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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

maglil55 said:
I find making it with Sainsbury's full fat coconut milk gives you such a solid Chia pudding that any flavouring doesn't make it runny. I use 3,5 tablespoons Chia to 1 can coconut milk. I've tried other brands but Sainsburys full fat (own brand) is the only one that produces the solid Chia. I stock up with cans any time I'm in as they have a bad habit with deliveries of sending the low fat one and it doesn't work.
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Ooh Ive just looked in my cupboard and lo and behold - a can of Sainsbos full fat coconut milk so a bowl of chia pud is now ‘cooking’ in the fridge. You’re right, it is quite solid even from the tin.

I’ve pretty much given up with the low carb pastry. I used a packet for yesterday’s dinner, and as I wasn’t going to eat it anyway I figured that was fair enough, noone else minded. I did decorate the top with pastry leaves etc though.
 
maglil55 said:
I find making it with Sainsbury's full fat coconut milk gives you such a solid Chia pudding that any flavouring doesn't make it runny. I use 3,5 tablespoons Chia to 1 can coconut milk. I've tried other brands but Sainsburys full fat (own brand) is the only one that produces the solid Chia. I stock up with cans any time I'm in as they have a bad habit with deliveries of sending the low fat one and it doesn't work.
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I make mine with four teaspoons of chia seeds and a 65ml Benecol drink, this makes an individual portion. I either use the flavoured ones or the plain ones with orange or lemon extract. Coffee will now be another flavour in my repertoire! I’ve made one this afternoon for tomorrow. But I’ll bear coconut milk in mind thanks.
 
Chook said:
@maglil55 It's a fruit tea - Asda has got a range of weird but nice ones... rhubarb and custard, chocolate orange, apple pie and custard, lemon meringue. I've tried them all - threw away the chocolate orange variety as really disgusting. The lemon meringue is my favourite at the moment - how they get the meringue flavour in it without adding sugar is a mystery....

The Sainsbury cocoa and coconut one I'm having today is quite nice - like a weak bounty bar flavour.
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The Sains cocoa and coconut one is my favourite at the moment.
 
Tori71 said:
Not allowed in Lakeland as I try to buy the entire shop;)
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It’s amazing how many things they stock that you had no idea you needed.

Chook said:
I've found I am rubbish at having tiny amounts of things that I love and find it easier to just not eat them at all. :(:sour:
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Snap! Wish I could be like @Rachox with her 1 Jaffa cake.

Tori71 said:
Apparently, there is now something called Veganuary
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Seems to have caught on in my office. This week they organised a food day where people bring and share things at lunch time. The email that came round said: ‘since it’s January the theme is vegetarian ‘. I replied to say ‘but it’s world carnivore month’. Didn’t seem to go down too well.

Getting back on topic, today was an unplanned OMAD day. Lunch was taken to work but it was suddenly time to leave for an x-ray appointment so it will have the be eaten tomorrow.

Dinner was a large ribeye steak with garlic butter, 1 fried egg and 2 rashers of streaky bacon followed by 45g extra thick Jersey cream.
 
Todays food:
Breakfast: 1 slice HiLo toast thick butter, 2 mugs tea.
Lunch: Homemade cauliflower soup with double cream (James Martin recipe on BBC Good Food).
Mid afternoon: cheese scone buttered, tea.
Supper: Spinach omlette.

I like the sound of the Tom Kerridge recipe for curried lamb shanks!
 
Charis1213 said:
what's this lodough and do you have to make it , if so what's the recipe please ? :)
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@Rachox has given you the link - I've used them quite a few times as it makes pizza making very easy and it is quite an acceptable pizza. The other thing I've used it for is what I dubbed the 'pretendy McDonald's breakfast wrap'. It's a lo dough with a smear of no sugar ketchup, I make a thin omelette with some parsley in it and put that on the lo dough, add a couple of rashers crispy streaky bacon, sprinkle grated cheese on top , roll into a wrap , secure with a wooden skewer and then I grill it in the George to melt the cheese.
I had one this morning since I still had another lo dough to use. It's not to everyone's taste but I don't mind it.
 
Breakfast: Hi lo toast and butter
Lunch: Olives, cheese stuffed peppers, cucumber, tomatoes,slimy(!).. Clafoutis and small bit of Judes flat white ice cream.
Dinner: Roast chicken, sprouts, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower cheese, gravy.
Snacks: Mosser Roth 85% chocolate, salt and vinegar peanuts

Interestingly, I'm finding the Clafoutis a bit sweet even though the Erythritol I use is only supposed to be 70% as sweet as sugar. Taking this as a good sign my taste buds are re adjusting.

Today's baking/ cooking included oven omelettes which freeze brilliantly.
 
Goonergal said:
Seems to have caught on in my office. This week they organised a food day where people bring and share things at lunch time. The email that came round said: ‘since it’s January the theme is vegetarian ‘. I replied to say ‘but it’s world carnivore month’. Didn’t seem to go down too well.

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Haha well done!

When will you get the Xray results?
 
Goonergal said:
Seems to have caught on in my office. This week they organised a food day where people bring and share things at lunch time. The email that came round said: ‘since it’s January the theme is vegetarian ‘. I replied to say ‘but it’s world carnivore month’. Didn’t seem to go down too well.
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It's always good to buck the trend @Goonergal . Think how smug you'll be when low carb eating becomes the way forward.

I used to work with someone who gave vegetarians a bad name, and didn't eat any vegetables or salad! To be fair she ate quite a lot of cheese and cream as we do on this site. Maybe she should be called a Dairytarian?? No idea how she didn't have rickets or scurvy;)
 
Woke up too late for breakfast having listened to one of the Headspace sleepcasts last night - slept like a baby. Didn’t even hear daughter’s partner fall downstairs as she slipped while rushing to get ready for work, felt a bit guilty about that but just proves how deep my sleep was.

Coffee and cream with friend in Costa mid morning.

Lunch was cheese ham and mushroom omelette with salad

Dinner was DD chicken pesto feta and olive bake thing.
 
Evenin’ All

Yesterday
B: none
L: goatsmilk yog with a spoon of peanut butter
D: lamb mince stir fried with mint and onion

Today
B: 2 fried eggs in butter
L: quite a lot of prawns in mayo, with chilli
D: pigs liver, stir fried in garlic butter and a splash of red wine, with parmesan on top. Taste overload. :D

The xmas choc intake continues in neatly rationed quantities after main meals.
 
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