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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

I didn't bother with the sausage casserole. It will do for tomorrow - must eat well tomorrow morning because I have to be out most of the day and won't have a chance to have anything else until about 6 pm or later. My friend arrived late afternoon begging a favour. She has been asked by the Western Isles Health Board to organise an interfaith conference at the local college and one of her speakers has had to call off at the last moment so she needs someone else, who is used to standing up and talking to groups of people. Been desperately sorting out material but will have to cut it down in the morning because I only have 10 minutes to say my piece. The conference will take all day from lunchtime, but we will need to be there earlier so will go about 11 am. Have to make sure I take emergency supplies as well.
 
Sausage casserole it was, for breakfast - about 10 am. Then just time for my pills and some water before my friend arrived to pick me up. I took some Jacob's mixed seed crackers with me to have in case my BG dropped too low. Food was being supplied but I was pretty sure none of it would be suitable for me - and I was right about that. Anyway, the conference went well. I did find BG beginning to drop so took one of the crackers out and it promptly broke, leaving me with about 1/3 of it and the rest on the floor! Just ate the 1/3.

Had some other crackers with a cup of tea when I got home and that will be enough for tonight.

Getting to the venue was a bit of an issue. My friend pushed me into the main building where the receptionist told us the conference was in another building - rather steeply uphill from the main building. With me pushing the wheels and my friend pushing the chair, we got to the other building. Inside we found that we needed to get down about 10 steps - impossible but there was a lift, which was out of order. Then a stranger pushed me back outside, down the hill and to a side entrance to get me back into the building at the right level. About an hour later I needed the toilet and, of course, it was in the upper part of the building (beyond the stairs) so my friend had to push me back out of the door at the lower level, up the hill to the main entrance and along a long corridor to the toilets. Then back down the hill again. Same thing a couple of hours later. It's just embarrassing to be such a nuisance. It's also a nuisance that an organisation that advertises that it is "accessible" can't be bothered to mend its lift.
 
Breakfast - about 12.30 was yoghurt with a few raspberries crushed and stirred through. Tea (of course).
2nd meal will be lamb steak with salad.

Food was provided at the Conference yesterday. I didn't expect to see anything even vaguely suitable and so had a large breakfast. At the break I was chatting to a lady I'd never seen before - about 50 I imagine and slim. She had on her plate a huge slice of cheesecake with a chocolate and strawberry topping plus another of a very rich looking chocolate cake. She told us that she was being very bad, being diabetic but she didn't care, the desserts looked so delicious - her sugar levels were always very high anyway, so why not? I wanted to talk her about low carb and how that could help but there were too many others talking over us that it was impossible. Others did wonder that I wasn't eating any of that "delicious food" on offer. I told them that, if I did , my Libre alarm would be shrieking and would embarrass me. Actually, although that was the case, I was disappointed at the quality of the food offered by my old catering department and wasn't even remotely tempted by it. We would never have got away with the gross presentation when I was a student there. My old lecturer would turn in his grave. Oh how critical I am becoming in my old age. It's those old slipping standards again.
 
Annb said:
It's just embarrassing to be such a nuisance.
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I absolutely agree with @Antje77 - those responsible for accessibility should be ashamed of themselves - firstly for not fulfilling their obligations and secondly for causing you such embarrassment.

I hope you did, or will, let them know about your experience so they can make the necessary repairs and improvements.

I was out yesterday with carnivore friends who had, like me, lapsed in recent months. We went to a farm shop where they raise and butcher their own meat, and serve it in their tearoom, notably with a huge meaty breakfast option served until midday. My friends are having another go with carnivore, and I might join themby doing a very low carb version with some vegetables.

I won't start yet because I'm just beginning with Mounjaro (first dose today) so I want to see what happens with my BG levels - I also have to take into account dapagliflozin, so I will continue with including modest levels of carbs for now. The starting dose of Mounjaro is very low, though, so I'm not sure if my appetite (aka binge behaviours) will be affected. The dose is only increased once per month so it will be a while before I'm on a significant dose. I know that's sensible but I am a bit impatient!
 
Breakfast: corned beef with crispbread and cucumber.
2nd meal will be pork chop with broccoli.
Plenty of tea throughout the day must be had. Still finding it difficult to get enough fluids in - it would help if I didn't keep falling asleep during the day so there are long spells between opportunities to drink anything.
 
When I finally remembered to have it, Breakfast was the last of the corned beef on some more crispbreads. that amount to just less than 30 grams carbs, for which I took 20 units of insulin. BG is around 6 now, so it was about the right amount.

2nd meal will be spiced beef mince with tomato and aubergine - perhaps some courgette as well.

I gather that the hot, dry summer we had has damaged and reduced the potato crop this year so potatoes will become very costly. One more reason not to eat potatoes.
 
Annb said:
I gather that the hot, dry summer we had has damaged and reduced the potato crop this year so potatoes will become very costly. One more reason not to eat potatoes.
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I noticed a lot of uk root vegetables are smaller this year too.

My Christmas potatoes started to look like they're blighted, so I removed the foliage - one bucket had a fully blighted plant, so I harvested the potatoes from that. Very small, like a supermarket bag of salad potatoes, but very clean and smooth. I'm sure they'll be tasty. It's probably better they're small so when I just use one or two at a time it's a smaller portion.

I'm making a slow cooked ham (£2 pack of cooking bacon) soup with swede and carrots from the garden today.
 
Egg Fu Yung for breakfast with some mushrooms and a few bits of broccoli - just to use them up.
2nd meal will be some more of the mince topped with mashed butternut squash to make something like cottage pie.

We're approaching shopping day (Neil has decided not to go today - the list so far is not long) so you have reminded me @jpscloud, that I should make some soup with whatever is left in the fridge.
 
The soup turned out really nice, but there's a lot of it! I'll be eating that for breakfast/lunch or tea for a few days. I'm so pleased with my home grown carrots and swede, they're so good. Another failure though is my Japanese squash, I went to pick the lovely big one I've been admiring for ages and found that it's completely rotten at the back! The smaller one is fine, so I've picked that.
 
Really didn't fancy anything for breakfast so just had a few cheesey crackers. They are tiny but very delicious, so once started I found it hard to stop. There was some soup, made yesterday with lots of end of week veg but my insides are currently reminding me that too much veg isn't welcome, so couldn't have that. BG was high to start with but now is down to 4.9, so it wasn't too harmful.

2nd meal today will be more of the mince/tomato/aubergine mixture. Maybe some more of the mashed squash.
 
3 eggs scrambled in butter for breakfast.
There's still some beef mince left, so that will be the 2nd meal today.

Leg bandaging day today so it's a busy morning. That's why I had breakfast early today. Neil will be doing the shopping for me - just hope the car will start since it's been sat in the cold since last Thursday. Neil always carries a spare battery though, so it should be OK.

EDIT: back now. The car was fine, at least it started perfectly well. It passed its MOT some days ago but we just got the certificate today with a few recommendations (mainly the brakes are OK but could be better) and the passenger door has started being difficult to shut, so we'll make another appointment to get it taken into the garage again to fix those things.

The ferry's off due to bad weather - not sure where that is, It's just a bit breezy here - breezy and cold but that shouldn't stop the ferry. There have been problems with it for the last few days because of some trouble with the ventilation system on the car deck so only 30 cars are allowed on per crossing and no lorries. Shops are a bit short on supplies as a result.
 
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I had a GP appointment today and got some antibiotics, nothing too serious but when I went through 111 online it seemed to err on the side of caution, and so did the nurse who called me to discuss, then the GP rang with an appointment. I feel incredibly fortunate, not only being seen on the day I asked about a problem but by a lovely Dr who was kind and understanding. I've had the odd not-so-good experience with the NHS in the past but I feel very blessed with my experiences now.

The soup I made the other day is so good I am planning another batch next week, this time I might use chicken.
 
Crispbread with Dairylea cheese slices (sandwiched) for breakfast with a cup of tea. Too sore to move much and that was easiest to do.

If I'm able, I shall have salmon with salad for 2nd meal.
 
I was able. In fact I managed to do some other cooking as well. I have been trying for years to replicate a suet pastry that my grandmother used to make - she made a thing called "China Pudding" - no idea why, it was a boiled suet pastry roll filled with bacon. Suet pastry is easy to make, but thinking back, I remembered sitting at her kitchen table as a very small child, watching her make her special pastry, so I did what I had seen her do, and it worked. With it I made 2 small puddings - one a bacon and onion roll and the other a mushroom and onion pudding. Steamed the bacon roll (in a pudding cloth, as she did) and baked the mushroom pudding. They both worked. Why am I telling you all this?

I had slices of the bacon roll, dry fried, for breakfast. Quite carb heavy so I took sufficient insulin to cope with it. Must have misjudged it because I've been struggling to keep BG up for a while. In the end, to get out of the 2's I had to bring out the big guns - 2 digestive biscuits. That worked and I'm now back into the 5's. The slightly worrying thing was that I didn't feel that hypo coming on until I had already had the digestive biscuits.

2nd meal will be home made sausages with some cabbage - that will not be copied from my grandmother who used to boil cabbage for about an hour.
 
What a treat to have those memories while you were cooking.
 
I'm eating carbs due to the effects of the antibiotics, rice seems to be very helpful so far. My BG has been running higher at the moment but that's not unexpected with an infection and changing to a temporarily lower dose of medication (Mounjaro). Considering all this, it's not terrifyingly high.
 
Sorry about the infection and having to take antibiotics. That can upset your system quite a lot. With any luck the antibiotics will soon get you back to normal.
 
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