What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[QUOTE="maglil55, post: 2173123,

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.[/QUOTE]

I've obviously missed something from some time ago and meant to ask before - what is "Copy Me That"?

Today 25/11/19
Breakfast: normal low carb porridge, 100g greek yoghurt
Lunch: 45g beef biltong, 31g light cheese. I was in town for an appointment, this was portable and met my protein requirements.
Dinner: 250g extra lean beef mince burgers cooked in oven, 170g green beans, 270g fresh cauliflower boiled, 1 XL egg fried in 3g butter.

Good morning everyone!

@shelley262 @maglil55 @DCUKMod @ianpspurs @PenguinMum @Brunneria @Goonergal @Annb and @SlimLizzy thank you all for your kind welcomes

@maglil55 - nice to see those grandsons of yours are keeping you busy - I'm trying to catch up with months of posts but I'm sorry to hear about your car - I hope its working okay now (fingers crossed)

@ianpspurs - wow, your holiday sounds AMAZING!

@PenguinMum - I hope your cold hasn't developed, I'm just getting over a two weeker and its been miserable

@Goonergal - I've mistakenly ordered with M&S before (a few years ago) and was able to phone the help line to cancel the duplicate order

@Annb - after you've finished sorting your paperwork you can pop down here and do mine. I've got 20+ years of paper work that Mr C doesn't seen to be able to part company with.

We are over the worst of the flooding (I'm in the next village to Fishlake - the South Yorkshire village one that was on the TV news every night for a week.) It was weird to see the landlady of my fav pub and other regulars that I know on the news. It got close.... very close.... my next door but one neighbour's gardens filled up with water and a bit in to their house but thankfully we were okay. It would probably help if the Council cleared the drains in the road which are all choked with leaves.

Yesterday - second day of revised eating plan

Breakfast: mozzarella chaffle with cinnamon and some crushed walnuts, tablets with diet Pepsi, black coffee x 2

Mid morning: decaff coffee

Lunch: Red Leicester cheese with a few cherry tomatoes and cucumber slices

Water, water and yet more water

Dinner: Saag Paneer - lots. I followed the BBC Good Food recipe and, what a faff it was for something that was fairly flavourless. If I make it again I will use tofu (same lack of flavour as the paneer but virtually no carbs) and will double or triple the spices and maybe add some different ones. I definitely will not bother with pre-cooking the spinach

Lily O'brien chocolate - 2 discs - okay but not as good as Lindt.

Yet more water

I'm hoping my BG comes down over the next few days otherwise I will have to re-think my aversion to injecting insulin.

Goonergal said:

Evening all.

Not quite as short a sleep as @ianpspurs but when a 9.15am breakfast is a full 6 hours after rising, rising was waaaay too early. Said breakfast was 4 rashers streaky bacon and 2 fried eggs. Much needed coming after my first visit to the gym in months.

Dinner was air fried beef topside. Delicious crispy fat and perfectly cooked thanks to my new thermometer - with thanks to @DCUKMod (sorry no pics, was ravenous).

@DJC3 jumper buying was taken to a whole new level this afternoon. Went to Marks in search of a jumper I’d seen previously but hadn’t been able to find my size. Size still not available, so decided to order online, along with another one. Somehow managed to place the order twice, and didn’t discover until the 30 minute cancellation window was up!

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So now you have 4 new jumpers on their way? Lol.

Tea, tea and tea plus some pills.

Just had a kind of Mediterranean style salad with Parma ham. I would have left it until later but will be going shopping soon (only chance this week - Neil has a hospital appointment tomorrow and then the car has to go into the garage, so today it is).

I'm trying still to stick to one meal a day, but it's less easy now that the weather is cold and probably also due to the cold virus I have just now. Not sure if it is that (one meal plus one snack a day) putting my BG up or if it is up just because I am under the weather. I might have to have something later, after the shopping, but I will try not to. I will be having a lot more to drink, though, to ease my sore throat. Luckily, I have a big jug of black coffee in the fridge so I can just grab it when I want it with no effort at all.

@Chook some of the papers I have found recently are the returned exam papers from my husband's apprenticeship exams from 1951! I'd never seen them before - fascinating. Needless to say, they stayed. It's all the other bits that I can't understand - small catalogues (mine), notes (usually cryptic) about meetings from way back, newspaper clippings my sister-in-law sent to her brother from the local paper of his home town in Ayrshire, book club magazines from the 1980s. Rubbish like that. It is all still here - a lot of it went out with the recycling today and a lot is waiting to go to the incinerator when we have a dry enough day. And every so often, I come across even more old lesson prep notes and/or lecture notes - I retired 10 years ago and had a clear out then. At least the top 2 drawers of my filing cabinet are filled with EMPTY folders and ring binders now. 2 more drawers to go in that one cabinet, still more on shelves in the office and in the big cupboard we call the "tool shed" (the real outdoor shed is too damp to keep tools in). Then there are the odd boxes of paperwork stashed away in cupboards (out of sight, out of mind). I'm ashamed of myself, I used to be good at administration.

Annb said:

[QUOTE="maglil55, post: 2173123,

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.

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I've obviously missed something from some time ago and meant to ask before - what is "Copy Me That"?[/QUOTE]Copy me That is an App for Apple or Android you can store recipes on. There was a bit of a hoo ha because some of the recipe posters objected to their recipes being copied to the App. No idea why as it still listed the original web site. It seems to be back in the store again so I wonder if its sorted out now. Quite a few of us were already using it so we were not affected. It's really handy because it saved hours of looking for recipes. The sort facility could be better but at least they're in one place. When you have the App you can be added to a Recipe Circle which let's you access the recipes of anyone in the circle.

maglil55 said:

I've obviously missed something from some time ago and meant to ask before - what is "Copy Me That"?

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Copy me That is an App for Apple or Android you can store recipes on. There was a bit of a hoo ha because some of the recipe posters objected to their recipes being copied to the App. No idea why as it still listed the original web site. It seems to be back in the store again so I wonder if its sorted out now. Quite a few of us were already using it so we were not affected. It's really handy because it saved hours of looking for recipes. The sort facility could be better but at least they're in one place. When you have the App you can be added to a Recipe Circle which let's you access the recipes of anyone in the circle.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for that info @maglil55 - I don't have a mobile phone, so don't use apps. So I shan't be able to access what sounds like a very useful site. Pity.

Edit: meant to add - fell asleep when I got back from shopping and only woke up about half an hour ago. Felt in need of something. Ate some egg mayo which I had in the fridge. Have to see the consequence later.

Day started at dentists with a penicillin prescription and two appointments made - one for this Wednesday for an impression making for a temporary denture and one two weeks today for extraction of the infected crowned tooth. I will then have to wait three months whilst healing before I have either an implant or bridge - at least will have some time to save up to pay for it! My accident as a teenager when my two front teeth were knocked out is still having an impact!
Eggs main feature of today’s menus - soft and easy to eat:
Brunch scrambled eggs
Dinner frittata followed by sf lemon and lime jelly with yoghurt and cream.

Annb said:

Thanks for that info @maglil55 - I don't have a mobile phone, so don't use apps. So I shan't be able to access what sounds like a very useful site. Pity.

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I’m pretty sure you can use it with a browser on a laptop or pc. I use it on a tablet.

shelley262 said:

Day started at dentists with a penicillin prescription and two appointments made - one for this Wednesday for an impression making for a temporary denture and one two weeks today for extraction of the infected crowned tooth. I will then have to wait three months whilst healing before I have either an implant or bridge - at least will have some time to save up to pay for it! My accident as a teenager when my two front teeth were knocked out is still having an impact!
Eggs main feature of today’s menus - soft and easy to eat:
Brunch scrambled eggs
Dinner frittata followed by sf lemon and lime jelly with yoghurt and cream.

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So sorry and sending hugs. Dental issues are very painful and to resolve cost a lot of money! Hope the anti-bs help to get on top of the infection and you can eat suitable foods.

Evening all.

@DJC3 4 jumpers already delivered to M&S food hall near work. They allowed me to return one of the packages there and then.

@Chook hope your dietary adjustments work

@shelley262 hugs for the dental work. Never pleasant and you’ve had a rough time with that tooth.

Work is beyond busy at the moment so just as well I’ve developed the ability to intermittently fast. Ate breakfast at the cafe around 8.30am - usual eggs bacon and cheese. Then not a moment to stop until leaving for home. Picked up M&S order then headed to Wingstop. Split order of lemon and pepper and garlic Parmesan wings. Totally delicious.

Evenin’ All,

B: awful redition of scram eggs and bacon in Morrison’s cafe on family shopping excursion
L: LC hot choc
D: prawn cocktail (bought), and my first ever airfryer lamb ribs. Guessing wildly for time and temperature. Will update when I have actually eaten them!

edit: they were fab!

Evening good people. @shelley262 hug for the dental trauma - never a pleasure and always costly. @Goonergal hope the carni lifestyle deals with the stress of workload. Menu today was what it was. Tea for B - still recovering from the awful night at Gatwick hotel so no exercise. No lunch but 2 green and 2 black olives, 8 cloves pickled garlic, 1/2 oz feta, 1/2oz black lemon cheddar + 1 oz comte mid afternoon. Eve - (quite late for me in UK) large bowl of avocado and mackerel salad ( first fen celery of the year) with chia seeds and linseeds. Aim is to be caught up on sleep and up an at 'em on the bike tomorrow morning and make it worthwhile.

Evening all. Back home from our weekend break to find my freestyle Libre had arrived - yahoo, looking forward to plugging it in later.

Breakfast was clearing stuff out of the fridge - fried mushrooms, halloumi and handful of spinach. CWC.
Lunch at the spa after a lovely hot stone massage and a facial, was a chicken Caesar salad sans croutons. Starter portion.
Snack when we got home feeling fed up - about 10g Montezumas 100% and 3 teaspoons peanut butter.
Dinner cheese and mushroom omelette then DGF fudge brownie with extra thick cream. My favourite is still the strawberries and cream one.

@shelley262 hugs for the ongoing dental problems. I do sympathise. I need to take out dental insurance ASAP there are no NHS dentists to be found in Cornwall.
Glad you were able to send 1/2 your jumpers straight back @Goonergal. I’d probably have bought them off you otherwise!
@Chook glad you missed the worst of the floods. I agree with you about the BBC good food saag paneer recipe - I use it as a rough guide but I’m a lot more slapdash and don’t bother precooking spinach either.
@Annb I agree with the others about CopyMe That. If you can get it on your pc you should go for it. It’s very good. I tend to browse @maglil55 ‘s recipes now before I look at other recipe websites!

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning got delayed out of the house so lunch didn’t really happen today: birthday cake Phd bar
Mid afternoon: Greek yoghurt, coffee chia pudding and LC chocolate granola.
Dinner: bacon and feta cheese frittata with roasted Mediterranean veggies followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.

Lunch yesterday: Cold meat and salad sandwiches.
Dinner: Marinated brisket done in the slow cooker for 5½ hours, veggies. img]https://i.imgur.com/Dwe01us.gif[/img]
Breakfast: Usual omelette and bacon etc.

Drinks: Black coffee no sugars, water.

Meat, meat, glorious meat
Nuffin quite like it for fixin ya blood
beef, pork, mutton are great meats to eat
Meat, meat, glorious meat

Support ya local butcher...

@shelley262 so sorry about you dental issues. Hope the antibiotics work quickly.
@Rachox that frittata looks delicious.
@Goonergal convenient solution to overordering.
@Chook glad the flooding didn't actually reach your house.

25-11-19
Breakfast. Tea. Nut granola. Tea
CWC.
Still clearing the trees.
Lunch. Poached eggs, spinach and hollandaise sauce on toast. (2 slices of pain kapnor). Tea. Last of the brush loaded. Tomorrow will be chopsaw work.
CWC ( run out of milk - gave the last drop to the stray cat. )
Quick shopping trip.
Some cheese. And tea.
Dinner. Veal escalope. Potato. Carrot. Leeks fried in butter and brocolli. Madeira sauce from a tin. Terribly sweet.
2 glasses white wine. 2 squares 85% chocolate.
Bedtime tea.



Dinner.