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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)


All I know is I wash my hands way less these days than I did when I was a nurse working on an infectious diseases unit!
 
26-06-19
Breakfast: two teas, nut granola with milk as usual.not really hungry so out into the garden.
coffee with cream
finished topping the orchard, very hot work.
Lunch: Salad, ham, 2x hardboiled eggs, macedoine vegetable salad. water, cup of tea
several sugar free squash in the afternoon.
too hot to go outside Good Thing MrS is working on the kitchen now, installing wires and pipes and walls.
pottered about in the house finding small tasks to do.
Later pulled up some weeds in the shade! Put in a few seeds. Resolved to buy mole trap.
Dinner: 2x chicken sausage, (not brilliant wont buy those again) small piece of baguette, fried onions, green salad, stuffed vine leaves, (only one- stuffing is rice) grilled artichokes ( nearly choked on the excessive garlic) rest are headed for the bin. Vegetable crudities with red pepper hommous. Couple of glasses of wine, several water as well. Then raspberries and cream with icecream, dark chocolate heaven. Forgot to test before meal, bit late now.
Cup of coffee, we are running low on teabags - they need to last a month. Can hear you asking dont they sell tbags in France? Well. Yes, ofc they do - individually wrapped bags of weak tea at inflated prices.
 
How often do I wash hands at the kitchen sink? Sometimes four or five times during the preparation of one meal. This is without the convenience of running water. @mrs need kitchen sink installed ASAP
 
Bit of a rubbish day food wise. Breakfast was one of the worst meals I’ve had in ages - almond butter omelette with Greek yog and raspberries ( those were nice) the recipe came from the Pioppi diet book and looked nice - was supposed to be more like a pancake than omelette and the vanilla and cinnamon made it smell lovely, but it tasted like wet cardboard. Threw most of it away. A wicked waste my mum would say.
L: quick, safe favourite of tinned mackerel and salad. Sf jelly and cream.
D: has been, out of desperation a bit of chorizo, olives and a Babybell. My kitchen has been taken over by the girls who are making a fancy cake for someone’s retirement do. The kitchen is a cloud of icing sugar, such a mess, I’m keeping out til it’s clean.
@Chook glad to hear your throat’s getting s bit better, hope it’s better still by tomorrow.
@Brunneria I also wash my hands at the kitchen sink countless times a day, but I do use the soap and towel I put out for the purpose. Mr C however insists on using the Fairy liquid and then the tea towel to dry his hands. It’s been driving me mad for nearly 40 years!
 
Lunch yesterday: Panam soup at the bowls club, several low carb beers.
Dinner: Mutton chops, veggies, gravy.
Breakfast: Cheese and mushroom omelette, bacon, tomatoes, reheated spudlite.

Drinks: Black coffee no sugar / sweeteners, beer, water.
 

Never counted. Several times during cooking or baking, especially if handling meat or fish, then every time I check my BS (about 8 times a day), plus odd times when my hands feel very "something" - not exactly dry but something like it, just as though they haven't been washed in a while. "Nutty," I hear someone saying but I think it is because my late husband so hated sticky fingers on the children, that I got into the habit of washing their hands and my own - frequently. And that's without gardening or dogs to look after but if my grand daughter's huge mutt comes near, it gets a bit obsessive.
 
ianpspurs said:
So where did @DJC3 come from lady? To keep on thread title - 3 strawberries and 1/2 mushroom in lots of garlic. Not quite a fast - unrelated to my T2 - Friday and Saturday may do better. (Ember Days)
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Exactly my point! DJC3 is the name I use for the forum only
Will you be fasting until Sunday then, I know you’ve mentioned Ember day before but hadn’t twigged that you did complete fasting.
 
DJC3 said:
Exactly my point! DJC3 is the name I use for the forum only
Will you be fasting until Sunday then, I know you’ve mentioned Ember day before but hadn’t twigged that you did complete fasting.
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Today, Thursday, is an eating day. Contemporary custom does not stipulate total fast but I decided to combine T2 management with religious fasting 4 times a year.
 
Yesterday looked like this.
Breakfast: usual slice HiLo toast, butter, tea.
Mid morning tea and 2 squares Lindt 90 when I got back from my eye injection.
Lunch: mushroom soup, though not cold outside I felt very cold.
Supper: 3 egg omelette with fried mushrooms and spinach.
LoCal jelly. 1 G&ST.
 
ianpspurs said:
Today, Thursday, is an eating day. Contemporary custom does not stipulate total fast but I decided to combine T2 management with religious fasting 4 times a year.
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I like the idea of combining them - gives more focus, and 4 times a year is not too onerous I wouldn’t have thought. Hope it goes well.
 
DJC3 said:
I like the idea of combining them - gives more focus, and 4 times a year is not too onerous I wouldn’t have thought. Hope it goes well.
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Thanks. They fall nicely for me. March, June, September, December. March was good and yesterday went well - I reckon 3 strawberries and some pieces of mushroom was not too bad. Lots of tea works for me. The focus is very helpful.
ETA:Yesterday went very, very well indeed
 
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Catch up time again! @Brunneria - I wash my hands in the kitchen sink loads of times a day. If I'm switching from handling raw meat (especially chicken) or fish I'm really fussy about it. I have an antibacterial soap dispenser at the side of the sink. @Viv19 - I'll be hitting M&S for my travels in July. Transpennine don't carry anything I can eat so I'll get my stock of little M&S pots and rollitos in Waverley Station. I much prefer Virgin & LNER as their breakfasts are carb friendly but Transpennine dont do breakfast. @Chook so glad you're improving. Anyway -
Monday
Bed 5.1 FBG 6.6.
B. Usual TAG with ADOC. No time for anything else as I got into the early Aqua class so it was school run (last week!), bag ready and Aqua.
L. Back from Aqua decided to do a little cooking especially since I had skinny bread. Cut a slice, halved and toasted it, made some hollandaise, put ham and a little mustard on the toast, poached 2 eggs, popped on ham, topped with hollandaise, sprinkle of parsley and voila! Very enjoyable egg Benedict of sorts.
D. More beef stroganoff with veggie chips followed by a creme brulee with berries. No alcohol today.

@shelley262 - glad the covering worked for you. I'm fine in the spa (arm out like you) but the steam room would make me nervous.
 
Another quick catch up before I head off to gym/aqua zumba.

Tuesday

Bed 7 FBG 6.6

B. TAG with ADOC.
L. Was out with SIL who has an amazing eye for bargains in charity shops! Weather is so changeable she wanted a slightly warmer rain jacket. She got a designer one for £5. She also got a fascinator to match her dress for the wedding for £5 and a beaded shoulder stole for £2.95! After we had bunless burger with cheese, mushrooms and salad, a few sweet potato chips and a diet coke. Another americano with cream.
D. Repeated yesterday's adapted eggs Benedict and had the last remaining creme brulee with berries.

@DJC3 - nylon sheets were bad enough but nylon pjs and nylon sheets what a static fest!
 
Good morning all!

Lovely day here - I might actually get to sit out in the garden this afternoon.

Breakfast: Bacon and eggs

Lunch: bit of cheese might have a square or two of chocolate (while doing a stock count of my four freezers this morning I found seventeen bars of G&B or Lindt chocolate with another four being delivered today )

Dinner: marinated lamb rump steak and griddled aubergine with feta and salad leaves

Dessert: s/f jelly

Drinks: the usual black decaff and lots of water
 
@Chook
That sounds like a dangerous amount of chocolate.
If you are at all concerned, please feel free to send some of the bars in my direction.
I will take very good care of them.

Wouldn't want you to be stressed or concerned in your current delicate state of health, and am willing to share the load.
 
Menu sounds delightful. Hope the sore throat is easing. To save posts, has anyone made their own LC tomato ketchup? Plenty of recipes but I don't fancy 100s of failures. I can't lie about my tastes. I really, really like red did dip and some LC foods definitely need it for me. Sod gourmet, I will settle for enjoy but as wholesome as possible. (Prompted by the fact I am just about to eat an omelette - without Tommy K it is like Hamlet without the prince
 
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Thank you for the kind offer of chocolatey assistance.

i think some of them date back to last Christmas or even before. I just put them in a random freezer when they get delivered. I'm not a great chocolate fan (never have been) but I read here about everyone else enjoying it and think I ought to give it another try.... then there's the buy two for £3 offers.... and the 'reminders' from Asda when checking out that I might have forgotten it... and making choc truffles when I can be bothered (bought choc to make some for Easter and forgot.)
 
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