What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[maglil55]

Hi all

@shelley262 it sounds like an eventful day, I do hope everyone’s ok. I think you did well to stick at just 2 of your HC treats! Thanks for bday wishes too.

@maglil55 I hope your sister’s getting good care and improves soon, your son is really good and on the ball with the food.

I’ve had a ridiculously piggish day and am quite ashamed... started ok

B: coffee and cream

L: smoked salmon, avocado and a few olives with apple cider vinegar/ olive oil dressing. Greek youghurt with strawberries

Mid aft snack: Adonis blondie bar then a bit later some olives then some sunflower seeds.

D: slow cooked lamb shoulder with garlic and thyme. The recipe called for 250ml of balsamic vinegar to make a sauce at the end but thank heaven I checked carb count first! Assumed it’d be low as its just vinegar but no!
Cauli mash, cavolo nero and broccolli.

Later ate loads of HC 100% buttons while the family hunted for Easter eggs I’d hidden for them. No idea why I bought the bag of buttons in with me - I usually just take 5 out. Schoolboy error!

Really hope I can stop nibbling now. I’m so annoyed at myself.

I taught son to cook (And iron and wash clothes and tidy up.....). DIL was most impressed that she got a husband who could do things at home. There are things he makes better than I do now. Must admit his creamy kale was very good. Flavoured up with the addition of spring onion and garlic before the cream went in at the end. He decided to roast the celeriac, which he had cubed , in goose fat with rosemary. He did say never to expect him to cube celeriac again but DIL has discovered she likes it too so he'll have to!
Thanks everyone for the good wishes for sis. She's doing OK. She's on chemo so infection is a common occurrence and the elevated temperature requires hospitalization. She's fed up so must be improving.

 

[DJC3]

@shelley262 @DJC3 This is the chicory root drink I get, it has a coffee taste to it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prewetts-C...&qid=1522614257&sr=8-2&keywords=chicory+drink

@Rachox @DJC3 those Adonis bars look amazing - definitely going to get some, as handy to have in my bag for times where low carb options aren't available on a day out.

I'm glad and surprised the pie didn't spike me as just looked up the carbs in filo pastry!

Thanks for the link @eggs11

 

[deb1960]

I don't have a particularly sweet tooth but I do like the odd piece of Cadburys chocolate ( I know it's just sugar and very little chocolate, but I'm obviously a bit of a pleb ) I tried some lindt 85% chocolate but it was really unpleasant to me, no creaminess. It was my grandsons 5th birthday today and he is having a huge party for all his friends and all his classmates on Tuesday. I foolishly offered to do a family party at our house, I did sausages and pizza for the kids and a huge chilli, rice , salad and new potatoes for the adults. My son made a big pan of Thai green curry too. I grated some of the dark chocolate into the chilli and my husband said it was the best chilli I'd ever made!
My mother who is also diabetic, but as she insists she is only a tiny bit diabetic!!! Kept trying to foist an easter Egg on me and said that I was taking "that diet " too far. Aaaaggghhhh bangs head on wall

 

[DJC3]

I don't have a particularly sweet tooth but I do like the odd piece of Cadburys chocolate ( I know it's just sugar and very little chocolate, but I'm obviously a bit of a pleb ) I tried some lindt 85% chocolate but it was really unpleasant to me, no creaminess. It was my grandsons 5th birthday today and he is having a huge party for all his friends and all his classmates on Tuesday. I foolishly offered to do a family party at our house, I did sausages and pizza for the kids and a huge chilli, rice , salad and new potatoes for the adults. My son made a big pan of Thai green curry too. I grated some of the dark chocolate into the chilli and my husband said it was the best chilli I'd ever made!
My mother who is also diabetic, but as she insists she is only a tiny bit diabetic!!! Kept trying to foist an easter Egg on me and said that I was taking "that diet " too far. Aaaaggghhhh bangs head on wall

Chilli and chocolate: a well known match made in heaven!
I used to love Cadbury’s too but have found over the last few months that my sweet tooth isn’t as sweet. I think I would now miss the intense chocolate hit I get with the high cocoa content stuff if I had a bit of CDM now

I understand your frustration about people’s views on this ‘fad’ diet. Half the time now I just say I’m not hungry rather than trying to explain.

 

[Ian_Laye]

B = 2 slices of cheddar
L = none
D = 8oz rump steak, bag of Tesco peppery salad and some Helmens Mayo.
S = 150ml extra thick cream & 8 very thin Lidl Polish sausages.
Bottle of Merlot consumed during evening.
4.4mmol when going to bed at 23:40​

 

[LouWilk059]

B- 2 coffee w/cream
Snack- BP coconut choc square
L- ham on LC roll
D- LC ham & mushroom pizza, chicken wings
(That's enough! The rest of the ham is sliced up and frozen for brekky; ham bone for soup)

Hubby insisted I post a pic (he's NOT LC and he said it was good - top is low carb, bottom was regular).

 

[cdpm]

chicken
eggs
corn beef
diet hot chocolate
heavy cream
salad
salad dressing
dessert

 

[shelley262]

I don't have a particularly sweet tooth but I do like the odd piece of Cadburys chocolate ( I know it's just sugar and very little chocolate, but I'm obviously a bit of a pleb ) I tried some lindt 85% chocolate but it was really unpleasant to me, no creaminess. It was my grandsons 5th birthday today and he is having a huge party for all his friends and all his classmates on Tuesday. I foolishly offered to do a family party at our house, I did sausages and pizza for the kids and a huge chilli, rice , salad and new potatoes for the adults. My son made a big pan of Thai green curry too. I grated some of the dark chocolate into the chilli and my husband said it was the best chilli I'd ever made!
My mother who is also diabetic, but as she insists she is only a tiny bit diabetic!!! Kept trying to foist an easter Egg on me and said that I was taking "that diet " too far. Aaaaggghhhh bangs head on wall

My mums the same even though her kidneys are fast deteriorating and she now gets UTIs on regular basis she’s very proud of her belief that “she dosent have proper diabetes” she also eats all wrong things. ! I’m with you with the head banging emoji!
Re the choc I wasn’t a dark choc fan but you need to build up through the percentages. Another thing you can do is melt 100% choc - mix with erythritol powdered to help it dissolve or stevia drops to desired sweetness - plus you can add nuts if you like them and then put on greaseproof paper or little sweet cases and allow to set . Transforms it to to a milkier choc without the carbs of milk and sugar.

 

[maglil55]

Bed 7.1 FBG 7.9 so son's cooking was good. Arm is still sore but a lot better as I got through yesterday with no painkillers and sis is getting out of hospital this afternoon as infection is under control. I'm going to have a few weeks of Diet Doctor now that you can create and save your own meal plans. For each day it tells you your total carbs too. So today's is 16g.
B. Mexican scrambled eggs. Very tasty but the bit tomato made mine less yellow than their pic. Tasted fine though. Tassimo Americano grande with a dash of cream.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/keto-mexican-scrambled-eggs

L. Always hungry after a meal out so having the Italian Keto plate later but minus the olives!
https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/italian-keto-plate
D. Chipotle infused pork chop with green beans and avocado. Hubby can have chips.
Doubt I'll be hungry after that. Dinner is later ad this is pub night for hubby.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/keto-chops-green-beans-avocado

I'm still having DP issues but this Libre is still measuring high. Discovered it is at its worst when BG is rising. Once it stabilizes it's close again.

 

[maglil55]

Bed 7.1 FBG 7.9 so son's cooking was good. Arm is still sore but a lot better as I got through yesterday with no painkillers and sis is getting out of hospital this afternoon as infection is under control. I'm going to have a few weeks of Diet Doctor now that you can create and save your own meal plans. For each day it tells you your total carbs too. So today's is 16g.
B. Mexican scrambled eggs. Very tasty but the bit tomato made mine less yellow than their pic. Tasted fine though. Tassimo Americano grande with a dash of cream.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/keto-mexican-scrambled-eggs

L. Always hungry after a meal out so having the Italian Keto plate later but minus the olives!
https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/italian-keto-plate
D. Chipotle infused pork chop with green beans and avocado. Hubby can have chips.
Doubt I'll be hungry after that. Dinner is later ad this is pub night for hubby.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/keto-chops-green-beans-avocado

I'm still having DP issues but this Libre is still measuring high. Discovered it is at its worst when BG is rising. Once it stabilizes it's close again.

1/2 The portion on the Italian Keto plate - way too much.

 

[shelley262]

Hope you all had a good Easter Monday - a bit calmer today so did some cooking experiments.
Made a fibre Flour lemon cake which is very low carb, no impact on my bgs and ok but is a bit like a soft scone in texture not quite right so prob not a keeper - mum may turn her nose up at it when take rest up to York’s in the morning!
Also experimented with resistant starch - cooked and cooled new potatoes, with skins kept on ,three times, made some mayo with advocado oil and then made a potato salad to take up with me will be interesting to see result on my bg - will let you know tomorrow but will only try small portion to see....
Breakfast one each of sausage, bacon and egg fried in coconut oil
Lunch mix of cheeses and slice of low carb lemon cake
Dinner beef casserole and cauli mash followed by low carb raspberry mousse. Gin and soda water planned for later as it’s a bank holiday.

 

[Ian_Laye]

B = None
L= None
D = Roast pork bag of salad leaves and a tomato.
Currently on 3rd glass of red wine

 

[cdpm]

diet hot chocolate
heavy cream
egg
bacon
decaf coffee
sweeteners
heavy cream
salad
avocado dressing
seeds
sliced almonds
cheese
and

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream (2 tsp) washed down with a black coffee.
Mid-morning: coffee at Cafè Nero’s with a smuggled in Adonis bar!
Late Lunch: 2 x scrambled eggs with toast (1 slice HiLo) with Marmite followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries.
Dinner: Chinese takeaway, crispy duck but only had one pancake with the merest smidge of sauce, ate all the veg and one prawn cracker! Followed by a small slice of olive chocolate cake and cream.

 

[Ian_Laye]

B = None
L= None
D = Roast pork bag of salad leaves and a tomato.
Currently on 3rd glass of red wine

2hrs after 4.8mmol

 

[Motherhen2014]

Evening all just back from friends: breakfast hot cross buns and a Lid nut bar.

Lunch: Turkey breast tomatoes and sauce.

Evening:Chicken stew with onion leeks and carrots and 1.5 oiled potatoes and a little wine.

 

[ziggy_w]

Hello all.

Thanks, @maglil55 -- Yes, I am afraid there is no real substitute for burned sugar. I only used a little sugar though and then watered it down. Since the flavor of the burned sugar is pretty intense anyway, this worked great. I added all the carbs in the ingredients and divided by the six portion -- so I gather it is about 5g of carbs for each flan.

@Rachox -- The Adonis bars are a great suggestion. I think I will order some too. It does take a lot of time to make everything from scratch, so having something that is already prepared makes life a lot easier.

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and erythritol. A DD keto roll with mayo, cheddar and avocado. One coffee-caramel flan with candied kumquats.

Lunch: Nothing.

Afternoon: A double espresso macchiato at Starbuck's with xylitol. Forgot to order decaffeinated and, boy, did I feel energized.

Dinner: A small T-bone steak (about 100g), low-carb cole slaw, a coffee-caramel flan (no candied kumquats) and a glass of dry red wine.

 

[SueJB]

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: fried egg
Supper: spicy chicken broth, pak choi, konjac
5 grapes!!

 

[Brunneria]

2pm minced beef as a burger, with grated cheese and 2 rashers of bacon. Quite a large burger. I added garlic and tom puree to the mix, which made it more interesting.

May have some goatsmilk yog later. Or not. Still pretty full...

 

[Dr Snoddy]

Far too much!
B. 2 egg omelette with cheddar. Black tea, 2 black coffees.
L. Small seeded flatbread filled with homous, 2 falafel and cucumber, plain yoghurt with 2cm piece of banana.
Snack. 2 pistachio and almond biscuits, lots of mixed nuts.
D. Bowl of gazpacho soup, baked salmon with roast parsnip and sweet potato, herby greens and mushrooms.