What have you eaten today?

[Sable_Jan]

I cannot... I love quinoa but all that stuff there spikes me badly... Except xanthan!! back to the coconut flour and almond cakes...

Does even soya flour spike you?

 

[Sable_Jan]

Breakfast: My usual porridge mix with soya milk
Dinner: 2 egg omelette with 3 large tomatoes and cheese, piece of low GI/GL ginger cake
Tea: Fried onion & quorn strips with sprouts and cauliflower
2 soya lattes

 

[Brunneria]

Does even soya flour spike you?

Soya spikes me. . All pulses do.
I have to keep off all pulses, grains and starchy veg.
Which means all baking has to be with just nut flours.

 

[Sable_Jan]

Soya spikes me. . All pulses do.
I have to keep off all pulses, grains and starchy veg.
Which means all baking has to be with just nut flours.

That must be really difficult for you . What other nut flours can you get? I've only seen the almond. Lots of various grains plus chick pea flour I've got to try...

 

[Brunneria]

Coconut and almond are the nut flours I use.

But then I very rarely bake.

Am I right that you are prediabetic? Cos it's a very different ball game.

Being this low carb (usually 20-40g carbs or less a day) means that I have very little interest/tolerance for anything sweet. Your tastes adjust quite quickly. Even milk tastes like it has been sweetened. Normal cakes and deserts taste vile to me now.

When I do bake, I use erythritol, which is much less sweet than sugar, and even then I reduce the 'sugar' quantities.

Of course the huge benefit is that EVERYTHING tastes more intense.
It was like waking up my taste buds after decades of them being half asleep.

 

[pavlovsdog]

B. Egg, bacon and sausage.
L. Chicken, cauli and butternut squash mash, peas and carrots. Bg pist 2h 6.4
D. Coffee n cream, small bar 85% choc

Oooo that's not much, aren't you hungry?

 

[Sable_Jan]

Coconut and almond are the nut flours I use.

But then I very rarely bake.

Am I right that you are prediabetic? Cos it's a very different ball game.

Being this low carb (usually 20-40g carbs or less a day) means that I have very little interest/tolerance for anything sweet. Your tastes adjust quite quickly. Even milk tastes like it has been sweetened. Normal cakes and deserts taste vile to me now.

When I do bake, I use erythritol, which is much less sweet than sugar, and even then I reduce the 'sugar' quantities.

Of course the huge benefit is that EVERYTHING tastes more intense.
It was like waking up my taste buds after decades of them being half asleep.[/QUOTE ]

Of course, I have coconut flour too. Wasn't thinking of it in terms of nut doh!!

I don't bake a lot as there is just me - kids and grandkids visit but my tastes are not theirs..... I've found that normal cake or biscuit if I've pinched a bit are too sweet.....not as I remembered them. I also find parsnips carrots and sweet potato really sweet too - but then I always have......my recipes have always had less sugar than the original.....

Yes, prediabetic down to "normal" HbA1c which I realise is probably why I can tolerate that bit more carbs

 

[Brunneria]

Wow, normal blood sugars? Well done.
No wonder you can eat all those carbs.

Looks like you may have reversed the prediabetes. Which would be wonderful.

Enjoy the cakes and think of all of us low carbers beetling away on this thread counting out our morsels of Carb (and stuffing our delicious LC delights)

 

[Weird Science]

B mushrooms and cherry tomatoes in coconut oil with 2 rashers of streaky bacon
L grand burger minus bun, 2 sausages and some salad, hot cross bun with ton of butter
D bowl of Savoy cabbage and 4 Brussel sprouts with butter and 2 streaky bacon
Alpro soya yoghurt with coconut & 1 sq. 80% choc
BG slightly raised today, I put it down to a lazy Sunday, hanging around 7.3, looking forward to next week, Thursday is DDay with the oncologist

 

[Susikav]

@Brunneria & @Susikav

Sorry you won't be able to eat the cake girls...... Each test I've come out under 2 spike.....

The low GI/GL seems to work for me.

I'll try the palm blossom sugar in something using the soya flour and see what the result of that is. Still haven't tried making meringue with the granulated sweetener yet..... Not made for such a long time i need to dig a recipe out first..... or maybe I'll just beat a couple of egg whites to the peak stage and gradually add and taste and then bake - slow cool oven if I remember rightly?

Ahhh... I was going to try that! Will have a go later hopefully... If you can make something with soy flour... I have a bag in the freezer...

Does even soya flour spike you?

I don't know... My UC doesn't like soya so I bought it and never used it for some reason...

 

[Susikav]

Coconut and almond are the nut flours I use.

But then I very rarely bake.

Am I right that you are prediabetic? Cos it's a very different ball game.

Being this low carb (usually 20-40g carbs or less a day) means that I have very little interest/tolerance for anything sweet. Your tastes adjust quite quickly. Even milk tastes like it has been sweetened. Normal cakes and deserts taste vile to me now.

When I do bake, I use erythritol, which is much less sweet than sugar, and even then I reduce the 'sugar' quantities.

Of course the huge benefit is that EVERYTHING tastes more intense.
It was like waking up my taste buds after decades of them being half asleep.

I feel much the same... Coconut, almond, some whey protein, hazelnut... Not really flours but everything else spikes me... I bake for my husband mostly... Maybe it's because I tripped over into diabetes.. That makes a lot of sense...

 

[Susikav]

B mushrooms and cherry tomatoes in coconut oil with 2 rashers of streaky bacon
L grand burger minus bun, 2 sausages and some salad, hot cross bun with ton of butter
D bowl of Savoy cabbage and 4 Brussel sprouts with butter and 2 streaky bacon
Alpro soya yoghurt with coconut & 1 sq. 80% choc
BG slightly raised today, I put it down to a lazy Sunday, hanging around 7.3, looking forward to next week, Thursday is DDay with the oncologist

I wish you good news from the consultant... Everything crossed and candles lit...

 

[HA3]

Oooo that's not much, aren't you hungry?

Yes I was actually so had another coffee n cream before bed and an early breakfast this morning

 

[pavlovsdog]

B mushrooms and cherry tomatoes in coconut oil with 2 rashers of streaky bacon
L grand burger minus bun, 2 sausages and some salad, hot cross bun with ton of butter
D bowl of Savoy cabbage and 4 Brussel sprouts with butter and 2 streaky bacon
Alpro soya yoghurt with coconut & 1 sq. 80% choc
BG slightly raised today, I put it down to a lazy Sunday, hanging around 7.3, looking forward to next week, Thursday is DDay with the oncologist

Good luck for Thursday

 

[Susikav]

B: Avocado and tuna in chilli oil with a slice of flax bread... 2 espressos with cream...
Another espresso with cream...
L: Salmon steak with baby marrows and leeks fried in butter, a itttle carrot then berries and cream...
Snack: Goat's cheese on slice of flax bread and some olives...
D: Will be chicken and chorizo stew probably... and a salad...
Husband and son away on a project so plenty of time to start experimental cooking again - first up, meringue with Truvia....

 

[LucySW]

Curry should not spike you as long as there's no potato in it, no rice or bread? Coconut milk to thicken and slake the spices is perfect...

I know they shouldn't, but they do. I use coconut oil and coconut milk. Veg like courgettes, peppers, leeks - don't understand it. Used to use squash and root veg, boohoo, but that's out now. Oh sniff.

 

[LucySW]

B: Avocado and tuna in chilli oil with a slice of flax bread... 2 espressos with cream...
Another espresso with cream...
L: Salmon steak with baby marrows and leeks fried in butter, a itttle carrot then berries and cream...
Snack: Goat's cheese on slice of flax bread and some olives...
D: Will be chicken and chorizo stew probably... and a salad...
Husband and son away on a project so plenty of time to start experimental cooking again - first up, meringue with Truvia....

My God! I can't stand it! I suppose I cd eat this well if I planned it but there is always so much to do and I don't. Ohhhhh .....

 

[Brunneria]

Yesterday was a BAD Day.
And an interesting reminder of how bloomin easy it is to fall off the wagon.

B: following my carb intake at the carvery, the night before, I thought 'I'll have 1 slice of toast to ease myself down, and stave off the carb cravings (stupid, eh?). So of course I had 2 slices of toast with my bacon and eggs. Although I didn't enjoy them, really. But kept eating. Didn't test.

L: was a disorganised mess. I haven't been hypoing recently, because I've been VLC. So I forgot that if you eat carbs, watch out for reactive hypos!. so about 3 pm I started grumping and sniping at Mr B, and he read the signs and suggested food. Urgently. So we had an argument. ) Which resulted in me commando rolling into a supermarket car park and me staggering on wobbly legs into the store to the nearest food (the lunch deals chiller). So then I ate (inhaled) a prawn cocktail sarnie, a pack of crisps and a bottle of raspberry and OJ. 12.7 at 2 hours. 11.9 at 2.5 hours. heaven knows what it was at 1 hr!!!

D: was a ton of baked salmon, with mayo, no veg or salad, followed by a large chunk of stracciatella cake, with cream. This was timed to catch me on the downward bg slope and stuff me with FAT.

Today should be interesting!

 

[Susikav]

I know they shouldn't, but they do.

I use coconut oil and coconut milk. Veg like courgettes, peppers, leeks - don't understand it. Used to use squash and root veg, boohoo, but that's out now. Oh sniff.

Bummer... Leeks are quite high in carbs I think? I'll check... peppers definitely should be used in moderation... cauliflower and baby marrow is really good and quite solid... half a tomato, courgettes, (different to baby marrow - don't know if you get little marrows in the UK - can't remember looking for them) and perhaps a couple of small chunks of that solid white cabbage? I just throw anything I have in and fry it gently in the spices, oil and butter till whatever it is is soft - but I love Goan fish curry... I can give you the recipe for the sauce if you're a veggie... I cannot see what else could spike you... I wish you find one that you can eat...

 

[Susikav]

damndelicious.net has lovely zucchini and parmesan recipes...