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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

The thin pillow worked! I got a good sleep :happy:

I'm a bit foggy because I'm taking strong painkillers but I can't do much physically so it doesn't matter for the time being. I hope it will be better soon though.

Breakfast will be grilled feta cheese and tomatoes with a staffordshire oatcake fried in a beaten egg. I think tea will involve a skin-on chicken breast, cauliflower cheese, runner beans and possibly cooked/cooled/reheated rice (resistant starch hopefully). I do tend to change my mind halfway through the day though so we'll see!
 
jpscloud said:
The thin pillow worked! I got a good sleep :happy:

I'm a bit foggy because I'm taking strong painkillers but I can't do much physically so it doesn't matter for the time being. I hope it will be better soon though.

Breakfast will be grilled feta cheese and tomatoes with a staffordshire oatcake fried in a beaten egg. I think tea will involve a skin-on chicken breast, cauliflower cheese, runner beans and possibly cooked/cooled/reheated rice (resistant starch hopefully). I do tend to change my mind halfway through the day though so we'll see!
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Glad the thin pillow was helpful and helped you to sleep.

Oooh a Staffordshire oatckake! I wish, I wish. With or without the egg.

Breakfast: a tablespoon of walnut oil and some chaffle/pancakes. Coffee. So far the walnut oil hasn't worked - BG is 10.8.

2nd meal: the salmon I didn't have yesterday. I realised that there wasn't enough time before my Zoom meeting to cook and eat it, so just had some ham, some cottage cheese and some salad. Same today but with the salmon instead of the ham and cheese.
 
Food yesterday was a bit disjointed.

Breakfast was some ragout made with turkey mince - quite early in the morning because I was getting ready to go out.

My trip out was a bit of a disaster (I've gone over it in full on another thread, so won't go over it again) and I came home, hungry, late and exhausted. Instead of prepping my evening meal, I fell asleep over a cup of coffee and woke too late to cook and eat my meal before a Zoom meeting I'd promised to join. I got it into the oven by 6.45 but it wasn't cooked before the Zoom meeting so I turned the oven off. The meeting ended about 10 pm and I turned the oven on again. Had my meal about 10.45.

The meal was some shredded cabbage, blanched, topped with some more of the ragout and the whole lot topped with cheese sauce and baked. I'd intended to make the cheese sauce with double cream, but I didn't have any so had to use Greek yoghurt instead. Kind of moussaka but with cabbage instead of aubergine. It worked fine.
 
Late breakfast (about noon): cheese omelette and coffee.

BG started high - eating late probably did that - but has now come down into the 5's. I did take a smallish dose of insulin before breakfast.

2nd meal will be goujons of haddock, coated in coconut flour and fried in butter. Probably just with shredded iceberg lettuce.
 
I fasted until 1.30pm, then breakfast was 3 eggs with 3 staffordshire oatcakes and 50g cheese sprinkled over. I then had 2 small kitkats and some coffee. Unsurprisingly my BG is 10 an hour and a half later - I would normally be walking that off up and down the garden, but it's raining so I'm going to do a bit of housework if my knee isn't too painful (it's a lot better than it was at first).

For tea I'm planning fishcakes with cauliflower cheese and runner beans. I may have some very-not-low-carb scones afterwards. I have them with butter, a tiny blob of jam and a slightly larger blob of cream.
 
Three days on the bridge again, today was the first day.
The cheese fondue was on offer at Lidl so I fancied cauliflower with cheese fondue by way of cheese sauce. (Both a pack of cheese fondue and a cauliflower last me 3 days, perfect for a 3 day stint.)
Trouble is that it doesn't doesn't do well reheated in the microwave, it separates, and we only have a microwave on the bridge.

I feel rather proud of how I resolved this problem! :hilarious:
Had it with two small chipolata sausages, which I did reheat in the microwave. Acceptable.

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Antje77 said:
I feel rather proud of how I resolved this problem! :hilarious:
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Perfect! When cheese calls, we must answer!!

I'm having a "must get on with all the housework/decluttering/life laundry but can't get going" morning. My knee is still a bit painful so I should probably still be resting - it hasn't been a week yet. That's a reasonable excuse I think!

I'm going to update later on breakfast, I can't even decide that!
 
Had a rather large breakfast, but I'm still hungry. It was the last of the turkey ragout with a couple of eggs poached in it.

2nd meal will be chicken. I have a medium sized chicken which I will poach with some vegetables and then finish in the oven. Some of that will go with some French style peas. The rest will have to be used over the next day or so. Some may go into the freezer. I'll end up with some stock as well. Time to get out the big pot.
 
Well, I'm not even giong to talk about breakfast! At least I'm not snacking today.

Tea will be a portion of hake with cheese sauce over runner beans, broccoli and cauliflower.
 
Breakfast was porridge, Lidl’s best. Lunch, a slice of veg flan and a mug of cold veg and chickpea soup. A big pressure-cook of soup lasts us at least days.
Cauliflower with cheese fondue sounds good Antje, and cabbage moussaka does too Annb, even though tiger cooking of it was protracted.
 
I've decided to do a no-buy food thing for a few weeks. I'm astonished at how bad my food hoarding has got, I have enough food to withstand a seige and a lot of it is very unhealthy.

So I will be eating higher carb for a while, as I use up the food. I'll try to eat less of it, and have evening meals that are vegetable-heavy (or at least inclusive) and more healthy than morning meals - with the hope that I'll be a bit more active after morning meals than evening ones. I'm also trying not to snack much.

I'm fasting every day for at least 16 hours and BG is pretty good until breakfast, then it's very slow to come down after carbs.

I'll post the least offensive meals! But I don't like to post the really crazy carb frenzies, it's embarrassing and could trigger someone trying to stay on track.

I am not very good at sticking to things, either... so this might all go out of the window fairly quickly! Worth a try though, I will save a lot of money on groceries.
 
The food store here expanded in the run up to Brexit, was wonderful during the time of Covid, and doesn’t seem to have subsided much since.
Every now and again I have a rummage and we add stuff to a slow cook and eat some treats. It’s hard to keep the stores in mind when making a shopping list
 
Today was the third day of cauliflower with cheese fondue and chipolata sausages.
I was to have three days off after today, but I've been asked to fill in for a sick colleague tomorrow and friday this afternoon, so only one day off before another 3 day stint on the bridge.
Multiple appointments on the day off, nothing prepared for tomorrow on the bridge. Tomorrow I'll have to wing it, likely some stuff from the deli counter at the supermarket around the corner from the bridge.
The day after I'll eat at home, but I'm very sure I won't be up to cooking, I've been working way too much lately. So it'll likely be a LC sandwich or such, unless the weather changes and I can coax my neighbour into a barbecue.

Then 3 more days on the bridge. I'll likely order Chinese take away on friday and eat it for 3 days (they have some quite LC options if I leave the rice out), those two extra days of work will easily pay for it, and I don't see how getting groceries and cooking will fit in in any way.
 
Antje77 said:
Today was the third day of cauliflower with cheese fondue and chipolata sausages.
I was to have three days off after today, but I've been asked to fill in for a sick colleague tomorrow and friday this afternoon, so only one day off before another 3 day stint on the bridge.
Multiple appointments on the day off, nothing prepared for tomorrow on the bridge. Tomorrow I'll have to wing it, likely some stuff from the deli counter at the supermarket around the corner from the bridge.
The day after I'll eat at home, but I'm very sure I won't be up to cooking, I've been working way too much lately. So it'll likely be a LC sandwich or such, unless the weather changes and I can coax my neighbour into a barbecue.

Then 3 more days on the bridge. I'll likely order Chinese take away on friday and eat it for 3 days (they have some quite LC options if I leave the rice out), those two extra days of work will easily pay for it, and I don't see how getting groceries and cooking will fit in in any way.
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Are you not able to do an online food order to a supermarket, and get it delivered?
We have lots of shops that do that. Also restaurants.
 
Pipp said:
Are you not able to do an online food order to a supermarket, and get it delivered?
We have lots of shops that do that. Also restaurants.
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But I like walking around in a supermarket and looking at stuff!
The work is in deciding what I want to eat, and in finding the time and energy to actually cook, I can do my shopping during my break. :)

On weekdays I have very odd working times: 9 am to 4 pm, then a 2 hour break because of traffic in the city, and another hour of work from 6 - 7 pm. I live an almost 30 minute drive away from the bridge (more during rush hour), so something to do during my break is rather welcome.
 
Antje77 said:
But I like walking around in a supermarket and looking at stuff!
The work is in deciding what I want to eat, and in finding the time and energy to actually cook, I can do my shopping during my break. :)

On weekdays I have very odd working times: 9 am to 4 pm, then a 2 hour break because of traffic in the city, and another hour of work from 6 - 7 pm. I live an almost 30 minute drive away from the bridge (more during rush hour), so something to do during my break is rather welcome.
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Well, you know, me. I was worrying you were going to go hungry! :hilarious:
As if you would.
I even googled the supermarkets in Nederland to see if I could send you a food parcel, but wasn’t sure of the location of your bridge. :bag:
Of course, I should remember you have creative problem solving survival skills.
 
Pipp said:
Well, you know, me. I was worrying you were going to go hungry! :hilarious:
As if you would.
I even googled the supermarkets in Nederland to see if I could send you a food parcel, but wasn’t sure of the location of your bridge. :bag:
Of course, I should remember you have creative problem solving survival skills.
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I'm definitely not going to go hungry, you know me!
And sending a food parcel is the sweetest thought, thank you! (Not going to give you the address of the Hermesbrug in Leeuwarden though, who knows what deliveries will come right when I've prepared food for 3 days! :bag:)
 
Chicken and leek soup for breakfast.

2nd meal will be hard boiled egg salad.

It's another cake making day today. This time a fruit cake for my brother for his 83rd birthday. It is his favourite cake and will have to be packed well enough to survive the post to Swindon (in the south west of England). It's similar to a Dundee cake but with a different fruit mixture and with the nuts in the mix rather than just on top.
 
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