Type 2s: What have you eaten today?

[Rachox]

Breakfast: fasted for my blood test, so no breakfast, just a coffee with cream when I got home.
Lunch: scrambled eggs x 2 on 1 slice of HiLo toast followed by Greek yoghurt with blueberries.
Mid afternoon: chocolate chia pudding and a black coffee.
Dinner: prawn cocktail, raw cauliflower, broccoli and radishes, a teaspoon of coleslaw and some pork scratchings, followed by low carb carrot cake

EDIT Forgot my afternoon snack!

 

[david1968]

Breakfast - Fage Total Yoghurt (170g) - 6.5g of carbs.

Lunch - Ham sandwich on brown bread with a smear of Branston and some cherry tomatoes plus a mandarin. Estimated 38g of carbs.

Evening meal - Sainsburys beef and vegetable soup (400g) - 25.6g of carbs.

Carb count for lunch was too high - bg went up from 4.9 to 7.2, but the soup's surprised me bit - 6.2 before eating and 6.1 two hours later.

 

[eggs11]

B: 2 boiled eggs, 1 oatcake with peanut butter
L; houmous and carrot sticks
D: fried grated courgettes with garlic and a little bit of hard goat cheese, 2 squares 85% dark chocolate
Snack - cashew nuts

 

[heh]

Yesterday
Tea
B: Berries & LF Greek yogurt, avocado & 2 poached eggs
L: Baxters broccoli & stilton soup, a wholemeal roll, mixed fruit & mullerlight yogurt
T: Chicken in white wine, mushroom basmati rice, 3 fig rolls & red wine
Tea during the day.

We're off in the motorhome today, just one night in Canterbury so don't know what we'll be eating. I'll try to be good

 

[david1968]

B: Yeo Valley Natural Yoghurt (120g) - 6.72g of carbs. BG went from 5.8 to 5.5.

L: Ham snadwich on brown bread with a smear of Branston Small Chunk pickle and half a dozen cherry tomatoes. Estimated 22g of carbs. BG went from 5.3 to 5.7.

EM: Baxter's Hearty Chicken & Vegetable Soup (400g). 30.5g of carbs. BG went from 5.3 to 6.2.

Three mile walk between breakfast and lunch and drunk about 4 pints of water so far.

 

[heh]

Today
Tea
B: Spam lite (pan fried), 2 eggs, 2 tbsp beans, 2 wholemeal toast & tea
L: (Late) a long sweet pepper filled with feta & pesto and grilled
T: Lamb shank & sweet potato and spinach bake, red wine
Tea during the day

 

[david1968]

Breakfast: Yeo Valley Natural Yoghurt (same as yesterday).

Lunch: Ham sandwich on brown bread with Branston Small Chunk Pickle and half a dozen cherry tomatoes (same as yesterday, but with different bread).

Evening meal: M&S Cod in Parsley Sauce with mash, peas and carrots (30 carbs) BG 5.3 before eating and 6.3 two hours after.

 

[NewTD2]

Breakfast
Smoked salmon, boiled egg, low saturated fat cream, salad, half Lidl high protein roll, salad.

Lunch
Chinese chicken chow mein

Dinner
Sliced roast chicken breast, half Lidl high protein roll, salad, chicken soup.

Snacks
Pecan nuts, cucumbers, Chocolates sweetened with Stevia

 

[NewTD2]

Breakfast: low carb coconut porridge with strawberries and cream and white coffee.
Lunch: two boiled eggs with 1 x slice of HiLo bread and marmite followed by Greek yoghurt and blueberries.
Mid afternoon: Hartleys 10cal jelly and black coffee.
Dinner: salmon steak with creamy peppercorn sauce, cauliflower, broccoli and celeriac mash, followed by strawberries, cream and low carb home made ‘Bountie’.

Please share the chocolate bounty recipe please Rachel. Cheers!

 

[Rachox]

Please share the chocolate bounty recipe please Rachel. Cheers!

Here it is! I of course use sugar free maple syrup, I cut it into twelve, each being 4g carbs:

http://www.thelittleblogofvegan.com/2016/10/raw-coconut-bars.html

 

[eggs11]

B - alpro soya yogurt with almond
L - salad with houmous, avocado, sundried tomatoes and mixed leaves
D - 2 boiled eggs, bit of cheese, 20 raspberries - random I know!
snacks - cashew nuts, cheese, plain soy yogurt

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream, washed down with a white coffee.
Lunch: lamb roasted with garlic and rosemary, mixed vegetables, one tiny roast potato and one tiny Yorkshire pudding with gravy and a teaspoon of rosemary jelly. 1 square of Tesco 85% chocolate.
Mid afternoon: Hartleys 10cal jelly and a black coffee.
Dinner: buffet tea at ILs, consisting of cheese, cold meats salad and one Jaffa cake.

 

[NewTD2]

Here it is! I of course use sugar free maple syrup, I cut it into twelve, each being 4g carbs:

http://www.thelittleblogofvegan.com/2016/10/raw-coconut-bars.html

Thank you Rachel, lovely!

 

[Tony 1711]

Must give those a try

 

[heh]

Tea
B: Greek yogurt, smoked mackeral
L: Egg & bacon butty on farmhouse wholemeal, berries & mullerlight yogurt (felt really sick about 15 minutes after eating this and for about an hour after)
S: Small banana
T: Change of plan after OH had root canal to drain a huge abscess (took nearly an hour to drain it!) so steak out and fish pie & broccoli in (after a quick trip to the co-op at lunchtime).
Tea & coffee during the day.

 

[Dr Snoddy]

B. Reduced sugar beans on Hi-Lo toast
L. Multiseed flatbread (15.9g carb) filled with smoked salmon, herbed cream cheese and capers. Small tangerine.
Snack. Homemade banana and pecan muffin (6g carb), mixed nuts
D. Spiced oomi lo-carb noodles with stir fried green vegetables.

 

[miahara]

Breakfast - bacon & eggs
Lunch - slice of chicken breast, olives & feta
Dinner - (Need a roll of drums for this!) - Tamarind pork (marinated for 24 hrs) with butternut squash chips, broccoli and carrot.

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream, washed down with a white coffee.
Lunch: left over roast lamb, mixed veg and gravy from Sunday lunch followed by Greek yoghurt and blueberries.
Mid afternoon: Hartleys 10 cal jelly and black coffee.
Dinner: cauliflower and broccoli cheese, peas and sweet corn with one tiny chunk of parsnip (cooked them for hubby), followed by low carb carrot cake and cream.

 

[david1968]

Breakfast: Yeo Valley Natural Yoghurt.

Lunch: Ham sandwich on brown bread with a smear of Branson Small Chunk Pickle and half a dozen cherry tomatoes (might have something different tomorrow!)

Evening meal: M&S Bacon Chop with Apple Sauce and cabbage and potato crush. Very nice, but oushed my BG a little bit higher than I would have liked (7.1 from 4.8).

 

[TTTE]

Breakfast was readybreak
Lunch chicken and salad
Tea was shepherds pie

I'm still new to all of this so not yet testing my blood sugar readings