• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2026 Survey »

"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

shelley262 said:
@jpscloud amazing veggies well done - loving the calendula flowers too. You must, quite rightly, be feeling very proud of what you're achieving with your crops. Lovely photos too - thank you for sharing them.
Click to expand...
I'm really happy with the successes, but we shall not speak of the brassicas :hilarious: Ok well let's speak of them a bit - I've really learned my lesson about covering them to exclude cabbage root fly, too late for the winter-long crops of swedes and sprouts I really wanted this year but I will have some.

I will have to get more nematodes to deal with caterpillars now - the usual cabbage whites are easy enough to relocate to nasturtiums, but this seems to be a very good (bad?) year for tiny diamondback moths, which have managed to lay their eggs on the brassicas through the insect mesh, and now the poor pathetic plants that had damaged root systems to start with are getting eaten away by tiny little caterpillars that I can't find! :banghead:

The kalette plants seem to have got away with it though, they are looking pretty healthy. I sowed some kohlrabi today, there should be time to get a few of those before the end of autumn. I'm not sure I'll like them, but I'm hoping they will be nice in stews - I don't like the radish-like pepperyness of turnips but some people say kohlrabi are quite mild and sweet, more like broccoli stems (which I like) especially when cooked.

I forgot to mention @shelley262 I think we have the same salad spinner - in one of your photos I think I recognise the green basket? It's my first time using one, and it's a complete game changer for me!

I had porridge for breakfast, chicken salad for lunch and haven't had any tea - I had a late lunch and ate a bit more than I should have, so I'm not hungry. I might have some greek yoghurt with a few of the pink blueberries from my garden.
 
@jpscloud think most veggies are definitely outside my comfort zone and not enough space in my garden. Also my local farm shop sells local veggies at a reasonable price.
Love my salad spinner - basket great to use when harvesting the salad too.
Pink blueberries sound interesting but I gave up on trying to grow blueberries after being unsuccessful several years in a row!
 
Annb said:
she had coffee cake with hers - I resisted
Click to expand...
Well done, I'm not sure I could have! Celeriac dauphinois sounds gorgeous. I'm growing a few celeriac but I've never managed to get a full size root in previous years. Maybe this year!

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and pork chop with garden vegetables for tea.
 
Later than usual as had to head out after an early quick breakfast of kefir and LC granola.
For dinner I just shared a LC small quiche ( made yesterday) served with salad from the garden and some beetroot bought locally. Picnic lunch of a LC ham roll and a scone.
@Annb well done resisting the coffee cake. I need to have low carb baking around in that type of situation to have as an alternative so I don't feel left out!
 
Tomatoes are starting to ripen more so picked a few this morning for breakfast - I love having different varieties growing - different shapes and colours although I think they all taste delicious. My little colander pictured always makes me smile - 1785221383086.jpg it's tiny and was bought by me from the internet for my mum about 9 years ago. She asked for a small colander and I chose from the image didn't check measurements and when it arrived we couldn't stop laughing as its useless for straining vegetables even for one. I kept it though and it's perfect for harvesting a few raspberries/tomatoes and it reminds me of laughing together with my much missed mum.
Salad planned for lunch and will probably make some hummus. Dinner will be gammon with a rarebit topping served with more garden salad.
 
@shelley262 what beautiful looking tomatoes! I love the teeny tiny colander, what a lovely memory for you as well. As you say it's perfect for daily berry picking. Temu has caught me out a few times on size/scale, when buying things for the garden... I soon learned to check carefully :hilarious:

Porridge for breakfast, when I've used up my current stash I think I'll switch to Greek yoghurt, and have frozen blueberries with it for breakfast.

Salad for lunch with cottage cheese, and another pork loin chop for tea with garden vegetables.
 
Back from a visit to look after a friend's dogs. Luckily she lives in a wonderful old cottage in a very pretty village so early morning and late evening walks were very pleasant.
She also has a large garden so evenings were spent dead heading and watering.
Returning home showed our shading of the fruit cage and putting everything possible in there with a sprinker just for an hour every three days worked well...but the rest of the garden is burnt and crispy. Just put 2 full cans of water on each of 8 shrubs in desperate attempt to revive them.

Trouble is we are away again next week, this time for 3 weeks!. I'll put as much as possible into the one watered area but think the rest is going to perish. I know we've had hot spells before but this continual heat and total lack of rain is proving deadly. And even more annoying as didnt do any annuals or veg knowing we'd be away too much. I didnt expect to lose established shrubs.

Very envious of all the thriving pics, and congratulations to the hardworking gardeners.

Ps stayed mostly lc, except for 2 small icecreams, and then a homemade meringue at a family gathering. Hoped it would taste too sweet, but smothered in cream and strawberries, it was wonderful!
 
@MrsA2 my grass is very crispy too! I'm actually fine with that though, the grass is just a job to do when it grows, and I'm not a lawn-proud person at all. My hedge shrubs are all surviving well, no casualties so far but I think we've had some cooler weather than folks further south and we had a good day of rain the other day. I know many people are losing treasured plants and shrubs, that must be so heartbreaking.
 
Yesterday was a no proper meal day. Mid morning I had a couple of slices of ham. Later in the day I had a couple of lentil crackers. Only half the amount of fluids I should have had. Then BG started to slide down so I had a couple of ginger biscuits, which pushed BG way too high. 12.9 when I went to bed.

Must do better today but currently have no ideas for food. Salady kind of things are there but don't appeal somehow. This is not an unusual situation.

Oh just had a thought - there's a punnet of mushrooms in the fridge. Might do something with that.
 
@Annb hope you are inspired by your mushrooms. I love mushroom pate or mushroom soup but mainly cook mushrooms in olive oil and a bit of butter as a veggie side or with eggs for breakfast. In fact had as a side as well as Salad with my gammon yesterday.
Today planning sea bream and vegetables for dinner - I have a few beans in the garden! Also bought some local broccoli. Lunch will be hummus and salad and breakfast in a bit is lc granola and then a poached egg on LC toast.
Hottish day ahead but predicted temps a bit lower than forecast a few days ago so hopefully will get a few indoor jobs done. I agree on the lawns in the heatwave they look brown, but aren't growing - so one less garden job!
 
@shelley262 I'm glad the beans are coming! I definitely have a lot less than last year, even with twice daily watering and plenty of feed. There's enough though, I don't need quite so many as I had last year.

My tomatoes are ripening on the bloody butcher and the sweet aperitif, plus a couple of sungold a day, but not quite enough to be opening a pack of feta to do greek salads just yet. The brandy boy and gourmandsun ones are looking great but they're a long way off ripening, probably a month or more. I just have one plant of each and also planted a side shoot of each in the same containers, just a punt on possible late season tomatoes if the weather stays sunny.

I had porridge for breakfast, it will be haloumi with salad for lunch and I think probably chicken with garden vegetables for tea.
 
After all, I did eat earlier. An avocado was ready to be eaten, so I just had that along with a cup of coffee.
Mushrooms are in the oven being roasted. I'll have them on their own for a second meal. More coffee, of course. Still a bit low on the fluids but the more I drink, the more active my Furosimide tablets become. Bit of a pest, all these different medications - I daresay they do what they're meant to do, but they play havoc while they're at it.
 
Last edited:
A few teaspoons of cottage cheese for breakfast, with a cup of coffee, of course.

Just back from leg bandaging and feeling a bit peckish so will have to find something to fill that gap.

2nd meal will be cauliflower curry, out of the freezer. Just as is, no rice or anything with it.

I have an appointment for US scan of liver, thorax and pleural cavity on 18th August - Em's 14th birthday. They seem to be looking for evidence of "pleural effusion". If that's what it is, it would explain a lot - and it's that darned fluid problem again. Solution is another issue. Treatment seems to range from - do nothing to stick a needle in and drain the pleural cavity. Maybe there's something in between - I don't fancy either of those.

Meantime, I will plan a birthday cake for Em. Something suitable for a "tom-boy". Definitely not floral, that's for sure. She's very artistic - something along the lines of Jackson Pollock maybe. Might be fun.

ENCHANTED FOREST
- JACKSON POLLOCK
enchanted forest Jackson P.jpg
 
Love the Jackson Pollock cake idea @Annb - Em's very lucky!

I had porridge for breakfast, then decided against salad for lunch as it was cool and rainy this morning - I had chicken skewers instead with runner beans. I think I'll have the last pork loin chop for tea with garden vegetables (fried onion and courgette, and french beans).

The second largest crown prince squash has a hole in it, my fault - I didn't notice a cable tie holding the frame together had a sharp bit pointing into the squash. If it makes it to maturity I'll have to eat that one right away - shame because they are much better when they've been stored for a bit. That means there'll just be two crown prince to store, but they are big so I'll have several meals from one squash - when they're cut, I can freeze two thirds of it.
 
Loved the rain this morning followed by fresher and cooler air arriving especially as had stuff to do in town first thing and the hill and many many steps back home are a killer in the heat!
Had quick breakfast of kefir and low carb granola and now a lunch of LC bread with ham and beetroot with a few nuts having a few garden raspberries in a bit and dinner will be cheeseburger in LC roll with salad.
@Annb inspired idea for Ems cake and should be fun creating it.
 
After 47 dry hot days finally a teeny weeny shower. Not enough to make any difference at all :(. If i hadn't been at home and outside I wouldn't even have known. I was watering at the time!

Very hot at dancing this morning. Eggs before, half avocado at lunch, other half with corned beef for tea
 
@MrsA2 we had quite a few showers yesterday - such a lovely smell you get when it rains after a long hot spell - but it's not made much of an impact we need days of rain for the garden to benefit.
Planning tomatoes cooked in olive oil for breakfast, salad and hummus for lunch and salmon with garden beans for tea.
Lots of jobs to catch up on today and hoping to make LC lemon Muffins later using a new Panda recipe using a whole lemon blended for more flavour ( pips, pith, and all!)
 
Back
Top