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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Annb said:
It's what Americans call "head cheese". That is all the bits of a pig that can't be used any other way (ears, snout, cheeks etc) boiled until tender, chopped up and set in a savoury jelly. I believe that head cheese has a much tighter meat construction than traditional English brawn which has the cooked meat minced and set in quite a large proportion of jelly - often quite spicy.
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Now, that's interesting. It's called zult or 'hoofdkaas' here, literally head cheese.
And I mistakenly thought it was brains, must have been something someone told me as a child!
I only just found out when googling.
 
shelley262 said:
just tested 2 hours after and my bg is 0.5 lower than before the meal.
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I believe that when the bg is lower after a meal it may well mean the carbs have not yet hit the blood. This often happens to me - the rise may come four or more hours after eating, due to delayed stomach emptying. Also, real pasta is known for taking hours more than most other food. To be sure, I'd test next time at 3hrs etc until I did see a rise. Personally, there is no food, however carb-free, that doesn't cause me some rise in bg sooner or later, but perhaps others are more fortunate.
 
AndBreathe said:
We don't eat many sausages, but when we have them, they come from Asda; their Extra Special range. I particularly like the Three Chilli variant, but maybe not so great for sausage rolls!

Sausages are the only meat we have that doesn't come from the wonderful local butcher, but his gluten free sausages are dire. They are totally tasteless and equally texture-free. Shame.

Enjoy your extra celebration.
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Thanks, the chilli variant sounds good, but you’re right, perhaps not for sausage rolls. Same here re. butcher, my local one is so wonderful I never buy meat from a supermarket, in fact I rarely go to a supermarket at all these days- it’s quite an adventure for me now.
 
Alexandra100 said:
I know @DJC3 you aren't currently in range for a Sainsbury's, but others might be as excited as I am to find SO sausages at only 0.9gc per 100g - and higher welfare thrown in! However, they are criticised by reviewers for not being gluten-free, and also for the non-organic nature of the skins. https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sausages/sainsburys-pork-sausages--so-organic-350g
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Good to know, thank you. I do sometimes trek out to Sainsbury’s in Bodmin but it’s quite a bit further than the other supermarkets and I won’t have time today. I’ll look out for them next time I go, and stick some in the freezer.
 
Antje77 said:
Now, that's interesting. It's called zult or 'hoofdkaas' here, literally head cheese.
And I mistakenly thought it was brains, must have been something someone told me as a child!
I only just found out when googling.
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Just the opposite really "all brawn and no brains" was a saying years ago. "Brawn" = muscles.
 
Alexandra100 said:
Personally, there is no food, however carb-free, that doesn't cause me some rise in bg sooner or later, but perhaps others are more fortunate.
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Same here - even for the lowest possible carbs I have to take a large dose of insulin to cover the rise in BG. Even nothing at all makes BG rise for quite a few hours before my silly system realises that it hasn't had any food. then it suddenly drops to hypo levels, so I need to watch that. :rolleyes: (Resigned.)
 
Annb said:
Same here - even for the lowest possible carbs I have to take a large dose of insulin to cover the rise in BG. Even nothing at all makes BG rise for quite a few hours before my silly system realises that it hasn't had any food. then it suddenly drops to hypo levels, so I need to watch that. :rolleyes: (Resigned.)
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Do you take basal insulin as well as bolusing for meals?
 
Alexandra100 said:
Do you take basal insulin as well as bolusing for meals?
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Yes, I do. Quite a lot of it, according to my diabetic nurse. (50u Tresiba basal + 60u Humalog bolus at each meal and sometimes as a correction dose without food.)

To keep on track: Breakfast was another salad-on-a-sandwich (wholemeal).
2nd meal will be seared salmon with spinach just with some lemon on the salmon.
 
Goonergal said:
Bit less blood and gore today @Riva_Roxaban - sacrilege to have a ‘well-done’ steak in my view!

Just eaten oxtail cooked in the Instant Pot. Am hoping it’ll do me for the day as not sure I’ll get chance to eat again later. Absolutely delicious.

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For some reason I've gone right off beef but when I do have steak, it needs to be almost blue. More than that and it might as well be shoe leather.
 
breakfast; l/c cereal, almond milk, hi lo toast with butter
snack; mocha
lunch; chicken, tomatoes, and olives, fibre one protein bar
dinner; chicken, carrots broccoli, home made gravy, one tiny roast potato and mini yorkshire pudding . Blackberries and last of home made posset, a bag of propercorn salted pop corn, montezuma buttons

The cold is making me eat loads!
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SLC tea cakes arrived today along with some not cross buns. after long wait due to Christmas break . Looking forward to these already.
 
shelley262 said:
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A day of using up leftovers. Stripped chicken carcass and put bones and a few older veg from fridge into slow cooker for the day will cool when finished to use as chicken stock for a soup later in the week.
Lunch - drumsticks from left over chicken with a few nuts and seeds followed by a few raspberries and spoon of 0% fage yoghurt also a coffee with two squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner - a third of the frittata in the photo. I had some tapas left from new year - peppers, roast tomatoes and artichokes - which I sliced plus a few mushrooms all cooked in olive oil and knob of butter plus added a handful of shredded chicken from remains then added six beaten eggs and some garlic granules, salt and pepper and then finished off under grill to melt the vintage cheddar I’d grated on to the set egg. Served with green salad followed by low carb crumble and cream.
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Hi I tested them ww bars 6.2 before 5.9 after is that ok. I will test again tho next time I eat one I need to go buy more strips lol
 
@Jayne1983 bg reaction looks ok but I generally feel it may be worth you looking at lower carb bars once you’ve used those ww ones. Take a look at @Rachox s food recordings on this thread as she lists various low carb bars she uses as part of her low carb daily menu. I tend to use keto friendly brownies and cookies from DGF for my daily sweet treat see:
https://deliciouslyguiltfree.com

And rather than snack I use them as a pudding. I try to avoid snacking where possible and often eat for only 6 hours in 24 hours and fast - only drink water and weak black tea - for remaining 18hours. It works well for me and I often only have 2 meals in those 6 hours but sometimes I eat three small meals during that eating window. Talking of which today was a three small meal day as I was hungry.

Breakfast at 12ish three scrambled eggs in butter
Lunch at 2ish bowl of hm lc soup - celeriac and celery - with a hm lc buttered roll. Followed by yoghurt and a few raspberries and nuts
Dinner at 5 ish two lamb chops and sprouts followed by DGF lc crumble with cream.
 
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Thanks for the tag @shelley262 , yes @Jayne1983 I love the low carb protein bars. There are more available now than when I first discovered them 4 plus years ago, and are getting into more mainstream shops, rather than just health food stores. Even Costa sells a small selection of Carb Killas now.
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a PE protein bar from Holland and Barrett.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a Food Dr protein bar bought in Tesco bar.
Dinner: scrambled eggs on marmite LC toast followed by SF strawberry jelly and cream.
 
B- DD 3 ingredient egg cups. In hindsight I’d have made it into an omelette instead, but they were ok.
L- leftover curry bowl from last nights dinner. DGF cake ( not in plan but they arrived yesterday and I haven’t frozen them yet
D- DD Asian chicken stir fry and spicy mayo, delicious.
Continuing the sausage conversation I went to Tesco and found Naked chipolatas, I’d forgotten about this brand too, but 0.7g carbs per 100 was a good result. Even better they had a yellow sticker so were half price. Winning at life!
 
Annb said:
Breakfast was another salad-on-a-sandwich (wholemeal).
2nd meal will be seared salmon with spinach just with some lemon on the salmon.
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Slight change of plan - the spinach was still in the freezer and there was a savoy cabbage waiting to be used in the fridge, so I made savoy carbonara to go with the salmon instead. Yum! Only ate half of what I made but I'm very full.
 
Antje77 said:
Is this the recipe?
I really need to make this, I keep forgetting!
How does it puff up, do you beat the egg? And what seasonings do you add?

  • 1 large onion chopped.
  • c200-250gr cheese of your choosing; grated - for us, this evening, it was just a strong mature cheddar
  • A decent knob of butter
  • 1 egg

Steps
  1. Firstly, boil the chopped onion until soft, the drain very well.
  2. In a bowl, combine the onion, cheese, egg, butter and seasoning, the decant into your chosen cooking vessel. It works just as well as one dish, or individually. We had individuals tonight.
  3. Put it into a 200c fan oven for c30 minutes.
  4. I think it would also be wonderful with cooked bacon or chopped chorizo added.
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That's it. Season however you like - lots of black pepper, whole grain mustard are regulars, but anything you'd like with cheese. We'll often have grated parmesan on top too, for a bit of extra bite.

I'd suggest greasing your dish beforehand too. The really crispy bits are the best!

It really is a very quick and filling "staples" dinner. I grate a 1kg block of strong cheddar at a time, them freeze it in 100gr bags, which obviously helps with the quick part, but also is, in my view, more appealing to do one lot of grating than several over a period of time.
 
B: ff greek with berries and seeds
L: yesterday's leftover cheesy swede mash with left over stew juices. 2 cheesy crackers
Mid afternoon 1 piece hm lc ginger cake
D: not really, 2 crackers with spoon of mackerel pate. Far too many tastings of batch cooking I was doing, including some almond biscuits that got burnt.

Major headache now. Not sure if it's from the sweeteners in the cooking or from a stressful phone call or too much time this morning on the pc.
 
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