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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Finally had over 8 hours sleep for the first time in weeks, but then morning bg was 7.1 grrr!

B: a cold chicken thigh and a slice leftover walnut and mushroom loaf
2 hours dancing
L: 2 slices cheese and pepperoni on livlife toast. A few walnuts
A very frustrating afternoon trying to sort a computer problem
D: steak and broccoli with some humous/cream cheese/yoghurt sauce. A small coffee ice cream
 
Breakfast: cold chicken.
I cooked it yesterday evening with lemon and lots of garlic. It had to be cooked. I'd asked Neil to get a chicken earlier in the week but then didn't get around to using it so it had to be cooked because it was right on its use-by date. Didn't actually have a 2nd meal yesterday - too shattered by two trips to town in 2 days.

I have to go out again later in the day and am taking food with me - macaroni cheese for some children and a cake. They're done but still to be packed up. The cake was a new recipe for a moist chocolate cake. It is moist but a bit too much so. They'll probably need spoons to eat it rather than forks.
 
Resisted breakfast as knew we would be lunching out.
l: halibut in a creamy dill sauce with crayfish tails. Nice but pricey and not a patch on the haddock at a different pub earlier in the week. And twice as expensive! 1 glass red wine.
Luckily we were spending vouchers we'd won in a quiz earlier in the month so don't pay full amount.
Had 3 spoons of hubby's cherry bakewell suet pudding.
Then I walked home , about 50 minutes up and over the hill while he drove to a meeting. Lovely colours in the woods and crunchy leaves underfoot.

D: 2 hard boiled eggs with mayo, 3 slices salami and soem fermented green peppers.

Christmas confession. I'd bought a lidl version of coffee flavoured Baileys for Christmas, but we/he opened it to try to make sure it was up to standard. Yes it is, but oh so drinkable. No idea of carbs. To make it last to Christmas I think it may have to go stay at son's who can bring it back with him.

There's temptation everywhere at the moment. How do you all resist?
 
MrsA2 said:
Resisted breakfast as knew we would be lunching out.
l: halibut in a creamy dill sauce with crayfish tails. Nice but pricey and not a patch on the haddock at a different pub earlier in the week. And twice as expensive! 1 glass red wine.
Luckily we were spending vouchers we'd won in a quiz earlier in the month so don't pay full amount.
Had 3 spoons of hubby's cherry bakewell suet pudding.
Then I walked home , about 50 minutes up and over the hill while he drove to a meeting. Lovely colours in the woods and crunchy leaves underfoot.

D: 2 hard boiled eggs with mayo, 3 slices salami and soem fermented green peppers.

Christmas confession. I'd bought a lidl version of coffee flavoured Baileys for Christmas, but we/he opened it to try to make sure it was up to standard. Yes it is, but oh so drinkable. No idea of carbs. To make it last to Christmas I think it may have to go stay at son's who can bring it back with him.

There's temptation everywhere at the moment. How do you all resist?
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I was thinking this week should I buy what I call my Christmas tree drink - once tree up and lit a few weeks before Christmas, George and I I love to have a small drink in the evening - something we've done for many years. In early years of low carb I made a home made low carb Bailey's but never got it quite right so switched to hotel chocolate liqueur which is lower carb than Bailey's but very pricey and I found a bit sweet last year. So this year I'm going to try a small brandy with soda water. Husband has whisky which I don't like as a drink (neat or with soda) . Otherwise it may be a decaffeinated coffee with brandy and cream.
 
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We had already bought another Christmas drink, a coffee rum we found at a Country fair back in the spring. But with hindsight it probably has caffeine as well as sugar. It's still safely closed

I do wish drinks had to have ingredients and nutrition labelling!

I know plain spirits are OK, it's just the marketing telling me I need something special for Christmas ...
 
MrsA2 said:
@LivingLightly, and anyone else interested who does similar recipe.
i tried preparing the walnut and mushroom loaf the day before and it worked well. Also I usually cook the mushrooms and onion before adding the other ingredients and then baking. This time I just mixed all the ingredients raw and cooked it longer. Also usually I use about 200g mushrooms and 200g walnuts but this time halved this and still used 1 egg.
Seems a very amenable recipe.
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Thanks for the tip @MrsA2.

I usually combine the ingredients raw, but when making a celebration nut roast, especially at busy times like the run-up to Christmas and New Year, it helps no end if you can spread preparation times over a day or so.
 
Breakfast: 2 sausages and a couple of RyVita. That's because I was starting off some sausages for a casserole to be had later in the week. 2 birds with one stone, so to speak.

Lots of chicken left so will make something with that for later.

I asked Neil to get me some offal when he went shopping and he came back with some lamb's liver, some pig's liver, some lamb's hearts and some lamb's kidneys. A bit too much liver for my liking, so both livers are now in the freezer and I'll be doing something with the kidneys and hearts, maybe tomorrow. Winter now and time for warming casseroles and stews.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
At the moment, Tesco and maybe other supermarkets have Baileys at £13 for a litre. I think Morrisons have it for £10. I'm a sucker for Baileys in my morning coffee so I stock up a few for the year.
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Please don't tempt me any more @RosemaryJackson . It's far too carby and far to difficult to resist!!!! If we do have a bottle it's just the one a year and that has to last
 
No breakfast as early yoga.
But that meant I was cold and hungry while doing the lidl shop.
Chocolate was involved.:arghh:
L: was a bit of cheese while making some cheese crisps to take to an event tonight
D: 2 sausages, knowing there will be cheese crisps and olives and wine later.

Fund raising bingo in the village hall. I know how to party ;)
 
Slept badly, due to wild weather, definitely meant I ate more during today! Stress up too hearing about local flooding as the day progressed - just to explain why I ate more today!
Breakfast kefir then bacon, egg and mushrooms on LC toast
Lunch opened pack of mixed nuts had too many (and also nibbled more during afternoon) also had cheese, lc crackers peel of local apple and two squares of Waitrose 90%chocolate
Dinner roast chicken with cauliflower cheese and shared bottle of dry white wine.

Apologies posted this in wrong thread meant to be in main thread so have just copied it over. Blame tiredness and a stressful day hearing about nearby flooding -a local town Tenbury was completely flooded today we have friends there and are concerned - they have flooded before but speed of the water due to collapse of a retaining wall was scary to hear about! Our flood barriers in our town have gone up we count ourselves lucky but these scary events seem to be more frequent.
 
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