What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

ianpspurs said:

Interesting conversation around same meals for all. For at least 25 years due to Julie's IBS and our work we have often neither eaten together nor the same food. One or other would eat with the boys Only real exception was "set piece" meals and even then our preferences for type of meat or fish and how much or little it was cooked were widely different. In retirement I will rise up to 4 hrs earlier and want to go to sleep much earlier so when we want to eat is not usually in sync. In that respect OMAD/IF has been a blessing. On track a little I have only had tea today but Julie finds breakfast - 4 hrs+ after I was up - essential to avoiding problems.

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ianpspurs said:

You were doing so well until you triggered my special alarm. Describing food as amazing, delicious, divine, yum etc always makes me think folk are trying too hard. They look good and you are clearly an accomplished baker. Usain Bolt was a good sprinter.

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zauberflote said:

We've done the same thing for nearly 40 years-- breakfast and lunch are what we like (and I have NEVER liked a bowl of cereal and nothing else for breakfast!), lunch MrZF packs for work and I'm on my own whether or not working. Eons ago he'd be home in time for the early supper required for me going (for the second or even third time that day) to evening work. Once he rose in the ranks some, he was on a later schedule. During kid years, I'd feed them supper and run out the door to work as he pulled in the driveway. Then there were the commuting years. Now he swims very late 3 nights a week and works moderately late the other two and Saturday. Small business owner now, it's all on him and partner. For many decades, "Sunday lunch at Granny's" was the only guaranteed together meal. Once Granny was gone, Mr&MrsYoungZF#1 have taken over Sundays. It was very important to them for many many years. Here's to generational family tradition!

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DJC3 said:

Now however they are the ones insisting on a ‘proper’ Sunday lunch, and they are all getting pretty good at cooking it too!

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DJC3 said:

I agree completely with the Sunday Lunch tradition. We’ve always had a sit down meal together then, first at my mum’s then I took over. When the girls were in their difficult, rebellious teenage years they often tried to get out of it, and would sometimes sit stony faced through the whole thing because I’d insisted they attend and not go to the cinema or whatever with friends. Now however they are the ones insisting on a ‘proper’ Sunday lunch, and they are all getting pretty good at cooking it too!

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Viv19 said:

No 3 was born when her sisters were nearly 12 and 9, so they were all at completely different stages. I fed healthy square meals during the week, and we all had a brunch at weekends. Other food was offered during the day but I’ve never been a fan of roast beef etc, so weekend main meals tended to be more flexible. Someone was always sleeping over with a friend or going out to ..... etc etc. Extra children came and went. Brunch meant that I expected faces at the table at 10, which gave the teenagers long enough to sleep longer but had them out of bed to join the world at a reasonable hour. And it meant that they didn’t pick at the fridge and eat rubbish throughout the day, and I knew that they had at least started off right. And they were allowed to be in their pjs.
My parents would have normally been shocked to consider breakfast at 10, but for us it worked well. And when they visited us in whichever place we were living, they had no problem fitting in.
In Australia, it was brilliant. We had a very private patio, so the gas bbq with the picnic bench alongside was perfect for eggs, bacon, sausages, toms, mushrooms etc etc. and the weather was good.

️I loved that country.

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Chook said:

I love the idea of a big cooked breakfast being done on a BBQ. It must have been a difficult decision to leave somewhere you enjoyed living so much.

I often get people ask me why I chose to move away from London where I lived for a lot of years but I wasn't happy there so it wasn't a difficult decision.

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Chook said:

That's the same reason I moved away from the south east but luckily I've never regretted it. My family are spread all over the World now. Thank goodness for email, Facebook and Skype!!

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PenguinMum said:

@Brunneria I went back to Waitrose for more of the lovely cheese with oregano. Turns out its not goats cheese as I thought but ewes milk cheese. Dont know if you can tolerate that or not. I am very taken with it.

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Chook said:

My daughter lives abroad in a much hotter climate but still loves her traditional family Sunday roast. Her husband's family (it's his country she lives in) thinks she's nuts and they are probably right. She's 40 now and I still get emails from her asking how to cook various things - I think she takes after my late Mother (the World's worst ever cook) in her cooking skills. My Mum could burn water.

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Viv19 said:

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In Australia, it was brilliant. We had a very private patio, so the gas bbq with the picnic bench alongside was perfect for eggs, bacon, sausages, toms, mushrooms etc etc. and the weather was good.

️I loved that country.

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