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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

shelley262 said:
With temps predicted to fall to 4 tonight
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Yes it was really quite cold in the garden today! What a lovely lot of tomatoes you've had!

I think this is the first year I've been planning for the garden after September, I've never grown winter vegetables before. I wonder what kind of winter we'll have this year.

I ate quite a bit of chocolate after tea. It's already feeling cold tonight and I went straight for the comfort!
 
Zhnyaka said:
We can remember the 2000s, when we just used the characters that were on the keyboard :D . for example like this
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I'm not sure if it looks like envy, but I was trying to draw hearts in eyes and hands at the mouth)
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Here's my attempt at a jealous emoji:
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Breakfast: salmon mayo on RyVita.

2nd meal will be some of the ragout made into a courgette based moussaka.

Still can't lay down so spent the night in the big recliner chair in the kitchen. BG still hovering in the high range without the Metformin but my inside is more comfortable than it has been in months.
 
Breakfast was early because I'm going out for a late lunch. It wasn't low carb.

There was a frost here this morning! Brr. Lovely sunny day now though, and the next few days look to be the same so hopefully I will get some garden jobs done.
 
Cold here today, a shock after the lovely warmth. Supper tonight will be a cottage pie, with garden beans.
Next week I’ll be trying to ripen any still green sungold in the greenhouse; I’ll bring them indoors and use the paper bag method.
I set up two bird feeders that I can watch from an indoor chair. Bluetits are eating peanuts like it’s time to get fat.
 
Given in this morning to a quick blast of the central heating! Just for a short while until edge off and then I'll get out of a warm bed - I'm not even watching the birds like you @Fairygodmother.
Lovely in the sun yesterday and will be today hopefully but lots of caring duties and appointments for me this week keeping me from the garden. Good job I got those tomatoes in on Sunday - just in time.
@jpscloud enjoy your time in the garden - I've never done winter veggies either but no plans this year either. We are due to have some building work done in a few weeks - a conservatory solid roof so will impact garden access while happening. Let us know what you enjoy growing and is successful - maybe next year I do like growing.
@Annb good that not being on metformin is helping your insides just wish you were more comfortable with your hip and able to get some proper rest. Hopefully it will continue to improve.
Right need to get heating off and into my hopefully warmer shower have a good day all
 
Breakfast: the rest of yesterday's moussaka. Coffee.
BG is still too high - that's due to stopping Metformin - BG is much harder to control without it. Not sure what to do - continue with no Metformin and keep my insides happy, or start taking it again to keep BG under better control.

2nd meal will be some roasted vegetables with cheese melted amongst them.

This is what my chart looked like yesterday.

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Your meals sound delicious Annb. Do you use a Greek recipe for moussaka?
I used to subject the family to a Greek/our house version that left out the potatoes, used marrow instead of aubergine and included garlic, onion, lots of herbs and a cheese sauce. Not really moussaka but it always got eaten up to the bowl scrapings.
It’s a rotten thing to hear about the way metformin upsets your insides. I had a quick google and it looks as if all T2 meds have potentially uncomfortable side effects. What do the doctors think?
I feel rotten if my BG’s too high, do you?
 
Fairygodmother said:
Your meals sound delicious Annb. Do you use a Greek recipe for moussaka?
I used to subject the family to a Greek/our house version that left out the potatoes, used marrow instead of aubergine and included garlic, onion, lots of herbs and a cheese sauce. Not really moussaka but it always got eaten up to the bowl scrapings.
It’s a rotten thing to hear about the way metformin upsets your insides. I had a quick google and it looks as if all T2 meds have potentially uncomfortable side effects. What do the doctors think?
I feel rotten if my BG’s too high, do you?
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My moussaka is based on the real thing, but kind of differs from what a Greek person would recognise. Many moussaka recipes don't use potato but the one I used to use was recommended by a Greek priest and it did have a layer of potatoes. However, potatoes are now out and I don't actually like aubergine so I use whatever vegetable I have available (yesterday it was some broccoli and some courgettes) half roasted in butter, a layer of whatever minced meat I have to hand (yesterday it was turkey with tomatoes) and a sauce made of cream and grated cheese (yesterday it was yoghurt - I was sure I had a pot of cream, but if so, it was invisible). The whole lot only needs heating through and have the extra cheese on top melt, and there you are - kind of moussaka.

When my BGs get up into the mid to high teens, I do feel pretty awful, but not as bad as when they drop too low.

Doctors? 1 what do they know? and 2 it's next to impossible to see a GP here. I have a mole gone wild on the side of my face (have had several malignant ones cut out in the past) and the only way I could get any attention over a period of 4 months was to ask a nurse what she thought of it. She went to see a GP for me, who declined to bother to come and see but sent someone with a camera to take a photo of it for sending away to a mainland dermatologist. No word back yet. Not that I am particularly worried about it, but I do think there might have been a bit more interest shown. Our appointments system is somewhat broken though. A GP I used to know quite well told me, some years ago now, that younger doctors don't want to do the hours that he did and could afford just to work part time, if they wanted. Hence plenty doctors, but few appointments.
 
My diet is not optimal to say the least at the moment but I am having the odd healthy meal. My BGs are pretty good, I think becaue I'm not overeating as much.

shelley262 said:
Let us know what you enjoy growing and is successful - maybe next year I do like growing.
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I will! At the moment I've got carrots, swede, spring onions and two kinds of kale (Nero de Toscana and Red Russian) which should give some pickings over Autumn and into winter - I've also got two Japanese squash fruits almost ready to pick, and they are supposed to be good keepers so they count as a winter harvest as well I think!

I wish I'd planted more swedes, but it was just an experiment to see if I could grow them in containers so I'll get more in next year. Oh and I have two kinds of lettuce, Webbs Wonderful and another one I can't remember the name of, but it's a wintering one that is frilly and crunchy. They're doing really well and I've had a few of them as baby lettuces already.

My potatoes are just a £3.99 bag of Charlotte seed potatoes that are in four large containers, I'm looking to have some by Christmas and maybe leave the rest in their containers in the polytunnel without the foliage to see if they keep.

My early spring hopefuls are several kinds of sprouting broccoli and a perennial sprouting one called nine star broccoli (which is more of a sprouting cauliflower I believe). I sowed some Senshyu onions and had a poor germination, so there's just four or five of those developing over winter.

I've ordered some onion sets and elephant garlic which should come in October.

I bet that's way more information than anyone wanted but I do love talking about gardening and vegetable growing!
 
jpscloud said:
My diet is not optimal to say the least at the moment but I am having the odd healthy meal. My BGs are pretty good, I think becaue I'm not overeating as much.



I will! At the moment I've got carrots, swede, spring onions and two kinds of kale (Nero de Toscana and Red Russian) which should give some pickings over Autumn and into winter - I've also got two Japanese squash fruits almost ready to pick, and they are supposed to be good keepers so they count as a winter harvest as well I think!

I wish I'd planted more swedes, but it was just an experiment to see if I could grow them in containers so I'll get more in next year. Oh and I have two kinds of lettuce, Webbs Wonderful and another one I can't remember the name of, but it's a wintering one that is frilly and crunchy. They're doing really well and I've had a few of them as baby lettuces already.

My potatoes are just a £3.99 bag of Charlotte seed potatoes that are in four large containers, I'm looking to have some by Christmas and maybe leave the rest in their containers in the polytunnel without the foliage to see if they keep.

My early spring hopefuls are several kinds of sprouting broccoli and a perennial sprouting one called nine star broccoli (which is more of a sprouting cauliflower I believe). I sowed some Senshyu onions and had a poor germination, so there's just four or five of those developing over winter.

I've ordered some onion sets and elephant garlic which should come in October.

I bet that's way more information than anyone wanted but I do love talking about gardening and vegetable growing!
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Had to give you a winner for your ambitious winter vegetable planting. Looking forward to regular progress updates.
 
jpscloud said:
My diet is not optimal to say the least at the moment but I am having the odd healthy meal. My BGs are pretty good, I think becaue I'm not overeating as much.
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I haven't forgotten you came back from a period of ignoring diabetes, I think you are doing very well finding a balance between diabetes and life again!
 
Breakfast: yoghurt with raspberries. Coffee.

BG still higher than I would like - in the 8's. Just had 4 pecan nuts to see if they help in the same way as walnuts.

Things went a bit out of kilter yesterday. Neil brought several boxes of videos through for me to sort through. I had told him just to dump the whole lot since we don't have a video player but he reminded me that we do have a perfectly good one which he can connect to my desktop PC, so I went through loads of boxes of them - kept some (just in case he ever does fix it up) and dumped a whole load of home recorded ones and put others aside for a charity shop. I was just finishing that job when Em arrived to do my cleaning for me (it's her weekend job but she couldn't come last weekend so came after school yesterday). In the end it was too late to roast vegetables, so I just put some of the ragout onto RyVitas and topped it with cheese slices.

Today, I hope to roast those vegetables later for my 2nd meal.
 
Just back from an appointment with the optician - ordered new reading glasses which will come in about a week.

BG had gone up to 9.6 before we went out but those 4 pecans seem to have worked. After a few minutes, BG started to drop and was below 7 for the first time in a week or more. Got into the car and Libre let me know BG was too low (3.7). A can of sweetened coffee from the store in the car started pushing it up again and it was 5.8 by the time I got to the optician's place. By the time we got home - about 2 hours after we left - Libre was alarming again at 8.3. Just had 4 more pecans and we'll see what happens.

EDIT: The jury is out. BG did drop a bit, but not decisively. Since then it's been up a bit and down a bit and at present is 7.3. That's better than recently, so I'm OK with that.

Vegetables in the oven roasting in some walnut oil (might as well use it) and I'll put the last of the ragout with them.
 
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Dairylea cheese on RyVita for breakfast. Running late as usual on a Thursday. BG high and staying there, despite insulin enough to normally cover the RyVita.

Stopping Metformin has eased the bowel symptoms somewhat but it is making the BGs harder to control. I have 400mg Metformin tablets at the moment but maybe they are available in a smaller dose, or perhaps I could just chop them in half. That might be an answer.

2nd meal will be a salad with ham and maybe hard boiled egg.
 
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