What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast - bagel thin toasted with light fat butter
Lunch - Tuna with whole meal bread (2 slices)
Dinner - chicken with broccoli , green beans and new potatoes skin on (3 small potatoes).

I also had a small bowl of ice cream and 3 biscuits due to my sugars dropping into a hypo after dinner (too much insulin)

maglil55 said:

I find pizza quite easy to resist. When my sister was alive we spent a lot of time in Italy

and nothing, I mean nothing tastes as good as a pizza made in Italy. It was in pre diabetic days. I did try pizza here but it was never the same.
My search for a LC pizza base that matches my memories continues though. You have inspired me to dig out what I need for another of my Italian memories - Suppli and this I did work out a low carb version.
These are the delicious rice balls, with lots of stringy mozzarella, pancetta, sometimes sugo and deep fried in a crispy coating.
My version involves cauliflower rice cooked in chicken stock. Once cooled, mix with cooked pancetta bits, chopped mozzarella, parmesan and form balls or oblong. Dip in beaten egg then I use my crumb mix of almond flour, golden milled flax and parmesan plus sesame seeds. If you like some heat you can add chilli to the "rice" mix. They do better being frozen before deep frying or, at very least, refrigerated.

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I have to admit I really do miss pizza, I used to have it a lot pre T2 diagnosis - my mouth is actually watering just now even just thinking about it - I have found an alternative - I make the base with mozzarella cheese and eggs then whatever for the toppings - I do like the really cheesy tasting base - I must do it again - I have not done it recently. People eating cakes in front of me doesn't bother me (well sometimes may be) but I do miss pizza,chips,pasta,rice, bread and indian food .... I will stop now before the tears appear (which I am sure we can all relate to) good old days before the big D eh

@Rachox bravo you! I am now imagining someone with ticklish feet having to sit still for stitches removal. Here's hoping they are the type that dissolve on their own?

Well I managed another OMAD again today - I have to say 24 hrs is long enough for me - I couldn't do 30 or more - well I might try - @Chook lets us know how you get on if that's ok - you might tempt me if I hear of what results you have with it. @DJC may I ask if you have noticed a difference in your weight or blood sugars if it is not being too nosey - I need all the encouragement I can get to try it out

AM - just mug of earl grey tea with double cream and glasses of water.

Out today for late lunch/early dinner - lovely juicy steak with prawns and peppercorn sauce over the top and large side salad. Small teaspoon of hubby's white chocolate and strawberry cheesecake and again tiny teaspoon of ice-cream (wished I could have had a full portion and not just baby spoonful) but really enjoyed what I had and it didn't really make any difference to my sugars so I was not too bad *sighs*

And of course had a large walk this evening to walk it of - was really lucky here today as forecast was rain and it stayed dry all day and night and just around 16 so was a bonus as it was not expected.

maglil55 said:

I find pizza quite easy to resist. When my sister was alive we spent a lot of time in Italy

and nothing, I mean nothing tastes as good as a pizza made in Italy. It was in pre diabetic days. I did try pizza here but it was never the same.
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@maglil55
I used to work for an Italian company and remember being in Milan (in the north) when a colleague returned from a holiday in the South. She was waxing lyrical about the pizzas there and I aksed what the difference is as surely a pizza is a pizza...
But no she said, pizzas are better in the South because the water there is better..thats the small amount of water that goes into the dough that, in her eyes, made all the difference. But then every one else spoke up and agreed that pizza bases taste different depending on the water and the flour. And that even if southern flour and water was shipped north, the resulting pizza would not taste the same. Italians love their regional specialities.
Me, I just thought every Italian one was great!

22.08.2020
Breakfast, 2x CWC did start some nut granola yesterday, had decided to save money and use the walnuts from our neighbours tree, so didnt buy any Wednesday. MrSlim has been eating them and assures me they are fine. However when i cracked some open found several black and one that looked ok, but tasted mouldy. So not using those. Since I didn't have enough nuts, or sunflower seeds. No nut granola this morning.
CWC
Lunch. Salad, ham and macedoine salad. Small piece of baguette with wonderful salty butter. Water and tea.
Tea and one biscuit. oops 14.5. Carbs in a small and apparently plain biscuit. Spoonful of peanut butter.
Dinner duck breast, roast celeriac, carrot, cauliflower, and mangetout ( home grown, but from the freezer) glass of water and one of wine.
Evening lemon tea.
@zauberflote I wonder if situational depression is the same as reactive depression?

Korean BBQ,

Good morning all

Breakfast: usual Sunday morning brunch - chaffle, fried eggs and 100g baked beans

Lunch: (if needed). small avocado mashed with pink salt, lime juice and hot sauce on Ryvita

Dinner: cauliflower rice fried in ghee with spices, bean sprouts and spiced kebab style Oumph!
https://oumph.uk/portfolios/kebab/

FBG 10.5 at 9 am (slept in).

Breakfast at 10.15 was scrambled eggs with dble cream on RyVita. Stomach still a bit dodgy, but manageable. Some tea so far, but I'll need to step the fluids up a bit, stomach or no stomach.

Snack - I failed to resist a medjool date from the cupboard. Don't care if I do pay for it - it was good.

Dinner will be slow roasted shoulder of lamb and veg. I am using my mother's small cooker again, because I want to find a reason to keep it. The shoulder is big enough to keep me in lamb for the rest of the week, so I'll have to be a bit imaginative. I can see lamb curry and lamb tagine coming up at the very least.

MrsA2 said:

@maglil55
I used to work for an Italian company and remember being in Milan (in the north) when a colleague returned from a holiday in the South. She was waxing lyrical about the pizzas there and I aksed what the difference is as surely a pizza is a pizza...
But no she said, pizzas are better in the South because the water there is better..thats the small amount of water that goes into the dough that, in her eyes, made all the difference. But then every one else spoke up and agreed that pizza bases taste different depending on the water and the flour. And that even if southern flour and water was shipped north, the resulting pizza would not taste the same. Italians love their regional specialities.
Me, I just thought every Italian one was great!

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LOL... that reminded me of a conversation I was party to with two Spanish ladies! They were talking about paella, can't remember now exactly what the 'argument' was about, something about which stage in the making does paella rice get added to the stock. Each lady evoked their grandmothers into the discussion including their family's paella recipes,. It was as if both ladies felt the need to 'defend' their family's honour! I loved it!

Breakfast same old same old egg and bacon.... yum yum...

Lunch was a few sticks of cheese and 10 olives.

Dinner, not had it yet, but rib-eye steaks are being marinating in balsamic vinegar, avocado oil, ginger puree, paprika and onion salt as I type, I'm planning for side dishes of roast peppers, and creamed cauli.

@JenniferM55 those steaks sound fantastic!
@Mrs T 123 I have dropped a couple of Kg this week since doing the 30hr fasts but I wasn’t overweight ( nor underweight) so that wasn’t really my aim. I seem to have stuck at 57K since I started low carbing. For me it was about trying to reset my bg levels which have started creeping up recently. There have been a few stress related reasons why that could be but I’m still uncomfortable with the steady creeping up of figures. On the whole it has made a difference although today’s fbg was higher than I’d like - again, a bit of family stress may be to blame for that.
Didn’t make the 30hrs today because of yesterday’s unplanned meal times. But OMAD at around 4pm of roast chicken, cauli cheese and toast aubergine. 1 glass dry white beforehand and 1 glass red with the meal. DGF raspberry bakewell and cream to follow.

B: 1 cold sausage
L : ff greek yog with chia seeds and a few berries
D : roast chicken, 2 tiny weeny new pots straight from the garden, home grown green beans, broccoli and slow cooked celery in tomato and orange

Any ideas as to the carbs in that last veg dish?. It was a whole head of celery, 400g tinned tomatoes and juice and zest of a satsuma. Serves 6-8

Evenin’ All!

guess wot! Another wet walk. We had barely left the house when it started, but No3 handled it MUCH better this time. And it was just Cornish rain this time, no monsoon.

B: kefir
L: a v small ribeye with 5 halloumi fries
S: lindt
D: chicken in mango lime rub

JenniferM55 said:

LOL... that reminded me of a conversation I was party to with two Spanish ladies! They were talking about paella, can't remember now exactly what the 'argument' was about, something about which stage in the making does paella rice get added to the stock. Each lady evoked their grandmothers into the discussion including their family's paella recipes,. It was as if both ladies felt the need to 'defend' their family's honour! I loved it!

Breakfast same old same old egg and bacon.... yum yum...

Lunch was a few sticks of cheese and 10 olives.

Dinner, not had it yet, but rib-eye steaks are being marinating in balsamic vinegar, avocado oil, ginger puree, paprika and onion salt as I type, I'm planning for side dishes of roast peppers, and creamed cauli.

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It can be a bit like that here, in Yorkshire, about Yorkshire puddings. Its amazing how many different recipes there are - but they all turn out like Yorkshire pancakes for me. Thank goodness for Aunt Bessies and low carbing which means I no longer have to make the dratted things.

Annb said:

Dinner will be slow roasted shoulder of lamb and veg. I am using my mother's small cooker again, because I want to find a reason to keep it. The shoulder is big enough to keep me in lamb for the rest of the week, so I'll have to be a bit imaginative. I can see lamb curry and lamb tagine coming up at the very least.

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The tagine and the curry might happen because the lamb shoulder wasn't cooked after 41/2 hours and neither were the vegetables. What a waste of time. At least now I know what to do with the cooker and (probably) why my mother packed it away in '83 or 4.

Rained pretty much all day here today so when hubby suggested going out for lunch again today, well .. I did another OMAD same as yesterday and had the same meal out as yesterday too (I had enjoyed it that much!)

AM - mug of earl grey with double cream.

Lunch/Dinner - rib-eye steak with prawns and peppercorn sauce on top with a large side salad. SF jelly and double cream when I got home.

@maglil55 When I was in Italy a few years back (before I knew I had D) I tried the pizzas and pastas and was so disappointed - maybe I expected too much with it being REAL italian food but I actually preferred my own lasagne and rigatoni pastas and tended to go for fish and chicken dishes instead while we were there.

@DJC3 Many thanks for sharing - much appreciated - I am just a couple of kilos heavier than you at the moment and would like to get back down to where you are which was where I was but since going even lower carb and higher fat, I have put a little weight back on as opposed to when I was just low carb, so I am thinking since I have started higher fat I have put more weight on so it probably makes sense for me to cut back on the fat or do a longer fast like yourself but not sure at the moment I have just got my thinking cap on and won't be next week as my fridge is topped up with cream - I love it but I think I may need to cut back on it.

Visited my mum late afternoon then did usual long walk as it had dried up and hopefully walked some of the calories off

Strange weekend. Last friday night my best friend broke up with her boyfriend so I suddenly found myself going from a hermit-like life with dogs, chickens, cats, goats and guinea pigs to a household with 2 grown ups and a 10 month old!
This won't last very long, she will be looking for her own place to live but this can take a few months.

Yesterday was spicy meatballs plus tomatoes at the campfire in the rain with friend and neighbour. Her phone upstairs with the sleeping baby. mine in the garden, both on speaker modus
We were going to cook, but her emotions demanded a campfire. A good fire trumps proper food any day in my opinion

Today I cooked, a weird combination of fried leftover vegetables (leek, broccoli, cucumber, mushrooms) with a black bean sauce and some Thai fish sauce, a cob of corn with butter and salt, and those frozen blocks of white fish, quickly stewed with garlic and red pepper. We were both surprised by how good the dish tasted!
I cooked a small piece of the fish in plain water for little Famke to try, and it was clear right away more of this fish should be on the shopping list, she loved it .

23.08.2020
Breakfast 2xCWC and nut granola, managed to get two batches baked last night. Now have supply for four weeks
CWC
Bit of a blip snack of too much cheese.
Lunch avocado, sheep's cheese and tomato salad with lettuce and cucumber. Water and tea.
Tea, no biscuit.
Dinner Bolognaise style sauce with steamed cabbage, carrots and runner beans again from the freezer.
Glass of water and one of wine
lemon tea

@SlimLizzy very enterprising, cracking those walnuts! We used to do that as kids, and it was mostly fun for the huge black messes we became! The nuts were nasty "reactive depression" sounds exactly the same to me! One reacts to a situation with a time of depression.
@Chook I finally looked up chaffle, thinking it was a very British food. Imagine my surprise!
@Annb glad you're improving! Phooey on the heirloom slow cooker, sorry!
@JenniferM55 that marinade sounds delicious to me!
All this pizza paella Yorkshire pudding talk! I looked for and found an okay-looking keto Yorkshire pudding/popovers recipe. My mom used to make a mean American version but really what I'm remembering is the beef gravy.... I think my region's equivalent "fighting over" food would be barbecue. Everybody has their favorite secret-- and sometimes it really is Coca-Cola!!
@Mrs T 123 I have the same story as you! I started eating more fat, often as more pecans. I noticed extra belly fat but the scale didn't budge for months and months so I ignored it and stopped weighing daily. Well....wham! Next weigh-in several months later, 6 extra pounds! Sigh. I came back here in hopes of gaining the oomph to go back to the successful way of eating.
@Antje77 you are a good friend! The baby probably thinks it's in heaven with all the animals! Very clever baby monitor!! And good for her on the fish!
Today:
Bfast avocado, boiled egg, 1 Lindt 90%, flax crisps/dilute soymilk
Lunch en famille and it was amazing. Our son is using the grill at every opportunity, so we had grilled marinated giant portobello caps, olives, fried eggs, and I'd made regular cookies. They keep a good supply of chocolate so I had a square instead of cookies. Grandson had carrots!
Snack pecan butter, too much.
Supper wilted spinach/hm dressing, boiled egg, flax/soy combo. Cut up a watermelon for Mr ZF and snuck a few bites. It was a very good one!

Mrs T 123 said:

Rained pretty much all day here today so when hubby suggested going out for lunch again today, well .. I did another OMAD same as yesterday and had the same meal out as yesterday too (I had enjoyed it that much!)

AM - mug of earl grey with double cream.

Lunch/Dinner - rib-eye steak with prawns and peppercorn sauce on top with a large side salad. SF jelly and double cream when I got home.

@maglil55 When I was in Italy a few years back (before I knew I had D) I tried the pizzas and pastas and was so disappointed - maybe I expected too much with it being REAL italian food but I actually preferred my own lasagne and rigatoni pastas and tended to go for fish and chicken dishes instead while we were there.

@DJC3 Many thanks for sharing - much appreciated - I am just a couple of kilos heavier than you at the moment and would like to get back down to where you are which was where I was but since going even lower carb and higher fat, I have put a little weight back on as opposed to when I was just low carb, so I am thinking since I have started higher fat I have put more weight on so it probably makes sense for me to cut back on the fat or do a longer fast like yourself but not sure at the moment I have just got my thinking cap on and won't be next week as my fridge is topped up with cream - I love it but I think I may need to cut back on it.

Visited my mum late afternoon then did usual long walk as it had dried up and hopefully walked some of the calories off

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I was the same with cream - so easy to overindulge isn’t it? I was going through pints of it! I trained myself to drink my coffee black ( and actually prefer it that way now) so I just use it for cooking but not every day. I think it’s made a difference.
Good luck with however you decide to proceed. It’s a constant game of tweaking this and that for all of us, and annoyingly what works for one person doesn’t always do the same for the next. I’m sure your OMADs will help too.