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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

shelley262 said:
Rushing around in garden this morning - its been quite windy and hadn't realised how much tomatoes had shot up so they were being blown about and in danger of snapping. So was out there in my night clothes, before even had a cup of tea, putting more ties on them to secure them.
Proper breakfast planned this morning, before go out, eggs and mushrooms need using up so scrambled eggs with mushrooms it is.
Lunch salad from garden plus hummus and possibly cheese
Dinner cheeseburger on low carb roll and salad.
Final packing, care stuff, and sorting today. Will report back on my food next when back middle of next week.We are sailing on the Cunard Liner Queen Mary 2 - usually can find a good choice of diabetes friendly food on Cunard and have a Dexcom sensor on to help me keep an eye on things.
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Sounds like a wonderful trip. Enjoy
 
After I posted yesterday I went outside as the sun had just peeped out - wearing a rain jacket and hat because of the cold though - and then the heavens opened. Not just with rain, but with a long, heavy hail shower! I'm really not enjoying this cold spell after such a hot start to spring.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and sausages with vegetables for tea.
 
Very bad this morning and had a home made cereal for breakfast. Not good for my BG. Tea. I am back onto tea, which is not my preferred drink, but I am beginning to suspect that coffee is having a deleterious effect on my innards.

2nd meal will be an attempt at a thing I can't remember the name of. It is a kind of spiced mince filled into a casing of mince and bulgar wheat and baked (Usually deep fried, I think, but I do don't deep frying these days). If I can make it work, I will serve it with more salady things. I have seen a recipe but, if I have it, I can't find it ecause I can't remember what it is called. I have a feeling that it begins with "K" but I'm not sure.

1780655476417.png Kibbeh! That's what it is called. Now I'll be able to look for the recipe.
 
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It's a rainy day but I'm still going to do gardening - I'm tidying up the polytunnel and between showers I'll do a bit more planting and organising in the garden. I don't like how chilly it is but I will count my blessings and use the cooler weather to get lots done, which I find difficult in warmer weather. Rain jacket and hat at the ready!

@shelley262 I hope your trip is going smoothly and you're having a wonderful time x

@Annb Kibbeh sounds lovely, I might give that a try.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and tea is yet to be decided.
 
The kibbeh wasn't a great success. Very tasty, but I guess I did something wrong because they all fell apart. Not the prettiest of meals. Still have some left which I will blindfold myself to eat later today. I didn't do the salad with them because I realised that I had some cauliflower leaves to use up. Usually I chop them up and put them in a stew (waste not etc) but I decided just to have them as a side dish and I am now a convert to caulflower leaves. Actually, better than the flower part of the vegetable. Just a pity that cauliflower are sold with most of the leaves chopped off. There's some of that left as well for later on.

Breakfast: Mozzaralla salad. Tea.
 
Annb said:
The kibbeh wasn't a great success. Very tasty, but I guess I did something wrong because they all fell apart. Not the prettiest of meals. Still have some left which I will blindfold myself to eat later today. I didn't do the salad with them because I realised that I had some cauliflower leaves to use up. Usually I chop them up and put them in a stew (waste not etc) but I decided just to have them as a side dish and I am now a convert to caulflower leaves. Actually, better than the flower part of the vegetable. Just a pity that cauliflower are sold with most of the leaves chopped off. There's some of that left as well for later on.

Breakfast: Mozzaralla salad. Tea.
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Totally agree about cauliflower leaves, so much nicer than cabbage leaves and often better than the florets, as you say, especially if the cauli has been hanging around in the supermarket for a bit. I'm growing some multi-head cauliflower this year, I'm not sure if they'll be a success but I like the idea of a smaller head and then some more after that is harvested - and hopefully the leaves will be great too.
 
All this talking about gardening lately has apparently had some effect on me. I bought an apple tree today and planted it!
It's a tree that grows miniature apples, not for eating so no problem with diabetes. :)

They didn't have small trees and I wanted one right now, good thing I live in an area where you can avoid roads with lots of traffic, I don't think my trip home was exactly legal :hilarious:
I drove just like this.

For dinner I had planned to not cook and get some battered fish from the fish monger who visits our village on saturdays. But she was sold out so I put some spareribs from the freezer in the airfryer and called it a meal.

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Tea last night was slow cooker chicken with runner beans from the freezer.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and tea will be whatever my friend has cooked when I visit later.
 
Antje77 said:
All this talking about gardening lately has apparently had some effect on me. I bought an apple tree today and planted it!
It's a tree that grows miniature apples, not for eating so no problem with diabetes. :)

They didn't have small trees and I wanted one right now, good thing I live in an area where you can avoid roads with lots of traffic, I don't think my trip home was exactly legal :hilarious:
I drove just like this.

For dinner I had planned to not cook and get some battered fish from the fish monger who visits our village on saturdays. But she was sold out so I put some spareribs from the freezer in the airfryer and called it a meal.

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That's quite a tall tree. We have a couple of crab apple trees and, even after about 40 years, they are still shorter than that one! Probably due to our climate, they never produce fruit - plenty of blossom, but it never gets anywhere. Now they are overshadowed by lots of other trees and bushes which have grown a lot faster, so probably never will fruit now. Very pretty trees though.

Breakfast: haven't had it yet - I fell asleep in the chair and have only just woken up. I have some left-over beef mince filling from the kibbeh so I'll heat that up and have it over some RyVita.

2nd meal will be a vegetable lasagne.
 
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