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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

MrsA2 said:
There's something called a "semi fredo" which is a frozen dessert, served slightly mushy. I call any mixture like yours a semi-fredo and my guests think I'm wonderfully skilled! I hope you find someone nice who really deserves Neil's semi fredo ;)
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I Googled the recipe and it seems quite difficult to me. How do you cook it?
 
Antje77 said:
I loved the video call with you this evening, @Zhnyaka , and we could understand eachother much better than either of us expected!
I think it's amazing that the internet allows us to speak with people around the world.

I also think you have the coolest cat, biting you on camera because you chose to talk to me after coming home from work instead of giving her your undevided attention. :hilarious:
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Thank you very much! now I don't think my English is terrible. Мore precisely, my English is, of course, terrible, but it is sufficient for understanding

My cat took offense at me for talking to you instead of playing with her (considering that I recently went to St. Petersburg for a week and left her to my parents), and I had to apologize by playing into the night :hilarious:
 
Hello again everyone! Antje77 :happy: very kindly messaged to ask if I was ok, and that has reminded me that I've neglected one of my favourite social media avenues for far too long!

I've been awful with my diet and honestly can't bring myself to share what I've eaten sometimes (but yeah, 2l of ice cream in a day on occasions - I really try not to buy the stuff now) so fell out of the habit of coming here.

I think I fall into the category of completely incorrigible and I've come to realise that I'm never really going to miraculously reinvent myself diet-wise. But it doesn't have to be miraculous, right? I don't have to be perfect. My new hobby is growing vegetables, and I'm lucky enough to have a fairly big garden so vegetables are beginning to feature much more in my diet now. Well, runner beans and French beans, at least, as they're fully in season.

I apologise for not being up to date with everyone's posts and happenings, hope you are all doing well x
 
Breakfast - a bit late because I didn't want to move too much - was sliced hard boiled egg and sliced tomato with 2 lentil crackers and a little mayo. Weak black tea.

Probably will have something later. There's cold chicken to make into something but no salads left until Neil can go shopping for me next Thursday. I do have other veggies though, so will come up with something. It will have to be something easy and quick though, or I won't be able to stand up for long enough.

One side of my neck is painful now, along with the corresponding ear. Very slight swelling too. Some glandular infection I guess. I guess I'm just what used to be called "run down".
 
Annb said:
Breakfast - a bit late because I didn't want to move too much - was sliced hard boiled egg and sliced tomato with 2 lentil crackers and a little mayo. Weak black tea.

Probably will have something later. There's cold chicken to make into something but no salads left until Neil can go shopping for me next Thursday. I do have other veggies though, so will come up with something. It will have to be something easy and quick though, or I won't be able to stand up for long enough.

One side of my neck is painful now, along with the corresponding ear. Very slight swelling too. Some glandular infection I guess. I guess I'm just what used to be called "run down".
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Sorry to hear this @Annb, there are some nasty cold/flu things going around - I recently had one that lasted three weeks and for the first four days I was lying in bed groaning! Hope yours goes away quickly x
 
A good day here, I got some work done in the garden - planted up some blueberry bushes, some more dwarf French beans in my mini polytunnel to keep a crop coming in late autumn and some fast-growing peas with the hopes that they'll crop before the weather turns.

Lately I've been struggling with gastric issues when I eat breakfast - admittedly if I don't overeat it's not really bad. But not overeating is a struggle too! Intermittent fasting needs to be back in my life, I think.

Breakfast was two eggs and two Staffordshire oatcakes with a sprinkle of cheese. Should have been one oatcake of course!

No lunch

Dinner is stir fried chicken thigh meat with half a cup of rice (cooked volume) and runner beans from the garden.

I'll have some Greek yogurt for afters.
 
B: just full fat greek yoghurt
Early yoga
Then off to bbq event so early lunch
2 burgers, 1 sausage, lettuce tomatoes
2 mini muffins
Then 2 hour walk, usually far quicker but friend with me proved to get breathless so took it slow
D: cold burger, cold sausage, 2 slices cheddar. Salad. Small coffee ice cream
1 brandy.

Very tired. Busy day tomorrow too.
 
Yesterday evening, I reheated the cooked chicken breast with onion and canned tomatoes to make a kind of thin stew. I even dished it out onto a plate, and then decided I didn't want to eat after all. It's still there in the pot and I'm wondering if I can make a chicken and tomato soup with it.

Breakfast was 3 lentil crackers with egg mayo piled on top. Black tea.

No plans for any other meals today.
 
Had to run some errands today so no gardening yet but might potter around later.

No breakfast

Lunch eaten slowly over 2 hours
2 Chicken thighs, half a buttered bread roll with lettuce (from the garden), mild chili and mayonnaise
2 Seafood sticks with the other half of the buttered bread roll with lettuce, mild chili and mayonnaise
Buttered crumpet
Coffee
Diet coke

So far so good for eating slowly over time, rather than scoffing quickly - much reduced gastric issues and I also feel satisfied sooner.

I know it's not really low carb but believe it or not, for me it is! Reducing the volume of food is important for me as well, this is half of what I would normally consume.

If I eat dinner I think I'll have more chicken with a vegetable stir fry.

Hope everyone is having a great day x
 
First thing I started preparing a dessert ready for lunch time, a low carb cheesecake but on a real biscuit base. However it all started seeping out the loose bottomed tin so ended up cooking the base and topping separately . Looked really messy but tasted good!

B: 2 cold sausages

L: gammon with low carb cauliflower cheese, carrots and roasted peppers. Carb eaters had new potatoes. Starter was prawn cocktail. Lc cheesecake as above.

Then hubby decided he wanted to bake, so served proper rock buns. I had 2 small ones. So hard to say no. At least our guests ate all the rest! Grandad who is t2 and 90 soon, ate 7!!!

6pm a coffee rum.
 
I spent the day in the garden after the rain stopped, and had better energy after losing a bit of weight with the recent fluey cold and a few days of more moderate eating.

Breakfast - pate and coleslaw on a small roll, small banana

Lunch - an apricot

Dinner - Some French beans from the garden with chicken, followed by strawberries from the garden with a little double cream. Things went a bit downhill after that, but I'm calling a halt to it now.
 
Breakfast: whipped cream - it was going to be with coffee whipped into it but I decided to try the mixture that Neil made of left overs from my baking efforts last week. Just a spoonful with the cream. Oh dear. It was very sweet and a bit stodgy. Held together well though, even when defrosted. Alistair might be able to use it with some sharp fruit and some extra cream to make it less stodgy. I don't know. Didn't make too much impression on my BG.

2nd meal: will be salmon with some more peas and a carrot (found some in the bottom of the fridge).

Been trying to find documents about the 2 houses - mine and Alistair's. I thought I knew where they were but I only knew about some of them - not the important ones, so I have to think of where else I could search now. They have to be here somewhere. Trying to get my affairs in order before my birthday so I can be relaxed about it all by then. Found lots of folders full of stuff that I was keeping from the past for some unknown reason - university stuff mainly and other old stuff about our last house on the mainland - nothing useful. Nothing that anyone would be interested in in future, although, if some of my ancestors had kept such stuff, I might be able to work out their stories a bit more easily. Will Em thank me for it all, I wonder? Will she thank me for all the china/glass/ furniture etc - all of which have a lot of family history attached? Probably not. I can envisage a lot of boxes of "stuff" going to a charity shop.
 
Annb said:
Breakfast: whipped cream - it was going to be with coffee whipped into it but I decided to try the mixture that Neil made of left overs from my baking efforts last week. Just a spoonful with the cream. Oh dear. It was very sweet and a bit stodgy. Held together well though, even when defrosted. Alistair might be able to use it with some sharp fruit and some extra cream to make it less stodgy. I don't know. Didn't make too much impression on my BG.

2nd meal: will be salmon with some more peas and a carrot (found some in the bottom of the fridge).

Been trying to find documents about the 2 houses - mine and Alistair's. I thought I knew where they were but I only knew about some of them - not the important ones, so I have to think of where else I could search now. They have to be here somewhere. Trying to get my affairs in order before my birthday so I can be relaxed about it all by then. Found lots of folders full of stuff that I was keeping from the past for some unknown reason - university stuff mainly and other old stuff about our last house on the mainland - nothing useful. Nothing that anyone would be interested in in future, although, if some of my ancestors had kept such stuff, I might be able to work out their stories a bit more easily. Will Em thank me for it all, I wonder? Will she thank me for all the china/glass/ furniture etc - all of which have a lot of family history attached? Probably not. I can envisage a lot of boxes of "stuff" going to a charity shop.
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I find it really hard to go through old documents and possessions and even harder to prune it - I totally understand your dilemma about the china and furniture and so on - one friend of mine says "It's just the detritus of life" and another is horrified by the very idea of getting rid of anything that was meaningful. I fall somewhere in the middle and flip flop about what to do.
 
Not a low carb day, and one where I succumbed to the siren call of fried food and forbidden desserts!

In other news, I have started a wormery today! I'm not in the least bit squeamish about worms and I'm hoping they'll provide me with lots of lovely stuff to enrich garden compost, planters and raised beds with. It will be late spring before I see any substantial amount (if any) of castings but they are (reportedly) very easy to keep and a good way to make use of kitchen scraps.
 
jpscloud said:
I find it really hard to go through old documents and possessions and even harder to prune it - I totally understand your dilemma about the china and furniture and so on - one friend of mine says "It's just the detritus of life" and another is horrified by the very idea of getting rid of anything that was meaningful. I fall somewhere in the middle and flip flop about what to do.
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We did get rid of some family stuff when we moved to the Island from the mainland - there was so much of it but it didn't take long for me to regret sending that stuff to auction. It was more than 50 years ago and I still regret that odd little mirror and those Victorian scientific books, and so on. One thing that I'm sure nobody will want is an ancient armchair with a history, or at least a story, attached to it, but otherwise it really has no value and if Em doesn't remember the story (I have written it down, amongst some other family memories), then where is its value? It will probably go onto a bonfire. Another is a Victorian chaise longue. I don't have one of those big country houses with lots of outbuildings where such things can be stored out of the way.

Anyway - food.
Breakfast: salmon mayo. Coffee.
2nd meal: will be butter chicken - out of the freezer and defrosted now, so ready just to heat through later on.
 
First meal of the day was lunch, after popping out to run errands, but it would be a dishonourable mention so I'm not going to!

I'm debating what to have for tea (dinner). I fancy some eggs, so an egg salad is a possibility but there are some beans ready for picking and a nice chicken breast is calling my name too.

What's happened to the lively chat on this thread? It feels so quiet now! Have I said something wrong?
 
MrsA2 said:
Nothing you've said. It's been quiet for several months now. But I'm finding the main threads quiet too. Such a shame. This forum was my life saver and main support tribe for over 5 years.
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I'm hoping it's just a summer holidays thing but agree it does seem quieter overall. Also agree how much the forum has been such a support and for me heading on for 8 years - where did that time go? Without that support I doubt very much that I'd still be in remission 8 years on.

@jpscloud good to see you back and definitely not to do with you - although you've been missed. Currently I'm mainly posting on the main low carb food thread as a bit time poor just now. Summer is often busy but this one is busier than normal with a lot of family zero celebrations -_including our 50th Golden Wedding anniversary just a few weeks ago and my 70th birthday coming up next week. We are away this coming weekend celebrating my birthday in Wales with our youngest who now lives there and is taking us out for a special meal on Saturday and we are planning a wild swim on Sunday, in a nearby to their home Welsh lake, plus a Sauna. Also planning a lunch party out locally with friends on the actual day.

@Annb notice you also have an August zero birthday and hope you have a few enjoyable times planned.
 
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