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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

DJC3 said:
I’m really encouraged by all your gallbladder recovery stories @Antje77 @Rachox @Annb , and thanks for your gentle hugs too @jpscloud.
I’m still feeling rubbish but I think that’s just because I’m always sick for a week or so after an anaesthetic so I’m hoping I’ll soon perk up. I also have vagus syncope where I pass out when vomiting which makes it v scary.
Antje I can’t believe you were steering a ship and eating a creamy shawarma a few days afterwards. You are superwoman!!
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I hope you start to feel more yourself soon. I suggest rest and taking care of yourself, whatever that looks like for you. An anaesthetic can take a toll too, might just need time to get back to feeling well again.
 
Breakfast was a steamed "bun". Chinese idea. Not low carb in any sense of the word but it was an experiment to see if olive oil instead of butter in the bun would work. It did and it tasted good with a little curry sauce over it. Coffee.

2nd meal will be poached chicken breast with salad. I've given up on frying or baking chicken - gone right off the taste and texture. I daresay I will come back to it some time, but for now, only poached appeals.

BG stayed within range after the "bun" and was fine all the time I was out but just a few minutes ago it dropped into the 3's so I had one of the oat/date/walnut failed experiment I made a few days ago. We'll see what that does.
 
Breakfast was porridge, lunch was cottage cheese salad, tea was bolognese with vegetables. I'm using the small leaves of my sprouting broccoli that has flowered, like you said @Annb, it's a shame to waste brassica leaves.

I'm planning to grow a lot of winter crops - I'll grow swedes and carrots again, and this year I will get my act together and plant brussels sprouts, cauliflower and black kale. I don't know if the Kalettes will grow through the winter, apparently they should but I'll grow some regular sprouts just in case. I didn't do well with my black kale last year, but the seedlings I gave away to a friend flourished! I think they didn't like where I had the containers (a bit windy) and the containers were too small.

My first little windowsill sungold tomatoes are now pea-sized!
 
Radish thinings salads a big success - especially love the young leaves very tender so going to start another container of radishes in next day or two to be ready as the current crop matures. Went really well with some smoked trout today.
 
Breakfast: dahl on 2 spoonsful of cooked, chilled, reheated rice.

2nd meal will be an experiment - little buns, filled with mince and steamed. Not sure if that will work but I need to know if it will, for future reference.

EDIT: not entirely successful. Edible but kind of stodgy. There are better ways of eating mince.
 
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Yesterday I had porridge for breakfast, home made beef burgers with salad for lunch and chicken with vegetables and a small portion of resistant starch pasta for tea.

Today will be the same, I made a few burgers!

We're having some great weather so I'm getting through the garden jobs quite well now.
 
Breakfast: mushroom soup. Coffee.

Odd sort of night has left me feeling dozy and achy - tending to fall asleep over the keyboard. Sometimes I wish coffee could revive me.

2nd meal planned to be salmon with peas and broccoli spears. If I don't fall asleep at the wrong time.
 
Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch, chicken with vegetables and small portion of resistant starch pasta for tea - with 3 little green beans from my Faraday plants which are tiny but producing a few beans. They taste amazing but Faraday is so hard to get germinated I'm switching to Compass which germinates really well for the next round of plants.

Got on really well with garden jobs today, but tomorrow there is rain forecast so I am planning to run errands.
 
I did my errand running yesterday, but the rain didn't come until evening so I did a bit in the garden in the afternoon. We didn't get a lot of rain so I'm having to do emergency watering to keep everything growing.

Porridge for breakfast, something with salad for lunch and maybe pan fried fish with vegetables for tea today (plans for tea might change depending on how I'm feeling later).
 
Well after boasting about how good I am at using food stocks I found a swede at the back of my fridge today! It's the very last of the ones I grew last year - I think I harvested it in January. It was wrapped in kitchen towel and inside a plastic bag with some perforations, and kept incredibly well, just a couple of spots needed to be cut away.

So tea plans have changed, I'm making a lovely buttered swede mash with that, and will have sausages with it.
 
Breakfast: leftover potato and peas, mixed with cheese, heated on top of a big cheese crisp.

2nd meal - Belly pork, roasted on top of vegetables. It's in the oven at the moment. I also have a chicken brining and will cook that later for other meals, other times.

Been back a while from seeing GP and falling asleep in the chair with exhaustion. Nothing immediately alarming from echocardiogram so all's OK.
 
Late breakfast: 2 RyVita with cheese melted onto them. Coffee.

2nd meal - there's cold chicken and cold pork to make into some kind of salad. Plus a large amount of stock to make into soup. Most of the pork and most of the chicken will be cut /sliced up to make other dishes with at some time. The stock will end up as chicken and leek soup some time soon as well.
 
Breakfast was porridge, lunch was cottage cheese salad and tea was sausages and the other half of the swede mash with a handful of 9 star broccoli.

Another great day, if a bit windy - I got quite a bit done. Tomorrow should be good too. While I was at the shops on Monday I found some onion sets reduced to 99p for 25, so I got two packs and will have them as onion greens through the summer - they keep regrowing if you leave the bulb in. My own spring onions from seed are too slow! I do have a lot of small onions that I planted from sets in October, I'll keep a few to grow on to larger bulbs but they're great spring onions as well, so now I have (hopefully) a continuous supply. They're all grown in containers.

Lettuce is slow too, but some are starting to heart up in the garden - my windowsill lettuce has been providing cut and come again leaves but I realised a bit too late that I needed to really step up succession sowing.

My chillies and peppers are looking great, still quite small plants but really healthy under grow lights indoors. I'll risk putting some in the polytunnel when things warm up next month. My windowsill sungold tomato is really healthy too and I think I'll get the first tomatoes from that in a couple of weeks' time. The other tomato plants are still small but also healthy.
 
Breakfast: RyVita and cheese - same as yesterday.

Yesterday's 2nd meal was soup, after all. It was done anyway so I didn't bother doing anything else.

Today's 2nd meal may be the same thing. It's done and I might be too sore to do anything else. We'll see how well I recover from my visit to the nurse.
 
jpscloud said:
Breakfast was porridge, lunch was cottage cheese salad and tea was sausages and the other half of the swede mash with a handful of 9 star broccoli.

Another great day, if a bit windy - I got quite a bit done. Tomorrow should be good too. While I was at the shops on Monday I found some onion sets reduced to 99p for 25, so I got two packs and will have them as onion greens through the summer - they keep regrowing if you leave the bulb in. My own spring onions from seed are too slow! I do have a lot of small onions that I planted from sets in October, I'll keep a few to grow on to larger bulbs but they're great spring onions as well, so now I have (hopefully) a continuous supply. They're all grown in containers.

Lettuce is slow too, but some are starting to heart up in the garden - my windowsill lettuce has been providing cut and come again leaves but I realised a bit too late that I needed to really step up succession sowing.

My chillies and peppers are looking great, still quite small plants but really healthy under grow lights indoors. I'll risk putting some in the polytunnel when things warm up next month. My windowsill sungold tomato is really healthy too and I think I'll get the first tomatoes from that in a couple of weeks' time. The other tomato plants are still small but also healthy.
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Loved hearing about your food production! I've also been out in the garden when I could make time, as other demands! I've put another batch of radish seeds into a new pot outside so that I have some sprouting by the time current radishes are finished. I've also set some more cosburg as they are starting to run out.
My tomatoes are doing well still - out in the day and in overnight but crossing fingers they may be able to be planted out in a week or so - keeping eye on the forecast. Beans went out yesterday and seem to be coping. Fingers crossed.
 
Porridge for breakfast, egg salad for lunch and curry for tea. I had an upset stomach after the eggs, even though they were properly hard boiled, and it's not the first time I've noticed that. I think I may not be able to tolerate eggs for some reason, although scrambled/omelette seems to be ok.

@shelley262 Can't wait to exchange garden news as everything gets going! I'm just putting together two more raised beds, and I'll be putting 3 types of squash (uchiki kuri, little gem and crown prince) in two of them to be trained up trellis, with runner beans (a few less plants this year!) and climbing french bean Cobra in another, and the last one is yet to be decided but may be brassicas. The squashes need to be off the ground because I don't trust the local cats, or my resident slugs!

@Annb I hope you feel a bit less sore now, and have a comfortable sleep tonight.
 
2nd meal yesterday was cold meats and salad. Neil had bought some Polish ham to go with the cold pork and cold chicken. I'm not sure if I like to Polish ham. It has its own spice mixture and quite unlike the plain British ham that I usually have. A bit like frankfurters, which I don't like very much either.

So, breakfast: fried slice of cold pork with an egg. Coffee.
Currently on my 2nd cup of coffee and 2nd lot of painkillers.

2nd meal will be braised mixed meats (pork, sausages, chicken) and cabbage.

Also want to make some chicken and pork aspic today.
 
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