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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

2 tablespoons ff greek (hardly worth calling it breakfast)
Yoga
Lunch was tapas with girlfriends. There might have been meatballs, artichokes, pork, spinach in cheese sauce, fish gougon (only 1), lamb croquettes, olives. No alcohol! But plenty of chat and laughter.
Then home for dancing and a late supper of cauliflower and mince
 
Brunch - 2 dgf fruit crumbles with last of the cream! Mug of earl grey tea as I was in a rush to go to my hair cut appointment.

Dinner - I was out at local shopping centre who have new Five Guys @Goonergal so had their bunless bacon cheese burger with lettuce instead, tomato, onions, mushrooms & a little relish - ate with a knife and fork - it was lovely and sooo filling - I'll go back again!
 
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Feeling better today - the worst of the cold has calmed down so I'm almost back to normal. Now Neil has come down with it.

Breakfast: a pot of something with no label from the freezer - it was pink but I couldn't identify it, so I left it in the fridge overnight to see what it would turn into. It was berries whipped with some cream. So that's what I had.

Lunch: a cheese toastie. About 29 carbs, so that's my limit passed for today.

I will probably have a further meal today so will have some beef curry made with the steak I cut up yesterday.
 
Will read back once I’ve recorded today’s food - to catch up with everyone’s news.
missed a week due to busy caring stuff and travelling back and forth but I’m safe back and hoping to have a more relaxing weekend says she crossing fingers! I also managed to make some more home made lowcarb bread today which I find therapeutic and I had run out of freezer stocks.
Breakfast just coffee
Late lunch two slices of low carb bread with a salmon pate followed by raspberries with Greek yoghurt - 0% fage
Dinner salmon in lemon butter with green beans and glass of dry white wine followed by DGF crumble and more yoghurt- I must say I adore the new autumn crumble tastes very nutty and oaty pleased have got lots in my freezer.
 
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Evening all.

A bit of experimentation today.

Don’t usually do fruit, but found mangosteen in a local greengrocer today. First - and only - taste was in Bangkok in 1990. Loved them and never managed to find them again on subsequent trips to SE Asia. Couldn’t resist.

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Tasted insanely sweet, but deliberately eaten just before a small plate of lamb fat cadged from the butcher (air fried) and a couple of ‘bricks’ of mince, almost 3 hours later and blood sugars have remained lower than the starting point, Definite win!

‘Bricks’ were the second experiment. Got the idea from a carnivore page on FB. They were air fried and went nicely crispy on the outside, while staying juicy. A lazy burger! And the lamb fat - will be getting more of that.

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Earlier there was a roast pork rack. Crackling not pretty, but delicious.

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Goonergal said:
Evening all.

A bit of experimentation today.

Don’t usually do fruit, but found mangosteen in a local greengrocer today. First - and only - taste was in Bangkok in 1990. Loved them and never managed to find them again on subsequent trips to SE Asia. Couldn’t resist.

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Tasted insanely sweet, but deliberately eaten just before a small plate of lamb fat cadged from the butcher (air fried) and a couple of ‘bricks’ of mince, almost 3 hours later and blood sugars have remained lower than the starting point, Definite win!

‘Bricks’ were the second experiment. Got the idea from a carnivore page on FB. They were air fried and went nicely crispy on the outside, while staying juicy. A lazy burger! And the lamb fat - will be getting more of that.

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Earlier there was a roast pork rack. Crackling not pretty, but delicious.

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That all looks fabulous! Never heard of mangosteen though. So you don’t even season the mince bricks, just bung them in as they are? Is each brick about 1lb?
 
DJC3 said:
That all looks fabulous! Never heard of mangosteen though. So you don’t even season the mince bricks, just bung them in as they are? Is each brick about 1lb?
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I put salt on once cooked. These were about 125g each - I split packs of mince in two and freeze after buying and I split one of the halves before air frying, Came out looking very small! Sure it’d work with larger pieces as they’re the same thickness. The crispy edges were soooo good!
 
Today I’m very pleased as I managed to find those seedy crackers in M&S - I think they might have been there all along but they were in a different place to the other crackers so I’d missed them. I cleared the shelf!
B: lc bread toasted, with scrambled egg
L: Brie, olives, 1/4 avocado and a few broken walnuts.
D: keto crack chicken ( DD recipe) neede something quick to make- only 15 mins in IP. Large green salad. DGF Notella brownie.
@shelley262 I wish I’d read your post earlier - I’ve just put a DGF order in but didn’t include those crumbles. From your description I think I’d really like them.
 
Think I forgot to post yesterday, but continuing to eat plenty of red meat, green veg, dark choc for the iron content, then upping my intake of nuts and seeds to counter the constipating effect of the iron tablets, while keeping under 40g carbs!
Today’s food.
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a dark choc. Atkins bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and chocolate chia pudding with nutty LC granola.
Dinner: lamb and mint koftas with coleslaw and beetroot leaf salad followed by DGF lemon cake, cream and LC nutty granola.
 
Goonergal said:
I put salt on once cooked. These were about 125g each - I split packs of mince in two and freeze after buying and I split one of the halves before air frying, Came out looking very small! Sure it’d work with larger pieces as they’re the same thickness. The crispy edges were soooo good!
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I bet they were! I shall try this soon. I buy mince from the butchers so it’s not in bricks - ends up in all sorts of shapes (depending on what it’s been squished next to in my bag) but a lump is as good as a brick I reckon.
 
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Have actually managed a couple of LC days. Not such a great achievement as have not been able to eat much for worrying. Among other things, about my cat. It has been a very stressful week.
Poor Cat has been unwell for several weeks and had three visits to the vet, culminating in an overnight stay with xrays and blood tests. Xrays revealed the source of the problem. He has been shot. There are several embeded pellets, but the most concerning is very close to his voicebox and this is obviously the cause of his strange hoarse whisper. He may yet need an operation, the pellet might move, but vet says this would be difficult to do and dangerous for cat.
Food today.
Tea and more tea,
Coffee
Lunch. 2 crispbreads with ham and salad
Tea
More tea
Wine.
Dinner beef stew, green beans, more wine
Few berries and half a pot of ff greek yoghurt
Coffee
Lemon Tea.
 
A large handful of marmite almonds sufficed for breakfast.
Lunch was at Hyde Hall RHS garden in Essex. Very impressed with quality but difficult to escape carbs. I went for the salad with poached pear, stilton, pecans and beetroot.
Dinner was 3 eggs scrambled with half a tomato and some cheese.
We are away and our hosts left us some mini cookies...well it would have been rude not to, wouldn't it? Did try smothering them with ff greek to offset.
The dog we are looking after is only 4 months old so an interesting week ahead as apparently he has hardly ever been any where except their house and garden
 
Sorry @SlimLizzy posts crossed. So sorry for poor Errant. Heavens above, shot! He's obviously a toughie. Is he on pain killers and antibiotics now?
 
MrsA2 said:
Sorry @SlimLizzy posts crossed. So sorry for poor Errant. Heavens above, shot! He's obviously a toughie. Is he on pain killers and antibiotics now?
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No painkillers, the pellet wounds are already healed over. Antibiotics for the ear infection that was making him miserable though. He already seems more cheerful, but not at all impressed with ear drops twice a day. Tricky to administer too. He has gained a new wariness and is no longer putty in my hands.
Last summer he had ear mites, and I used to sit him on my lap and just pop the drops in. Not at all like that this time.
 
@SlimLizzy so sorry to hear about Errant, what a horrible shock to discover he’d been shot! Glad he is recovering from that and the ear infection, even if he’s not putty in your hands now.
Waiting for Strictly now so time to post today’s food quickly.
B- several black coffees
L- LC toast topped with smoked salmon and cream cheese. Choc chia pud.
D- Shepherds pie made with cauli mash. Paul said it was really good and he hates cauliflower! Garlicky greens with it and 2 glasses red.

Found a celeriac in the greengrocers at last so will be making remoulade and dauphinoise this week.
 
@SlimLizzy hugs to you and poorly errant - it sounds very challenging.
Breakfast two boiled eggs with slice of lc bread
Lunch some raspberries and yoghurt followed by two square of 90% choc
Dinner chicken curry with a poppadom and gin with soda water and slices of lime followed by DGF lemon drizzle with decaff coffee.
 
Breakfast: Cold beef curry - surprisingly better than when hot!
Lunch: Cheese toastie, same as yesterday - not enough carbs to worry about.
I was going to have a third meal because I needed to cook the chicken that I had delivered on Tuesday before it went off. So I thought I would try it a la Jamie Oliver - tray of veggies on an oven shelf with a chicken on the bars above to drip gravy down onto the veggies. I was called away just at the time I should have been taking it out of the oven, but only for a short time, so it should have been OK but what I've ended up with is overdone chicken and incinerated veggies. I nibbled at a chicken wing and a slightly less burned piece of cauliflower but really don't want it - it's not exactly appetising. So it is a 2 meal day, after all.
 
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