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Susikav said:
That sounds amazing... Are we allowed gram flour then? Cool... :)
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If you've not had it before, please test your blood sugars and see if you can have it.

Gram flour actually reduces my bs and never increases them but we're all different.
 
Rose28 said:
I make this sauce quite often as my whole family are vegetarian and it goes down a treat. I use extra strong chedder and mustard.

Im curious as to why "a splash of malt vinegar?" I've never used vinegar in a sauce before, what am I missing? :rolleyes:
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Sounds yummy I love cauliflower cheese but have never been able to make a good cheese sauce without using flour or cornflower as a thickner
 
This morning was the usual. Sunny side eggs and bacon.

Realized something as well this morning.

Background info......When my sister upgraded her kitchen, she gifted me her old fridge, which now resides in our basement to hold extras from our Costco size shopping. Our usual shopping list includes bacon....since my wife joined me on the LCHF diet, the house hold consumption is pretty high compared to before. When we purchase a new 4 pack at a Costco trip, it ends up in the basement fridge.

This morning on heading down a grabbing a pack for the kitchen fridge......it dawned on me..."We have a bacon drawer in the fridge.....with just bacon....up to 6kg at any one time in inventory".

How life has changed........ A dedicated bacon drawer...... :-)
 
Brunneria said:
Two and a half years ago, when I was basically living on green smoothies for brekkie and lunch, (then eating whatever I felt like all evening, which kind of sabotaged things a tad) I used to add
  • Powdered spirulina
  • MSM
  • Powdered barley or wheatgrass
  • Hemp oil or cocobutter
  • Raw cacao nibs
It was a very interesting experiment.
Even though I didn't know I was doing an experiment.

I started with the green smoothies.
Felt great.
Felt so fantastic in fact that I felt justified in easing off the low carbing and started eating 'normal low GI foods' every evening.
Lost a tiny bit of weight (cos It was still too many carbs for me, in the evening)
Still felt great.
Kept it up for (about 15 months)
Eventually stopped with the green smoothies when the autumn arrived, and I fell in love with hot breakfasts again.
Kept up with the low GI, 3x a day :nailbiting:
Within 6 weeks I had a terrible cough which turned into my first ever chest infection. Lost weight. Felt like death. Eventually had a humungous course of antibiotics and took weeks to recover.

I think I slipped into diabetes during the smoothie/'normal food' era, but had no problems, because to smoothies kept me steady, fuelled and well. Even though the 'low GI' foods must have been spiking me hugely, each evening. But the D effects hit as within weeks of stopping the smoothies => chest infection.

Unfortunately, I didn't have a meter at the time. Wish I had. Might have saved me from some painful lessons! It's been low carbing ever since.

Does that make sense?
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Amazing... :)
 
Rose28 said:
Here's one of many variations of my delicious green smoothie.

Anti inflammatory Pineapple, Almond, Green Smoothie

1 cup of almond milk or coconut water
1 cup fresh or frozen pineapple
Handful of spinach
Handful of kale, stalks removed as they can be bitter
1/2 courgette
1/2 dessert spoon each of chia seeds, flaxseeds and coconut oil
1 inch piece of ginger
Pinch of cinnamon

Add liquid to blender, top up with rest of ingredients and blend for about 45 seconds or until smooth. Timing will depend on your type of blender.
I love cold smoothies so I usually add a few ice cubes into the glass

Enjoy
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It sounds perfect, thank you... :)
 
DeejayR said:
B: Cheese & mushroom 2-egg omelette with extra butter
L: Leftover butternut squash & beef mince bake
D: Cauliflower cheese with bacon, broccoli & cabbage (white sauce made with buckwheat flour)
The last one spiked me from 5.8 to 7.5 in two hours, drat it. Too much skim milk in the sauce I guess.
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It was probably the buckwheat... can't do grains... make your cheese sauce with an egg yolk, cream and creme fraiche... much nicer too... :) plenty of English mustard and, indeed, a splash of apple cider vinegar... oh, and a grating of fresh nutmeg... lush...
 
Rose28 said:
Im the same when I open a can, I never can use it all... This is much better

So how much of powder do you think I should add to a glass of water, to make coconut milk? About 1 tablespoon or is that too much? :rolleyes:
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Like the lady said, just add a bit till it tastes right... :)
 
Rose28 said:
If you've not had it before, please test your blood sugars and see if you can have it.

Gram flour actually reduces my bs and never increases them but we're all different.
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Thank you Rose... I will definitely try it - and I always test new food... it sounds lovely... :)
 
Brunneria said:
Test, test, test!

(I can only do pulses and legumes in small quantities...)
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I think me too really, but it will not hurt me to try... I've been leaving so much stuff out for fear of a spike... time to test all sorts I think... :)
 
Susikav said:
It was probably the buckwheat... can't do grains... make your cheese sauce with an egg yolk, cream and creme fraiche... much nicer too... :) plenty of English mustard and, indeed, a splash of apple cider vinegar... oh, and a grating of fresh nutmeg... lush...
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As it happens, I'm making a cider, mustard and cream sauce to go with roast pork tonight. Buckwheat is fine for me -- it's related to sorrel and rhubarb and isn't a grain as in grass. We shall see in a due course what it does!

*edit* 5.7 before, 5.5 two hours after. So buckwheat is fine but no more skim milk sauces. Plus I think I'll stop having full cream milk in my coffee, since I drink a lot.
 
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DeejayR said:
As it happens, I'm making a cider, mustard and cream sauce to go with roast pork tonight. Buckwheat is fine for me -- it's related to sorrel and rhubarb and isn't a grain as in grass. We shall see in a due course what it does!
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Sounds gorgeous... I cannot do buckwheat sadly... :( Buckwheat pancakes are really good... Soy flour works with some things though...
 
Fasting glucose 10 today, that's better than yesterday.
Greek yogurt, blueberries
Green tea (yuk!)
Mozzarella balls, toms and basil
Scrambled eggs, chipolatas, mushrooms, watercress
2 cups of tea
Lots of water
starving! I think I need to balance the calories at each meal a bit more? Oh and not enough veg!

Back to work tomorrow after 4 weeks off with a disc problem, diabetes was identified during this sick period, so not had to organise work meals/day yet. feeling a bit apprehensive.
 
B - 3x bacon, a poached egg, 6 mushrooms and a grilled Tomato
L - Normandy pork with spring greens
D - flak 9 bar, mini bag of pork scratching and jelly and cream
S - handful of cashews
 
Seeing posts about pancakes reminded me I have had banana pancakes, obviously I have been reading that some people can't tolerate bananas well, but for those of you who can:-
2 eggs
1 banana
Blend and cook thin as normal pancake, maybe in butter as it tastes better than olive oil.
Great with cinnamon and Greek yogurt.
This is one portion, I think that it could be enough for two people.
Really yummy.
 
Tonight i really enjoyed my roast gammon with loads of roast veg. I did celeriac, parsnip, carrot, sweet potato, sprouts and courgette. I did enough to reheat with some of the left over gammon tomorrow night. Was very nice.
 
Avocado Sevenfold said:
OK lol here goes. I base the cheese sauce on this recipe

http://divaliciousrecipes.com/2013/05/22/cauliflower-cheese-with-stilton-and-walnuts/#more-5777

No need to grill it or add nuts, just make the cheese sauce in a wide pan and beat it all together with a balloon whisk. Easy peasy.

For posh sauce, I use Wensleydale and Dijon mustard.

For less posh, I use cheddar, English mustard and a splash of malt vinegar.
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Just read that recipe, I'm drooling! Fat Heaven!
 
Suzuka said:
Hi new to this site but can't believe how these threads have helped me. Was getting very upset this morning about what I can and cannot eat, driving my husband to distraction. Blood glucose levels up and down like a lift in a skyscraper at the moment and trying to work out what's doing it!!! Really interested and grateful for the ideas on the site. Please share the recipe for the white sauce. Thanks to all for the calming effect these ideas have had and I don't feel so abandoned, flailing around in the dark. Looking forward to doing the shopping now ha ha
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Hi Suzuka, I think you'll find the forum really helpful: I have found it eyeopening to say the least :wideye: Just think of all the lovely things you can eat, not the things you can't :-) Good luck!
 
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