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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

DJC3 said:
Hope you have electric blankets? What a rotten day, tomorrow must be better.
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Just mum has the electrical blanket but I’m usually fine once under the duvet - I usually complain Mums bungalow is too hot ! I’m sure it will be fine tomorrow it’s her birthday hope to have lots of visitors bringing their warmth with them and a vip we hope the gas boiler engineer.
Thank you all for your kind wishes. Will update tomorrow
 
The house is very quiet now, just middle daughter and her partner left and they are off tomorrow. I’ll pack them off with a food parcel of twiglets and mince pies that didn’t get eaten.
Smoked salmon scrambled egg and avocado for breakfast. Couple of mugs of coffee&cream.
Lunch was a few lc seedy crackers with pate and a small slice of ham and turkey. Then a bit of the HC yule log - oh my! Definitely not putting that in their food parcel.
Dinner was baked camembert with celery sticks to dip in then a bit if the lc trifle still lurking in the fridge. I need to finish it or chuck it.
 
DJC3 said:
Celeriac rice? Now there’s a thought. I suppose just grating it or blitzing in a food processor would give the desired rice like grains- then what? Stir fry or microwave - how did your packet suggest?
I love the sound of your Christmas biryani.
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Packet said microwave but we cooked it in the curry. Our idea is to try the food processor with the same blade we use for cauliflower rice, One did find find it spiffing in a quaint kind of way as we gormless folk do.
 
DJC3 said:
The house is very quiet now, just middle daughter and her partner left and they are off tomorrow. I’ll pack them off with a food parcel of twiglets and mince pies that didn’t get eaten.
Smoked salmon scrambled egg and avocado for breakfast. Couple of mugs of coffee&cream.
Lunch was a few lc seedy crackers with pate and a small slice of ham and turkey. Then a bit of the HC yule log - oh my! Definitely not putting that in their food parcel.
Dinner was baked camembert with celery sticks to dip in then a bit if the lc trifle still lurking in the fridge. I need to finish it or chuck it.
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DJC3, did you bake your Camembert traditionally or IP it? We have a suitable Camembert in the fridge awaiting it's fate. :)
 
Hello all,

@shelley262 -- What a crazy busy day and on top of this the broken boiler. Tomorrow doesn't sound as if it's going to be any less busy. Hope you all have good nights sleep in spite of all of this.
@Brunneria -- It seems carnivory is the ultimate keto. Well done on the 17 lbs weight loss.

Today ...

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinted espressos with cream and erythritol.

Lunch: Coconut-peanut butter soup with duck breast, celery, bellpepper, and carrots. Half a low-carb flatbread with butter and chicken liver pate. Three squares of 95% chocolate.

Dinner: Some fried mushrooms and a slice of the egg liqueur cake (base made of hazelnuts, chocolate, butter, erythritol, eggs, egg liqueur, and baking powder, covered with whipped cream and some egg liqueur poured on top -- forgot how good it is).
No wine today.
 
@ziggy_w Do you have a recipe for the coconut peanut butter soup, please.
Sort of thing that would be appreciated by the Pipp family.
 
DCUKMod said:
DJC3, did you bake your Camembert traditionally or IP it? We have a suitable Camembert in the fridge awaiting it's fate. :)
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I saw the post about doing it in the IP and was tempted - but it was full of the turkey carcass brewing a tasty stock at the time so the camembert was done in the oven.
Do post your results if you do yours in the IP
 
Evening
Breakfast - 2 crispy bacon, 2 chipolatas and scrambled egg with cheese in - it’s never occurred to me to put cheese in scrambled egg so I’m glad I tried it as I love it!
Lunch - was in a Mexican restaurant so had a steak taco salad - steak, lettuce, onion, tomato salsa salad, hot salsa sauce and rice (I tried to not eat much but a few grains slipped onto my fork) served in a tortilla bowl which I didn’t touch. Had two squares of my green & blacks salted caramel chocolate afterwards.
Dinner - so full from the days meals so just a liquid meal of vodka, lime & soda - my first drink of the holiday- the fan claims zero sugar & zero carbs
 
@shelley262 oh my goodness you are a pillar of calm in the middle of that terrible awful no-good day! May you wake soon to the boiler tech texting “let me in please it’s cold out here!”
All those delicious LC foods out there; I can’t compete...
Bfast ho hum harry, 1/2 avocado, boiled egg, coffee/soy/cream, slice LC bread with butter.
Rush out to return rental car (mine died day after Xmas maybe), son takes us to a 1:00 movies. Stunning and couldn’t hardly breathe in case I missed something. Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old.
Had packed with me for lunch: 3 tall celery, 1/4 large orange sweet pepper, slice bread, large handful almonds. Son got a hot dog and a 20 oz drink that is called “small”. Ha!
Supper I ate as many nuts as it took to read most of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, then some wilted greens in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, roasted garlic powder, and finished with just a little skyr. That was really good! And a chunk of swiss cheese. Sure wish I tolerated sodium, all the cheeses here are driving me crazy!
Snack 3 almonds and some skyr.
There are two servings of grilled salmon left over from dinner out last night. I will have one for breakfast!
Good morning to some of you UKers who are certainly stirring by now (0100 here), I hear you snoring North America! Oh wait. That’s Mr ZF
 
DJC3 said:
I saw the post about doing it in the IP and was tempted - but it was full of the turkey carcass brewing a tasty stock at the time so the camembert was done in the oven.
Do post your results if you do yours in the IP
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Will do. I stripped our turkey crown last night, and froze the chunks of it for curry ( I have some tomato onion masala and some butter chicken sauce already frozen), so have some very easy meals there. I then lobbed the carcas into the cauldron and set it going for stock overnight. I looked into it, just before going up to bed (and restarting it), and MrB commented how good it already smelled - even thought it was only from a crown, with a few bits of seasoning.

It's now cooling and will be dealt with later.

For some joints, I find it fascinating to work out how many meals we've had from it. Undoubtedly, the IP has driven down our food waste to virtually zero. We never had very much before, but I'd not always, or even usually, have made stock. It just seemed a lot of faff. No more. :)
 
DJC3 said:
I saw the post about doing it in the IP and was tempted - but it was full of the turkey carcass brewing a tasty stock at the time so the camembert was done in the oven.
Do post your results if you do yours in the IP
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Just how big is your IP and/or how small was the turkey to make that physically possible? - genuine question. I can't actually visualise that (and yes I know it is only the carcass). Enjoy the stock though.
 
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Pipp said:
@ziggy_w Do you have a recipe for the coconut peanut butter soup, please.
Sort of thing that would be appreciated by the Pipp family.
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Hi @Pipp,

Thanks so much for your interest in the recipe, though tbh it is not really a recipe. Just something I've concocted based on the memory of a soup I had at a Thai restaurant in San Francisco more than 10 years ago.

This is what I put in the soup ...

For the base, use coconut milk, water, chicken broth, and maybe one to two tablespoons of peanut butter. Season with salt, Chinese five-spice, and maybe some erythritol, a bit of red curry paste, ginger or galangal, lemongrass (alternatively kafir lime leaves or a sprinkle of lime juice/oil).

After this, add vegetables left in the fridge and that somehow work with duck and Asian food. For me, this was celery stalks (cut in small pieces of course), bellpepper and a bit of carrot. I would also imagine that eggplant, snow peas, soy bean sprouts, green onions, fresh coriander will work well.

Then fry duck breast, cut in slices, put in an empty bowl and then pour the soup over the duck breast. (Not cooking the duck breast in the soup, keeps it tender.)

Hope you enjoy the soup if you decide to try it.
 
@DCUKMod I am with @ianpspurs in being genuinely curious about the turx and its stock pot. I don’t even know what a “turkey crown” is!
I have a regular stovetop pot that can handle a totally dismembered 12 lb tom carcass, but tending it for all those hours is a pain. The thought of being able to take a pot into a room that can be made cat-proof and letting the pot mind itself is exciting!
 
zauberflote said:
@DCUKMod I am with @ianpspurs in being genuinely curious about the turx and its stock pot. I don’t even know what a “turkey crown” is!
I have a regular stovetop pot that can handle a totally dismembered 12 lb tom carcass, but tending it for all those hours is a pain. The thought of being able to take a pot into a room that can be made cat-proof and letting the pot mind itself is exciting!
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My post was referring/ addressed to @DJC3.
 
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zauberflote said:
@DCUKMod I am with @ianpspurs in being genuinely curious about the turx and its stock pot. I don’t even know what a “turkey crown” is!
I have a regular stovetop pot that can handle a totally dismembered 12 lb tom carcass, but tending it for all those hours is a pain. The thought of being able to take a pot into a room that can be made cat-proof and letting the pot mind itself is exciting!
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Zauberflote, the link below explains what a turkey crown is.

The Instant Pot is a brand of electric pressure cooker, which I and some others favour. In the US more models are available than to us in UK, but this is the US site: https://instantpot.com/products/

In making the stock, the bones and any scraps of the meat go into the pot (it can be crushed to flaten it a bit beforehand, if necessary), with water and seasoning and pressure cooked for a time, to make stock, much more quickly and efficiently than on the stove top of slow cooker/Dutch Oven.

The IP is very safe, with many, many safety features, but the site would explain some of those.
 
zauberflote said:
@DCUKMod I am with @ianpspurs in being genuinely curious about the turx and its stock pot. I don’t even know what a “turkey crown” is!
I have a regular stovetop pot that can handle a totally dismembered 12 lb tom carcass, but tending it for all those hours is a pain. The thought of being able to take a pot into a room that can be made cat-proof and letting the pot mind itself is exciting!
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Ok, so now I am curious... ;) do you really cook up 12lb dismembered tom(cat) carcasses in your stovetop pot? ;)

If so, i don’t know whether to gawp in horrified awe or be rather freaked...
 
Fascinating conversations re food..Liking that IP pot idea...( Mmhhh...new year sales, maybe )

For me i ate little bits on weds, then had this (copied from other of my posts)
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the down side of T2D, is i lost the pasta's/breads/rice i used to enjoy,
but i've embraced this new world of food..(and admittedly i have to WIKI most of what i am eating at the moment..;))
But tonight was MEANT to be Butternut squash spaghetti..(ended up more like mash...but i still liked it)
sainsburys Meatballs in a loyd grossman tom/chilli sauce//(6.9g carbs per 100g)
laid it out on a bed of lettuce, done some onion/tomato type salsa.....same for missus but she had salmon fillet.."

Jolly nice, and BG good, so a keeper.

To make up for yesterday...
breakfast/lunch 1pm..
eggs, bacon, mushrooms, sliced tomato, 2 small pieces of sourdough bread..splash of brown sauce. one cuppa tea.
Delicious and SO like my normal breakfasts from before day zero.
 
Evening !

Breakfast - Hi lo toast and butter
Lunch - Ham, 1/2 mini pork pie, cucumber, tomatoes, olives, cream cheese stuffed mini peppers and full fat sour cream dip. Lc olive cake, raspberries and thick double cream.
Dinner - Lamb and mushroom casserole, carrots and loads of sprouts (yum). Green and Blacks chocolate.
Sacks - tbc!

Taken a leaf out of your book @ianpspurs , and have started to up my exercise although don't think I'll ever get to your level. Third day running I have been for a really long walk at a cracking pace (so I'm out of breath). Hopefully, this won't lead to any further weight loss as I really, really can't stomach any more creamy, cheesy things :hilarious:

Spent rest of day cooking and am very pleased with the lc raspberry brownie cheesecake (think it's from low carb kitchen recipe), which I'm taking to in-laws tomorrow. Ate all cheesecake mixture off spatula to maintain weight:angelic:
 
Breakfast :Tea
Dockey : Morrisons almond milk latte (no food, just 2 litter bins and the only 6 kg kettleball - will go looking for a 2nd)
Lunch: Dog walk - really want a Turkey sandwich but no suitable bread - 1 of 5 things I need in my life from time to time that LC does not do
Afternoon: Tea - piece of cheese which purports to be cave aged - more like soap on a rope
Evening meal: Turkey and avocados salad with lashings of chia seeds and water; most full I have been for at least a week
@Tori71 Great news re exercise. I am definitely not exercising anywhere near where I want to be. The days when I could exercise at a good intensity for hours on end and play team sports 3 or 4 times week are long gone - hole in my life nothing can fill. The key, I think, is just do the best you can and by the sounds of it that is exactly what you are doing. I feel your pain with the creamy cheesy vibe - but cheesecake sounds amazing.
 
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