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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

@DCUKMod and @DJC3 - I spent a lot of the night awake, too. Though for me it was political! My area had a 99% prediction but (had it not been for the Brexit Party) Labour would have lost it.

This morning I think we've just about finished the Christmas present buying apart from getting something for the MIL who, now she's in a nursing home, won't need the jewellery we normally buy her. We'll have a wander round M&S tomorrow and hopefully inspiration will hit me. If anyone has got any ideas I would be grateful if you could share.

@Brunneria - I got the cheese! It was exactly where you said it was. I'm looking forward to trying it on Boxing Day.

So, yesterday's food and numbers were....

Wednesday Bed: 6.8

Thursday FBG: 6.9
Breakfast: Chaffle with sugar free syrup (2.5g)
2 hours after: 6.8

Lunch: 5.5
Advent calendar cheese
2 hours after: 5.5

Dinner: 5.5
Experiment of: Breadcrumb coated quorn thing, salad and sugar free chilli dipping sauce (23g)
2 hours after: 8.0

Bed: 6.2

Don't think I'll be having the breadcrumb coated quorn thing again!
 
Evening all. Way behind (again) and not caught up with news - except for the sleepless ones: looks like you were all going to bed as I was getting up

Today has been almond butter and cream while at work and chicken wings - 50-50 garlic Parmesan and lemon pepper on the way home.

Escaped work at a reasonable hour and looking forward to a weekend doing as little as possible.

@Chook your numbers have come down nicely.
 
Chook said:
If anyone has got any ideas I would be grateful if you could share.
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I am really enjoying Christmas jumpers. There are some lovely ones around this year. Is that something she might like?
 
PenguinMum said:
I am really enjoying Christmas jumpers. There are some lovely ones around this year. Is that something she might like?
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Yes and no, I don't think she really understands Christmas at the moment so probably wouldn't 'get' the idea behind a Christmas jumper BUT maybe she would get some use from a cardigan from M&S, maybe in her favourite teal colour if I can find one. We've already got her some of her favourite perfume, Scottish shortbread fingers, chocolate digestives, marshmallows, Newberry Fruits, Jelly Babies and Bassett Liquorice Allsorts (a friend advised that the flavours and smells from her past and her old favourites might settle her in to the home a little more easily. She also might put back on some of the weight she's lost - she's down to six and a half stones now.

Woops - sorry - off topic.

@Goonergal - thank you x
 
Evening all. I’ve spent a lovely day at a local spa to celebrate one of my daughters birthday.
Breakfast before setting off just CWC
Lunch at the restaurant there- afternoon tea was included in the package but they were happy for me to swap it for something from the lunch menu. I had rump steak and egg with extra mushrooms instead of the sautéed potatoes. Cream with the coffee also provided happily.
A jolly nice day.
Had a DGF blondie with a cup of tea when I got in but probably won’t have anything else now. ( maybe a little snifter of the Seville orange gin later @PenguinMum)
@Chook great numbers today ( breadcrumby thing notwithstanding)
 
Everything you have got so far sounds lovely. Hope you find a nice cardy in M&S. what a lovely daughter you are.

Not to derail Ibwill just post today’s food.
Breakfast usual slice LivLife toast, buttee, tea x2.
Lunch: met friend at a pub and had bowl of Butternut soup and a starter salad. The bread rolls with the soup looked amazing so got friend to wrap in a napkin and put in her bag immediately, just to e on the safe side!
Supper will be the Spatch**** chicken I didnt have yesterday switching to giant cod fingers instead.

@DJC3 I might join you in a snifter...your day sounds lovely.
 
B=tea and 20 gms cheese (advent calendar); L= salad with tin of cured pork; Eve = ox cheek and mushroom casserole with sauteed cavolo nero. A1c was 40 so clearly doing this all wrong but bless me, I get a badge for trying.
 
Lunch yesterday: Moreton Bay bugs and salad,
Dinner: Oyster blade steak and veggies.
Breakfast: Omelette, bacon, tomatoes.

Drinks: Black coffee / tea no sugars, water.

Got a early appointment to see a GP this morning as I have to get a new script as one of my tablets (Ranitidine) I take has been recalled my the manufacturers, I need it to go along side a anti inflammatory tablet to stop my guts from getting a bleed.

My GP is on holiday in Sri Lanka, so managed to get in with one of the others in the practise at short notice.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch at Prèt: Italian salad and a coconut bite bar.
Mid afternoon: Coffee chia pudding and black coffee
Dinner: cold bbq chicken drumsticks with cauliflower and broccoli salad followed by Oppo vanilla cheesecake, cream and LC chocolate granola.
 
Really munchy type of day.
No breakfast planned beyond coffee but had eaten the chipolatas (phone just autocorrected to chocolate...lol) I had cooked for lunch by 11am plus an apple.

Lunch ended up being a nice m&s salad and a bag of pork scratchings as I really wanted crisps!

Dinner... waiting on a Chinese of which I will eat the satay skewers.
Haven't been eating after 8 recently so feels weird waiting.

In terms of christmas presents for MIL just got given a lovely pot of crocus bulbs which might be nice for a bit of colour when they grow.
 
@Chook - If MiL liked jewellery, is she in a care home where she has her hair done etc.? If so, how about some nice toiletries, in a perfume/range from her past?
 
Soooooooooooo,............ on the basis "we" "agreed" a strategy of "one in = one out", I have a "2 + a few bits out" scenario. What does that mean I can have?


(The 2 out are a barely used George Foreman grill - barely used, and a citrus juicer - well used, but not in recent times, plus a number of miscellaneous travel drinking vessels. Having discovered a wonderful Thermos drinking flask, they are simply very, very sub-standard.)
 
13-12-19
Breakfast. 2x CWC, 2 egg omelette with cheese and spinach. Weight going down two weeks in a row. Better make an effort again.
Lunch baguette pâté and ham salad. Tea.
Dinner planned meal changed so we had some weird clafouti thing. Sort of thick pancake with goats cheese and peppers.
Ratatouille and French beans to go with it. Yoghurt and six strawberries afterwards. Glass of white wine.
Spent the evening cooking. Forgot to do 2 hour BG. Made a chocolate version of nut granola and parsley honey. Vegan friendly.
Bad wind again and rain, hail and lightning today, along with intermittent sunshine.
Another tree down and a few slates. A window blew out. Fortunately not damaged anything on its way down and amazingly with glass still intact.

The Parsley Honey oddly, made one jar clear and one that looks like set honey.
 
Had a kind of stew made with red/yellow/green bell peppers with spring onion and tinned, chopped tomatoes. Made it instead of the veg soup last night (I left it too late to make soup) and there was quite a lot left for today (and tomorrow). So at about 12.30 I had a few spoons full of that with a fried egg on top. Out this evening at the children's class and quite late by the time I got back so I had 3 buttered digestive biscuits with cheddar and cucumber.

Should have made something earlier in the afternoon but I managed to fall over in the kitchen and hurt my left side (shoulder, hip, knee) when I hit the floor. Neil and I managed to get me up between us. It shook me a bit and I had to take something to deal with the pain. Don't think I've done any real damage, but it's sore. So I didn't make anything for my evening meal and went out without it.

Just made up some small packs of cauli rice and put them in the freezer. Still have some bits of cauli which I've put in a bowl with curry spices and some yoghurt. I'll roast it tomorrow. I also have quite a lot of cauli leaves, which I've shredded but I'm not sure what to do with them. Maybe make some kind of omelette - maybe Sunday.
 
@Annb oh gosh hope the fall wasn't too bad, glad that you are ok. Yes cauliflower leaves once sauteed go well in omelettes along with a few mushrooms, I hate wasting any part of the cauliflower.
 
After my visit to Sainsbury’s this morning, feel I should report that they have the Lindt [70%, 85% and 90%), Godiva (72 and 90%) and Montezuma’s 100% (orange and cocoa nibs and almond varieties) all on offer, along with the Willies 100% 40g bars.
 
Quinn1066 said:
@Annb oh gosh hope the fall wasn't too bad, glad that you are ok. Yes cauliflower leaves once sauteed go well in omelettes along with a few mushrooms, I hate wasting any part of the cauliflower.
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Thanks for the good wishes. I am beginning to think I might have done some damage to my shoulder, will try to see a doctor next week - unless it sorts itself out before then. But other than sore bits, I'm fine. Just kicking myself for my own stupidity.

I have used cauli leaves as a veg in the past but I'm not having anything they could go with, hence the thought of an omelette. I hate to waste anything that could be used - that's why I hoard things - just in case I can find a use for them one day. Not a good attitude because we end up with so much clutter.

There was an old crofter of our acquaintance who always told us " Don't throw anything out - keep it for 7 years. At the end of 7 years, get it out and see if you need it, then put it back for another 7 years. If you haven't found a use for it by then, you can throw it out." Of course, once I do throw things out, I realise in short order that it was exactly what I needed. The old man's shed - a huge wooden structure - finally blew down one winter and he lost many of his treasures. Still plenty left for his heirs to throw away though, when he finally departed this life.
 
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