"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

[Mrs Redboots]

@Mrs Redboots I try to do low carb most of the time, but I'm on dapagliflozin as well as mounjaro, so I've been warned to be careful about blood sugar going too low. I have some carbs in the form of potatoes and rice, but try to make them resistant starch. And then some days I have things that are definitely not low carb and definitely have no place in the house, but there we are!

I've found that I get hypos now if I'm not careful, which I never did before the semaglutide. But if I'm careful to eat regularly, it's OK. I mainly get them when we're getting ready to go away, which we do fairly often. We have a motorhome, and I also help provide respite care for my 98-year-old mother when my sister, her primary carer, goes on holiday.

 

[MommaE]

A very nice surprise!

One of the chickens has decided that the dog pillow behind my gas heater (not sure of the right word) in the living room is the perfect place to drop an egg every day.
I have been away a lot lately so I hadn't noticed, she apparently sneaks in when I'm not around.

I just swapped those 8 fresh eggs for two rubber ones, I don't mind a freshly laid egg delivered to my living room every day. I like to take one or two with me to work so this is perfect!

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Today I made a moussaka (no potatoes) worth at least 4 days of food on the bridge.
I hope it'll taste as good as it looks!

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What’s the reason for the rubber eggs?

 

[shelley262]

What a beautiful day - a cooler, bright morning and evidence of rain during the night. A good day to get on with the next batch of rocket and salad leaves sowing that didn't get done yesterday!
Planning to roast some of my many tomatoes for breakfast - but will need to do some serious preserving soon, I'm definitely having a glut of them. Lunch will be smoked trout salad and dinner pork cutlet and runner beans.
Planning to be done today for a family birthday get together on Saturday at ours to celebrate George's birthday - shopping and cooking plans but also the usual boring cleaning stuff!

 

[jpscloud]

What’s the reason for the rubber eggs?

@Antje77 may be busy so I hope she won't mind me responding to this - I grew up on a little farm so it's something I am familiar with. If you collect all the eggs and leave an empty nest, the chicken will most likely abandon it, so you leave a couple of dummy eggs to encourage the chicken to keep laying there.

I'm up so late today, it rained again overnight and was quite dark this morning and I just slept in! That usually only happens if I'm not very well but I feel fine so far.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and chicken with stir fried garden vegetables for tea.

@shelley262 I also did not get round to sowing lettuce! I wanted to get the last of the small swede and sprout plants that have been sitting in little pots into the big containers, at this time of year it's a bit of a punt and the swedes/sprouts will be very small, but still very welcome in the winter. I hate to waste plants and have a hard time thinning out seedlings!

The sun has come out for now but it's going to be a rainy day so I'll see how much I can dodge the showers.

Edit: Forgot to say I also have a little tomato glut going on - first time ever in my own growing experience! It's all cherry tomatoes at the moment so I've just frozen them whole and will maybe make a sauce.

 

[Annb]

Breakfast was the last of the packet of RyVita and cheese with tea. BG dropped to 3.6 so I had to have a cup of something sweet about half an hour ago (Camp coffee essence with milk. Camp coffee essence has a lot of chicory in it so less actual coffee, but it tastes fine with milk. BG on its way up now.) I keep a bottle of coffee essence in the cupboard for making cakes. It seems that actual coffee slows my heart down too much, so I've been avoiding it these last few days. That means that my normal 'go-to' for low BG , a can of sweetened espresso is a 'no-go' at the moment.

2nd meal will be lentil 'rice' kind of risotto with green veg.

 

[Annb]

@Antje77 may be busy so I hope she won't mind me responding to this - I grew up on a little farm so it's something I am familiar with. If you collect all the eggs and leave an empty nest, the chicken will most likely abandon it, so you leave a couple of dummy eggs to encourage the chicken to keep laying there.

I'm up so late today, it rained again overnight and was quite dark this morning and I just slept in! That usually only happens if I'm not very well but I feel fine so far.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and chicken with stir fried garden vegetables for tea.

@shelley262 I also did not get round to sowing lettuce! I wanted to get the last of the small swede and sprout plants that have been sitting in little pots into the big containers, at this time of year it's a bit of a punt and the swedes/sprouts will be very small, but still very welcome in the winter. I hate to waste plants and have a hard time thinning out seedlings!

The sun has come out for now but it's going to be a rainy day so I'll see how much I can dodge the showers.

Edit: Forgot to say I also have a little tomato glut going on - first time ever in my own growing experience! It's all cherry tomatoes at the moment so I've just frozen them whole and will maybe make a sauce.

May I add: you have to take all the eggs, or mark a couple and leave them, or you won't know which are the old ones and which the ones you can take and use. Hens can't count, so they don't know that there are any missing. Actually, someone said that hens can count up to 3, but I'm not so sure about that.

We have some friends who had a broody hen and for some reason, not entirely clear to me, they put some duck eggs under her. (Ducks are not great mothers, so maybe that's why.) The time came when the ducklings hatched and very soon, they made their way to a little stream on the croft. They all jumped in (as would be natural for ducks) but hens can't swim. Nevertheless, the panicking mother hen jumped into the stream after them, presumably to try to save them. Our friend had to rescue her instead! Being a good mother, she raised the whole brood despite their suicidal tendencies (as far as she was concerned).

 

[Mrs Redboots]

Oh bother, I'd just written a lovely long post about broody hens, and pressed the wrong button so it disappeared! Oh well. Meanwhile the blood test went well, and I have done my step count for the day. I'm not going to midweek tai chi at the moment as the regular teacher has gone into hospital to have an operation that she has both needed and wanted as long as I've known her, and the person who is taking the class in her stead, while a lovely person, doesn't lead it in a way I find accessible, so I have to spend too much time sitting out. The Saturday classes continue, though, with leadership from among our number.

I had my McDonald's Sausage and Egg McMuffin this morning - I had a banana first to keep me going as I wasn't sure if I'd have time to eat before my appointment. I would have been in plenty of time, but forgot to put my false teeth in and had to go back! Also had an orange juice - Tropicana is nowhere near as nice as Lidl's, and a rather weak Americano. Lunch was 1/2 cheese-toppued roll spread with butter and cottage cheese, plus the end of the chickpea salad, a dollop of hummus (on my plate, not mixed with the cottage cheese!) and 3 olives, followed by a scoop of raspberry sorbet with creme fraiche. Supper, I think, will be chicken and chips (home made, air fryer) with some kind of vegetable, arguably frozen peas but I'll look in the bottom of the fridge and see what there is. I cooked the chicken thighs last night, but it they weren't quite cooked through, so we microwaved the thighs we ate, and I'll finish off the rest in the other drawer of the air fryer. I think our pudding will be home-made kefir yoghurt and home-made apricot compote.

 

[lovinglife]

What a beautiful day - a cooler, bright morning and evidence of rain during the night. A good day to get on with the next batch of rocket and salad leaves sowing that didn't get done yesterday!
Planning to roast some of my many tomatoes for breakfast - but will need to do some serious preserving soon, I'm definitely having a glut of them. Lunch will be smoked trout salad and dinner pork cutlet and runner beans.
Planning to be done today for a family birthday get together on Saturday at ours to celebrate George's birthday - shopping and cooking plans but also the usual boring cleaning stuff!

Did you ever try the freezing & grating the tomatoes last year? Interested in the results if you did

 

[Antje77]

@Antje77 may be busy so I hope she won't mind me responding to this

I was busy indeed so thanks for explaining!

Have been doing this all day:

May I add: you have to take all the eggs, or mark a couple and leave them, or you won't know which are the old ones and which the ones you can take and use.

Hence the rubber eggs, there is no way I'm organised enough to mark eggs...

Over the day on the boat I snacked on two eggs, a large piece of cheese and a piece of salami to keep things easy, evening meal will be the first portion of lasagne.

 

[shelley262]

Did you ever try the freezing & grating the tomatoes last year? Interested in the results if you did

Hiya no just froze a few small ones which I individually pierced before freezing and then slow roasted from frozen for a sauce. I'm probably going to roast and then slow cook them to freeze in small portions of quite concentrated sauces ( I'll be experimenting to get them as reduced\concentrated as possible this year for future use for pizzas or Bolognese etc.)

 

[lovinglife]

@shelley262 I do them in my air fryer on about 90 for a few hours with a drizzle of olive oil & sea salt - sometimes add a few slices of red pepper & a few cloves of garlic, to make a great dip with some edamame cheese crackers or use them to make a soup by adding to stock top off with Greek yogurt & a few garlic low carb croutons, if I have any lardons will fry them off & add them too, very filling & tasty

 

[lovinglife]

Mine unfortunately although grown very locally are not my own creation

 

[shelley262]

@shelley262 I do them in my air fryer on about 90 for a few hours with a drizzle of olive oil & sea salt - sometimes add a few slices of red pepper & a few cloves of garlic, to make a great dip with some edamame cheese crackers or use them to make a soup by adding to stock top off with Greek yogurt & a few garlic low carb croutons, if I have any lardons will fry them off & add them too, very filling & tasty

Thank you I did wonder about experimenting with dehydrating some in my air fryer on dehydration setting and storing in olive oil. Definitely a few experiments ahead over following few weeks.

 

[Mrs Redboots]

Those tomato ideas are brilliant! I wish I had a garden.... there is a communal garden for our block of flats, but the only edible stuff grown tends to be herbs. And there is a loquat tree, but I don't know whether it has fruited this year. @Antje77, what a lovely way to spend a summer's day!

Ended up having corn cobettes cooked in the air fryer with the chips, and cabbage and leeks steamed in the microwave. Am extremely full, even though I didn't have nearly as much as my husband did.

 

[jpscloud]

Well this is more like our british weather! It's a bit chilly with a high of 16c and thunderstorms, maybe a bit of hail! I'm not missing that extreme heat yet but anything around 20c would be nice. Some parts of yesterday were good so I got a bit done in the garden. Today might be a tidying day indoors which has been badly neglected while I played in the garden. I definitely don't need to water but I will liquid feed the squash and tomatoes.

Porridge for breakfast, something with salad for lunch and pork chop with garden vegetables for tea.

@Mrs Redboots does your flat have a balcony? I grow almost everything in large containers with some raised beds. Depending on what kind of sunlight you get, a balcony can be really productive. I also grow lettuce and dwarf french beans on windowsills with supplementary grow lights in the winter - it's not as productive as summer garden growing but still nice to have fresh.

 

[Annb]

Breakfast was some more of the 'risotto' from yesterday. It looked awful, especially after I added the last of the mushroom soup to it, but it tasted great! Tea. of course.

2nd meal depends on what Neil can get in the town today while I am getting my legs seen to.

 

[Mrs Redboots]

@Mrs Redboots does your flat have a balcony? I grow almost everything in large containers with some raised beds. Depending on what kind of sunlight you get, a balcony can be really productive. I also grow lettuce and dwarf french beans on windowsills with supplementary grow lights in the winter - it's not as productive as summer garden growing but still nice to have fresh.

Alas, no. I do have herbs in pots on the windowsill, but no more than two at a time, as two fit into an ice cream tub to take with us when we are travelling!

Breakfast today was overnight oats, today with fresh raspberries and flaked almonds. I'm "cooking" some more kefir, but it won't be ready until tomorrow, so will have a bought fruit yoghurt for supper pudding. I think supper will be the leftover beans/potatoes/tomatoes with burrata; I'm about too go out to Lidl and get some. If they don't have any, I'll have to rethink. Lunch will be quiche, probably salad and (shhh) a j-- d-----nut! Well I have two coupons for free ones, so rude not to, really.

Meanwhile I'm a very proud grandmother today, as my elder grandson has done well enough in his GCSEs to get his first choice of VIth form College! His results weren't as good as he had hoped, but still excellent!

 

[jpscloud]

Congrats to your grandson @Mrs Redboots ! I hope he loves 6th form.

 

[shelley262]

@Mrs Redboots congratulations to your grandson getting into his college of choice.
@jpscloud as you say it definitely feels more like British weather today - off out in a few mins and may need a raincoat! I'm really enjoying my break from watering.
@Annb hope your legs rebandaging has gone well and that meanwhile Neil found something tasty for you.
I had kefir with nuts and seeds followed by a few roasted tomatoes on LC toast earlier and just had a smoked trout salad. Planning a cheeseburger in low carb roll served with garden salad later.

 

[Annb]

Alas, no. I do have herbs in pots on the windowsill, but no more than two at a time, as two fit into an ice cream tub to take with us when we are travelling!

Breakfast today was overnight oats, today with fresh raspberries and flaked almonds. I'm "cooking" some more kefir, but it won't be ready until tomorrow, so will have a bought fruit yoghurt for supper pudding. I think supper will be the leftover beans/potatoes/tomatoes with burrata; I'm about too go out to Lidl and get some. If they don't have any, I'll have to rethink. Lunch will be quiche, probably salad and (shhh) a j-- d-----nut! Well I have two coupons for free ones, so rude not to, really.

Meanwhile I'm a very proud grandmother today, as my elder grandson has done well enough in his GCSEs to get his first choice of VIth form College! His results weren't as good as he had hoped, but still excellent!

Yes, congratulations to your grandson. Well done that man!

Mmm j** d****nut. I have a story about a j** d****nut.

When we were young our mother used to take my brother and myself to a local cinema after school on a Friday. Next to the cinema was a baker's shop and we would be allowed a cake of our choice to take into the cinema to keep us going until our evening meal. I always chose an iced bun, M always chose a j** d****nut. Up to our seats in the front row of the balcony, we would go but M couldn't wait to get his treat out of the bag and start eating it. Jam oozing out of his doughnut, he would pass along the balcony and one day, the inevitable: oops! over the balcony went the jammy morsel to land on top of somebody down below.




We didn't dare look over to see who the lucky recipient was.