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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

@Rachox - another belated Happy Birthday. You seem to have had a wonderful time. @DCUKMod & @Goonergal - the water has subsided on the main streets but there is still a miniature lake at the bottom of our street. Scottish Water & other men in white vans returned to stand and look at it today. @ianpspurs - the cherries are the King Cherries not the bigger box. I fear I will be buying more as long as they last.
Bed 5.6 FBG 6.1. Another restless night. Ah well things will start happening this week so hopefully I'll get back in my bedroom soon.
B. TAG with ADOC
L. I'd like to say nothing but from late morning my love affair with the King Cherries commenced. I'd gone to collect the boys embroidered polo shirts from the school and also get boxers/socks from M&S hence tge second box of these cherries. Over the period late morning to late afternoon I ate about 20 of them. Amazingly they had little effect on the BGs. Must have been spreading them out.
D. Remains of the celeriac dauphinoise with another spinach and paprika chicken. I did have another creme brulee with a very crunchy top.
I have gone to bed before these cherries start calling to me again.
 
We had a cherry tree in our back yard in the UK when I lived at home, it used to get a lot of those double stem fruits on it. My parent were to plurry lazy to prune it down to decent height so lost most of the cherries to stirling birds that used to get stuck in.

It was to dangerous to climb up any higher than I used to get up into it around 5 metres, it was a lot higher than that though.

Looking on Google Earth all the fruit trees that were there in the back yard are gone, somebody did not like apples, pears, cherries, plums, almonds apparently.
 
Has anyone made a decent approximation of M&S Crispy Bacone Strips yet. I achieved very close to them yesterday, although rather salty, and ideally too much lean. I'll have a chat with our butcher, I think.

Recently, I picked up some Prosciutto in Lidl, with a view to trying this. As my OH is away, playing golf, I chose today to experiment.

I dropped the rashers into the AF, on a grid, with an additional one above it. to prevent too much curling and so on. 4 minutes later, it was "done", but still a bit "floppy". By the time it had cooled, on a sheet of kitchen paper, it was crispy, dry (i.e., not greasy) and albeit salty, delicious. Certainly, for me the closest I have got to the M&S offering.

I'll ask the butcher how thin he can slice streaky bacon, as I expect that's the answer.

Additionally I made Greek styleee yoghurt (c1.5ltr from 2ltrs of UHT milk), plus more whey than I can practically use up, as a starter. My HM clotted cream is in the fridge, ready to be drained off this morning.
 

Yup.
Its easy!
I do them regularly, in the normal oven (that's a halogen oven) but I suspect it would be easy in any oven.
I just pop them in, and cook them for a bit longer at a slightly lower temperature, and check on them regularly.
the result is crisp all over, golden and v crunchy.

Haven't tried them in the air fryer, but I am leary of the washing up, so will probably just stick with what works.

I agree that the fattier the bacon the better, but we tend to buy the dry cured Finest stuff from Tescos, which is just thinish streaky, rather than any special thickness or butcher's own.

Mr b likes flobboly pink bacon (yuk!) so I just cook all the bacon at the same temp, and haul his out early, and leave mine in for a few minutes longer, til mine is lovely and crispy.

If mine is left to go cold, it is just like the M&S stuff, and can be refrigerated til needed.
 
maglil55 said:
Can I just say M&S King Cherries (black) are amazing! From Herefordshire. Best I've ever tasted. Very addictive though.
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Cherries are a favourite of mine too. We have a cherry tree on the orchard. So far have not managed to be here in cherry season. So great expectations for this year. Sadly we seem to have a problem tree. Masses of fruit, but only small amount edible. Now have rotting cherries both fallen and on the tree with of course masses of flies. The tree will probably have to go. Big job as it must be thirty feet tall.
 
12-08-19
Scrambled eggs and bacon tea
Lunch salad, small piece of bread, ham, cheese, tomato, and tomato chutney.
Dinner chicken and mushroom casserole. Carrots, cabbage and been beans.
People were recreating bounty bar, and mojito with Ice cream flavours, joined in with a raspberry ruffle, spoonful each of dark chocolate and coconut icecream, with another spoonful of raspberry sorbet, estimated carbs 18g. white wine with dinner and after when the snacks came out managed to stick to cheese. Tea at bedtime several tea and coffee during the day.
It's a lot more difficult with all the family here, they seem to be eating all the time.
 
Brunneria said:
@DCUKMod

Here you go.

22 mins at 170 degrees, on a grill rack over a tray lined with foil.
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Time for a chat with the butcher. His bacon slicer seems to do mainly thicker slices, which is great for other purposes.
 
Had breakfast today - really felt the need but knowingly ate the wrong thing. I made pancakes (Scotch ones) with GDaughter yesterday - she had a few but there were a couple left this morning. Of course I had them! With some bacon and an egg (did it all in the oven so it was baked bacon and egg with reheated pancakes).

As a result I shan't be having any lunch. Haven't tested yet to see what it has done to my BG.

Dinner will be a salad made with the remaining cooked salmon from the day before yesterday - no temptations today GDaughter is with her Mum until the evening when her Dad takes over the care so Mum can do an evening shift.

BG was actually very good this morning (5.5 first thing), probably because I just had a bowl of veg soup for my evening meal but it did give me awful indigestion so I kind of filled up on Rennies. Felt much improved this morning, hence risking the pancakes. BG right now is 14.8!
 
Yesterday's food although I'm embarrassed to post on here...

Started off well, bacon, egg, one slice Tesco high protein bread.

Then a bar of galaxy ripple... and a Graze bar which was tiny but high carb compared with size. I did check bg afterwards so I could pretend that it was a test... but really just 3 weeks without any chocolate and I caved. It went up but not excessively only 2 or 3 points. Now I need to make sure I don't convince myself that that's ok and start allowing myself more.

Dinner was chicken with veg. So I pulled it back at the end.

Also snacked, some LC crackers with cheese. Love love love the crackers and they take all of 2 mins to make and 10 mins to cook.
 
DJC3 said:
Is that a very hopeful little face looking wistfully up at the lovely bacon? Lol
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Yes, doubly hopeful - she wanted some bacon, and she wanted me to stop doing boring human stuff and come and play.
Disappointed on both counts, I am afraid.

But it is OK. Puppy class this evening. so she should get enough play to tide her over for 24hrs or so. lol

B: bacon
L: not needed
early D: chilli beef
 
Busy busy day but lovely weather.
Powered by coffee and cream until mid afternoon when had a cold boiled egg with salt and tiny piece of choc olive oil cake with cream
Dinner salmon in lemon butter and asparagus with white wine spritzer followed by a few berries sf jelly and cream. Maybe some decaf coffee and 100% choc in a bit.
Hope everyone has a relaxing evening
 
Evening all.

Back to 2 meals today.

Lunch with colleague at our favourite cafe. Four rashers bacon, 2 fried eggs and some grated cheese.

Dinner. Snap @shelley262 air fried wild Alaskan sock eye salmon with lemon butter. Salmon was cooked nicely but didn’t manage a crispy skin. @DCUKMod think you mentioned this a few days ago. Should I have cooked it skin side up? Higher temp/shorter time? (Was 10 minutes on 180 c).

Oh and a 20g piece of cheese snack during the morning.
 
Evening all. Menu very familiar but for me it is doable, repeatable, liveable or whatever phrase fits best. For now that is exactly what I am after, No B except 4 x 800 mls tea. Lunch was cheese salad with chia seeds - 2 handfuls of grated cheddar. Had some St Giles cheese and herb and chive cheddar mid afternoon. Evening meal was pilchard (well swilled of brine) salad with buttered flaxseed cracker. Also had 4 x 800 mls water bottles. Guess it was all within a 6 hour window at most. Not adventurous or exotic but right now it fits me like a glove. I do like the crunch of celery, radish and cucumber - basically I like salad.
 
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Bed 5.5 FBG 5.8. Really rotten night and I've been tired all day. Early bed tonight as school starts tomorrow and first few days back are a nightmare due to 3 or 4 P1 classes starting and every relative possible for each child coming to see them off on their adventure. No 2 is having a good old moan. No 1 is a bit more blase as he is going into P5 and looking forward to seeing his friends again. I was enjoying my last day of freedom although I had plenty to do with the contractors coming tomorrow to assess what materials are wanted.
B. TAG with ADOC. Had to nip to the farm shop as the gardeners arrived and they require feeding with bacon rolls. Eventually had a slice of Hilo toasted with lurpack.
L. Nothing - stayed away from the cherries for now. If I start eating them I won't stop. (@SlimLizzy - that's a real shame about your cherry tree).
D. Chicken breast joint with GF pork, sage and onion stuffing. Veggies. I feel a LC Creme brulee calling and I may have to give into the cherries as my BGs were down to 3.9. The veggies and chicken has upped it to 4.1.

@@Brunneria - this made me think of your puppy obedience class.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2301535846778657
 

To be honest, I just hit the fish setting, however, having looked it up, that's allegedly 200c. The fish setting is 15 minutes,but I usually finish it when it looks ready. If in doubt, I get my trusty thermometer out.

The shelves in my AF are like very fine cooling racks, so air can always get all around anything cooking. I just did mone skin side down. What I do sometimes, to shamelessly minimise washing up, is to just scruch up a little cheap foil to creae a little pillow, that still allows air to fully circulate.
 
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