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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

MrsA2 said:
@Antje77 by now the job application should have been written. If not, get off this forum and go do it NOW!

My guess at Dutch is that some kind of harbour related job so right up your street. Hope it works out for you.
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It's almost written!

The motivation letter is finished and I think it's ok, although I will look it over one more time before sending it off tomorrow.
The resume still needs some finishing touches and I'm not that happy with it, but after working on them all afternoon my brain refused any more, not helped with a hypo late afternoon.

I can finish it tomorrow and I'll send it off!
 
Can't remember yesterday morning but 2nd meal was cauliflower cheese. Once again the cauliflower was a bad idea. Last time I made cauli cheese, it was fine. This time with a smaller portion, it was disastrous! Last time I roasted the cauli but this time I boiled it. Maybe that makes a difference. I don't know.

Today I've eaten a few chipolatas during the day and nothing else. I seem to have some kind of bug and started feeling really bad last night. The caulliflower effect didn't help, of course, but this feels like some kind of flu with aching joints and muscles. Couldn't sleep at all for the pain and spent the night huddled in my big chair hoping pain killers would work. They didn't. Still, the pain has reduced today under the effect of codeine and paracemol. At least I can, with a lot of pain, crab my way around, hence the chipolatas - I just threw them into the oven in a pan and let them bake. I'm even managing to use this keyboard, even though the worst remaining part is my arms and knuckles.
 
Same soup as yesterday (leftover turkey cut finely, tinned tomato, tomato paste, stock cube, cream cheese), reheated. Today with a slice of toast, bttered with a little salt.

I'm still working on my toast, a newish thing for me, and I'm getting better at the delicate timing of applying the butter after toasting. I want it melted a little, but not completely, it's a work in progress.

Currently I use a frying pan to toast my LC bread, but with this new love for toast I'm wondering if I need a toaster, one of those things you put a slice of bread in on top and after a few minutes it jumps out. They're pretty cheap so I could buy one...

The English are the experts when it comes to toast. So please tell me, do I want a toaster or stick with the frying pan?
Any other insider tips on toast?
 
Antje77 said:
Same soup as yesterday (leftover turkey cut finely, tinned tomato, tomato paste, stock cube, cream cheese), reheated. Today with a slice of toast, bttered with a little salt.

I'm still working on my toast, a newish thing for me, and I'm getting better at the delicate timing of applying the butter after toasting. I want it melted a little, but not completely, it's a work in progress.

Currently I use a frying pan to toast my LC bread, but with this new love for toast I'm wondering if I need a toaster, one of those things you put a slice of bread in on top and after a few minutes it jumps out. They're pretty cheap so I could buy one...

The English are the experts when it comes to toast. So please tell me, do I want a toaster or stick with the frying pan?
Any other insider tips on toast?
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I vote for a toaster.
 
Antje77 said:
Same soup as yesterday (leftover turkey cut finely, tinned tomato, tomato paste, stock cube, cream cheese), reheated. Today with a slice of toast, bttered with a little salt.

I'm still working on my toast, a newish thing for me, and I'm getting better at the delicate timing of applying the butter after toasting. I want it melted a little, but not completely, it's a work in progress.

Currently I use a frying pan to toast my LC bread, but with this new love for toast I'm wondering if I need a toaster, one of those things you put a slice of bread in on top and after a few minutes it jumps out. They're pretty cheap so I could buy one...

The English are the experts when it comes to toast. So please tell me, do I want a toaster or stick with the frying pan?
Any other insider tips on toast?
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Voting for a toaster.
Slather toast with butter and dip it in that soup would be my suggestion.
Im hoping for a positive response to your job application, it does sound appropriate for you.
 
Antje77 said:
Same soup as yesterday (leftover turkey cut finely, tinned tomato, tomato paste, stock cube, cream cheese), reheated. Today with a slice of toast, bttered with a little salt.

I'm still working on my toast, a newish thing for me, and I'm getting better at the delicate timing of applying the butter after toasting. I want it melted a little, but not completely, it's a work in progress.

Currently I use a frying pan to toast my LC bread, but with this new love for toast I'm wondering if I need a toaster, one of those things you put a slice of bread in on top and after a few minutes it jumps out. They're pretty cheap so I could buy one...

The English are the experts when it comes to toast. So please tell me, do I want a toaster or stick with the frying pan?
Any other insider tips on toast?
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Definitely a toaster. For toasted cheese the grill in your oven. Or toasty bags in your toaster.
 
Much better today. Still not completely right so have asked my cleaner not to come, in case I am contagious and have cancelled my appointment for leg bandaging today. Remembering what happened years ago when I had a bad dose of flu (it took 2 weeks to recover and then my dad thought a trip out in the car would do me good, so I could walk on the beach. Knocked me right back and I took another week to recover) I decided that going out in the icy cold wouldn't be a good idea.

Had a couple more sausages - cold - for breakfast and will have the last of them with some haricot beans and flavoured with some tomato puree later.

EDIT: all ready made, so no prep required - apart from opening a tin of beans.
 
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D: last night was mushroom and walnut loaf with celeriac chips and a tablespoon tomato bolognaise sauce from a jar.
Then 2 rums, last of the Christmas one compared to a new one from a new supplier.

But then had an awful night, couldn't sleep, stomach pains etc. Got up at 5am, went back to bed at 7 slept until 12. Bg absolutely level, maybe a little low throughout. Go figure!

Fasted until 15:00 today so 21 hours. Yoghurt, seeds, raspberries, seedy crackers, coffee ice cream.

7pm some cocoa dusted almonds. Bg still behaving.

Listening to Quit Sugar summit today. Very interested in James Goolkin a UK dentist who advocates low carb. Seems to join a lot of the dots for me, so have booked to see him next week!!! Be interesting, if expensive.
 
Ooh! Possible light bulb moment. Don't have celeriac often and think I've had digestive/wind issues after eating it before...
Still have half so will eat some tomorrow and await outcome with interest!
 
Maybe it was a reaction to the haricot beans (never happened before) but last night I was very shaky - like a hypo but BG was in the 6's - and then my heart started playing silly games, irregular timing and missing beats here, there and everywhere. It was still doing it when I woke up this morning. Checked BP and it was only slightly up (but that was before I took my morning BP pills). It lasted until about 1 pm and then subsided to a steady beat, at a reasonable rate. I wasn't sure what was happening but it was similar to an anti-food reaction. Seems OK now though. Perhaps best to avoid haricots for now.

Breakfast was RyVita and brie.

2nd meal is another pot-luck from the freezer. I'll find out what that is later. I have loads of fresh vegetables to use, but I think, after the last couple of days, it would be best to avoid them for the moment.

EDIT: Actually just made an omelette with a few bits of vegetable in it and some bits of bacon. Couldn't be bothered struggling through to the back porch to get to the freezer so just used what was in the kitchen.
 
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Woke very hungry so had ff yoghurt with seeds and 3 chopped walnuts and 1 sq chopped 85% chocolate.

Spent the morning checking on and helping elderly neighbours as still very icy here.

L: 2 slices liv life cheese on toast. Extra cheese.
Cc chocolate pot with 2 teaspoons double cream. 6 chocolate almonds.

A sleep while listening to another Quit Sugar talk, this time a Scot, Ally Houston. Very interesting on linking metabolism to mental health. Had to replay it all.

D:: 2 90% sausages with celeriac chips. Coffee ice cream

Sudden migraine. Medication and sleep

Back to normal now

. Have had very blurry eyes for days now. Optician's appointment made. Fingers crossed its a scratch on my glasses
 
MrsA2 said:
I'd like to hear that you're going to get the doctor to check you out, please?
As we well know, not everything is food or diabetes related
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No - not everything is food related but I think this was. It's happened before. I will ask to speak to a doctor though. That can't happen until Monday. It is a slight concern because my mother used to have similar symptoms and she died of a heart attack when she was 67. However, that might not have been related to the odd heartbeats. Blood pressure was down this morning to a very reasonable level so I'm not too worried.
 
Haven't eaten anything today so far. Still feeling a bit weird. I didn't sleep at all last night and I'm usually short of sleep anyway so think lack of sleep has something to do with the way I'm feeling. I've also realised that the way I've been feeling the last few days is similar to the time, some years ago now, when I ended up in hospital due to dehydration. Since then I've followed the information I saw on a notice at the hospital, to drink at least 2 litres of fluid a day, though nobody advised me about that. When I saw the new diabetic nurse a few months ago, though, she told me that 1-11/2 litres was the aim, so I haven't worried too much about making sure I made the full 2 litres. Maybe that's something to do with it. No harm in upping the fluids again, I don't suppose although I know my kidneys are in trouble so shouldn't mess around too much with what I don't really understand.
 
3 January - last Friday of the school holidays. I wanted something easy and light today.

B. TAG and 3 of the M&S crackers with seafood cocktail

L. A mug of Marigold vegetable boullion which cracked the bottom of my hug mug!

D. Lemon sole pan fried with mushrooms and samphire. DGF crimbo crumble with a dash of cream.

4 January

Back to weekend shopping again. Just a quick trip thankfully as I have a delivery of the heavy stuff coming tomorrow. Quite glad as it has turned bitterly cold.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SRSLY toast with egg and ham. Benecol dairy free.

L. Lunch nothing

D. Chicken wings & sour cream and chive dip. DGF mince pie.

5 January

No swimming lesson today. That all starts again next week. A final relaxing day before going back to the school run tomorrow.

B. TAG and Benecol dairy free.

L. 3 M&S crackers with port salut

D. Rib eye with mustard, green beans, mushrooms and 1 roastie. DGF mince pie with raspberries and a dash of cream. Usual campari and soda.

6 January

Freezing morning and back to the 7 15 am rise. Back to Aqua classes too Didn't feel like it, but I forced myself.

B. TAG and Benecol dairy free

L. After Aqua (felt much better for going) 3 of the M&S crackers with port salut. Mug of Marigold vegetable boullion (managed NOT to crack a hug mug this time)

D. LC pasta carbonara.

I also had managed to squeeze in a chiropodist appointment today so it was all a but of a rush.
 
Early yoga, but the scraping of the ice off the car first was a strenuous warm up!

11:00 2 large eggs scrambled with 2 chipolatas. 1 low carb cracker with a little each Stilton and Surrey red.
Cwc

Mid afternoon, quick trip into town for errands then dropped hubby at hospital for x-ray appt! He was done and out within 15 minutes - unheard of! I hadn't even time to buy the coffee I'd promised myself.

At home, a hm lc hot chocolate but with a good slug of Bailey's in


D: 2 chicken thighs, lc cauliflower cheese. Kombucha. 1 dark chocolate from hubbys Christmas stash.
 
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