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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Rainy day today so I have just got some house jobs done, not really making much of a dent in what needs doing but at least it's something!

Breakfast was a portion of crustless quiche, and tea was cooking bacon in cream cheese sauce with runner beans and a small potato. I have also been snacking today, not low carb

Rain for a few days apparently, so I will try to get on with house jobs again tomorrow.
 
Breakfast was some more of the crustless quiche and tea will be the second portion of bacon in cream cheese sauce, with carrot and swede mash and a potato.

Snacking continues to be a bit of a problem. I'm going out tomorrow to meet up with friends, but it will probably be a very light lunch this time.
 
Breakfast was the last of the haddock - fried yesterday and made into haddock mayo this morning. Perhaps should have put more salt into it, but I'm trying not to use much salt.

2nd meal will be more of the chicken that I cooked the day before yesterday.

EDIT: 14.25 - hungry so had some crackers with cheese a few minutes ago.
 
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Realized I have been reading but not contributing much. I do enjoy checking in on everyone and appreciate the meal ideas too.
So, brealfast was two L/c blueberry mini muffins. I usually make a batch and freeze them as they make an easy, quick option when needed. Lunch was part of a baguette Parisien sandwich from a local charcuterie. A non low carb treat knowing I was going to be doing lots of walking afterwards so could adjust insulin accordingly. I’m now about to plant garlic cloves ready for next year harvest as we’re having frosty nights now so should be ok to plant them on this nice fall day. Gardening always reduces my blood sugar significantly. I must be a voracious gardener!
Dinner will be steak and salad of kale and kohlrabi both still coping well in the garden, seeds and a garlicky nutritional yeast dressing.
 
Good to hear about your garden, @MommaE! My black kale has been battered by storm winds, but the red russian kale is doing better. We must compare notes about garlic, I've planted some elephant garlic for the first time and also tried an experiment with some shop-bought regular garlic.

I had a lovely time yesterday but we just had coffee, and didn't bother eating. I ate a range of non-low-carb things when I got home, grazing all evening. I've also had a slight cold which is not really developing into anything major but has made me feel a bit rubbish, so I've defaulted to comfort food.

I will have some more crustless quiche for breakfast with a sausage or two maybe. I haven't made a Thai green curry for a while so might do that for tea.
 
Breakfast was the rest of the pork from a day or so ago. Tea.

2nd meal will be 2 lamb chops with some onions. Not much else available just now. Must get Neil to get some vegetables when he goes shopping tomorrow.

Saw part an old TV programme of Jamie Oliver's in the early hours, making a Persian vegetable dish using aubergine and tomato but missed what else went in to it. Sounds like a good combination though, so might have a go at something of the kind. It might have had some chopped spinach in it as well. That might make it a bit more risky for me, but I do like spinach and if it is only one of the ingredients, perhaps I can get away with it.
 
Finished planting my garlic today. I buy bulbs of a local garlic from our garden centre. I haven’t tried using grocery store garlic, will be interested to hear how you get on.
 
MommaE said:
Finished planting my garlic today. I buy bulbs of a local garlic from our garden centre. I haven’t tried using grocery store garlic, will be interested to hear how you get on.
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I'm using one of the two bulbs I bought in cooking, and finding quite a bit of damage inside the cloves, so feeling a little concerned - I might quickly replace them with a bulb from a garden centre!
 
I made the Thai green curry and it was really good. I'll have the second half for tea tonight.

Breakfast will be whatever I fancy when I open the fridge in a bit!
 
On the bridge today and wondering what to eat.
I want my usual cracker for my first meal. Which needs anything from 3 to 6 units of insulin so I usually keep an eye on my CGM to correct afterwards in any direction.

But I forgot my phone at home so I'll have to do without CGM until I get back at around 7:30 pm. I do have my meter but I try to spare the teststrips because I only get a limited amount so maybe I'll keep things easy and no carb, and graze on cheese, ham, paté during the day.

Evening meal shortly before I go home will be a bolognese type sauce with lots of veggies added and grated cheese. I had it yesterday as well with 5 units of insulin, could have used 6.

We'll see, and for now it is a very odd feeling to have no idea what my bg is. No reason to expect anything spectacular at this time of day so no need to use a teststrip yet.
 
Just had a very unsuitable breakfast. I made some pastry yesterday - an experiment to see if I could replicate my grandmother's suet pastry. Not too bad an effort, if I do say so myself. I made it into a roll with dried fruit and baked, rather than steamed, it (which my grandmother would have done). So I had 3 slices of that this morning. Pretty sure it will shove my BG well up - I'll check that with a fingerprick test in a while. I haven't yet received replacement sensors from Abbott. I did take a hefty dose of insulin to deal with it, so it shouldn't be too bad.

Still some lamb left from yesterday - it wasn't chops as I had thought, it was leg steaks. Plenty for 2 meals. I've given Neil a long list of vegetables to try to get in the shops today, so something will go with it. I do have a butternut squash though, which should go pretty well with it.

I found a recipe for the Persian dish I was thinking about - it's called Mirza Ghasemi and is basically just tomato and aubergine with eggs and spices. Tomatoes and aubergines on the shopping list.
 
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I just looked this up, looks easy and tasty!
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Neil only got half of the shopping today - he has a GP appointment tomorrow so will get the rest then, but I think he did get both tomatoes and aubergines so I'll give that a go later today. We're just back from town and I'm shattered right now. At least my 2 replacement sensors arrived in the post. Let's see if they work or if it is the reader after all.

EDIT: It's not the reader. BG is 10.1, which agrees with the fingerprick test I did at the same time.
 
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I decided to snack on ham, cheese, paté and a little cottage cheese throughout the day to make things easier. I know I have a meter, but I've been using Libre almost from the start of my diabetes, so going without very much feels like flying blind and it's quite hard to suppress the urge to test all the time just because I'm so used to knowing what my bg does 24/7.

I used a teststip first time at 2 pm. Nowadays I need a couple units of insulin for waking up on some days, but not on all days, and I obviously skipped this today so the 6.9 made sense.
Still a little higher than I like it, so I threw 4 units at it, both to correct and for the anticipated cottage cheese.

Evening meal was the next challenge: To test or not to test before injecting?
After talking with my (non diabetic but very sensible) friend through facebook, I decided that I most likely was anywhere between 4.5 and 7.5. Same meal as yesterday when 5 units was a tad too little. With that in mind, plus a slightly larger portion we decided on 6 units without testing, and test an hour later before driving home.
With my sensor it would likely have been 7 units.

Bolognese type sauce with lots of veggies and lots of grated cheese.
No pic because no phone.

Shortly before the end of my shift at 7 I tested again, 6.9 so I could have used 7 or even 8 units, but not bad at all for flying blind!

Here's my graph upon getting home, slightly higher than I usually like it (especially because my Libre reads a little lower than blood), but exactly where I want it when not having access to my numbers all day!

 
I know how you feel without your sensor to guide you on meals and insulin. I was without mine for a few days and had to use fingerprick tests. I felt very insecure and had to stop myself ruining my fingertips by over-checking. Even so, my fingers were sore - left hand anyway, being right handed and pretty hopeless with my left hand which means all the fingerpricks were on the 3 fingers and thumb that I can use on that left hand (a fingerprick some months ago left me with an odd swelling on the index finger and I can't think to try to use that one again). I was so glad when the replacement sensors came yesterday.

Breakfast was a few tiny crackers with slivers of cheese and then a few teaspoons of yoghurt.

2ndmeal will be some Lorne sausage with cabbage and some more of the butternut squash mash.
 
My appetite has rebounded for some reason. It might be the ozempic pen or it might be something else, maybe colder weather and reaching for comfort food.

I'm due to start mounjaro after this ozempic pen runs out, but it's a smaller starting dose so that might be another several weeks of higher appetite.

I had non low carb food all day today as well. Sigh.
 
I find that if I have a carb rich food, I just keep on feeling hungry (for more carbs) so it's best, if possible to fill up on protein rich foods which will keep me going for longer.

For a change, I reheated the squash mash from yesterday (which was a bit on the sweet side) with some butter and some tamarind paste. It was very good and I might do that again.
 
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