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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Heading towards OMAD today but returned from the Cornish Winter Fair at 15:30 and had to try some of the goodies we’d come back with. Some Cornish Chilli biltong and lemon olives.
Dinner was hasselback chicken breast ( slits cut in it and a slice of mozzarella, thin slice of tomato and a fresh basil leaf slotted in each), couple of preprandial gins.
Very lucky break with the weather for your walk today @Goonergal I miss Nando’s.
@PenguinMum your celebration weekend sounds lovely. Memories are being made.
 
ianpspurs said:
Evening all from a still nicely warm Pafos. Food today was: tea for breakfast @ 4.50. Small piece of fittata in BA lounge around 11.15; Lunch on the plane was salmon rillete, cod and cheese (did have 5 gms worth of carb from lemon posset) 130 mls Malbec and a brandy - lots of tea. You could have drunk for free almost whole of the 4 hrs 45 mins - some did hit the champagne big time. Sat in front of some guy called Paul Hollywood. Evening meal (sat outside no jumper etc needed; restaurant manager fond me and showed me his research into ketogenic diet and introduced me to the chef who told me to ask for what I wanted if nothing suitable); egg, octopus and beef salad, cheese (tried some of Julie's souvlaki and Jerusalem artichokes. and some pleasant Israeli Cab Sauv.) Tomorrow will be a horrible 26C - you wouldn't like it guys. Huge Christmas tree in reception looks gorgeous but quite odd with folks wandering around in shorts and pool slides. https://www.elysium-hotel.com/en
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What a great start to your holiday! Even the flight sounds brilliant - were you really sitting in front of Paul Hollywood?
Presume you’d emailed the hotel ahead about keto? What a wonderful response for them to be so interested and concerned.
Hope the rest of your week continues in the same style.
 
@ianspurs - far too hot there for us arctic dwellers (sub arctic anyway). Temperature here today 3 degrees after a frosty night - 23 degrees below yours. These days I get uncomfortable at anything above 20. Not used to it.

No 2 son's oven fixed and working again - it wasn't the thermostat but the terminals needed cleaning off. While it was under repair DiL was given a 2nd hand oven which somebody was replacing with a new one. Neil now has it in the hall to check it over so they will have a choice of which one to use. The temporary mw/oven is also back and sitting in the hall alongside the 2nd hand oven. Not sure what will happen to whatever oven is not chosen - I don't have any spare space in the loft! No 2 son doesn't have a loft.

Food - had a mug of cocoa at 11 am. Full cream milk plus some cream, using ordinary cocoa powder. Haven't had cocoa for a long time and had forgotten how much I enjoyed it.

Had some chicken mayonnaise for lunch at 12.45 and then an avocado followed by a few slices of cheese at 6 pm. I was pretty hungry, which is why I had cheese as well.

I was intending to go out for a couple of hours but had a call from a friend asking me to rescue her, and another friend (she was giving him a lift into Stornoway) because she had been stopped by the police who told her that her car didn't have an MOT - she thought it still had but then they saw that her front tyre was worn on the edge. That's it - £200 on the spot fine, 3 points on her licence and she wasn't allowed to drive the car even to get it to a garage in town. At that point both she (a lady not exactly in the first flush of youth) and her passenger (elderly, disabled and very frail looking) were stuck some 4 miles from town and no way of getting into town. She was only allowed to get the car taken in on a truck by a garage. Luckily, I was just about ready to go so they weren't left stranded in the cold for too long.

So a 2 hour outing turned out to take 4 1/2 hours. By the time I got them, and another lady, to their respective homes (scattered across 20+ mile radius) I was ready for some tea and something to eat.

I think my friend can afford the fine but it's a bit of a hit out of a part-time wage. But such is life. She was in the wrong but isn't really au fait with cars etc - her late husband used to deal with all that. Still that's not an excuse under the law. She's Iranian and has suddenly gone off the Scottish police. Perhaps they could have handled it a bit better.
 
ianpspurs said:
Tomorrow will be a horrible 26C - you wouldn't like it guys.
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Cool day there mate, it's 29° C here inside my office this morning at 8:30 am. It will get a bit higher than that during the day as the sun swings around... :D

Edit: Added pix of the clock showing temp.

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DJC3 said:
What a great start to your holiday! Even the flight sounds brilliant - were you really sitting in front of Paul Hollywood?
Presume you’d emailed the hotel ahead about keto? What a wonderful response for them to be so interested and concerned.
Hope the rest of your week continues in the same style.
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Yes, we really were sitting in front of Mr Hollywood - machines for passport control @ Pathos show your name on screen and print little tickets to hand in.
 
Annb said:
@ianspurs - far too hot there for us arctic dwellers (sub arctic anyway). Temperature here today 3 degrees after a frosty night - 23 degrees below yours. These days I get uncomfortable at anything above 20. Not used to it.

No 2 son's oven fixed and working again - it wasn't the thermostat but the terminals needed cleaning off. While it was under repair DiL was given a 2nd hand oven which somebody was replacing with a new one. Neil now has it in the hall to check it over so they will have a choice of which one to use. The temporary mw/oven is also back and sitting in the hall alongside the 2nd hand oven. Not sure what will happen to whatever oven is not chosen - I don't have any spare space in the loft! No 2 son doesn't have a loft.
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I tried to edit today's post (Sunday) to add some information about Neil's oven fixing task, but I couldn't get it to work, so anyway, Neil checked the spare oven and decided it was positively dangerous. It had been arking and there was a burned area inside the casing. It is a wonder it didn't go on fire when in its old position. Its new position will be at the recycling plant.
 
Afternoon, All

yesterday
B: LC hot choc
L: forgot
D: hot baked salmon with aoli
S: a pack of pork crunch while out at family Thing. Stupid of me, but didn’t check the ingredients list til near the end - and it had wheat in. :( but only 0.1g% carbs, so am assuming the wheat content was negligible. We shall see...
S2: goatsmilk yog with a blob peanut butter and cream.

Today
B: the most humungous breakfast omelette. With cheese. Mint tea. And the most wonderful catch up chinwag with great chum who I haven’t seen in TOO LONG. Food for the soul.
L: not necessary
S: dark choc with a little peanut butter
D: will be cold baked salmon with aoli

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Hope you’re putting your feet up with a gin now @PenguinMum
I’ve had a fairly busy day so only time for one meal which I’d prepped before going out.
( apart from a few bits of local cheese tasting samples at another Christmas fair around lunch time - no more than 10g total) .
Dinner was beef Stroganoff kept warm all day in IP with mash ( spuds for them, celeriac for me& middle daughter) & buttered cabbage. Followed by some of the cheese I’d bought earlier and some lc seedy crackers. 2 glasses red.
 
DJC3 said:
Hope you’re putting your feet up with a gin now @PenguinMum
I’ve had a fairly busy day so only time for one meal which I’d prepped before going out.
( apart from a few bits of local cheese tasting samples at another Christmas fair around lunch time - no more than 10g total) .
Dinner was beef Stroganoff kept warm all day in IP with mash ( spuds for them, celeriac for me& middle daughter) & buttered cabbage. Followed by some of the cheese I’d bought earlier and some lc seedy crackers. 2 glasses red.
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I am! I like the sound of the Cornish Christmas fairs, so much great produce in Cornwall. I must admit to ordering stuff online rather than battle traffic, parking and too hot and silly musak shops and I know that is all wrong for the High Street survival. I wish they could make the shops more user friendly, cant help feeling the experience isnt as nice as it could/should be. I am trying to give food/drink/ experience gifts wherever possible this year.
 
Good evening from Cyprus. This is what I can recall of today's menu. B= Tea, gym, shower: Smoked salmon, pastrami, green salad, almonds, various Cypriot cheeses, (gorgeous goat cheese), cherry tomatoes, olive oil - outside in sunshine; L= CWC and TWC some salad leaves from Julie’s meal; Swimming (Furthest I have ever swum 10 lengths, pleased as no lessons or swimming since July - indoors) Eve: Green salad and octopus salad, carvery meats, chicken, lamb and beef (beef was dry and lamb leg not as good as shoulder) broccoli and cauliflower, cheese and about 4 almonds + some gherkins about 1/3 glass of wine from last night's bottle. 1 hr with personal trainer before breakfast tomorrow - I may ache after.
Edited to add: Once again, manager took me to meet chef and check there was suitable food or if I wanted anything else. Love this service.
 
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Gym while on holiday @ianpspurs that’s impressive. Have steadfastly ignored the one in the hotel in Cardiff.

A tale of two castles and two visits to the Hotel Chocolat cafe today. Early morning exploration of Cardiff Castle before brunch in the hotel lounge - bacon, salami, cheese and smoked salmon: savoury course before hot chocolate no. 1.

Train to Caerphilly for castle number 2 before sampling cheese on the Christmas stalls back in Cardiff - there was a black one made with coal that tasted exactly like mini cheddars. Decided that could be a slippery slope to overconsumption of cheese, so declined to buy any. Followed by hot chocolate no 2 and dinner of rollitos plus pork crackling and some cheese in the hotel lounge.
 
ianpspurs said:
Yes, we really were sitting in front of Mr Hollywood - machines for passport control @ Pathos show your name on screen and print little tickets to hand in.
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That’s exciting! Don’t suppose you went in for a ‘Hollywood Handshake’?
I don’t think I’d have been able to resist asking him to put in a low carb baking technical challenge next series.
Sounds like your holiday is everything you and Julie hoped for
 
PenguinMum said:
I am! I like the sound of the Cornish Christmas fairs, so much great produce in Cornwall. I must admit to ordering stuff online rather than battle traffic, parking and too hot and silly musak shops and I know that is all wrong for the High Street survival. I wish they could make the shops more user friendly, cant help feeling the experience isnt as nice as it could/should be. I am trying to give food/drink/ experience gifts wherever possible this year.
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Much nicer to give consumable or experience gifts. I bought a few things from the fairs this weekend but I don’t think I managed to get any presents - just food and drink which we’ll no doubt polish off well before Christmas!
 
Hi all
Breakfast one each of pork chipolata sausage, bacon and egg with half a toasted chaffle
Mid pm deliciously guilt free choc brownie warm with yoghurt
Dinner brisket with cauliflower cheese and glass dry red wine followed by lc lemon cake warm with cream.
Day out planned tomorrow in brum - a shopping outing need some new warm clothes and keen to start getting a few Christmas pressies. Doing a pressie exchange with OHs brother and partner on the 25th November- next Monday - so need to get on!
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: Balti chicken curry with cauliflower rice followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
Mid afternoon: salted caramel phd bar and black coffee.
Tea at ILs: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake.
 
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