"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

[Pipp]

See?

Oops I meant “see off” which means, either chase them away, or deter them , or maybe give them “ a jolly good hiding” . (Jolly good hiding dies not mean play a game of seek and hide. It means a fight, that is quite fierce. The loser getting the hiding. ( being beaten).
Don’t fancy those squirrel recipes. At all. Like eating a rat.

 

[jpscloud]

Would geese see of squirrels?

Geese will see off anything! But the squirrels can probably outrun them and get away up a tree.

 

[Pipp]

Geese will see off anything! But the squirrels can probably outrun them and get away up a tree.

You would be supplied with plenty of manure, too.

 

[MommaE]

I do encourage hedgehogs, there's always water for them and two hog houses, one at each end of the garden. There's always a fair bit of healthy hedgie poo around the garden so I must be doing something right! Sadly they don't get the caterpillars because I grow my vegetables in pots and raised beds - due to the local cats who had a meeting and voted my garden the best toilet (I have to do a daily poo patrol) so I daren't grow things in the ground.

Something I've noticed this year for the first time is snail shells with half-eaten snails still in them. I discovered it is beetles eating them, which is a real bonus. I do seem to have less snails now, but either the beetles don't go for slugs or the slugs are just too prolific for them to make a difference.

Your garden sounds quite the menagerie

 

[MommaE]

Indian runner ducks could be the answer!
And they make any garden so much more fun to spend time in.

Unlike our Canada geese which just give you dirty looks if you dare go near wherever they feel entitled to be.

 

[Annb]

You would be supplied with plenty of manure, too.

Yes, Ducks make an awful mess in a garden, but they are fascinating to watch. We used to keep Muscovy ducks and the drake was very protective of his harem, standing his ground against dogs or cats to give his girls time to get away. Eventually, the mess was too much to bear and we gave them away to someone who wasn't bothered. In a different environment, they would have been fine.

Unlike our Canada geese which just give you dirty looks if you dare go near wherever they feel entitled to be.

Our elderly neighbour had to fight off his geese when they managed to trap him in an underground structure.
Even though he was the one who fed them, they were very aggressive towards him. But then, cockerals can be pretty aggressive too - and dangerous with their sharp spurs.

 

[Annb]

Breakfast: defrosted avocado on some Jacob's crackers (21g carb). I found this pack of commercially frozen avocado, which I had totally forgotten about. Defrosted it but there's far too much for me to eat alone. I hope Neil will help out there. Not that I really liked it - very mushy and a slight bitter taste. Shan't buy that again.

2nd meal will be the rest of the chicken from yesterday. It wasn't on shredded Brussels sprouts after all. I definitely saw some of those in the freezer, but seem to have pulled out a tub of saurkraut instead. It was OK along with the chicken though, so no problem.

I'm going to make me a chocolate and raspberry birthday cake for tomorrow - just in case anyone comes in. I can always take a slice for the nurse who will be doing my leg bandaging. That will be my birthday celebration - getting the bandages renewed on my legs. What fun! Shan't be eating the cake, of course. I'll send some home with Alistair for his family to share.

 

[shelley262]

Breakfast: defrosted avocado on some Jacob's crackers (21g carb). I found this pack of commercially frozen avocado, which I had totally forgotten about. Defrosted it but there's far too much for me to eat alone. I hope Neil will help out there. Not that I really liked it - very mushy and a slight bitter taste. Shan't buy that again.

2nd meal will be the rest of the chicken from yesterday. It wasn't on shredded Brussels sprouts after all. I definitely saw some of those in the freezer, but seem to have pulled out a tub of saurkraut instead. It was OK along with the chicken though, so no problem.

I'm going to make me a chocolate and raspberry birthday cake for tomorrow - just in case anyone comes in. I can always take a slice for the nurse who will be doing my leg bandaging. That will be my birthday celebration - getting the bandages renewed on my legs. What fun! Shan't be eating the cake, of course. I'll send some home with Alistair for his family to share.

Happy Birthday @Annb for tomorrow I will be thinking of you. I bought an M and S Colin the Caterpillar cake to celebrate my zero birthday with my family they love it but I'm not tempted at all - so was the perfect solution I had a few strawberries and clotted cream instead. Maybe some berries for you? Hope you have a few treats to celebrate your zero birthday and have a healthy content day.

 

[jpscloud]

Breakfast: defrosted avocado on some Jacob's crackers (21g carb). I found this pack of commercially frozen avocado, which I had totally forgotten about. Defrosted it but there's far too much for me to eat alone. I hope Neil will help out there. Not that I really liked it - very mushy and a slight bitter taste. Shan't buy that again.

2nd meal will be the rest of the chicken from yesterday. It wasn't on shredded Brussels sprouts after all. I definitely saw some of those in the freezer, but seem to have pulled out a tub of saurkraut instead. It was OK along with the chicken though, so no problem.

I'm going to make me a chocolate and raspberry birthday cake for tomorrow - just in case anyone comes in. I can always take a slice for the nurse who will be doing my leg bandaging. That will be my birthday celebration - getting the bandages renewed on my legs. What fun! Shan't be eating the cake, of course. I'll send some home with Alistair for his family to share.

Happy birthday for tomorrow in case I don't "see" you on here!

I had 2 scrambled eggs and a crumpet for breakfast, then for lunch an unwisely chosen small bowl of cornflakes. I shouldn't even have them in the house but there we are. Impact on BG wasn't too bad really, just a couple of points and it went down fairly quickly as I was moving around a lot. I've been hiding from the heat indoors with several fans on the go, and managed to freeze a few batches of runner and French beans.

Dinner will be resistant starch tomato rice (more tomato than rice) with fried courgette and cheese. I seem to be deeply into cheese at the moment! On the topic of the dangers of reheated rice, I always cool rice quickly in the fridge, and when it's reheated I get it hotter than the surface of the sun.

I must get some cauliflower to have instead though - my version of cauliflower rice is just smashed up cooked cauli, I can't be doing with grating it.

 

[Annb]

Happy Birthday @Annb for tomorrow I will be thinking of you. I bought an M and S Colin the Caterpillar cake to celebrate my zero birthday with my family they love it but I'm not tempted at all - so was the perfect solution I had a few strawberries and clotted cream instead. Maybe some berries for you? Hope you have a few treats to celebrate your zero birthday and have a healthy content day.

Happy birthday for tomorrow in case I don't "see" you on here!

I had 2 scrambled eggs and a crumpet for breakfast, then for lunch an unwisely chosen small bowl of cornflakes. I shouldn't even have them in the house but there we are. Impact on BG wasn't too bad really, just a couple of points and it went down fairly quickly as I was moving around a lot. I've been hiding from the heat indoors with several fans on the go, and managed to freeze a few batches of runner and French beans.

Dinner will be resistant starch tomato rice (more tomato than rice) with fried courgette and cheese. I seem to be deeply into cheese at the moment! On the topic of the dangers of reheated rice, I always cool rice quickly in the fridge, and when it's reheated I get it hotter than the surface of the sun.

I must get some cauliflower to have instead though - my version of cauliflower rice is just smashed up cooked cauli, I can't be doing with grating it.

Many thanks, both of you. I can't believe I have been on this earth for 80 years. That's old! But I'm not old. Someone has parked an extra 60 years onto me somehow. I have a friend who is a month younger than me. Last week she said "The big one coming up.." but I can't see that - it's only one day more than 79. And 79 is a nonsense anyway - my mind assures me, although my body begs to differ sometimes. However, I look at my friend and she actually looks old. Maybe I look old to her.

Chocolate and raspberry cream cake anyone?

 

[Zhnyaka]

Many thanks, both of you. I can't believe I have been on this earth for 80 years. That's old! But I'm not old. Someone has parked an extra 60 years onto me somehow. I have a friend who is a month younger than me. Last week she said "The big one coming up.." but I can't see that - it's only one day more than 79. And 79 is a nonsense anyway - my mind assures me, although my body begs to differ sometimes. However, I look at my friend and she actually looks old. Maybe I look old to her.

I was told today that I'm acting like I'm 60, so you can consider that one of your 30 years has been added to me
At 80, you already have enough grown-up children to take care of themselves, so you can afford everything you denied yourself when you were young. Have fun tomorrow!

 

[Antje77]

Chocolate and raspberry cream cake anyone?

Yes please!
I'll just try to dose for it and swim off the resulting high bg.

 

[Pipp]

I found this pack of commercially frozen avocado, which I had totally forgotten about. Defrosted it but there's far too much for me to eat alone. I hope Neil will help out there. Not that I really liked it - very mushy and a slight bitter taste. Shan't buy that again.

I have been using frozen avocado. Just take a small amount from the pack, with some frozen spinach, frozen blueberries. Allow to defrost, then whizz up with a stick blender adding almond milk root ginger, flax seeds. To make a smoothie. I don’t feel like eating much in the heat, but following parathyroid surgery need to increase vit K and calcium . It makes an acceptable meal replacement. Without the bother of the excess going to waste that would possibly happen if buying fresh.

 

[Annb]

I have been using frozen avocado. Just take a small amount from the pack, with some frozen spinach, frozen blueberries. Allow to defrost, then whizz up with a stick blender adding almond milk root ginger, flax seeds. To make a smoothie. I don’t feel like eating much in the heat, but following parathyroid surgery need to increase vit K and calcium . It makes an acceptable meal replacement. Without the bother of the excess going to waste that would possibly happen if buying fresh.

I didn't know that Vit K and calcium were needed after parathyroid surgery. Nobody told me that! A bit late now - my surgery (when they took parathyroids and part of the thyroid) was at the end of 2017. I am going to increase my intake of avocado though, it is a good source of protein, monosat fat and fibre - and it doesn't upset my digestion. There is some reason, which I can't bring to mind just now, for me not to have spinach - pity because it was my favourite green veg.

 

[Pipp]

I didn't know that Vit K and calcium were needed after parathyroid surgery. Nobody told me that! A bit late now - my surgery (when they took parathyroids and part of the thyroid) was at the end of 2017. I am going to increase my intake of avocado though, it is a good source of protein, monosat fat and fibre - and it doesn't upset my digestion. There is some reason, which I can't bring to mind just now, for me not to have spinach - pity because it was my favourite green veg.

Wanted to give a hug ( for shared experience) as well as informative.
Apparently, according to consultant the vit K is what I need to help with the absorption of vit D and to regulate the calcium, which has been leeched from bones, leaving them like honeycomb.
Everything a bit out of kilter, following removal of two parathyroid benign tumours and a chunk of dodgy looking thyroid.
I do like fresh avocado, but it has the infuriating feature of being unripe and inedible for days, after purchase. Then the couple of seconds when my back is turned that it is ripe and ok to eat, before turning to mush. So the bag of frozen avocado spotted in local Iceland store was a serendipitous discovery.

 

[Annb]

I was told today that I'm acting like I'm 60, so you can consider that one of your 30 years has been added to me
At 80, you already have enough grown-up children to take care of themselves, so you can afford everything you denied yourself when you were young. Have fun tomorrow!

The thing is - I had more available cash when I was younger and working. No longer the case, I'm afraid but it doesn't matter - apart from paying bills for the car, I don't feel the need for anything. I am quite content with what I have and being able to help in some small way in my children's and grandchildren's lives.

I have recently achieved one of my goals though - to buy a headstone for my husband's grave (with space left on it for me, of course). I saved up my pennies for the last 7 years and it was finally installed in July. That makes me feel more comfortable. Probably it should make me feel old as well, but it doesn't. What does, occasionally, make me feel old is when things that are part of my life are actually ancient history to the younger folk around me or completely unknown to them. How can about 3/4 of the last 80 years be unknown history?

 

[Pipp]

Are you keeping a written record of your life for your children and grandchildren, @Annb ?
I am seriously considering, doing something for mine. There are some ready made ‘life diaries’ available to purchase, but I have been writing random thoughts about different times in my life in longhand diaries, to leave. Along with all the important documents about bank details and pensions and insurance stuff.
I wish my parents had left those sort of memories for me. Now they are gone I have missed the chance to ask them things about their youth, that really is part of my heritage.

 

[debs248]

I even dare Chinese take away for at least 3 days, it's those stainless steel innards I guess, and I'm sure that at some point I will be too daring and have to pay the price. Knocks wood, not this time please...

I really shouldn't admit this but I've eaten Chinese takeaway that's spent a week unrefrigerated. It was winter, and I don't heat my bedroom, but still...

Don't do as I do, I'm just blessed with the guts of a vulture I guess. It won't last, I'm probably starting Mounjaro in September and will be more limited in what I can eat.

Don’t fancy those squirrel recipes. At all. Like eating a rat.

I've cooked fresh rabbit (hit by a car, not by me) but don't fancy rat either, even though there's one living in our garden at the moment.

Happy Birthday @Annb, I hope you get to eat something special that isn't cake.

Nadiya Hussain says she doesn't really like cake and would rather stick a candle in a samosa. One year we bought my dad a giant pork pie and stuck a candle in it but he wasn't impressed. Despite once being a fan of Monty Python he doesn't really understand the joy of silliness. According to my uncle he was a real prankster in his youth. Shame as I believe it's not something you should outgrow.

There is some reason, which I can't bring to mind just now, for me not to have spinach - pity because it was my favourite green veg.

Raw spinach is high in oxalates which can form kidney stones I believe. A long time ago I read somewhere (BBC?) that older people (~70+) should limit consumption but I can't remember why.

Apparently, according to consultant the vit K is what I need to help with the absorption of vit D and to regulate the calcium, which has been leeched from bones, leaving them like honeycomb.

Courgette skin is high in Vit K, I learned this when my husband's uncle was put on blood thinners and MIL started peeling them when cooking for him

I do like fresh avocado, but it has the infuriating feature of being unripe and inedible for days, after purchase. Then the couple of seconds when my back is turned that it is ripe and ok to eat, before turning to mush.

I agree. I bought this on an apron a few years back

Are you keeping a written record of your life for your children and grandchildren, @Annb ?
I am seriously considering, doing something for mine. There are some ready made ‘life diaries’ available to purchase, but I have been writing random thoughts about different times in my life in longhand diaries, to leave. Along with all the important documents about bank details and pensions and insurance stuff.

Hubby and I are gradually putting together a collection of scanned photos, audio "interviews" and lists of favourite music, first of my parents and MIL, then eventually of ourselves. He's writing some sort of database that means you can attach a text or audio file to each photo that describes who's in it and any memory or story it evokes. While I hate the sound of my voice when recorded, I can talk for hours about every one of the hundreds of photos taken in my teens...

And speaking of inheritance, while we don't have much cash, we have a house free of mortgage for my daughter to live in, rent out or sell one day. She was amazed today when hubby pointed out it and all its contents would be hers - as an only child, who else did she imagine we'd leave it to? I'm sure I wasn't so naìve at her age! It's nice that she's so unworldly but I do wonder how she'll cope without us.

I suppose I should actually mention food in this long ramble...

Today I had a slice of pork pie which bizarrely lowered my BG to 7.6 after a fasting reading of 12.1 then probably ruined everything by having a dextro tablet, half price sushi and a slice of buttered toast. I also had some cold bacon and stuffed meatballs from Lidl Greek Week, and resisted both chocolate and biscuits so not all terrible.

Still got some pâté with tomato and cucumber, olives, salami and a stuffed vine leaf to nibble on. Might leave some of it for a snack when I wake up - sorry food hygiene fans. I do actually have a qualification in basic Food Hygiene but I only apply it to other people's food.

 

[Annb]

Are you keeping a written record of your life for your children and grandchildren, @Annb ?
I am seriously considering, doing something for mine. There are some ready made ‘life diaries’ available to purchase, but I have been writing random thoughts about different times in my life in longhand diaries, to leave. Along with all the important documents about bank details and pensions and insurance stuff.
I wish my parents had left those sort of memories for me. Now they are gone I have missed the chance to ask them things about their youth, that really is part of my heritage.

At the moment I am writing down all the stories I can think of from the past generations of my family - as well as those that I can find out about ancestors (Thomas ap Rhys, Elizabethan poet and privateer, Thomas Harding, Lollard and the last person to be burned at the stake for that, and so on. That's where that old "Headless Coachman" story comes in). What the generation before me did in WW2. Silly little memories about what we did in childhood. How we all went to sea with my husband. Things like that. These are all for Emily's benefit, to give her an idea of what life was like 2 or more generations before her.

I am still hunting for important documents which I seem to have put away somewhere safe but unidentifiable, along with some jewellery. When I do find them, I have a really safe and identifiable place to put them. Neil has just given me a 19th century "strong box". A bit beaten up, which is fine by me, shows it has a history, but too big to lose easily and very strong/heavy steel. Now, where did I put those papers?

 

[DougDyl]

At the moment I am writing down all the stories I can think of from the past generations of my family - as well as those that I can find out about ancestors (Thomas ap Rhys, Elizabethan poet and privateer, Thomas Harding, Lollard and the last person to be burned at the stake for that, and so on. That's where that old "Headless Coachman" story comes in). What the generation before me did in WW2. Silly little memories about what we did in childhood. How we all went to sea with my husband. Things like that. These are all for Emily's benefit, to give her an idea of what life was like 2 or more generations before her.

I am still hunting for important documents which I seem to have put away somewhere safe but unidentifiable, along with some jewellery. When I do find them, I have a really safe and identifiable place to put them. Neil has just given me a 19th century "strong box". A bit beaten up, which is fine by me, shows it has a history, but too big to lose easily and very strong/heavy steel. Now, where did I put those papers?

It's so annoying when you can't find things. I'm famous for going up the stairs then not remembering what I was there for. I have to go back down before jogging my memory. Wishing you a very happy birthday.