What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Today after horrible FBG:
Breakfast: slice LivLife toast, thick butter, tea.
Lunch: 2 boiled eggs.
Checked bg at 1730 and bg at the usual level, thank goodness.
Supper: pan fried lamb chump chop and small Greek salad.
Currently enjoying gin & soda.

Breakfast one each of slice bacon, chipolata sausage, egg and half a toasted chaffle
Lunch ham and cheese toasted made with a chaffle
Dinner chicken curry, cauliflower rice and gin with soda followed by a couple of scoops of lc ice cream
Edit just had first taste of hotel chocs chocolate cream liqueur with ice- wow I think loads better than baileys.....

Evenin’ All

no B
L: ham and cheese rollups. Lush
D: IP Mongolian beef

will have goatsmilk yog and tahini later.

22-11-19
Breakfast: CWC nut granola and yoghurt with mixed berries. Tea.
Lunch. Bread and cheese. Camembert affiné au calvados. Made locally so seemed good idea to try it. Pungent stuff. Camembert, derinded, soaked in almanac, then rolled in breadcrumbs. Ofc in UK this would mean it is intended to be served hot. But after checking online, apparently not in Normandy. A very different cheese experience. Had some bread and a small avocado with it. Tea.
Dinner, same chilli as yesterday, but with cauliflower rice. Fried in ghee and flavoured with nigella seeds. Sprinkle of parmesan and green beans. Few frozen strawberries and cream. Glass of rosé.
Two squares of chocolate. Few slivers of cheese.
Bedtime tea.
@maglil55 it's a small local restaurant with a limited menu. Choice of four mains usually.

Hi all

Today’s menu began with an experiment. Yesterday saw BG rocket after a mug of hot lactofree whole milk, which was a surprise as the same with added chocolate has seen barely a blip. Decided to try again this morning and was better (and back where I started after 2 hours) but think best saved for afternoon/evening.

Lunch was more of a snack, 3 small pieces of different cheeses - Red Leicester, smoked Applewood and some delicious aged Caerphilly made with raw milk. Very creamy. Also had about half a pack of pork scratchings but wasn’t enjoying them so ditched the rest.

Dinner was beef short ribs. Cooked in gas oven due to the demise of my slow cooker. Very, very delicious.

@ianpspurs that sounds a delicious meal. So glad you are being well looked after. Enjoy the rest of your holiday.
@DJC3 those red shrimps sound so good, am now wishing I was within reach of an Iceland.

23-11-19
Breakfast. CWC nut granola, CWC.
CWC.
Found it really difficult to get started today. Have reached the " everything is a mess and i cant stand it any longer stage." Ignoring sunshine and outside work started on washing and the usually despised housework. After a blitz though.
Late Lunch. Soup de Poisson. Small amount of bread and butter. Tea.
Outside to help MrSlim who has been hard at work outside, with the newly repaired chainsaw, logging the two trees he cut down few days ago. We took several trailerloads of logs to the woodshed. Loaded the large trailer with brush for burning. Still more to do when the light went.
Tea
Went to have a shower, but was still in clean-up mode so continued on with that room. We have a tall unit, so stood on the chair to clean the top, overbalanced and fell, heavily. Leaving me feeling quite shaky. Wrenched my always tender shoulder. Am sure there will be bruises tomorrow.
MrSlim was very concerned, made me tea.
Eventually managed my shower, then dinner.
Dinner. Salmon, tiny bit of potato, steamed shredded cabbage and carrots. French beans and hollandaise sauce. Have been unable to find Hollandaise until now. Few frozen strawberries and cream afterwards.
2 glasses of rosé wine. Slice of cheese.
Now watching Lord of the rings two towers. May possibly regret the extra half glass of wine.
So, although did get lot done today, nothing off my list.

Lunch yesterday: Seafood platter, several pots of icy cold XXXX Gold beer.
Dinner: Rump steak, veggies, pan juice gravy.
Breakfast: Usual omelette, bacon, tomatoes, spudlite.

Drinks: Black coffee no sugary, beer, water.

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee
Lunch: cheesy scrambled egg on one slice of toasted Livlife spread with Marmite followed by Greek yoghurt, raspberries and macadamia and coconut keto granola.
Mid afternoon: salted caramel phd bar and a black coffee
Dinner at Hungry Horse: all day breakfast of bacon, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, sausages and a bite of hash brown followed by SF jelly with cream and LC chocolate granola.

Don’t think I got round to posting yesterday as we’d come away to a holiday cottage and I didn’t get a chance.
Today we had breakfast in the adjoining wonderful hotel: smoked haddock 2 poached eggs and spinach. Black coffee ( but I did have CWC first thing) then some gorgeously thick and creamy Greek yoghurt ( instantly regretted - I forgot it always gives me tummy ache)
1 packet biltong early afternoon
1 Deliciously Guilt Free cake - the strawberries and cream one, I agree @shelley262 and @maglil55 they are lovely. (They arrived Friday before we set off I’m happy to say, so bought a couple with me. I did try the millionaires shortbread when I first opened the box, but found the erythritol throat burn too strong. I didn’t get that with the strawberry one thankfully).
Dinner tonight take away from Rick Stein’s - grilled salmon tartare sauce and spinach&watercress salad. Some wine was consumed along the way.
@SlimLizzy I hope your shoulder is ok after your fall today
@maglil55 and @PenguinMum I didn’t watch Junior Bake Off this year - they are so good they make me feel quite inadequate!

@PenguinMum - Like you I was delighted to see Finn win. Such a nice, unassuming boy. Hope your BG'S have stabilised. Thankfully I have had no extended repercussions from the Friday Chinese sharing box. @shelley262 - did the HC creme liqueur cause any BG rises? Or did (I think it was @DJC3) confirmation of the carb/sugar content appear from HC? @SlimLizzy - well done with the cleaning blitz but do take care. I hope your shoulder is recovering. The Iceland red shrimp is indeed amazing. My son was astonished I'd gone into Iceland but I always knew they did really good fish/shellfish but these red shrimp are amazing.
Our polling cards arrived yesterday finally. There's been an absence of campaign literature so far though not that I'm complaining.
Saturday - Bed 6.1 FBG 7
B. TAG with ADOC and a slice of toasted LC bread with Philadelphia and mortadella.
L. Hubby was off to the football (they got that new manager bounce and won) and I had to stay in for a while waiting for a parcel delivery. I did have another slice of toasted LC bread with Philadelphia and mortadella. Then outvshopping.
D. Opted for oomi noodle carbonara followed by a DGF salted caramel warmed with raspberries and cream. Decided the salted caramel is a bit sweet so will be a moderation one until it is finished.

Very wet & miserable today.

maglil55 said:

@PenguinMum - Like you I was delighted to see Finn win. Such a nice, unassuming boy. Hope your BG'S have stabilised. Thankfully I have had no extended repercussions from the Friday Chinese sharing box. @shelley262 - did the HC creme liqueur cause any BG rises? Or did (I think it was @DJC3) confirmation of the carb/sugar content appear from HC? @SlimLizzy - well done with the cleaning blitz but do take care. I hope your shoulder is recovering. The Iceland red shrimp is indeed amazing. My son was astonished I'd gone into Iceland but I always knew they did really good fish/shellfish but these red shrimp are amazing.
Our polling cards arrived yesterday finally. There's been an absence of campaign literature so far though not that I'm complaining.
Saturday - Bed 6.1 FBG 7
B. TAG with ADOC and a slice of toasted LC bread with Philadelphia and mortadella.
L. Hubby was off to the football (they got that new manager bounce and won) and I had to stay in for a while waiting for a parcel delivery. I did have another slice of toasted LC bread with Philadelphia and mortadella. Then outvshopping.
D. Opted for oomi noodle carbonara followed by a DGF salted caramel warmed with raspberries and cream. Decided the salted caramel is a bit sweet so will be a moderation one until it is finished.

Very wet & miserable today.

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I had a few attempts to ascertain how HC managed to make zero carb chocolate. There seems to be a shortfall in the adding up of nutritional constituents. First they said it was a new technique and a particular type of cocoa bean. Then when I pressed for more they said it was starch! Again I asked for more detail asking why it didn’t then appear as either carbohydrate or fibre in the nutritional breakdown. Finally they said their nutritional team confirmed it was polysaccharide. I would have expected this to appear as either carbohydrate or fibre but it had taken me several weeks to get this far and I’d lost the will to keep pushing by this time, they didn’t really seem to know.
The zero carb chocolate batons didn’t affect my bg and that was the important thing ( I still prefer the 100% choc drops to those batons though)

Hello Everyone

I'm sorry to have abandoned the forum and this thread with no warning - basically everything 'diabetes' got on top of me and became more and more overwhelming, especially the way of eating (which has never felt like it fitted with my food preferences) so I've made some adjustments and am hopefully getting back on track. Still lowish carb but different.

Anyway, back to taking it one day at a time

Yesterday....

Breakfast: Mozzarella Chaffle with a rounded teaspoon of almond butter (my new favourite breakfast)

Lunch: Lump of cheddar cheese with tiny plum tomatoes, cucumber and a slice of Burgen

Dinner: Quorn fillets (the unbreaded ones) with a few roast carrots, broccoli, sprouts and cauliflower - home made sugar free cranberry sauce, gravy and a few pieces of roast parsnips

Dessert: strawberries and double cream

Drinks: Red wine, coffee, diet Pepsi

Chook said:

Hello Everyone

I'm sorry to have abandoned the forum and this thread with no warning - basically everything 'diabetes' got on top of me and became more and more overwhelming, especially the way of eating (which has never felt like it fitted with my food preferences) so I've made some adjustments and am hopefully getting back on track. Still lowish carb but different.

Anyway, back to taking it one day at a time

Yesterday....

Breakfast: Mozzarella Chaffle with a rounded teaspoon of almond butter (my new favourite breakfast)

Lunch: Lump of cheddar cheese with tiny plum tomatoes, cucumber and a slice of Burgen

Dinner: Quorn fillets (the unbreaded ones) with a few roast carrots, broccoli, sprouts and cauliflower - home made sugar free cranberry sauce, gravy and a few pieces of roast parsnips

Dessert: strawberries and double cream

Drinks: Red wine, coffee, diet Pepsi

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Welcome back @Chook lovely to see you. Looking forward to reading your posts.

Welcome back again @Chook ! Good to see you

Hi All
FBG more in the zone today.
Today’s food:
Breakfast: slice LivLife toast, butter, lots of tea.
Lunch: 2 boiled eggs (becoming a satisfying habit). Wasnt really hungry and discovered reason. I seem to be starting a cold which wouldnt matter except I am flying to see son on Thurs so it had better begone by then.
Supper: planned Chicken Shaslik and tenderstem brocolli.

Welcome back @Chook.

Welcome back @Chook and look forward to reading your adjusted menus. @PenguinMum hope the cold clears up and your time with your son is not spoiled. Sunday back in UK. Bed in Hilton @ Gatwick not good 3.5 hrs sleep won't cut it. Breakfast was a little better though. 2 poached eggs, 2 slices of back bacon and a grilled? tomato. Soya latte on station waiting for train to Cambridge. Evening meal was leaves (rocket,. baby spinach and mixed from M and S Cambridge), mackerel in olive oil, chia and linseeds, avocado and my own vinaigrette with 2 each green and black olives + an ounce of grated cheddar. Julie acquired a pineapple for 65p from M and S - away 1 week and Aldi take over M and S - worse than I thought and will get much, much worse.

Today! Gee it feels good to be on top of things again. Bed 5.3 FBG 6.3. Welcome back @Chook! We were worried about you so great to see you back again - you were missed. @Viv19 is still missing though.
Usual Sunday with boys swimming lessons although No. 2 has a cold so he isn't going in and is bringing his drawing stuff. The humidity in the gallery will help him though. Feeling a bit more experimental again. I actually bought my Christmas Cards yesterday so at last I feel I've done something. Now just to get them written and away.
B. TAG with ADOC and a slice of LC bread toasted with Philadelphia.
L. Nothing on the swimming club run then off to collect Mum & Dad from the gym before depositing them and the boys at home.
D. Hubby did understand my instructions. Perfect fondant shaped celeriac awaited me which has now been basted in butter/olive oil to brown the ends of the cylinders, seasoned and is now in the oven in a chicken stock. Decided to go for a lighter stock but added thyme & rosemary.
Will be having with Tournedos Rossini (thanks @ianpspurs). A Madeira demi glace is already made and I've toasted a bit LC bread for mine. Spinach on the side. Usual campari and soda. Later DGF lemon drizzle with raspberries and cream (not much lemon drizzle left).

Thanks for the info on the HC liqueur @DJC3. Guess it's a case of try it and see. I have HC 100% chocolate drops in my fridge and some batons. Like you I prefer the chocolate drops. Yesterday I bought the new Gino di Campo book in Morrisons (it was half price). I'd started watching it on TV (Gino's Italian Express) and was interested in a pasta dish which will be nice with one of the many pasta substitutes. Surprisingly, there are quite a lot of dishes that require little or no adjustment to suit our LC lifestyle. I'll start adding to Copy Me That and will post the recipes as I try them.

DCUKMod said:

Chook! It's wonderful to see you. You've been missed.

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@DCUKMod - as the spotter of all kinds of bargains please let me know if you spot any amazing bargains on s Bissell Carpet Shampoo Machine. The Rug Doctor is way too heavy for me now so I've decided to buy my own. Makes a change to kitchen gadgets!

Was reflecting that the reported meals here are very varied which I really find interesting. Theres a lot in the media about eating meat and climate control. I mostly eat non meat 3 days a week by choice of things I enjoy. But the other days I enjoy maybe a proper lamb chump chop or chicken or a steak. We are not good on braises as my husband has an aversion to “stews” but will accept mince dishes like cottage pie/chilli/Bolognese. I mostly try to buy the best quality I can, red meat from the excellent local butcher though I do buy chicken in the supermarket. I dont think it will be long before we have more bad quality meat flooding the market. Sorry dont mean to derail thread at all but it is about what we eat! Anyone else?