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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Anyone else getting annoyed with the TV news? . Its so very easy to be wise after the event!

Meals for today...

Breakfast: usual omelette with carb free syrup - last of the lemon and elderflower

Lunch: Actimel and little chunk of brie

Dinner: Mum's salad - named after Mr C's late mother who hated cooking so we had this for lunch every time we visited her. It would have been her birthday today so this meal is in remembrance. Just lettuce, tomatoes, spring onions, cucumber, celery and (possibly) beetroot with grated cheese, cold boiled eggs, quorn picnic eggs (just foe me -nice), good ham for Mr C and a few new potatoes with melted butter and then strawberries for dessert (it should have been shop bought lemon meringue pie which was her favourite but not available in Asda ATM).

Drinks: lots of water, lots of black decaff coffee and some wine out in the garden if the weather holds
 
Hi All. Happy Easter.
Yesterday we ate outside again. Breakfast was usual slice HiLo toast, lots of tea. Lunch was mixed salad for me and smoked salmon for Mr PM. Supper was a large lamb chunp chop panfried with brocolli.
Today repeat breakfast though Mr PM had bacon and eggs.
Lunch was egg mayo salad enjoyed outside.
Supper will be roast chicken, brocolli maybe one roastie. Gin or wine.
 
Chook said:
I've never had lodough - what is it like? Is it expensive and is it worth it?
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It is quite expensive, when I first got some I didn’t like the slightly spongy texture, a bit like polystyrene if I’m honest. It doesn’t taste of anything really but is very versatile - you can fry it, make wraps with it, use it a pizza base or quiche case. Also blitz to crumbs and use in baking apparently. At only 2.2 g carbs a piece ( circle of about 8’’ it’s good as a quick and easy lunch/ dinner. You just have to make sure you have something moist and flavoursome in it. I didn’t reorder for about a year after I first tried it, but second time round I knew what to expect so I’m ok with it now.
 

Thank you . I'm missing pizza but i don't like fathead pizza so lodough might be a good sub.
 
Happy Easter all. Today’s food has been
Breakfast: Chocolate ( of course) part of a HC 100% cacao fruit&nut egg. I have moved it out of sight now as it was likely to perish very quickly like poor Heather.
Lunch: Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon
Dinner: Slow roast (7hr) boned rolled shoulder of lamb with buttered cabbage and broccoli. 2 glasses red. A DGF treat of some description soon.
 
Evening all and happy Easter

Lovely way to remember Mr C’s mother @Chook

Lunch was my Easter treat to myself - reverse seared T-bone steak followed by the last of the sugar free jelly with cream and 1 square of Lindt 90%. Later ate another 3 squares of 90%.

Dinner was one of the M&S cheese Easter eggs. They really are very good. Accompanied by 3 of the Asda sugarless pickled onions.

Just wondering whether I need anything else

 
That steak looks marvellous. You’ve kept your cheese eggs a lot longer than I’ve managed the chocolate. My willpower and self control is dwindling by the minute.
 
DJC3 said:
That steak looks marvellous. You’ve kept your cheese eggs a lot longer than I’ve managed the chocolate. My willpower and self control is dwindling by the minute.
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I’d be the same with chocolate eggs. The cheese ones were a much better choice for me
 
Hi all happy Easter

@Goonergal yum your meat looks amazing
@SlimLizzy Agree re garden trying to do a bit daily in the garden at the moment and it’s very good for stress levels - recently my bgs have been much higher than normal I’m certain it’s stress so actively working on it and ordered some salad seeds online today to help.youve inspired me to grow some seeds.
@maglil55 pleased you’re improving hope it carries on in this right direction.
@Chook re lo dough I most liked it as a replacement pastry in quiche but not sure I’d buy again, now I make chaffles and freeze them I find them tastier and more nutritious. I use chaffles as toast, in toasted sandwiches, as an alternative naan and as replacement pasta in lasagne.
@PenguinMum love eating outside - I’ve been loving this weather and hoping it continues. With drop in traffic levels etc it’s amazing just how much bird song you can hear. We live near a normally fairly busy road and one definite plus of current lockdown has been reduction in traffic noise.

Watched this today and helped remind me how important it is to consider carefully what we eat especially at the moment:

https://thefatemperor.com/ep67-ron-...nation-on-how-to-avoid-serious-viral-impacts/

Brunch scrambled egg and smoked salmon (snap @DJC3 with your lunch)
Mid pm one small peanut butter 100% montezumas egg really enjoying these should last a few days as a treat yummy
Dinner roast chicken, sausage, roasted celeriac, sprouts and two glasses dry white wine followed by lc lemon and raspberry sponge pudding with yoghurt and cream.
 
Evening All,

what a lovely day. I am afraid I went outside my front door twice today. But I think that only makes it the 4th and 5th times in the last 10 days or so, so I’m OK with my daily average.
Trip 1 was a cycle ride.
Trip 2 was a dog walk.
Both thoroughly enjoyable, and likely to last me til next weekend.

B: sausage and egg
L: goatsmilk yog, erythritol and cream
D: lamb steak with oodles of garlic

Spent the afternoon binge watching the Mandolorian. Superb. They really have made something with a very special atmosphere that resonates with 10year old me, the same 10year old me that watched the first film in 1977.
 
Happy Easter everyone!
B. Omelette fine herbe made with the first of the spring herbs from the garden. Black tea black coffee.
L. 2 jalapeno and cheese patties, salad of cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce, radishes, leftover roast squash.
Snack half a granola square
D. Fried halloumi and roast Mediterranean vege. Stewed apple and Greek yoghurt.
 
Bed 5.1 FBG 5.1. @Chook - I agree with @DJC3. Lough Dough is a bit pricey but a useful store cupboard staple. They do make a good pizza and a decent wrap but it is dependent on what you put on them. I'll probably go back to them at some point. Lots of chocolate eaters about today. I got everyone eggs apart from me. There was no 90- 100% to be seen. Best I could do was a bar of Morrisons 85%. @shelley262 - I am so glad to be feeling normal again thank you. I was getting quite miserable at times especially when I had the extreme fatigue. I was quite industrious today and cleaned my range cooker. I was very mucky afterwards but I did have a sense of achievement. @DJC3 - Yesterday has moved from the sky store and, desperate as I am to watch it , I'm trying to save it for another day as there are quite a few things to watch on a Sunday evening.
B. TAG slice GF Black pudding, 2 rashers of back bacon, 1 mini portobello mushroom, 3 santini tomatoes, fried egg.
L. Nothing - embarked on cleaning the range cooker.
D. Roast middle gigot of lamb with mint sauce. Celeriac dauphinoise, tender stem broccoli, wilted spinach. 2 squares of 85% chocolate.
Usual campari and soda.

@Goonergal - nice looking steak. Are you primed and ready to head to Lidl tomorrow? Hubby has reminded me that if it is available tomorrow I have to remember a chicken as well to cook on the rotisserie.

Happy Easter everyone xx
 
maglil55 said:
@Goonergal - nice looking steak. Are you primed and ready to head to Lidl tomorrow? Hubby has reminded me that if it is available tomorrow I have to remember a chicken as well to cook on the rotisserie.
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Yes. Intend to call first to check they have them (have a choice of about 4 Lidl stores). Also need to arrange a taxi back as it’ll be too far to carry a large box. Also intend to buy a chicken!
 

Yum! That steak looks fantastic.
 
Breakfast crackers with marmite.
Lunch smoked mackerel and RyVita
Dinner braised pork (from freezer so I only had to reheat it - more I could not manage by evening). Unfortunately I'm still hungry. It was only a small portion of pork. Maybe a bit of cheese to finish the day.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and salted caramel phd bar
Late Lunch: small pack of Wildings lamb crackling followed by Greek yoghurt, orange chia pudding and macadamia and coconut keto granola.
Dinner: lamb roasted with garlic and rosemary, one tiny roast potato, mixed veg, gravy made from meat juices thickened with flaxseed and a tiny blob of mint jelly. Followed by LC chocolate peanut squares with cream and LC chocolate granola.
My son and daughter bought me daffodils in place of a chocolate egg as they couldn’t access anywhere that sold dark chocolate eggs

 

Rachox said:
My son and daughter bought me daffodils in place of a chocolate egg as they couldn’t access anywhere that sold dark chocolate eggs
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A host, of golden daffodils;
A poet could not but be gay,
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Vaguely remember learning that poem by Will Wordsworth when I was at school in the 50's

Edit: Put the daffodil pix in view.
 
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Breakfast: Usual cheese and mushroom omelette, smokey butcher shop bacon, tomatoes.
Lunch: Several XXXX gold stubbies, pork krackles.
Dinner: Spicy seafood marinara, small portion of reheated pasta spirals.

Drinks: Black coffee no sugar, beer, water.

Had a good Zoom video link up with the family yesterday, everyone is AOK at present.
 

I remember that Wordsworth poem from school too
 
12-04-2020
Breakfast nut granola and CWC. Scrambled eggs and hollandaise.
Lunch. Ham, cheese, salad. Tea.
Snack few walnuts.
Dinner. 18 wholewheat penne Pasta with leek, mushroom and blue cheese sauce. There was supposed to be bacon in it as well but I ate it all while waiting for other things to cook. Digging makes me so hungry. Couple of glasses of wine. Cup of tea.
Most of the day spent outside. Repotting small plants into larger pots. Putting a few actually in the ground. Freeing pots in a chain reaction There are some radish nearly ready to eat and the lettuce are growing well. By next week we will be eating home grown. I got all excited when it started to rain. But lasted literally three minutes. It's several weeks since it rained here and the ground is getting parched. Very strange weather sudden gusts of wind whipping up dust clouds that swirl along the lane then up and over the gate, coating the car in a fine tan film. While at the same time heavy raindrops are falling. Leaving splash marks like chicken pox scars on the car.
MrSlim wants to plant grass seed. I would like a good watering for my seedlings in the root vegetable bed. Planted the roots I cut off the leeks. Well you never know.
MrSlim has finished the West wing, as he has dubbed it, well finished as far as he can get without further building supplies. No bathroom The master bedroom and the small bedroom are bright, clean and inviting. All they need now are light sockets. Here there are separate sockets to plug in lights. Legal requirement to have a certain number of power sockets plus light sockets, plus internet connection in every room. Well maybe not the bathroom. Those sockets are dastardly expensive too. Over €10 for some of them. Tomorrow he will start working on the east wing. So pretentious calling them that. All because at the top of the stairs there is a choice to turn left or right. Either way it's another step or three up. There will be two bedrooms either side.
Conference call with the family tonight. Great to see their faces, brilliant that my 86 year old mum is learning new skills.
A better day today. Knowing there will not be the dreaded phone call until Tuesday at the earliest has helped a lot.
Stay or get well all of you.

Edited to add. After dinner snack, portion of nut granola.
 
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