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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Lunch was tomato and carrot soup, a mini pork pie (I had a coupon for 15% off, and then there was a pack of 6 reduced for quick sale at 20% off, and Lidl gives you both discounts), Greek salad, and a little banana ice-cream with cream. Supper has just been a take on pasta e fagioli with bacon, followed by kefir yoghurt with, I hope, the end of the stewed plums (I didn't dish them out!), and I think I'll have a square of dark chocolate in a bit. Ooh, copying and pasting the photo worked!!!
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Rachox said:
Yesterday was a lazy Sunday binge watching Netflix stuff. Today usual shop at Tesco then coffee at the local garden centre. Hubby picked up his usual scone with clotted cream and jam, we ordered the coffees and the cashier pointed out it was two scones for the price of one just now. In a weak moment we accepted and I had a whole scone, rather than just a slice off hubby’s! :banghead: Blood sugar topped out just short of 8 which was a relief but has been hovering around 6 since which is high for me. I’m a bit anxious about my spine MRI results which are now marked on line as pending til Wednesday, so fingers crossed I can read them then.
Dinner tonight I kept pretty low carb in view of my scone transgression! Bacon muffins with carrots and runner beans.

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Fingers crossed for your spine mri results that you can read them in Wednesday and that they are helpful.
 
Rachox said:
Yesterday was a lazy Sunday binge watching Netflix stuff. Today usual shop at Tesco then coffee at the local garden centre. Hubby picked up his usual scone with clotted cream and jam, we ordered the coffees and the cashier pointed out it was two scones for the price of one just now. In a weak moment we accepted and I had a whole scone, rather than just a slice off hubby’s! :banghead: Blood sugar topped out just short of 8 which was a relief but has been hovering around 6 since which is high for me. I’m a bit anxious about my spine MRI results which are now marked on line as pending til Wednesday, so fingers crossed I can read them then.
Dinner tonight I kept pretty low carb in view of my scone transgression! Bacon muffins with carrots and runner beans.

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Here's hoping that your MRI result is good news.
 
Best wishes to all those going for tests or waiting results.

Bit subdued here, a friend/neighbour is passing away in the local hospice. Wasn't expected to get to the weekend but she is still with us. Heartbreaking, especially for the family who chose to spend her last night with her, and who have now been there 4 nights sleeping on the floor.

Took my 90 year old to lay flowers on her husbands memorial, except when we got there so many autumn leaves on the ground that we couldn't his plaque for ages. Did find it eventually, phew!

Scrambled eggs with a little ham and cheese for lunch (skip breakfast on Mondays) but did share a large scone after our flower laying expedition.

Dinner was 3 90% sausages with buttered leeks and carrots
 
Porridge for breakfast, celeriac soup for lunch with a few vegetable crisps and curry for tea with cauliflower and a small portion of resistant starch rice.

Pottered in the garden this morning, and will go and put out the garden bin and recylcling in a minute, then plant the senshyu overwintering onion sets. Another good day for energy levels, I'm very happy about that.
 
Puffed spelt grains with milk for breakfast. Tea.
Found some onions in the larder which needed to be used, so I chopped them and put them on a baking tray with some butter and oil for use at some later date. At the same time I baked a couple of potatoes to go into the freezer. I was gong to add garlic to the onions but found that the garlic bulbs I had had gone soft. That doesn't usually happen. So they are now in the compost bin. Neil bought me a bag of lemons (4) on Thursday but when I went to use one of them on Sunday, 2 of the 4 had gone mouldy! Something odd going on. Of course, I shouldn't try to keep vegetables for too long, but when we only shop once a week, it's difficult not to.
2nd meal will be something fishy - not sure what just yet.
 
I have been wild camping for two nights with a friend and my two small and elderly dogs this weekend.
We found a spot so secluded we even dared to make a little fire (wild camping is illegal in the Netherlands) to keep us somewhat less than freezing, temperatures dropped close to freezing point in the evening. Secluded enough to let the dogs run free, despite them being almost deaf and not to be trusted to hear traffic anymore. :)

We arrived in the dark on Saturday, after an afternoon of sailing so we had an easy meal of a store bought ready salad.

For breakfast I cooked us bacon and eggs.

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On Sunday we had a hearty lunch in a fish place where I used to work a couple of years ago, so in the evening we could keep it simple again.
I bought some fresh North Sea shrimp at the fish place, and after peeling them we had those, followed with some nuts and 85% chocolate.
I absolutely love home peeled shrimp!

I also bought some turbot and brill to take home at the fish place. Bought it frozen and they gave me a styrofoam box so it would keep in my car for a full day.

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We packed up our stuff yesterday morning, I had to join a lunch for the end of the season with the bridge operators team. Which was a complete diabetes disaster and kept my diabetes out of whack until bedtime. Had one of the small turbots, which was absolutely delicious, and some cheese and nuts for dinner, plus crisps and sweets to try to regulate my bg.
I think I'll skip the work lunch next year...

Tonight will be the other two turbots and a store bought fresh tomato soup we bought for the camping trip but didn't use.

I expect to spend another night camping in my car on thursday, rather unplanned.
On Sunday, a friend died (expected but sooner than expected), and he wanted his friends and family to celebrate life in a local pub after he'd been gone.
Doesn't sound like driving home after that is an option, and I expect many people will camp in his garden, which is a 20 minute walk from the pub on Thursday.
Sad, but I trust it will be a very good party as well.
 
Antje77 said:
I have been wild camping for two nights with a friend and my two small and elderly dogs this weekend.
We found a spot so secluded we even dared to make a little fire (wild camping is illegal in the Netherlands) to keep us somewhat less than freezing, temperatures dropped close to freezing point in the evening. Secluded enough to let the dogs run free, despite them being almost deaf and not to be trusted to hear traffic anymore. :)

We arrived in the dark on Saturday, after an afternoon of sailing so we had an easy meal of a store bought ready salad.

For breakfast I cooked us bacon and eggs.

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On Sunday we had a hearty lunch in a fish place where I used to work a couple of years ago, so in the evening we could keep it simple again.
I bought some fresh North Sea shrimp at the fish place, and after peeling them we had those, followed with some nuts and 85% chocolate.
I absolutely love home peeled shrimp!

I also bought some turbot and brill to take home at the fish place. Bought it frozen and they gave me a styrofoam box so it would keep in my car for a full day.

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We packed up our stuff yesterday morning, I had to join a lunch for the end of the season with the bridge operators team. Which was a complete diabetes disaster and kept my diabetes out of whack until bedtime. Had one of the small turbots, which was absolutely delicious, and some cheese and nuts for dinner, plus crisps and sweets to try to regulate my bg.
I think I'll skip the work lunch next year...

Tonight will be the other two turbots and a store bought fresh tomato soup we bought for the camping trip but didn't use.

I expect to spend another night camping in my car on thursday, rather unplanned.
On Sunday, a friend died (expected but sooner than expected), and he wanted his friends and family to celebrate life in a local pub after he'd been gone.
Doesn't sound like driving home after that is an option, and I expect many people will camp in his garden, which is a 20 minute walk from the pub on Thursday.
Sad, but I trust it will be a very good party as well.
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Sad to read that your friend died sooner than expected, but a great way to celebrate his life.
 
Again, best wishes to those awaiting test results. @Annb, I do hope they will be able to give you medication for your ulcer. @MrsA2, it's so sad when someone takes too long to die. My father did; we ended up saying our farewells and then going on holiday - he wanted us to go, and my mother and sister agreed. They were with him when he died. Mum didn't want it known just yet, and the worst was having to go on blogging, pretending we were having a lovely holiday, when really, we weren't! @Antje77, so sorry about your friend.

I had "fried porridge" for breakfast - so delicious, so filling - with an egg on top (I make half the amount I used when I'm making overnight oats, and it's exactly right for one pancake). Lunch was the end of the tomato and carrot soup, the very dregs of the Greek salad, the dregs of the home-made pickles and 2 mini pork pies (they needed eaten, and really, there was not enough of anything else for one to have been remotely near enough!). Followed by an absolutely perfect pear, than which there is nothing more delicious.

I had a bad night's sleep due to one of the other residents ringing our doorbell at 03:00 to be let in. I have left her a stiff note, and am going to ask the directors to Say Things on Facebook. Anyway, normally I would have had an afternoon nap, but this afternoon I was getting my hair trimmed, and did some shopping while I was at it. The pharmacy has let me down big-time by not having my prescription ready, for some reason - very unlike them, but I am, nevertheless, rather unimpressed. So, anyway, I'm really tired now, plus wrestling with a new sermon for Sunday, so I popped into Tesco on the way home and bought an Indian meal for two - chicken korma and chicken jalfrezi, and I think there is rice. There is certainly a naan bread! I hope it will do us twice. Probably followed by the end of the pineapple.
 
Annb said:
the garlic bulbs I had had gone soft. That doesn't usually happen.
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I'm finding that shop bought garlic is either already off (the cheap stuff, can't tell until you peel it) or goes soft in a very short time, unlike in the past when it would keep really well. That's the reason I'm growing a lot of my own this year!

I still have half of the senshyu onions to plant tomorrow but the weather is still holding dry, and hopefully I'll have another good energy day - two days in a row today, very unusual, three would be unheard of!
 
Dentist and hygienist for me this morning, followed by a walk around the shops, dentist is in a neighbouring town, which I only visit twice a year for the dentist! Teeth and gums all healthy :D
Sorted out the rubbish for collection tomorrow, looks like we have the same bin day @jpscloud !
Then I cooked chicken satay stir fry for dinner, no noodles, just extra beans sprouts to kid the eye.

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Our neighbour finally passed early this morning, sad, but at least she's pain-free and at peace now.

Tried that ploy of keeping busy all day, ran various errands in various towns, drove my regulars to the older people's club, forgot all the duties I have to do there but they were forgiving!, Back home made tea for one bereaved son, let him talk it out for over an hour. Had 2 glasses wine, then remembered I was supposed to be at book club so took short cut through a dark footpath and interrupted what may have been a drug deal going on (!). Brilliant, supportive and intelligent conversation at book club.
What a day!

There was coleslaw and cold sausage at lunchtime and a ready meal at dinner...for 2. Added an extra chicken thigh for me and hubby had the rice. Was Korean something, too sweet and sticky for me

Wonder if I'll sleep tonight? Could go either way
 
@MrsA2 So sorry for your loss. What sort of ready-meal did you get? I got one of those Indian meals for 2 from Tesco. I thought I'd bought chicken jalfrezi and chicken korma, but it was chicken tikka masala. Absolutely delicious, but no veg other than that in the sauce! It won't do us twice, but I think there's a little left, plus half a naan bread (I didn't mean to eat the 1/2 I was given, but ended up eating 1/2 of it to mop up the sauce!), and the 2 onion bhajis, which no way were we going to want last night! Followed by the 2nd half of the pineapple.

Breakfast this morning was overnight oats, with frozen raspberries today, as well as the usual banana, yoghurt and nuts-in-honey. Just back from tai chi, and making courgette and pea soup, which will be lovely, and then I think I'll have whatever is left from last night, plus salad if necessary, as my husband is stewarding at a funeral and then probably went to help out at the Food Bank, so will probably have eaten. If he comes in before the soup is ready, I'll see.... And there are still two perfect pears left, which we'll want to eat before they stop being perfect, so I'll have one for pudding, and maybe the satsuma I was given on Sunday.

Supper is going to be fish pie; I'll lighten the mashed potato with some cauliflower, I think. I'll make two, and then we can have one tonight and one on Friday (tomorrow will be the other half of the pasta e fagioli) Not sure whether we'll have any veg with it, probably not - it will have peas and broad beans in it, and parsley of course, and cauliflower, so maybe okay without. Maybe some butternut or 1/2 a munchkin each.... anyway, pudding will be lemon/buttermilk yoghurt from Lidl, to make a change. And I hope I won't now have to cook a main meal until Sunday (himself does sausage and mash on Saturdays, always!).

Edited to add: Himself has just come in and hadn't eaten, but as I was mistaken and all that was left from last night was the bhajis, I'd had a cheese sandwich (1 slice of bread) with salad as well as soup and a pear. Gorgeous!
 
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