Evening!
Need to be accountable for what I'm eating at the moment as I'm struggling again. Very much hoping I can get control when back at work next week but I fear cake will feature and I'm not so good at avoiding it at the moment.
Have made some fab discoveries recently, coconut flour flat breads that actually stay together, mini milk ice lollies which are only 4g carbs... but eaten far too many carbs overall. Well, not so many compared with before diagnosis but still loads.
The carbs have hit and I am finding it hard to kick them again. I need to get off them once and for all. The addiction is real!
Bad things today have included a hot cross bun and a magnum.
Good things have included some oompf and salad at lunchtime.
Need more good and less bad.
I bought some nice stilton and I'll make LC crackers tomorrow. I'm also wondering if I can adapt my LC bread recipe to give me a cheese scone or a hot cross bun type of hit.
So tomorrow should consist of
Stilton and crackers for lunch,
Aldi LC pasta (love it!) with chicken, mushroom and pesto for dinner.
Hot cross style roll experiment for a snack.
All that waiting, weeks on end, isn't for me.
If you don't want another gadget (it's the size of a drinking bottle. with both the charging top and a stopper/top for when the infusion, or soda water, or whatever is done. It uses those single use cartridges.
In your shoes, I'd probably be up for an experiment. It'd do a small batch, in a good quality vacuum or ziplock bag, in the IP, on the yoghurt setting, for a few hours.
I'd only do, say 150ml, as a tester, so there isn't much of a gamble going on. Just lob the gin, plus fruit into the bag - seal well, then if going down the pretendy sous vide route, give the fruit a little squidge, then put it into the pot, with a couple of inches of water in it. I'd be inclined to had it sit on a trivet (to keep it off the heated metal), and just start off with tepid/warm water from the tap, as it's not going to be consumed.
If it has infused, but not as much as you might like, give it longer next time, or add more fruit. It could be a little adventure.
Pineapple gin or vodka is lovely, as is gin (about 0.5 bottle), with the fine zest of an orange.
Yesterday
Late breakfast of scrambled eggs after dog walk
Snack of last 2 of yesterday's homemade low carb biscuits
D cold roast chicken and salad followed bya little fruit salad and clotted cream.
Am away again and yesterday was all other people trying to do low carb for me
Today we are back to self catering so
B: cold poached salmon with 40g cheddar cheese
D: steak and salad. Few raspberries with 2 montezuma peanut butter eggs and clotted cream.
Does anyone have any ideas how to use/ eat those peanut butter eggs without them being so cloying they physically glue my mouth together?
No I have to keep it dry. Just rest, elevation, pain killers and antibiotics@Rachox I am so sorry about the infected foot!! Are you allowed to soak it in Epsom salts?
This has made me very happy and excited! I am going to love experimenting, thank you so much for the ideas and tips.
@DCUKMod thanks for tag here is my adapted cheese scone recipe - they freeze well and can be buttered and treated like a roll for a picnic or office based lunch!Evening!
Need to be accountable for what I'm eating at the moment as I'm struggling again. Very much hoping I can get control when back at work next week but I fear cake will feature and I'm not so good at avoiding it at the moment.
Have made some fab discoveries recently, coconut flour flat breads that actually stay together, mini milk ice lollies which are only 4g carbs... but eaten far too many carbs overall. Well, not so many compared with before diagnosis but still loads.
The carbs have hit and I am finding it hard to kick them again. I need to get off them once and for all. The addiction is real!
Bad things today have included a hot cross bun and a magnum.
Good things have included some oompf and salad at lunchtime.
Need more good and less bad.
I bought some nice stilton and I'll make LC crackers tomorrow. I'm also wondering if I can adapt my LC bread recipe to give me a cheese scone or a hot cross bun type of hit.
So tomorrow should consist of
Stilton and crackers for lunch,
Aldi LC pasta (love it!) with chicken, mushroom and pesto for dinner.
Hot cross style roll experiment for a snack.
Thank you so much! I will be making a batch very soon. I needed something good for lunches and that will fit the bill nicely.@DCUKMod thanks for tag here is my adapted cheese scone recipe - they freeze well and can be buttered and treated like a roll for a picnic or office based lunch!
Cheese Scones -makes 9/10 small scones
Carb content is 13g per whole mix therefore 1.3g carb per scone. Carb comes mainly from the ground almonds.
Ingredients
• 150g Ground Almonds
• 50g psyllium Husk – this makes them more scone like
• 2 teaspoons of Baking Powder
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon English Mustard Powder
• 70g of Butter - melted
• 100g of grated cheese + some extra for tops before baking
• 2 teaspoon salt
• Pepper to season
Method
1. Preheat oven to 160 fan and line tray with liner
2. Add all dry ingredients (except cheese) in good sized mixing bowl.
3. Melt the butter
4. Beat egg and butter together and then add a little at a time to the dry ingredients to right texture - not too sticky - and then mix in cheese. Keep some aside for decorating the scones
5. Sprinkle PH onto a board or surface and put ball of dough onto surface.
6. Cut 10 scones out, sprinkle grated cheese on top and put on prepared tray
7. Cook for 15 mins until firm and golden brown.
NB I am planning to try and bake these in a week or so using a revised recipe using the Oat bran I have discovered thanks to @ziggy_w this will make them lower carb - see my earlier chaffle post for details but even if used a 50/50 split would take them down to 1g of carb or less per scone and I may try doing 2 thrrds oat bran - will let you know how it works!!!
Like the sound of these very much @mouseee hope to make some soon.Thank you so much! I will be making a batch very soon. I needed something good for lunches and that will fit the bill nicely.
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