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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

ianpspurs said:
Nice thought but I think from now on lamb = shoulder only. Have you done that in the AF? - OH now that's an idea. Rotisserie rolled shoulder.
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Mea culpa - We still haven't used the rotisserie.

As you are a very able cook, why not make your own sausages? That way you can season or mix to your own taste?
 
Annb said:
But on Wikipedia it is described as "a cheese flavoured paste.." which is rather off-putting.
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Have to agree there, I was just starting to get a nostalgic longing for one after reading yours and @maglil55 ‘s posts, but this has saved me from myself ( I think)
Your sausage/sprout dinner looked simple and delicious. I love sprouts in all manner of ways these days.
 

Oh that sounds good. Love the wreath idea. I've had something similar to your salad that my sister has made but using nectarines and peaches instead of the pear. Using the same salad dressing you make... but be nice with a nice crispy pear.

Mine will be very simple mixed lettuce leaves cucumbers, capscium, tomatoes and radishes. My salad dressing I make is crushed garlic mixed with olive oil lemon juice salt and pepper but may also add fresh parsley mint oregano and thyme leaves and blitz it all together in my mini food processor. I will serve the dressing on the side so everyone can add it to their own salad if required plus the salad doesn't go to soggy if they're are any leftovers.
 
@maglil55 Am very impressed by your dedication to this thread. And your concern for the people here. Not to mention your inventive and delicious food. Love the idea of meatball Christmas puddings. Very Heston.
@Rachox Have found an occasional hash brown does not spike the BG. Am assuming this is because the potatoes are pre cooked and frozen so probably increasing resistant starches.
@DCUKMod Thank you for the suggestion about postal blood tests. Have decided that will wait until feb when MrSlim has to return to uk for a refresher course and we may stay a week or so.
Best effort to recall
19-12-19
Umm breakfast nut granola. 2CWC. 2eggs and cheese. Either omelette or scrambled.
Biscuits with coffee. Going to give up buying biscuits I like. The builders are not touching them. Toooo tempting by far.
Lunch sardines on toast. Salad. Tea.
Dinner.chicken legs veg .
Too much wine.
Had a big attack of Xmas panic and misery.
Then found some chocolate. Ate far too much of it.

20-12-19
2x CWC. Nut Granola, cheesy scrambled eggs
Biscuit with my coffee again, Bad Lizzy.
Lunch. Pâté, toast, salad, Tea.
Dinner. Pork chop. Red cabbage. Green
beans. Carrot.
But biscuit binge later. Need to find a better way to deal with stress.
Got lot of homemade goodies in jars. Ideal way to package them seems to be wrap in tissue paper, pop it in a bag. Only. No such thing as tissue paper sheets here.
21-12-19
Breakfast CWC, nut granola, Tea.
Out shopping.
Lunch. Buffet starters. fish soup. Egg, pâté, several salads
Main cod and vegetables
Dessert. Buffet selection; have as many as you want; thought I was very restrained, had a tiny jar of panna cotta with apricot topping. Some chocolate mousse( thinking the fat content might help) and small slice if coconut tarte. Didn't eat the mousse, or the pastry on the tarte. Water to drink.
No idea of BG as meter was at home.
Later snack of cheese and ham. Several glasses of fizz during the evening which was spent wrapping presents and writing lists. No tissue paper so have substituted paper napkins.
Bedtime tea.
 
Morning all. Didn’t get to post yesterday - at my Dad’s for the festive period and I’m the official chef, present wrapper and shopper for missing bits and pieces er, meaning a lot less time on the forum.

@maglil55 prodigious catching up there and thanks for the suggestion re fan oven and Halloumi/ bacon. Will come in useful while I’m here.

Yesterday was breakfast on the train. Stripped out the paltry amount of cheese/ham in the provided ham and cheese croissant and ate that along with a couple of 20g portions of cheese I’d taken with me.

Lunch was roast chicken with my carni stuffing and tenderstem broccoli for those who wanted it. Followed up with a piece of keto flourless chocolate cake - only me and my dad like it, so plenty of that to come this week.

Dinner was pan fried sea bass with cauliflower cheese and more cake/clotted cream. We seem to have accumulated the World’s largest stock of double/clotted cream
 
Today 22/12/19
Breakfast: usual low carb porridge, 100g greek yoghurt
Lunch: 74g sardines
Dinner: 134g cooked chicken breast, 74g cooked chicken thigh. 270g fresh cauliflower, 170g green beans, 22g full fat cheese. Whole cauliflowers were $2 at the local supermarket, that's an amazing price compared to fresh broccoli that $6 a kg just in time for Christmas.
 

Have you tried making your own clotted cream yet, @Goonergal ? I haven't for a while, as it was declared it was too nice, and MrB was eating too much of it!
 
Hello everyone and thank you for your condolences - very much appreciated.

I'm back home (and back to my normal way of eating) for a few days. My MIL's PM has been done and she passed away from a blood clot - it was instant - we knew that as my SIL was sitting next to her when it happened and thought she had just dozed off while eating lunch.

I had to come home - relatives were back to bickering with each other and wanting us to take sides!! And, worse, Millie my elderly Labrador was whimpering a lot and cried each night we were away (she hates being away from home) so I had to sleep on a very uncomfortable armchair next to her. There really wasn't much more we could do at this time of the year. The funeral is set for 3rd January.. What was upsetting was when we got home we found the Christmas card and presents she had asked my SIL to post to us the day before she passed away which was a huge shock and that has really upset Mr C more than anything else. It would have been nice for my SIL to give us some warning....

LOL - a lot of the arguing and bickering was about that my MIL had planned and pre-paid for her funeral - all the music is going to be Daniel O'Donnell and her choice of flowers is to be a giant Peter Rabbit. Some people thought neither DO or PR were suitable for such a solemn occasion.

My food while there has been a bit difficult. My BIL's wife (yet another SIL) decided that she would feed us (her words) no surprise that she couldn't get her head round my vegetarian low carb way of eating and so I settled for just vegetarian so my BG is running high and I'm soooo tired and thirsty. Its annoying that it took two weeks of careful eating to bring it back down to normal numbers and only two days to push it right back up again although I suspect stress is playing a bit part. Sorry to ramble on... its nice to get my arrange my thoughts and decide how I can cope with the same situation during the days surrounding the funeral.

Today.....

FBG: 16.7
Breakfast: SIL's leftover cheesey pasta bake thing, coffee
2 hours later: 17.1

Lunch: 16.8
Just a cup of black coffee at the Motorway Services

Thats it so far.

Planned for dinner is a big salad with cheese, egg and cold Linda McCartney Rosemary and Red Onion sausages (really nice)

And very definitely a glass or two of wine!
 
It hasn't saved me. I have two boxes of them in the fridge!
 
Stress is definitely the issue. The only funeral in the many last year where we had to deal with bickering was my sister's. Like your MIL my brother had organised and pre paid his funeral. I'm sure his music choices were designed to reduce everyone to tears. I was under strict instructions to write the eulogy for my other brother as it was a standing joke that my elder brother was never ever to be given free rein after his daughter's wedding. Our cousin's funeral also had the music pre picked and that raised a smile. She was a member of an amateur operatic group and her coffin was brought into Oklahoma which was quite a sight with the undertakers trying to keep time with the music. It's a case @Chook of keep your head down, bite your tongue and go with the flow. You get through it. Hugs x
 
Glad you are back and under control again @Chook after such a rotten start to the festive season. Good on your MiL for organising the music and flowers she wanted in advance.
Being at the mercy of other people’s cooking can be very stressful and I sometimes forget how different this woe is to the mainstream. How have you decided to cope with the funeral food situation ( apart from copious wine refills)?
 
maglil55 said:
She was a member of an amateur operatic group and her coffin was brought into Oklahoma which was quite a sight with the undertakers trying to keep time with the music.
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My heart goes out to you for all the losses of loved ones in the last 2 years, but I’m afraid I laughed til I cried when I read this. I’m still laughing now whenever I think about it. It’s made me start to ponder suitable funeral songs that would make people smile. A good idea.
 
@Chook there are times when BG has to step aside and this one of them. Like @maglil55 wise words its probably stress more than what you ate. If your MIL decided on the music and flowers then IMO thats what she should have. Its not great dealing with this anytime but Christmas time is even worse. You are doing your best and I am glad you are back in the comfort and peace of your own home.
We went to the Crematorium with flowers earlier but a large swathe around MIL and FIL was under a lake of several inches of water and we couldnt get anywhere near. We had to leave without placing our flowers. It was so forlorn with Christmas ornaments floating around. I could hear MIL saying “never mind you did your best” someone who never said a bad word about anyone.
 
Today’s food for me:
So far two slices LivLife toast and peanut butter, tea galore. Have made individual Cottage pies for later mine topped with celeriac mash.

I think I might have finished my food shopping. Hurrah.
It was gruesome out there this morning you had to queue just to pass someone in the aisles.
 
@PenguinMum - you're right, its best to go with the flow. She wasn't my mother and to me its more important that her actual sons and daughter make what arrangements they want to make. It would be nice, though, if they all wanted the same things. I think MIL knew this would happen because when we finally found the funeral information folder (when we were clearing out the house) she had stapled to it a sort of 'wish list' for her funeral and other things - but, of course, that upset some people who had made arrangements with a different funeral director. I thought the flowers and music ideas were brilliant - she'd obviously put a lot of thought in to it and the payment to the funeral director included the money for these.

@DJC3 - no wine.... they don't.... at FIL's funeral do about 20 years ago they pushed the boat out and got a bottle of that very sweet sherry. so they might do the same for MIL. I'm not sure what the arrangements are yet - one sister in law (the one that cooked for us) mentioned about us staying over there from New Years Day through until 4th (the day after the funeral) but I'm trying to think why we need to stay all that time. (They probably want us to clean out the garage this time!) Anyway I don't think Millie (my old Labrador) could cope with more time away from home. I would prefer to go over early on the day of the funeral and come back late the same evening, which means we won't put anyone out and I can pay a neighbour's daughter to dog sit all three dogs for the whole of the day. If we go for just the one day I will have a big breakfast at home and fast the rest of the day.

We just popped out to get the stuff that was on the Asda delivery that was originally planned for tomorrow but which I had to cancel. It is TOTAL MAYHEM out there - we tried Asda first but there was a half mile queue to just get in to the car park so we did a detour to Morrisons which wasn't much better and finally ended up in M&S.
 

Funny.... we had the same conversation in the car coming home - my choices were

Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever
Elbow - One Day Like This
Robbie Williams - Angels

Mr C's was (because he wants to be cremated)
The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Many years ago I went to a biker funeral once where the music going in was the Hokey Cokey
 
We all laughed too. It's the kind of thing you can picture even if you were not there and because Ann chose the music and the order we could almost sense her giggling away at the sight of the undertakers going into a gallop at the .o.o k la homa....All the music was from musicals and it lightened the whole funeral. Really got people talking afterwards. My brother's, I designed the eulogy the same way - a life story in 20 mins but it was created from amusing events - some his friends knew, some they didn't but same thing it got everyone sharing memories afterwards. He was very specific about flowers too. He's paid £150, told us to pick them and said everyone else was to donate at the funeral to Myloma UK in the hope it helps find a cure for those who come later. Hubby didn't like us discussing things but it was important to him that we knew his wishes (and if we didn't obey he'd haunt us!)
 
CWC this morning. Nice long woodland dog walk then home for late breakfast/ early lunch. DD breakfast sandwich.
Thought we had a nice quiet day just the 2 of us but babysat daughter’s dog most of the afternoon while they all battled the crowds ( she’s no problem so didn’t disturb the calm). Youngest daughter is coming round this evening though. I told her there is plenty of food in the fridge but we will have already eaten. We had roast chicken, buttered cabbage and @Goonergal ‘s carni stuffing. I added mushrooms and a few chopped pecans so not properly carni but delicious nonetheless the pecans gave a very nice bit of texture, like chestnuts.
@Chook your idea of going up and back in a day sounds by far the least stressful for you and Millie and solves the food problem too. I hope it works out well.
 
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