"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Breakfast was 2 Cumberland sausages with 2 fried eggs. Coffee.

2nd meal was going to be something with minced beef but I didn't have the energy and just threw some more sausages into the oven and had a sausage sandwich (small slices of white bread).

No baking today. Neil found another box of papers to be sorted out, along with some photo albums which must have been my father's - I'd never seen them before. Also there was a pile of Tom's record books from his voyages (dates, times, navigation records and so on) - I'll have to go through them.

Just had toast for breakfast today - 2 very small slices of white bread - with lots of butter. Just felt like it - no very good reason. Coffee.

Minced beef to be made into something. Beefburgers, I think, with ginger, garlic and lemon. Salad to go with it.

Hi all, I've been a little bit under the weather, maybe a slight cold. I've got my flu jab tomorrow and I've been worried it might not be a good idea with an existing infection but I don't think this is very bad so I'll go ahead and have the jab. I don't think I qualify for covid jabs any more with the new eligibility rules but I think I've had covid this year already so I'm not too worried.

I've been eating my minced beef stew for three days - the last portion is for tea tonight. Breakfasts have been a little bit not low carb!

I'm still fasting for about16 hours (sometimes a bit less) a day, and that seems to be helping my blood sugars a bit. I need to stop snacking but that is now much less than old me used to do.

Hoping to get a bit done in the garden this week, I've been lazy for the last few days.

Just made two cakes for DIL - a coffee walnut cake and a banana and coconut cake. One, or both, can go in the freezer if they don't want to eat them now. I don't like banana loaves - the texture is all wrong to me, so this cake is definitely a cake and should be a better texture. Experimental, as usual.

Breakfast: a beefburger with a fried egg on top. Coffee.
BG dropped like a stone and kept dropping until I was in a proper hypo. Piece of fruit cake, a toffee, a cup of sweetened coffee and it finally started to rise and I stopped sweating and shaking. Now Libre says it's too high (9.2).

2nd meal will be a beef ragout that I made with the rest of the beef mince.

I sent the banana cake down to DIL and just put the coffee/walnut ones in the freezer to finish later and send it down maybe next week.

Breakfast, back when the day was getting light, was an indulgent blueberry muffin and an armful of insulin.
Spent the rest of the day cleaning the house as I’m hosting the book group here on Friday. Lots of low alarms which I interpret as meaning Imm allergic to housework. I’d rather weed, dig and plant in the garden.
Lunch was veg sushi.

Fasted until 1.30pm, then had a sausage roll and some scrambled eggs. I had resistant starch pasta for tea, with garlic, onions, butter and some cheese. Surprisingly my BG is only 8 an hour after, so resistant starch pasta seems to be better than resistant starch rice which usually sends me up to 10. Pity, I love rice.

Just had breakfast. The rest of the ragout.

Not sure what to have for 2nd meal. Maybe nothing because I'm going to be shattered after my 2nd day in town in a row - podiatry yesterday to check pulses etc and leg bandaging today. Plenty in, because Neil did the shopping yesterday while I was with the podiatrist.

EDIT: 2nd meal will be hake. Neil found some in Tescos and thought I might like it. I'll steam it with lemon and ginger.

Had the steamed hake with lemon, ginger and spring onions plus some mushrooms which I'd cooked in the combi-oven and a steamed little winter squash. Very nice. Lots of mushrooms left over so I've made cream of mushroom soup for tomorrow.

Cooking ahead of time today for tomorrow’s lunch that I’m hosting.
It’ll be chicken and mushroom dauphinois with steamed marrow and cavalo Nero followed by apples from our tree topped with cinnamon sponge.
I’ve been staring at food since two-o’clock and don’t feel hungry now, but supper’s leftover kedgeree

Fairygodmother said:

chicken and mushroom dauphinois with steamed marrow and cavalo Nero followed by apples from our tree

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Did you grow the marrow and cavalo nero? That sounds like a really delicious meal!

I had scrambled eggs for breakfast, a bit of off piste snacking later and I was hungry so had an early tea - fish portion in butter sauce with the last of the bolted summer sprouting broccoli, the last of the yellow dwarf French beans, and even a small portion of peas from my garden! The peas went in a bit too late and I'm very pleased to have got any at all.

I still have two Japanese squash, a fair few carrots and several decent swedes, along with some cavalo nero and red russian kales which I hope I can pick through the winter and in December hopefully there'll be some new potatoes from the containers. I have a few bags of runner beans in the freezer, why is it we always need a bigger freezer?

I'm trying to keep costs down a bit so I'll eat a lot of stews made with minced beef, and I'm going to try chicken liver casseroles too. My celeriac didn't do well (my fault, not theirs) so I am buying some, it's not too expensive in the supermarket thankfully, I really love that in stews. The other things I'll need to buy will be broad beans (I failed at those this year), squashes and parsnips - I couldn't even get them to germinate!

Your veg sound magnificent! I’m full of admiration.
No, I didn’t grow the cavalo Nero, I bought it. I planted some at the beginning of the season but some little unmentionables ate it. Our next door neighbour grew the marrow.
I took down our runner beans at the beginning of the week, I miss them. We have curly kale growing and some small purple sprouting plantlets. The kale nearly came a cropper last night when a fox chased a mole across the anti-wood pigeon netting. Everything was slantwise after that. The sun gold tomatoes are doing well, and some of the others are still ripening outdoors which is slightly disconcerting. It should be colder, even in the south east.

Fairygodmother said:

Your veg sound magnificent! I’m full of admiration.

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Thank you! I am enthusiastic but not always successful - I have plenty of failures to keep me humble. Caterpillars are devouring a lot of my brassica plants too, I thought they'd be finished now with the cooler weather but no, they're voracious and I'm running out of nasturtiums to relocate them to!

I planted a sungold in August out of sheer desperation to get more tomatoes before the end of the season and brave little stalwart that it is, I will have a little handful soon! I have the other yellow tomatoes ripening on my windowsill and got a fair amount from one plant, so I can't really complain.

I wrote this yesterday, but obviously forgot to press the "post" button, so here it is today instead:

Breakfast: cream of mushroom soup.

2nd meal will be out so no idea what it will be. I'll be taking something with me but it is a last minute arrangement so will have to make something with what is in the fridge. I know there's chicken, but I'm having to watch vegetables again so may make a rice dish and only eat a little of it. Chicken biryani probably.

Today's post:

By the time afternoon came, I knew I was in trouble, I could barely move, and then only with considerable pain, so had to call off going out for the evening. I had made lots of rice and a big container of chicken biryani but I wasn't going to eat any of that by myself. Em's brother was here working on his costume for a kind of comic characters convention being held in Stornoway (it has a big hammer kind of thing that lights up so he needed Neil's advice to get it working). So I gave him the whole lot to take home for the family to have for their main meal today. Just as well there's someone who can use it.

I just had some crackers with an avocado for my 2nd meal.

Breakfast today was the last of the cream of mushroom soup.

2nd meal today will be minced turkey and squash curry. There will be enough for several meals, I should think.

Whatever I do, I don't seem to be able to get my gut working properly. Stopping Metformin has only had the effect of making my BG harder to control but hasn't calmed my inner workings. It occurred to me that things have been worse since I stopped drinking tea (went off it) and started drinking lots of coffee. Can that do it, I wonder. So, just to see, no more coffee and I'm back to drinking tea, which I don't enjoy and is a bit of a pain, having to make it in a pot (already discovered that tea in bags puts my BG up). Still, it's hot and tastes marginally better than our tap water. Trial and error, as usual. We'll see.

Oh yes, coffee can upset the gut. I remember arriving at a hospital where some friends worked to ask for help finding a solution to gut problems. The first thing they said was ‘We’ll make you some coffee’. After a strong black, it was easier to provide samples.
Turned out to be tape worm. This was in West Africa.

Annb said:

Whatever I do, I don't seem to be able to get my gut working properly. Stopping Metformin has only had the effect of making my BG harder to control but hasn't calmed my inner workings. It occurred to me that things have been worse since I stopped drinking tea (went off it) and started drinking lots of coffee. Can that do it, I wonder. So, just to see, no more coffee and I'm back to drinking tea, which I don't enjoy and is a bit of a pain, having to make it in a pot (already discovered that tea in bags puts my BG up). Still, it's hot and tastes marginally better than our tap water. Trial and error, as usual. We'll see.

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I have similar issues - I think we must be closely related somehow! I have to take loperamide especially when I'm going out, and I can never really go far from a loo these days, for gut and bladder issues. Coffee definitely does make me go, but I love it so I just have half a cup once, and rarely twice, a day.

I have developed a liking for green tea, I had to work at it but I do genuinely enjoy it now.

Oddly I find that I'll have one bad day where I have to run to the loo at least twice, often three times, then the next day I'll be fine as long as I don't over consume anything triggering. Or just over consume, which has been and still sometimes is a real problem for me.

Rice is really good for calming the gut but it does send the BG up - I understand using vinegar on it (as for sushi) means it's less likely to have a big impact on BG but I haven't tried that yet, I just have small portions which I've made starch-resistant. Also I heard that eating a portion of greens (such as broccoli) before starches like rice can reduce a BG spike, again I haven't experimented as I don't use a libre but it might be worth a go if/when you're back on vegetables.

I think yoghurt helps me but I'm not really sure, it could have been coincidence but again maybe worth a go?

I had a potter around the garden today and might try a bit of grass cutting later if I still have the energy - I'm just waiting for a parcel to arrive first.

The caterpillars are absolutely relentless and I've made the difficult decision to try a biological control (nematodes). I hate to interfere but honestly they've had such a good year that they really don't need this late flush to keep their numbers up and there are plenty of them still happily munching through my nasturtiums. I'll only be using it on the container grown brassicas, in a very small area. The wasps that appeared to be taking some of them seem to have been overwhelmed!

I picked some lettuce to have with breakfast, tuna mayonnaise using up a tin from the cupboard that will expire soon, with some of the ripened yellow tomatoes and a tiny handful of sweetcorn. The lettuce is lovely, I'll definitely grow it again - Webbs Wonderful, the packet shows quite a round head but mine are more romaine style.

jpscloud said:

I have similar issues - I think we must be closely related somehow! I have to take loperamide especially when I'm going out, and I can never really go far from a loo these days, for gut and bladder issues. Coffee definitely does make me go, but I love it so I just have half a cup once, and rarely twice, a day.

I have developed a liking for green tea, I had to work at it but I do genuinely enjoy it now.

Oddly I find that I'll have one bad day where I have to run to the loo at least twice, often three times, then the next day I'll be fine as long as I don't over consume anything triggering. Or just over consume, which has been and still sometimes is a real problem for me.

Rice is really good for calming the gut but it does send the BG up - I understand using vinegar on it (as for sushi) means it's less likely to have a big impact on BG but I haven't tried that yet, I just have small portions which I've made starch-resistant. Also I heard that eating a portion of greens (such as broccoli) before starches like rice can reduce a BG spike, again I haven't experimented as I don't use a libre but it might be worth a go if/when you're back on vegetables.

I think yoghurt helps me but I'm not really sure, it could have been coincidence but again maybe worth a go?

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Maybe we are related in some way. Have you had your DNA tested? I have but have only found cousins that I knew anyway (first cousins that is - there are others, generally in America who are something like 1st cousin 4 x removed, or half second cousins, which I don't understand at all). You have to be careful though with getting DNA checked -a man I know recently found that he wasn't related to his Dad at all! He was quite upset at the time, but seems to have settled down a bit now.

I take a fair amount of Loperamide as well and seem to have similar gut/bladder problems as you. Doesn't help being on diuretics to try to reduce the amount of fluid I retain in my legs. If I know I am going out, I don't take the pills, if I've taken the pills and need to go out - I just don't.

Cauliflower and broccoli are definitely no-nos for me, but it seems that lots of vegetables are these days. I've tried resistant starches, but for me it doesn't work. If I eat any kind of starches, BG shoots up unless I take massive amounts of insulin first and surprise, surprise, I don't want to do that. Rice with vinegar though - hadn't heard of that and might give it a go.

jpscloud said:

I had a potter around the garden today and might try a bit of grass cutting later if I still have the energy - I'm just waiting for a parcel to arrive first.

The caterpillars are absolutely relentless and I've made the difficult decision to try a biological control (nematodes). I hate to interfere but honestly they've had such a good year that they really don't need this late flush to keep their numbers up and there are plenty of them still happily munching through my nasturtiums. I'll only be using it on the container grown brassicas, in a very small area. The wasps that appeared to be taking some of them seem to have been overwhelmed!

I picked some lettuce to have with breakfast, tuna mayonnaise using up a tin from the cupboard that will expire soon, with some of the ripened yellow tomatoes and a tiny handful of sweetcorn. The lettuce is lovely, I'll definitely grow it again - Webbs Wonderful, the packet shows quite a round head but mine are more romaine style.

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We didn't see a single butterfly this year, so no caterpillars. Not that there's anything in our garden for them to eat other than herbs. My gardening these days is all in pots. I do have some plants that should have gone out into the ground - mostly fruit bushes - but Neil hasn't got around to doing anything in the garden but lop bits off of the shrubs in front of the house and cut the grass a couple of times. He hasn't been all that well this year, even compared to his normal low level of fitness, so I can't criticise.