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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Yesterday I had porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and I'm back on the chicken curry train so had that with some runner beans from the freezer - using those up now as it won't be long before the next season's beans will be coming (barring any disasters!)

Today will be the same, and the weather is good so gardening will happen! Yesterday I started cutting the grass again, I'll carry on with that today and finish sifting some soil for the carrot planters, then sow carrots and swedes.
 
Breakfast: One h/m oat bar. It was meant to be semi-sweet, but has turned out more semi-savoury. Fine as long as you're not looking for a sugary bar. Contains oats, walnuts, dates, peanut butter, egg and some coconut syrup (very little). Quite filling - one bar 1" x 3" is enough. Plus coffee.

2nd meal: ragout with the last of the cooked chickpea rice.
 
Porridge for breakfast, planning the same as yesterday so cottage cheese salad for lunch, curry and vegetables for tea.

My sungold tomato is now setting fruit! I should be eating those in about a month, so it's really living up to its reputation as a very early fast maturing tomato. I moved it to my south facing windowsill and it seems to really like it there.

My chillies are putting on some lovely strong growth under the growlights, so I have high hopes they'll do well indoors. I might put a couple of them in the polytunnel along with some of the tomatoes in May. I'm going to keep a mini cucumber on a windowsill as I never had any success with them outdoors or in the polytunnel - hoping for success this year!

@Annb, I will try the 9 star broccoli today - it looks just like a white sprouting broccoli rather than the small cauliflower heads I was expecting though. I'm planting some multi head cauliflower seeds this year, I'm really hankering after my own caulis!
 
Breakfast: smashed avocado on crackers. Coffee.

2nd meal will be out so I have no idea what will be available. I'm taking vegetable curry and some lemon drizzle cupcakes with me. I should be able to have some of the curry, if nothing else. There is some potato and some sweet potato in it, but a little bit won't do any harm.
 
The nine star broccoli is delicious! It's like sprouting broccoli but much sweeter, and it doesn't have the mustard tang that brassicas usually have. Hope it's ok to blather on about this, it is food, it is low carb, and I have eaten it :hilarious:

I steamed it in the microwave for five minutes, 3 would probably have done, and it's on an 8 inch plate (for scale). These are the tops of two plants, and there are a few more sprouts to come, but if you want more than a side dish once or twice, you'd need quite a few plants. The leaves are really tasty too, though.PXL_20260421_103408610.jpg
 
jpscloud said:
The nine star broccoli is delicious! It's like sprouting broccoli but much sweeter, and it doesn't have the mustard tang that brassicas usually have. Hope it's ok to blather on about this, it is food, it is low carb, and I have eaten it :hilarious:

I steamed it in the microwave for five minutes, 3 would probably have done, and it's on an 8 inch plate (for scale). These are the tops of two plants, and there are a few more sprouts to come, but if you want more than a side dish once or twice, you'd need quite a few plants. The leaves are really tasty too, though.View attachment 75320
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Oh I like the look of those. I always use the leaves from cauliflower or broccoli - waste not ...etc. I think I would prefer them as a side, rather than a main, dish. Reminds me though, I have some of the broccoli version in the fridge which I must use - tomorrow maybe.
 
My outdoor radishes are coming on apace and possibly a bit overcrowded in the pot. Anyone eaten the young plants as a salad vegetable? They are mainly leaf just a thin radish root atm but they look like they would be a good salad addition. Maybe I'll thin them out a bit tomorrow and add them to a lunch salad - I've got some smoked trout may go well together? I also have plans tomorrow for potting on my tomatoes again as they are outgrowing their current pots - all 40 of them. Shame you guys don't live near me as I have way too many - family and friends will hopefully take some over next few weeks before they completely take over our conservatory!
 
shelley262 said:
My outdoor radishes are coming on apace and possibly a bit overcrowded in the pot. Anyone eaten the young plants as a salad vegetable?
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Now for me, radishes are the work of the devil! Same with turnips, it's that distinctive peppery edge they have. I love swedes, but they are not peppery at all, even though they're closely related. I bet if you like radishes, the thinnings will be great in salads, though, and thinking about it they might not be as peppery! I use my teeny tiny carrot thinnings in salads, I just hate to throw any plant away.

Just had my curry with runner beans, it's going to be touch and go to use the freezer stocks up before the new season starts! My yin yang beans are getting decent sized pods on now, and I tried a couple steamed but while they're nice, I think they will be better kept for the shelled beans and I'll stick to the other varieties of filet french beans I'm growing for the usual green beans.
 
DJC3 said:
Thanks for all your good wishes everyone. It’s good to know the lack of gallbladder hasn’t affected your diet @Antje77
Today couldn’t face hospital breakfast, had 1/2 a ginger biscuit which helped a little with nausea.
At home lunchtime- a slice of L/c toast and marmite.
Still craving salt a couple of hours later so a chicken stock cube in hot water.
Dinner was 1/2 a ham and tomato sandwich in L/c bread. Followed by a spoon of Fage 0% fat yoghurt and blueberries.
Paracetamol at intervals during the day.
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(Quote taken from here: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today-low-carb-forum.75781/post-2800378)
Glad to hear you're doing ok on paracatamol and whatever food you crave!

I wasn't hungry at all for two days after my operation (this was before diabetes) so I ate very little. My gallbladder turned out to be very inflamed which they didn't know when they started, so a part of my liver had been removed as well to make room to get to the gallbladder.

After two or three days, appetite returned with a vengeance, but by that time I had been more or less 'shanghaied' by a friend with a ship who had a completely useless new deckhand.
I told him no way, he said I'd be the perfect deckhand if I was able to hold on to the steering wheel and the gas handle, and lay down while not needed.

Long story short, I was on the ship holding on to the steering wheel when my skipper needed to do sailing stuff, and as a reward I got to do a lot of harbour manueuvres too.
Traditionally, you eat with the guests, and the first day my appetite returned they cooked shawarma meat in a very creamy cream sauce. :hilarious:

I had the choice between ignoring my sudden 3 days worth of hunger or taking my chances with an amazing meal.
I took the gamble, and nothing happened despite the recommendation to introduce fats slowly.

Fingers crossed it'll be the same for you!
(But I don't recommend sailing this week, it was a lot of fun but it also hurt a lot, and the surgeon thought I was out of my mind.)
 
Antje77 said:
(Quote taken from here: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today-low-carb-forum.75781/post-2800378)
Glad to hear you're doing ok on paracatamol and whatever food you crave!

I wasn't hungry at all for two days after my operation (this was before diabetes) so I ate very little. My gallbladder turned out to be very inflamed which they didn't know when they started, so a part of my liver had been removed as well to make room to get to the gallbladder.

After two or three days, appetite returned with a vengeance, but by that time I had been more or less 'shanghaied' by a friend with a ship who had a completely useless new deckhand.
I told him no way, he said I'd be the perfect deckhand if I was able to hold on to the steering wheel and the gas handle, and lay down while not needed.

Long story short, I was on the ship holding on to the steering wheel when my skipper needed to do sailing stuff, and as a reward I got to do a lot of harbour manueuvres too.
Traditionally, you eat with the guests, and the first day my appetite returned they cooked shawarma meat in a very creamy cream sauce. :hilarious:

I had the choice between ignoring my sudden 3 days worth of hunger or taking my chances with an amazing meal.
I took the gamble, and nothing happened despite the recommendation to introduce fats slowly.

Fingers crossed it'll be the same for you!
(But I don't recommend sailing this week, it was a lot of fun but it also hurt a lot, and the surgeon thought I was out of my mind.)
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I had my gallbladder out before I was diabetic too. I was in the pub eating bacon sandwiches the next day!
 
I also had my gall bladder removed long before the T2 diagnosis (but probably not before I had the condition) and nobody thought to tell me about not eating fats until years later, when I spoke to a doctor about something else. "Oh no. Without a gall ladder you shouldn't be eating fats at all. Your body can't deal with fats any more." I've never stopped using butter and eating other animal fats. It's fibre that upsets my system, not fat.

My 2nd meal was a couple of spoons of my own veg curry.
 
Breakfast: 2 oat and banana cookies. Coffee.

2nd meal will be salmon with broccoli spears.

The idea of cooked, chilled and reheated carbs didn't work yesterday. I had 2 tablespoons of the veg curry which did contain both potatoes and sweet potatoes. I made it on Monday, chilled it and it was reheated yesterday. I did dose for it, but maybe not enough because it should have been resistant carbs. BG shot up to 10.4 and stayed there until I went to bed at 1 am. Down to 6.6 by 4 am though.
 
I’m really encouraged by all your gallbladder recovery stories @Antje77 @Rachox @Annb , and thanks for your gentle hugs too @jpscloud.
I’m still feeling rubbish but I think that’s just because I’m always sick for a week or so after an anaesthetic so I’m hoping I’ll soon perk up. I also have vagus syncope where I pass out when vomiting which makes it v scary.
Antje I can’t believe you were steering a ship and eating a creamy shawarma a few days afterwards. You are superwoman!!
 
DJC3 said:
I’m really encouraged by all your gallbladder recovery stories @Antje77 @Rachox @Annb , and thanks for your gentle hugs too @jpscloud.
I’m still feeling rubbish but I think that’s just because I’m always sick for a week or so after an anaesthetic so I’m hoping I’ll soon perk up. I also have vagus syncope where I pass out when vomiting which makes it v scary.
Antje I can’t believe you were steering a ship and eating a creamy shawarma a few days afterwards. You are superwoman!!
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Sorry that you are still feeling poorly but I hope that passes very quickly and you start to feel much better. Obviously, we are meant to have gallbladders, but life goes on very well without one. Obviously as well, we are all different so you must work out what's best for you but, I wouldn't worry too much about fats in your diet unless you find that you are not tolerating them. In my case innocence was bliss but it didn't do me any harm. I still have butter, double cream, cheese and full fat milk in my diet as well as meat with a fairly high fat content and oily fish and I don't think it does me any harm. The gall bladder only stores bile it doesn't make it, you do that anyway.
 
DJC3 said:
I’m really encouraged by all your gallbladder recovery stories @Antje77 @Rachox @Annb , and thanks for your gentle hugs too @jpscloud.
I’m still feeling rubbish but I think that’s just because I’m always sick for a week or so after an anaesthetic so I’m hoping I’ll soon perk up. I also have vagus syncope where I pass out when vomiting which makes it v scary.
Antje I can’t believe you were steering a ship and eating a creamy shawarma a few days afterwards. You are superwoman!!
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Gosh your vagus syndrome sounds terrifying poor you. I hate nausea and try very very hard not to vomit! Like you though I'm a post anaesthetic nausea sufferer but thankfully to date only needed a couple of operations.
I've just had a call from my gp surgery to rearrange my annual review phone call from early tomorrow to this evening between 6 and 8. A bit sudden as I'm not looking forward to the cholesterol lecture and feeling very annoyed that I gave into persuasion last year and have ended up with unhealthy liver enzyme numbers - my ALT is four times what it was a year ago and first time ever I have a result in abnormal range because of meds taken to lower the cholesterol number - and even that didn't give an acceptable cholesterol figure! Plus I now have gut issues - you couldn't make it up. I'm just hoping liver and gut go back to normal once this drug is out of my system.
On the food topic I thinned out my radishes today and it was a delicious side salad.
 
Will be rooting for you and your phone call this evening. So many new drugs seem to have side effects which aren’t communicated properly. I do wish the medical profession weren’t so quick to jump on the ‘pill for every ill’ bandwagon.
 
Annb said:
Sorry that you are still feeling poorly but I hope that passes very quickly and you start to feel much better. Obviously, we are meant to have gallbladders, but life goes on very well without one. Obviously as well, we are all different so you must work out what's best for you but, I wouldn't worry too much about fats in your diet unless you find that you are not tolerating them. In my case innocence was bliss but it didn't do me any harm. I still have butter, double cream, cheese and full fat milk in my diet as well as meat with a fairly high fat content and oily fish and I don't think it does me any harm. The gall bladder only stores bile it doesn't make it, you do that anyway.
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I’m hopeful Ann and will introduce fats slowly (Keeping my fingers crossed). Having embraced the LCHF lifestyle I would be miserable going back to low fat now.
 
DJC3 said:
Will be rooting for you and your phone call this evening @Shelley262 So many new drugs seem to have side effects which aren’t communicated properly. I do wish the medical profession weren’t so quick to jump on the ‘pill for every ill’ bandwagon.
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Same food as yesterday, but I think tomorrow I'll have bolognese instead of curry!

I gave in to statins last year, and seem to be ok so far, with a slight reduction in "bad" cholesterol and a miniscule rise in "good". Nothing really spectacular, but the GP surgery is happy that I've given in :rolleyes:

I can't complain about the health care I get from the NHS - they've been really good to me. Maybe that's the reason I felt obliged to take statins :hilarious:
 
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