Talking of hazelnuts, this recipe popped up on Instagram today......Pecans and Brazil nuts for me.
I recently bought a big bag of hazel nuts after reading about their health giving properties and now I can't remember what the health giving properties were. Probably something to do with memory.
Pecans and Brazil nuts for me.
I recently bought a big bag of hazel nuts after reading about their health giving properties and now I can't remember what the health giving properties were. Probably something to do with memory.
When shopping last night I stumbled into a hotel chocolat and came home with a selection of flavoured dark chocolate delights. Know I can only eat one at a time but very excited at the prospect - never been in that shop before. I may well now be making monthly visitsThe Hotel Chocolat hazelnuts in 80% chocolate doubtless have even more health giving properties
Absolutely!The Hotel Chocolat hazelnuts in 80% chocolate doubtless have even more health giving properties
I like the friendly enquiry but can't abide the phrase hit the spot@Goonergal The chicken wings sound lovely.
@Emma_369 You won't look back now you've discovered HC! We treated ourself to lots of goodies from there for Christmas to replace all our old traditional high carb treats. The nutty Yule log is long gone now, but we still have a small amount of stash left. It will soon be time to restock supplies!
@ianpspurs I'm glad to hear both meals hit the spot today. How was the flax and hemp flour bread?
I bought Brazil nuts last night. Great.
Feeling for you. Has he had his bp checked recently? I started going very faint and dizzy about 18 months ago after losing weight rapidly and lowering bgs and when bps checked after my faint and dizzy spells they were really low. When started on meds I was about 180/79 now - with no meds at all often around 115/69 or lower - it can crash as you change. I’m not diagnosing just wondering?Well, I was thrown a slight curve ball for today. Mr B decided to have a funny turn and faint in the bathroom at 3.30am. It was scary for both of us and the poor lad didn't feel up to getting back to bed until 5.30. So, I just sat with on the bathroom floor until he felt well enough.My alarm for work goes off at 6.15am! Thankfully, my boss is pretty understanding about these things. So, half a day of leave (to catch up on sleep) and half a day working from home. And poor Mr B feeling a bit sorry for himself. We're pretty sure this incident is BP related, as he has had the odd issue since starting on Ramipril back in June. Any sign of a repeat performance and he'll be packed off to the GP pronto.
Breakfast (very late): Strawberry & Lime Chia pudding. Coffee & cream
Mid morning: Almond milk cappuccino. Mr B had a pecan cookie.
Lunch: Mr B had grilled spiced chicken with fennel, avocado, cucumber and chilli salad with lime dressing. I wasn't that hungry, so I had a few nuts and a baby Bell.
Snacks: Mr B had a few nuts.
Dinner: Fathead pizza with thinly sliced asparagus, green olives prosciutto. Served with green salad. Cocoa with almond milk and cream.
The Fathead pizza was amazing and really hit the spot after all the stress of the early hours! Not quite sure how I managed to restrain myself and only had a quarter!
Hi all
Concocted a new recipe last night which has turned out to be very successful.
Lunch - out with colleagues at Honest Burger. Bunless burger with bacon, cheese and mayonnaise with a (very) small portion of rocket and a little raw onion.
Late afternoon snack - one of those mini Sainsbury’s 85% chocolate bars donated by a colleague.
Dinner - chicken wings which had been marinated overnight in melted butter, lime juice and zest, chopped garlic and pink Himalayan salt. Cooked in the marinade and then finished off with a light drizzle of Hotel Chocolat chilli and cocoa finishing oil (a birthday present which waited until the end of Carnivore month for its first outing). Really tasty meal and will keep some of the butter marinade to melt on top of tomorrow night’s steak.
Just finishing off with 2 Hotel Chocolat 100% batons - another birthday pressie which the giver suggested I didn’t open until February. Had hidden away so successfully I just had to hunt for the package!
Off to Pilates now.
Well, I was thrown a slight curve ball for today. Mr B decided to have a funny turn and faint in the bathroom at 3.30am. It was scary for both of us and the poor lad didn't feel up to getting back to bed until 5.30. So, I just sat with on the bathroom floor until he felt well enough.My alarm for work goes off at 6.15am! Thankfully, my boss is pretty understanding about these things. So, half a day of leave (to catch up on sleep) and half a day working from home. And poor Mr B feeling a bit sorry for himself. We're pretty sure this incident is BP related, as he has had the odd issue since starting on Ramipril back in June. Any sign of a repeat performance and he'll be packed off to the GP pronto.
Breakfast (very late): Strawberry & Lime Chia pudding. Coffee & cream
Mid morning: Almond milk cappuccino. Mr B had a pecan cookie.
Lunch: Mr B had grilled spiced chicken with fennel, avocado, cucumber and chilli salad with lime dressing. I wasn't that hungry, so I had a few nuts and a baby Bell.
Snacks: Mr B had a few nuts.
Dinner: Fathead pizza with thinly sliced asparagus, green olives prosciutto. Served with green salad. Cocoa with almond milk and cream.
The Fathead pizza was amazing and really hit the spot after all the stress of the early hours! Not quite sure how I managed to restrain myself and only had a quarter!
I like it that you know what you like and you're not afraid to say it! You do realise I'm going to have to restrain myself from saying "hit the spot" at any given opportunity now!I like the friendly enquiry but can't abide the phrase hit the spotThe bread was a bit meh as bread(almost 8 month trial to make the centre of a flaxseed loaf cook) but will be fine as crispbread/croutons but thanks for asking. Honestly, I'm not grumpy just know what I like and maybe like what I know too much.
You are right, we do need to check. The problem is that he has serious white coat syndrome. We even have issues monitoring at home. We had an incident a few months ago at the eye hospital when they checked and it was through the roof due to anxiety. Ever since, he's had an aversion to checking.Feeling for you. Has he had his bp checked recently? I started going very faint and dizzy about 18 months ago after losing weight rapidly and lowering bgs and when bps checked after my faint and dizzy spells they were really low. When started on meds I was about 180/79 now - with no meds at all often around 115/69 or lower - it can crash as you change. I’m not diagnosing just wondering?
We do need to revisit his BP and meds. It's just all a bit tricky and very wrapped up with his anxiety issues.Did you manage to take his BP while he was on the bathroom floor? i ask this because while back I had my husband faint in the kitchen - it turned out that some meds he was on had lowered his BP to dangerous levels.
It was only after the kitchen episode that he told me that a few days before he had fainted while out walking the dogs. Scared the wits out of me because we live in a village on the edge of a big expanse of moorland and he walks the dogs on the moor - you can walk for hours there without seeing anyone.. After some stern 'prompting' from me he went back to the doctor's and had a meds review and they took him off some beta blockers and another medication was reduced and (touch wood) he hasn't had another episode since.
I know they say we are nagging when we insist they go to the doctor's but I consider it just being cautious.
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