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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

@Annb your chicken and pork aspic sounds interesting - hope you have felt well enough today to do it. I really dislike frankfurters too - I still remember the disappointment I felt when on a visit to New York years ago, after having been told they were an essential New York experience but made me feel yukky!
@jpscloud I'm looking forward too to when our outdoor plants take off - crossing fingers.... I put some summer bedding in a few pots including cosmos that I grew from seed and I'm just hoping they take. I had to water them in as we only got a very light shower. I also found ants had taken over the very dry compost from last year in some of my pots so had to ditch and replace the last year's compost. I had planned to use again for flowers and put a few plant feed granules in them to support them. Oh well looks like I'll need more compost than planned.
 
Porridge for breakfast, then planning cottage cheese salad for lunch and beef with vegetables and a small portion of cooled and reheated pasta for tea. I have lost about 7 pounds since January and it seems to be a trend, albeit an extremely slow one. I'll take it, I'm grateful that mounjaro seems to be giving me a "normal" appetite after a lifetime of chronic overeating. In July I may get a dose increase to help with further weight loss - I finally have hope that I can get to a point where I don't feel disabled by my weight.

@shelley262 I love cosmos but haven't really had much success with it - my mum used to grow it really well. I'm trying calendula sunset shades and sherbert fizz this year, with lots of nasturtiums to relocate caterpillars to, and plenty of tagetes/french marigolds. It's strange how my colour preferences have changed, I used to avoid orange tones and preferred blue and white flowers but now I am hankering after blazes of orange and apricot!

Hopefully no rain today so I'll get some more garden jobs done. When you grow vegetables it seems there's always more jobs than time, even now I'm retired and (finally) have very few responsibilities to take me away from it!
 
Cooked, chilled and reheated rice with bits and pieces in it for breakfast. Resistant carbs didn't work. BG currently 13.4.

2nd meal: more of the meat and cabbage stew kind of thing.

Currently defrosting the big freezer. It had finally reached the stage where it could be emptied into the big fridge and the 2 small freezers so today it is! Some of what is there I know I won't keep so the load will be less when it goes back on again. Neil reckons we would be better with 2 small freezers to replace the big one and 2 small fridges to replace the big one so that we have more control over the temperatures and make it easier to empty and defrost them when necessary. I'll have to think about that - it looks as though many of he modern ones have internet connections for some unknown reason (other than to enrich Amazon or somesuch organisation, of course). I don't need a fridge or freezer to tell me what I need to buy more of, or to order it for me. I have Neil for that.

It looks as though some kind of fish stew is on the cards. I appear to have packets of white fish, smoked fish, scampi tails, squid rings, small pots of left-over smoked mackerel, prawns, fish fingers - a whole frozen shelf of fish, which was frozen shut so I couldn't get into it to see what was there. I really do have to work out a better way of managing my freezers.

EDIT: just after 5 pm. The freezer sorting operation is done for today. It is now all put back together - apart from the bits and pieces I decided to throw out or cook tomorrow. I have a whole shelf full of soups of various kinds. There must be at least 10 litres of soup on that shelf. Veg shelf is half empty. Meat shelf is about 3/4 full. Baking products almost empty and the last shelf/basket at the bottom has 2 packets of Quorn in it. Not sure if I'll ever use those but at least I can see them now and decide at my leisure.

One of the small freezers to be tackled tomorrow.
 
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Resistant carbs didn't work. BG currently 13.4.
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Ouch! I must do more testing to check mine.
Annb said:
I don't need a fridge or freezer to tell me what I need to buy more of, or to order it for me.
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It's a dystopian nightmare! Well done on all that sorting. Although I do manage to keep on top of using things up, I am a bit disorganised and wish I would keep different foods in their own areas in the freezers like you do, but I end up rummaging around and mixing it all up!

I had porridge for breakfast, corned beef salad for lunch and I'm late coming in from the garden because the cooler weather suits me for getting a lot done so I kept going - now it'll have to be something quick for tea, because I still have to shower and finish changing the bed. Maybe fish fingers and vegetables.
 
BG stayed in the 8's and 9's for most of yesterday (so much for resistant carbs), still 8.9 this morning. Eased down to 8.0 before breakfast.

Breakfast: Egg mayo on RyVita. It was going to be avocado but I'm still waiting for the one Neil bought last week to ripen a bit. I put it in a bowl with some bananas days ago, but it is still almost as solid as a rock.

2nd meal - I still have quite a lot of the meat and cabbage thing that I made a day or so ago, so should have some of that.

Should be doing some cooking today to use some of the things I allowed to defrost yesterday - that was the plan, along with tackling one of the small freezers. Feeling a bit bleeaurgh today though, so I guess that's not going to happen. Probably on my feet too much yesterday. At least that big freezer is in good shape again and the utility floor is lovely and clean with all that melt water having to be mopped up.
 
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