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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

A banana and a couple of RyVita for breakfast, plus some tea and some water.

2nd meal should be some kind of vegetable bake. Not sure what protein to put in it. I had cheese for my 2nd meal yuesterday, melted over vegetables, and felt pretty sick afterwards. Cheddar doesn't usually do that to me, but maybe it was just the combination. I shan't be using cheese today though, to stay on the safe side.
 
Porridge for breakfast, omelette for lunch with a thin slice of home made bread, and I keep changing my mind about tea - I think maybe fish fingers with vegetables from the garden or (yet again!) chicken.

I have been sneezing and had a bit of a runny nose with blocked ears today. I don't feel ill at the moment, but the great energy I had yesterday is gone sadly, so I didn't cut the rest of the grass. I'm not too upset, the parts I see from my windows look better for now :hilarious:
 
Decided to put some haricot beans with a tin of tomatoes and some onion and broccoli together with the last of that pack of frozen chips as a "crust". The chips should be resistant starch, but there's a fair amount in the dish, so it will probably do for 2 days.
 
@shelley262 Hope you enjoy your holiday as much as we did ours, except for that awful day, of course!

Another bad day for me - I was walking home from Church with the sun in my eyes and I simply didn't see a bollard in the middle of the pavement, and did a spectacular somersault over it. Wasn't badly hurt, thankfully, but have wrenched my back slightly. Which hurts!

Breakfast was a poached egg on baked beans on toast, orange juice and coffee. Lunch was clean-the-fridge soup, a cold sausage, a slice of sourdough bread and butter, and an ice lolly. Supper was steak with steamed potatoes, cauliflower and peas, followed by fromage frais with strawberry compote. And I think I'm going to have a few nuts-and-berries now.
 
Breakfast: overnight oats with some chopped up strawberries (quite tasteless actually). Tea.
2nd meal will be the rest of the baked vegetables and beans from yesterday.

Not feeling quite so grotty today, but still very tired. I'm finding that, with these weight/glucose reduction pills, my stomach gets very sore and I feel horribly bloated if I go for a long period with no food (who moved all those keys to the wrong place on my keyboard?) so I have to have a snack halfway between breakfast and my 2nd meal. I'm sure the idea is to eat less, not more, but other than that, the pills seem to be working.
 
Deep Heat is miraculous! Used a patch in bed last night, and this morning smeared the cream all over my back, and it is massively better. I did sleep most of the afternoon and was very stiff when I got up to get supper, but when I go to bed I'll anoint my back again. Mind you, when I went out, my back was okay, but walking seemed to give me a headache.

Breakfast was overnight oats with banana, pear, kefir and nuts-in-honey; lunch was a Currywurst with a slice of buttered seeded sourdough, olives and marinated peppers, followed by ice-cream; supper was a vegetable bake which didn't work, but was okay, followed by a coffee cream dessert pot.
 
Mrs Redboots said:
Deep Heat is miraculous! Used a patch in bed last night, and this morning smeared the cream all over my back, and it is massively better. I did sleep most of the afternoon and was very stiff when I got up to get supper, but when I go to bed I'll anoint my back again. Mind you, when I went out, my back was okay, but walking seemed to give me a headache.

Breakfast was overnight oats with banana, pear, kefir and nuts-in-honey; lunch was a Currywurst with a slice of buttered seeded sourdough, olives and marinated peppers, followed by ice-cream; supper was a vegetable bake which didn't work, but was okay, followed by a coffee cream dessert pot.
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According to our local pharmacist, diabetics should be very careful with products like 'Deep Heat'. He advised me not to use it (I gather he thinks I wouldn't feel if my back or knees were burning). I hope it works well for you.

I would have given you a hug for that pain, but you sounded as though you were reasonably comfortable, and your meal sounded good, even if the veg bake was a disappointment, so I made it a like instead.
 
@Mrs Redboots I'm glad you are doing ok!

I forgot to post yesterday's food - I had porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese with salad for lunch and pork and mushroom in thai curry sauce with runner beans for tea.

Today it's porridge for breakfast, cheese salad for lunch and more of the pork and mushroom for tea.
 
Annb said:
According to our local pharmacist, diabetics should be very careful with products like 'Deep Heat'. He advised me not to use it (I gather he thinks I wouldn't feel if my back or knees were burning). I hope it works well for you.
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Thing is, I ought not to use Voltarol gel because of being on blood thinners, although they are very mild blood thinners these days. I hadn't heard we shouldn't use Deep Heat - I don't, very often, but it was very necessary yesterday, although I didn't use it today (yet!). Still very sleepy and disinclined to do much; tai chi class tomorrow should sort things, though. And I think it's the first time our instructor will be back after a serious operation, so it should be excellent!

So today's breakfast was porridge, which was a bit of a failure as (a) I forgot to put the chia seeds on to soak for 20 minutes so had to leave them out and (b) decided to put some frozen blueberries in there. Which was a Big Mistake as, of course, they made the porridge far too runny, and even putting it back in the microwave for a further 2 minutes didn't really sort it. Also had a banana in there, and some nuts-in-honey. And fruit juice and coffee.

Lunch was vegetable soup, and a slice of buttered seeded sourdough with Bavarian sausage (I didn't miss most of Alpine Week in Lidl - still plenty of my favourite goodies left!) and French cheese! Also a couple of olives and some marinated peppers. Followed by a mini ice-lolly.

Supper was fresh filled pasta with a home-made fresh tomato sauce, topped with Parmesan, followed by the last of the fromage blanc and of the raspberry compote. And finished with a square of dark almond chocolate. Yummy!
 
Mrs Redboots said:
I hadn't heard we shouldn't use Deep Heat
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As far as I know, this is a blanket disclaimer because some diabetics have sensory loss because of nerve damage.
This is a serious risk with anything heat involved, imagine drawing a bath and only noticing it's blistering hot after you get in up to your knees. Damage will have been done to your feet in that case.

I have no idea what Deep Heat is, but I do know about the blanket disclaimer. Buy a pumace stone for calluses and the package will say not to use when diabetic.
 
Overnight oats again for breakfast with some rather tasteless strawberries. Tea.
Lunchtime: 2 Jacobs crackers with Boursin cheese. Water.
2nd meal: Defrosted mashed potato with a lot of grated cheese and some crispy fried onions, topped with tinned butter beans in tomato sauce.

More trouble with computers. I hate them! Can't do without them, but I hate them!
 
Breakfast was to have been avocado on RyVita but the av o was still rock hard, despite having sat for days alongside some bananas in an effort to ripen it. So it was banana on RyVita and tea.

2nd meal: there is still some of the cheesey mash left, and some butter beans, so that will be part of it. Maybe I'll add some Quorn nuggets to it.
 
Antje77 said:
I have no idea what Deep Heat is, but I do know about the blanket disclaimer. Buy a pumace stone for calluses and the package will say not to use when diabetic.
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Hey ho.... Deep Heat is a cream you massage into sore muscles etc, and it warms/heals the area. I don't have any sensory damage, so I don't expect it will matter. However, at the recommendation of a friend from tai chi, I've bought some magnesium spray, which I hope will help. I must check whether there is any visible bruising, and apply arnica if there is.

Tai chi wasn't as restorative as I'd hoped, and I had to spend most of the class sitting down. Oddly, walking seems to help as much as anything, but as I'm still healing, I get very tired. Have just had my flu jab, so tomorrow has been designated a duvet day, although as we have a Teams meeting in the afternoon, I suppose I'll have to get dressed!

Breakfast was porridge again; given the impossibility of my remembering to go to the kitchen and soak the chia seeds (even when I remember to go and put the coffee beans on to grind), I think I'll go back to overnight oats. Not sure which I prefer, to be honest. This had banana and dried fruit in it, plus nuts-in-honey. And orange juice and coffee.

After tai chi I had coffee and another banana; one of our number has something to do with a greengrocers (I think her father runs one, or a market stall, or similar) and always brings them for us - today she brought them but then didn't stay to class. I don't usually have one, as they are usually too overripe for my taste, but today;s were absolutely perfect!

Lunch was the same as yesterday - soup, slice of buttered seeded sourdough with 1/2 Bavarian meatloaf and 1/2 cheese, marinated peppers and a few olives. Followed by the end of the Dubai pistachio ice-cream with a little creme fraiche.

Supper is going to be Leberkäse (though why they call it that when it contains neither liver nor cheese I do not know) with (bought) sauté potatoes and a fried egg, with a bit of salad on the side to show willing. Not sure what we'll have after it, probably the last two chocolate desserts, or possibly kefir with the last two strawberry compotes. We shall see.... If we have kefir, there will probably be a square of chocolate afterwards, but the chocolate desserts are so very chocolatey one doesn't want any more!
 
And as @shelley262 heads off, I return! One in one out :p
Had a very enjoyable second part to our break. In Cornwall, with friends, and NO pigs.
Fitted in a sea shanty festival which was marvellously good humoured. Weather was gorgeous, but happy to come home to steady prolonged rain!
Have stuck to low carb (with the occasional small ice cream). Cooked at home evenings but lunched out, even had 2 bites of pasty, yum. One lunch was in a cafe where prepacked sandwiches were reduced to half price so I bought 2 and ate only the fillings - tuna and ham salad.

Struggling to get back into being at home, as I often do, but away again this weekend

So glad to see @Annb back :)
 
Mrs Redboots said:
Have just had my flu jab, so tomorrow has been designated a duvet day, although as we have a Teams meeting in the afternoon, I suppose I'll have to get dressed!
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You only need to dress the upper half, unless you plan to walk away with your camera on. ;)
Mrs Redboots said:
Supper is going to be Leberkäse (though why they call it that when it contains neither liver nor cheese I do not know)
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Now this is odd, we have 'leverkaas' in the Netherlands, a direct translations of 'Leberkäse' or liver cheese. But the Dutch leverkaas is indeed made from liver, similar to liverwurst but finely grinded so it can be sliced very thinly as a bread topping.
I always assumed it was the same in Germany, but it isn't!

Foodwise, I had some thinking to do.
This late in the season, we operate 5 bridges with 3 bridge operators, using our bikes to get back and forth.
Exercise with insulin on board is not something I have much experience with, and prebolusing is tricky as well when you don't know when you'll be needed on the next bridge.
I could of course organise that last part with my colleague on the next bridge, but I don't like to ask for accommodations for my diabetes even though I know my colleagues wouldn't mind at all.

I usually eat a LC sandwich for lunch (breakfast) but the weather was nice so there were quite a few boats, lots of biking, so I opted for only sandwich toppings, no insulin needed in combination with the exercise.

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Evening meal was a very tasty leek, cheese and cream soup, German recipe. This needed a little insulin, but for that one trip to the next bridge in the last hour I had promised myself I could take the car, the bike is for tomorrow.

Leek soup isn't worth a picture so you'll get one of the sundown from my bridge instead, enjoyed with very interesting Indian music played on trombone by a young Dutch man called Arjan Linker.
On the right you see the barrier for the cars.

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Porridge for breakfast, cheese salad for lunch, savoury mince with home grown uchiki kuri squash and green beans with cavalo nero from the garden for tea.

I have one lovely cauliflower left outside, and I'm really looking forward to it in the next few days! There are some nice leaves on the plants - they were supposed to be multi head ones but they didn't get the best start so I doubt I'll get any more heads but I'll keep cropping the leaves.

I picked two lovely calendula flowers yesterday as they'd only be rained to death now - they are sitting in a little vase on my kitchen windowsill and making me smile every time I wash dishes :joyful:
 
Breakfast was o/night oats with a banana chopped in. Tea.

Because it was both oats and a banana, I did use insulin - a small amount compared to my used-to-be. BG sounded a 'high' alarm just before we went out for my hospital appointment. No problem, it was only just over 8 so I figured that would keep me around target until I got home. BG had other ideas. We were about 5 minutes on the road when BG alarm sounded again for a low reading - 3.6. It took 2 ginger biscuits (my go-to remedy) and a can of slightly sweet coffee to get it up to 4.2. At the hospital it came up to 4.7 so all was well - until I had finished my 2nd appointment today at the Health Centre (leg bandaging day). Alarm sounded again and it had dropped again to 3.7. 2 more biscuits brought it back to 4.2, which is where it is sitting now.

I asked Neil to buy some vegetable oil in the supermarket, but he read the item as vegetable pie. So that's what he bought. It was from the freezer but has now defrosted so that will have to be the basis for today's 2nd meal. It's goats cheese and vegetables so I should be able to just peel the crust off and be left with something worth eating.
 
Well, the meeting was a serious waste of time; didn't tell us anything we hadn't already gone through in person with our financial advisor a few weeks ago. Sigh. Flu jab is fine - arm was a bit sore overnight but fine now, and no real side-effects other than tiredness, which might also be due to healing from this stupid fall. The Swan Whisperer, who is over 75, got his Covid jab today, having had his flu jab with me yesterday, and we are both due to have our pneumonia jabs in a few weeks.

Breakfast was overnight oats with banana, raspberries, Greek yoghurt and nuts-in-honey, plus the usual orange juice and coffee. Don't know why I record coffee and not tea - I don't take milk or sugar in either!

Lunch was the end of the vegetable soup extended with a Tetrapak of French pumpkin and chestnut soup, which made for a delicious mix. With a slice of crusty wheat and rye bread spread with cream cheese and topped with Bavarian sausage, plus a piece of Gouda-with-cumin which I brought back from France. Followed by a coconut ice-cream served in a half-shell (Lidl's Asian Week, no doubt).

Supper is going to be a munchkin pumpkin hollowed out with an egg and cheese baked inside, followed by the end of the kefir and the last two pots of strawberry compote that we brought back from France (sigh!). I must make some more compote or stewed fruit for the weekend, I think.
 
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