What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

@HSSS happy birthday sounds like you’re having fun
@Goonergal your DGF podcast sounds interesting you must give us the link when it’s done I love their stuff and their ethos too they seem like great guys.
@Tipetoo sending my best wishes too - difficult times take care
A day of amazing tastes and flavours plus a surprise from a friend delivered by postie today - my first Godiva choc bar 90% 14g carb per 100g very smooth and as someone who normally eats 100% almost sweet but delicious! Wonderful friend introducing me to this choc - but it may be dangerous!
Discovered lime pickle too today at only 2.5g of carb per 100g and you only need a small spoon - it packs a punch but wow wonderful stuff likely to become a feature! It’s just limes in oil and spices no sweetener at all.....
Lunch a filling scrambled eggs and smoked salmon followed by a trial of two squares of the Godiva choc - yummy
Dinner chicken roast in spices served with mint raita ( English mint from garden), a salsa made with Black Russian tomatoes chopped with onion and Corriander and mixed with fresh lemon juice and olive oil, plus small spoon of lime pickle and a few celeriac chips with glass of dry white mixed with soda followed by sf raspberry jelly served with six berries from my garden and double cream. Think this meal will become a weekly addition wonderful explosion of tastes and textures but very low carb.

HSSS said:

So far it’s been keto shortbread baked by #2 son for breakfast! Cold meats and cheeses as a picnic lunch, bubbles have just been opened with an Indian takeaway tonight. Butter chicken and mushroom bahjee probably. Ditch the carbs Lemon cheesecake and death by keto chocolate birthday cake to follow courtesy of #1&3 sons.

Not exactly as I would normally eat but in comparison to what it could have been pretty darn good.

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Happy Birthday!

My eating today has been soooo un-birthday-like in comparison
B: bovril and collagen
L: 5 chorizo cheese rollup thingies, a blob of pate, a goatsmilk yog (which made me so sleepy I nearly fell asleep at my desk!)
D: moo grob with a teasp of brinjal pickle.

Mutt no 2 has just been in a different room for less than 10 mins. In that time she pulled an empty Amazon box off the hot tub (how did she reach?!?). And ripped it into 1 inch square soggy pieces. And scattered them over the entire kitchen floor. She is sooooo proud of herself.

HSSS said:

So far it’s been keto shortbread baked by #2 son for breakfast! Cold meats and cheeses as a picnic lunch, bubbles have just been opened with an Indian takeaway tonight. Butter chicken and mushroom bahjee probably. Ditch the carbs Lemon cheesecake and death by keto chocolate birthday cake to follow courtesy of #1&3 sons.

Not exactly as I would normally eat but in comparison to what it could have been pretty darn good.

edited by one letter to moderate the penultimate word.

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Happy Birthday, @HSSS. Love the sound of the birthday cake. Enjoy!

annabell1 said:

Bit behind and for the life of me cant remember what I've eaten except from last nights dinner
Dinner last night was to tired to cook so pulled out my vegetable tomatoe lentil soup and had a cheese toastie with it

Breakfast / brunch sourdough bread with ginger marmalade. At 2pm had someone pop over for kitchen quote he left and I started feeling funny after he left shaking so at 3.30 tested my bsl dropped to 4 mmol/L tried to wait see if it go up but was not feeling well so had a salada biscuits with my homemade labnah cheese and 3 olives and black coffee.

For Dinner tonight made Tandoori chicken wings with cauliflower rice some tzatziki papadums served with some eggplant pickle. So easy to make I did use premade tandoori sauce but added a spoon of peanut butter combined with yoghurt. I cut the wings in peices and marinated them for about 4 hours before cooking in a preheated oven. Cauliflower rice blitz in kitchen wiz cooked in frypan with homemade ghee and olive oil, tzatziki crushed garlic cubed cucumber dried mint combined with yoghurt and now having a gin and cranberry drink so I can watch masterchef Australia.
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@annabell1, that looks fabulous. Also, you've reminded me that I must make some ghee - haven't done it before, but the supermarkets seem not to be stocking it at the moment, so I'll have to.

HSSS said:

So far it’s been keto shortbread baked by #2 son for breakfast! Cold meats and cheeses as a picnic lunch, bubbles have just been opened with an Indian takeaway tonight. Butter chicken and mushroom bahjee probably. Ditch the carbs Lemon cheesecake and death by keto chocolate birthday cake to follow courtesy of #1&3 sons.

Not exactly as I would normally eat but in comparison to what it could have been pretty darn good.

edited by one letter to moderate the penultimate word.

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Sounds a wonderful birthday. Birthdays are for indulging

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and Birthday cake phd bar
Late Lunch: 2 x Babybels followed by Greek yoghurt, orange chia pudding and vanilla and raspberry LC granola.
Dinner: 100% beef burger with a leafy salad followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola

Brunch - usual full fat greek yoghurt with all the berries and extra thick double cream.

Dinner - steak with peppercorn sauce and a few chips. SF jelly and double cream.

Hopefully no afters!

Active morning of an exercise class followed by hard pruning of a rhododendron that had got way too big.
L a 90 sec mug bread with ham and tomato and a small bit of cheese
D salmon with courgette, pak choy and roast peppers. I small scoop ice cream (50g) and 11 to 17 g carb
Rise only 1.5 so why yesterday rise of 3???
I dont think my body has read the low carb rule book.

shelley262 said:

@Goonergal your DGF podcast sounds interesting you must give us the link when it’s done I love their stuff and their ethos too they seem like great guys.

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They’re great. Met them at Real Food Rocks with @Debandez and @rhubarb73 last year. Must have been their best customer with repeat visits to their stall and the stall selling clotted cream next door (Dan remembered that bit so don’t think I’m exaggerating!).

Their podcasts are well worth a listen.

Annb said:

Does anyone know what effect dhal has on BG? I've been looking it up and it seems only about 6 or 8 g carbs per 100 g. But I have a feeling that the effect is greater than that would indicate. I would really like to try adding more pulses to my diet, but am quite unsure.

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That's one of the variables I find. I can eat a little (about a tablespoon). Some others are fine with it. I'd say it's a try and see.

DCUKMod said:

If you don't get someone more "helpful" on the phone, then make an official complaint.

My brother, who lives in Ayrshire, has sight of all his results, for everything, as well as My Diabetes My Way (I think it's called.). He doesn't necessarily understand them all, but he can see them..MDMW looks like a fabulous system.

I thought everyone in Scotland had access to that, but of course that doesn't cover your other issues.

Ann, Unless Scotland's GDPR arrangements are different (GDPR is EU, not UK legislation), then you have a right to see your record. I believe the only reasons they can justifiably decline is if they believe it would impact your mental health to do so.

That said, it's been a while since I deep dived GDPR, in anger.

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You have to sign up to MDMW. They're quick enough to send the packs from Tayside but then you have to get your GP to complete and send in another authorisation. I got my pack but I've not been able to get anything done with it during lockdown. Judging from today's lunchtime show it seems telephone consults are here for the foreseeable. You are entitled to request your records though.

Annb said:

Changed my mind about the salad and made ****'a'leekie soup with the remaining chicken and stock from the freezer. Had a bowl at lunchtime and will probably have more later. I'd added some butter and soy sauce at the end to make it a bit more tasty, since I couldn't taste the chicken earlier, @maglil55 - can I call it ****'a'leekie if there's no rice or barley in it, do you think?

Edited to add - sorry, I didn't realise that a male chicken was a bad word, but I see it must be since it has been asterisked out.

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Don't see why not. I adapt soups too but I don't change the name.

Yesterday Monday a much more stable day - bed 6.7 FBG 6.9. After 2 days without steaming, my sinuses started acting up again so back to the evening steam with my Lidl Homedics purchase.
B. Slice LC toast and pate. TAG.
L. Nothing
D. That beef dish I've got quite fond of. Thin beef wrapped around sliced peppers and red onion and a chilli/tomato sauce. I had cauliflower rice with it. Couple of squares of Lidl's dark chocolate raspberry flavour.

Goonergal said:

Thanks. Will remember that. IP still needs washing up after yesterday though......and had forgotten about air frying frozen steaks.

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I do a lot from frozen too. Only exception is poultry. I always thaw that.

Tuesday Bed 6.4 FBG 5.5 so a semblance of normality again. Spent a fair bit of time sorting out some learning stuff for the boys on Wednesday. It may be school holidays here but they need to catch up. I'm using puzzles where they have to solve clues using math & literacy so they are quite enjoying it!
B. Slice GF black pudding, 3 rashers streaky bacon and a fried egg. TAG.
L. 2 bits of the dark Godiva - I did spot the Lindt hazelnut when I was out but the Godiva won!
D. Peppered pork steak with lettuce, tomato, avocado and cheese and another bit GF black pudding. I succumbed to another 2 bits of Godiva as well!

@Tipetoo - I do hope you recover soon and return to us.
Happy birthday @HSSS - Sounds like you had a great day!

Thought exercise was supposed to improve insulin sensitivity for the rest of the day. Can someone please inform my diabetes, it doesn't seem to have gotten the notice.
Coffee and insulin upon waking up, rushing to get to my weekly sports thing. Very nice this week, an extra long lesson because we had a clinic in 'kaatsen', which is hot almost exclusively in the Dutch province of Friesland. No-one except the professionals seem to understand the rules, and rightly so. I'm not from Friesland so I was even more mystified than the others . Playing the game, even without understanding the rules was great fun though, and the guy volunteering for the clinic agreed to repeat it next week because we all wanted to do it again

First insulin correction before the lesson. Afterwards I went shopping with my friend (thrift store and supermarket) and I had some ayran (Turkish salty yoghurt drink), 3 grams of carbs, and a slice of goats cheese. Bg test after half an hour showed that needed insulin as well, despite the exercise.
Strawberries and greek yoghurt mid afternoon. Same story, whoops, shot up, more insulin plus another correction.
Final day of the fairly low carb same evening meal as I had the last 3 days with more insulin because by now I had an inkling it was one of those days at 7:30.
Followed by 4 more corrections. Where is all this insulin going?

Still want my midnight snack though. I guess I'll have to accept diabetes has it's own ideas today, and I'll likely run higher than I like tonight. Ridiculous condition, diabetes.

And your birthday sounds wonderful, @HSSS ! Gefeliciteerd!

Have been overeating for a couple of days and it shows.
07.07.2020
6.15 am FBG 7.8
Hour later 6.4., another hour 6.8.
Had CWC and nut granola.
Shopping. Found unsweetened peanut butter, had two teaspoonfuls when I got in and CWC.
Lunch: coleslaw, lettuce, cucumber, radish, four cherry tomates, and a tin of sardines .water and tea.
Picked a load of beans and some mangetout, now working on getting them into the freezer. I did eat a few as I harvested., but only a few.
Dinner was portion of spicy Bolognaise style sauce with some of the beans, mangetout and three small new potatoes . Two glasses of wine.
BG before meal was 6.0
One hour 8.3
2.5 hours 7.9
Bit shocked at this.
Seems the potatoes produce a higher and longer lasting spike than the chocolate ice cream I had yesterday.

Fell asleep halfway through writing this.
7.30am FBG 6.3
So am having lemon tea and retesting in an hour..hoping it will go down.

Added. 8.30am FBG 6.4
CWC and 2 teaspoonfuls of unsweetened peanut butter.

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@Antje77 and @SlimLizzy seems like we are all having BG problems. @Antje77 I don't think mine has received the memo about how to behave either. Yesterday I ate very few carbs and it didn't go lower than 8 all day. BTW, if anyone wondered, the chaffle pizza tasted lovely but was a bit.... floppy!

FBG was 8.1 (about average for me nowadays)
Breakfast: Omelette and carb free syrup - this breakfast used to give me a reduction of at least 1 at 2 hours but today it went up to 10.7 at 2 hours.
Lunch: will be a bit of Brie (no Actimel today)
Dinner: will be grilled halloumi, fried eggs, a grilled tomato and lots of mushrooms

One glass of red wine with dinner

FBG 5.4 - wonderful!
40 units insulin, 2 RyVita with cheese and 1 cup of tea later - 8.7. That's about 14 g of carbohydrate in the RyVita, not sure how much in the cheese.
I took a small portion of butternut squash soup out of the freezer last night and a small carton of what is labelled cassoulet (don't remember what that was but it probably has beans in it). Will probably have to give the cassoulet a bye to try to keep the BG down. Might have to add some veg to the soup to bulk it out a bit.

Although, last time I spoke to my diabetic nurse, she said I shouldn't be aiming to keep it between 4 and 7 and she would be happy with it around 8 to 10. Can't understand that, so I keep trying to get it down. Insulin helps a bit, but isn't the answer - hence the low carbs, but that doesn't often work either. Still, I have established that anything starchy is a total disaster in terms of BG, so that's something.