What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast today was more cottage cheese and strawberries with a couple of mugs of tea (and pills) - first cup to enjoy, second to take my pills with.
Lunch (shortly) will be black pudding and egg with tomato (it was reasonably successful last time I had it)
Dinner will be a piece of steak with mushrooms, onions and some kind of salad - preferably without the lettuce element. I really don't like lettuce - not even with butter or mayo spread on it. I did try putting it in pea soup and grilling it after seeing some cookery programme, but I still didn't like it.

DCUKMod said:

Blimey - I can't imagine how long it's take to dehydrate whole meals.

It's great for things like gluts of chi;;ies from a chilli plant or the like, and it is good for fruit etc., but of course "we" don't do quite the variety of fruit many others might.

Now I'm sitting here thinkingit's be fin to try dehydrating some rhubarb, as it's fast coming to the end of the season. In fact, I have finished harvesting our own.

I bet raspberries (and strawbs too probably) would dehydrate well, then grind into powder, which could be nice sprinkled on some cream or yoghurt as a bit of a tart accent, and/or some colour.

Fair warning; there may be alchemy afoot in this hacienda later.

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I once bought dried raspberries for a meringue dessert I wanted to make. The flavour was quite concentrated. Lovely.
I think the whole dehydrated meal idea is rather kept to things like bolognaise sauce and meat/veg stew. Simple to rehydrate and eat with rice/pasta.

I didn’t have time yesterday to write.
Yesterday’s food
Tea
Breakfast scrambled eggs with lc roll toasted. Some Camembert and a smidgen of hm jam. Cwc
Lunch yoghurt and berries
Dinner one chicken kebab from bbq and one halloumi kebab with onion and paprika. Tomato/mozzarella salad.
Yoghurt and berries- while everyone else had olive oil chocolate cake, brownies, whipped cream, the mixed berries and ice cream. Some quantities of Prosecco, red wine and water.
This morning was toasted roll plus cheese. Cwc
Lunch yoghurt and berries, nuts, cheese cubes.
Lots of tea in between.
Dinner will be an omelette with mushrooms and cheese. Definitely no wine.

Evening all.

Oh my, I’m in love with the air fryer after just two meals. Just eaten the most delicious chicken wings with halloumi fries. Wings were marinated in butter, garlic and lime. Drizzled the finished product with Hotel Chocolat cocoa and chilli finishing oil. Halloumi added part way through cooking - just managed to squeeze a few in. Going to need that trivet @DCUKMod

Lunch was 3 leftover lamb ribs from last night. Delicious cold too.

I had Alpro coconut yogurt with a couple of strawberries and blueberries, did my walking football in the morning at 11.30 straight after session had scrambled egg with cheese. At 15.30 sirloin steak, asparagus, mushrooms, tomatoes.
Checked bloods 2 hrs later 5.0

pixie1 said:

I had Alpro coconut yogurt with a couple of strawberries and blueberries, did my walking football in the morning at 11.30 straight after session had scrambled egg with cheese. At 15.30 sirloin steak, asparagus, mushrooms, tomatoes.
Checked bloods 2 hrs later 5.0

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@pixie1 where do you play walking football? I also play - at the Arsenal hub. My avatar is a pic taken at the ‘old girls’ World Cup in France in June.

An interesting day and I also had some different food - very much linked. Tea early on then doctor. Morrisons builder's breakfast suitably pimped (2 poached eggs, bacon, tomatoes and mushrooms) around 11.30 (1 bite of sausage revealed whatever else it had been it was never a sausage) with 2 coffees with our own cream. Lunch was comte then Fage 5% with 10 cal jelly. Evening meal was whitebait on bed of leaves and flowers, 3 slices of skinny bread and butter plus some tartare sauce. Lots of water. We have used the dehydrator for raspberries to go in CCBs, chorizo crisps (better in microwave or just ignored) and kale crisps but it tends to be an objet d'art lately.

Goonergal said:

@pixie1 where do you play walking football? I also play - at the Arsenal hub. My avatar is a pic taken at the ‘old girls’ World Cup in France in June.

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I started out playing walking football at Tranmere Rovers hub, ladies session, its very much mixed ability, I still go there from time to time. Now I play more at the Soccerdome in Seacombe, I thoroughly enjoy, its mainly men, ladies are welcome. Many of the men have played in leagues in their younger days, which Is great as I have a great workout.
I've attended tournaments in Northwich which I was the only female playing, to me its a level playing field. Thankfully I had someone who fought my corner to allow me to play, who attended the meetings for the walking football.

How did you get involved with "old girls" world cup. Sounds exiting and up my street.

pixie1 said:

I started out playing walking football at Tranmere Rovers hub, ladies session, its very much mixed ability, I still go there from time to time. Now I play more at the Soccerdome in Seacombe, I thoroughly enjoy, its mainly men, ladies are welcome. Many of the men have played in leagues in their younger days, which Is great as I have a great workout.
I've attended tournaments in Northwich which I was the only female playing, to me its a level playing field. Thankfully I had someone who fought my corner to allow me to play, who attended the meetings for the walking football.

How did you get involved with "old girls" world cup. Sounds exiting and up my street.

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I’ve PMed you.

Trying to up my fat and therefore calories as really low.

Veggie sausage with scrambled egg cooked with butter.

Lunch out - nothing that didn't have carbs on thr menu so I had a rocket and parmesan side salad whilst the daughter had a huge veggie burger and fries.... I had about 6 fries and enjoyed every one.

Dinner - pork chops with a mushroom cream sauce. The daughter had it on pasta.

That's going on my list to make again!

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: gouda and chorizo rollitos with cauliflower and broccoli salad followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries.
Mid afternoon: coffee chia pudding and black coffee.
Dinner: salmon and peppercorn sauce with roasted Mediterranean veggies followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.

@DCUKMod - never used the air fryer for salami/chorizo crisps. Microwave is so quick. Chips from potatoes is a bit of a pain and like you I quickly discovered for Hubby that frozen chips worked so much better. I started out doing chicken wings and won't cook chicken wings anywhere else (@Goonergal) because nothing does wings like the air fryer. It also does fabby crispy kale with garlic and pancetta. Using it a lot more now I have developed the sense to remove the paddle!
B. TAG with ADOC
L. TAG with ADOC so I guess it's another OMAD day.
D. Boys were here so they had requested macaroni with bits. Today's bits were green beans, mushrooms, peas and pancetta. Obviously not for me but as I said earlier lamb chops it was. I had a pack of thin cut chops so I had 4 with mint sauce , 2 GF pork chipolatas and a salad of lettuce, 4 pommoradino tomatoes, 1/2 avocado and a boiled egg.
I may have to have a 30g bar of Hotel Chocolate 30g bars - you naughty person @DJC3 - they had them in Chester and I had to have them.
Just cooked the lamb chops in the George which had been making toasties earlier for the boys.
Today has been a day of thunderstorms, lightning, torrential rain, hail and roads flooding. Plumber returned and has now bypassed the cold water tank and drained it. He discovered our upstairs bathroom was still connected to the tank so that has been changed to the mains now.
Meantime our bedroom is now off limits. Apparently there is a fair chance there is asbestos in the Artex on our ceiling. Safe it seems until the ceiling collapsed but not now so it's off limits until we get the test results in 2 days. If there is asbestos a specialist team will be brought in, the room sealed and the entire ceiling will be taken down.
On a positive note, they're going to replace the sodden insulation, replace either 1/2 or the whole ceiling (depending on results), plaster and skim and redecorate the entire room as it will get in a mess with the plaster. Tail end they are cleaning the carpet, bed and headboard. There are some silver linings!
I'm now on a 30g bar of chocolate!

Brunneria said:

If you look at the dehydrating sites, there is a huge range of opportunities, from fruit leathers (fruit purees, dried in flat leathery sheets that can be diced and added to yog, or eaten in rolls as snacks (like those shoelace sweets). Dried blueberries and strawberries can be used on breakfasts and deserts, or even in cooking.

Jerky.
kale crisps
onion rings
tomato slices
peppers
courgette
mushrooms
linseed crackers

I would suggest that anyone familiarises themselves with the possibilities by just browsing the various websites.
A heck of a lot of the options that are very low carb friendly, and good for long term storage.

I keep intending to do myself some more jerky. The commercial versions are silly-expensive in comparison.

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I seem to remember that SIL dried loads of mushrooms too. We have an enormous bag of dried chillis that she gave me too. As they’re the hottest of the hot, I probably couldn’t eat them in this lifetime.

DCUKMod said:

Blimey - I can't imagine how long it's take to dehydrate whole meals.

It's great for things like gluts of chi;;ies from a chilli plant or the like, and it is good for fruit etc., but of course "we" don't do quite the variety of fruit many others might.

Now I'm sitting here thinkingit's be fin to try dehydrating some rhubarb, as it's fast coming to the end of the season. In fact, I have finished harvesting our own.

I bet raspberries (and strawbs too probably) would dehydrate well, then grind into powder, which could be nice sprinkled on some cream or yoghurt as a bit of a tart accent, and/or some colour.

Fair warning; there may be alchemy afoot in this hacienda later.

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Powdered dehydrated raspberries or strawberries! That’s a great idea.

Viv19 said:

I seem to remember that SIL dried loads of mushrooms too. We have an enormous bag of dried chillis that she gave me too. As they’re the hottest of the hot, I probably couldn’t eat them in this lifetime.

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Dried chillis and mushrooms will definitely be on the to do list. Perhaps this dehydrator won’t be just for dog treats after all!

BG has stayed high all day with no clue as to why. I’m feeling mildly irritated by it. No point feeling anything worse as it’ll only affect it more!
CWC first thing
Brunch Smoked salmon, cream cheese and a couple of lc seedy crackers. Lc Bounty bites and coffee afterwards.
Late lunch of Yarg cheese and some Brazil nuts. Another Bounty bite.
Dinner- IP bacon collar ( like gammon but 1/2 the price) and cauliflower cheese. Lots of stock left to make soup tomorrow.
Granddaughters staying tonight - we went to the park this afternoon and they persuaded me to have a go on the zip wire - very exhilarating.

Lunch yesterday: Liquid one at the club, savouries and cheese nibbling stuff, several beers.
Dinner: Mutton chops, veggies, gravy.
Breakfast: Usual omelette, a new packet of cooking bacon opened containing only the eye meat no fat, tomatoes, no spudlites left.

Drinks: Black coffee no sugar, low carb beer, water.

I had my black pudding at lunch time and really enjoyed it. My BG was 10.8 before hand so it was a bit risky I suppose. I did take a higher than usual dose of insulin to compensate and that took the BG down to 10 after lunch. I shouldn't have done it, I know, because my BG has been high for a while now. It was down to 9.4 before dinner so I had my usual dose of insulin and the steak (cooked 2 and had one) with mushrooms and salad. Didn't bother with the onions. Up to 11.6 an hour and a half later. But I was still hungry so I sliced up the second steak and picked at it over the next while. And I'm still hungry. I'll just have to go hungry to bed and hope to get some sleep tonight.

DJC3 said:

BG has stayed high all day with no clue as to why. I’m feeling mildly irritated by it. No point feeling anything worse as it’ll only affect it more!
CWC first thing
Brunch Smoked salmon, cream cheese and a couple of lc seedy crackers. Lc Bounty bites and coffee afterwards.
Late lunch of Yarg cheese and some Brazil nuts. Another Bounty bite.
Dinner- IP bacon collar ( like gammon but 1/2 the price) and cauliflower cheese. Lots of stock left to make soup tomorrow.
Granddaughters staying tonight - we went to the park this afternoon and they persuaded me to have a go on the zip wire - very exhilarating.

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Winner for the zip wire experience and hug for higher bg. Not my kind of food (cheese excepted) but it seems to have helped lift your spirits so great choices.