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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

shelley262 said:
I almost felt chilly on my early morning garden inspection!
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Me too, early watering was distinctly chilly! Lovely cool morning here, I will be getting some jobs done today although it's going to be warmer later so I'll try to get things done early. I always think when the weather is just right I'm going to sit under the garden umbrella and sip coffee watching the birds, insects and gentle breeze in the trees... but I rarely actually do that, there's always urgent jobs pulling me away :hilarious:

Porridge for breakfast, tuna salad for lunch with some fried courgettes and chicken with runner beans and resistant starch rice from the freezer with fried courgettes for tea. Courgettes are featuring heavily now!

It's 24c in the house this morning and I actually feel a little chilly - normally even in winter my house feels too warm at 20c.
 
Breakfast was sausages, black pudding and fried eggs. Coffee. Usually that would be fine, but soon afterwards I started feeling pretty awful for a while. It may, or may not, have been the breakfast.

I had a visitor while I was feeling bad and she stayed to make sure I was alright. Eventually I felt better and we had a cup of coffee and she had the coffee cake I made yesterday (and took some of it home with her, so it must have been OK).

May not have a 2nd meal today.
 
How strange to look out of the window and celebrate a bit of cloud cover today! It got far too warm yesterday after midday, the clouds disappeared and I had to abandon my garden jobs. I think the sun is coming out again today so it'll probably just be watering and harvesting and anything really urgent again this morning.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and chicken with garden vegetables for tea.
 
@jpscloud with you on the cloud celebration would be even better if they produced some rain! Sun when it emerges is so strong - it was way too hot yesterday as the day went on.
A few raspberries are ripening everyday just now so adding them to my morning low carb granola - puts carbs up but a bit irresistible straight from the garden.
Salad leaves and herbs will also feature in my salad lunch and for dinner I'm planning chicken fajitas in a low carb wrap served with salad. I'm also harvesting a few tomatoes a day to add to my salads.
 
Just had a small slice of soda bread with butter and coffee for breakfast.

There's tomato and lentil soup for later.

Cloudy here, and not particularly warm. Not actually raining but it has been damp since yesterday morning. No actual precipitation, but just that kind of fine sense of dampness in the air and a line of drips hanging from the guttering and railings.
 
I had a bowl of the lentil soup earlier today and it was enough to keep me going until the morning but I am going to make meatballs in tomato sauce ready for tomorrow. I don't expect to feel much like making an evening meal tomorrow - I have a late appointment with the Medical Consultant at the hospital in Stornoway and expect to be pretty worn out. He's not going to be happy - he wanted me to go onto one of those weight loss drugs to stop me putting on weight but the diabetes nurses won't recommend or prescribe it and the weight is still piling on because I can't move enough to burn off the little that I do eat.
 
Annb said:
I had a bowl of the lentil soup earlier today and it was enough to keep me going until the morning but I am going to make meatballs in tomato sauce ready for tomorrow. I don't expect to feel much like making an evening meal tomorrow - I have a late appointment with the Medical Consultant at the hospital in Stornoway and expect to be pretty worn out. He's not going to be happy - he wanted me to go onto one of those weight loss drugs to stop me putting on weight but the diabetes nurses won't recommend or prescribe it and the weight is still piling on because I can't move enough to burn off the little that I do eat.
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Good luck with your hospital appointment tomorrow and hope that he'll be able to move things forward.
 
Another gardener here. Just resorted to covering my fruit cage with old bed sheets and net curtains to give shade. Then put all my various pots in there too. That way one sprinkler does the lot. Fingers crossed no hose pipe ban yet.
However certain shrubs are wilting, including the common rhododendron and some special ones. Rest of the garden is definitely dying off but I can't water it all. A winter flowering clematis that scrambles through an otherwise plain cotoneaster looks particularly shrivelled, as does some ivy.
We're about to head away for a week, no rain forecast so dread to think what we will come back to.
 
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