"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Nothing yet - other than tea that is. I do have some veg and lentil soup from yesterday so will eventually have a bowl of that, I daresay. Can't do anything with my left hand and that curtails food prep somewhat. Not that I have felt hungry so far.

Whoops, missed sending this one yesterday

Didn't get to post yesterday.
It was a 2 hour walk after 2 scrambled eggs
Then busy preparing a meal for visitors
5pm hm soup (celery, apple and tomato so hopefully relatively low carb). Roast pork, cabbage, carrots, leeks, broccoli. Carb eaters had roasites and yorkies. Puds were pear and blackberry crumble or a low Carb mango and coconut frozen parfait.

My bg was rather up and down, think I'd had too much of the fruits while preparing and too many chocolates after the meal.
Was a lovely relaxed time though.

Today
Breakfast was ff greek with apple sauce and walnuts
L was cwc and (can't remember)
D: pork and leftover veg hash. 1 small roasted. Ff greek with 2 small cubes mango.

Ie leftover day

Today (Tuesday)
Skipped breakfast
Cwc then 2 hours gardening in the glorious sunshine! (How long has it been since I could say that? Too long!)
L: pate, on celery, cucumber and lettuce leaves.
Hair cut
Hm lc hot chocolate and a sq hm lc brownie
D: cheese crusted omelette with leeks in. A spiced rum

I bought a 'new' car today, which meant two days of stress about having to perform a task that needs knowledge and experience I do not at all have.
It eventually sent my bg up to 9 right before arriving at the car selling place. Brought a very male and competent looking friend to go down on his knees to look at the bottom, go all oh-uhmming when looking under the hood and to ask questions about the timing belt in hopes we'd look like people you shouldn't mess with.
But I bought the car, talked the price down from 1000 to 900 euros, and took a correction dose of insulin.

Driving back and forth to now get rid of a car too many, doing the paperwork and insurance, and moving the impressive amount of stuff that had accumulated in my old car to the new one took most of the afternoon and left me utterly drained so I skipped the grocery trip and proper cooking.
Evening meal was two very thin pork belly strips and a slice of LC toast with a slice of black pudding and the first egg of the season.
I found 20 eggs in a new hiding spot yesterday!

I didn't sleep well last night, awake very early with a complaining knee, so after a short night I decided to join two other swimmers at 9:15 (which is a time I'm usually asleep) before my weekly aqua jogging and having a look at the new car.

Ice on my windows when I left, we currently have cold nights followed by mist, and beautiful mild and sunny afternoons.
It almost looked like I swam in a Turner painting today!

Antje77 said:

Driving back and forth to now get rid of a car too many, doing the paperwork and insurance, and moving the impressive amount of stuff that had accumulated in my old car to the new one

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Oh no! I shall miss the tales of having to turn the light on to start it, and of surprise discoveries inside. Is it going to the great scrapyard in the sky?

MrsA2 said:

Is it going to the great scrapyard in the sky?

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It is!
And it'll have a jolly good time telling its ridiculous stories to colleagues who went there way before they were that far past their use by date, seeing all of England when it really should have been in the car equivalent of hospice care!

Still only have one hand working. Can't get a GP appointment today. Never can. Food today will be the last of the soup but after that I have a problem. I ask enough of Neil without getting him to make food for me. Shan't even try to get dressed today. Never thought it would be so difficult to get clothes on with only one hand.

Happy Shrove Tues everyone,just made some coconut flour/almond milk ones with a few blueberries. Hope the sunshine is helping everyone feel better, even done some pottering in the garden and a bit of weeding. Have a good day all
Sorry, thought I had posted this yesterday! Anyway, got some weeding done and washing out on the line hurray
Congrats on the new car @Antje77 , it is a stressful process and you have to have a certain amount of trust that everything is ok.
Hope you can see a doc soon @Annb another stressful thing, trying to get an appointment.

Annb said:

Still only have one hand working. Can't get a GP appointment today. Never can. Food today will be the last of the soup but after that I have a problem. I ask enough of Neil without getting him to make food for me. Shan't even try to get dressed today. Never thought it would be so difficult to get clothes on with only one hand.

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Definitely don't bother getting dressed with one hand, there are better things to use your energy on.

Any meals in the freezer you can ask Neil to take out so you can microwave them?
If not, frying eggs is very doable with one hand, as id frying meats. The trouble lays in the opening of packages and preparing vegetables. So think ahead on what you want opened and ask Neil. Also, chopping some onions or cleaning some green beans is a 10 minute job, you can ask Neil for ten minutes of his time if this allows you to cook a meal.

B: 2 scrambled eggs
Then off to the eye surgeon.
Have been worried about my "good" eye (my "bad" eye has a congenital defect). Turns out I have had a problem which is slowly resolving itself. An age related problem! Fingers crossed it stays resolving itself. It could decide not to and get more serious. And I would be so peeved at that as my main diabetes motivation is to keep as much sight in my good eye as I can. So totally annoyed that theres nothing I can do to stop or correct this age thing (PVD) grrr!
Watching and waiting .back to him in 2 months for a check.

L: at a garden centre. Chicken shwarma on flat breads (which I left ) with hummus and salads. A coffee with cream but I suspect it was the dreaded Elmlea as bg went up more than expected.

Gardening in the sun.

D: cabbage and leeks with chorizo. 2 nut bars. Should have stuck to one as bg went to over 9.

Antje77 said:

Definitely don't bother getting dressed with one hand, there are better things to use your energy on.

Any meals in the freezer you can ask Neil to take out so you can microwave them?
If not, frying eggs is very doable with one hand, as id frying meats. The trouble lays in the opening of packages and preparing vegetables. So think ahead on what you want opened and ask Neil. Also, chopping some onions or cleaning some green beans is a 10 minute job, you can ask Neil for ten minutes of his time if this allows you to cook a meal.

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Shopping day today and Neil has a list of ingredients that should make things easier. He's already offered to do whatever cooking I need, bless him. Yes, soups and stews out of the freezer will come into their own now. Have to get washed and dressed today as it is leg bandaging and blood testing day. A dress will be easier to put on than trousers, so have to dig one out of the wardrobe. It'll feel strange.

I had the last of the soup yesterday - about 18.30. Didn't feel the need until then. It was only half a bowl but it was enough.

My laptop broke down yesterday, cost me £60 to remind it what it was supposed to do! The engineer told me that to describe what had gone wrong was to say it had forgotten how to connect to the Internet. I know the feeling!! Is anyone in touch with @maglil55? Is she ok? Have a good Thursday all.

RosemaryJackson said:

My laptop broke down yesterday, cost me £60 to remind it what it was supposed to do! The engineer told me that to describe what had gone wrong was to say it had forgotten how to connect to the Internet. I know the feeling!! Is anyone in touch with @maglil55? Is she ok? Have a good Thursday all.

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I was wondering the same thing.

10 a.m 2 large eggs scrambled. Cwc
Double dancing
Tea at cafe with friends
Gentle gardening
A hot chocolate, lc of course
D: savoury pancakes with beef and veg. Pancakes made by mixing 3 eggs with a generous tablespoon of cream cheese. Made 6 thin crepes. Rolled around a tin of stewing beef, served on bed of boiled veg, with more of the stewed beef gravy in top. Tasted lovely. Hubby didn't even notice they were not conventional pancakes.
A sq 90% chocolate

Breakfast: RyVita and cheese.
2nd meal a pork chop with peas.

Left hand slightly better but still not really usable yet. Temperature of the skin around my wrist is a bit higher than the rest of me. Might be something to do with it.

Breakfast: cold pork (2nd chop cooked yesterday) thinly sliced with some leftover peas in an omelette.

2nd meal will be veg and chicken broth. Neil bought some frozen mixed veg (never used them before) and some chicken. I had asked for a chicken leg but he could only get a pack of drumsticks and a pack of thighs - bad weather stopped the ferry again. So I'll make the broth and poach the chicken in it, which will help the flavour. I'll keep the chicken for Saturday.

Left hand still out of order, but I should manage that. Won't need to stand too long to make it either - all to the good.

Annb said:

Left hand still out of order,

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Have you had this checked out @Annb ? Sounds a bit odd, and ongoing (hugs)

10:00 2 large scrambled eggs with cheese, and yoghurt and walnuts to follow.

Heading for a NT property to day where theres never anything I can eat (ie low carb) but hubby will indulge, so I filled up in advance
Did an hours hilly walk through the woodland Estate first, then a stroll round the garden.
Then the cafe . Nothing for me ( had own tea in a flask) Coffee and sausage roll for himself.

Back at home try to do a couple of online clothes orders. Very frustrating. Took about 2 hours. Would have been quicker to drive 40 miles to stores!!

D: salmon on cabbage and carrots with very minty tzatziki. Chips for hubby.
2 glasses red wine and 2 sqs 90% chocolate

I believe I didn't get to posting again on here for a while, so here's your irregular update.

I found a very easy trick for a tasty and low carb cauliflower cheese. Just buy a pack of ready made cheese fondue and call it cheese sauce. Very little carbs, no work, and cheaper than the same amount of sauce made with actual cheese.



Yesterday I had it with a leftover hamburger, today with half a fish fillet a la bordelaise.
I also found the trick to have the fish taste better on the second day. One of those frozen but rather tasty abominations is enough for two days, but reheating always makes it dry. The stuff is a frozen block and you're supposed to put it in the oven like that.
So I used an electric jigsaw to cut it in half and put the other half back in the freezer!

Exciting week next week.
A job interview on monday, I might become a bridge operator if they'll take me.
Another new date on wednesday. Very interesting man. Has a PhD in sociology and did his thesis on functional ability, social support and quality of life in patients with RA. A pretty interesting subject, especially seeing in how this forum is all about social support in dealing with a chronic condition.
Some 10 (?) years ago he quit the research work at the university to become a miller on this historical windmill. Currently he isn't milling due to a conflict with the foundation owning the mill, but he still runs the shop selling artisan flours.

We'll see!
He offered pizza and I told him this wasn't my preferred option due to pesky BG alarms and he didn't shy away from offering to cook after that. Looks good so far.

Antje, good luck on Monday, will keep fimgers crossed. And very good luck with your Dr of Philosophy! x