"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

[Annb]

Food a bit uncertain today. I did my 8 hour fast before taking the weight loss pill - and then forgot to take it. I only remembered when I'd already taken painkillers and a big cup of Caro. I couldn't wait another 8 hours because BG was dropping fast at about 5 hours so at that point I had the pill then 35 minutes later, I had a sandwich to get the BG back on the upward journey. It rather stuck in my throat so I had a cup of tea to get it down. All that made me feel rather sick. Now into the 8's.

I asked Neil to use up the mushrooms because I couldn't see myself stomaching them. I do have lots of vegetables so will do something with them for a 2nd meal, much later in the day.

 

[jpscloud]

It's been a busy couple of days here but I finally got in the garden and picked the caulis that are more than ready - there's enough for two double-portion cauliflower cheeses, so I'm making one today and the other half of the caulis are in the fridge, I'll either make and freeze more cauliflower cheese with those or blanch and freeze the florets.

Breakfast was porridge and lunch is chicken and mushroom from the freezer, tea will be a portion of cauliflower cheese with chicken and runner beans.

 

[Mrs Redboots]

I am still waiting to hear back from my GP - only message from the surgery today was a request to book my flu jab, which I have duly done for 21 October. In the meantime, I'm jolly well going to carry on taking the pills, especially as my weight this morning was down to 74.35, which is as low as it's ever been on this part of my weight-loss journey. I don't think I can ascribe it to my now-shorter hair, any more than I think it was fat that caused the blip over the past couple of weeks - fluid is much more likely. No more weigh-ins now until 23 October.

Breakfast this morning was overnight oats, as usual on a weekday at home. My husband and I walked down to our church (about a mile away) to do a couple of admin jobs, and the morning rather got away from us, so we stopped off at a local café for lunch. I had a cheese and mushroom omelette, which was very good, but they didn't serve bread with it, and I was brought up to believe that you must eat bread with an egg, or it would be too rich (you can tell I'm a child of the 1950s). However, I decided a low-carb lunch would work and, indeed, I was full! My husband had a roast chicken and salad wrap, which looked enormous and I'm surprised he could finish it. I very nearly ordered a salad bowl, but I'm glad I didn't when I saw the size of them - someone at a neighbouring table had ordered one. I couldn't have eaten half of it, I don't think! Huge. Probably excellent value for money, though. To drink, I had a Fentiman's lemonade, and then when I got home I had a green tea with home-made lemon cordial. That (the lemon cordial) is now finished for another year.... I could make more, but we don't drink it in the winter very much. I walked home, bringing my step total up to over 5k, which is pleasing.

Supper is going to be the second half of the liver and bacon, probably with potato/cauliflower mash and cabbage, and maybe a carrot if I can be bothered to peel one. Pudding probably kefir with stewed plums.

 

[MommaE]

I have egg yolks to use up as my panda flour loaf recipe uses lots of egg whites and I made two loaves yesterday! So I am hoping to make a new panda pasta recipe that uses only the egg yolks with Panda Flour and olive oil plus salt. The recipe I've used successfully before uses whole eggs. The rolling out needs time and patience but the dough is very well behaved and gather that the egg yolk one is even easier to work with so I'm crossing fingers. I'm planning on doing some lasagne portions for the freezer for future ready meals. Will get bolognese into slow cooker this morning so It's ready for assembling this afternoon.
It's fish Friday though so salmon is on the menu for dinner.
Hope everyone has a good Friday whatever your plans.

I haven’t tried Panda products but for other lower carb recipes I often find rolling in between two sheets of parchment/waxed paper helps make the process go a little more smoothly.