What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Chook]

I didn't know about it until @Chook told me some time ago and I've had the little jug of cream a few times now.

@Brunneria told me about it (thank you @Brunneria ). If you have the REALLY big cup (the one with two handles and saucer) you can choose to have two little jugs of cream with it if you want -but you have to request it as they don't offer it. I have it in place of lunch if we are out and about. Yum, yum!

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: 3 x cheese thins with paté, cucumber and cherry tomatoes followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries.
Mid afternoon: black coffee.
Dinner: scrambled eggs with cheese on HiLo toast with Marmite followed by CCB and cream.

 

[DCUKMod]

@DCUKMod that must have been quite a blow, I’m sorry he didn’t like your delectables
@ianpspurs I really appreciate your sense of humor!!! There is this thing I’d call “kitchen gadget envy”. It’s probably good that my elder son and 2 of my s-i-l’s do the bulk of the family entertaining!
OTOH I just decided last night to make my own yogurt for a while. Guess what makes yogurt in larger batches? One of the IPs!! So I guess I’m going to be a trend follower soon, quite unlike me.
Y’all be careful out there with your flame throwers!!!!

You can also make clotted cream in the IP, although I haven't as yet. (I think you guys call it scalded cream.) I have also made very good, thick yoghurt in my dehydrator's chamber.

The IPis a clever thing. You have far more models available to you in US than we have in the UK. You even have the baby 3ltrr version, which I would like to run alongside my 6ltr

 

[DCUKMod]

Son preferred the stacking trays as he could add more trays. He also added the fruit insert. Surprisingly quiet.

When I say mine is a chamber, I have several metal shelves, but can hang "stuff" in it too, should I wish, and I can stack kilners too, when making, say, yoghurt.

 

[DCUKMod]

@maglil55 - I always have a batch of this on the go. It really is exellent:

https://www.feistytapas.com/2017/02/homemade-vegetable-stock-paste-instantpot-thermomix.html

 

[DJC3]

Toaster - obvious reasons.

Electronic spiralizer - used a lot at first but now gathering dust.

Oh yes, spiralizer! I bought a manual one, didn’t work at all so chucked it straight out, what a complete waste!

 

[DJC3]

Evenin’ All!

B: Happy Eggs have started doing a GF scrambled egg and bacon breakfast pot.
We got one as a trial and shared it. A bit small and a bit salty, and no one ever puts enough butter in their eggs nowadays but it made Mr B’s eyes light up as a 4am breakfast option.

L: a pot of mint tea and a couple of chicken livers in half a portion of oomi noodles.

Note to self: next time you reheat chick livers in microwave, do so in a container with a lid that won’t blow off when they explode.

D: DietDoc chicken in feta cream pesto and olives.
And a couple of Hotel Choc Xmas chocs.

Too much food!!! Am stuffed. Hope I can sleep tonight...

Oh no! Exploding chicken livers, what a mess. I hate it when that happens.

I love that DD chicken, pesto, feta olives thing.

 

[zauberflote]

@maglil55 thank you! This looks scrumptious!! When I was the Thanksgiving hostess regularly, I’d make and freeze quarts of stock from the turkey carcass. Wish I had that resource now!
Unused gadgets: microwave pressure cooker old manual pressure cooker- can’t get a gasket for it. Very vintage waffle iron, but as I suspect the flax bread batter eould make good pancakes/waffles, that may get used! Living in the South as we do, a toaster oven is a necessity. We just bought our third in 39 years; not bad for the previous cheapo models.
Potato ricer, hubby’s family heirloom. 40-odd years ago, my grandmother gave me her little Wearever egg poacher. I don’t think I kept the insert, but the little pot keeps itself busy!
Falling asleep again! Good morning everyone!

 

[Ponchu]

 

[ziggy_w]

Good morning all.

With respect to kitchen gadgets, I am always tempted to buy more. Oh, all the wonderful things I would make with these gadgets -- but then I remember my small kitchen. I have a huge espresso machine, which takes up about half of the available counter space, but wouldn't really want to live without it. It really makes a good start to the day. (Apart from this I own a coffee bean grinder, a toaster, a mixer, a blender a very basic ice cream maker (where you have to put the bowl in the freezer) and a now very much neglected juicer.)

Yesterday's menu ...

Breakfast: Two decaffeinated espressos with cream and erythritol.

Lunch: Three scrambled eggs with okra and cheese. A slice of the egg liqueur cake (almost all eaten except for about two more slices.)

Dinner: Lamb's lettuce with Caesar's dressing, parmesan, and fried mushrooms. A glass of red wine.

Late nigh snack: Some manchego cheese and half a Wiener sausage.

Hope y'all have a wonderful start into the weekend.

 

[zauberflote]

Yesterday’s menu:
Bfast half avocado, boiled egg, 10 almonds, 3 cherry tomatoes lookin’ so juicy on that frig shelf I couldn’t resist, decaf/soy/cream
Lunch 3 tall celery, 10 more cherry tomatoes, whole tin sardines (a mistake), and maybe a piece of my bread with butter - can’t remember. Was over-stuffed all afternoon
Supper piece of my bread broken up in soy milk, shades of childhood delights!
Bedtime snack couple tbsp skyr with cream.

I am finding this batch of bread quite addicting! 3.2 carbs/ one-sixteenth piece from 8x8 cake pan.

 

[Tori71]

Breakfast: Hi lo toast and butter
Lunch: Ham, olives, last of cheese stuffed peppers, cherry tomatoes, cucumber. Last crumbly bits of brownie ( bit hard) with raspberries and strawberries and my new find Jude's flat white coffee ice cream. 13.4g carbs per 100g (I had 50g and it was delicious)
Dinner: Beef stroganoff , carrots, green beans and sprouts (weird combination I know, but I love the little green bullets)! 50ml glass of ruby port!! First time tried this as it's supposed to be sweeter than red wine which I'm not keen on. 6 carbs!
Snacks: Montezumas Orange and Geranium chocolate, nuts.
Just deciding which bread mix to get from Dr Almond, any recommendations? Not bothered about replicating a white loaf, prefer the darker, seedier ones!

Amazingly no cold as yet (fingers crossed) which I'm putting down to the enormous amount of salad and veg I am now eating. Used to get about three or four this time of year!

 

[ianpspurs]

Breakfast: 2 x 1.5 pints mug of tea; Dockey: Morrisons coffee; Lunch: Dog walk then 2 x 1.5 pints tea by then it was 15.30 hrs Afternoon: Nothing
Evening meal 17.15: Cottage pie (celeriac, swede , butter and cheese topping); 20% mince; IP beef stock; ‘nduja; braised red cabbage (used up some of the opened wine I won’t drink), cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg; Have to honest, that was an LC meal I really enjoyed much more than traditional version
I am never going to like winter anymore than I will ever like The Beatles or Elvis. The difference is I can’t ignore winter for the rest of my life.
@Tori71 I really like the Black Bread mix (and port) and I seem to recall @DJC3 did as well but she may prove me wrong.
Edit/Update: Will have almond milk and cream cocoa later while watching football near the woodburner. Gym is just too cold tonight.

 

[Goonergal]

Hi all

Carnivory continues but run of OMAD ended as had to pop out for a snack at work.

Afternoon snack was a peperami stick.

Dinner was what a Masterchef contestant might term a ‘deconstructed’ Diet Doctor breakfast sandwich (i.e nothing like the original and a mess on the plate). Two fried eggs made all the better by cooking in left over fat from last week’s beef short rib, 4 rashers of streaky bacon, 15g cheddar and 3 Tesco Finest chipolatas. Washed down with a spoon of extra thick double cream to up fat content.

Plenty of tea with cream during the day too.

@Ponchu that piece of meat looks good.

 

[Chook]

i had my appointment with the DN today. Yet another new one - I've never seen the same one twice. Got the results of my Hba1c - 31 - and all the other results were equally confusingly good. While its lovely to have some one give praise, i would have been far more enthusiastic if I thought I deserved it. Oh well.....

Anyway, today...

Breakfast: bacon and eggs, black coffee

Lunch: Black coffee

Dinner: Half of an M&S rack of lamb with a garlic and rosemary crust (reduced from £10 to £3!!!!!) with asparagus and broccoli drizzled with melted butter.

Pudding: One square of 85% and four strawberries with extra thick cream

Glass of celebratory red wine

BTW, those that are addicted to almond butter..... my local Aldi have got it on offer for £1.99.

 

[Goonergal]

i had my appointment with the DN today. Yet another new one - I've never seen the same one twice. Got the results of my Hba1c - 31 - and all the other results were equally confusingly good. While its lovely to have some one give praise, i would have been far more enthusiastic if I thought I deserved it. Oh well.....

Anyway, today...

Breakfast: bacon and eggs, black coffee

Lunch: Black coffee

Dinner: Half of an M&S rack of lamb with a garlic and rosemary crust (reduced from £10 to £3!!!!!) with asparagus and broccoli drizzled with melted butter.

Pudding: One square of 85% and four strawberries with extra thick cream

Glass of celebratory red wine

BTW, those that are addicted to almond butter..... my local Aldi have got it on offer for £1.99.

Great results @Chook

 

[ianpspurs]

i had my appointment with the DN today. Yet another new one - I've never seen the same one twice. Got the results of my Hba1c - 31 - and all the other results were equally confusingly good. While its lovely to have some one give praise, i would have been far more enthusiastic if I thought I deserved it. Oh well.....

Anyway, today...

Breakfast: bacon and eggs, black coffee

Lunch: Black coffee

Dinner: Half of an M&S rack of lamb with a garlic and rosemary crust (reduced from £10 to £3!!!!!) with asparagus and broccoli drizzled with melted butter.

Pudding: One square of 85% and four strawberries with extra thick cream

Glass of celebratory red wine

BTW, those that are addicted to almond butter..... my local Aldi have got it on offer for £1.99.

Great results @Chook and you obviously so do deserve it

 

[purplepenguin]

Have been on the 24hr blood pressure monitor yesterday and today, made cooking an interesting adventure as I couldn't bend my arm very well. All good though as I have perfect results.

Yesterday: Breakfast - nothing
Lunch: chicken fajita without the tortilla, cheese and sour cream
Dinner: A delicious ribeye with mushrooms and beansprouts

Today: Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Asda rotisserie chicken legs x4 (they were small but I wasn't too hungry)
Dinner: Homemade chicken stir fry with a green pepper, beansprouts and mushrooms. I also just discovered the wonders of Chinese 5 Spice - delicious.

Can anyone help explain why Sainsburys' beansprouts say 0.7g carbs per 100g, and Asda's say 4.0g? Both say that it is 100g stirfried. Maybe Asda assume we will use a sauce? Strangely Asda tinned beansprouts are 1.6g drained per 100g.

 

[Chook]

Great results @Chook and you obviously so do deserve it

i really seriously don't deserve it. I think i read somewhere on this forum that you @ianpspurs are one of the people who gets a higher Hba1c than your BG finger prick tests suggest you should get - and mine seems to be the other way around. I fell off the keto wagon about a year ago and only started checking my BGs in November and they were seriously rubbish then. They are slowly improving now but not low enough yet for this result.

 

[Tori71]

@Tori71 I really like the Black Bread mix (and port) and I seem to recall @DJC3 did as well but she may prove me wrong.

Thanks @ianpspurs I'll give that a go I think, it looks delicious. The port is Waitrose Ruby Port, and weirdly now find myself drinking more that pre-diagnosis. Definitely much too cold for the gym!