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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Well, it was utterly delicious, and I enjoyed every bite. But we have had three minutes' rain today - it was the three minutes it took me to walk home from Lidl! That's the second time - it seems that the only times it has rained in my part of London during the past two months is when I've been out in it!
 
It's almost 6 pm and I've been struggling to get onto my feet since I got home. As a result, I haven't made any food so I'll just get out some more of the risotto and heat that. Neil bought a chicken in town so I did manage to get that into a big pot and poached the whole bird. So there's chicken to be made into dishes over the next while.
 
Chicken is delicious. I haven't made a poached chicken for ages; I tend to buy thighs rather than a whole bird - last time I cooked one, it was down at my mother's, and was rather too large for the three of us, and we began to get rather tired of it. "Starting to cluck", said my mother!

Tonight we had the end of the vegetable stew we'd had on Tuesday served cold with burrata, which was delicious, and followed by peach and passionfruit yoghurt from Lidl.

ETA to add that we drank home-made Hugo spritz in honour of my grandson's excellent GCSE results!
 
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jpscloud said:
@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.
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Interesting about the eggs, thank you.
 
I do now have a slight cold, must have picked something up in costa while waiting for my car service. That explains why I've been getting up so late!

Dry again until later this evening here, and a cool day so maybe a chance to get some of the more physically demanding work done - not that I do it very quickly or without sitting down a lot, but at least I can tackle more than when it's too warm for me.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch, and I'm not sure about tea yet but it will feature garden vegetables!
 
Breakfast was overnight oats, this time with flaxseeds and walnuts, and topped with the end of the apricot compote and kefir. Didn't bother with a banana or extra sugar today. Delicious, but my insides weren't too sure about it!

Lunch was 2 mini pork pies, half an avocado, an olive, and a corn cobette. And a strawberry-blueberry ice lolly from Lidl. And I had a chocolate-covered gooseberry with my mid-afternoon tea, also from Lidl.

I have not the faintest idea what we are going to have for supper! I probably ought to make some kind of summer vegetable stew, but not sure I fancy it. Fish would be nice, but I'd probably have to go out to Lidl again, and I'm not sure I can be bothered. I walked down to a (rather disappointing) exhibition of photographs, so have got my exercise in for the day, and have already been to Lidl. Mind you, they did have some rather nice-looking ready-meals..... Pudding will be kefir with figs (which are on special offer in Lidl at the moment) and a little honey. I do hope my insides won't make me regret this....
 
Supper is going to be liver and bacon (a Lidl ready-meal, shared between us) with vegetables - I think carrots and cabbage, not sure as I'm not making it. Oh, and 1/2 a 330 ml beer, which I don't really want but know my husband does. I was coming home from Lidl when a man and his dog came up behind me; the dog was on a long lead, and she went one side of me, and the man the other. I didn't fall, but it really hurt the back of my knees, and I'm feeling very shaken indeed. Hope I'll be okay for tai chi in the morning.....
 
And to add insult to injury, my husband produced carrots as the vegetable and not the cabbage and/or peas I'd asked for! Oh well. I do not, though, know how people manage to eat a whole of those cartons - they are said to serve one, but they are ample for two.
 
Morning all! Hypo this morning; glad husband is at parkrun or I'd have undoubtedly shouted at him and burst into tears! As it was, I made a sort-of oatmeal pancake to have under a fried egg. It was delicious, but a bit of a faff - I don't think I had the proportions right. Maybe when I get my decent blender back (it is in the motor home, so I'll get it tomorrow or Monday). I also had a pain aux raisins (yummy!), some orange juice and a black coffee. That should sort my blood sugar!
 
Yikes @Mrs Redboots glad you have sorted out the hypo. I've only had one hypo, and that was when I first started dapagliflozin, travelling to meet a friend in Dorset and got stuck in a 7 hour traffic jam due to a closed M5! I hadn't thought about hypos and had no food within reach, just some water. Now I have cereal bars and a small bottle of orange juice within reach in the car for long journeys or in extreme weather.

Porridge for breakfast, cheese salad for lunch and I'm hoping to make a couple of crustless quiches today, as I have too many eggs, and I'll have some of that for tea with garden vegetables.

It's a good day for gardening so after watering/feeding, it's a bit of tidying and shredding hazel sticks for the compost heap on the list today.
 
Difficult to stay awake this morning so I've only just had breakfast - a ham sandwich. Dosed with plenty of insulin to cover it. It was within easy reach and easy to make. Didn't like it much - local bread is pretty awful but it filled a gap. Tea.

2nd meal will have to be fish - Neil got me some hake so will have to use that, maybe with some courgettes and tomatoes.

Had a hypo yesterday afternoon - day started off with fairly high BG but I kind of forgot about food until Libre reminded me that perhaps I should eat something. Brought level up with a bottle of Belgian choc milk shake and a biscuit. Rapidly shot up to 9.5 as a result. The milk shake was probably enough and the biscuit too much. BG wouldn't drop again until this morning when it was 6.6.
 
Hake with courgette and tomatoes sounds lush! Envy! Back from tai chi; lunch (typical Saturday) was bacon, avocado and tomato sandwich, toast on half a demi-baguette (only ate a bit of mine; husband had a coupon for a free one, so a no-brainer, but should perhaps have asked him not to toast it). Also a peach Magnum. Supper will be the usual Saturday sausage and mash with baked beans and (I hope) cabbage and carrots, followed by kefir and figs and honey.

@Annb, sympathies re the hypo! I don't often get them unless I'm stressed, which I certainly was yesterday. At least, unless it was down to the half of lager I had...
 
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Hake with courgette and tomatoes sounds lush! Envy! Back from tai chi; lunch (typical Saturday) was bacon, avocado and tomato sandwich, toast on half a demi-baguette (only ate a bit of mine; husband had a coupon for a free one, so a no-brainer, but should perhaps have asked him not to toast it). Also a peach Magnum. Supper will be the usual Saturday sausage and mash with baked beans and (I hope) cabbage and carrots, followed by kefir and figs and honey.

@Annb, sympathies re the hypo! I don't often get them unless I'm stressed, which I certainly was yesterday. At least, unless it was down to the half of lager I had...
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BG just dropped down to 3.7. Cup of tea and a couple of ginger biscuits should do it. Yes, just checked. 4.2 now. Just about to prep the fish and veg/fruit - whichever they are. Also need to fry off some mushrooms ready for a chicken and mushroom omelette tomorrow morning and some mushroom soup for tomorrow.
 
I've got some mushrooms cooking in the slow cooker, some will go in my crustless quiches and some will be used in chicken and mushroom soup/stew - thanks @Annb for reminding me how much I love that!
 
Annb said:
BG just dropped down to 3.7. Cup of tea and a couple of ginger biscuits should do it. Yes, just checked. 4.2 now. Just about to prep the fish and veg/fruit - whichever they are. Also need to fry off some mushrooms ready for a chicken and mushroom omelette tomorrow morning and some mushroom soup for tomorrow.
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I wonder if that's why you were so sleepy this morning? I know that if I do have a hypo - haven't had one for some weeks, not since complaining to the doctor that I had started getting them, of course! - I can get very sleepy afterwards!
 
jpscloud said:
I've got some mushrooms cooking in the slow cooker, some will go in my crustless quiches and some will be used in chicken and mushroom soup/stew - thanks @Annb for reminding me how much I love that!
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I love mushrooms, but haven't been fancying them so much lately. I think they will have to wait until the weather sends "hearty stew" vibes, rather than light ones!
 
Good morning everyone I've been busy getting ready for, hosting visitors, and catering for a family lunch yesterday for husband's birthday. Actual day is this coming Wednesday but weekends work better for most. All went well and I also managed to distribute some of my tomato glut!
Not sure about meals today - probably some mix of leftovers. I slow cooked a ham and roasted a chicken so remains will probably feature somewhere - although some of the cooked meat travelled back home with youngest son. I'm roasting some tomatoes meanwhile for breakfast.
 
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