What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[filly]

Yesterday - two yes TWO avocados. Small Greek yoghurt. Dinner was keto fish pie. I am bounding with vitamins!

Today will be brunch of lumpy soup, and dinner of roast lamb with cauliflower, sprouts and cabbage.

I have discovered that my BG meter/strips don't like the bitter cold. After I left them in the only heated room for an hour, I got a much more usual reading. Might be the case with some of you as well.

Yep on the days the flat has been jolly cold and taken forever to get remotely warm, readings up. On warmer days like today reading all down.

 

[Lainie71]

B. Two chicken breast left over from yesterday
L. Handful of wallnut halves
D. Probably home made Cajun chicken with minted yogurt and green salad

 

[Lainie71]

Yep on the days the flat has been jolly cold and taken forever to get remotely warm, readings up. On warmer days like today reading all down.

I have a metre in the bathroom that is like the Baltics and have been getting readings from 7 -9.5s fasting. The metre in the sitting room which is a lot warmer, readings are within my range 5.5 and 6s. Bizarre eh!

 

[filly]

I have a metre in the bathroom that is like the Baltics and have been getting readings from 7 -9.5s fasting. The metre in the sitting room which is a lot warmer, readings are within my range 5.5 and 6s. Bizarre eh!

At least my hands have been warm the last couple of days.

 

[MrsA2]

Up and out to an appointment early so didn't break fast until about 10:30 with ff greek with half a pear and seeds (had made double yesterday and left half in the fridge for today. It thickens into a different and more satisfying cold 'porridge ')
Lunch: hm veg soup with a sprinkling of cheese and sliced Polish sausage added. Quite a lot as I've been so hungry all day.
2 sqs hm lc spice cake
Hours walk
Nibbled almonds and picked at lamb mince while prepping dinner.
D: Peppers stuffed with lamb mince, extra cabbage and a spoonful of rice that escaped from the carb eaters side of the dish.
A sq hm lc coffee cake

 

[Antje77]

Have I mentioned how much I love snow peas before?
They're expensive and decadent, and today I treated myself to a very large portion of them!

The plan was to go for groceries on saturday, but everything was stupid and I couldn't get myself to do it. Likely something to do with stupid december and stupid 8 and 3 years anniversaries of both my father and my beloved dog dying, which was yesterday. Still miss them a lot, both of them, and I'm glad they share this strange anniversary, one of those days each year is quite enough.

Anyway, no groceries meant stretching out what I had for a few more days and meals have been rather boring.
So today I decided to treat myself with a very easy but also very yummy meal: a ridiculous amount of snow peas with butter and salt, and a couple of chipolata sausages.
Snow peas were half the bag, other half is for tomorrow. Sausages are half the package too. I wonder what bright soul has decided to put 5 sausages in a pack, how do you even devide that unless you're a family of 5 and eat very small portions of meat?

There's an interesting difference between sausages in the UK and in the Netherlands (worst or worstjes).
Like the UK, we have countless different kinds of sausages, ranging from sausages to be fried, to sliced cold sausage meat to use on sandwiches, and dried sausages to have with a beer.
But unlike UK sausages, I buy any kind without even checking the back: I've never found any kind of sausage containing more than 2% carbs, and usually it's under 1%. (An exception is bloedworst (black pudding). Some have added rice, some don't.)

I was so puzzled when first joining the forum and being warned to check the carbs in sausages! I must have spent a full hour in the supermarket checking all those packages to find the sneaky high carb ones but they just weren't there!

 

[Annb]

Have I mentioned how much I love snow peas before?
They're expensive and decadent, and today I treated myself to a very large portion of them!

The plan was to go for groceries on saturday, but everything was stupid and I couldn't get myself to do it. Likely something to do with stupid december and stupid 8 and 3 years anniversaries of both my father and my beloved dog dying, which was yesterday. Still miss them a lot, both of them, and I'm glad they share this strange anniversary, one of those days each year is quite enough.

Anyway, no groceries meant stretching out what I had for a few more days and meals have been rather boring.
So today I decided to treat myself with a very easy but also very yummy meal: a ridiculous amount of snow peas with butter and salt, and a couple of chipolata sausages.
Snow peas were half the bag, other half is for tomorrow. Sausages are half the package too. I wonder what bright soul has decided to put 5 sausages in a pack, how do you even devide that unless you're a family of 5 and eat very small portions of meat?

There's an interesting difference between sausages in the UK and in the Netherlands (worst or worstjes).
Like the UK, we have countless different kinds of sausages, ranging from sausages to be fried, to sliced cold sausage meat to use on sandwiches, and dried sausages to have with a beer.
But unlike UK sausages, I buy any kind without even checking the back: I've never found any kind of sausage containing more than 2% carbs, and usually it's under 1%. (An exception is bloedworst (black pudding). Some have added rice, some don't.)

I was so puzzled when first joining the forum and being warned to check the carbs in sausages! I must have spent a full hour in the supermarket checking all those packages to find the sneaky high carb ones but they just weren't there!

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I think British and American sausages in general have a high carb content, unlike Continental ones. I have no idea why that is. There must be a reason - probably from some dim and distant time several hundred years ago for what might have been a good idea then, but is no longer relevant. Must see if I can find anything about that.

Didn't make my soup - the dishwasher broke down and Neil has had bits of it strewn around the kitchen - no surface free to prep vegetables on. Gave up and had a cheese sandwich, so carbs are a bit high today after all - 2 slices of bread and one tortilla, so probably around 100. BG is OK though - 5.8 at last check.

Edited to fix a typo.

 

[Annb]

It looks as though the reason we have so much carb in British sausages is that during the rationing period, during and after WW2, cereals of various kinds were added to make the little amount of meat available, go further. Then, of course, manufacturers realised that they could make these sausages cheaply with not only less, but with poorer quality meat. The "traditional" British banger was born. Banger because the cereal allowed the addition of a comparatively large amount of water and when cooking, they would sometimes explode in the pan. There won't be anyone left who can remember the real British sausage from pre-war days. Of course, with the poorer bits of meat, the mixture had to be ground down very finely and there are sausages on the market that are unrecognisable as a meat product. Better quality meat doesn't need to be ground down quite so much and the meat can be identified. These kind of sausages are also popular in America, although they do have a wider variety on their market. Not sure about Australia or Canada. @Riva_Roxaban would know - about Australia anyway.

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

Bacon, and a two egg and cheese omelette, two slices of toast and vegimite for breakfast.
Rolled beef roast, mixed veggies, pan juice gravy, some stone fruit for lunch.
Cold leftover beef sandwiches for supper at six.

Glass or two of single malt, just getting into the xmas mood before bedtime.

 

[MommaE]

It looks as though the reason we have so much carb in British sausages is that during the rationing period, during and after WW2, cereals of various kinds were added to make the little amount of meat available, go further. Then, of course, manufacturers realised that they could make these sausages cheaply with not only less, but with poorer quality meat. The "traditional" British banger was born. Banger because the cereal allowed the addition of a comparatively large amount of water and when cooking, they would sometimes explode in the pan. There won't be anyone left who can remember the real British sausage from pre-war days. Of course, with the poorer bits of meat, the mixture had to be ground down very finely and there are sausages on the market that are unrecognisable as a meat product. Better quality meat doesn't need to be ground down quite so much and the meat can be identified. These kind of sausages are also popular in America, although they do have a wider variety on their market. Not sure about Australia or Canada. @Riva_Roxaban would know - about Australia anyway.

Well my little bit of Canada is fortunate to have a real butcher so can get sausages that contain just meat, herbs and spices. Delicious too.

 

[maglil55]

Thursday 15 December - bed 7.3 FBG 7.6. Hubby had to bus it to dentist as I continued to juggle multiple appointments and tasks. Boys are staying tomorrow night as well.

B. TAG and a slice of SLC toast with lurpack

D. Vegetable bouillon

D. Omelette with tomato, spinach, pancetta and grated Emmental. DGF Christmas pie and a little brandy cream.

Friday 16 December bed 6.8 FBG 7.8 1/2 day at school and 2 more school days until the holidays. Making macaroni for everyone except me tonight. I knocked together one of these shellfish mixes for me plus 1 GF macaroni/2 non GF!

B. Just TAG

L. Vegetable bouillon and a slice of SLC toast with egg mayo

D. Shellfish in a white wine sauce topped with parmesan & wilted spinach. CC little chocolate pot.

Saturday 17 December - bed and FBG both 7.2. Morning taken up trying to get the boys to have breakfast/get washed & dressed. Youngest didn't eat much last evening and is developing a but of a cough but nothing else. No fever/headache/aches - just a tickly cough.

B. Vegetable bouillon

L. Black tea- went to visit family/deliver presents for a couple of hours before taking boys home.

D. Back to cold cuts - ham, pork & egg, haslet, roast beef, chicken, coleslaw and a vegetable salad (tinned chopped veg mixed with mayo). DGF Christmas pie and brandy cream.

Youngest has succumbed to some bug. I guess the rest of us are next ‍

 

[maglil55]

Sunday 18 December - bed 7.5 FBG 7.9. Youngest not well enough for last swimming lesson before the holidays (which he is not happy about!) This is the fun day and they get Chocolate Santa's . I'm starting to get a tickly cough now too.

B. Just TAG

L. Vegetable bouillon and later a CC little chocolate pot

D. Cooked a ham joint and has with a carrot/turnip mash and cheesy cauliflower mash. Campari and soda. DGF Christmas pie with a touch of cream.

BGs rising during the day and I started to get a headache. Yuk!

Monday 19 December - bed 8 FBG 8.9 Had a steamy shower before bed but it didn't help with the cough. Dentist cancelled my appointment for today as my new bridge is not back from the lab yet. Eldest grandson went to school but he is starting to feel "off" now. Youngest was milking it today but it backfired when he was reminded that you stay in bed when you are unwell. I'm resting between trips out. Hubby is coming down with it now and DIL has succumbed too!!

B. Vegetable bouillon

L. Vegetable bouillon

D. Vegetable bouillon and leftover cold cuts with coleslaw and vegetable salad. No cooking involved. CC little chocolate pot.

To cap it all my broadband has developed a fault and is going on and off. It's affecting the TV , landline and no Internet and there's no way I'm going to use all my data.

 

[maglil55]

Tuesday 20 December - bed 8.6 FBG 9 2 - Bug has taken hold of Hubby & me now. Youngest back at school for last day *they're having a pantomime in school eldest has now succumbed and taken to his bed. Hubby is dosing up on Covornia and Lemsip; I'm on paracetamol & steam inhalation. We had no broadband/ landline at all this day, and the only TV was anything that was recorded. The engineer is coming on Friday morning.

B. Vegetable bouillon

L. Vegetable bouillon and a slice of SLC toast with coronation chicken.

D. SLC pizza with salami, tomato, and extra cheese.

This bug is a nightmare, but I'm managing to get some bits and bobs done in-between bouts. Finally finished my supermarket order for Friday too as I could rest at the same time and it was productive use of my data.

 

[Annb]

Sunday 18 December - bed 7.5 FBG 7.9. Youngest not well enough for last swimming lesson before the holidays (which he is not happy about!) This is the fun day and they get Chocolate Santa's . I'm starting to get a tickly cough now too.

B. Just TAG

L. Vegetable bouillon and later a CC little chocolate pot

D. Cooked a ham joint and has with a carrot/turnip mash and cheesy cauliflower mash. Campari and soda. DGF Christmas pie with a touch of cream.

BGs rising during the day and I started to get a headache. Yuk!

Monday 19 December - bed 8 FBG 8.9 Had a steamy shower before bed but it didn't help with the cough. Dentist cancelled my appointment for today as my new bridge is not back from the lab yet. Eldest grandson went to school but he is starting to feel "off" now. Youngest was milking it today but it backfired when he was reminded that you stay in bed when you are unwell. I'm resting between trips out. Hubby is coming down with it now and DIL has succumbed too!!

B. Vegetable bouillon

L. Vegetable bouillon

D. Vegetable bouillon and leftover cold cuts with coleslaw and vegetable salad. No cooking involved. CC little chocolate pot.

To cap it all my broadband has developed a fault and is going on and off. It's affecting the TV , landline and no Internet and there's no way I'm going to use all my data.

So sorry that you and your family are coming down with some bug. That's the last thing you want at this time of year. Last week, Em's family all came down with a vomiting bug - that 's Alistair, DIL, Em, Braidie, Em's big sister and husband*(?) and their 3 children. It all started when the youngest seems to have brought it home from the nursery she attends. It was miserable, but it passed in 24 hours. I hope yours passes as quickly.
*husband is questioned because he was a woman but is to some extent transitioning to a man. She (he) is self identifying as male. I have no idea what the correct terminology is - traditional language doesn't have the vocabulary. We are told that "she" is no longer acceptable and we have to use "he" but that just doesn't seem right. Just too old fashioned, me.

Breakfast today was bacon and eggs. Lots of tea.

2nd meal will be some smoked haddock that Neil bought - again a replacement for the smoked mackerel I has asked for. Easy to cook though. I'll try to get the leeks prepped so I can make both a small side dish of leeks in butter and finally make the chicken and leek soup I intended a couple of days ago.

The dishwasher broke down a couple of mornings ago and yesterday Neil stripped it down and repaired it - it took hours and there were tools and bits of dishwasher plus all the big pans from under the sink (he needed access to the water supply) scattered around the kitchen so there was no possibility of cooking. He finally got it working at about 1 am today. We just left everything and went to bed at that point so it was all to be cleared up this morning.

Yesterday evening, Em popped in on her way to her school Christmas party looking resplendent in the new dress her mum had bought and wearing lipstick! She is really growing up fast. She looked very much the young woman rather than the young Tom Boy we usually see.

 

[filly]

coffee and cream
Bacon, 2 eggs, sausage, tomato and mushrooms.
Prawns, stilton and cucumber

 

[maglil55]

Wednesday 21 December - bed 7.9 FBG 8.6. I might be improving as my BGs have dropped back into the 6's again.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast - one with egg mayo, one with coronation chicken.

L. Lots of water.

D. SLC sandwich with rare roasted brisket, mustard, and shredded lettuce. I've not had it yet, but I'll likely have a CC little chocolate pot and a DGF Christmas pie later.

@Annb - we already had Norovirus and got over it. You're correct, though, the bugs come from primary school. The youngest grandson was first to get it and has since shared with the rest of us. I had high hopes of getting a lot done today. I did manage to get the loose covers of the settee washed, but even that was an effort. Thankfully, I deep cleaned upstairs last week before it hit me. I'm hoping I feel well enough tomorrow to tackle the kitchen and fridge before my shopping arrives on Friday.

The dentist called this morning (broadband has been going on and off today) to say the lab promised my new bridge would be in tomorrow. I'll call them before I leave, though.

At least I've got my entire Christmas Day menu worked out.

 

[MrsA2]

Dental hygienist first thing so only coffee before.
10:30 prawns and mayo and 2 baby avocados (trying to fill up before visiting someone I knew would offer carby "treats ")
And I was right, offered mince pies and chocolate brioche. I said no to both.
L: hm lc veg soup with cheese and ham added. Ff greek with a sozzled plum. The plums have been making a sloe gin type drink and are very strongly alcoholic But are far to good to throw away, so occasionally having one with a lot of cream or yoghurt as they are so strong.
Stressful afternoon trying to mend my car, which ended having to take it to the local garage. Luckily didn't cost much but could have done without the hassle, time and mileage.
D: cold roast chicken with mayo and 5 olives. 1 tiny finger of a mince pie a neighbour had given us unexpectedly . Shouldn't have, it was far too sweet and rich, and I never used to like mince pies anyway. My curiosity got the better of me..again

 

[DJC3]

We’re another family with this bug brought home from primary school. We are off to the Lake District for Christmas tomorrow, to try and make some new memories for the girls as it’ll be the first without their daddy and we are all dreading it. Took youngest to the Gp yesterday with a sore throat, told to give paracetamol ( I was doing) and ring if it gets worse. It did and she had a temp today so went back and got antibiotics. By the time we got home the eldest had a sore throat. Doesn’t bode well.
B- lump of cheese
L- slice of schneiderbrot topped with cream cheese, h/b egg and chilli sauerkraut. DGF mince pie
D- IP beef Shawarma. I glass red

 

[Antje77]

Same as yesterday, minus the cooked half sausage I didn't eat yesterday to divide equally over two days.

Sausages are half the package too. I wonder what bright soul has decided to put 5 sausages in a pack, how do you even devide that unless you're a family of 5 and eat very small portions of meat?

Should learn to put the lid on the pan if I don't want to have my sausages stolen.

I also made a low carb wrap with mayo, mustard, aioli, slice of ham, grated cheese and spinach leaves, part to eat with my meal and part to have on the go tomorrow.

It'll be a long day tomorrow, cleaner first (I'll ask her to drop off my dogs at the neighbour when she's finished, I'll have to leave halfway our weekly chores) and then a long drive to Amsterdam to visit a dying friend, very happy we'll get to properly visit one more time!
I hope to have the energy to buy some big city foods I can't get around here after our visit before driving back on the same day. Planning on visiting a good Turkish supermarket and a real Indonesian take-away at the very least!

All this driving, visiting and shopping will be too much in one day but sometimes things are as they are, and I'll have friday and saturday to recover for the next round of driving and socialising.

*husband is questioned because he was a woman but is to some extent transitioning to a man. She (he) is self identifying as male. I have no idea what the correct terminology is - traditional language doesn't have the vocabulary. We are told that "she" is no longer acceptable and we have to use "he" but that just doesn't seem right. Just too old fashioned, me.

It's pretty easy really, if he says he prefers male pronouns, just use them, no matter the extent of his transitioning. Doesn't matter what's in his pants or under his shirt really, those parts are called private and they are.
Using those male pronouns takes a little getting used to, but using them will become just the new normal, and quicker than you'd expect!
Nothing wrong with an honest mistake now and then, that's easily solved with an "oh sorry, my mistake" and just continue the conversation.
It really doesn't matter if "he" seems right or wrong to you, just do it and you'll find out it's not that bad after a while.

 

[Annb]

Same as yesterday, minus the cooked half sausage I didn't eat yesterday to divide equally over two days.

Should learn to put the lid on the pan if I don't want to have my sausages stolen.

I also made a low carb wrap with mayo, mustard, aioli, slice of ham, grated cheese and spinach leaves, part to eat with my meal and part to have on the go tomorrow.

It'll be a long day tomorrow, cleaner first (I'll ask her to drop off my dogs at the neighbour when she's finished, I'll have to leave halfway our weekly chores) and then a long drive to Amsterdam to visit a dying friend, very happy we'll get to properly visit one more time!
I hope to have the energy to buy some big city foods I can't get around here after our visit before driving back on the same day. Planning on visiting a good Turkish supermarket and a real Indonesian take-away at the very least!

All this driving, visiting and shopping will be too much in one day but sometimes things are as they are, and I'll have friday and saturday to recover for the next round of driving and socialising.

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It's pretty easy really, if he says he prefers male pronouns, just use them, no matter the extent of his transitioning. Doesn't matter what's in his pants or under his shirt really, those parts are called private and they are.
Using those male pronouns takes a little getting used to, but using them will become just the new normal, and quicker than you'd expect!
Nothing wrong with an honest mistake now and then, that's easily solved with an "oh sorry, my mistake" and just continue the conversation.
It really doesn't matter if "he" seems right or wrong to you, just do it and you'll find out it's not that bad after a while.

That is what we are doing. Using his new name is becoming fairly easy as time goes on. It's really just the personal pronouns that I'm finding difficult. That and actually thinking of him as a man. It's all in my head, of course and is my problem - not theirs.

Started feeling nauseous just when I was about to start prepping food, so have given up on the idea of having anything tonight. I just wrapped a blanket around myself and dozed in the big chair. I do this quite often. You would think I would lose weight, just with one meal of bacon and eggs on many days. But I don't - the weight is just piling on.