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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

I know I said I wouldn't have any more bread, so what did I do this morning? Yup! You guessed it. A thick slice of wholemeal bread, toasted. Idiot! I did take a reasonable amount of insulin to cover it, but really, I mean, how daft can I get? That was how I broke my fast.

2nd meal will be lamb steak with some Brussels sprouts - if the surveyor who is coming this afternoon to assess our house for an air source heat pump and solar panels isn't here for too long. If he takes too much of the afternoon, it will probably just be some cheese.
 
Good evening. Colder today so I changed the evening super salmon salad somewhat.
Usual pre-breakfast 2 x 750 mls mugs of tea with almond milk
10,00: 3 slices toasted and buttered SRSLY fruit loaf which was lurking in the freezer
11.40: CWC, monin s/f caramel and Ceylon cinnamon with H/m speculoos - all day I ...... etc recipe
2.30 ish Cheese (Cornish cruncher) Sandwich - KC artisanal seeded bread. They sent me a trial croissant and another free Adonis double chocolate crunch bar. Mug of tea - size and milk as per
6.15 ish: Salmon - crispy skin essential (as is white crockery) - wild, line caught so better cooked in butter, Milky's hallum, sauteed radish, celery, mushrooms, yellow pepper, cherry toms and 1/2 bag bistro salad. Couldn't crop out the table runner which JKP thinks is a good idea - why??
Hope you all had a good day. @shelley262 by normal KC doughnuts I mean looking like those on the website not as though wholemeal flour was used.



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@ianpspurs thank you my delivery arrived today too with freebies of Adonis double chocolate protein bar and a LC croissant looking forward to all my low carb treats. Meanwhile majority stashed and portioned and safe in freezer! Tried about a third of a LC cinnamon doughnut - they are big - it was delicious. Making lc veggie soup today long and slow in slow cooker for tomorrow to try one of the keto cheese scones with it!
@Mazzab64 welcome to this thread I m sure you'll get lots of ideas and advice here. I've been low carb for six years now and enjoy the way I can manage my health and eat well too. I mainly got ideas on starting out from diet doctor and would recommend the site lots of resources there are free but you can pay and get a meal plan too
www.dietdoctor.com

A Low Carb Diet Guide for Beginners – Diet Doctor

In this top low-carb guide, we show you what to eat, what to avoid and how to avoid side effects. Get delicious low-carb recipes and meal plans.
www.dietdoctor.com www.dietdoctor.com
Hope you enjoy improving your health and enjoying some excellent low carb food.
My food today
B two boiled eggs and one keto roll
L sauerkraut and three seeded crackers with piece of gambazola followed by a third of the Keto chef lc cinnamon doughnut I warmed it and loved it shared with OH who loved his two thirds piece! Pic of whole doughnut!
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D salmon with some peas and glass of dry white wine followed by a LC crumble
Edit forgot to list my daily morning small glass of kefir which I also add wild Norwegian fish oil and collagen mixed in.
 
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shelley262 said:
@ianpspurs thank you my delivery arrived today too with freebies of Adonis double chocolate protein bar and a LC croissant looking forward to all my low carb treats. Meanwhile majority stashed and portioned and safe in freezer! Tried about a third of a LC cinnamon doughnut - they are big - it was delicious. Making lc veggie soup today long and slow in slow cooker for tomorrow to try one of the keto cheese scones with it!
@Mazzab64 welcome to this thread I m sure you'll get lots of ideas and advice here. I've been low carb for six years now and enjoy the way I can manage my health and eat well too. I mainly got ideas on starting out from diet doctor and would recommend the site lots of resources there are free but you can pay and get a meal plan too
www.dietdoctor.com

A Low Carb Diet Guide for Beginners – Diet Doctor

In this top low-carb guide, we show you what to eat, what to avoid and how to avoid side effects. Get delicious low-carb recipes and meal plans.
www.dietdoctor.com www.dietdoctor.com
Hope you enjoy improving your health and enjoying some excellent low carb food.
My food today
B two boiled eggs and one keto roll
L sauerkraut and three seeded crackers with piece of gambazola followed by a third of the Keto chef lc cinnamon doughnut I warmed it and loved it shared with OH who loved his two thirds piece! Pic of whole doughnut!
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D salmon with some peas and glass of dry white wine followed by a LC crumble
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Phew! Glad you liked the doughnut. Yes they are 100 gms - the doughnut trays we bought to make our own are small in comparison.
 
Annb said:
I know I said I wouldn't have any more bread, so what did I do this morning? Yup! You guessed it. A thick slice of wholemeal bread, toasted. Idiot! I did take a reasonable amount of insulin to cover it, but really, I mean, how daft can I get? That was how I broke my fast.
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Bread? Did you say bread? It's not doing you any good, you know.
Why not give the rest away? While it's lurking in your fridge, it 'll keep whispering "Eat me, Eat me".
 
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: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Dinner: avocado with prawns, mayo and coleslaw.

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Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, slices of avocado, seasoned with black pepper and a wedge of Berkswell ewe's milk cheese.
Water to swallow tablet.
Double espresso.

L: Packed lunch made with leftover walnut and mushroom nut roast.
Lettuce, Romano peppers, celery sticks and baby plum tomatoes with a dollop of home-made mayonnaise.
Almonds, hazelnuts.
Water to drink.
Strawberries to round off lunch.

Mid-afternoon black filter coffee.

D: Smoked salmon and cream cheese salad made with lettuce, celery, baby plum tomatoes, lemon verbena, salad onions and mustard cress, dressed with olive oil and a touch of lemon juice, topped with toasted pumpkin seeds.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
Welcome @Mazzab64 this thread is a good place to start, there’s are lots of tips and good recipe ideas plus I find that posting my food here daily keeps me accountable ( to myself).
Had a late substantial breakfast of scrambled eggs on toasted SRSLY seedy bread. Then off to watch DIL’s graduation ceremony in Truro Cathedral. A lovely occasion and venue but so cold.
Evening meal in a tapas place nearby: olives, chilli king prawns, braised pigs cheek, lamb with pomegranate seeds& sour cream, some lovely spicy chorizo. Just water to drink. Photo of the lamb dish and some of the prawns. It all arrived in dribs and drabs so couldn’t get a complete photo. IMG_3648.jpg
 
Antje77 said:
I've decided I really like the effect of the cold water swimming (if not on my BG, it's a bit wild too wild for my tastes), so tomorrow I'm gifting myself neoprene socks and gloves, which should make the swimming doable even if the water gets colder than the current 9.5°C! :joyful:
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The neoprene hands and feet will make a big difference. Hope you managed to get some today. I wear the feet even in summer to protect from weaver fish which lurk in the wet sand.
To stay vaguely on topic, I’m now home and have finished eating for today but enjoying a glass of red by the fire.
 
Breakfast was a slice of buttered sourdough toast, and one poached egg.

Coffee with cream x2

Coronation chicken with salad of lettuce, celery, and tomato.

Made mayo for the chicken with grape seed oil, apparently it's as good as olive oil, so I've read, with a lot of vit E. Think I'll be making mayo with grape seed oil from now on as it's much lighter, fluffier and doesn't have any aftertaste like olive oil does. Originally bought grape seed oil for cooking as I've read it's has a high cooking point, and it doesn't smoke or splash (not tried it yet for sauteing).
 
Antje77 said:
tomorrow I'm gifting myself neoprene socks and gloves
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DJC3 said:
The neoprene hands and feet will make a big difference. Hope you managed to get some today. I wear the feet even in summer to protect from weaver fish which lurk in the wet sand.
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Never made it to the neoprene stuff store, or even to breakfast or lunch. (OK, that's me feeling overly sorry for myself, I never have breakfast anyway.)
I had my usual aqua class at 10:30, went to the supermarket afterwards and was really excited to go buy my neoprene self-gifts.
And then my car didn't work anymore.
Usually after getting home from swimming I feed the guinea pigs and rabbits, and have something to eat myself.

If you have to spend an hour and a half waiting for the mechanic to come, in front of a supermarket is not the worst place. They have a toilet (for employees only, but they're a friendly small-town supermarket), and I was lucky to have brought full pot of coffee.
Mechanic came, couldn't solve the problem then and there, so a tow truck was called to bring my car to get hopefully repaired.

I have a subscription type thing for trouble on the road, so the upcoming (hopefully) repairs I'll have to pay for, but the roadside mechanic and tow truck are both within my subscription.
And then I found out my subscription even allows for a couple of days of using a replacement car, I had no idea!

So first I got a ride in the truck to the city with the replacement car (30 minutes), did the paperwork for that and drove to the repair place (another 30 minutes drive).
And then I drove back home (yet another 30 minutes), at which point it was 5:30 and those poor guinea pigs still hadn't had their breakfast.

Neither did I, but it being almost 5, I decided a Belgian beer was called for. Sounds bad if you call it liquid breakfast, sounds pretty good if you call it intermittent fasting or twomad, pick your choice! :hilarious:

Evening meal was the same as yesterday, shawarma with onions, bell pepper, raw endive and a garlicky spicy sauce. Midnight snack of chicory and hummus, and pork scratching with aioli will follow.
Looked the same as yesterday too, so you'll get a pic of my poor car instead.
It seems to be electronically confused and possibly a bit nauseous: if I turn the key, the windshield wipers start to wipe, the headlights go on and no way to turn them off. It even spit out one of my favourite CD's that has been stuck unplayably in the CD player for over 4 years.

The replacement car will have to be returned on monday, in the same city where they sell the neoprene things, and I found a neighbour happy to go with me and get me back home on monday! :joyful:

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What a day @Antje77 . Glad you kept your sense of humour. The electronically muddled car reminds me of the Herbie films, remember them about the VW?

Late last night: cheese and seedy crackers
Which might have been the cause of a bad night's sleep

Skipped breakfast
Dog walk
Pub lunch, shared small starter of chilli squid, then fish pie . Pushed most of the potato and buttery breadcrumb topping to the side. Rest was still very rich and it came with buttered green beans.
Drank only water and a mint tea

7pm. Some leftover frittata with extra cheese and 2 cherry tomatoes. 2 mini gingerbread hearts 30g carbs. Must get out of this tasting Xmas treats habit ASAP.
 
LivingLightly said:
Bread? Did you say bread? It's not doing you any good, you know.
Why not give the rest away? While it's lurking in your fridge, it 'll keep whispering "Eat me, Eat me".
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I only have bread in the house if I've made it for someone else. There wasn't much of it left. It's gone now - in the compost bin. Most things that I make for other people to enjoy I can deal with - usually by getting them out of the house fairly quickly - but that didn't happen this time.

It's ridiculous because I know it harms me - not only long term but the effects are immediate and take a day or so to wear off. Today I got BG under control with the use of a bit extra insulin and I hope that's me back within range now. I've been good today other than the bread and hope not to fall off the wagon too often.
 
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