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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

shelley262 said:
Rushing around in garden this morning - its been quite windy and hadn't realised how much tomatoes had shot up so they were being blown about and in danger of snapping. So was out there in my night clothes, before even had a cup of tea, putting more ties on them to secure them.
Proper breakfast planned this morning, before go out, eggs and mushrooms need using up so scrambled eggs with mushrooms it is.
Lunch salad from garden plus hummus and possibly cheese
Dinner cheeseburger on low carb roll and salad.
Final packing, care stuff, and sorting today. Will report back on my food next when back middle of next week.We are sailing on the Cunard Liner Queen Mary 2 - usually can find a good choice of diabetes friendly food on Cunard and have a Dexcom sensor on to help me keep an eye on things.
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Sounds like a wonderful trip. Enjoy
 
After I posted yesterday I went outside as the sun had just peeped out - wearing a rain jacket and hat because of the cold though - and then the heavens opened. Not just with rain, but with a long, heavy hail shower! I'm really not enjoying this cold spell after such a hot start to spring.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and sausages with vegetables for tea.
 
Very bad this morning and had a home made cereal for breakfast. Not good for my BG. Tea. I am back onto tea, which is not my preferred drink, but I am beginning to suspect that coffee is having a deleterious effect on my innards.

2nd meal will be an attempt at a thing I can't remember the name of. It is a kind of spiced mince filled into a casing of mince and bulgar wheat and baked (Usually deep fried, I think, but I do don't deep frying these days). If I can make it work, I will serve it with more salady things. I have seen a recipe but, if I have it, I can't find it ecause I can't remember what it is called. I have a feeling that it begins with "K" but I'm not sure.

1780655476417.png Kibbeh! That's what it is called. Now I'll be able to look for the recipe.
 
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It's a rainy day but I'm still going to do gardening - I'm tidying up the polytunnel and between showers I'll do a bit more planting and organising in the garden. I don't like how chilly it is but I will count my blessings and use the cooler weather to get lots done, which I find difficult in warmer weather. Rain jacket and hat at the ready!

@shelley262 I hope your trip is going smoothly and you're having a wonderful time x

@Annb Kibbeh sounds lovely, I might give that a try.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and tea is yet to be decided.
 
The kibbeh wasn't a great success. Very tasty, but I guess I did something wrong because they all fell apart. Not the prettiest of meals. Still have some left which I will blindfold myself to eat later today. I didn't do the salad with them because I realised that I had some cauliflower leaves to use up. Usually I chop them up and put them in a stew (waste not etc) but I decided just to have them as a side dish and I am now a convert to caulflower leaves. Actually, better than the flower part of the vegetable. Just a pity that cauliflower are sold with most of the leaves chopped off. There's some of that left as well for later on.

Breakfast: Mozzaralla salad. Tea.
 
Annb said:
The kibbeh wasn't a great success. Very tasty, but I guess I did something wrong because they all fell apart. Not the prettiest of meals. Still have some left which I will blindfold myself to eat later today. I didn't do the salad with them because I realised that I had some cauliflower leaves to use up. Usually I chop them up and put them in a stew (waste not etc) but I decided just to have them as a side dish and I am now a convert to caulflower leaves. Actually, better than the flower part of the vegetable. Just a pity that cauliflower are sold with most of the leaves chopped off. There's some of that left as well for later on.

Breakfast: Mozzaralla salad. Tea.
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Totally agree about cauliflower leaves, so much nicer than cabbage leaves and often better than the florets, as you say, especially if the cauli has been hanging around in the supermarket for a bit. I'm growing some multi-head cauliflower this year, I'm not sure if they'll be a success but I like the idea of a smaller head and then some more after that is harvested - and hopefully the leaves will be great too.
 
All this talking about gardening lately has apparently had some effect on me. I bought an apple tree today and planted it!
It's a tree that grows miniature apples, not for eating so no problem with diabetes. :)

They didn't have small trees and I wanted one right now, good thing I live in an area where you can avoid roads with lots of traffic, I don't think my trip home was exactly legal :hilarious:
I drove just like this.

For dinner I had planned to not cook and get some battered fish from the fish monger who visits our village on saturdays. But she was sold out so I put some spareribs from the freezer in the airfryer and called it a meal.

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Tea last night was slow cooker chicken with runner beans from the freezer.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and tea will be whatever my friend has cooked when I visit later.
 
Antje77 said:
All this talking about gardening lately has apparently had some effect on me. I bought an apple tree today and planted it!
It's a tree that grows miniature apples, not for eating so no problem with diabetes. :)

They didn't have small trees and I wanted one right now, good thing I live in an area where you can avoid roads with lots of traffic, I don't think my trip home was exactly legal :hilarious:
I drove just like this.

For dinner I had planned to not cook and get some battered fish from the fish monger who visits our village on saturdays. But she was sold out so I put some spareribs from the freezer in the airfryer and called it a meal.

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That's quite a tall tree. We have a couple of crab apple trees and, even after about 40 years, they are still shorter than that one! Probably due to our climate, they never produce fruit - plenty of blossom, but it never gets anywhere. Now they are overshadowed by lots of other trees and bushes which have grown a lot faster, so probably never will fruit now. Very pretty trees though.

Breakfast: haven't had it yet - I fell asleep in the chair and have only just woken up. I have some left-over beef mince filling from the kibbeh so I'll heat that up and have it over some RyVita.

2nd meal will be a vegetable lasagne.
 
Just as I assembled the lasagne yesterday, our power went off so I couldn't cook it until quite late in the day. Then, of course, by the time it was ready, I'd gone beyond the need for food, so it is sitting in tħe fridge, ready to use today.

Breakfast today: a plain scone with butter. A few berries and cream. Tea.
 
I've been a bit busy with one thing and another and didn't get around to posting - my food choices have been a bit questionable too :oops:

I'm having porridge for breakfast, it will be cottage cheese or ham salad for lunch and pan fried hake with vegetables for tea.

In the garden I'm harvesting onions and lots of lettuce, a bit of rocket and a few sungold tomatoes - it won't be too long before I have a mini cucumber or two and maybe some courgettes! There is also a little crop of dwarf french beans that will be ready soon. I generally just get a handful per week from a 12" pot with two plants in, so I have a few pots on the go and I'm repeat sowing for future weeks.

It's interesting that when I went off the rails with my food choices, it only took a couple of days for me to start craving my salads and vegetables again, so edible gardening is very good medicine for me!
 
Breakfast: RyVita again but with Tartex this time. Tea.

2nd meal: Pork Ragout with chickpea rice. Still some left for at least one more meal.

Managed to get an appointment to see a GP today. He's one of the better ones at the practice and took some time to try to figure out what is wrong. It seems I still have some fluid on my lungs - doesn't surprise me - but no signs of infection. So the antibiotics I was given after my previous phone call with a different GP probably wasn't needed. He thinks some of the medication I am on for Blood Pressure may be causing a problem, so has reduced the amount of that I am to take. He's also arranging for another chest Xray. So we'll see what comes of that. AND he actually made an appointment for me to see him again next week.
 
I'm back home and thankfully my garden looks really happy - watered by the rain, no sign I could see of pests apart from the ants who like my Cosmos but as it's not food I can live with that.
I loved my break - a bit short but as carers it works for us as we don't worry as much about problems arising on a short break. Back to it refreshed.
We were really well looked after, exceptional food with lots of low carb food. I did get tempted once by a small coconut milk pudding which looked like the sort of thing I'd make myself however my Dexcom sensor spotted the large amount of sugar - my bloods soared to 11.8 !! So its back to my low carb puds. Lots and lots of good quality meat, fish, eggs cheese, nuts, vegetables and salads were eaten and enjoyed. Lots of exploring and walking done too.
Today planning to eat
Breakfast scrambled eggs on LC toast ( I've missed my toast!)
Lunch salads, nuts and cheeses and a few berries
Dinner cheeseburger in LC roll with lots of salad leaves.
Busy day ahead probably good it's rainy as other wise would want to be out in the garden.
@Antje77 that's an impressive tree! Hope it wasn't too hard o dig a hole big enough to plant it!
 
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@Annb that sounds really promising, hope the Dr can get you the right treatment sorted.

@shelley262 I'm glad the holiday went well! You certainly didn't miss much with the weather, I'm sure my plants think it's winter again now! After the weekend it's supposed to get warmer, so hopefully things will take off. We're under a band of persistent rain here today too, I did a bit of pottering around in my rain gear but it's chilly as well so I'm going to treat myself to a lazy-ish day with just a few bits of housework.

Porridge for breakfast, salad for lunch (probably cottage cheese) and the other half of the pan fried hake for tea with vegetables.

@Antje77 love the apple tree - be careful, it's a slippery slope when you start planting things! :hilarious:
 
Scrambled egg for breakfast today. Tea.

To town to get my legs bandaged and a blood test. BG was heading downwards before I left so I had a couple of biscuits to bring it back up. All the same, I had a hypo while there. Another 2 biscuits did nothing but the can of sweetened coffee from the stash in the car when Neil arrived, did the trick - slowly, but at least I could see that the trend was up quite quickly. Now feeling nauseous and trying to deal with it with a mug of hot water.

Should be a 2nd meal of more of the ragout, but not sure that there will be one.

Just had a phone call asking me to go for an XRay tomorrow morning. I said yes, of course, but not sure I have the strength to go. Neil will get me there though.
 
shelley262 said:
@Antje77 that's an impressive tree! Hope it wasn't too hard o dig a hole big enough to plant it!
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I'm completely spoilt. Asdked neighbour Tale to help me pry it from the car without hurting it, laid out the garden hose to soften the ground for digging and went to get the groceries from my car while the ground was soaking.
Got back to the garden just in time to see Tale put the tree in a freshly dug hole!
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@Antje77 love the apple tree - be careful, it's a slippery slope when you start planting things! :hilarious:
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I think I'm safe, I prefer reading about your garden adventures.
But I must admit that after the storm on monday the first thing I did upon coming home was checking if my tree had survived!

Wish me luck, I'll be going to a heavy metal festival tomorrow with my neighbours.
Three full days of living on beer and festival food and sleeping at the campsite. Not allowed to bring in food so I'll have to be very creative with the available food trucks, or maybe I'll be a pro at dosing for chips at the end of the weekend.

We'll see, I'll likely have fun, and I've been a nervous wreck for a week already in anticipation.
 
Antje77 said:
Wish me luck, I'll be going to a heavy metal festival tomorrow with my neighbours.
Three full days of living on beer and festival food and sleeping at the campsite. Not allowed to bring in food so I'll have to be very creative with the available food trucks, or maybe I'll be a pro at dosing for chips at the end of the weekend.
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Ah heavy metal, I remember my teenage phase! One of my neighbours is very fond of it, and clearly not fond of earbuds or headphones, so I get to hear it quite often and it does make me smile :hilarious:

Hopefully there'll be some mostly-meat food options - the high protein trend has even reached food trucks I believe!

Porridge for breakfast, salad for lunch with chicken I think, and something from the freezer for tea.
 
@Antje77 enjoy the festival - getting your insulin right for what you're eating and drinking sounds like a challenge when you are eating only from food trucks. Hope weather kind too for camping.
As I do every morning when at home I have a shot of kefir mixed with spoon each of fish oil and ACV. Planning on adding in some keto granola with no sugar Almond milk this morning for breakfast followed by tomatoes roast in olive oil served on LC toast
Will be hm hummus and celery plus small salad for lunch and for dinner roast chicken eaten cold with more salads.
I'm making a conscious effort to try and improve my gut health diversity.
 
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