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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Tuesday 11 January - - bed 9.8 FBG 7.8

Belated Happy Birthday @Goonergal. Very windy day and my legs are in a bad way.

B. TAG
L. 3 M&S crackers with port salute, Wensledale and whipped cheese. Coconut milk.

D. Not that hungry so I repeated lunch - crackers, cheese and coconut milk. DGF vegan brownie & raspberries.

Wednesday 12 January - bed 9.2 FBG 7.9.

B. TAG and bacon & egg
L. Nothing
D. 3 egg omelette with pancetta, mushrooms and tomato. Another midweek Gin & lemonade (zero).
 
Three slices middle bacon, two egg and cheese omelette, button mushrooms for breakfast.
Cold chicken leg, lemon cordial mix for smoko.
Pork shoulder chops, green veggies and gravy for lunch.
Toasted ham and cheese low carb sandwiches for supper at six.

We are all on tsunami alert up the Queensland coast after the volcano eruption in Tonga. It will be a interesting day for the people that live right on the beach around here.
 
DJC3 said:
I did a few meal swaps too but it’ll be nice to have a companion on the journey. I’ll start week 1 again, and like you will probably continue with one of the previous meal plans after the fortnight is up. Hope you feel better all the way through this time.
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Surely I can't get covid again? Well I know I could but I'm hoping triple vax and covid Christmas has used up my turns. Interestingly, eldest grandson is less anxious now having had covid at Christmas. I know I'll have one swap out on Sunday next week for GF haggis (from the butcher and it doesn't affect me), neeps, cauliflower mash. If I can be bothered making sugar free meringues I'll make cranachan.
 
Thursday 13 January - bed 8.3 FBG 7.9. Nipped up to Next to get a new woolly hat. It's been chilly again.

B. TAG & bacon/egg
L. Nothing
D. M&S crackers & cheese then roast chicken with GF stuffing, cheesy cauliflower & asparagus.
Orange gin & zero lemonade. Too much gin??

Friday 14 January - bed 8.2 FBG 7.9. @mrs A2 - I empathise! I've had a few dreadful nights and now the cramps/pins and needles are back in my legs again. It lasted 3 days last time and I'm having to use 2 crutches plus I can't sleep.

B. TAG bacon & egg.
L. Nothing
D. Stuffed aubergine. I'd made it already so it just had to go in the oven for 25mins. DGF gingerbread blondie and blackberries AND a vodka and diet coke. 20220114_184957.jpg
 
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maglil55 said:
Thursday 13 January - bed 8.3 FBG 7.9. Nipped up to Next to get a bew woolly hat. It's been chilly again.

B. TAG & bacon/egg
L. Nothing
D. M&S crackers & cheese then roast chicken with GF stuffing, cheesy cauliflower & asparagus.
Orange gin & zero lemonade. Too much gin??

Friday 14 January - bed 8.2 FBG 7.9. @mrs A2 - I empathise! I've had a few dreadful nights and now the cramps/pins and needles are back in my legs again. It lasted 3 days last time and I'm having to use 2 crutches plus I can't sleep.

B. TAG bacon & egg.
L. Nothing
D. Stuffed aubergine. I'd made it already so it just had to go in the oven for 25mins. DGF gingerbread blondie and blackberries AND a vodka and diet coke. View attachment 52901
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Hope your legs feel better soon @maglil55. And that you can get back to a normal sleep pattern. It's very wearing not getting enough sleep and affects your days as well as nights. My cleaner was suggesting that I might talk to the doctor about sleeping pills - just to get back into a proper pattern of sleeping/waking. Not keen on the idea myself - partly because if I do take drugs and I do dream, I might not be able to wake myself out of it and the thought of that is worse than the lack of sleep.

The aubergine looks fantastic, by the way. Today will have to be a cooking day - Neil bought some stewing steak for me a couple of days ago and I want to try to make chilli and orange beef with some of the ridiculously spicy chocolate that I bought. Might get around to it - depends how tired I get during the day.
 
DJC3 said:
Another vote from me for heating gently in a pan with a little water @Antje77 I hope you get to eat it tonight.
@Goonergal that pork looks SO good, I’ll get some belly pork this week.
Today I’ve been lazy and hungry
B- Fried eggs, Gouda, spinach.
L- salami, cheese, Mayo, lettuce in SLC roll. DGF cake.
D- Smoked haddock in creamy tomato&red pepper sauce with broccoli and a DGF biscuit.
Somewhere along the line I finished off the jar of almond butter too. I am not buying it again!
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I bought a jar of almond butter to see how I might react to it after years of not eating almonds. No actual intolerance reaction other than distaste. Really don't like it. Might find a recipe to use it up and will never buy it again. But, on a hopeful note, it didn't make me ill, so I should be able to use almonds in recipes - but will have to go easy on them just in case the intolerance builds up again.
 
OMAD today. Just because I wasn't very hungry and didn't bother with breakfast.

The one meal was beef and orange with spicy chocolate. Stewing steak, slow cooked with onion, garlic, an orange cut into quarters and butter and one square of the very spicy, dark chocolate that I bought a few days ago. I left it cooking on the hob from 11 am then found that at some stage, when I wasn't looking, Neil turned the hob off! So I cooked it for longer than intended. It was well cooked in any case, and quite tasty. Just had a small dish of it. Lots left for the freezer because I couldn't eat too much of it. At least, I can't today. Feeling quite full.

Just heard that DIL has tested positive to covid with a lateral flow test, she has to go to get a PCR test tomorrow to confirm. Son and grandchildren have tested negative at present.
 
Three course OMAD today. Only 2 pictured - there were 3 streaky bacon rashers after these 2 courses.

Main course - 2 home made burgers, 2 eggs, 4 rashers smoked streaky bacon. Still hungry.
Dessert - 2 small lamb chops. Still hungry.
Second dessert - 3 rashers smoked streaky bacon.

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maglil55 said:
Surely I can't get covid again? Well I know I could but I'm hoping triple vax and covid Christmas has used up my turns. Interestingly, eldest grandson is less anxious now having had covid at Christmas. I know I'll have one swap out on Sunday next week for GF haggis (from the butcher and it doesn't affect me), neeps, cauliflower mash. If I can be bothered making sugar free meringues I'll make cranachan.
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Fingers crossed for you, and I’m so glad your grandson is less anxious now, having had it. My youngest granddaughter ( 9yo I think same sort of age) is also very anxious about it. She’s not eating, and she used to have a very hearty appetite. Her teacher phoned her mum before Christmas to say they’d asked what was troubling her and she’d said she was worried about covid. Poor kids I feel so sorry for them.

Ooh Burns night supper! Wonderful, it’ll have to be a M&S haggis for Paul, I’ll join in with the bashed neeps and mash.
 
Annb said:
I bought a jar of almond butter to see how I might react to it after years of not eating almonds. No actual intolerance reaction other than distaste. Really don't like it. Might find a recipe to use it up and will never buy it again. But, on a hopeful note, it didn't make me ill, so I should be able to use almonds in recipes - but will have to go easy on them just in case the intolerance builds up again.
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Good news about no intolerance reaction. I really wish I didn’t like it!
 
B Fried eggs, Gouda and spinach.

Was hoping to try @Goonergal ‘s pork recipe for dinner but I had a shoulder joint not belly pork so I wrapped it in foil, bunged it in a low oven and went to the beach instead.
Very cold swim followed by a couple of hours in woolly hat and dry robe drinking coffee from my flask and eating a DGF raspberry bakewell. ( which took 2 mins, not 2 hrs)
Dinner- the pork, which was meltingly tender, no crackling as it had been wrapped up, but that’s just as well as I’m currently sporting 2 temporary crowns.
Cauli cheese and broccoli with it. SF jelly and a spoon of mascarpone cheese afterwards.
 
Planned to fast until dinner, but kept nibbling at the biscotti I made yesterday...until they were all gone :facepalm:. Too moreish. That was 200g of nuts eaten in 24 hours!

90 minute walk
More baking, but this time of things to go straight into the freezer, not my mouth. Soda bread and Berry cake.

D: roast pork, carrots and cabbage. Half a scoop coffee ice-cream. One small sloe gin with soda water
 
I love Sundays.
Cooked brunch of egg, bacon, pork sausage, mushrooms, white pudding, black coffee
2 more cups of black coffee
Family dinner: lamb shank braised in red wine, caulflower mash, broccoli, 2 baby carrots, glass of Malbec.
Finishing dining late with a glass of rum, mixed with, err, more rum of course. :hilarious:;)
 
@Annb & @Antje77 - the Aubergine dish is easy to make. Heat oven to 220C. Half the Aubergine lengthwise then cut the flesh out leaving a border of about 1cm inside. The flesh can be scooped out with a spoon once you've cut a border at the edges. Pop the shells in a baking dish and drizzle the shells with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Cover with foil and pop them in the oven for about 20 to 25 mins.
Meantime, soften a finely chopped small onion in a little olive oil in a pan. Add some chopped garlic (I used 4 cloves) , chopped Aubergine flesh and about 12 small tomatoes (cherry/ santini?). Mix and cook gently for another 4 or 5 mins. Now it gets a bit variable. I added chopped green olives and chopped basil but it is up to you. Oregano? Italian mixed herbs? Sun dried tomatoes? Just not too much. Last thing in is about 100g of mozzarella ripped into bits (I just use the mini mozzarella balls).

Check on the Aubergine shells. If tender, remove from the oven and fill with the stuffing. If you are saving for the next day, let them cool, cover and refrigerate.

To finish, drizzle with a little more olive oil, top with a mix of grated parmesan & parsley then some shaved parmesan. Back in the oven at 200C for about 20 mins until the cheese is melted and bubbling! Serve immediately.

The Italians would top it with crumbs from their excellent bread but that adds too many carbs for us. Parmesan works well instead.
 
maglil55 said:
@Annb & @Antje77 - the Aubergine dish is easy to make. Heat oven to 220C. Half the Aubergine lengthwise then cut the flesh out leaving a border of about 1cm inside. The flesh can be scooped out with a spoon once you've cut a border at the edges. Pop the shells in a baking dish and drizzle the shells with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Cover with foil and pop them in the oven for about 20 to 25 mins.
Meantime, soften a finely chopped small onion in a little olive oil in a pan. Add some chopped garlic (I used 4 cloves) , chopped Aubergine flesh and about 12 small tomatoes (cherry/ santini?). Mix and cook gently for another 4 or 5 mins. Now it gets a bit variable. I added chopped green olives and chopped basil but it is up to you. Oregano? Italian mixed herbs? Sun dried tomatoes? Just not too much. Last thing in is about 100g of mozzarella ripped into bits (I just use the mini mozzarella balls).

Check on the Aubergine shells. If tender, remove from the oven and fill with the stuffing. If you are saving for the next day, let them cool, cover and refrigerate.

To finish, drizzle with a little more olive oil, top with a mix of grated parmesan & parsley then some shaved parmesan. Back in the oven at 200C for about 20 mins until the cheese is melted and bubbling! Serve immediately.

The Italians would top it with crumbs from their excellent bread but that adds too many carbs for us. Parmesan works well instead.
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Thanks for that @maglil55, I have an aubergine in the fridge so will make this tomorrow.

The spicy beef and orange stew worked pretty well. I could have added a second square of the chocolate because, although the spice could be tasted, it wasn't at all overpowering. I have 2 large servings of it left, boxed up ready for the freezer so when it comes to reheating them I will add a bit more chocolate. Beef and orange work very well though - at least for me.
 
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