What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[shelley262]

Your dinner looks great @shelley262 Did you hear that Zoe are running a new fermented foods study?
11ish 2 rashers bacon and 2 eggs
2:30 tuna melt muffin
5:30 pasture fed beef frying steak with butter followed by h/m yoghurt.

@DJC3 yes I had email from Zoe and I am considering it - maybe getting back to doing my own sauerkraut etc although I do eat a fair few fermented foods and don't have gut issues anymore thankfully after working at increasing my gut diversity mainly through fermented food. How about you? Note that it's October so will you be mixing veggies back in after your carnivore September or are you not decided yet?

 

[Antje77]

What a nice surprise, I got to eat with our guests on the ship and didn't even need insulin for it!
They made burgers and lots of salad.
Had my burger without the bun with a slice of cheese and tasty salad. Everyone went for seconds so I did as well, and when I told the teenager managing the kitchen I'd like my burger without the bun he gave me two burgers!

The group turned out to be teenagers around 17 years old with very mild learning issues, adhd, autism, and they are an absolute pleasure to be with.

 

[LivingLightly]

Evening all

Torrential rain with some thunder and lightning here overnight. Looks as though our Indian Summer may be over.

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, slices of avocado and crevettes seasoned with black pepper.
Water to swallow tablets
Espresso.

L: Cheese-crusted omelette stuffed with mushrooms, baby plum tomatoes, spinach, oregano and cream cheese plus grated Cheddar cheese for the crust.
Salad using lettuce, celery, salad onions, Kalamata olives and mint, dressed with an olive oil, garlic and balsamic vinaigrette, topped with walnut halves.
Water to drink
Strawberries and Greek full-fat yoghurt.

D: Seafood salad made with tiger prawns, brown shrimps, lettuce, sweet cicely, vine tomatoes, celery, Romano peppers and salad onions dressed with olive oil and a squeeze of lemon juice, parsley and garlic, topped with toasted almonds.
Water to swallow tablets.

 

[Annb]

Breakfast: Chicken, leek and pea soup.
Lunch: 2 RyVita with ham and soft cheese
Evening meal: Liver and bacon fricassee out of the freezer with some celeriac dauphinois, also out of the freezer.

I was a bit puzzled when eating the fricassee because there was something in it that I couldn't identify but I figured it would be allright because I had made it myself some time ago. Finally realised that I was tasting mushroom, or at least, feeling the texture of mushroom; the taste was lost in the stronger flavour of the lamb's liver. It was only one portion but I couldn't finish it so might be able to use it tomorrow for breakfast.

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a Phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and a carb killa bar
Dinner: bacon and feta fritatta with green beans and carrots.

 

[JenniferM55]

Had visitors from 10am to 1pm, which is a great distraction for prolonging a fast.

2pm had a John West tuna fridge pot

4ish had a slither of cold lamb shoulder

6ish had homemade beef Bolognese and sauteed cauli rice. I've reached the point where I much prefer the cauli rice to pasta, feel that's an achievement.

Was a bit heavy tonight on the Lindt 90%, must have eaten about 60g.

Day's carbs still came in under 13g

No G&T today, had to go shopping in the car.

@maglil55 by law I think every child should have a grandma like you!

 

[DJC3]

@DJC3 yes I had email from Zoe and I am considering it - maybe getting back to doing my own sauerkraut etc although I do eat a fair few fermented foods and don't have gut issues anymore thankfully after working at increasing my gut diversity mainly through fermented food. How about you? Note that it's October so will you be mixing veggies back in after your carnivore September or are you not decided yet?

I’m feeling really good at the moment so I don’t think I’ll sign up for the new trial, I think I’ll wait and see. I’m certainly not committing to carnivore for ever. I’ve made other changes this month too, like giving up alcohol and doing 20 mins strength training every morning so it’s hard to know if it’s a combo or one particular change that’s helped most.
BGs are so much better, but again that could be because of any, or all of the above. My mouth is missing a crunch and the sharp taste of sauerkraut of pickles, and my eyes are missing colour on my plate ( as your lovely dinner tonight reminded me)
Sadly my daughter is really struggling with it, she’s feeling sick a lot of the time and finds it difficult to eat meat at all now, yet steak used to be her favourite meal. If she wants to try to battle through it I think Ill keep her company just for moral support.

 

[MrsA2]

Finally rain here! But did it have to be noisy thunderstorm just after bedtime ?

Skipped breakfast
Exercise class
Coffee (tea for me) with friends after
L: camembert with 2 slices hilo bread. Probably 80g weight of camembert so very filling. First time I've properly tested the hilo with a libre. Was OK.

D: out at pub, had gone resolved to have salad but they had homemade cottage pie and I caved. Bg did go to 9.1 from 7 but no higher amd came down again well within 2 hours. 1 glass white wine with soda.

1 cup hm lc hot chocolate when home again. Its suddenly gone cold here after a very humid day.

 

[Annb]

Breakfast: Fish soup - I had to take it (and a bag of spinach) out of the freezer to squeeze the last of the grapes in, so I had it for breakfast.

2nd meal will be more fish in the form of a salmon fillet and I'll have it with some of the spinach.

I will also make some stuffed leaves with a spinach and ricotta filling for tomorrow. And I must do something with the liver and bacon left from yesterday.

I really didn't want to get going this morning after a more disturbed night than usual with really sore joints but I have been baking today - a new experiment - nut crackers made with ground pecans, salt and egg, topped with crispy dried onion. Should have put more salt in, but it definitely worked as crackers. The mixture was very soft so I just spread it on parchment paper and baked it almost completely before cutting through into rectangles and returning it to the oven. Had quite a few tastes of the nutty crackers, so don't need anything else yet.

Also made a cake for weekend visitors with chunks of banana, date and fudge to make a kind of banoffee flavour. Looks to have worked.

It's DIL's turn to take cake in for the staff at her school the week after next so I have a request in for a large lemon drizzle cake as a kind of cut and come again cake to be left in the staff room, which seems to be their normal practice. It will have to be a fairly big cake.

 

[AndBreathe]

Breakfast: Fish soup - I had to take it (and a bag of spinach) out of the freezer to squeeze the last of the grapes in, so I had it for breakfast.

2nd meal will be more fish in the form of a salmon fillet and I'll have it with some of the spinach.

I will also make some stuffed leaves with a spinach and ricotta filling for tomorrow. And I must do something with the liver and bacon left from yesterday.

I really didn't want to get going this morning after a more disturbed night than usual with really sore joints but I have been baking today - a new experiment - nut crackers made with ground pecans, salt and egg, topped with crispy dried onion. Should have put more salt in, but it definitely worked as crackers. The mixture was very soft so I just spread it on parchment paper and baked it almost completely before cutting through into rectangles and returning it to the oven. Had quite a few tastes of the nutty crackers, so don't need anything else yet.

Also made a cake for weekend visitors with chunks of banana, date and fudge to make a kind of banoffee flavour. Looks to have worked.

It's DIL's turn to take cake in for the staff at her school the week after next so I have a request in for a large lemon drizzle cake as a kind of cut and come again cake to be left in the staff room, which seems to be their normal practice. It will have to be a fairly big cake.

I tend to do my lemon drizzle in a loaf tin - either a 2lb or two x 1lbs, depending where it is going. I've also done the same recipe is muffin cases, which is also popular.

 

[filly]

Coffee and cream
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Extra Wurst and tomato
Seafood sticks
Pork chop and tomatoes.

 

[AndBreathe]

Food the last couple of days has been a bit all over the place.

Yesterday I had my usual yoghurt based brekkers and salad based lunch, but dinner transpired to be very late and just the spicy sausage and bacon lardons which had been keeping warm, waiting for me to get home from having my little hand op done.

I didn't go to theatre until just before 7pm, so home about 9 - local.

The staff at the Nuffield were near beside themselves because I declined a sarnie, and a biscuit. I thought the nurse was going to pass out when I confirmed my preference for biscuits was none, meaning no bieecies. There was no way I was getting out without a cup of tea, but that was acceptable as I dressed.

MrB is away until the end of the week - a funeral, then a golf competition, so I'm fending for myself. Dinner tonight was some lively slow cooked belly pork slices.

Two weeks of not getting my hand wet is all fun, fun, fun.

 

[MrsA2]

Skipped breakfast
Dance class 1
Friends for a quick lunch. Did frittata, cold meats, cheese, hm coleslaw, French bean salad, green salad. Bread for the carb eaters (I did steal a crust of the Lidl ancient grains loaf for testing purposes)
Dance class 2
Snooze in the chair
D: leftover frittata and salad. I chocolate biscuit, a nut bar.

Wrapped in a blanket with the lights on at 7pm! Who turned summer off?

 

[DJC3]

Food the last couple of days has been a bit all over the place.

Yesterday I had my usual yoghurt based brekkers and salad based lunch, but dinner transpired to be very late and just the spicy sausage and bacon lardons which had been keeping warm, waiting for me to get home from having my little hand op done.

I didn't go to theatre until just before 7pm, so home about 9 - local.

The staff at the Nuffield were near beside themselves because I declined a sarnie, and a biscuit. I thought the nurse was going to pass out when I confirmed my preference for biscuits was none, meaning no bieecies. There was no way I was getting out without a cup of tea, but that was acceptable as I dressed.

MrB is away until the end of the week - a funeral, then a golf competition, so I'm fending for myself. Dinner tonight was some lively slow cooked belly pork slices.

Two weeks of not getting my hand wet is all fun, fun, fun.

Hope the op was a great success, but goodness! Having to keep your hand dry for 2 weeks, that’s a challenge and a half.
I can imagine how strange the staff thought you were, refusing a sarnie and biccies. They are probably still talking about you!

 

[DJC3]

Black coffee and water until lunchtime, then some flash fried steak strips and cheese.
Dinner was fresh sardines followed by a h/m yoghurt.

 

[shelley262]

Breakfast one rasher of bacon, fried egg and mushroom
Lunch a couple of seeded LC crackers with camembert then yoghurt and a few berries plus a couple of squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner similar to yesterday a LC wrap with slow cooked shredded pork and salad followed by LC brownie and decaffeinated coffee

 

[Antje77]

Two weeks of not getting my hand wet is all fun, fun, fun.

I hope your hand will be as good as new after those two weeks @AndBreathe , if a bit dirty!

Second day of five of sailing with ridiculous weather.
Today the forecasts said it would get worse after 1pm, so we started early at 8:30.
Yesterday we only used a half mainsail, today we only used the jib.

I started to get hungry mid-morning so breakfast was chicory leaves with hummus, usually reserved for a midnight snack.
We reached our next destination at noon.(The only city in the vicinity, that should make our teenagers happy, and there's something there to do for them in case we won't sail at all tomorrow.)

The group had lunch ready by that time, frankfurters, bread, and potato salad.
I had two frankfurters and a little potato salad, for which I miraculously dosed the perfect amount of insulin.

It looks like the group is eating out tonight, at least they aren't here.
So I had another chicory with hummus, some nuts, and greek yoghurt shared with my dogs in our cabin.
Will have pork scratchings and aioli and likely some chocolate before bed.

 

[LivingLightly]

Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, slices of avocado, seasoned with black pepper and a wedge of Gorwydd Caerphilly.
Water to swallow tablets
Espresso.

L: Salmon fillets baked with broccoli, chestnut mushrooms, double cream and lemon verbena.
Steamed asparagus spears smothered with a generous knob of butter.
Salad made with sweet cicely, chicory, celery, green peppers, salad onions and flat leaf parsley, dressed with olive oil, garlic and a touch of lemon juice, topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Skipped pud.
Water to drink.

D Seafood salad using king prawns, mussels, lettuce, baby plum tomatoes, mint, Romano peppers, Kalamata olives and Welsh onions, dressed with an olive oil, balsamic and garlic vinaigrette, topped with toasted pine nuts.
Water to swallow tablets.

 

[AndBreathe]

I hope your hand will be as good as new after those two weeks @AndBreathe , if a bit dirty!

Second day of five of sailing with ridiculous weather.
Today the forecasts said it would get worse after 1pm, so we started early at 8:30.
Yesterday we only used a half mainsail, today we only used the jib.

I started to get hungry mid-morning so breakfast was chicory leaves with hummus, usually reserved for a midnight snack.
We reached our next destination at noon.(The only city in the vicinity, that should make our teenagers happy, and there's something there to do for them in case we won't sail at all tomorrow.)

The group had lunch ready by that time, frankfurters, bread, and potato salad.
I had two frankfurters and a little potato salad, for which I miraculously dosed the perfect amount of insulin.

It looks like the group is eating out tonight, at least they aren't here.
So I had another chicory with hummus, some nuts, and greek yoghurt shared with my dogs in our cabin.
Will have pork scratchings and aioli and likely some chocolate before bed.

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I've had some latex finger cots delivered today , which should help me keep things clean, with the giant washing up gloves doing the hard work.

The rest of my hand will be flannel washed. The other thing the surgeon said was not to move it.

Hello? Earth to planet hand surgeon?

Anyway, it'll be fine. It'll only be a few days I'm in whinge overdrive.

 

[Annb]

I tend to do my lemon drizzle in a loaf tin - either a 2lb or two x 1lbs, depending where it is going. I've also done the same recipe is muffin cases, which is also popular.

I used to make it in a loaf tin but on one occasion I had a request for a lemon drizzle birthday cake so now I make 2 round lemon drizzle sandwiched together with filling of cream cheese marbled with lemon curd. It has proved to be very popular so that's the way I usually make it these days.