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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Couldn't get to sleep last night. Mulling over a negative fb comment.
Finally dropped off about 4, wake at 8.

B: 2 cold chicken drumsticks
Coffee with a friend

L: 2 more chicken drumsticks . A sq hm lc rhubarb cake with cream. A mini ice cream. A lc hot chocolate with rum.

Very tired so spent afternoon having a quiet day in my favourite chair

D: peppers and courgette airfried with the meat from 2 chicken drumsticks.

(Had bought 2 kg of drumsticks and cooked them so see us through the 3 day weekend, and visitors, but visitors cancelled and I forgot I'd cooked them (the drumsticks that is, not the visitors :p) so they now need eating up)
 
For me, cooking and chilling potato doesn't work. I had the dauphinoise with my 2nd meal and took a fairly large dose of insulin to cover it, but BG still spiked at 15.9. It might work for other people, of course, but I'm not so lucky. I did enjoy the dauphinoise though.
 
Yesterday I had

Bacon and eggs

Sauerkraut followed by egg mayo, cucumber, tomato. May have overdone the sauerkraut (wanted to finish off the tub) as it was followed by explosive toilet visit, oops.

Mozzarella, olives, chorizo plus a handful of cheesy nibbles bought for xmas and now going out of date (that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it)
 
Woke hungry so late breakfast of 3 hard boiled eggs with cream cheese and ham.
Later cwc.
An hours gardening listening to a podcast about being happy. Part was questioning your own "beliefs". Turns out I was believing I needed to garden all day as it never ends. But questioning that belief showed me that today I need to take care of painful knees so I stopped and came inside, initially for an hour, which turned in to 2 as I fell asleep.
Did go outside again to help hubby clear some large pruning.
So quite a bit got done in the garden, and I did self-care too, so yes I have been happier today.
Skipped lunch.
D: preceded by a chunk of manchego as I was hungry an hour before. Then courgette fried in butter with roasted peppers and a little grated cheese. Pud was a (relatively) low carb mango and coconut sorbet.

Thinking about having an alcoholic drink as a "reward". What do you all use as rewards that aren't food or drink?
 
MrsA2 said:
Woke hungry so late breakfast of 3 hard boiled eggs with cream cheese and ham.
Later cwc.
An hours gardening listening to a podcast about being happy. Part was questioning your own "beliefs". Turns out I was believing I needed to garden all day as it never ends. But questioning that belief showed me that today I need to take care of painful knees so I stopped and came inside, initially for an hour, which turned in to 2 as I fell asleep.
Did go outside again to help hubby clear some large pruning.
So quite a bit got done in the garden, and I did self-care too, so yes I have been happier today.
Skipped lunch.
D: preceded by a chunk of manchego as I was hungry an hour before. Then courgette fried in butter with roasted peppers and a little grated cheese. Pud was a (relatively) low carb mango and coconut sorbet.

Thinking about having an alcoholic drink as a "reward". What do you all use as rewards that aren't food or drink?
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My rewards are mostly time for me with my feet up with a really good book or an addictive drama or crime series on catch up I particularly love Scandi crime. There is always so much to do or resolve every day so time out is a real reward. I also love having an Epsom salt foot soak as a reward when relaxing.
 
Antje77 said:
Buying books... :bag:

edit: way too many books. Or cool mugs at the thrift store. I do not need more than my current 30 or so mugs in a one person household.
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I also love books but buy only a few new - I try and find good ones in charity shops, and donate my read ones back, and also visit the local library - feel a second hand book hunt becoming part of my plan for tomorrow.
 
shelley262 said:
feel a second hand book hunt becoming part of my plan for tomorrow.
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Enjoy!

I'm working tomorrow so I am a bit envious.
Charity shops are wonderful for surprise finds, but even if I'm searching for a specific book I can usually find it second hand online.

I'll be receiving a 40 euro gift card in the near future for participating in some study, so I'm allowed to think about books I want to buy now. :happy:
Well deserved too, it's a study on diabetes and sleep or tiredness, and it involves a long questionnaire at the start and the end, and ten days of filling out a short questionnare first thing in the morning and before bed. Pretty annoying, but it helps someone to finish university, and I get to spend a whole 40 euros on whatever. :joyful:

I'll have a long week on the bridge, stsrting tomorrow. Three days, one day off and then another three days. So after my mornig swim around the corner, and the aqua thing in the swimming pool with a friend, I went for groceries for a week and prepared food to be had on the bridge.
I think my meatloaf has turned out very tasty (good thing I like spicy food though :hilarious:), and I'm curious how my cauliflower cheese wil fare in the microwave.
I've also bought everything for another three days of food to be cooked on saturday.
I did steal my neighbour's garlic, mine had gone soft. So I'll either have to buy him garlic during my break tomorrow or I'll have to send him a text message to warn him he has very little garlic left.

Today was an easy meal of a leftover half fish thing from Aldi and leftover mozzarella with tomatoes.

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Annb said:
Quite a lot of veg and gravy left from the tagine, but no chicken. I'll hunt around and see what I can add to that for a 2nd meal today. Maybe some lowish carb pasta will do the job.
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Well - that wasn't a good idea. BG has stuck between 10 and 13 since late afternoon. In fact, it hasn't been in target for days now. Maybe even the low carb pasta is not low enough. I'm back to taking 20+ units of insulin before any meal, and it still isn't working. Currently 10.6. I'm not going to take a correction dose though - not sure what it will do during the night.
 
Breakfast was chocolate cream (double cream and cocoa powder) with a few raspberries on top. Took 20 units of Humalog beforehand to try to keep the BG down. Shouldn't really have needed any insulin for that, but BG is already above target so I'm taking a guess at how much I might need.

Soup making day today for guests on Friday morning. Two soups - leek and potato for vegetarians and MIL's lamb broth for carnivores. I'll have some of the broth for my 2nd meal.

I poached a chicken yesterday afternoon to have some cold chicken and some chicken stock for another soup, another time but I used a lot of water in a very big pot so it was pretty heavy and hard work to get it from the prep area to the hob and it exhausted me. I sat to recover, went to sleep and when I woke up, couldn't move. Result, the chicken was cooked for too long and was falling apart. Alright for the stock, but the resulting chicken is quite dry. It will have to be some kind of creamed chicken dish to moisten it a bit and make it fit to eat. Currently cooking the stock down to reduce it to half its volume.
 
Pilates class online
B: 10% fat greek yoghurt with milled seeds and raspberries. 1 hard boiled egg

Visit to a lovely garden, splendid rhododendrons. Splendid cafe. Watched hubby eat a brie and cranberry croissant (ugh!) And a piece of blackberry and apple cake. I had 2 bites of the latter. A pot of tea.

2 hours gentle gardening

D: Hubby cooked!!!! Cottage pie with celeriac mash topping. Broccoli and cauliflower. Had seconds :hungry:
Chia pudding made with yoghurt and raspberries. Topped with a little 85% chopped chocolate.

Off to a meeting. Might be cake...
 
Breakfast: Raspberry butter on Matzos (need to use the berries up before they go off)

2nd meal: Chicken mayo with some salady things - depends on what Neil can get.

I'll finish off those soups when I get back from getting my legs bandaged, energy or not. They have to be finished today.

EDIT: back now (got home at 11.45 - very quick work on the part of the nurse). 2nd soup just finishing - it should have been lamb based but then I thought "Why not use the chicken and chicken stock - it's there ready to go." That's what I did, using vegetables that Neil bought today. MIL always insisted that her broth wasn't the same without parsnip, so he got some and a swede - neither of which were available in the Co-op on Tuesday. In fact, he says that very little was available in the Co-op, just a store full of empty shelves. Wonder if that's something to do with the cyber attack we're hearing about. Tesco seemed to have no problems today.
 
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Am trying g to implement earlier and longer sleep times. Waking twice in the night last night didn't help, but at least I went back to sleep.

Think I might have a head cold starting, bad headache all day today and yesterday, now nose and throat joining in.

10:00 2 scrambled eggs on some nice ham. Cwc
Double dance class
14:00 a tin of tuna, added mayo and cucumber. Chia pudding and mini icecream.
Felt rough so went to bed for 2 hours!
17:30 chunk cheese
18:00 glass of red at a meeting
19:30 mince leftover from yesterday.
 
Annb said:
In fact, he says that very little was available in the Co-op, just a store full of empty shelves. Wonder if that's something to do with the cyber attack we're hearing about. Tesco seemed to have no problems today.
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My daughter in London also reported that her Co-op had no veg on Saturday. I think M&S are still not back to normal after their cyberattack either. Let's hope things get sorted soon!

Yesterday I had:

Sausage & eggs

Chilli prawns, some feta and kale pie and a tomato followed by sausages in onion gravy with broccoli and peas

Anchovies and lettuce, cherry yogurt
 
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