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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Brunneria said:
Yes.
And Kombucha,
And herb teas.
But you need to make sure the kefir bugglets have enough food, so some of them require the addition of sugar, and they get weaker without milk, so you either have to replace them regularly, of feed them milk every now and then.
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That's the bit that I was missing; whether they could hack it without the ose, as in lactose. Thanks!
 
DJC3 said:
Oh no! Didn’t know about them. I’m taking long sleeves and thick socks so all over protection ( which pretty much guarantees we’ll have a heatwave)
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Oooooh,.................... You need the trade marked, patent pending F&M Anti-Mosi all natural (usually) potion.

In a 100ml spray bottle, c10ml citronella oil, c10ml tea tree oil, c10ml polysorbate 20 (optional emulsifier), and top up with water.

Shake well before use and spray on exposed areas.

If there's any broken skin, a small amount of Dettol or Savlon can be added to help the tea tree oil's antiseptic efforts.

In this hacienda, neither of us like non-natural things on our skin, and especially near our faces. Over time, in the heat, we found the foregoing works.

I react very extremely to mosi bites, so I am a bit neurotic about it all.
 
How can I have been so sad as to have CMT'd the coconut milk kefir "recipe". Hey ho.
 
DCUKMod said:
Oooooh,.................... You need the trade marked, patent pending F&M Anti-Mosi all natural (usually) potion.

In a 100ml spray bottle, c10ml citronella oil, c10ml tea tree oil, c10ml polysorbate 20 (optional emulsifier), and top up with water.

Shake well before use and spray on exposed areas.

If there's any broken skin, a small amount of Dettol or Savlon can be added to help the tea tree oil's antiseptic efforts.

In this hacienda, neither of us like non-natural things on our skin, and especially near our faces. Over time, in the heat, we found the foregoing works.

I react very extremely to mosi bites, so I am a bit neurotic about it all.
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Our midgies are made of sterner stuff! They're wee, very wee and travel in swarms. Nothing repels the little blighters.
 
@shelley262 hugs for your stressful day I hope the medicinal merlot helps.
@Tippetoo no no no! Have a care for us poor weedy arachnophobes. @Goonergal is right. Having said that, and in the spirit of the thread title, my daughter who is also scared of spiders, has eaten roast tarantula on her travels to some far flung places. Can’t imagine why.
Anyway, I Haven’t scrolled back any further cos I don’t want to see that photo again.
Today I drove up from Cornwall to London, breakfast before I set off was avocado and scrambled egg and coffee with barely a teaspoon of cream - all that was left in the pot.
Stopped at a Motorway Costa for coffee and cream ( double discount as I took my own cup, plus AA membership card gives extra discount, makes motorway coffee almost affordable) Bought a packed lunch with me - a flaxseed bun with Brie.
Dinner with the girls ( no 2 daughter and her partner) DD pesto chicken with feta and olives. Served with green beans. A bit of Montezuma’s afterwards.
 
maglil55 said:
Our midgies are made of sterner stuff! They're wee, very wee and travel in swarms. Nothing repels the little blighters.
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Being a thoroughbred Scottish person, I know those little blighters all too well.

That potion has been tried and tested on many gold courses in that there frozen north. :)
 
shelley262 said:
My two glasses have done me loads of good! Being lCHF means I don’t need as much to have desired effect! Pleased you had safe journey and look forward to phc conference and catching up.
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Glad it’s worked - I agree lchf does change one’s tolerance. A couple of glasses nowadays is more than enough. Mr C says its taken 37 years but I’m finally a cheap date!
 
Bed 7.3 FBG 6.9 - less of a DP surge too. A busy morning. Got the boys to school then up to the garage with my car. Bus was a strange experience going back. Lady sitting next to me was getting off so I stood up, held on as bus still moving when this woman in the wheelchair seat started pushing this square shopping trolley forward, banging me on the legs while screaming and shouting "You all just wait, I can't get up until the bus stops, I'm getting off". No one could move for this blessed trolley and it was pointed out to her if she couldn't stand until the bus stopped move the trolley back and let everyone else move (and stop banging my legs). Cue more screams "it's a mobility aid, you're disrespecting me.." . No dear, said another passenger, it's a shopping trolley. Now move it and stop banging this lady's legs since she IS disabled. Strange.
B. TAG with ADOC.
L. After my strange bus journey a few mozzarella pearls, few prawn cocktail, 4 Honduran prawns, lettuce and 1/2 small avocado.
D. Was really hungry. Had to deposit boys on same bus as Dad then go get a bus going other way to get car. It's pouring and cold and it's a fair walk at the other end. Back home (with car) I had that M&S sausage thing again. Called a Texas Slammer? Veggie chips andc2 mushrooms. Also had a posh dog. Very last of the Grahams goodness ice cream, raspberries and a few HC 100% buttons I discovered in the fridge.
Done eating now.
 
@Tipetoo that's the right size, yep! I have a pic from the other day to calm arachnophobes
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The almond pound cake from last weekend that I inadvertently overcooked, but it didn't make any difference in the long run. It was very good indeed.
 
DCUKMod said:
Being a thoroughbred Scottish person, I know those little blighters all too well.

That potion has been tried and tested on many gold courses in that there frozen north. :)
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Perhaps you should return and spray another wee annoying blighter in Holyrood if it repels them. No wait, there's more than a few. We'd need a tanker.
 
maglil55 said:
Perhaps you should return and spray another wee annoying blighter in Holyrood if it repels them. No wait, there's more than a few. We'd need a tanker.
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Oh, when one, other or both of us was spending lots of time in the Tropics, we were buying citronella oil by the litre.
 
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DCUKMod said:
Oooooh,.................... You need the trade marked, patent pending F&M Anti-Mosi all natural (usually) potion.

In a 100ml spray bottle, c10ml citronella oil, c10ml tea tree oil, c10ml polysorbate 20 (optional emulsifier), and top up with water.

Shake well before use and spray on exposed areas.

If there's any broken skin, a small amount of Dettol or Savlon can be added to help the tea tree oil's antiseptic efforts.

In this hacienda, neither of us like non-natural things on our skin, and especially near our faces. Over time, in the heat, we found the foregoing works.

I react very extremely to mosi bites, so I am a bit neurotic about it all.
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Thanks very much for this recipe - I shall try it. Where do you get the polysorbate 20?
 
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