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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

MrsA2 said:
Not a recipe as such. I just sliced 2 aubergines, fried them in lard/butter until just soft them layered in an oven proof dish with jar tomato (pasta) sauce. The middle layer was the sausage meat (also pre fried a little). Very top was thick layer of grated cheeses (mix of whatever was in fridge)
So layers were tomato, aubergine, meat, tomato, aubergine, tomato, cheese.
Bake until soft and bubbling.
Even better if cooked ahead and reheated
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Thanks! If I make it tomorrow - which I probably will (especially if I make my own tomato sauce as I only bought a small jar on Tuesday!), it'll have leftover meatloaf in the middle.

For today, I had overnight oats for breakfast, with the end of the milled flaxseeds. I really do prefer chia seeds in my oats, I think. I might also add sunflower seeds, which can alternate with walnuts. Then for lunch I had the last Cornish pasty and an ice lolly, and supper, which was early as I had a Local Preachers' Meeting, was leftover vegetable stew, to which I added a small tin of peas, and a small tin of chickpeas which I blitzed up to thicken it. I think half the tin blitzed would have been enough, and the rest left whole. I'm still experimenting... but then, I always do! Followed by kefir yoghurt with fresh raspberries. In the morning went to tai chi practice - our instructor is recovering from an operation and her replacement (whose style doesn't suit me) was unavailable, so a few of us practiced together in the park. Most enjoyable!
 
Planning on making a pork and veggies slow cooked casserole for dinner today. It was cold and wet on my early garden walk this morning and made me feel more like cold weather food!
Out all day yesterday so lots of catchup stuff to do today.
Hope everyone has a good day. I'm still working through the last batch of fresh tomatoes ( freezer is full of them!) So a few tomatoes will be roasted in olive oil for breakfast served on LC toast. Hope everyone has a good day.
 
Just had breakfast of about 1/4 of a cucumber - eaten like an apple - and a few teaspoons of cottage cheese. A digestive biscuit. Tea. Can't let BG go too low this morning - it's legs day and BG usually drops on Thursday morning while I am getting my bandaging done. Also need to make sure I have my emergency biscuits with me.

2nd meal - I'll have to do something with those leeks - I didn't bother yesterday after all, I just had some more bits of ham, cottage cheese and RyVita. Enough to put my BG up nice and high so that it would last all night.

These pills are surprisingly effective. I've reduced my basal insulin by 8 during the week (49u to 41u) and taken no bolus doses at all. This morning I found that I've lost 2.9kg this week as well. I wasn't expecting any results for weeks yet, the dose I am on is so small.
 
Annb said:
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2nd meal - I'll have to do something with those leeks - I didn't bother yesterday after all, I just had some more bits of ham, cottage cheese and RyVita. Enough to put my BG up nice and high so that it would last all night.
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Maybe you could do that dish where you wrap the cooked whole leeks in ham, cover with a Bechamel sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake for 20 minutes or so. Hmm, might do that tomorrow night. Tonight will be leftover meatloaf baked into aubergine (thanks, @MrsA2). Just had overnight oats with blueberries. Why do I like them when they've been frozen, but find then tasteless when raw? I eat them if they are there, but don't buy then raw very often.
 
That's brilliant @Annb ! Thank goodness they let you try it. Mounjaro has been great for me, BGs have been steady and I've lost 10kg since January on the lowest dose so hopefully I can go up a dose after my diabetic review next month.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese for lunch and pork and mushroom thing for tea.
 
Back from the clinic now. I didn't go into any shops. The weather is foul today and I stayed in the car. I think I'll make some leek soup - it's that kind of weather. Brrrr!

Picked up my new meds on the way home so we'll see what effect they have on these funny hands of mine. Funny, as in odd, and why wouldn't I have odd hands? Everything else is odd about me. :happy:
 
Discovered my sunflower seeds had been invaded by the pantry moths, and were no longer edible. I have put up a pheromone trap and it attracts them within minutes - needs another clean one, I think.

Haven't been out today, other than a quick dash to Lidl, who had what they described as a "ploughman's quiche" reduced to half price, so we had half of it for lunch, followed by a little ice cream (Dubai pistachio - rather nice). This morning I unmoulded my soap and cut it into bars, but there were a lot of tiny bits, so I put them all into a jamjar and added some rosewater and then put them into the microwave to rebatch. Only I left them too long, and the jar boiled over. At least I only had to wipe down the inside of the microwave - it was already soapy!

I made the baked aubergine dish for supper with the end of the meat loaf, the end of the halloumi and some Parmesan. I did use a bought sauce in the end, largely because cutting up the soap took longer than I thought it would, and I didn't have time to make one as I would have liked. I served it with half an olive foccacia from LIdl, but discovered, too late, too late, that I have some jollof rice in the freezer, which would have been perfect for it. Then we finished with a fruit yoghurt - mine was blueberry - and now I am exiled from the bedroom while my husband has a Zoom meeting. I have got ready for bed, although I have no intention of going there. Insides have been a bit moody today, but not as bad as sometimes!
 
jpscloud said:
That's brilliant @Annb ! Thank goodness they let you try it. Mounjaro has been great for me, BGs have been steady and I've lost 10kg since January on the lowest dose so hopefully I can go up a dose after my diabetic review next month.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese for lunch and pork and mushroom thing for tea.
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I, too, have lost 10 or even 11 kg since January, when I started to weigh myself regularly, and probably 5 or 6 kg before that! Semaglutide FTW, as they say! And it keeps my blood sugar steady, and the idea is to find out whether it will protect me from having a heart attack or a stroke. I did read somewhere that metformin may protect against Alzheimers, so I could live as long as my mother, and my grandmother before her (she was 101 when she died!).
 
Still can't shift this sinussy headache, though tooth seems a bit better yay!
Scrambled eggs for breakfast before double dance class.

Contents of a lidl egg mayo and bacon sandwich (ditched the bread). 2 slices ham and a small bit gouda.

Hubby cooked tonight. He tried hard as he thinks he's in the dog house (he even gardened yesterday without having to be asked!). Waitrose meal deal so he picked baked camembert starter (except it was in fried breadcrumbs), chicken forestiere (very rich) and cauliflower and broccoli gratin (again very rich).
Would have each dish again, but in separate meals and would add fresh veg to each. Trouble is I can't tell him that as he'd take it as ungrateful criticism .

Local village show this Saturday, not sure I'll have anything to enter, maybe raspberries and a buddleia that's produced a second flush, but rain may yet scupper that.
 
Morning everyone - it's Friday so salmon is on my dinner menu as usual with veggies. I also may make some fish pate for lunch - using tinned mackerel or sardines in olive oil blended with some seasoning, lemon juice and some horseradish for a bit of kick. I've got a packet of LC seed crackers in my store cupboard left over from M and S although I can't find them on the shelves of a couple of nearby M and S stores again - Hope they haven't been discontinued!
 
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