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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

PenguinMum said:
Hi All
So Thursday ditched Fish Fingers Firsday to today as we need easy supper because I am having an eye injection this morning. Breakfast was my usual slice of HiLo toast with lots of tea. Lunch was mixed salad and a Scotch egg, I know bad! Supper was panfried lamb steak and leftover roasted Med veg.
Today lunch will be rollitos & salad.
Just heard we are both getting second Pfizer jab on Tuesday. Hoping no issues but at least we can push on with life a bit more now.
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I had my second Pfizer last Wednesday. I had a mild allergic reaction (nothing that bothered me as I have allergies) 1st time but, 2nd jab it still happened but more mild and shorter. Apart from a tender vac site for 2 days I've been fine. Hubby was the opposite. No reaction to 1st jab but felt he was coming down with the flu for 24 hrs with the 2nd plus a tender, swollen arm for 5 days. No rhyme nor reason to it.
 
maglil55 said:
I had my second Pfizer last Wednesday. I had a mild allergic reaction (nothing that bothered me as I have allergies) 1st time but, 2nd jab it still happened but more mild and shorter. Apart from a tender vac site for 2 days I've been fine. Hubby was the opposite. No reaction to 1st jab but felt he was coming down with the flu for 24 hrs with the 2nd plus a tender, swollen arm for 5 days. No rhyme nor reason to it.
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We were the same but the other way round. My turn to be yuk this time.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Atkins double chocolate bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and chocolate chia pudding.
Dinner: mini minted lamb kebabs, leafy salad, coleslaw and a small packet of Cheesies followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate and raspberry granola.
 
Bacon and a three egg omelette, mushrooms.
A couple of prawn wraps to finish the bag of frozen cocktail prawns and the packet of wraps off.
Lamb forequarter chops, green veggies and gravy.

In another thread there was a question about low carb jelly, I found the good old Australian Aeroplane jelly that is low carb. It is one of the things I can eat on my "fast" (jelly is classed as a fluid) as long as it's not red purple or blue.

Here's a link to one I got in the local supermarket.

https://www.aeroplanejelly.com.au/our-products/jelly-lite/lite-lemon
 
B : Ff greek with seeds and blueberries
45 mins yoga followed by 90 minute hilly walk
L: 3 lc mini cheddar biscuits, 3 small pieces my lc caulifower cheese thingy, bit of brie, 2 cherry tomatoes. 1 piece lc rhubarb cake with cream
3pm really hungry so tried 250ml kefir with 2 sqs 85%.

Seemed to do the trick as no longer hungry so skipped dinner
 
Breakfast: same as yesterday - dry fried bacon, eggs and mushrooms.
2nd meal: lamb chops and buttered cabbage (if I feel like cooking later on - just now feeling pretty nauseous and just feel like going to bed).
 
Friday
Breakfast - 3 eggs with butter mashed in a cup.
Lunch - few slices of cooked chicken, some mozarella and pesto balls from M and S, a few olives.
Dinner - Indian take away; saag paneer and garlic chicken tikka.

Woke up feeling awful, running a bit of a temp, sore head and nausea. Completed a covid test and it was negative so just going to chill and see if it goes.

Breakfast - slice of SLC toast and corn beef
Dinner - a hotdog in the new SLC hotdog rolls with fake cheese, fried onion and mustard.
 
Usual Saturday morning boot camp Hiit workout followed by bacon butty in SLC roll. Decided to weigh the bacon rashers before cooking to see whether my guesstimate is near enough - no! I’ve been assuming 3 rashers weigh about 75g but they were 170g I should maybe look at portion size more often.
Lunch half a pack of Parma ham as a snack
Dinner Parmesan crusted haddock and celeriac chips, both airfried and wonderful. Steamed brocolli with it and a lump of cheddar with a couple of glasses wine afterwards.
@Annb thanks for posting your cabbage roll experiment. I’m keen to try with maybe some very spicy mix after your comments about blandness. Definitely worth coming back to.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee
Late morning: black coffee and a Fibre One caramel protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and coffee chia pudding.
Dinner, Chinese take away: crispy duck, 3 small pancakes, a smidge of sauce and veggies followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
 
Antje77 said:
Oh no!
Are you limiting your fat and protein intake or are they just as well now there's more of it than you thought?
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Not really limiting anything except carbs but it was a bit of a shock to find what I’d thought of as a light meal/ snack had so many calories, protein and fat. I’ll still carry on having 3 rashers though. It made me wonder if I’m underestimating other things too, in particular cheese. I’ll have to start random weight testing.
 
DJC3 said:
I’ll have to start random weight testing.
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Do you?
If you are trying to lose weight, it makes sense, but if not, why would you want to know exactly how much you are eating?
(Checked your profile to find clues and am now tempted to edit my previous sentence to start with 'So' :D)
 
Antje77 said:
Do you?
If you are trying to lose weight, it makes sense, but if not, why would you want to know exactly how much you are eating?
(Checked your profile to find clues and am now tempted to edit my previous sentence to start with 'So' :D)
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Lol I’d completely forgotten I’d written that, thanks for the laugh.
You’re right, perhaps I won’t worry about the bacon but I should prob check the veg. My BG often creeps up.
 
DJC3 said:
Usual Saturday morning boot camp Hiit workout followed by bacon butty in SLC roll. Decided to weigh the bacon rashers before cooking to see whether my guesstimate is near enough - no! I’ve been assuming 3 rashers weigh about 75g but they were 170g I should maybe look at portion size more often.
Lunch half a pack of Parma ham as a snack
Dinner Parmesan crusted haddock and celeriac chips, both airfried and wonderful. Steamed brocolli with it and a lump of cheddar with a couple of glasses wine afterwards.
@Annb thanks for posting your cabbage roll experiment. I’m keen to try with maybe some very spicy mix after your comments about blandness. Definitely worth coming back to.
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The pork mixture was quite good baked - it was the steaming process that made it more bland. It would have been better with some fairly strong herbs, some spices, or a good sausage meat. Perhaps with some stronger cheese as well. Might also be better baked - but then the cling film wouldn't be able to be used and so it would be parcels instead of balls - not so much of a sacrifice.
 
@Onlinecaroline & @Annb - I do hope you are feeling better. @PenguinMum - best of luck on Tuesday. As they said to me at the drive through, there is no rhyme nor reason to how or why there is these different reactions between people and doses. I've just found out though that the Drive Through centre I was at "accidentally" gave attendees last Saturday a double dose of the Pfizer vaccine. No reports of it doing any harm though.
Thursday bed 6.6 FBG 8.1 - no idea why. It's not food so I wonder if there is something in what you wondered @DJC3 that the vaccine does temporarily affect BG readings?

B. TAG and joy! Plenty SLC bread available so I had a sandwich with ox tongue and coleslaw.
L. Nothing - between voting, home schooling, getting boys dinner organised and the engineer back about my mysterious fridge/freezer issues there was no time.
D. Boys request - mince with carrot, onion, broccoli , peas. They had mash with theirs, I had a broccoli/cauliflower souffle thing.

Friday bed 5.2 FBG 6.5 - I noticed yesterday that my BGs hit 12 a one point. No obvious reason for it but they stabilised again today.

B. TAG and slice of SLC toast with Dairylea.
L. Nothing - 1/2 day at school but I had to collect elder grandson a little early as he had a sore tummy. Not anxiety this time as he's been great this week. Turns out he was hungry so got him back to have something to eat before taking him home.
D. Chicken breast stuffed with mozzarella and in a spicy sauce with a mix of beans. Did a cauliflower rice with it. I made the sauce too "tomato-y" so left half of it. Grenade Ice cream bar to rid me of the taste of the chicken dish! That's my excuse.
 
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Saturday bed 6.8 FBG 6.1 - Up early again as boys at Jujitsu. Another horrid day weather wise too. Glad to say eldest participated this week, made a friend and admitted it was fun! Another step forward.

B. TAG and a SLC sandwich with ox tongue and coleslaw.
L. Nothing.
D. One of Iceland's wild shrimp things with cauli rice, 2 sliced mushrooms and 4 santini tomatoes added. I also had another broccoli/cauliflower souffle thing as I'm trying to reduce what's in the freezer.

Freezer is still acting up and the faults coming up on the diagnostics could be one or more of 4 things so the engineer is replacing all 4 parts. Ordered now so just have to get through another week with a temperamental freezer. Will be getting the cool boxes/bags ready for replacement day! Thank goodness for appliance repair contracts.
 
maglil55 said:
@Onlinecaroline & @Annb - I do hope you are feeling better. @PenguinMum - best of luck on Tuesday. As they said to me at the drive through, there is no rhyme nor reason to how or why there is these different reactions between people and doses. I've just found out though that the Drive Through centre I was at "accidentally" gave attendees last Saturday a double dose of the Pfizer vaccine. No reports of it doing any harm though.
Thursday bed 6.6 FBG 8.1 - no idea why. It's not food so I wonder if there is something in what you wondered @DJC3 that the vaccine does temporarily affect BG readings?

B. TAG and joy! Plenty SLC bread available so I had a sandwich with ox tongue and coleslaw.
L. Nothing - between voting, home schooling, getting boys dinner organised and the engineer back about my mysterious fridge/freezer issues there was no time.
D. Boys request - mince with carrot, onion, broccoli , peas. They had mash with theirs, I had a broccoli/cauliflower souffle thing.

Friday bed 5.2 FBG 6.5 - I noticed yesterday that my BGs hit 12 a one point. No obvious reason for it but they stabilised again today.

B. TAG and slice of SLC toast with Dairylea.
L. Nothing - 1/2 day at school but I had to collect elder grandson a little early as he had a sore tummy. Not anxiety this time as he's been great this week. Turns out he was hungry so got him back to have something to eat before taking him home.
D. Chicken breast stuffed with mozzarella and in a spicy sauce with a mix of beans. Did a cauliflower rice with it. I made the sauce too "tomato-y" so left half of it. Grenade Ice cream bar to rid me of the taste of the chicken dish! That's my excuse.
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Thanks @maglil55. How on earth could the double dose happen, I though they just loaded a dose to a syringe!
 
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