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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Planning a good breakfast today of keto granola and then a few tomatoes roasted in olive oil served with poached egg and lc toast.
Then fasting pre abdominal scan at hospital later today.
Easy to prepare cheeseburger with lots of garden salad and some of my new beetroot ferment later when back. It's not just enjoying eating the salad - I also love getting out into the garden and gathering the leaves.
I've decided I need to sort out my herb bed. I planted it 11 years ago when we moved in but mint, sage and rosemary have taken over so going to redo it and get more variety in there.
 
shelley262 said:
I also love getting out into the garden and gathering the leaves.
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Yes me too! Wishing you all the best with the scan, hope the results are good.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and possibly fish fingers for tea. I might have a little check on my new potatoes and see if there are a couple I can have with tea!
 
shelley262 said:
Planning a good breakfast today of keto granola and then a few tomatoes roasted in olive oil served with poached egg and lc toast.
Then fasting pre abdominal scan at hospital later today.
Easy to prepare cheeseburger with lots of garden salad and some of my new beetroot ferment later when back. It's not just enjoying eating the salad - I also love getting out into the garden and gathering the leaves.
I've decided I need to sort out my herb bed. I planted it 11 years ago when we moved in but mint, sage and rosemary have taken over so going to redo it and get more variety in there.
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Hope the scan doesn't discover anything worrying.

Breakfast today was another experiment: overnight oats (soaked overnight in yoghurt) with chopped fruit mixed through it. I was going to add nuts, but that would have involved getting into the larder and searching for them, so I didn't bother (legs playing up more than usual for some reason). BG seems surprisingly stable.

2nd meal will be smoked mackerel salad. I was thinking of salad with fish fingers, but Neil managed to find some smoked mackerel in the supermarket, so I'll have that.

Neil found the bream yesterday, in a fridge, not a freezer. It had been there too long and was unusable. I fried the bits of defrosted haddock in butter along with some onions and some "chips" made of butternut squash. Didn't taste like proper chips, but they were very good. I'll do that again. The end result looked a mess with all the bits of it mixed up together, but it was OK, slightly spoiled by the not-very-good fish.
 
Thank you for best wishes - scan itself didn't take too long. Biggest issue was that the hospital was very hot - lots of glass in the building plus having a hot flush as a result of the contrast dye made it uncomfortably hot!
Hungry after missing lunch so had hm LC scone with clotted cream and a few berries and a cuppa in the garden when got back earlier.
Now two weeks to wait and hear results.
 
@shelley262 the waiting is horrible, but hopefully your garden will keep you in good spirits.

I had a little rummage around in the potato containers and found a few new potatoes! They're somewhere between a quail egg and a hen's egg, so they need a couple more weeks but I had three of them with my tea and they are heavenly! Now I just have to keep my hands off the rest of them for a bit :hilarious: When I harvest them I'll give most of them away to friends and family, as these first earlies don't really store well. Next year I might try a few main crop potatoes which I can store.

I went and did watering in the garden after tea to try to burn off the sugars and I'm in a fairly good place with BG even though I also had a largish portion of peas as well - not mine unfortunately! They're not ready yet, but they never make it to the kitchen anyway :hilarious:

I've got a lot of aphids and some moth caterpillars already starting their assault on my lettuces and brassicas! I've seen hoverflies, spiders and ladybirds so they'll hopefully sort things out soon.
 
Lovely morning out there and garden really moving forward. I've got a wild flower bed that is just starting to flower and my first sweet pea flower opened with its glorious scent. Had some plants arrive yesterday from an online plant sale - peppers, chilli and a mini cucumber plant which I rehydrated overnight and they look perkier this morning so may pot them on when it gets a bit cooler later. I also have sprout plants on the way but will have to make space in the veggie bed first!
Plan breakfast of keto granola followed by tomatoes and poached egg,
usual garden salad lunch and salmon with asparagus for dinner.
Will be rushing out very early tomorrow so no garden report! We are off out for a father's day trip to Wales for lunch with our youngest.
 
Breakfast: sausages, eggs and beans. Tea.

Off then for a fairly early appointment with the GP to hear what further he has to say about my odd, waterlogged breathing and slow heartbeat. He wants more tests and blood tests done but he's talking again about Mounjaro or somesuch. ECG, blood test next Thursday alongside my leg bandaging and he's going to talk to the diabetes nurse about the Mounjaro. Fluid still there on my lungs, especially on my left side, which is where I can feel that something isn't right. We had a short chat about atrial fibrillation which seems to run in my family. He reckons what I am describing isn't atrial fibrillation at all, just an odd rhythm - beat, space, beat, space, beat, space, space, beat beat beat. Kind of regular irregular. My mother had it, my brother has it, I have it, Neil has it. Haven't asked Alistair. Doesn't seem to be at all harmful.

2nd meal will be: stir fried beef with orange and cauliflower. Couldn't get any broccoli so cauli will have to do.
 
That sweet pea fragrance is hard to beat for a rush of deliciousness @shelley262 ! I haven't grown any this year but I have got some night scented stocks growing, which have a similar effect on me.

When the clouds are over it's quite cool, nice and breezy so I am getting quite a bit done in the garden too today. I really must stop flitting from job to job though, I'm not diagnosed with ADHD but I'm sure I'm a bit that way!

When I was picking my lettuce leaves for my salad today I came across lots of spiders, ladybird lavae and a few hoverflies were investigating the calendula that has just opened nearby, so I fully expect my aphid problem to be under control very soon :joyful:

Porridge for breakfast, tuna salad for lunch with two very small potatoes from yesterday's little harvest (I'll go and burn those off in a minute!) and chicken with fried courgettes for tea. Not my courgettes yet, but there is one on the way!
 
@jpscloud winner for your growing spider, ladybird and hoverfly population hope they keep the aphids in check. Potatoes sound yummy.
@Annb hope you had a productive appointment with your GP. Would be good if something could be done to improve your worrisome symptoms like the fluid on your lungs.
 
Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese and all my salad from home grown leaves, tomatoes, onion and cucumber :joyful:

I really wish I'd grown more indoor sungold, it will run out in a week or two and I don't think my next one in the polytunnel will be ripening by then so there'll be a gap :( The problem is my best windowsills for sun are quite limited, the main ones are great for lettuce but not for tomatoes. I could get one more plant on the sunny windowsill though.

It's warm but there's a bit of cloud around so I'm doing a bit in the garden. The damson and plum trees (damson is a patio one but I made a mistake and bought a standard victoria plum!) are going to get planted in the ground now, they are not going to thrive in containers. Oddly my little patio apple tree is a bit neglected in a big container and always gives me a few apples!

Hope you are feeling well today @Annb and I hope you are having a lovely time on your Father's day trip @shelley262 x
 
Some small fruits starting to appear on my tomatoes - always good to see them setting. Also squished a few blackfly but definitely lots more spiders and butterflies too - so hoping balance kept!
Planning a cooked breakfast of roast tomatoes on LC toast and egg after our morning shot of kefir - enjoying this new goats milk kefir it's takes adjustment to as it's stronger than supermarket kefir. So think it will be our new regular kefir for pre breakfast. Lunch will be salad and possibly some smoked trout. Dinner steak, asparagus and salad. I'm planning on making a roasted pepper and garlic mix with olive oil and ACV this morning for the next few days - a lovely addition to garden leaves.
Looking like gardening will be mainly watering early and late this week and pest monitoring! I'm not keen on weather extremes but will need to go with the flow - I'm sure the tomatoes will benefit.
 
Breakfast: Noodles made of red lentils with thinly sliced beef, mushrooms, onion, peas, orange, spring onion and garlic. Looked like ramen, but it wasn't made like ramen. Coffee.

2nd meal has to be something to use the last of the cauliflower - probably a vegetable curry. I have some rice, pre-cooked and chilled, to have with it.
 
Today isn't as hot here as it is in other places but it's still a bit too much for me so like you @shelley262 I'm doing early morning water/feeding - I don't usually do evening but I'll have a wander around after my shower and give some water if it's needed.

I'm sorting out my compost from last year to use now, it needs to be sifted and the uncomposted bits go back for another turn with the worms in the bay. I'm trying to get it done today because tomorrow is going to be warmer and Tues and Weds we have an amber heat warning, so I'll be hiding from it with my fan and lots of iced water! On Weds I am meeting friends at a garden centre, but I am pretty sure they have air conditioning there.

@Annb do the lentil noodles taste good? I think I might try some if you like them.
 
jpscloud said:
Today isn't as hot here as it is in other places but it's still a bit too much for me so like you @shelley262 I'm doing early morning water/feeding - I don't usually do evening but I'll have a wander around after my shower and give some water if it's needed.

I'm sorting out my compost from last year to use now, it needs to be sifted and the uncomposted bits go back for another turn with the worms in the bay. I'm trying to get it done today because tomorrow is going to be warmer and Tues and Weds we have an amber heat warning, so I'll be hiding from it with my fan and lots of iced water! On Weds I am meeting friends at a garden centre, but I am pretty sure they have air conditioning there.

@Annb do the lentil noodles taste good? I think I might try some if you like them.
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The lentil spaghetti, which is what I used to get as close as possible to the Chinese style noodles, took quite a long time to cook, compared to other legume pastas and they were pretty bland, but then, all pastas are. It was fine with a sauce and quite a lot lower in carbs than real pasta. I have used quite a lot of legume pastas and they all work quite well but my preferred one is chickpea "rice". Very much like oreo.
 
I think I might try chickpea rice @Annb it does sound good.

Very warm today so I'm off out to water and feed now, then I think I'll be indoors for the day.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and sausages with fried onions from the garden for tea.
 
Stunning out in the garden first thing while watering and checking my plants -although direct sun already getting too hot. Spotted my first dwarf purple bean setting and more tomato fruits emerging and almost enough sweet pea flowers to pick a bunch - may do in a day or two as it encourages more to grow. I also bought a large coriander plant from the supermarket and popped it into a bigger pot a couple of weeks ago and it's loving the hot weather - getting very bushy. Love some coriander in my salads.
Planning breakfast of keto granola after my kefir and some lc toast with almond butter, Lunch of salad garden leaves with smoked trout, nuts and my new ferment. Dinner will be hm LC panda flour lasagne ( Got portion out of freezer yesterday) served with salad.
Heading out first thing but then indoors until evening watering. It's garden bin day in the morning but too hot to do a serious weed and fill it to the top as usual!
 
Breakfast: Not had it yet. On my third cup of coffee. I will be having some overnight oat meusli (soaked in yoghurt) with grated apple and some coconut and raisins.
2nd meal: vegetable lasagne (made with red lentil lasagne sheets).
 
Woke up very early and too warm to sleep now, so I'm going outside to (quietly!) put as many plants as I can in the shade.

Breakfast is porridge, lunch cottage cheese salad and tea possibly another salad with cold sausages and egg. Hope everyone is doing ok in the heat!
 
Planning fairly simple meals, so limited cooking, usual kefir and granola breakfast, salad lunch and then a couple of lamb chops for dinner.
All good in garden so far - will see how they cope over next few days. Hopefully they will be strong enough to adapt to the extreme heat.
 
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