What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[maglil55]

Em's still not feeling very good, so I let her sleep in (she never does that, so she must be unwell) but she has come through now, bringing the big duvet off the bed with her and is now tucked up in the kitchen chair. She wanted some cherries, but I only let her have 3 - just in case they start everything up again. I've told her she must have lots to drink today and we'll steer clear of too many vegetables or fruit. We have quite a few protein things available for her. She can just pick at things. She did want to eat the chunky salad that she made to go with the chicken and cauliflower, but I think that can only be a small part of her diet today. She actually didn't eat any of the cauliflower yesterday - had plenty of chicken and cheesey mash though. I had some bits of cauliflower - very nice - but didn't bother with anything else.

Today: Breakfast was something I've wanted to try for a long time - a slice of white bread with a hole cut in the middle, fried in a little butter and an egg broken into the hole. Fairly high carbs, for me, but it didn't put BG up by much.

2nd meal: probably picking, like Em. There's chicken, ham, cheese, some cooked pork plus the salad Em made and some other veggies in boxes, ready to use.

DIL left a basket of fruit and veg that should be used this week - Braidie won't eat any of it - so I'll have to make something with that - froze some grapes, will make soup with tomatoes, red peppers and carrots and will chop up all the bits and pieces of fruit to make a fruit compote. That can go in the freezer, or down to Em's house, if her dad does get home after all. That's a possibility now - lots of staff at the Western Isles hospital either sick or isolating due to covid, so they won't be doing any non-urgent surgery.

Could Em have a mild case of norovirus? Loads of cases here but they're all affected differently.

 

[Ronancastled]

Coffee & a few squares of Lindt 85%
Deli Mexican wrap for lunch with some dry roasted nuts & 7up Free
Chicken Thai Curry with rice & half a Tesco naan for dinner
Cashew nuts & red wine late on

 

[Madisons]

Still new to all of this, doing low carb - not all Keto
Morning 1-hour fastwalk on mountain - lemon water
Late Breakfast (almost 11 hours fast) : chicken breasts with tarragon and mayo, side of mushroom, dandelion greens, red peppers and spinach, 2 low-carb toasts, one with Old Age cheddar, grape tomatoes and basil. Dessert: Greek yogurt with chia, pumpkin seeds tossed in coconut oil and cinnamon. Green Tea Matcha and over a dozen raspberries (YIKES!)
Exercise:. 30 minute jog on treadmill (burning that huge breakfast)
Supper out: 2 slices apple with creamy Boursin cheese and 2 crackers (6 carbs! YIKES)
Steak from the grill, fettucine zoodles, tomato and lettuce salad with feta and hard boiled eggs
Dessert: Blueberry Crumble with whipped cream (YIKES! Oats & brown sugar in the crumble)
Green Tea Matcha with coconut oil, almond milk, cinnamon and turmeric
Yes, ALOT of food and not following strict diet yet. Always starving no matter how much I'm eating and it's annoying! Lots of stress and just want to eat it all away....my tapeworm must have a tapeworm...help!

 

[DJC3]

I got the cookies as well. One box in the freezer (I ate the other box not all at once !).
It's a mixed box - 2 chewy, 2 crunchy. I prefer the crunchie, although even that isn't as crunchie as a piece of shortbread or a ginger nut they're choc chip and yes, I like them as it's nice to have them for a cuppa. They're slightly bigger than a digestive. They are pricey. I regard them as nice to have if I can't be bothered making my own.

Thanks you, I’ll keep checking the website for availability. Good to know they’re freezable too. I agree it’s nice to have something in reserve as a bit of a treat, even if not for everyday.

 

[PenguinMum]

Morning All, still away
Yesterday brekkie was just scrambled eggs and half slice seeded toast.
Supper was three small fillets Seabass, sole and Gurnard with Med. veg, 2 glasses wine.
Brekkie today will be scrambled eggs, tomato and mushroom.
Supper booked for tonight has been cancelled by the restaurant yesterday due to you know what. No chance of getting a booking anywhere else being a Saturday so back up plan is to go back to the fishmonger and get picnic for our room this evening of dressed crab as before and seafood tapas and some wine. Its a hard life sometimes!
Heading home after brekkie tomo and then reality bites. It has been lovely though!

 

[Annb]

Could Em have a mild case of norovirus? Loads of cases here but they're all affected differently.

Perhaps so. Although she wasn't very ill, just inconvenienced. Braidie, on the other hand was pretty ill. I know the school had at least one case of covid 19 but hadn't heard of norovirus being there, or in the Nicolson. My cleaner is due to arrive within the hour, so she might know. No 2 son is still very sore, but at least he's home. Actually DIL should have got home by last night as well, so more or less back to normal now.

I've been busy making things with left-overs from the food sent up with Em - made some small pots of fruity bread and butter pudding, using a recipe from Michel Roux. It looked very tempting so I packed them up in a box and handed them over to go home with Em when her Dad took her belongings. There's some tomato and red pepper soup to go as well, but I will probably freeze it before sending it down and there's the fruit compote to go - I'll put that in a big jar to send it down.

Yesterday breakfast was yoghurt with some berries. Lunch was some chunks of Davidstowe cheddar and evening meal was cauliflower cheese with a little of the left-over cheesey mash from the day before. Very cheesey day! But BG stayed down reasonably well Maybe because I've just upped the dose of my Lantus Solostar insulin to 68 u.

Today, breakfast was a couple of tablespoons of left over custard from the bread and butter pudding with some of the remaining rhubarb, also from a few days ago. Not sure that I'll have any lunch. Evening meal will be some salmon with either spinach or a watercress salad.

 

[MrsA2]

Yesterday :
Breakfast/brunch omelette with prawns and smoked salmon. Nut bar.
Dinner not very hungry so just prawns and smoked salmon and 2 glasses aperol spritz.
Major migraine at bed time. That will teach me

Today
Yoghurt, seeds, handful blackberries.
Mid morning, a nut bar because everyone else was on cake.
Lunch, fritatta with everything - prawns, chicken, cheese, herbs, squash. Blackberries and raspberries with cream

Dinner is as yet undecided

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee
Late morning: black coffee and a Atkins bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and chocolate chia pudding.
Dinner Chinese take away: crispy duck, 3 small pancakes, a smidge of sauce and veggies followed by SF blackcurrant jelly, cream and LC nutty granola.

 

[DJC3]

Hope your backup plan tonight worked out ok @PenguinMum
Can’t beat a dressed crab. The mixed fish fillet meal sounded lovely.
Today my first meal was around 10:30. A DGF roll filled with beef and salad then strawberries and extra thick cream.
Second meal at 19:30 was baked Camembert with roast cauliflower . Then choc chia pud.

I have a YouTube recipe for air fryer KFC ( including the 11 secret herbs and spices!) one of the key stages is soaking in buttermilk but the coating includes flour which I can just leave out, but I was wondering if I could use oat fibre instead? @maglil55 I know you have used it, what do you think? I’ve only just managed to get hold of some.

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

A small piece of rib filet steak, two eggs, button mushrooms for breakfast.
Tub of chobani 15% protein greek yoghurt, my regulatr glass of lemon cordial and scoop of OsmoLax mixed in for smoko.
Lamb fore quarter chops, veggies including a mashed up spudlites, gravy for dinner.
Tin of pea and ham soup, couple of slices of low carb toast to go with it for supper at six.

Several pieces of salty liquorice earlier on.

 

[MrsA2]

Dinner ended up being 2 lamb chops with cabbage and courgette, OK so far, but then followed by a piece (quite a large piece) of the sugar laden lemon meringue pie hubby made.
Why oh why does he decide to learn to cook after 30 odd years of not bothering, and when he does why does he always choose to do the sweetest carbiest food??? Admittedly he won 1st prize at the village show with it, but it is huge and so sticky sweet.
I have a secret plan to give most of it away tomorrow under the auspices of showing the neighbours how good it was, but how do I to get him to cook stuff I can eat, or just not bother in the first place?

 

[Antje77]

Admittedly he won 1st prize at the village show with it, but it is huge and so sticky sweet.

how do I to get him to cook stuff I can eat

Don't tell him it's easy to cook up low carb stuff but entice him with the real fancy recipes worthy of his obvious great talent!!

 

[maglil55]

Hope your backup plan tonight worked out ok @PenguinMum
Can’t beat a dressed crab. The mixed fish fillet meal sounded lovely.
Today my first meal was around 10:30. A DGF roll filled with beef and salad then strawberries and extra thick cream.
Second meal at 19:30 was baked Camembert with roast cauliflower . Then choc chia pud.

I have a YouTube recipe for air fryer KFC ( including the 11 secret herbs and spices!) one of the key stages is soaking in buttermilk but the coating includes flour which I can just leave out, but I was wondering if I could use oat fibre instead? @maglil55 I know you have used it, what do you think? I’ve only just managed to get hold of some.

I don't have any issues with oat fibre but whether that's down to the oat fibre itself or the fact it's not enough to do damage I don't know. I do prefer it to the bamboo fibre (which I also have) and neither have produced any spikes to concern me. Hubby eats it too without complaint (mainly because he doesn't know what I mix in from my "potions cupboard" as he calls it!.

 

[maglil55]

Dinner ended up being 2 lamb chops with cabbage and courgette, OK so far, but then followed by a piece (quite a large piece) of the sugar laden lemon meringue pie hubby made.
Why oh why does he decide to learn to cook after 30 odd years of not bothering, and when he does why does he always choose to do the sweetest carbiest food??? Admittedly he won 1st prize at the village show with it, but it is huge and so sticky sweet.
I have a secret plan to give most of it away tomorrow under the auspices of showing the neighbours how good it was, but how do I to get him to cook stuff I can eat, or just not bother in the first place?

Here's one I've made a few times which is rather nice and the base works for lemon merengue too (yes I'm about to give you LC lemon curd & merengue recipes too).

www.ibreatheimhungry.com/lemon-cloud-pie-low-carb-gluten-free/

The only thing I've changed on this is I use Monk Fruit rather than erythirtol now.

I've not managed to solve the issue of pastry yet but, as I said, the base on the cloud pie works. I thank Nigella Lawson for the rest of the lemon merengue recipe! It was one of her recipes for lemon pavlova that sent me down the road of making it low carb. Here's the adapted recipe for the LC pavlova

https://www.copymethat.com/r/N5NqOWXa4/low-carb-lemon-meringue-pavlovas/

and here's the recipe for the LC curd and merengue.

www.ibreatheimhungry.com/sugar-free-lemon-curd/

alldayidreamaboutfood.com/shannons-sugar-free-meringues-low-carb-and-gluten-free/

If your hubby wants a challenge, I have an excellent recipe for LC Black Forest Gateaux but you really don't want to know the calorie content!

 

[Antje77]

Evening meal part 1.

Played a game of how much toppings can you fit on a small slice of LC bread, an I think I won!
I even managed to lose only one piece of mozzarella while eating, no small feat, and besides, the dog snatched it up before I could even think about it

Hummus, sucuk (Turkish garlic sausage), mozzarella, sundried tomatoes, black pepper and a drop of olive oil.

Now thinking on what to have for part 2 of my meal

 

[maglil55]

Thurs 9 September - bed 6.2 FBG 6.7.

Another leftovers day for me as I'd made Mac & cheese with "bits" for the boys & Hubby. (Bits today being pancetta, mushrooms, broccoli, tomato and the essential peas).

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with ox tongue and coleslaw.
L. Nothing
D. A weird leftover mix - last of the prawns and anchovies with the remains of the waldorf salad, coleslaw, santini tomatoes, 2 mini mozzarella a little lettuce and a slice of SLC bread and butter.
A Grenade ice cream bar.

Friday 10 September - bed 6.2 FBG 6.5

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with coronation chicken.
L. Nothing - took the boys swimming after school.
D. Got a take out - mixed chicken & lamb kebab with salad - chilli & mayo dressing.

A good day today. Grandson (who has waited 6 years to be allocated a P1 "buddy" was overjoyed to get one today. When I picked him up the staff were full of praise about how good he was with little ones. I knew that already. The teacher even phoned his mum to say it is definitely his calling as she had a tear in her eye at how kind and patient he is.

 

[shelley262]

I don't have any issues with oat fibre but whether that's down to the oat fibre itself or the fact it's not enough to do damage I don't know. I do prefer it to the bamboo fibre (which I also have) and neither have produced any spikes to concern me. Hubby eats it too without complaint (mainly because he doesn't know what I mix in from my "potions cupboard" as he calls it!.

Another positive vote here for oat fibre I use it in lc bread and it’s really bg friendly I think but has to be oat fibre not flour or oat bran. I use the your health store one their gluten free oat fibre which is white and similar to flour in appearance but much lighter it’s 0g of carb - all fibre. Oat fibre is made from the oats Hull the outer indigestible part that protects the oat while growing and contains no calories or carbs.

 

[shelley262]

Breakfast two boiled eggs with slice of home made buttered low carb bread
Lunch one cold boiled egg followed by a few raspberries from garden and 0%fage yoghurt
Mid pm two squares of 90% choc
Dinner roast chicken dinner with asparagus and one roast potato and glass of dry white wine followed by DGF coffee and walnut cake laced with sprinkle of rum heated and served with 0%fage yoghurt.

 

[maglil55]

Another positive vote here for oat fibre I use it in lc bread and it’s really bg friendly I think but has to be oat fibre not flour or oat bran. I use the your health store one their gluten free oat fibre which is white and similar to flour in appearance but much lighter it’s 0g of carb - all fibre. Oat fibre is made from the oats Hull the outer indigestible part that protects the oat while growing and contains no calories or carbs.

I concur. It has to be the fibre.

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and phd Smart bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: coffee chia pudding and black coffee.
Tea at ILs: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake!