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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Goonergal said:
Mixed day food wise.

Brunch was 15% mince fried with onions and 2 eggs.
Couple of afternoon nibbles - 25g Aldi Moser Roth chocolate and a small ramekin of double cream/almond butter,
Dinner was a takeaway (well Deliveroo delivery) from German Doner Kebab - a ‘gym box’ which is their bread free kebab. Picked beef and included red cabbage and onions. It’s actually pretty nice and a decent lazy option.

@DJC3 are the fish dishes you’ve been posting from the DD high protein section? Would like to increase my fish intake and hoping for some inspiration!
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Yes the chorizo crumb topped cod is in that bit. There are a couple of other cod recipes that look good too, I’ll try at least one this week, but probably with hake instead.
That German gym box sounds good. There are definite disadvantages to living in the sticks. The only thing we can get delivered is McDonalds.
 
Extra bacon and cheese and a three eggs omelette, mushrooms for breakfast.
Not much for lunch, just a packet of wholemeal cheese and ham sandwiches and black coffee at the oncology unit.
Rump streak, green veggies, gravy for dinner.

All went well with the blood transfusion and the iron infusion, they were pretty accurate with the time I would be there (5 hours).

The choice of snacks was usual run of the mill hospital fare, ranging from sandwiches, fruit, yoghurt, cake , cheese and biscuits, coffee and tea in proper mugs.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Atkins bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and coffee chia pudding.
Dinner: chicken satay sticks, Brie, coleslaw and a leafy salad followed by SF orange jelly, cream and LC chocolate and ginger granola.
 
DJC3 said:
Yes the chorizo crumb topped cod is in that bit. There are a couple of other cod recipes that look good too, I’ll try at least one this week, but probably with hake instead.
That German gym box sounds good. There are definite disadvantages to living in the sticks. The only thing we can get delivered is McDonalds.
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In the sticks here, we can't get anything delivered - not takeaway meals, not milk, not newspapers etc. The nearest McDonalds is in Inverness - a ferry and bus journey away from us, so I don't blame them for that. I believe there is a pizza shop that delivers around Stornoway but they don't come out this far. Actually, if you're lucky and can get a slot (I've been trying for over a year now, to no avail), you can get your groceries delivered from Tesco in the town, but nothing else in the way of food.

Made my big fish fingers - should have put a bit of salt in the coating, but they were good.
 
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Breakfast usual 2x CWC and nut granola, but had run out of eggs so had ff Greek yoghurt and raspberries instead, probably not enough protein, but reminded me of how I used to eat.
Shopping trip, missed morning coffee
Lunch, chunk of the lovely rustic baguettes we bought, with generous helping of pâté, salad and coleslaw, had hoped the fat in those would be sufficient to mitigate the effects of the bread.
Sadly it seems not so.
Cwc after lunch. Later tea and a biscuit
Dinner was a bit of a disaster. Yesterday's potatoes had gone grey. Yuk! Bin. Cooked more, but not for me, roasted some cauliflower and added the ends of aubergine and courgette to the roasting tin. We were going to have turkey escolapes, but neither of us fancied them once the packet was open. I don't even want to give them to the cat. Why is it that things go off so soon, well before use by date? So... omelette instead with the veg. Cauliflower was too salty .
Rose wine and later a few slices of cheese
CWC and then lemon tea at bedtime.
 
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Headed back home today so was a fridge emptying day
B: double cream with strawberries and blueberries. Cwc.
L: (out) lamb kebab with salad at Lebanese restaurant. Menu was very good for low carb, plenty of choice. Did have 2 bites of hubbys lamb stuffed flat bread starter, but did manage not to call in at the ice cream parlour next door for afters
D: frittata of courgette and bacon using up some cream cheese in the eggs, basil and chives. 2 slices of maasdam cooked into crisps with a glass of Merlot.
Later: 3 seedy crackers with hummus
 
Just had the shopping delivered, got a nice bacon hock for pea and ham soup nice lot of meat on it.


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Yesterday, I had a basic cheese omelette for breakfast at an ungodly hour after a bout of insomnia, and some sausages at a better breakfast hour.

Lunch was a classic salad with a tin of mackerel fillets in tomato sauce, followed up by some yoghurt and strawberries and a treat of a Little Moon Mochi ball (Mango and Passionfruit). Following my nurses appointment in the evening, I was treated to a Tandoori mixed meat meal with some mushroom and onion bhaji, and a naughty cheese naan.

Back to the hard work over the weekend - one special occasion a week apparently will not hurt me!
 
Black coffee.
Pack of king prawns for lunch with a spoonful of my h/m high protein yoghurt to follow, and a few blueberries.
Mid afternoon some microwaved kale crisps and tea.
Dinner was airfried chicken breast which had been rubbed with coconut oil and spices. H/b eggs, asparagus and a lot of leaves. A very nice salad dressing made from yoghurt, tahini, lemon juice and garlic powder.
@garyclark82 I’m a great fan of second breakfast too, given half a chance.
 
SlimLizzy said:
Why is it that things go off so soon, well before use by date?
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If we have leftovers they are usually eaten next day reheated out of the fridge, or frozen for later on.

We try not to waste food by throwing it in the garbage, we have "dump chook" visitors every day that scrounge a feed so that takes care of that area if we have anything.
 
Bacon, cheese omelette, mushrooms, tomatoes, for breakfast.
Lunch was prawn and crab salad low carb wraps, half a small mandarin that are now back in season, as are all of the other citrus fruit.
Grilled. fish fillet, green veggies, buttered mushroom sauce.

Staring to feel a bit more alert after the transfusions etc, I managed to stay awake through a Netflix movie where I normally doze, off It was nice change not to have to rewind to find the bit I last remembered watching, I hope it lasts for a while.
 
Breakfast: early because my cleaner was to be here by 10 am, she didn't arrive until 11.30 as it happened but by then I had had my breakfast of 2 GF crackers with ham and a slice of cheese. then, since she hadn't arrived and I was still hungry, another of the same. Total carbs about 23 g. BG rose to 16.0 after 2 hours and then dropped to around 13.5 for most of the rest of today. Finally on its way down now (9.6 a few minutes ago). The spike was quite a surprise, and a disappointment.

Have to say, though, that BG was fairly high all night. Got up at 3.45 am after waking several times between 12.30 and then and BG was high all the time.

2nd meal: about 6 pm - bacon and egg - dry fried. No fruit or veg today - probably should have had some, but I didn't feel like it.
 
Annb said:
That ham hock looks fabulous! Must see if I can get hold of one next shopping day.
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That was from the store where we shop online, so the picker / shopper did a good job on that one. Las time we got two smaller hocks from the fore quarters. which went into pea and ham soup as well.

Our butcher smokes his own bacon, and it isa fight to get them there, nearly have to put your name on a list to get a couple. Does some nice bacon bones reasonably cheap as well.

Here's a pix of the bones he sells, bit on meat on them, but plenty of flavour for the soup.

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Riva_Roxaban said:
That was from the store where we shop online, so the picker / shopper did a good job on that one. Las time we got two smaller hocks from the fore quarters. which went into pea and ham soup as well.

Our butcher smokes his own bacon, and it isa fight to get them there, nearly have to put your name on a list to get a couple. Does some nice bacon bones reasonably cheap as well.

Here's a pix of the bones he sells, bit on meat on them, but plenty of flavour for the soup.
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That lot would make a fine few pans of soup! Jealous!:grumpy:
 
I only eat breakfast on the weekends, tend to just do lunch & dinner during the week, IF by chance.
Breakfast: Bacon & egg toastie with coffee, 35g carbs.
Lunch: Toasted special with crisps, 42g carbs
Dinner: Prawn salad with feta cheese, cashews & crackers, 35g carbs
Football & Netflix: 2 cans of Guinness, 2 glasses of red wine, 36g carbs

Haven't tested today as I've been DIYing all day long & I know from my CGM that none of the above with manual labour will have me any higher than mid 6s.
Moderate exercise takes a steam roller to my spikes.
 
Posting late due to seven hour round trip, including lunch stop and a long nostalgic walk around Cardiff, to pick daughter and all her stuff up from Uni for the last time! Got home to Wifi not working! Eventually out of shear frustration I turned the router off and on again and hey presto it’s working now!
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee
Lunch out: burger with bacon, cheese and a side salad (left the bun)
Mid afternoon: coconut cappuccino and phd bar in the park.
Dinner Chinese take away: crispy duck, 3 small pancakes, a smidge of sauce and veggies followed by SF cherry jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
 
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