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Type 2 Help!

woollygal

woollygal

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I am panicking because my cooker has stopped working.
I rent so have to rely on landlord and agents and it’s Sunday and they are closed.
Have sent email saying urgent so hopefully it gets picked up.

I have bread machine machine dough to cook balls for my week. I can’t cook the food I need for work to get me through the week.

If I don’t cook today or tomorrow I will have nothing ready for the week and will be stuck.
 
You could boil some eggs in a kettle perhaps, and there are always cold choices - salads, tomato, cold meats from the supermarket, cheese, tinned salmon, mackerel, tuna etc. Do you have a microwave?
 
Bluetit1802 said:
You could boil some eggs in a kettle perhaps, and there are always cold choices - salads, tomato, cold meats from the supermarket, cheese, tinned salmon, mackerel, tuna etc. Do you have a microwave?
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I do have microwave.
 
It's amazing what you can do with a microwave. Check out Microwave meals on internet.
You can boil eggs in microwave - I think you have to wrap eggs in foil, place in a bowl of water covering eggs. I don't know how long to cook for and I'd certainly recommend checking this all out on internet before trying it, in case I've got it wrong ;)
Good luck :)
 
Rachox said:
I had the same thing happen in January and posted here:
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/help-my-cooker-has-been-condemned.159924/
I was so desperate to not miss my keto coconut breakfast for breakfast I bought an electric 2 ring thingy and used my slow cooker and microwave to get by.
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I have had rings do breakfast is fine but it’s the food I need to take to work.
I’ve turned oven up to max with grill on and heat is now there but no idea if I can cook chicken like that. I’ll try and wrap in foil to protect from grill.

Will have to try cooking bread like that too. I will be utterly screwed if I can’t cook my food for the week.

I have it all planned. I can’t come home and cook during the day. Salad I gave which is fine and evening meal sausages or gammon I can grill but it’s the food during the day.
 
You can do keto mug muffins in a microwave. As well as keto bread, scrambled eggs etc you can do bacon too though I doubt you'd get it crispy.
I'm saying all this but the only reason I have a microwave is to heat up my wheattie packs (used in pain relief) and occasionally family members will reheat missed meals.
 
Guzzler said:
You can do keto mug muffins in a microwave. As well as keto bread, scrambled eggs etc you can do bacon too though I doubt you'd get it crispy.
I'm saying all this but the only reason I have a microwave is to heat up my wheattie packs (used in pain relief) and occasionally family members will reheat missed meals.
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But I can’t use microwave when I’m working. On Tuesday I’ll be leaving at 07.15 and getting home at 9.45pm. I won’t be coming home through that time.
Hopefully I can run into tesco and buy their Cumberland sausages and cheese rolls but those sausages spike me if I have too much.
But it might be what I have to do.
Night food and breakfast is fine because I have the hobs ok
 
Cana said:
But I can’t use microwave when I’m working. On Tuesday I’ll be leaving at 07.15 and getting home at 9.45pm. I won’t be coming home through that time.
Hopefully I can run into tesco and buy their Cumberland sausages and cheese rolls but those sausages spike me if I have too much.
But it might be what I have to do.
Night food and breakfast is fine because I have the hobs ok
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Sorry, I'm confused. The hob works but not the oven or grill (properly)?
 
Guzzler said:
Sorry, I'm confused. The hob works but not the oven or grill (properly)?
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The grill works but not the oven. Fab does but just no heat in oven. After an hour on 180 I could get tin out with hands.

Hon is fine as it’s gas. Oven is electric
 
Cana said:
The grill works but not the oven. Fab does but just no heat in oven. After an hour on 180 I could get tin out with hands.

Hon is fine as it’s gas. Oven is electric
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So, what were you planning to cook for the week ahead? Perhaps we can suggest alternatives that could be cooked using the hob and/or grill using the same main ingredients.
 
Guzzler said:
So, what were you planning to cook for the week ahead? Perhaps we can suggest alternatives that could be cooked using the hob and/or grill using the same main ingredients.
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Chicken thighs and bread dough balls with cheese.

I pick off the bread and that keeps me going without spiking me.

I’m going to try cook chicken in oven with grill as that’s getting hot. Hopefully foil will let it cook through and not burn.

Hoping bread will do the same
 
Why not buy some pre-cooked chicken thighs rather than cook them at home? They would make a lovely lunch or two at work with some salad stuff. I would not trust the chicken not cooked properly. Quite dangerous in fact.

As for sausages, Tesco do high meat content ones with hardly any carbs in them. They also sell Hecks sausages, which are spicy and have hardly any carbs.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Why not buy some pre-cooked chicken thighs rather than cook them at home? They would make a lovely lunch or two at work with some salad stuff. I would not trust the chicken not cooked properly. Quite dangerous in fact.

As for sausages, Tesco do high meat content ones with hardly any carbs in them. They also sell Hecks sausages, which are spicy and have hardly any carbs.
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Are the sausages pre cooked?
Heck ones need cooking I believe.

They do the deli ones which I eat sometimes so might just buy those.
Pre cooked chicken is a good idea. Didn’t think if that.
That would work. Probably bit late now but can go to tesco tomorrow and pick up some
 
Cana said:
Are the sausages pre cooked?
Heck ones need cooking I believe.

They do the deli ones which I eat sometimes so might just buy those.
Pre cooked chicken is a good idea. Didn’t think if that.
That would work. Probably bit late now but can go to tesco tomorrow and pick up some
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You have to cook the sausages, but you have a working grill, so no problem with that. The deli ones are probably high in carbs, so better to buy ones that are about 97% meat and barely any carbs and cook them yourself.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
You have to cook the sausages, but you have a working grill, so no problem with that. The deli ones are probably high in carbs, so better to buy ones that are about 97% meat and barely any carbs and cook them yourself.
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Dam didn’t think of that.

Went to tesco and bought loads of their deli hot chicken and sausages.

I’ll just eat a little if the sausage.

Thanks for the help everyone.

Panic and low sugars really doesn’t work!
 
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