and today in Lidl I bought......
An air fryer!
..... now what to use it for? We are a family of 3 adults, hoping its big enough (Salter 3.2)
We have half an empty cupboard now we no longer have crisps and snacks,(yay!) so the slow cooker has gone in there and the air fryer where the slow cooker was. I rarely use the slow cooker in summer but hope the air fryer means having the main oven on less...well, thats my justification anywayI was looking at those yesterday - I decided in the end that I probably wouldn't get enough use from it to justify the loss of more counter space but I'm willing to be converted. Do let me know how your family get on with it.
You can always freeze a starter, for emergencies, such as hungry housemates.
@Annb
On another forum they have been discussing inflammation which is often linked to high insulin and high bg. I'm not sure if its a chicken and egg situation as to what happens first, but this book was recommended
https://www.google.com/search?kgmid...0&source=sh/x/kp/osrp&entrypoint=sh/x/kp/osrp
Also, could it be another longer lasting effect of covid (you are one of those who had it? ... or am I all wrong again, if so sincere apolgies)
It really is a mystery to me @Annb, but then I'm not an insulin user. As @Mrs a says could it be the remainder of whatever we had? I know I was firefighting for weeks to keep my BG'S reasonable and it's only in these last couple of weeks I started to get some kind of normality again. I'm still not totally there but as leadt I'm getting back in the 5's in the afternoon. Fingers crossedFBG 9.5 at 8.10 am - a bit higher than I expected since BG was pretty low last night (actually down to 3.5 in the late afternoon).
Before breakfast at 11 am it was 13.5. Going to be one of those days, I guess.
Breakfast was berries with some cream - it was going to be yoghurt but I found the end of a tub of cream that needed to be used.
2 hours later it was 15.8.
Lunch was vegetable broth - plenty of veg to use up before they went off. Lots left but probably enough veg for my digestive system today so this evening I will try to calm it all down with scrambled eggs.
BG now - 9.4.
I'm thinking the BG level has less to do with the amount of insulin or content of the food than it has with day to day conditions because, although levels are only moderately high, I have done everything right in terms of insulin dose and carb levels and even calories are pretty reasonable but my ankles and stomach are swollen with fluid - I wonder if that could have something to do with it.
Thanks for the tip. I’ve frozen whey. I think I can use that too? But will freeze a little pot of this yoghurt too when it’s done.
I was looking at those yesterday - I decided in the end that I probably wouldn't get enough use from it to justify the loss of more counter space but I'm willing to be converted. Do let me know how your family get on with it.
Not a clue but it looks delicious!Carb content estimates please? View attachment 43231
Hi all! Kind souls have coaxed me back here where I belong although I am exactly where @SlimLizzy was a month ago. Whingefestapallooza over here in the new world. I have so much to read here that I already give up!
High ("") points:
After a very short respiratory illness (probably not Covid; nobody at her facility caught it) my mom passed away Feb 27. She was deep deep into last stages of dementia and went Home. No services have been held yet; everyone would have to travel=not yet.
March 6 first grandbaby born by appointment. Long-awaited and hard-won little boy (insert Grannie babble here)
March 19 we closed on a house of our very own!
March 19-April 18 we moved ourselves (nobody breathing on my things please!)
A short break during which we did not get the carport cleared out and things are moldering out there.
June 4, hernia repair surgery in the little opening between virus surges. All going well but it was harder than I thought.
Last Monday a hurricane remnant, scary but not in reality-- a little wind, a little rain. It rained more Friday than it did Monday. Are we finished yet?
I stopped testing last fall; "too busy with other health stuff". Thought I had a kidney problem but so far dr thinks it's that I was drinking too much water. Labs this month will tell.
Started eating more of the right thing, where I'd merely been eating the right amount. Cardiologist tells me to stop losing weight (apparently BMI under 20 no longer a good BMI...)
Not in conscious response to her, bad-for-me foods join the menu. This continues. I am trying to behave but every day is Groundhog Day so far.
Mr ZF working from home. Puts Oreos on the shopping list. Annual three-chocolate-cakes-in-four-weeks fest for anniversary, father's day, his birthday. Also Ghirardelli brownies for depressed DIL. Then there was National Chocolate Chip Day. Mr ZF loves him his cookies. He will never have diabetes.... last bloods his BG was 82/4.6 a couple of hours after a bowl of raisin bran with a banana on top.
Oh right. My cardiologist will make me take statins if I don't keep my cholesterol down. Trying to stay off cream, butter, cheese. Was doing well but not now.
So. I will tell about the LC things I ate today, and you can assume that some of them were over-indulged, and that something feral has been consumed as well, and forgive me?
Meal 1 avocado, pecans in avocado oil (cardiologist said eat avocado oil...), an egg, 90% Lindt chocolate, and flax crisps with a mug of dilute soymilk. Favorite meal of the day, every day.
Lunch en famille (insert Grannie goo-goo here): chicken picked out of a chicken/onion/apple soupy thing, merlot cheese, cherry tomatoes.
Snack more pecans, celery
Supper to be, I think, a baked chicken thigh, wilted spinach with HM salad dressing, more flax crisps.
Hugs to EVERYBODY!!!!
Yay! You didn't take lots of pestering. Welcome back (and I did send everyone hugs for you).Hi all! Kind souls have coaxed me back here where I belong although I am exactly where @SlimLizzy was a month ago. Whingefestapallooza over here in the new world. I have so much to read here that I already give up!
High ("") points:
After a very short respiratory illness (probably not Covid; nobody at her facility caught it) my mom passed away Feb 27. She was deep deep into last stages of dementia and went Home. No services have been held yet; everyone would have to travel=not yet.
March 6 first grandbaby born by appointment. Long-awaited and hard-won little boy (insert Grannie babble here)
March 19 we closed on a house of our very own!
March 19-April 18 we moved ourselves (nobody breathing on my things please!)
A short break during which we did not get the carport cleared out and things are moldering out there.
June 4, hernia repair surgery in the little opening between virus surges. All going well but it was harder than I thought.
Last Monday a hurricane remnant, scary but not in reality-- a little wind, a little rain. It rained more Friday than it did Monday. Are we finished yet?
I stopped testing last fall; "too busy with other health stuff". Thought I had a kidney problem but so far dr thinks it's that I was drinking too much water. Labs this month will tell.
Started eating more of the right thing, where I'd merely been eating the right amount. Cardiologist tells me to stop losing weight (apparently BMI under 20 no longer a good BMI...)
Not in conscious response to her, bad-for-me foods join the menu. This continues. I am trying to behave but every day is Groundhog Day so far.
Mr ZF working from home. Puts Oreos on the shopping list. Annual three-chocolate-cakes-in-four-weeks fest for anniversary, father's day, his birthday. Also Ghirardelli brownies for depressed DIL. Then there was National Chocolate Chip Day. Mr ZF loves him his cookies. He will never have diabetes.... last bloods his BG was 82/4.6 a couple of hours after a bowl of raisin bran with a banana on top.
Oh right. My cardiologist will make me take statins if I don't keep my cholesterol down. Trying to stay off cream, butter, cheese. Was doing well but not now.
So. I will tell about the LC things I ate today, and you can assume that some of them were over-indulged, and that something feral has been consumed as well, and forgive me?
Meal 1 avocado, pecans in avocado oil (cardiologist said eat avocado oil...), an egg, 90% Lindt chocolate, and flax crisps with a mug of dilute soymilk. Favorite meal of the day, every day.
Lunch en famille (insert Grannie goo-goo here): chicken picked out of a chicken/onion/apple soupy thing, merlot cheese, cherry tomatoes.
Snack more pecans, celery
Supper to be, I think, a baked chicken thigh, wilted spinach with HM salad dressing, more flax crisps.
Hugs to EVERYBODY!!!!
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