What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone from a rather damp start to International Bin Day in the dark and dangerous north.

The wonder wheel of an oven roast of cabbage steaks, whole onions, some beef strips and a daub of gravy came in at 5.2 this am - not enough protein to hide the carbs - blast. Never mind.

Mrs Miggins is collecting our granddaughters bike from the bike shop where it has been having a service - @Muddy Cyclist - they kept it for several days also before starting the service. I am taking part in our first PPG Zoom meeting today. The practice is trying to resume some normal monitoring activities now so more patients will be asked to attend the surgery to see the nursing team although doctors are continuing with phone triage. Our immediate problem is sorting out annual flu jabs later in the year as we usually do these in mass over a couple of weekends.

Have a wonderful Mitwoch, I now need my first fix of koffy.

 

[jjraak]

Good morning crew from the land of overnight rain and all day blue bins. Today the Libre showed 4.3 as an fbg. I know that is not "real" but finger pricks have never matched A1c either. The Libre is easier and far more motivating in the same way as Fitbit over reports steps but definitely motivates. Ultimately, A1c will give me a calibration and since I don't use insulin or hypo sub 3.7 the accuracy is not crucial. I also operate within a fairly/very narrow range of menus since the F part of LCHF/keto doesn't boil my bacon for the most part. Coming on five years non diabetic 6 monthly lab tests and weight back around the pre bulk up for higher level sport. I don't like the textbook version of this WOE and have serious concerns about potential side effects but hopefully careful screening and supplementation for those issues is working. (Spinach powder is the new black). Walking song for today

Give it beans today gang. (2 pages of posts appeared after I typed this so no idea who to needs hugs or praise.)

WIN for the song choice..BRILLIANT.

takes me back. Happy days.

I seem to put this in the same summer

Lyrics

 

[dunelm]

Good morning crew from the land of overnight rain and all day blue bins. Today the Libre showed 4.3 as an fbg. I know that is not "real" but finger pricks have never matched A1c either. The Libre is easier and far more motivating in the same way as Fitbit over reports steps but definitely motivates. Ultimately, A1c will give me a calibration and since I don't use insulin or hypo sub 3.7 the accuracy is not crucial. I also operate within a fairly/very narrow range of menus since the F part of LCHF/keto doesn't boil my bacon for the most part. Coming on five years non diabetic 6 monthly lab tests and weight back around the pre bulk up for higher level sport. I don't like the textbook version of this WOE and have serious concerns about potential side effects but hopefully careful screening and supplementation for those issues is working. (Spinach powder is the new black). Walking song for today

Give it beans today gang. (2 pages of posts appeared after I typed this so no idea who needs hugs or praise.)

Spinach powder - someone will have loads of recipes available on the wonder web. Smoothies perhaps and sneaking veg into meals for children. I must get some to make multi coloured dough - I already have beetroot powder.

Update: @ianpspurs - I must dig out that film Solyent Green - did they do a powder version?

 

[ianpspurs]

Spinach powder - someone will have loads of recipes available on the wonder web. Smoothies perhaps and sneaking veg into meals for children. I must get some to make multi coloured dough - I already have beetroot powder.

Bought as part of a bigger order from Bulk Powders - like those guys I use it as the final topping on my ubiquitous (huge portioned) mackerel and avocado salad which is just about my staple evening meal and definitely my main feed of the day. I think I basically just like of the tang of the ACV and dijon. Plenty of Chia seeds and flaxseeds mixed in for transit purposes. I have recently added multivits for LC dieters and iron with the evening meal. Awaiting vit k2 supplements as I'm unsure about Natto.

 

[gennepher]

My pastel for my daily painting challenge for today.

A quickie today. I do tend to get engrossed with pastels and lose myself in them. So this one was less than half hour, and you can see bits of light grey Ingres pastel paper showing through. It looks a bit dark on my small phone screen, but on a larger screen it looks lighter.

Still a grey day outside, dull, but dry. I did have to dry my outdoors table because it must have been raining in the night. It is warm enough out there, but cat declined to come out me and so he stayed ensconced within my blankets...

 

[HarryBeau]

Morning...great excitement in our household we have a shopping delivery due in the next hour so I am poised ready & waiting...a reasonable sleep last night so got moving with a little tidy emptied the rubbish and so on...need to have a routine of some kind has it really been three months since we/I entered lockdown...working from home is making the absence form normal a little more palatable & I'm hoping my activity levels will increase...raining here this morning we need it...pink gin & some nachos this evening primarily for my neighbours (nachos not the gin)...woke to a 6.6

 

[ianpspurs]

@Muddy Cyclist and @dunelm the children not knowing cuckoo calls is part of a larger issue but fear not. Lack of bsic knowledge is no barrier to a world leading careerhttps://www.theguardian.com/politic...-fiddle-the-science-when-he-cant-count-to-two

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.3 this morning.
Mr K did it lovely thing yesterday. He saw a briefcase advertised in the 'i ' Looked on the companies site and ordered the perfect one for me.

He said it was because we couldn't celebrate my birthday during lockdown. We don't do birthday presents because we have enough stuff and like to go out for a meal instead - which of course we couldn't do.

Can't wait for it to arrive. My 20 year old briefcase is past its best so it is the perfect present. It is made by a Welsh company and their bags look really well made.

 

[ianpspurs]

5.3 this morning.
Mr K did it lovely thing yesterday. He saw a briefcase advertised in the 'i ' Looked on the companies site and ordered the perfect one for me.

He said it was because we couldn't celebrate my birthday during lockdown. We don't do birthday presents because we have enough stuff and like to go out for a meal instead - which of course we couldn't do.

Can't wait for it to arrive. My 20 year old briefcase is past its best so it is the perfect present. It is made by a Welsh company and their bags look really well made.

That sainted man just becomes more of a legend each day and such forbearance. Your parents must have been ecstatic with him in the gene pool.

 

[HarryBeau]

Can't wait for it to arrive

Brownie points for Mr K

 

[HarryBeau]

My pastel for my daily painting challenge for today.

Stunning gennepher

 

[dunelm]

@Muddy Cyclist and @dunelm the childfen not knowing cuckoo calls is part of a larger issue but fear not. Lack of bsic knowledge is no barrier to a world leading careerhttps://www.theguardian.com/politic...-fiddle-the-science-when-he-cant-count-to-two

Sad, isn’t it that our Edn Sec can’t count, work even, and other idiots think that if you say “just over 6 feet” then that will enable them to shoehorn more children into the same space. He joins the home secretary, who it seems does not understand the law about police investigations and the workings of the crown prosecuting service. We are doomed. And yes, children not knowing cuckoo calls is a sad marker for todays society.

 

[gennepher]

Stunning gennepher

Thank you @HarryBeau

 

[ianpspurs]

Sad, isn’t it that our Edn Sec can’t count, work even, and other idiots think that if you say “just over 6 feet” then that will enable them to shoehorn more children into the same space. He joins the home secretary, who it seems does not understand the law about police investigations and the workings of the crown prosecuting service. We are doomed. And yes, children not knowing cuckoo calls is a sad marker for todays society.

Schoolchildren don't vote and pubs + shops opening are designed to distract parents. Classic Dom.

 

[jjraak]

@Muddy Cyclist and @dunelm the children not knowing cuckoo calls is part of a larger issue but fear not. Lack of bsic knowledge is no barrier to a world leading careerhttps://www.theguardian.com/politic...-fiddle-the-science-when-he-cant-count-to-two

Fairly torn apart, as is Hancock
In the same paper.

Does seem the interview process for cabinet is much of the improv loved by actors

If you can alternate from Mon to wed that god exists, does not, does...and not break character...your IN
Patel does it best, to my mind

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...hide-and-seek-behind-an-ever-changing-science
.

 

[ianpspurs]

Fairly torn apart, as is Hancock
In the same paper.

Does seem the interview process for cabinet is much of the improv loved by actors

If you can alternate from Mon to wed that god exists, does not, does...and not break character...your IN
Patel does it best, to my mind

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...hide-and-seek-behind-an-ever-changing-science
.

This cabinet is very much the 4th XV cobbled together from anywhere. No talent, just grateful to be given a game. Most (rightly) couldn't even make it into Cameron or May's first teams so they sulked and became Brexiteers. A few are true believers - Patel and Raab standout. Gove destroyed schools for a generation and Johnson was the worst Foreign Secretary ever. I'm not sure where the self respect of people like Hancock can have gone. IMHO, if we all know the COVID response has been a manure storm - and the origin was not homemade - Brexit will be far worse. Cheerful soul ain't I?

 

[dunelm]

Latest batch of scones - cheese ones using fibreflour and kefir.

 

[ianpspurs]

Latest batch of scones - cheese ones using fibreflour and kefir.

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They look really good. Did you have a recipe or make it up from experience? I have fibre flour and kefir grains, goodness knows what I will do with either. Cheese scones , or scones of any sort, aren't something I have ever really eaten but any port in a storm - even Cockburns.

 

[dunelm]

They look really good. Did you have a recipe or make it up from experience? I have fibre flour and kefir grains, goodness knows what I will do with either. Cheese scones , or scones of any sort, aren't something I have ever really eaten but any port in a storm - even Cockburns.

I started out with this recipe:
https://www.culturesforhealth.com/learn/recipe/milk-kefir-recipes/simple-scones-kefir/

Then swapped the flour for the fibre flour and the sugar for a teaspoon of stevia. Before adding the kefir I added some finely grated parmesan and finely grated cheddar using micro grater thing.
I did need a bit more kefir than the half a cup given in the recipe.
Baked for 15 minutes at 200 C Fan

 

[ianpspurs]

I started out with this recipe:
https://www.culturesforhealth.com/learn/recipe/milk-kefir-recipes/simple-scones-kefir/

Then swapped the flour for the fibre flour and the sugar for a teaspoon of stevia. Before adding the kefir I added some finely grated parmesan and finely grated cheddar using micro grater thing.
I did need a bit more kefir than the half a cup given in the recipe.
Baked for 15 minutes at 200 C Fan

Very helpful thanks. I have informed the kitchen staff. Very difficult to find proper staff these days. I had to use the expedient of marriage. This country is going to hell in a handcart.