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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Stardew said:
Yes of course, go for it! I'd be interested to see your results.

Next time I make it, I'll take photos at each stage and make a post so you can see. Probably in a week or so though, I rotate the different types of 'bread' so I don't get bored.

You can omit the herbs and spices for a plain version which is good with chia raspberry jam.

It definitely needs to be toasted and if you know low-carb breads, it's not like proper bread at all but I think it's one of the better substitutes.
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It worked! :joyful:

I added a finely cut clove of garlic, some thyme, a pinch of salt and smoked paprika to the mix.

The hardest part was defending the egg and the butter from the cat, who suddenly decided he's completely crazy about eggs. He could have had it if it wouldn't have been my last egg, I really felt sorry to deny him. I'll make up for it tomorrow though, he'll get his egg still!

I sliced the resulting bread in 3 and toasted the slices next to the bacon in the frying pan.
Had one slice with bacon and two with marmite and butter about an hour ago without insulin, and BG has risen from 4.2 to 5.0 so far, so looking very good. :)

Next time I think I'll give it a try in a bigger vessel, a small casserole or such, to see if I can make it larger and thinner.

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Hi All
Yesterday had usual brekkie of slice LC toast, copious tea.
Lunch was two slices ham chopped up with spoon of cheesy coleslaw.
Supper was baked cod loin with broccoli.
today same brekkie and same lunch.
supper Indian t/a to keep fat level down will just have Chicken Shaslik, might cook two Portobello mushrooms as accompaniment!
I found the high protein wraps in Sainsbury yesterday that someone on here mentioned a while back, 4g carbs each, pack of four with good date. Will do something with them after Spain and report back.
 
Just threw a pork shoulder joint in the oven and will roast it slowly for about 4 or 5 hours. Not sure that I'll eat it today, but it had to be cooked. Neil bought me some smoked mackerel on Thursday. I checked it for date today, along with a lot of other stuff in the fridge while I was there. Several things will have to be used in the next few days and the mackerel was out of date last Monday! It didn't even have a yellow sticker on it. Probably still OK though. It's plastic wrapped so can't tell. I'll check it out in a while.
 
It is indeed autocorrect @Annb ! Friday 14 April bed 7.2 FBG 7.8. Meant to say, at GP visit yesterday, I was also told all organ function is absolutely fine. Just have to focus on getting the HbA1c back to usual levels and reducing the LDL /increasing HDL.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SRSLY toast with egg mayo.

L. Nothing

D. A SRSLY pizza with tomato, cheese, and salami. CC little chocolate pot.
 
Annb said:
The mackerel is OK, but I'd better use it today. I'll have a few salady bits with it and that will do for this evening. The pork will have to keep until tomorrow - still got a couple of hours to go in the oven anyway. Cold pork for breakfast? Why not?
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Yes why not.... Enjoy
 
Breakfast two boiled eggs and a seriously low carb seeded roll
Lunchtime one slice of toasted low carb fruit loaf then kefir and peel from one apple
Mid pm a few squares of Montezuma 100% chocolate with orange oil
Dinner a fiercer than normal HM chicken curry - I was influenced by a podcast I was listening to last night about food as medicine and chillies benefits were highlighted so added extra - enjoyable though. Served with fresh coriander and LC roti. Pudding lemon LC cake.
Anyone interested the podcast was the latest doctors kitchen podcast featuring Dr William Li eat to charge your metabolism and burn fat....
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Saturday 15 April - bed 7.8 FBG 7.4. Up early today. Hubby off to football, but they took a hospitality package. That means when I collect him again, he'll probably just fall asleep at home . Away by 9.05 am. to get him there, and I had my shopping done & home by 10.30 am!

B. TAG, 2 slices of SRSLY toast, 2 slices of back bacon, and a poached egg (that was a double yolk).

L. 16 Almonds over a couple of hours

D. Avocado and prawns with Marie Rose sauce (it looks more than it is), lettuce, santini tomatoes.
4 strawberries, 6 blueberries, 8 raspberries, and a dash of cream.

As suspected, Hubby was well fed and watered at the football hospitality, wasn't hungry when I collected him and ran him home, and (no surprise) fell asleep. There was no way I was cooking for myself, so that was a very enjoyable cold meal.

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Up early and pleased to be off to yoga...except when I got there it wasn't on, I'd got the dates muddled :banghead:
Did contemplate playing hooky and treating myself alone to a breakfast or at least a coffee out but discretion won and I went straight home :angelic:

B : 3 x cold meatballs and 2 cwc. 1 hm lc almond biscuit
Got ahead with cooking, curry in the slow cooker, drumsticks in the oven, yoghurt jellies in the fridge
L: 2 drumsticks, 1 slice cheese. 25g weight 70% choc hubby had brought me for Easter
Long walk and catch up with a friend. 3 hours solid talking with one cup of tea!
D: curry, mine on cabbage, boys on rice. 2 yoghurt jellies. 3 glasses wine but very watered down.
 
Fourth and last day of spicy mixed veggies with pork belly pieces rubbed in black bean and garlic sauce, with peanut sauce.
Four days because there are two pork belly strips in a pack and I use half of one for my meal.
It's only today on the last day that I remembered I like a fried egg with it as well, so I had a perfectly fried turkey egg on top with the yolk still soft enough to taste amazing but not so runny that all the yolk gets lost once you cut it. :joyful:

Wish me luck tomorrow morning, I'm headed for the gym. :woot:
I was thinking I needed a physio so I went to the GP for a referral, and got home with a referral for a rheumathologist instead as you may remember. The waiting list is long and I expect that whatever the outcome, they'll tell me to get more active.
So I acted immediately on a short moment of motivation and signed up for a try out lesson tomorrow morning. I've never been in a gym in my life, it's a very scary place and that moment of motivation has long left me...

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Good luck at the gym @Antje77 I’ve joined a few times full of enthusiasm, but now accept I’d rather just take the dog for a walk. Not quite the same level of activity but better than sitting I guess.
@Stardew and @ravensmitten I agree about the chocolate, I used to hate dark chocolate, it was milk choc every time for me. I still can’t quite believe I like the Montezuma’s Absolute Black.
@maglil55 I guessed it was Tabasco but it did make me laugh.

B- a made up wrap of an egg and tsp chia seeds left to thicken a few mins and cooked in an omelette pan. Wrapped around corned beef, cream cheese and h/m sauerkraut.
L- the unusual but delicious DD Ethiopian Doro Wat soup. Daughter has been asking me to make this again for at least a year.
D- airfried pork chop with veg cooked underneath ( I have an airfryer with shelves). Raspberry gin &soda watching grand National beforehand and red wine with dinner. Brie and 1/3 M&S cracker afterwards. IMG_2277.jpg
 
shelley262 said:
Breakfast two boiled eggs and a seriously low carb seeded roll
Lunchtime one slice of toasted low carb fruit loaf then kefir and peel from one apple
Mid pm a few squares of Montezuma 100% chocolate with orange oil
Dinner a fiercer than normal HM chicken curry - I was influenced by a podcast I was listening to last night about food as medicine and chillies benefits were highlighted so added extra - enjoyable though. Served with fresh coriander and LC roti. Pudding lemon LC cake.
Anyone interested the podcast was the latest doctors kitchen podcast featuring Dr William Li eat to charge your metabolism and burn fat....
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Looks delicious and so colourful. Is it a DGF roti wrap?
Good to know about the chillies, I add them to pretty much everything, but I’ll listen to the podcast.
 
DJC3 said:
Looks delicious and so colourful. Is it a DGF roti wrap?
Good to know about the chillies, I add them to pretty much everything, but I’ll listen to the podcast.
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Yes it's a DGF roti wrap I heat in trying pan with small amount of melted butter they are the best wrap in my opinion taste similar to real thing.
 
Stardew said:
Dinner: My take on Nigella's marmite spaghetti recipe, which was an old favourite.

Mushrooms fried in butter and marmite, then I added courgetti, parmesan, a spoon of cream cheese and lots of black pepper. With the liquid out of the veg, it made a lovely sauce. Garnished it with a bit more cream cheese and some onion seeds. Definitely a new go-to meal
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Mushrooms and marmite are two of my favourite things, what a great idea, this sounds so tasty.
 
Yesterday:

Kind of a mixed day (breakfast was not low carb for example) but overall as an average I still think low

B: All-bran with blueberries, small yoghurt
L: low carb flat bread with Hungarian salami, mixed leaves, avocado, red onion, beetroot. Slice cheese on the side
Snack: pistachio nuts, up & go liquid breakfast thing (not lo carb)
D: marinated calamari (lemon juice, ginger, garlic) with salad. Chocolate ice cream (def. Not low carb but I wanted to try to get post-dinner BSL higher… could have chosen something ‘healthier’ I suppose, but nah I wanted a treat as well)
Post-dinner snacks: 95% cocoa choc, protein bar, hazelnut ‘milk’ and no sugar drinking choc. Also had a yoghurt 15 min before sleep because DE wants me above 7 at bed, but the yoghurt didn’t work (graph stayed flat at 6 basically. Oops :) )
 
ravensmitten said:
Sort of mishmash of things again with a cauli base (would have used quinoa or cous cous previously), with some chicken,

tomatoey, olivey, basil, garlicy thing, various seasonings which ended up almost bbq tasting.

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I would eat. I made something similar the other night but not tomatoey. I’ve done meals like this with cauliflower like you, but also with textured soy protein (which I find a bit bitter, cauli is better but the textured soy protein is tolerable… probably good to take camping)
 
Had another half slice of the wholemeal bread (about 15g carb) with cucumber and 3 slices of cold, roast pork for breakfast. BG started at 11.1 at 4.15 am and has stuck around that mark until just before breakfast when it was 12.0. Nearly 2 hours after full dose of bolus insulin and breakfast it was back to 11.2. It strikes me that even the 15g carbs is too much. Whatever the Diabetes nurse says.

The pork was very good, even cold so I'll have a thick slice of it, probably reheated on top of some vegetables, for my 2nd meal.

Neil is not happy with me today. He ordered soya beans online and 2 out of 3 packets were fine but the 3rd one had burst. He says that I put the salvaged beans into a jar and put it away somewhere. I have no memory of doing so (I do remember the burst bag of beans) or where I could have put the jar. It can't be found this morning and Neil needs the beans to make his soya milk. It's not the end of the world - he does have some commercially made s. milk to hand - but he is clearly annoyed. Didn't say anything, but I can tell. The thing is, is it my memory at fault (most likely) or his (not altogether unlikely)? Hate it when my memory fails me.
 
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