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Brushed teeth, made coffee, fed animals, caught escaped bunny, dressed (yes, I need to work on the order of doing things, catching pets in the garden in only a T-shirt is weird but it was the middle of the night for me), fixed bunny pen.

Now a hearty breakfasts of coffee, ibuprofen and paracetamol to try to forget about the covid and off to work in 10 minutes.
I feel very adult now. :hilarious:

Let's hope I'm still this positive at the end of the day!
 
shelley262 said:
Hiya
resistant starch chips
you need
new potatoes - the newer the better I've just used some very white organic New potatoes and they are really low impact on my bg
A pan for boiling and
a tray that fits into your freezer covered with greaseproof paper or a washable silicone mat
Start by giving spuds a good scrub to get off any residue on them off as I cook and eat the skins
Boil in (salted to taste ) water until almost fully cooked
Strain well to get rid of the starchy water and leave to drain and cool
When cooled cut the cooked potatoes into chip shapes and spread out on the tray to open freeze
Pop tray in freezer
Once fully frozen put chips into a plastic bag they should keep separate and then you can cook just a few at a time from frozen in air fryer or oven.
Hope they work for you I'd suspect that we may all react differently but for me I don't have a rise however I only have a few so that may be part of it too.
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Thanks @shelley262 - I'll hunt down some new potatoes and have a go! I'm not sure how well I can do portion control with chips but it's worth a try.
 
jpscloud said:
Thanks @shelley262 - I'll hunt down some new potatoes and have a go! I'm not sure how well I can do portion control with chips but it's worth a try.
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That's the issue I think for some - I'm positive that if I had more they would impact my bgs as they are still carbs,resistant starch or not, and don't really add much to my diet in terms of nutrition. Freezing them however encourages me to be frugal and only cook a few and would take a while to cook more so not easy to reach for more. Another thing I do is eat the cooked in fat chips at the end of my meal, so generally I tend to eat the low carb salad or veg first - the glucose goddess method - if I am treating myself to a few chips.
I am lucky too as I can moderate most of the time and these few resistant starch chips don't trigger me. Also I have had good hba1c blood results for seven years now so think my body copes better now than it may have done when I was having higher bg numbers.
 
So I ordered a fridge freezer! I went with Haier HFR5719ENMP, looks very nice and has good reviews. It's coming on Monday so next weekend I'll have to transfer to the temporary small fridge and small freezer that I keep in case of breakdown, and fully defrost the old one ready for them taking it away and recycling it when they deliver the new one.

Although the forecast said rain, there were sunny spells and it was dry so I decided to run the lawnmower over the grass just to keep on top of it, and as soon as I stepped into the garden, it rained :banghead: Why is it October already? So, quickly got the washing off the line still dry, thankfully, but the grass is now too wet to cut. Sigh.

I had greek yogurt with cream and a few strawberries for breakfast.

I'm having chicken breast fried in butter with some pasta (it should be cauliflower but I weakened) for tea.

I must stop weakening! Weight is still going down slowly and I really must not mess up now.
 
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Success in Waitrose got some low carb liv life bread I prefer this to the hi lo from Sainsbury s. As always with my low carb bread I insert a small bit of cut up kitchen towel between the slices and then put it back in the pack.Then I put pack in freezer. When have a piece I just toast from frozen I've heard this helps 're resistant starch and I can have a slice of low carb bread toasted from freezer without a bg rise but I mainly stick to one slice!
 
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jpscloud said:
So I ordered a fridge freezer! I went with Haier HFR5719ENMP, looks very nice and has good reviews. It's coming on Monday so next weekend I'll have to transfer to the temporary small fridge and small freezer that I keep in case of breakdown, and fully defrost the old one ready for them taking it away and recycling it when they deliver the new one.

Although the forecast said rain, there were sunny spells and it was dry so I decided to run the lawnmower over the grass just to keep on top of it, and as soon as I stepped into the garden, it rained :banghead: Why is it October already? So, quickly got the washing off the line still dry, thankfully, but the grass is now too wet to cut. Sigh.

I had greek yogurt with cream and a few strawberries for breakfast.

I'm having chicken breast fried in butter with some pasta (it should be cauliflower but I weakened) for tea.

I must stop weakening! Weight is still going down slowly and I really must not mess up now.
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Well done on sorting your fridge freezer purchase. It's quite hard to transfer as as you say the old one needs defrosting and drying for them to take away but the new one has to be stood for ages to settle before you can turn it on to freeze! Great that you've got a temporary solution.
This weather is very unpredictable but at least it's been brighter and more cheering.
 
Antje77 said:
Brushed teeth, made coffee, fed animals, caught escaped bunny, dressed (yes, I need to work on the order of doing things, catching pets in the garden in only a T-shirt is weird but it was the middle of the night for me), fixed bunny pen.

Now a hearty breakfasts of coffee, ibuprofen and paracetamol to try to forget about the covid and off to work in 10 minutes.
I feel very adult now. :hilarious:

Let's hope I'm still this positive at the end of the day!
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Really hope that today has gone well I'm sure we've all been thinking of you.
 
jpscloud said:
So I ordered a fridge freezer! I went with Haier HFR5719ENMP, looks very nice and has good reviews. It's coming on Monday so next weekend I'll have to transfer to the temporary small fridge and small freezer that I keep in case of breakdown, and fully defrost the old one ready for them taking it away and recycling it when they deliver the new one.

Although the forecast said rain, there were sunny spells and it was dry so I decided to run the lawnmower over the grass just to keep on top of it, and as soon as I stepped into the garden, it rained :banghead: Why is it October already? So, quickly got the washing off the line still dry, thankfully, but the grass is now too wet to cut. Sigh.

I had greek yogurt with cream and a few strawberries for breakfast.

I'm having chicken breast fried in butter with some pasta (it should be cauliflower but I weakened) for tea.

I must stop weakening! Weight is still going down slowly and I really must not mess up now.
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I LOVE the fridge doors. I wonder how efficient the drawers are, in terms of capacity, but can see how they might work.
 
AndBreathe said:
I LOVE the fridge doors. I wonder how efficient the drawers are, in terms of capacity, but can see how they might work.
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My friend has one with drawers, which made me want one like that - the blurb for this type says it's more energy efficient as you are only opening a smaller portion of the freezer rather than a whole door. I also hate having to open a door, to pull out plastic drawers that stick after a bit even in frost free fridge freezers!

You might mean the little drawers in the fridge doors, though, and I would agree, they might take up too much space, but possibly can take some out and manage with less if they are a problem.
 
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jpscloud said:
My friend has one with drawers, which made me want one like that - the blurb for this type says it's more energy efficient as you are only opening a smaller portion of the freezer rather than a whole door. I also hate having to open a door, to pull out plastic drawers that stick after a bit even in frost free fridge freezers!

You might mean the little drawers in the fridge doors, though, and I would agree, they might take up too much space, but possibly can take some out and manage with less if they are a problem.
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No, I was meaning the freezer drawers. I can totally see how they will be more energy efficient because of both opening a smaller void, but also cold air drops, so it won't "fall on your feet" :)
 
Antje77 said:
Brushed teeth, made coffee, fed animals, caught escaped bunny, dressed (yes, I need to work on the order of doing things, catching pets in the garden in only a T-shirt is weird but it was the middle of the night for me), fixed bunny pen.

Now a hearty breakfasts of coffee, ibuprofen and paracetamol to try to forget about the covid and off to work in 10 minutes.
I feel very adult now. :hilarious:

Let's hope I'm still this positive at the end of the day!
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Hope the coffee, ibuprofen and paracetamol kicked in @Antje77 and did the business. Fingers crossed you were'nt pushed too hard on your first day.
 
shelley262 said:
Really hope that today has gone well I'm sure we've all been thinking of you.
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Thank you!

I definitely can't recommend spending 5 hours stacking shoe boxed sized boxes of crackers in the back of a lorry while your covid infection has changed from feeling blegh to feeling convincingly ill.
I kept trying to assess the risk of keeling over, fainting or puking while bending over, reaching up, and keeping up the bare minimum of small talk with my two colleagues.
We loaded 37 pallets with some 220 boxes each if I remember correctly, and I'm proud to say I didn't faint/puke/fall despite the dizzyness and nausea. I'm pretty sure my coworkers haven't noticed a thing, and I did a pretty good job if I may say so myself. :joyful:

Still, had I known how ill I'd be I'd have called in sick.
(And before any of you wonder, I contacted the job agency on friday to inform them on my positive covid test, and they urged me to go in if I felt well enough. So I did.)

The friendly lady from the job agency called to ask how my first day went, so I told her I thought I did pretty well but it was hard because of being more ill than anticipated. She offered to find someone else for the same job on thursday just in case, and I'm happy with that, ill or not.

Tomorrow I'll have the interview for the 9 weeks of being a gully sucker, let's hope they'll take me and let's hope it will be more fun than this depressingly spending your workday in a container!
I'll disclose the covid from a distance, leaving them the choice of keeping distance or even staying outside.

Food was a bit of a struggle today. Early morning stress (catching bunnies in the garden in my bare bum and trying out a real job for the first time) and the initial physical work quickly spiked me to 9, and I misjudged the correction dose. More work kept me dropping so I forced down half a slice of LC bread and some winegums to prevent a hypo. Not fun if all food is very much yuck.
I spent the afternoon on the couch, covered in blankets and dogs, and had some crisps to prevent going low, but even the crisps tasted vile.

Seeing as I only ate one quarter of my cheese sandwich (which was actually the sandwich I brought to the festival on saturday but didn't eat), this seemed like an easy solution for an evening meal when not feeling like eating. :joyful:
The sandwich had been quartered, so I deconstructed the pieces and reassembled with the butter on the outside and had 3/4 of a pan fried toastie. I fried two slices of the dried ham as well to add to the toastie, and had it with a mayo/mustard dipping sauce.
Not bad, only slightly burnt, and I managed to finish it all.

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Antje77 said:
Thank you!

I definitely can't recommend spending 5 hours stacking shoe boxed sized boxes of crackers in the back of a lorry while your covid infection has changed from feeling blegh to feeling convincingly ill.
I kept trying to assess the risk of keeling over, fainting or puking while bending over, reaching up, and keeping up the bare minimum of small talk with my two colleagues.
We loaded 37 pallets with some 220 boxes each if I remember correctly, and I'm proud to say I didn't faint/puke/fall despite the dizzyness and nausea. I'm pretty sure my coworkers haven't noticed a thing, and I did a pretty good job if I may say so myself. :joyful:

Still, had I known how ill I'd be I'd have called in sick.
(And before any of you wonder, I contacted the job agency on friday to inform them on my positive covid test, and they urged me to go in if I felt well enough. So I did.)

The friendly lady from the job agency called to ask how my first day went, so I told her I thought I did pretty well but it was hard because of being more ill than anticipated. She offered to find someone else for the same job on thursday just in case, and I'm happy with that, ill or not.

Tomorrow I'll have the interview for the 9 weeks of being a gully sucker, let's hope they'll take me and let's hope it will be more fun than this depressingly spending your workday in a container!
I'll disclose the covid from a distance, leaving them the choice of keeping distance or even staying outside.

Food was a bit of a struggle today. Early morning stress (catching bunnies in the garden in my bare bum and trying out a real job for the first time) and the initial physical work quickly spiked me to 9, and I misjudged the correction dose. More work kept me dropping so I forced down half a slice of LC bread and some winegums to prevent a hypo. Not fun if all food is very much yuck.
I spent the afternoon on the couch, covered in blankets and dogs, and had some crisps to prevent going low, but even the crisps tasted vile.

Seeing as I only ate one quarter of my cheese sandwich (which was actually the sandwich I brought to the festival on saturday but didn't eat), this seemed like an easy solution for an evening meal when not feeling like eating. :joyful:
The sandwich had been quartered, so I deconstructed the pieces and reassembled with the butter on the outside and had 3/4 of a pan fried toastie. I fried two slices of the dried ham as well to add to the toastie, and had it with a mayo/mustard dipping sauce.
Not bad, only slightly burnt, and I managed to finish it all.

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Hugs for feeling so ill at work, winner for dealing with all the stress and illness, laughing emoji for making me laugh out loud (bare bum in the garden!!) After the interview I think you deserve to take some quality rest and recovery time!
 
Antje77 said:
Thank you!

I definitely can't recommend spending 5 hours stacking shoe boxed sized boxes of crackers in the back of a lorry while your covid infection has changed from feeling blegh to feeling convincingly ill.
I kept trying to assess the risk of keeling over, fainting or puking while bending over, reaching up, and keeping up the bare minimum of small talk with my two colleagues.
We loaded 37 pallets with some 220 boxes each if I remember correctly, and I'm proud to say I didn't faint/puke/fall despite the dizzyness and nausea. I'm pretty sure my coworkers haven't noticed a thing, and I did a pretty good job if I may say so myself. :joyful:

Still, had I known how ill I'd be I'd have called in sick.
(And before any of you wonder, I contacted the job agency on friday to inform them on my positive covid test, and they urged me to go in if I felt well enough. So I did.)

The friendly lady from the job agency called to ask how my first day went, so I told her I thought I did pretty well but it was hard because of being more ill than anticipated. She offered to find someone else for the same job on thursday just in case, and I'm happy with that, ill or not.

Tomorrow I'll have the interview for the 9 weeks of being a gully sucker, let's hope they'll take me and let's hope it will be more fun than this depressingly spending your workday in a container!
I'll disclose the covid from a distance, leaving them the choice of keeping distance or even staying outside.

Food was a bit of a struggle today. Early morning stress (catching bunnies in the garden in my bare bum and trying out a real job for the first time) and the initial physical work quickly spiked me to 9, and I misjudged the correction dose. More work kept me dropping so I forced down half a slice of LC bread and some winegums to prevent a hypo. Not fun if all food is very much yuck.
I spent the afternoon on the couch, covered in blankets and dogs, and had some crisps to prevent going low, but even the crisps tasted vile.

Seeing as I only ate one quarter of my cheese sandwich (which was actually the sandwich I brought to the festival on saturday but didn't eat), this seemed like an easy solution for an evening meal when not feeling like eating. :joyful:
The sandwich had been quartered, so I deconstructed the pieces and reassembled with the butter on the outside and had 3/4 of a pan fried toastie. I fried two slices of the dried ham as well to add to the toastie, and had it with a mayo/mustard dipping sauce.
Not bad, only slightly burnt, and I managed to finish it all.

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have given you a hug for feeling so poorly but you are definitely a winner in having done the job in spite of how ill you felt. Good luck tomorrow and take care it must be especially tough when food tastes off but you need to eat food to keep your sugars level.
 
Busy, varied day. Food is still based around leftovers from Saturdays cheese night, so salad, cheese and avocado in various guises. Some went into an omelette.
Did have a bit of a pity fest and scoffed a few biscotti. They are all gone now so won't happen again
 
Antje77 said:
Thank you!

I definitely can't recommend spending 5 hours stacking shoe boxed sized boxes of crackers in the back of a lorry while your covid infection has changed from feeling blegh to feeling convincingly ill.
I kept trying to assess the risk of keeling over, fainting or puking while bending over, reaching up, and keeping up the bare minimum of small talk with my two colleagues.
We loaded 37 pallets with some 220 boxes each if I remember correctly, and I'm proud to say I didn't faint/puke/fall despite the dizzyness and nausea. I'm pretty sure my coworkers haven't noticed a thing, and I did a pretty good job if I may say so myself. :joyful:

Still, had I known how ill I'd be I'd have called in sick.
(And before any of you wonder, I contacted the job agency on friday to inform them on my positive covid test, and they urged me to go in if I felt well enough. So I did.)

The friendly lady from the job agency called to ask how my first day went, so I told her I thought I did pretty well but it was hard because of being more ill than anticipated. She offered to find someone else for the same job on thursday just in case, and I'm happy with that, ill or not.

Tomorrow I'll have the interview for the 9 weeks of being a gully sucker, let's hope they'll take me and let's hope it will be more fun than this depressingly spending your workday in a container!
I'll disclose the covid from a distance, leaving them the choice of keeping distance or even staying outside.

Food was a bit of a struggle today. Early morning stress (catching bunnies in the garden in my bare bum and trying out a real job for the first time) and the initial physical work quickly spiked me to 9, and I misjudged the correction dose. More work kept me dropping so I forced down half a slice of LC bread and some winegums to prevent a hypo. Not fun if all food is very much yuck.
I spent the afternoon on the couch, covered in blankets and dogs, and had some crisps to prevent going low, but even the crisps tasted vile.

Seeing as I only ate one quarter of my cheese sandwich (which was actually the sandwich I brought to the festival on saturday but didn't eat), this seemed like an easy solution for an evening meal when not feeling like eating. :joyful:
The sandwich had been quartered, so I deconstructed the pieces and reassembled with the butter on the outside and had 3/4 of a pan fried toastie. I fried two slices of the dried ham as well to add to the toastie, and had it with a mayo/mustard dipping sauce.
Not bad, only slightly burnt, and I managed to finish it all.

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Hug for still feeling ill, Antje but you did well to keep going. You deserve a medal. Hope you feel better soon.
 
Breakfast: a turkey burger with one "bun" made of some bamboo flour and some ground up cashew nuts with an egg to hold them together. A bit crumbly, but they tasted fine and didn't put my BG up despite the cashews.

2nd meal will be some of the pork ragout I made a few days ago. I'm not buying any more meat until I've managed to get as much as possible out of the freezer so meals will, as much as possible, be out of the freezer for the next while.
 
Annb said:
Breakfast: a turkey burger with one "bun" made of some bamboo flour and some ground up cashew nuts with an egg to hold them together. A bit crumbly, but they tasted fine and didn't put my BG up despite the cashews.

2nd meal will be some of the pork ragout I made a few days ago. I'm not buying any more meat until I've managed to get as much as possible out of the freezer so meals will, as much as possible, be out of the freezer for the next while.
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Maybe a bit of ground flax “ egg” would help hold it together?
 
Cold today but at least sun came out at times! Went to our local towns book sale this morning - bit ironic as we've just cleared out lots of books from our shelves and donated them to charity shop yesterday. However we both love books and they were a bargain at 5 for a pound. Restricted ourselves to five each though.
Very active this afternoon as we had a fair bit of moss on our roof and I decided to try and tackle it with a stiff long handled brush from the top of our ladders. Sounds more scary than it was as our home is single storey and George held the ladder. We've got a gardener coming along tomorrow though to do some repairs to our fence, clean our difficult to get at conservatory roof and cut the top off our very high hedge. I draw the line at hedge trimmers and ladders especially as the hedge is on an incline by main road..........
@Antje77 hope you've felt a bit better today these nasty viruses can linger hope yours dosent.
@Annb good idea to work on clearing your freezer it's easy to forget what's in it and I now tend to check what's in there before doing any shopping otherwise I get swayed by offers!
 
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