What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Antje77]

This is the tandoori marinade I use for all sorts. As you can see, it's super simple and even more delicious!

Oh, yes, I can do that, and it sounds delicious!
It still needs additional veggies for me though, but that's no reason at all not to cook this.

For cooking frozen blocks, you need an electric pressure cooker. I put about 100ml water in the bottom of the inner pot, add the usually brown block, close the lid, and set to 0 minutes of pressure which defrosts and heats the block to be hot. I then ignore it until I'm ready to eat, which could be hours, then stir and dish up.

The Instant Pott (or other electric pressure cooker) is a lazy cook's friend!

Ah, I've missed your love of kitchen gadgets!
I'm still not converted though. Sounds very useful, but there are other ways to get food defrosted and hot without buying something expensive.
And where would it end? I also don't have a food processor, an airfryer or a slow cooker. Which one would I have to buy first? And more importantly who would clean them after I finished dirtying them?

Do you have a slow cooker (might be called a Dutch oven)? I find anything cooked in there freezes and reheats well, often better the second time. Lamb, beef, chicken or sausage with an onion, carrot, leek, tomato and stock.
Just remem to label the freezer containers, they all look similar when frozen!

I have two slow cookers, one for small pots and one for large pots! And you're right, whatever I'd cook on them will work fine as a frozen ready meal!
The labeling is something to work on though... I usually have to resort to scraping a bit off and tasting the ice in hopes to identify. I always think I'll remember and i never do.

 

[Antje77]

@Antje77 My Indian neighbour use all sorts of spices and stuff in here curries, she makes one curry I have to shut the place up when it first starts cooking, a mix of chillies, garlic, turmeric and some other stuff which I do not recognised. The fume blisters the eyes.

If I'm ever around I'll invite myself to your neighbour for dinner, sounds just like my kind of food!

 

[MrsA2]

The labeling is something to work on though

Sharpie pens work well on most freezer containers and wrappings.
That bit ofinfo revolutionised our freezer. Even the shelves are labelled now

 

[DJC3]

Thanks for the warning - I was just looking at that pie on their website. Must try to make my own low carb pastry.

Glad I saved you from it -they aren’t cheap. To be fair to them, the pastry was ok, it was just the filling which was disappointing.

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

If I'm ever around I'll invite myself to your neighbour for dinner, sounds just like my kind of food!

Wait till next years ending of Ramadan, she cooks up plenty of food and curries then for her Muslim family and friends.

 

[Antje77]

Wait till next years ending of Ramadan, she cooks up plenty of food and curries then for her Muslim family and friends.

Circumstances allowing, I'll book a ticket for the end of april, sounds like a great party!
I'll do breakfast at your place, your breakfasts always sound delicious.

 

[AndBreathe]

Oh, yes, I can do that, and it sounds delicious!
It still needs additional veggies for me though, but that's no reason at all not to cook this.

Ah, I've missed your love of kitchen gadgets!
I'm still not converted though. Sounds very useful, but there are other ways to get food defrosted and hot without buying something expensive.
And where would it end? I also don't have a food processor, an airfryer or a slow cooker. Which one would I have to buy first? And more importantly who would clean them after I finished dirtying them?

I have two slow cookers, one for small pots and one for large pots! And you're right, whatever I'd cook on them will work fine as a frozen ready meal!
The labeling is something to work on though... I usually have to resort to scraping a bit off and tasting the ice in hopes to identify. I always think I'll remember and i never do.

Labelling? Pah. Over rated. What would we do without the joy of brown brick surprise dinners?

You could have a stove top pressure cooker. In fact, if you were here, I'd GIVE you a brand new, never been used Prestige pressure cooker, bought in an amazing closing down sale, as a back up for our boat that was never needed.

As for the tandoori, you can easily add veggies, and steamed and cold cauliflower florets, coated in the marinade and grilled are stupendous. Once you have tried the marinade once, you'll have it with chicken, lamb pork and fish. It's so versatile and knocked up from the fridge and store cupboard in moments.

I usually make a big batch and split it between some chicken and just portioned, then frozen for whenever required.

(I'll spare you my most recent purchase, which isn't working out quite as well as I thought it would, but hey ho.)

 

[Rachox]

My labelling is haphazard too, we ended up with spag bolognese with cauliflower rice once, I though the brown blocks in the freezer were chilli!
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a ginger bread Carb Killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Atkins bar
Dinner: beef and herb meat balls with tomato and mascarpone sauce with broccoli, Brussels and a few green beans followed by SF cherry jelly and cream.
Still working away at the red meat and green veggies, iron level has only gone up by five points, still very low in the normal range. Appt to talk to GP next week

 

[DJC3]

Brunch- pate on lc toast
Mid aft- packet of Cheesies and 10g Montezuma’s 100% both advent calendar treats
Dinner - Beef curry, cauli rice. Choc chia pud
I’ve also eaten a DGF blondie but can’t remember when exactly.

@Antje77 I think it’s already been suggested but I reckon mince is the best thing for batch cooking and freezing in portions - easy to add a ton of veg for a ragu, chilli and curry or top with celeriac/ cauli mash for cottage pie or squish into patties for burgers. Otherwise cook a chicken and search DietDoctor for ‘rotisserie chicken’ there are quite a few simple recipes involving cooked chicken, cream cheese/ cream or Mayo with a variety of veg, pretty much all of them can be frozen in individual portions. I do this a lot.

 

[DJC3]

(I'll spare you my most recent purchase, which isn't working out quite as well as I thought it would, but hey ho.)

I’m intrigued now - what is it?

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

I mentioned the other week about my chicken legs online order being swapped for necks, and me giving them to my mates dog.

Here's a pix of Jaz crunching on a chicken neck in the back yard.

 

[shelley262]

Lunch two boiled eggs and one hm lc roll followed by yoghurt and one square of 90% chocolate
Dinner chicken curry with a poppadom and Corriander salsa and two glasses of soda water with gin followed by DGF raspberry bakewell warmed and then served with double cream.

 

[Antje77]

Here's a pix of Jaz crunching on a chicken neck in the back yard.

Enjoy your meal, Jaz, looks like you're a very lucky dog to have a friend like Riva!

Finished the last Sinterklaas poems, finished the surprise, very happy with the end result!
And then I even cooked as well.

Had a very happy meal of tuna melt muffins with lots of vegetables in it. Adding veggies to the batter works remarkably well. This time it was onion, leek, bell pepper and cooked broccoli

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

Three bbq sausages, two eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms for breakfast.
Tub of greek yoghurt, lemon cordial and osmolax brew for smoko.
Sand crabs and a mixed salad for lunch.
Sliced up cold sausages and leftover salad in low carb wraps for supper at six.

We got the sandies from the Red Shed on the way home from Grunkskes yesterday as they were to expensive there.

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

Enjoy your meal, Jaz, looks like you're a very lucky dog to have a friend like Riva!

Haha! Jaz is lucky, it's human is a friend of mine other wise it would have dipped out.

I could have given them to one of my neighbours who have a incessant yappy dog, but I did not have any 1080 to marinate them in.

 

[Annb]

Breakfast: 2 fried eggs on a slice of wholemeal toast.

2nd meal: a few duck spring rolls. One of the packets of ready made food that I ordered from Tescos last week. Shan't get them again because they have rather too much star anise in them for me and they certainly put my BG up - topped out at 19.9! Then I took a correction dose and it is now dropping reasonably quickly. Currently down to 11.4. Don't know how far it will drop, so I'll just have to wait and see. But, no more spring rolls! It is becoming apparent that ready meals are not for me, so I'll have to rethink that idea.

For someone who spent quite a large portion of her life as a caterer, I'm surprised that I've really gone off the idea of cooking anything. I guess the best time to do any cooking is in the morning - once my stiffness has eased off a bit and I've dragged myself awake after taking pain killers. Then I have a reasonable amount of motivation, but it doesn't last. By the time the afternoon comes around, I'm ready to go back to bed and unwilling to make any effort at all.

 

[MrsA2]

Yoga, then an lc got chocolate to sate my appetite before popping in to a charity coffee morning. There the coffee comes with cake so best avoided.
L: some ready meal soup Hubby had bought, but I watered down my portion to reduce the carbs. Filled up with a quarter of a camembert.
An afternoon working in the garden
D: chicken fajitas, mine in a bowl, the boys were in wraps. Tried the first 4 cheeses from the advent calendar (divided between the 3 of us), a cheddar, a Leicester and 2 smoked. Nice to have 4 at once to compare and contrast. Might save up the next few days as well. They are only small, about Baby bel size.
3, yes 3 glasses white. Just fancied more for a change.

Oh nearly forgot, mid afternoon the boys opened a pack of the mini stollen as their reward for starting to put the decorations up, and I ate 2 before making myself go back out in the garden.
Starting a libre tomorrow to help me record just how many Christmas bits can slip in too easily

 

[AndBreathe]

I’m intrigued now - what is it?

It's one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Morphy-Ric...ocphy=1006529&hvtargid=pla-422517702153&psc=1

It's a sort of gateway gadget to the Thermomix, and I thought it could be good for training me in smaller batches, but to be honest, it's modest size cuts down options, and I do like options.

It works very well though and performs as it should, but as a gateway to a £1150 gadget it's not done such a great job in this house. Maybe that's one we just don't need. (No, no. I understand we likely haven't needed too many of the toys we have, but.......)

 

[Tori71]

Breakfast; half portion English breakfast.
Lunch; mocha and a carb killer bar
Dinner; chicken jalfrezi, salad and a couple of lc wraps, raspberries and baileys cream.

I'll see if I'm hungry later.....

 

[DJC3]

It's one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Morphy-Ric...ocphy=1006529&hvtargid=pla-422517702153&psc=1

It's a sort of gateway gadget to the Thermomix, and I thought it could be good for training me in smaller batches, but to be honest, it's modest size cuts down options, and I do like options.

It works very well though and performs as it should, but as a gateway to a £1150 gadget it's not done such a great job in this house. Maybe that's one we just don't need. (No, no. I understand we likely haven't needed too many of the toys we have, but.......)

Interesting! I hadn’t even heard of these but I’m glad of your review. I will studiously ignore them from now on.
I mean I’ll ignore the gadgets, not your reviews!