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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Thursday 21 March - bed 7.7 FBG 7.5. Dropped into the low 5's for most of today. Got grandson to do creative writing today. It was surprisingly good. He has an imaginative mind for sci-fi or futuristic scenarios. His Business assignment was great too - Economics, one of my specialities, but he didn't need my help!

B. Which ran into lunch, TAG, 2 slices of SRSLY toast with pate, Benecol dairy free.

L. See B.

D. Same as yesterday as I had chilli left. LC wrap, beef chilli, smashed avocado, sour cream, cheese, salsa, lettuce, tomato. I did have a GF taco shell too. Half scoop of Halo Top with raspberries. Gin and soda.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Talking about Leeuwarden reminds me of the wonderful time I lived in Nederland. I moved to a farm just outside Leeuwarden in 1959 to live with my Dutch fiance's parents. I lived and helped on the farm for 3 months and learned to speak Dutch, then moved to Heemstede near Haarlem to work as a Nanny. We married in the town hall there and later moved to Amersfoort. I cherish the 2 years I spent there. Back to the food. I have beef stew today and enough for tomorrow for both my granddaughter and me. I have ham, eggs, beetroot, cottage cheese and salad for tea.
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You must have lived very close to where I live!
I live where the green X is. :)

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Coffee and cream.
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Cheese and tomato
Corned Beef and tomato
Another bit of cheese
Smoked Salmon
 
Beautiful spring day and my tulips are putting on a good show so decided on a new tulip avatar.
First thing small kefir with supplements before heading out
Lunchtime small portion of kimchi then two eggs scrambled and served on LC toast followed by rhubarb and hm yoghurt
Dinner salmon and delicious but eye watering expensive early English asparagus from local farm shop. Then LC brownie and decaffeinated coffee.
 
shelley262 said:
Deliberately didn't check it would probably have had an impact but was a treat - I normally stick to black - and had only had kefir and nuts until the coffee in the afternoon so felt I had some leeway. I knew too my only proper meal was going to be late.
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Good idea not to check. If you’ve given yourself permission to go a bit off piste it’s best to just enjoy it. I bet it was delicious.
 
A black coffee first thing then a long dog walk. Strained latest batch of yoghurt ( I like the texture when it’s almost solid and it’s kinder to my BG levels plus Dennis likes the whey) made more sauerkraut and bottled latest batch of red cabbage&ginger.
L- airfried belly pork. Some Brie and ‘pickled’ cauliflower. An odd combo but suited me at the time. Choc chia pud to follow.
Granddaughters staying this weekend so made one of their favourite meals for dinner. As luck would have it, it’s a DD recipe! https://eatapp.page.link/jPjhoM2mQwe7x6YJ8
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Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a H&B protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: Tomato, cheese and mushroom LC pizza accompanied by coleslaw.

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Couldn't get to sleep last night as was really hungry!
Tossed and turned until i got about 4 hours sleep
B: a 90 bread with marmite and cheese, a few nuts. 2 cwc. Think there was something else but can't remember what!
Early afternoon a dgf lemon cake with a cup of tea.
D: fat head pizza with chorizo. A small ice cream ( get 6-10 portions out of 500g pot)
 
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Annb said:
Best part about the hotel was the breakfast. I'd never seen bread and chocolate for breakfast and thought it a wonderful invention of the Dutch.
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Goodness @Annb, that phobia took hold early in life. For me, the spiders would have been at least as interesting as the breakfast, but we won't go there.

Now you mention it, I remember a school friend returned from a stay with her Dutch relatives and talked enthusiastically about chocolate with bread and butter for breakfast with cheese and cocoa to drink. In 60s England, even the inclusion of cheese, never mind chocolate at breakfast time, sounded revolutionary to English schoolchildren!
 
Antje77 said:
Bread and chocolate sprinkles are still a very common breakfast in the Netherlands for both children and adults. Any hotel in the Netherlands will have sprinkles right next to the peanut butter, jam, and cheese to put on your bread. It tastes especially good on fluffy white bread with a generous amount of butter, haven't had it in at least 10 years though.
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How interesting! @Antje77 It's good to know that uniquely Dutch tradition has persisted.
 
maglil55 said:
@filly - we get Mrs Elwood's Haimisha gherkins. Tesco always seem to have them, as do most of the big supermarkets. It does say they should be eaten in a ridiculously short time once opened, but both my DIL and I ignore that. We keep them in the fridge, they're pickled, and we still use them a couple of weeks later with no I'll effects. Note: it has to be the Haimisha one. They have a straight Mrs Elwood's but that's packed with sugars.View attachment 66862View attachment 66863
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Thanks for the tip @maglil55!
 
Evening all,

Today:

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter and avocado, seasoned with black pepper and a wedge of Teifi
(unpasteurised cow's milk cheese from Wales}.
Water to swallow tablet.
Double espresso.

L: Packed lunch made with leftover mushroom and spinach frittata
Celery sticks and baby plum tomatoes with chicory boats for scooping and a dollop of home-made mayonnaise for dipping.
Prawns and brown shrimps.
Almonds, hazelnuts and pecans.
Water to drink.

Mid-afternoon:black filter coffee

D: Smoked salmon and cream cheese salad made with lettuce, celery, baby plum tomatoes, salad onions, Halkidiki olives and Romano peppers, dressed with olive oil, lemon verbena and a touch of lemon juice, topped with walnut halves.
Water to wash down tablets.
 
Tried to do this as a reply to your post about the position of your home on the map but, as usual it won't let me do it.

@Antje77, do you happen to know where the shipyard to which Tom's ship went for dry docking would have been? It wouldn't have been far from Leeurwarden.

Early start today because I have a lemon cake to finish and some coconut and raspberry buns to finish. Dhal is finished and ready to go.

Breakfast will be bacon and eggs with some fried tomato.

I'll prepare a snack box to take out with me just in case BG drops too low during the day (h/b egg, ham, cheese and slices of cold sausage with some cucumber with a couple of oatcakes if I need to stop the drop).

2nd meal will be lamb steak with leeks - assuming that I am fit to cook when I get back home.
 
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Morning all, back from a lovely break in Belgium. Stayed pretty much on track all week, couple of blips with a handful of frites and a tiny piece of croissant. Few glasses of red wine, lots of walking, feeling good. Hope all doing well.
Yesterday, travelling day
B Yog, blueberries,keto granola
L Cheese and ham salad and then a Kind bar stuck in traffic jam on M25
D Scrambled eggs,avocado, mushrooms, livlife toast
 
Annb said:
@Antje77, do you happen to know where the shipyard to which Tom's ship went for dry docking would have been? It wouldn't have been far from Leeurwarden.
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Hard to say. There are and have been quite a lot of shipyards in and around Leeuwarden, it's close to the seaport of Harlingen.

Very odd day yesterday, foodwise.
I only started getting hungry late afternoon, but my BG was stobbornly on the highish side all day. So I decided to dose, finish a fence I'm adjusting while waiting for the insulin to start working, and eat something once I'd started to drop.
Not very good thinking of course, because once I was busy with the fence, I wanted to finish it first and predictably more or less forgot about the insulin I had injected.

Still, I managed to finish it, and caught the hypo at 3.7 so I had a winegum to treat.
By that time it was 6 pm, and I was more interested in a beer than in a sandwich, and the beer just happens to need about the same amount of insulin as a slice of LC bread, so hey ho.
Went to my neighbour for a second and a third beer, we both ate a sausage he had left over from the day before, then we shared the meat I had left over from the restaurant meal the day before, and then we had another beer and a glass of vodka and went to bed.

So I guess that was an accidental OMAD, keto, carnivore and low calorie day (if you ignore the beer and that one winegum)! :hilarious:
BG has been on the slightly higher side for the past couple of days, so for the first time since going on the Libre I turned off my phone for the night and took a break from diabetes to spare Tale and myself from annoying alarms.
I was reasonably sure I wouldn't go too low, and reasonably sure I wouldn't go ridulously high, considering the food I had, but it felt very much YOLO! :cool:

Twice in the few times I've spent the night with him we've been having those alarms all night, once because of a badly calibrated sensor and once because of recurring lows, so it was bliss to go to sleep knowing no alarms would happen. Tale asked twice if I was completely sure, and to not turn off my phone because of him, which I found rather touching.

Now I'm going to check how my kefir is doing, it should have been ready yesterday but then things happened and I wasn't home to do something with it.

edit: Woke up with a lovely 4.5, and a cup of coffee in the sun in the garden. What a good way to start the day!
 
Antje77 said:
Hard to say. There are and have been quite a lot of shipyards in and around Leeuwarden, it's close to the seaport of Harlingen.
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Harlingen sounds familiar. Maybe it was there.

Just back from the children's party and exhausted. Didn't need the box of food I'd taken "just in case" so will probably have that instead of the lamb for my 2nd meal. Then I can keep the lamb for tomorrow.
 
Hungry day today so just went with it
Breakfast small kefir then two boiled eggs and LC roll
Lunch small portion of kimchi, two bits of cheese and five LC seeded crackers, then rhubarb and hm yoghurt then half a small lc Easter egg
Dinner hm curry and LC roti with coriander with a gin with soda water then LC chocolate brownie.
 
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