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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Porridge for breakfast, and planning cottage cheese salad for lunch, probably chicken and vegetables for tea. I've got too much lettuce now :hilarious: but will be sowing some more anyway, along with spring onions.

Still cool here today, and we have an autumnal drizzle going on this morning! My plants will be so confused when the heatwave hits again midweek - I hope they don't bolt.
 
Just about to have breakfast - the last of the chickpea pasta with vegetables. Just finished my 2nd cup of coffee and will finish breakfast with my 3rd.

Didn't get to bed until after 2 am because I was working on putting back the 3rd chapter of my writing project which I somehow managed to overwrite with the 4th chapter. At least got it all there and today I shall have to give it a first edit. So I didn't get up until 6 am today and everything is a bit late.

2nd meal will probably be a sausage casserole. It's chilly enough here for a winter warmer dish.
 
Busy day today so quick breakfast of keto granola and LC toast before heading out and I'm taking a LC wrap filled with hummus and ham out with me for lunch. I have a hm low carb pasta lasagne defrosting in the fridge ready to heat up when back.
 
Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and mushroom pizza for tea - made with large flat mushrooms in place of dough.

Planning a gardening day, I need to go and run errands but I want to use the cooler days before the heatwave to get garden work done so I'll possibly go on Wednesday.
 
Breakfast: sausage casserole from yesterday. It's reheating just now.

It's cold and quite dark here today. It is daylight out there, but so dim that I have to use a lamp at my desk in here.

2nd meal: I have been toying with the idea of some kind of pizza because I have an opened packet of mini mozzarella balls - not whatever those ones are called that are covered in semolina just mini mozzarellas. And I have some tomatoes and onions to make a pizza sauce. Have to make a lc base though. Can I be bothered?
 
Breakfast: the last of the sausage casserole.
The pizza was fine and it used up the mozzarella.
Neil suspects that he has developed an intolerance of yeast so is now experimenting with unleavened bread. Today, I have to do some baking - expecting a visitor again tomorrow.
2nd meal will be fish and salad in some form - not sure yet which fish.
 
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Bit later today as had an early visit from gas boiler engineer for our annual service. Hate that it's in summer as he has to test the radiators but at least it stayed cloudy until just now so able to get Windows and doors open to shift the heat out! @Annb wished I could have sent the hot air in your direction it sounds colder with you - you may have appreciated it!
Breakfast was later just usual keto granola and LC toast with almond butter. Salads planned for lunch and dinner with nuts at lunch and lamb at dinner. Just made some more low carb nutty chocolate lollipops as none left in freezer and will need over the hotter days.
 
It is colder here all the time. When the temperature, very occasionally, goes up to 20C, we are comfortable, but if it goes much higher, we feel too warm. We're just not used to it. When it does heat up here though, it is humid rather than a dry heat, so it gets a bit unpleasant. At least when it is cold, we can add extra layers but when it is too hot, there is only so far you can go in polite company in reducing what you are wearing.
 
@Annb I'm just the same, I thrive in the cold but I struggle with anything over 20c. It's a pity because summer is my favourite season and I get sulky if it rains too much! My brother, on the other hand, absolutely loves the heat and was happily camping in Spain during the 40+c heatwave recently.

Porridge for breakfast, salad with tuna for lunch and pork chop for tea with some broad beans and peas from the garden :joyful:
 
Coffee. coffee. coffee, tea.
Should have some breakfast but can't think of anything I want to eat.
2nd meal yesterday was fish fingers and a tomato salad.
Today? Not sure there will even be a first meal, never mind a second.
Just thought. I'm expecting a visitor today just a bit before lunchtime so I'm getting a tub of soup out of the freezer and will probably share it with her. I made some full fat bread yesterday just in case - she's diabetic but is not doing low carb, relying on Mounjaro instead.
 
The promised heatwave has arrived so it's curtains closed, early morning watering the garden, hiding from the sun and late evening watering the garden again with some nice cool showers in between.

I ran my errands early today and despite the heat getting to 25c I decided to go to a garden centre. I picked up some very sorry looking chili plants, as mine are not really producing - I just have one hungarian hot wax pepper! My indoor plants look very healthy and are flowering but the flowers don't set. I think I may have the lighting wrong for them, so I'm experimenting with it now. I got three different chili plants for £2.50 each, they all have fruit on and will probably recover well with a bit of TLC.

Porridge for breakfast, skipped lunch and will have pork chop with vegetables again for tea.
 
@jpscloud good luck with your chilli plants crossing fingers for you.
@Annb hope you managed lunch with your visitor.
I slept very badly last night so have been low activity today. We have weekend plans Friday to Sunday to meet up with friends which we rearranged from May because of the West Midlands train strike and yes guess what they are now striking again this Friday and weekend! So I was mulling over other ways to get there and back. It's looking complex but after research today we are planning a set of convoluted bus journeys ! I'm also charging up our personal fans for the expedition as will be needed plus an umbrella for shade! I have also put my bamboo cooling blanket in the freezer today in hopes of a better sleep tonight.
Had a Cheeseburger for dinner on a LC roll, scrambled eggs for breakfast and hummus for lunch.
Will be very busy watering this evening with the hose again - too hot to lug watering cans around and going to over water next few days as they will miss a few days regular watering. Probably not posting for next few days as I have an early morning blood draw tomorrow and stuff to do and pack ( as lightly as I can!) Off early doors on Friday hopefully back here on Sunday.
 
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@jpscloud good luck with your chilli plants crossing fingers for you.
@Annb hope you managed lunch with your visitor.
I slept very badly last night so have been low activity today. We have weekend plans Friday to Sunday to meet up with friends which we rearranged from May because of the West Midlands train strike and yes guess what they are now striking again this Friday and weekend! So I was mulling over other ways to get there and back. It's looking complex but after research today we are planning a set of convoluted bus journeys ! I'm also charging up our personal fans for the expedition as will be needed plus an umbrella for shade! I have also put my bamboo cooling blanket in the freezer today in hopes of a better sleep tonight.
Had a Cheeseburger for dinner on a LC roll, scrambled eggs for breakfast and hummus for lunch.
Will be very busy watering this evening with the hose again - too hot to lug watering cans around and going to over water next few days as they will miss a few days regular watering. Probably not posting for next few days as I have an early morning blood draw tomorrow and stuff to do and pack ( as lightly as I can!) Off early doors on Friday hopefully back here on Sunday.
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I really hope all goes well with your journey this time, what a bad coincidence that there's another strike! I do hope you get better sleep tonight too, our forecast says low of 14c but I don't really believe it. I've been waiting for dark, then opening my bedroom window and putting a fan pointing inwards in front of the window - that does seem to help bring some cooler air in. As there's a strong air flow with a tower fan as well over the bed, I think that means mosquitoes will have a harder time getting to me, so far so good!

I'm waiting until 9pm to do the watering, I have to do some watering can activity because the hungrier plants also need feeding.
 
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I really hope all goes well with your journey this time, what a bad coincidence that there's another strike! I do hope you get better sleep tonight too, our forecast says low of 14c but I don't really believe it. I've been waiting for dark, then opening my bedroom window and putting a fan pointing inwards in front of the window - that does seem to help bring some cooler air in. As there's a strong air flow with a tower fan as well over the bed, I think that means mosquitoes will have a harder time getting to me, so far so good!

I'm waiting until 9pm to do the watering, I have to do some watering can activity because the hungrier plants also need feeding.
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Like your fan in front of cooler air window - will try this later.
 
My visitor didn't come.

She may have tried to phone and let me know but my phone is unreliable since BT switched our landline to an internet connection. We had just bought a new and expensive phone system just before they switched us onto an internet phone. Neil is very unwilling to give up on the system he chose but it really isn't working very well. When someone phones, it only rings twice before shutting the call down. Sometimes it seems to offer an answerphone but it never passes the messages on to me. Neil says there is a way to get the 1471 service, but I can't make that work either. So, if someone phones, and I don't either hear it, or get to it in time, I have no idea that anyone called.

I do have a little emergency mobile for those occasions when the internet goes down or we have a power cut but if I leave it turned on and able to take incoming calls, the battery runs down very rapidly. We had a power cut a few days ago and another friend was surprised to find that she didn't have even her mobile service - I thought mobiles worked even if there was no internet, but hers didn't. I daresay she would still have had an emergency line, but she couldn't try that out to see - it wasn't an emergency, just frustrating.
 
Porridge for breakfast, tuna salad for lunch and the last of the pork chops with vegetables for tea.

My bedroom did stay fairly cool last night, but was warm by 6am as it's an east facing window. I'm a bit slow to get going today but it should still be relatively cool in the garden so I'll go and water everything well now.
 
Breakfast: soup from yesterday.
2nd meal will be salad with cottage cheese.

EDIT: back from my leg bandaging appointment and I'm quite hungry. BG was dropping too low so had a can of sweetened espresso. That's brought it up to 5.6. Hasn't stopped me feeling hungry though. Might just have some more soup.
 
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Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and chicken with vegetables for tea.

Today is forecast to be 32c so I'm really going to be struggling. I've switched up early mornings for later evenings, so I've been doing the main watering and some potting up etc. after 9pm! The temperature is lovely after the sun goes down but it's light enough to get things done. I've been joined by screaming swifts, snuffling hedgehogs and eventually bats, if I wait long enough.

The downside is that I'm slower to get up in the morning as I need a good 8 hours sleep, 9 if I can get it. I'm taking a leaf out of the mediterranian book of wisdom and having a siesta on these heatwave days but I still feel a bit tired in the morning. But every day I wake up not dead is a great blessing, so I'm not complaining :hilarious:

I will have some climbing french beans to pick in the next couple of days and the runner beans look like they're only a week or so off. I need to harvest the broad beans and peas now as well - it's legume city here at cloudy acres! I've bought a vaccuum sealer to hopefully preserve things better in the freezer.
 
The last of the soup for breakfast.

BG now at 5.4 and, again, hungry. Might just have my 2nd meal early. At the moment it's looking like bacon, Lorne sausage and egg with some roasted tomatoes and onions.

4 layers on today - including a shawl. It's supposed to be 15C outside, but feels around 10C with the breeze. It's summer. I will not turn the heating up. Better than being too hot.
 
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The last of the soup for breakfast.

BG now at 5.4 and, again, hungry. Might just have my 2nd meal early. At the moment it's looking like bacon, Lorne sausage and egg with some roasted tomatoes and onions.

4 layers on today - including a shawl. It's supposed to be 15C outside, but feels around 10C with the breeze. It's summer. I will not turn the heating up. Better than being too hot.
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Wow! It's crazy that our temperatures are so wildly different!
 
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