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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Day 1 of the DD Reset meal plan, I do like having all the meals worked out for me.
B- 3 fried eggs, spinach and a slice of cheese.
L- Roast beef and no-tato salad
D- Chicken caprese casserole with rocket.
Reading through the pumpkin posts, I’ve often found wildly varying carb counts for the same foods, depending on the source of info. I used to get very confused but now I assume that if I use the same source for all foods ( I use the Carbs&Cals app) it’ll balance out eventually!
 
B: (albeit a very late one) ff greek with milled seeds and extra cream
L: one and a half cold sausages (97%), chunk of brie
Muddy walk, made the mistake of going to a National Trust area, but so had everyone else. Luckily most don't walk far from the car park so we soon outwalked most
Mid afternoon 2 pieces hm lc ginger cake and 1 bite hubbys tiramisu panettone.
D: beef stew with cauliflower, carrots, broccoli and 2 slives seedy hm lc bread. 1 small Yorkshire. 2 sqs 85% choc
 
Brunch: blueberries , Fage full fat yogurt, walnuts, black coffee.
Dinner: beeef bolognaise, butter fried red cabbage, cheddar cheese, sugar free tonic water.

mid afternoon decaff black coffee.
Done until 11:00 tomorrow apart from water.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a PE protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a Food Dr protein bar
Dinner: keralan chicken curry with cauliflower rice followed by SF jelly and cream.
 
Alexandra100 said:
@Annb Have you considered replacing the peanuts with lower carb walnuts or almonds - or even the famous pumpkin seeds? (I like other people to do my experimenting for me.)
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I hadn't. But I might. It was just that I saw this really easy recipe with peanut butter and decided to try it. Almonds, I don't eat - historically they have disagreed with me, but I have been thinking about trying them again to see if I've grown out of that intolerance. And I find walnuts too bitter. Pecans would be OK, but I've never seen pecan butter. Could always start off by making that, I suppose.

Edited to add: I've just checked. Pecan butter is available but it's very costly.
 
OK. I've ordered pecan pieces, from which I hope to make pecan butter. I've also ordered a jar of almond butter, to test my reaction to it. Experimentation to follow - once these nutty things arrive.
 
Annb said:
OK. I've ordered pecan pieces, from which I hope to make pecan butter. I've also ordered a jar of almond butter, to test my reaction to it. Experimentation to follow - once these nutty things arrive.
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@Annb I am proudly telling myself, "I made a difference!" Trouble is, I have just emptied yet another jar of almond butter, eaten by the tea-spoonful, first one, then couldn't resist another and so on til I was scraping out every last smear. Luckily a newly opened jar needs some energetic churning to mix in the delicious almond oil before the butter can be eaten and I AM NOT GOING TO DO IT, at least for a while. But have I just wrecked your low carb endeavours by encouraging you to allow fiendishly irresistible almond butter into your kitchen?
 
You've encouraged me to test a long shunned item from my food cupboard - if it doesn't make me ill, I'll be glad to find that out. If it does, no doubt No 2 son will have it - he's into vegan food at present due to gall bladder issues. I'm not likely to binge on it anyway - my appetite has become much smaller over the last months and I get very full, very quickly. So - no worries.
 
Lunch slice of frittata left over from yesterdays dinner - followed by 0%fage yoghurt with a few raspberries and a baton of 85% chocolate (from Christmas pressie box)
3 course dinner - unusually for me but had to try a small amount of my new hm soup - celeriac and celery soup made with own chicken stock.slow cooked stock yesterday and the soup slow cooked today. Then Indian spiced chicken with salads followed by lowcarb crumble with cream.
 
B: ff greek with seeds and a very few berries from the freezer
L: on the run, a chunk of gouda, one slice hm lc soda bread, a nut bar
D: pork belly, started off slow in water in oven, then drenched in seasoning and air fired until nearly crisy. Served with buttered leeks, plain sprouts and a tablespoon pickled veg from a jar
 
MrsA2 said:
D: pork belly, started off slow in water in oven, then drenched in seasoning and air fired until nearly crisy. Served with buttered leeks, plain sprouts and a tablespoon pickled veg from a jar
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sounds delicious!

I wanted to make marmite nuts but I burned them. Nothing left to save either, all yucky and bitter. And those were the last nuts too. :grumpy:
 
Alexandra100 said:
@Annb I am proudly telling myself, "I made a difference!" Trouble is, I have just emptied yet another jar of almond butter, eaten by the tea-spoonful, first one, then couldn't resist another and so on til I was scraping out every last smear. Luckily a newly opened jar needs some energetic churning to mix in the delicious almond oil before the butter can be eaten and I AM NOT GOING TO DO IT, at least for a while. But have I just wrecked your low carb endeavours by encouraging you to allow fiendishly irresistible almond butter into your kitchen?
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I’m exactly the same with almond butter! Once opened I have to finish it, it’s seriously addictive. I try not to buy it but it sometimes appears mysteriously in my trolley.
 
Day 2 of the DD reset meal plan. No reduction in BG yet, I’m hovering round 7 most of the day which is really quite dispiriting.

B- 3 fried eggs, slice of cheese and sautéed spinach.
L- Keto sheet pan fajitas
D- Baked Keto fish caprese.
All meals were excellent and I highly recommend the recipes.

I did have a DGF cookie after lunch as I was looking after granddaughters and they wanted to bake choc chip cookies. I was very happy to be able to join in the tasting session afterwards with my very own choc chip cookie!
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a Food Dr protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a PE protein bar
Dinner: gammon steak with Brussels and green beans followed by SF blackcurrant jelly and cream.
 
A happy belated new year to you all!

I didn't post over christmas & new year as I decided to have a bit of a break from the extremes of this diet - I was not too bad but not good either - suffice to say ate and drank too much!

Back on track from today ...

Brunch - 2 slices slc bread toasted and buttered and filled with egg mayo. Mug of earl grey tea

Dinner - out shopping so had a five guys bunless bacon cheeseburger with a little lettuce, tomato, fried onions and mushroom they served it all in a foil tray @Goonergal with a knife & fork. I thoroughly enjoyed it ... when back home had a dgf chocolate orange brownie heated up with some greek yoghurt over the top - also very nice
 
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