PenguinMum
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
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- Diet only
@Annb - there's a fairly easy recipe for making your own bacon on the River Cottage website
https://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/dry-cured-streaky-bacon which turns out very nice. I'm afraid I can't help with what to do with leftover veg - my dogs eat all the veg leftovers (not onion which is toxic to them). I just boil them up until tender and put it in their bowls once reasonably cool - they think its the treat of the week.
Lovely sunny day here today after a night of heavy rain - someone forgot to send a memo to my arthritis that the sun is out now!
So, today Sunday 12th January
BG is up - yesterday before dinner it was 5.4, 2 hours after dinner it was 6.7 and then up and up it went to 11.8 at bed time. This morning's FBG was 12.6 .... and I have absolutely no idea why as I didn't eat anything after dinner and only drank water.
B: Half cheddar / half mozzarella chaffle with 100g of baked beans, two fried eggs and a large amount of mushrooms (error on delivery on Asda's part - got four tubs instead of just the one and the nice new driver said just to keep the extra - I suspect that someone somewhere is three tubs of mushrooms short)
L: 20g cheese
D: A lot of home made broccoli and Stilton soup which I will NOT share with the dogs, no matter how much puppy eyed pleading or sighing they do!
Drinks: 2 x huge mugs decaff coffee with breakfast, decaff pepsi with tablets then water for the rest of the day. Dry January still going well.
@DCUKMod
i usually get the belly pork in strips, cook it first in strips, and freeze in portions in zip lock bags.
Then pull it out of the freezer and cook from frozen in the airfryer.
If by some strange fluke I got it out of the freezer early and defrosted it, then the odds are I will dice into bite sized pieces before airfrying - purely because the pieces have more surface area to crisp up.
@DCUKMod
i usually get the belly pork in strips, cook it first in strips, and freeze in portions in zip lock bags.
Then pull it out of the freezer and cook from frozen in the airfryer.
If by some strange fluke I got it out of the freezer early and defrosted it, then the odds are I will dice into bite sized pieces before airfrying - purely because the pieces have more surface area to crisp up.
We have our butcher cut our belly pork into large portion sized pieces, at the point of purchase. We normally buy 4 or 6 portions, when we see a particularly nice belly. That way, we don't have cold cuts. I enjoy roast pork, cold cuts, but,less so for belly.
If slowly roasted, it really puffs up, really tall.
If you enjoy belly, you might like to try Moo Grob, as you can do as much, or as little as you please in one go.
This recipe takes you through boiling th meat first. Whilst all very spiffing, that part can be forgotten. I tend to buy the pork belly slices then cut into the required sized pieces, season, then vac pack any not being cooked straight away, in single portion lots. I'll ideally fidge them for a few hours, then lob them into the freezer. When they come out the seasoning had matured a bit.
Then I air fry them.
I know @Brunneria makes Moo Grob, but I can't recall if she cooks it in slices, or pieces as I do.
It's utterly delicious, and can pretty much taste as you want it to.
https://rachelcooksthai.com/crispy-pork/
(Confusingly, Moo = Pork)
This evening I have had Tom Yum Gai, which is a spicy, lemongrass soup, with chicken. Whilst it doesn't sound much, there was a lot of meat in it and similarly coconut milk.
Delish
I have a app for that, not that I really need to convert US measurements as they are out dated imperial in a fully metric country like Australia.Just wanted to share a trick , to convert BG levels from American system to British system and vice versa , you can divide/multiply by 18.
I have a app for that, not that I really need to convert US measurements as they are out dated imperial in a fully metric country like Australia.
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