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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Didn't go to plan yesterday. The cheese omelette was fine and didn't do any harm to BG. However, during the day I found another couple of places to turn out in my search for those lost papers/jewels. Didn't find them but it involved pulling one large box and one very large basket, both full of papers, out of their hiding places. Ouch, I'd forgotten I had those muscles! I got them out, went through them and needed to put them back. I didn't realise it would be so difficult and thought I'd call Neil to help, but denied myself the right to do so, and struggled on. That led to the strained and pained muscles.

2nd meal didn't happen - I couldn't move.

Same this morning so just had a few slices of ham and some cucumber for breakfast.

2nd meal today is on and cooking, along with a turkey "goulash" because there was too much turkey in the packet for one meal. Today's meal is the minced turkey with cabbage, onion, garlic and a single tomato chopped in.
 
Hope those strained muscles are recovering @Annb x

Yesterday I had Greek yogurt for breakfast with a few blueberries and a small slice of toast (homemade bread).

I didn't have any lunch, then had fish fingers and fish cakes with - nothing! Should have had some vegetables but didn't bother. Then had a chocolate protein pudding - not for the protein but because it's not sickly sweet like most.

Today I think I might fast until mid afternoon, or even teatime. I'll see how I feel in a bit. Haven't planned for tea yet.

I'm going to get working in the garden today, it's crunch time to get winter/early spring vegetables organised - Red Russian kale, 9 star broccoli, Christmas harvest new potatoes, peas for a late autumn harvest (hopefully), beetroot, spring onions successionally sown. I planted swede last month and they are looking good but might be a spring harvest rather than autumn. My celeriac is looking quite good but again it might be spring before I get that. So it looks like the kale might be the best one for harvesting through the winter.

Overwintering onions (Senshyu) were sown in july but had a very poor germination rate so I have some overwintering onion sets coming soon, with elephant garlic.

I only plant in small amounts, and it's cost a fair bit in compost and so on, so it's not really a money saver at the moment. Maybe next year I'll be saving a bit as I won't need to buy as many seeds. It's really more to encourage myself to eat more vegetables.
 
Muscles still very stiff but better than they were. I can at least move a bit. Just back from getting my legs bandaged so am feeling a bit worn after having to walk even a little bit.

Breakfast was the only thing I could find this morning - nothing left after a week with no shopping because of the car being out of action - was RyVita with cheddar cheese melted onto it. I was hoping to avoid the high fibre crackers for another week, but there were are.

2nd meal will be the turkey ragout that I cooked yesterday. Should have it with something, but I'm not sure what. Courgettes maybe.
 
Your vegetable planting sound excellent. Well done.

Our garden grows grass, weeds, shrubs and trees, but is useless for vegetables. We've tried over the years, but never managed to get a harvest out of anything other than a crop of potatoes, which we don't eat now, so no point growing those. Even fruit trees and bushes don't do well. They grow, but we rarely get any fruit from them.

I noticed this morning in Stornoway that the rowans growing there are overloaded with berries but ours haven't a berry on them. Too much wind, I suppose.
 
I love Rowan trees but haven't got room for one at the moment. I have to grow everything vegetable wise in large tubs because of cats and ground that was stuffed with hardcore so the previous owner could drive his caravan on it.

I've found that pretty much anything can be grown in tubs and it's easier to give things the exact soil conditions they want. I put a couple of small raised beds in this year which have done well but they are expensive to buy.
 
It's perfectly possible to just melt cheese on a plate and eat it on its own. When my husband makes himself a ham and cheese or just cheese toastie, I ask him to put my "filling" on a plate and microwave it for a minute. If you don't have a microwave you can make cheese crisps in the oven

I found this recipe but haven't tried it yet

Basic Keto Cheese Crisps

These baked cheese crisps are a quick, easy, and delicious 1-ingredient crunchy snack that are naturally low-carb, gluten-free, and keto-friendly.
www.allrecipes.com
Our garden is similarly rubbish at growing anything edible except hazelnuts which are of limited use. Too steep a slope and far too many slugs.
Why not grow a rowan in a tub? We have one as well as an oak, an apple and a couple of horse chestnuts. The only trouble with tubs is that they dry out far faster than the actual garden, so we've lost a few over the years, but others have survived well. One of the horse chestnuts is over 50 years old as it's the one my in-laws planted when my husband was born - his brother has one even older! They're called "Reknoc" and "G G Nutchest"

In food news, today is a "clear some space in the fridge" day as hubby has a 10% off Lidl voucher.

Mozzarella and remains of last night's cooked chicken thigh for breakfast. Other meals likely to involve salmon pâté, coleslaw (hopefully not together) and a fryup containing black pudding.
 
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Wow horse chestnuts are big hungry trees, growing them in tubs is quite an achievement! I have a few trees in tubs, a small apple tree, a damson and a victoria plum. I need the space where light falls for the plants that I already have, and the vegetables I want to grow, but I might be able to grow more small trees if I get rid of one of the hazel trees (which are planted in the ground) - I only really need one and the squirrels get all the hazelnuts anyway!
 
debs248 said:
Our garden is similarly rubbish at growing anything edible except hazelnuts which are of limited use. Too steep a slope and far too many slugs.
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Oh yeah, slugs. Me too, although the juvenile blackbirds have been enjoying the unwary ones this year. I resorted to beer traps when it rained after the last heatwave, because they came out in force! I feel bad about killing them though. I grow quite a few things up on garden tables where slugs only rarely invade, but when they do they can cause havoc!
 
jpscloud said:
I feel bad about killing them though. I grow quite a few things up on garden tables where slugs only rarely invade, but when they do they can cause havoc!
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I don't exactly like killing things either, but any slug that comes into the house is doomed. Similarly any rodent that comes into the house or within about 10 feet of it. We try to use live traps for mice but have had to deal more harshly with the occasional rat.
 
I had a very productive day in the garden, the weather was just cool enough to work in and just warm and sunny enough to make me want to.

There was a massive cloudburst that came out of nowhere and then went very quickly - it watered all the plants I'd just put in pots so I was happy! The pigeons have been pecking at various plants, and the white butterflies have been determined to lay eggs on the brassicas, so i had to cover those up.

I had half a slice of toast for breakfast, I didn't want to eat much because I don't feel like working if I overeat. I had an egg with 2 ryvita and some cottage cheese for lunch and I've just had a lovely portion of cod fillet with runner beans and a half cup of rice for dinner.

I've lost another pound, but I have been on weight loss day trips too many times to get excited yet! I am very consciously eating less than I really want to, and finding it easier at the moment, so going with the flow.
 
Melted some cheese and topped it with dry fried eggs for breakfast today. Tasted fine, but I've been feeling grotty ever since - Cheddar produces an awful amount of fat when melted. That doesn't seem to have the same effect when mixed with a cracker.

I have the makings of an avocado salad for later, but it begins to look unlikely.
 
I had tomato and cheese with leftover rice, very small amount, for breakfast.

Small bowl of cottage cheese with chopped onion for lunch

I fancy fish again for tea with some runner beans and maybe a potato with cheese. I'm getting just enough beans for a meal each day at the moment but there'll probably be a glut in September - I have some relatives who love them so they won't go to waste!
 
I’m puzzled and I don’t want to clog up the less chat what have you eaten today thread with my conundrum. A few weeks ago my husband made a blackberry and apple crumble. All the usual ingredients in the topping, flour, oats, sugar plus sugar in with the apples. I had a normal sized portion and it didn’t budge my blood sugar level, I thought it was a fluke. However he made another crumble today, same recipe and again I had a normal sized portion and blood sugars have stayed level and actually somewhat low. The only thing I can attribute my luck to is the big dollop of extra thick double cream I had on it or the cinnamon he put in with the apples?

 
I find that taking carb rich foods with either double cream or butter slows down the BG response by hours, but eventually BG does rise and usually too far. It takes something like 4 hours to start rising but stays high for 24 hours more. Not the same response as you are getting, obviously, but it might have something to do with the big dollop of cream.
 
Yes I think it must be the cream, also the apples were cooked in butter and sugar before it was cooked further in the oven. It’s been three hours since I ate it so fingers crossed it doesn’t creep up while I’m asleep.
 
@Rachox very interesting 're the crumble- also did you have a small portion? I'd suspect spices and cream plus the butter all helped too. I use lots of spices and my low carb tea loaf which has 25g of mixed spice in plus the barberries served with butter can sometimes lower by bg! Mind you that uses no gluten low carb flour with sweetener so not really a comparison. Blood sugar and relationship with food and also stress is strange and I find it a puzzle that results can be different on different days and times.
Edit just spotted you say normal sized portion
 
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I'm finding the trees in pots chat interesting. For my birthday my youngest son and wife bought me a 5 foot high magnolia and our garden has poor soil so I grow mainly in pots and raised beds plus it needs special compost so I sourced a huge deep pot and lots of ericaceous compost and planted it yesterday. Took me several hours but it's now in situ and I'm hoping it thrive in the pot. Your trees in pots success give me hope.
 
Magnolia is another one I am hankering after! I would also have to plant it in a big pot, so I'm very interested to see how yours gets on. I believe Magnolias are very cold hardy so it should be fine outside over winter as well.
 
jpscloud said:
Magnolia is another one I am hankering after! I would also have to plant it in a big pot, so I'm very interested to see how yours gets on. I believe Magnolias are very cold hardy so it should be fine outside over winter as well.
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That's encouraging I've sited it in a slightly sheltered from the wind spot by the fence but a sunny position. I'm not sure how easy it would be to move it if it isn't happy there!
 
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