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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)
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shelley262
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Today's main meal was leftover roast chicken with salad and coleslaw. I had the same yesterday but instead of coleslaw I had a few hm pre cooked new potato chips. @DJC3 well done on your potato experiment. One tip I'd add is to prepare your potatoes well ahead so you can open freeze the potatoes in chip and\or roastie shapes after cooling. I then cook from frozen - this increases the resistant starch but also means that they can be kept in freezer and rationed so limiting carbs by restricting amount cooked. I mainly use goose or duck fat but sometimes olive oil.
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LivingLightly
Expert
Is anything in particular preventing you from having this at home sometimes? @PenguinMum.
Eggs cooked any way you like them with mushrooms and a tomato make a nourishing and diabetic friendly start to the day, especially in these unseasonably cold temperatures.
LivingLightly
Expert
Evening all
Today:
B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, avocado and crevettes, seasoned with freshly ground black pepper.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.
L. Cheese-crusted omelette stuffed with mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, spinach, oregano and cream cheese plus grated Cheddar cheese for the crust.
Steamed French beans and mangetout smothered with butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.
D: Seafood salad made with brown shrimps, mussels, shredded red cabbage, apple peel, celery, thyme and baby plum tomatoes with a dollop of aioli for dipping, topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to wash down tablets.
Today:
B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, avocado and crevettes, seasoned with freshly ground black pepper.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.
L. Cheese-crusted omelette stuffed with mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, spinach, oregano and cream cheese plus grated Cheddar cheese for the crust.
Steamed French beans and mangetout smothered with butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.
D: Seafood salad made with brown shrimps, mussels, shredded red cabbage, apple peel, celery, thyme and baby plum tomatoes with a dollop of aioli for dipping, topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to wash down tablets.
I love a corned beef hash made with Cauli rice 
@IanBish
Today’s food:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: bacon melts with runner beans and cauliflower.
Edit for typo and to add a tag!
@IanBishToday’s food:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: bacon melts with runner beans and cauliflower.
Edit for typo and to add a tag!
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Not been able to eat much at all last few days. Mainly dry low carb toast, black coffee and peppermint tea.
Today I tried a new (for me) breakfast, SRSLY low carb cinnamon breakfast cereal with almond milk. Have been missing breakfast cereal and thought this was worth a try. Crunch was right, but it tasted far too sweet for my sophisicated palate.
Today I tried a new (for me) breakfast, SRSLY low carb cinnamon breakfast cereal with almond milk. Have been missing breakfast cereal and thought this was worth a try. Crunch was right, but it tasted far too sweet for my sophisicated palate.
shelley262
Expert
main meal Made a pizza with a low carb base - topping passata, chicken and Serrano ham with cheese. Served with salad. Shared pizza with OH.
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: creamy garlic prawns with sliced sautéed courgettes.
Late morning: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: creamy garlic prawns with sliced sautéed courgettes.
LivingLightly
Expert
Evening all
Today:
B: Two poached eggs smothered with butter and avocado seasoned with black pepper plus a wedge of Teifi (pronounced Tavey)
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.
L: Wild Alaskan salmon baked with calabrese, chestnut mushrooms, double cream and lemon verbena.
Steamed samphire and mangetout with a knob of butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.
D Seafood salad using tiger prawns, brown shrimps, rocket, baby plum tomatoes, celery, Romano peppers, cucumber, Halkidiki olives and salad onions, dressed with an olive oil, balsamic and garlic vinaigrette, topped with toasted pistachio nuts.
Water to wash down tablets.
Today:
B: Two poached eggs smothered with butter and avocado seasoned with black pepper plus a wedge of Teifi (pronounced Tavey)
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.
L: Wild Alaskan salmon baked with calabrese, chestnut mushrooms, double cream and lemon verbena.
Steamed samphire and mangetout with a knob of butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.
D Seafood salad using tiger prawns, brown shrimps, rocket, baby plum tomatoes, celery, Romano peppers, cucumber, Halkidiki olives and salad onions, dressed with an olive oil, balsamic and garlic vinaigrette, topped with toasted pistachio nuts.
Water to wash down tablets.
DJC3
Master
I’m not keen on the texture of frozen spuds. They always seem a little grainy to me, plus open freezing roasties for 8 or 9 people ( my usual Sunday lunch number) wouldn’t fit in my freezer! Refrigerating overnight coated in lard worked well though. They were super crispy and the small rise in BG was possibly a lot to do with the great pile of cabbage and cauli cheese I had too!
I’ll definitely do it again, so thanks very much for the heads up on resistant carbs.
DJC3
Master
Small handful of nuts around 6am to take tablets.
Proper breakfast of cheese omelette around 10am
Lunch l/c toast with h/m mackerel pate.
Dinner/tea/general evening nibbling over a few hours after a bitty, busy day included Brie, cheddar, more nuts, slice of pork, slice of beef, 85% chocolate, several cups of tea with milk.
Tomorrow I hope to be a little more organised.
Proper breakfast of cheese omelette around 10am
Lunch l/c toast with h/m mackerel pate.
Dinner/tea/general evening nibbling over a few hours after a bitty, busy day included Brie, cheddar, more nuts, slice of pork, slice of beef, 85% chocolate, several cups of tea with milk.
Tomorrow I hope to be a little more organised.
PenguinMum
Expert
Only the fact that someone other than me cooked it and served it and washed up afterwards! I always associate cooked brekkie with being away.
So Tuesday usual brekkie of slice LC toast, copious tea.
Lunch was egg mayo with home grown lettuce leaves.
Supper was chicken breast fillet with a Brazilian rub (chilli, lime, coconut) ? from the farm shop baked on a bed of peppers from a jar that were going out of date. Also did cauli rice but it was too much and didn’t eat it all. Wrong accompaniment should have just baked a few spears of asparagus alongside.
RosemaryJackson
Well-Known Member
Yesterday I had bacon, sausage, eggs and a slice of well buttered toast for lunch and a prawn cocktail with salad for tea. Not sure about todays food yet.
shelley262
Expert
@ziggy_w lovely to see you liking posts here - you are a much missed contributor to this thread. I felt really happy to see your name in my likes list and invoked some lovely memories.
Had a lovely pasta bake for my main meal using the low carb pasta pictured above - I cook 50g of dry pasta for two of us so my pasta portion pictured is 2.25 g of carbs. I also soak the pasta in boiling water for a couple of hours and then rinse to get rid of any starch before adding into the mince Bolognese and then cooking further to allow flavours to mingle.
Had a lovely pasta bake for my main meal using the low carb pasta pictured above - I cook 50g of dry pasta for two of us so my pasta portion pictured is 2.25 g of carbs. I also soak the pasta in boiling water for a couple of hours and then rinse to get rid of any starch before adding into the mince Bolognese and then cooking further to allow flavours to mingle.
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and another carb killa bar.
Dinner: cheese, mushroom and tomato omelette.
Late morning: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and another carb killa bar.
Dinner: cheese, mushroom and tomato omelette.
DJC3
Master
Oh goodness @ziggy_w how lovely to see you back - thanks for being eagle eyed Shelley262!
I’m going to copy your tip re putting the pasta in boiling water for a couple of hours first. I’ve used this pasta but thought it was quite tough even after cooking for twice the length of time of normal pasta. I expect soaking it would also make it softer as well as helping to get rid of some of the extra starch in the rinsing water.
DJC3
Master
Pre breakfast few nuts and pills.
Breakfast soft boiled eggs on SRSLY toast.
Lunch h/m mackerel pate with a few h/m seedy crackers
Dinner Goulash with green beans.
I’ve been listening to Chris van Tulleken’s Ultra processed People on Audible recently ( I know a couple of others on here have read it) it’s only just dawned on me that SRSLY bread is actually an ultra processed food. I only really paid attention to the carb count originally. I have a freezer full to use up but there will be no more after that.
Breakfast soft boiled eggs on SRSLY toast.
Lunch h/m mackerel pate with a few h/m seedy crackers
Dinner Goulash with green beans.
I’ve been listening to Chris van Tulleken’s Ultra processed People on Audible recently ( I know a couple of others on here have read it) it’s only just dawned on me that SRSLY bread is actually an ultra processed food. I only really paid attention to the carb count originally. I have a freezer full to use up but there will be no more after that.
