when a cold is starting up and that is happening now). Still, by 6.30 pm I decided I ought to have something else (FBG had been 10.1 - up to 16.2 by 3 pm and down after insulin and eggs to 8.5) so I took some more insulin and had bacon and bubble & squeak. I'll check again shortly. Have done very little today - just sat around much of the time feeling sorry for myself. Still nothing on TV I'm interested in. I do have books to read but I keep falling asleep when I sit down to read. Can't win.:bookworm:
 
Trundling on a couple of FB foodie pages today, someone had posted that they had made gifts of a few IP meals in a bag. I've done something very similar for us, where time was going to be very short, in the coming days or weeks. I've both done it to fridge, and to freeze. Once required, the bag content are just lobbed into the pot and set going.

On this page, the lady has created some bag labels that look quite cute. I must sign up and download the labels - just in case.

https://tidbits-marci.com/instant-p...MvT55L3peinjmQq6SEe90g5IoBSW1bnWYvCSfH3Asvl38
 
PenguinMum said:
Well today so far...another outrageous FBG after a very careful day yesterday. @DJC3 has got me thinking it might be the fizz. Regulars will know my drink of choice is a snifter or two of gin & sparkling water but for the past 3 days I have only drank Champagne or Cremant so need to test that theory later!
Planned another almost OMAD with the OMAD being turkey salad later. However we all went over to the little village where No. 2 son and GF buying a little cottage to look around and visit what will be his local at lunchtime. Planned a soup or starter but ended up having a steakburger bunless with tiny pot of coleslaw. Mr PM very excited by the range of ales available and frightened son with ideas of returning once they’re in and staying over. I am now very full so dont know if or what I may eat later.

Any ideas about making soup with excess sprouts? Still have one whole stalk to use up. Would cream of sprout soup work or just be plain wrong?
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Cream of sprouts with cheddar is nice. Fry off some chopped onion until softened. If the sprouts are raw half them and add to the mix. Touch if chilli or garlic is nice too. Add vegetable stock, lid on and let it simmer for 30 mins or so. Puree, add some double cream and grated cheddar, check seasoning and mix through.

Another one which works is sprout and ham soup. Similar to above but with a ham stock and no cheese.
 
High fbg so CWC and a dog walk instead of breakfast.
L: small slice ( last one, phew!) of the Keto Chicken Curry pie, probably shouldn’t be eating it still. Salad and coleslaw. A DGF double choc brownie with cream.
D: not really hungry yet but had 2 celery sticks with Philly and a couple of bits of salami. I’m hoping to try some of the indulgent looking Hot drinking chocolate a friend sent me for Christmas soon, in a 1/2 and 1/2 mix of cream and water.
 
Breakfast yesterday: Bacon, eggs, tomato, ran out of mushrooms.
Lunch: Finished the rest of the seafood up witha spicy salad.
Dinner: Prickled pork and veggies, gravy.

Drinks: Black coffee no sugars, beer, water.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: cold meats, paté on Babybels, pigs in blankets, coleslaw, cheesies and cauliflower and broccoli salad followed by Oppo vanilla cheesecake cream and LC chocolate granola.
Mid afternoon: coffee chia pudding.
Dinner: salmon with garlic and herb cream cheese, cocktail sausages, two cherry tomatoes, cucumber and pork scratchings followed by low carb Christmas pudding and cream. Afterwards one segment of a dark Terry’s chocolate orange.
 
DJC3 said:
High fbg so CWC and a dog walk instead of breakfast.
L: small slice ( last one, phew!) of the Keto Chicken Curry pie, probably shouldn’t be eating it still. Salad and coleslaw. A DGF double choc brownie with cream.
D: not really hungry yet but had 2 celery sticks with Philly and a couple of bits of salami. I’m hoping to try some of the indulgent looking Hot drinking chocolate a friend sent me for Christmas soon, in a 1/2 and 1/2 mix of cream and water.
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Is your drinking chocolate from HC? Last I was in Brum, meeting some friends, I picked up a drum pack of HC hot choc, with chilli for MrB. He loves it.

In Lidl I noticed something similar, but he reckons the Lidl one is too, too sweet for him.
 
DCUKMod said:
Is your drinking chocolate from HC? Last I was in Brum, meeting some friends, I picked up a drum pack of HC hot choc, with chilli for MrB. He loves it.

In Lidl I noticed something similar, but he reckons the Lidl one is too, too sweet for him.
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Hot choc with chilli? Ooh no haven’t spotted that but might be on my birthday list!
This one is Hasslacher’s Colombian 100% cacao drops so not sweetened at all, I’m really looking forward to it.
 
DJC3 said:
Hot choc with chilli? Ooh no haven’t spotted that but might be on my birthday list!
This one is Hasslacher’s Colombian 100% cacao drops so not sweetened at all, I’m really looking forward to it.
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I've just looked it up. I've seen the bricks of that in enigma which is TKMaxx, and wondered about it for MrB
 
DJC3 said:
Just tried it - very smooth and rich and delicious. Mine are small buttons in a tube not a brick though!
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@DJC3 @DCUKMod I have both the bricks and the small drops. Taste and texture is similar, but the brick is harder to use - breaking off the correct amount for a mug of HC is difficult, but that could just be my arthritic fingers not playing ball.
 
Goonergal said:
@DJC3 @DCUKMod I have both the bricks and the small drops. Taste and texture is similar, but the brick is harder to use - breaking off the correct amount for a mug of HC is difficult, but that could just be my arthritic fingers not playing ball.
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Haha should have known you’d have both! Good tip about breaking a lump off the brick though - maybe that’s why they ended up in TKMaxx
 
Goonergal said:
@DJC3 @DCUKMod I have both the bricks and the small drops. Taste and texture is similar, but the brick is harder to use - breaking off the correct amount for a mug of HC is difficult, but that could just be my arthritic fingers not playing ball.
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Do you have a micro plane grater or mandolin? If you don't I'd try a cheese grater on it. I just find a micro plane much sharper (finger grating warning assumed), thus making short work of it. A mandolin would too, but they scare me!!

TKMaxx would be my go-to for a decent, but cheap micro plane, if your curious. Their physical shape/size makes them easier to clean than a standard box grater.

Were I dealing with it, I'd likely grate either all of it, or a decent chunk and store the gratings in a clip top container. (Or even freeze it.) I don't want to be grating notionally every day, and I find it more satisfying grating a decent lump of anything (Parmesan excepted).
 
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