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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Wednesday 25 May bed and FBG both 8 3. Despite the temperamental Libre my BGs are sitting higher than normal. I have been feeling a bit "off". Nothing specific, a bit achy, snuffly.

B. Grandson's birthday but he still has to go to school (armed with cupcakes though) TAG and 3 M&S crispy cheese crackers with whipped cheese. Drop off was easier as eldest was on a transition morning at the senior school so he was in earlier.

L. M&S pancetta crisps

D. Boys wanted steak pie. I had the steak minus the pie bit with broccoli, peas and half a Cyprus new potato.

HC almond praline

@Antje77 just to confuse you further (and probably many others) I recall my granny or my Mum sending me to the shops for a "forpit" of potatoes. A forpit was 3.5 lbs which was a quarter of a stone (or a fourth part of a stone).
Lsd was the notation for pounds(£), shillings and pence (so not a hallucinogenic drug!).
 
1130hr b eggs ,rashers , mushrooms 1xsausage
1530hr l 2xturkey burger with portobello mushroom stuffed with garlic, chorizo, cream cheese spinach.
1930hr d cold meat &cheese salad
Half glass red wine , 85%chocolate some nuts

Thanks for the clarification on the TAG
 
Strange low appetite sort of day.
Breakfast: two strawberries, black coffee
Lunch: small piece of cheddar, slice of ham, decaff with coconut milk.
Dinner, chicken soup. Tonic water.
 
Antje77 said:
Wait, a pound (or Lb) is not the same as half a kilo?

Please tell me a kilo weighs a thousand grams in the UK... :confused:

I'm a bit scared to ask, but is an ounce 100 gram?
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A kilo is 1000g which is 2 2 lbs which is why 500g is 1 1 lbs. 100g is around 3.5 ozs.

(The advantages of having been teaching youngsters for over 2 years!)
 
maglil55 said:
A kilo is 1000g which is 2 2 lbs which is why 500g is 1 1 lbs. 100g is around 3.5 ozs.

(The advantages of having been teaching youngsters for over 2 years!)
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Yup. I definitely give up on anything not measured in either kilos or grams.

Forgot to mention, I also made a new batch of chocolaty nut squares today. :)
Or actually, I made them on wednesday but I only found out I didn't have any clove powder to add when I'd already melted chocolate and nut butter.
I had to use peanut butter because the only reasonably priced almond butter has been discontinued, and any other alternative nut butter is even more expensive.

The initial try was way to peanut buttery, so I melted the whole batch again, added another bar of chocolate, some more butter and a lot of clove powder, much better! :hungry:

I seem to remember posting some time ago on not wanting to know how long the last batch would last, and I haven't dared look up how quick I finished that batch... :bag::D:hungry:
 
Antje77 said:
Wait, a pound (or Lb) is not the same as half a kilo?

Please tell me a kilo weighs a thousand grams in the UK... :confused:

I'm a bit scared to ask, but is an ounce 100 gram?
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Q - 1 No.
Q2 - Yes, it's the same as all countries around the world that use the metric system including Australia and New Zealand
Q3 - No, it's 3.527 396 194 958 02 oz or ounce, according to my Hiper Calc app.
 
Riva_Roxaban said:
Q - 1 No.
Q2 - Yes, it's the same as all countries around the world that use the metric system including Australia and New Zealand
Q3 - No, it's 3.527 396 194 958 02 oz or ounce, according to my Hiper Calc app.
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It really blows my mind! I've been rather active on this forum which is rather heavily based on UK measurements for years, and only now I find out an English pound is not a Dutch pond and a Dutch ons is nowhere near a British ounce!
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_dollar ago pre metric we had a some stupid UK measurements, perches and poles, pecks, imagine having to learn that if you were a migrant kid.

We owned a block of land that is / was measured in acres when we bought it, but I sold it in hectares when I sold the business last year.

An Australian Government wanted to name the new decimal currency a "Royal" when the public disapproval on it went ballistic.

A public consultation process was held in which over 1,000 names were suggested for the new currency. In June 1963, Holt announced that the new currency would be called the "royal". This met with widespread public disapproval, and three months later it was announced that it would instead be named the "dollar".
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Quote from here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_dollar

I could imagine buyin a meat pie to eat for smoko with a five royal note with young Arry on the front and Meagone on rhe back. :meh:
 
A pound is equivalent to 454g, or alternatively an ounce is just a little bit over 28g.

In Canada, we are completely schizophrenic, we use both. Supermarket flyers use pounds, as well as the price displays for produce and meat. However, at the checkout till, the slips are in kilo. This make it look cheaper! Deli meat is listed as per 100g which makes it even look cheaper. The only food store that display produce and meat in kg is Costco - an American based store! Go figure....

When you talk to somebody about your weight, it is in pounds, however at the doctor's office it is kg. The same goes for one's length, in general parlance it is feet and inches - in official parlance it is cm.

In Quebec, they use use the decimal comma as in continental Europe, whereas in the rest of Canada we use the decimal point.

Although all our road signs are in km, when one asks somebody about the distance between two places it is either miles, or worse minutes (?????).

The size of a house is in square feet - nobody would understand if one talks about square meter. The same goes for acres, against hectares!

I suppose some of it has to do with our proximity to the United States. My highly controversial point of view is that it is because Canadians are secretly wannabe Americans - the Canadian psyche is built on the notion that we are not American!
 
Hello everyone. So back to Friday, not sure what I had for lunch and brekkie is always a slice of LC toast and copious tea. Supper was LoDough pizza with goats cheese a few halved cherry toms and a handful of black olives sprinkled with dried Italian herbs. Completely forgot about the Basil plant on my window cill Doh:banghead:
Saturday lunch was two Ryvita spread with egg mayo, I knew it was too carby but I came in from working in the garden and was ravenous! Then I had a cup of tea and a DGF coffee & walnut cake. The bugbear I have with those cakes is they are really expensive and when they arrive I have to cling film them individually for the freezer. I did mention it to them once but they said they were only a small co and didnt have the staff to do it. Also the postage at £4.50 for such a light parcel of two boxes seems too much. So as good as they are I am not ordering them as often now. Supper was Chicken Shaslik from Waitrose and cauli rice. In between I snaffled 3 Higgidy mini fritatas and that was overkill. Just a hungry day but bad habits need to be curbed quickly.
Lunch today will be straightforward scrambled buttery eggs.
Supper will be Peking crispy duck, no pancakes, a teasp of sauce and baked asparagus.
 
Breakfast: Ham salad.

2nd meal: the last of the beef ragout from a couple of days ago with some extra veggies to give it some bulk and maybe some cauliflower mash. Should be easy enough to do, if I can muster the energy. However, I keep falling asleep, so maybe not.
 
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