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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Sounds promising 're your meds.
Agree it's very odd not watering today although I was starting to get fed up with the massive daily watering job.
 
Sounds delicious it's my fave cake too but a low carb version these days. In fact I'm baking one tomorrow as freezer stocks just about eaten. I still really need a small low carb sweet treat most days.
 
Thanks for the birthday wishes for Em. I'll pass that on to her.
 
Today is the day!

Three or four weeks ago I had an awful bout of diarrhoea and I blamed it on the fairly new lentil crackers I had been eating. They may or may not have been the cause, but I don't know. However, having given my system a rest from them, and having a week ahead with no appointments until my Thursday leg slot, I am going to give it a try.

I have a nicely ripe avocado for breakfast and I'll team it with 2 lentil crackers. If nothing happens, I'll do the same tomorrow. If I have developed an intolerance for lentil crackers, the reaction should be fairly swift. If nothing untoward happens, lentils will be back in the diet and I'll blame the unfortunate event on a bug of some sort.

2 lentil crackers = <10g carbs so I shan't be taking insulin to cover it. I'll wait and see what happens to BG and maybe correct it later.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch - the walnuts still seem to be working their "magic", BG this morning was, and is, 5.8.

2nd meal today will be some ragout out of the freezer with a little butternut squash mash.

EDIT: Just after I posted the above, Libre told me my BG was 8.1! I carried on regardless - had my breakfast and pills, then coffee and checked again. BG 6.8 and falling.
 
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@Annb I will be interested to hear how the lentil cracker experiment goes - hope it goes well! Very interesting about the walnuts, I might have to give that a go too.

Breakfast was 3 scrambled eggs and a crumpet with butter.

Today I'm freezing some sweet peppers, runner beans (which might be winding down a bit now) and some corn on the cob I got cheap in the supermarket, and of course I couldn't resist eating a corn cob! Don't they smell amazing?

I don't have a solid plan for tea yet.
 
Was 5.6 but another cup of coffee and some fairly vigorous moving around (for me) has put it up to 6.2.

EDIT: Last time tonight. I decided against the ragout in favour of a Scottish dish called Stovies - again out of the freezer. It defrosted faster. Should have potato in it, but my version didn't; just vegetables and Lorne (beef sliced sausage). BGF was 5.6, so I didn't take insulin, although I normally would. BG up to 6.3. I don't know what is in the walnuts, but something is having an effect.

Lentil crackers: so far so good.
 
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BG in the 4's this morning. I've found articles online which say that walnuts, and other nuts, can improve BG levels in T2 diabetics. No idea why I hadn't heard of this before. So it seems my accidental find was a good one. It's something to do with the kind of fat in the nuts. Just have to control the amount I eat, or I will put even more weight on.

Avocado on lentil crispbread will be breakfast today. No noticeable effects yesterday so - once more into the breech, dear friends.....
 
Gosh you triggered a memory for me of eating stovies in Dundee when I was at Uni and during our early married years as a couple in Scotland.

Nuts don't put my sugars down but that may be because I am unable to stick to small portions of nuts - especially if they are mixed ones and have salt added! Walnuts on their own are quite bitter I find so harder to overeat so these are the only variety I store in my cupboard as I can ration them and I also use them for cooking.
 
It looks as though walnut oil - 15 ml a day - is equally recommended. I'm going to ask Neil if he can get me some in town. I don't find it hard to overeat walnuts, unfortunately. In fact, I've eaten far too many over the last couple of days and need to ration myself.

No immediate effect from the lentil crackers, so we'll see how that goes.

No insulin with breakfast and BG remained in the low 4's but just had a cup of coffee (and moved around a bit, which does tend to raise BG) and it has shot up to 6.8. I daresay it will fall again though. What am I complaining about - last week I would have been overjoyed to have BG in the 6's.

2nd meal today will be the ragout which has now defrosted thoroughly, so must prep the butternut squash early so that I don't give up on it. Not that it takes much prepping - just chuck it in the oven and bake it, then take it apart and mash the flesh (with some butter, of course).
 
Well. Two things I've learned over the last couple of days:
1 nuts, walnuts in particular, are great at getting BG down
2 the lentil crackers don't agree with me

Swings and roundabouts....

Tum is starting to complain about what I've eaten and the only difference to usual is the crackers. I wonder if the birds will like them. That's the swings part of the story.

The roundabouts part is that my BG is staying in the 4's and 5's with no bolus doses of insulin.
 
@Annb that's great news about the walnuts, and at least you know now about the lentil crackers. I'm going to try some walnuts when my home grown supply of cobnuts runs out (which won't be long!)

I've been off the rails a bit with eating, so I'm planning to have a lamb burger (no bread) and cottage cheese with salad tonight. I'll have baby leaf lettuce, tiny baby carrots, tiny baby beets and leaves, toasted cobnuts, spring onion and sweet pepper, all from the garden and maybe a half corn on the cob.

I haven't finished freezing things from the garden, so will get to that tomorrow. I did pick one pod of peas, a bit small but absolutely delicious eaten on the spot, so now I can't say the peas didn't give me anything! There are plenty of pods coming too.
 
Well done on your veggies they sound amazing. I'm down to just tomatoes now as my garden berries are about finished. I still have a bit of a glut of tomatoes though so will offer some to my youngest son who is visiting tomorrow and then in a few days need to start roasting and making sauces although I did see a mention by Monty Don about how he successfully freezes them whole to roast from frozen later so may try a few this way too. I love garden tomatoes fried slowly in olive oil and served on low carb toast.
 
Breakfast will be a few walnuts followed by the rest of the ragout from yesterday.

Already had 3 cups of coffee this morning but I daresay there'll be another one after breakfast.

2nd meal will be some chicken tagine which is already cooked and ready to reheat. Our local shops are being a bit naughty and not labelling things that are short dated. Neil bought me some chicken thighs on Thursday which were out of date on Friday, so I had to cook them right away. Same with some sausages and some turkey steaks - they weren't out of date, but very close. I'll have to cook them today, although I won't be eating them today.
 
I had eggs instead of the lamb burger with my salad, because the home grown cress on my windowsill needed using. It was lovely and I need to work out which of the things I'm eating in my salads is a very effective appetite satisfier. I wonder if it's the leafy greens, which I have very rarely eaten before.

I've done my morning watering with plant food, covered up the Christmas potatoes and pointlessly shooed a million white butterflies off my brassicas - they're having such a good year. I'm now having cheese and marmite on home made low(er) carb toast, it's my version of Welsh rarebit (with apologies to the Welsh, although I am a quarter Welsh so maybe I can get away with adulterating a national dish!)

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I still have a bit of a glut of tomatoes
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I have tomato envy! I just have one plant grown from spring and it looks like a few tomatoes will be ripe in the next week or so. I despaired of growing any more from seed so bought two plants of Sungold which may give me some tomatoes before the end of the year. One is outside and one is in the polytunnel.

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I love garden tomatoes fried slowly in olive oil and served on low carb toast.
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I love that too, it's delicious! Supermarket tomatoes just don't have the same flavour but I missed the boat this year with garden tomatoes - I bet we won't have such amazing weather again next year but I'll make an effort to grow some anyway.
 
I did it again! I forgot to refill my little box with needles in, which following Antje's suggestion, is the way I keep track of whether or not I actually took my Tresiba basal dose. And I don't think I did take it today, but I'm not sure, so can't take another dose. Must organise myself a bit better.

However, my BG before breakfast was 5.1. I forgot to take the walnuts (see this memory of mine - it keeps taking breaks) and just had the ragout. BG actually rose, for the first time in days, to 6.1. Then I had a few walnut pieces.. BG shortly afterward was 5.1. I'm happy enough with that.

Chucked the package of sausages into a pan and into the oven - just to get them cooked. I'll make a casserole of them for later in the week. Stir fried the turkey (very thin strips) with some chopped up vegetables, also to have later in the week. 2 meals at least in each.

EDIT: I'm pretty sure I didn't take my basal dose because BG rose to 7.9 after my second meal. It was still rising so I took a very small dose of the bolus insulin and that brought it back down into the 5's. It's currently 6.7 so I'll have a few walnuts and see what that does.
 
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Breakfast was scrambled eggs with a small bread roll and butter, then some quavers, then two coffee flavour kit kats - it was a bit of a mad half hour. An hour and a half later, my BG was 8.5, and I've just tried your walnut experiment @Annb, I got some in my shopping delivery and couldn't wait to give it a go. I had 7 halves, and I'm interested to see if it works for me, to bring my BG down a bit quicker - it usually takes several hours.

I'm having chicken with swede mash, cauliflower, runner beans and a half corn on the cob for tea.

Edit - an hour after the walnuts my BG is 7.5, I think that is a quicker drop than usual as I haven't been very active due to the weather being pants.
 
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In the car, I keep some cans of Costa coffee (milky) which has some sugar in it. These are my emergency supplies in case of a hypo when I'm out. Last Thursday I had to use 2 of them to bring my BG up to a reasonable level while I was out (after 2 shortbread biscuits and a toffee had failed) so my store of the coffee was depleted and seems not to be available at present in Stornoway. So I ordered some from Amazon (2 packs of 4). They arrived in the post this morning but it was clear one of them was leaking - just a little, but enough to make the bottom of the box a bit wet and to get onto the other 7 cans.

It was a tiny leak and obviously quite recent (the box was badly packed) and probably only happened in the sorting office this morning. Well, I couldn't just pour it away, could I? Bg jumped to 8.2 despite the walnuts. Came down in half an hour to 7.4 and currently sitting at 7.1. Not as good as I would like, but it's not surprising. I'm still a fan of walnuts.
 
I think I will keep going with the walnut experiment too, after 2 hours my BG was down to 6.2 which is really good and a number I only usually get when fairly active in the garden - I've been sitting on my bum most of the day cutting beans for the freezer. I didn't have any lunch, which is routine for me but the numbers don't usually come down this well after eating badly.

Currently getting tea ready, I'm having a medley of vegetables, as some of the summer sprouting broccoli which I planted late is bolting, so I've taken the tops off those (just three little ones) and I'm using a handful of yellow French beans with the runner beans, and some cauliflower that needs using up... plus the mashed swede which I don't want to leave in the fridge another day.
 
Yesterday wasn't great. Trouble in the works again. It may have been because I used some chickpea pasta with the chicken tagine. This may have been the reason that my BG was on the high side yesterday, as well as the can of coffee. The walnuts didn't manage to hold BG down to the levels of the last few days.

Today is another day though. BG started off at 8.6 but is now down to 6.6 - that's after a coffee and basal insulin. Just had a few walnut bits - probably one walnut when put together. Hope to be back into the 5's today.

Breakfast: ready to eat shortly, is more egg mess using the last of the turkey stir fry.

2nd meal will be sausage casserole.
 
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