What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

RosemaryJackson

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Good morning all. Well, not a very good start to my day, my heating has broken down! Hopefully will get it sorted soon. Am skipping bf. Today my lovely son-in-law is taking me out to a carvery for lunch so I can still be good. I so enjoyed my sardines on toast last night it will probably be that again tonight .
 

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It will be OMAD today. I have a mushroom pie filling, without the pastry top - mushrooms and onions with some garlic is all it is. Hope that will be enough. Still lots of bubble & squeak left, so might have some of that as a side dish to make sure I get through the day.
 

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Breakfast (9am): 0% greek yogurt with keto granola topping
Snack (10:30am): None
Lunch (12pm): Tuna mayo, rollups of sliced deli ham and Balderson 2 year old cheddar
Snack (3pm): None
Dinner (6pm): Pizza and garlic fingers with my kids and nephew
Evening Snack (10pm): Two low carb beer and baked chicken wings

Walked 8.05km to bring my YTD total to 357.68km.

Pizza was completely unplanned, we spent some time at my sister’s house late afternoon which turned into an impromptu pizza meal. I ate a modest portion, and my BS spike wasn’t as awful as I feared. Unfortunately, I was ravenous after my evening stint on the treadmill!
 
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Added some bacon cubes fried with cucumber (I love fried cucumber!) to the last leftovers of yesterday and the day before to have enough for a meal. :hungry:
Also had a couple of beers and some of my neighbour's whisky.

And then I saw someone needing a mate on a 3 masted sailing ship for friday and saturday in a Facebook group.
To give myself credit, I did check the weather forecast before reacting, but it's been a very long time between covid and general anxiety that I was sailing for work.

As a rule, you eat with the guests (those ships are manned by two professionals, me and the captain, plus some 30 paying guests). Food varies from spaghetti with ketchup with school groups to 5 course meals for family groups that happen to have an enthousiastic cook in the family, or it may happen you'll be taken out for dinner.
In this case it's a company outing with people from Belgium.

Which means it can go anywhere, foodwise.
Two full days of socialising and guiding people into the workings of the ship will likely stretch me to the max, mentally, without also throwing carb heavy food and trying to dose for it into the mix.
So I have a couple of days to work out a plan. In case of very good food, I'll want to eat with them, but if not or mediocre I'll want to have a back-up of something filling and low carb.
And of course I'll have to bring something easy for breakfast and lunch, but that's not so much of an issue. The guests will likely eat in the hold while I have to stay outside paying attention to the ship, very easy to transfer the fillings of their rolls to my slice of low carb bread.

I'll do some more thinking on it, but I sure make interesting decisions after drinking my neighbour's whisky! :hilarious:
And I'll send you a picture of course!
Came back from two days of sailing yesterday night, more on that (and some picture spamming) will follow in the parallel thread. https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...en-parallel-chat.177870/page-100#post-2499931
Foodwise, it all went remarkably well, and diabetes behaved brilliantly!
Started both days on the higher side, going up to 8 something because I didn't dare take enough insulin for foot on the floor, considering the high activity start of the sailing day before that insulin would be out of my system. Dropped quickly again from hoisting sails and stuff, so this worked out perfectly.

It turned out my captain prefers cooking his own food over joining the guests, so for lunch I simply had my own bread with his cheese and some of my own dried sausage I got for my birthday. The second day I had the same lunch, but with a hard boiled egg added, I'd brought some hard boiled eggs with me as part of an easy emergency stash.

Captain had planned a meal of noodles with fried veggies and shrimp, very nice of him to ask if that was ok for my diabetes! I simply asked if he could do the noodles separately, so I had the veggies with shrimps, very little of the noodles to nudge my bg up a little as I was on the lowish side, and added two of my own hard boiled eggs to make a full meal, just perfect! :hungry:

Had a couple of beers too, and correctly guessed I only needed half as much insulin as I usually take for it.
I think I should have bought a lottery ticket too, I made so many lucky guesses!

Did some late night snacking in my cabin of dried sausage, yoghurt and a couple of chocolaty nut squares too.

Over the whole two days I haven't needed to use winegums for hypos! My basal was a bit on the high side with all the unusual activity but that was easily solved with a couple of bites from an apple now and again, especially before high activity moments like lowering the sails and making the ship ready for the night again. It only needed three quarters of an apple, spread over two days though, and once two bites of a small cupcake when I had dropped to 3.8. (Dogs got lucky with the rest of the cupcake. :D)
 
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Did some late night snacking in my cabin of dried sausage, yoghurt and a couple of chocolaty nut squares too)
I am curious about the 'dried sausage'. In South Africa, we had something called droëwors' (droge/droog ? worst in Dutch), but I don't think it is the same.

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I am curious about the 'dried sausage'. In South Africa, we had something called droëwors' (droge/droog ? worst in Dutch), but I don't think it is the same.

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We have many different kinds, from salami and French fuet to Spanish chorizo.
But traditionally Dutch droge worst looks similar to your South-African droëwors. There are regional varieties with different spices, and some are thicker and others are thinner.
What they all have in common (and have in common with the droëwors as well) is that they are made without the white mold you often see on the French sausages.

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The droge worst I had with me wasn't a traditional one but a piece of one of the five I received as a birthday present. They are made by a young Amsterdam company making very good quality worst from free range pigs.

This was my birthday present :hungry: :

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Evening all. Lamb has been the focus this weekend.

Yesterday a delivery of Herdwick lamb from a butcher in the north-west failed to show up (DHL’s fault, not the butchsr’s) so the much anticipated home cooked meal became an ordered in German Doner Kebab beef gym box with onions. Earlier I’d eaten cream, 0% Fage and raspberries.

Today the lamb did show up, but I had no notice, so had already defrosted some Waitrose lamb shoulder. That was slow roasted for lunch and delicious. Doubt anything else will be required today.

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Saturday bed 7.2 FBG 6 7. A weird day. BGs going up and down but mostly in range. It's just I'm usually quite stable. Must be this cold. After the run to jujitsu, I'd promised I'd take eldest into Edinburgh so, cold or no cold, you can't break a promise.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with egg.

L. Coffee with a dash of soya milk from one of the street vendors. We were at the St James Quarter (he wanted to go to a Mall) and conveniently there was a Lego store there. (Yes he got something).

D. Just cold cuts. Slice each of mortadella, roast beef, ox tongue, corned beef and coronation chicken. Coleslaw and a bit Port Salut. Followed with a hot shower!
 

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@Riva_Roxaban now that's something that does appeal to me - Home Made fishcakes. I'm having trouble trying to get something that "tastes" with this illness. @RosemaryJackson I hope your weather was as nice as ours with your heating broken down. Hopefully it is fixed quickly.

Today bed 6.9 FBG 5 7. BGs still yoyoing but within range.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with egg.

L Nothing

D. Usual campari and soda. I got Hubby to batter out 2 turkey escalopes. Seasoned with salt, pepper and Italian herbs. Fried in butter and olive oil, then I topped it with wafer thin ham and thinly sliced Emmental served with stir fried curried cabbage and mushrooms. At least I could taste it!
 

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Breakfast: low carb granola, carbzone toast and butter, mocha
Lunch: pepperoni pizza and garlic bread made on a lo dough base, diet pepsi
Dinner: home made chicken liver pate on olinas seeded crackers, berries and cream, 3 x 85% Hotel Chocolat batons
 

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I'm having trouble trying to get something that "tastes" with this illness.
When I'm ill I absolutely love creamy tomato soup. Might be worth a try.
Very easy to make too, which is important when ill.
Tin of tomatoes or passata, cream or cream cheese, water, stock cube (I use a herbs stock cube instead of meat), optional minced meat, either just like it is or made into mini meatballs. Some fresh herbs are nice as well but not needed. And of course you can add things to it as you like, but the basic version is very satisfactory too.

Was going to make a sauerkraut dish with mashed cauliflower, but found I just wanted to do nothing and recover from the sailing weekend. So much socialising needs time to recover from.
So I had a quick meal of a burger, a large fried onion and some raw endive with mayonnaise for dinner. Quick and tasty!

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Reread my earlier post and laughed out loud at this:
Did some late night snacking in my cabin of dried sausage, yoghurt and a couple of chocolaty nut squares too.
Just to make sure: I definitely did NOT sleep in a cabin made of sausages, yoghurt and chocolate like a horror version of the witch's house in the story of Hansel and Gretel!

Writing in a second language when tired can be interesting! :hilarious:
 
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B: a coffee with cream and a chunk of cheddar grabbed way out for a walk
L: 2 slices hilo bread toasted with cheese on. 2 lc cookies
Midafternoon, an lc hot chocolate made by hubby who, instead of 1 tiny sweetnrr, put in a whole teaspoon of Truvia!
D: bacon wrapped, cheese stuffed cauliflower. Half before trip to cinema (The Duke, highly recommend). Half on return as suddenly hungry
 

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Spent the day in London with my daughter in celebration of Mother’s Day, sad it’s so soon after my own mother’s death :(
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee at home.
Lunch at the Flat Iron, steak, cauliflower cheese and leafy salad. Then a five mile walk along the banks of the Thames to my daughter’s house.
Dinner: mozzarella, bacon and pesto salad made by my daughter’s type 1 boyfriend who completely understands low carb. A brilliant day all in all :)
 

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Forgot to mention the box of 6 ketonuts sent to me by my son who is working abroad. 5 made it to the freezer. The 6th disappeared between walk and lunch
 
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Writing in a second language when tired can be interesting!
I knew what you were on about that you're snacking in your cabin.

That "worst" as in dried sausage, means terrible in English, example that's the "worst" sausage I have eaten. I knew what you meant as it's not far from the German "wurst" spelling.

Sausages are also called snags here and various other names off non politically corrects words. :D
 

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Hello everyone
I have been away for a break in the beautiful city of Bath and we had great weather so walked miles every day. Managed two meals a day by having big brunch and evening meal. Brunch was eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes and avocado sometimes on a bed of toasted sourdough of which I ate half. Lunchtime pit stops were a glass of chilled wine al fresco taking the weight off in a pretty square. Suppers included Nandos chicken with broccoli and rainbow slaw. Chicken another night in a French restaurant which though a lovely piece of meat was served on a bed of lentils which I ignored and accompanied by green beans and lacked flavour. The best supper was at Cotes which was seabass in a champagne & butter sauce with green veg.
So came back to Indian t/a Tandoori King Prawns and cauli bhajee. Yesterday was crispy Peking duck with side salad. Breakfasts as usual a slice of HiLo toast and lunch a small salad with cheese/cold meat. Yesterday had a visit from my grandpuppy who always expects scrambled eggs so I did some for both of us.
Today back to reality proper so lunch will be salad, small bit quiche, coleslaw.
Chilli tonight with cauli rice for me.
I didnt use my meter while away and didnt watch tv news and I have come back calmer and more relaxed. We’ll see how long that will last!
 
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Morning all. A foggy day here, hopefully when it clears it will be beautiful. Skipped bf. 1st meal will be pork steak done in slow cooker with veg. Fried onion as well. Tonight will be scrambled eggs with cream and cheede. Have to b good after yesterday. Desserts were too tempting and I am but an old weak- willed woman!!!;)
 

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Yesterday: brunch of 2 fried eggs with lardons, thinly sliced pork rasher and mushrooms. Dinner of 3-egg omelette with cheese and side salad. My salad was made of supermarket Italian style mixed leaves including rocket (I love rocket) green olives, black olives, tomatoes, cucumber, pepper and a small amount of chopped ransom leaves (wild garlic) which has just started growing in the garden. No dressing - plenty of flavour without it.