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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and chicken with vegetables for tea.

High of 28c forecast today but then gradually getting a little bit cooler - still what I regard as a heatwave though, over 25c for the rest of the week.
 
Breakfast: the avocado that Neil bought on Thursday was well ripened (too well really). Made avocado mayonnaise spread with it and piled it on a couple of lentil crispbreads. Tea.

2nd meal will be vegetable curry. Half a cauliflower to use up so I'll pair it with some butternut squash and lentils. Might see if there's any ready cooked rice in the freezer to go with it. If not, may cook some rice this morning and put it in the freezer, then take it back out to go with the curry. I don't know if that will be long enough to chill it but I don't see why it has to be overnight.

Temperature here is said to be 15C and overcast with a fairly strong breeze which the trees inform me is coming from the north east. Actually, it is quite bright, with the occasional sunshine clearing the clouds. The breeze makes it feel rather less than 15C. 4 layers again today.
 
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Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and pork tenderloin with vegetables for tea. I harvested the broad beans on Friday, a much smaller harvest than I thought it would be. I may not grow them again, or I may grow field beans for green manure and have the smaller beans as a little bonus in the spring. I got my first handful of cobra climbing beans yesterday, which I will definitely grow again. I think they freeze better than runner beans.

It's a little "cooler" with a high of 26c today, and a moderate breeze so I'm hoping for a more comfortable day. Hope your weather is a bit more comfortable at the other end of the thermometer too, @Annb
 
Temperature said to be 16C today and the breeze is less as well, so it feels a bit warmer. Only 3 layers at present.

Breakfast was 2 slices of Lorne sausage (thin slices) with 2 slices of RyVita. Before breakfast my BG was low (alarm sounded at 3.7) so I had one of my cans of sweetened espresso and that brought it up into the 5's. Tea after breakfast. So that makes one coffee and 2 teas so far today.

I ran out of energy fairly early yesterday so didn't cook. Just threw together a salad with cottage cheese.

2nd meal today had better be the vegetable curry that I didn't make yesterday.
 
2nd meal today had better be the vegetable curry that I didn't make yesterday.

It wasn't. Too sore to move around so just had tea and coffee with a dry lentil cracker.

Breakfast: a soda scone. Coffee.

2nd meal: chicken and leek soup.

Expecting a visitor around lunchtime so that's what the soup is for and the soda scones. Also managed to make a lemon traybake - just in case. That's why I couldn't move when I should have made my 2nd meal.

EDIT: I had a slice of the lemon cake - just a small one. Naughty, but nice. Taken extra insulin to cope with it. Next visit (next Monday) it will be coffee cake and I expect I'll have some of that as well. I should know better - and I do, but I expect to succumb anyway. I mean - coffee cake!
 
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Porridge for breakfast, tuna salad for lunch and pork tenderloin with vegetables for tea. The tenderloin made enough for several meals so I might freeze some if I want something different for tea tomorrow.
 
I'm back but been very busy. Can't post tomorrow morning as I'm out early again. My best friend from University is 70 tomorrow and we are meeting up for lunch and having an outing to celebrate. I also need to do a caring visit before I go and on my way back.
Will be watering later this evening with a new hose bought in a hurry today. I got a bit of a surprise when watering yesterday evening as hose split while full on - yes I did look like a drowned rat but at least it cooled me down!
Plans for tomorrow are to reheat a frozen hm LC lasagne and serve with some garden leaves.
 
Great to "see" you again @shelley262 - hope you have a lovely time celebrating your friend's birthday. I might deliberately pop the hose on mist and drench myself tomorrow, that sounds lovely in this weather :hilarious:
 
Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch with fried courgettes - from my garden!!! I also have a little gem squash ready to use, which I will roast with some bought peppers and my own onion, and have with some of my broad beans and pork tenderloin for tea.
 
Had a lovely birthday treat lunch out to celebrate a close friend's birthday at Cote in Worcester yesterday - whitebait starter and steak and salad main but meant I was stuffed still a teatime so planned lasagne dinner is now for tonight. I had a small piece of LC bread at teatime with a rarebit topping.
Planning lc granola in a few mins, salad lunch and then my low carb lasagne and salad for dinner.
Gardening is just watering and plant inspection it takes all my available time as too hot to do much for most of the day! Still only a few beans, my tomatoes meanwhile resemble a tomato farm although no ripe ones yet and to my great excitement I spotted my first mini cucumber growing. Salad leaves thankfully continue supplying us.
Planning baking more low carb bread this morning before it gets too hot also have a free hours electricity slot at 9 so washing and baking on agenda. Hope everyone has a good day.
 
Breakfast: fried egg on toasted soda bread. Coffee.

Still didn't do anything with the cauliflower yesterday. Too tired by the time unexpected visitors left. Fell asleep and it was too late to start cooking when I woke up. Just had some frozen fish fingers and some coffee. My visitor, also T2, has lost 2 stone in the last 3 months and her HBa1c is down to 48, her BMI is down from 42 to 36. She also has lots more energy than she used to have. How? She was recommended to have Wegovy injections, but they are hard to come by so she was given a pill that does the same thing. Unfortunately, I can't remember what it is called. It certainly works. I have come to the conclusion that it is the only thing that is going to work for me, so am going to ask the diabetes nurse at our GP practice if she can prescribe it since the one at the hospital refused.

2nd meal? Will there be one? I really ought to make something.
 
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How? She was recommended to have Wegovy injections, but they are hard to come by so she was given a pill that does the same thing.
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That sounds ideal @Annb, I hope you can get it. I have mounjaro injections and they are working very well for me with a small weight loss, but good BG (not quite as good as your visitor's but GP is happy) and I am feeling pretty good these days with a lot more energy. In fact, what's really slowing me down at the moment is the hot weather! Next week is supposed to be still very good but a little cooler and I'm so looking forward to it. Nights are nice and cool now too.

Glad you had a great time @shelley262 and your tomatoes are doing well - mine are too, and two plants have some tantalisingly close to ripening!

Porridge for breakfast, then a garden harvest lunch with a roasted little gem squash, small courgette, some broad beans and mushrooms (I didn't grow those!). I would have had chicken or sausages with it but didn't have any defrosted and it was enough anyway.

For tea I'll be having the last of the pork tenderloin with some resistant starch rice and a mix of the first runner beans and french climbing beans.

I harvested a small container of new potatoes and I've cooked them and they're chilling in the fridge to make resistant starch - I'll mostly use them as potato salad.
 
It's hot! I don't get to say that often but I'm sitting here, with doors and windows wide open, hoping for a breath of air. It is supposed to be about 20C but inside the house, in the shade, it is 24C. Am I complaining? You southerners would be very comfortable with it, but the last time we saw anything like this was 37 years ago - 1989 that was a summer, that was. Before that, we had a good spell of sun in 1974. Sun right through from February to June - we moved here in August 1974 and had been house hunting in the spring of that year. Got completely the wrong impression of the climate. When we got here it was all rainbows - and the rain that goes with them.
 
@Annb I think I've started to adapt to the heat now - it's 28.9 here in my living room and I have three fans on me, and I'm fairly comfortable. A few weeks ago I'd be flaking out! I still can't do much in the sun, but this morning we had a little bit of cloud cover and it was around 18 to 20c - absolute bliss in the garden :joyful:

I hope we have low 20s for August too, but last year we went from high summer to full on autumn as soon as July was over. That won't be great for my late season crops, I'm hoping for really good weather for my winter squash ripening.
 
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