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Nairn's do a couple of GF crackers that are pretty low at 3 g of carbs per cracker. There's a seeded one and another one. @shelley262 is the LC cracker maker.
 
I got the fish again today in Morrisons. It's still with the pre packed next to the Market Street fish counter but, they had a 3 for £10 shelf today and it was there with the other on offer fishes.
 
Mauriac said:
Thanks. I looked at several recipes for fat head dough but they all require a microwave. I looked on Amazon to see if there was any ready made but there wasn't. Perhaps I should just accept that bread and crackers are just things I don't eat any more
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Ready made pizza base you can use lo dough. You buy direct from them. It's a handy store cupboard stand by. It's a tad pricey, and it is very bland on it's own, but it makes a reasonable pizza. Put enough toppings on it and it is fine.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAAegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw2u6zB8NgVObFAoIucaTEbP

I see Amazon has it as well now.

Bread? One of the best I've found is Skinny Bread. You have to make it but it is easy and it is yeasted. The yeast sachet is in with the bread mix. You get this from

https://mydiet-shop.co.uk/baking-co...814.html?search_query=Skinny+bread&results=32

I've made it into rolls before but I prefer it as bread as it keeps better. Once the loaf cools I wrap it in Bees Wrap (Lakeland).

Another bread/rolls you may have noticed recently is Seriously Low Carb bread. Another Amazon product. You buy in batches of 3 and they do rolls as well.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seriously-...SAV0W03255H&psc=1&refRID=KKP8CT8XXSAV0W03255H

You'll need freezer space as I doubt you'll eat 3 of them in a week. @Mrs T 123 is working her way through them currently.
 
maglil55 said:
Nairn's do a couple of GF crackers that are pretty low at 3 g of carbs per cracker. There's a seeded one and another one. @shelley262 is the LC cracker maker.
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thank you for the tag @maglil55
@Mauriac here is the recipe I use Ive evolved it over time and it is great as crisp and also very verylow carb. I did add some oat fibre to my last version but not sure Ive got the proportions right so giving you the recipe Ive done many many times. It is worth investing int he silicone baking mats if doing them a lot as you can both roll them out, cut them and bake them on the mats and then just wash the mats and dry to reuse. I used to use baking parchment but got through lots and they stuck sometimes! Good luck if you give it a go.

Seeded Crispbreads

4 grams of carb for whole mix if 40 crispbreads each crispbread is 0.1 of carb.

Makes 40 crispbreads using a 2” square cutter or you could just cut out to size wanted with a knife

Equipment:

Need 2 large flat oven trays – you can use oiled greaseproof paper to cook them on but I’ve found it more economical and easier to buy oven proof silicone tray liners – which you don’t need to oil. (I use three of them using two to roll out on and then pop into the oven trays and one to use on top - which I use to make rolling out much easier as it doesn’t stick to the liner)

Ingredients

• 150g of Dry ingredients in total - I now use the following but you could do a mix of ground and whole seeds that you like:

o 80g of milled seeds could use just ground flaxseed but I used a mix of flaxseed, sunflower and pumpkin seeds and think it added more flavour to the mix (Linwood’s or Aldi’s version and used this as my carb count)

o 20 g of Psyllium Husk

o 30 g of whole hemp heart seeds – these are shelled and very soft and nutty (or just use more of the whole mixed seeds - I vary what I do depending what Ive got in my cupboard)

o 20g of whole mixed seeds

o Some ground psyllium husk powder for rolling out the crispbreads

• Seasoning to taste I use a mix of salt, a few herbs and pepper

• 2 tablespoon of olive oil and 9 tablespoons of water (you may need a bit extra when mixing you’ll need to judge it to make sure good sticky texture)

Method

1. Put oven on to 160 fan – or equivalent

2. Mix water and oil

3. Mix liquids with dry ingredients - adding more Psyllium Husk if very sticky or more water if very dry and not binding into a ball for rolling out. Go steady as Psyllium Husk takes a few mins to thicken so don’t overdo it.

4. Sprinkle powdered Psyllium Husk onto the two silicone tray lines and tip half the dough out on each sheet and using another sheet and rolling pin roll and press out until as thin as possible - the thinner the better. Do one and then the other. Once rolled out remove the top silicone mat that’s only to assist the rolling out.

5. When you’ve got a rectangle the size of the silicone mat, press out/roll out the size and shapes of crispbread required. Or just cut the shape you want. You should be able to spread them out on the mat and then when completed just put into the oven tray - should make about 20 on each tray, if thin enough. They don’t spread so can be quite close together for baking

6. Bake in oven for 35 mins+ - checking and then leaving longer and/or in a cooling oven if not crisp enough. I tend always to leave them in the cooling oven for a least a couple of hours until they are quite crunchy. If you don’t manage to roll them out thinly enough and they are thick or too wet they will need a longer cook. They should snap a bit before you turn the oven off if at all chewy because of thickness cook them for longer!
 
Todays food:
coffee only all morning
lunch one slice of bacon with two eggs and half a toasted buttered chaffle
mid afternoon 6 pieces of montezumas 100% choc with orange oil and six salted almonds
Dinner HM chicken curry served with remaining M and S Cauliflower couscous and also yoghurt raita with a gin and soda water followed by DGF lemon blueberry cake with extra thick cream.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and Strawberry carb killa
Late Lunch: prawn cocktail followed by Greek yoghurt, raspberries and vanilla and raspberry LC granola.
Dinner: Balti chicken curry with cauliflower rice followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
 
Yesterday was mostly carnivore
11 am one cold chicken thigh, after yoga, before walk
1 pm coffee at pub after walk
2pm one cold chicken thigh, bit of pate and 2 tablesppons coleslaw
6:30 pm at pop up pub, burger with bacon and cheese, no bun, used lettuce to hold it. 1 slice tomato. One white wine

Today
Ff greek with seeds and blueberries
Cooking session of cheese crisps and seed crackers
L : chicken thigh
D : roast chicken with lettuce, toms, guacamole, cucumber, roasted pepper strips. Boys had their in wraps. Mine was just on a plate

Sin of the day, in lidl I spotted a 70% chocolate in caramel flavour thinking it would still be OK, but only having tried 2 gloriously tasty squares did I see its 5g a square so got son to hide it from me

He's allowed me just one square after dinner. Does that mean he's good or bad to his mother?
 
Bed 6.5 FBG 6.9

I had hoped not to go out today as we'd planned on Chinese but that rice wrapped prawn thing I had before had become unavailable so out I went into a rather gusty wind. I also spent some time reorganising the freezer since, despite using stuff, it was still rather packed and I want to get these Seriously Low Carb loaves. At least I found my GF haggis so that's on the agenda for Monday.

B. TAG and a slice of LC toast with pate.

L. 2 GF crackers with mackerel pate when I got back from the shops.

D. Usual cold cuts. Slice each of roast pork leg, ox tongue, ham, piri piri chicken. Boiled egg, coleslaw and veggie chips. 2 squares Lindt 90%. (I looked at Godiva today - I resisted buying).

@Annb - I see the islanders are getting rebellious. Noticed that Orkney and Western Isles are considering following Shetland in going for independence from Scotland if they change the constitution. Just waiting to see who's next.
 
Thanks - I'll give it a go.

That brunch looks soooooo good.

I'm currently eating that Waitrose chocolate. As you say, it's delicious
maglil55 said:
Nairn's do a couple of GF crackers that are pretty low at 3 g of carbs per cracker. There's a seeded one and another one. @shelley262 is the LC cracker maker.
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Thank you.
 
Thank you - that's really helpful and I'll give them a try. My wholefoods shopping list is getting very long. I bought two silicone mats ages ago but have never used them. Now's my opportunity - providing I can find them.
 
After discovering the low carb bread from my local bakery wasn't at all bad, I needed to know if the bread would make a reasonable 'tosti'. (Bread, cheese, frying pan, you get the idea.)
Thought to try tomorrow, but the tosti wouldn't leave my thoughts, despite it being close to dinner time and already having prepared dinner by marinating shrimp and fish.

So I made a half (one slice) tosti at around 6 pm with the idea to have my shrimp accompanied by a quick salad instead of a cooked vegetable dish.
The bread made a very acceptable tosti so tosti's are in my future again! I love tosti's!
At a guess, about 7 or 8 grams of carbs.



So dinner had been postponed to 9.30. Spicy shrimp and fish fried in a marinade of a whole red jalapeno, seeds and all, chopped up with lots of garlic, some lime juice and a little salt, accompanied by a quick cucumber salad (cucumber, onion, mayonnaise, salt, pepper, splash of balsamic vinegar). And a small piece of the new bread to mop up things.

Turned out both dogs and cats love the heads, tails, legs and shells of the shrimp, and they don't mind all the jalapeno and garlic, so my plate now looks like I can put it right back in the cupboard!
So between my 2 dogs, 3 cats and myself we had a lovely dinner for six .

 
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maglil55 said:
Bed 6.5 FBG 6.9

@Annb - I see the islanders are getting rebellious. Noticed that Orkney and Western Isles are considering following Shetland in going for independence from Scotland if they change the constitution. Just waiting to see who's next.
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Hadn't heard about that. Daft idea. The Island has allowed all its resources to be taken away, for financial reasons over the last 40 years, and now is pretty well totally dependent on UK and Scottish govt support.

BG down to 5.9 this evening. Don't know what I did right.
 
Hello all,

Late posting today, but better go ahead before I forget what I had today.

@Chook -- Sorry to read you seem to be coming down with something. Keeping my fingers crossed you got this beat in no time at all.
@Mauriac -- dietdoctor. com has some pretty good recipe for crackers and rolls. Tried them both and they are good. Here are the links: https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/keto-seed-crackers https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/the-keto-bread

Today ...

Breakfast: Double decaffeinated espressos with cream and erythritol. Half a DD keto roll with h/m mayonnaise and cheese.

Lunch: Half a DD keto roll with beef tartare and mayonnaise. Some off the chocolate experiment gone awry (come to think of it, it pretty much tastes and feels like Werther's originals with the addition of pumpkin seeds).

Dinner: Lamb's lettuce with h/m Caesar's dressing and grated parmesan. Sliced and fried lamb with chantarelle mushrooms, onion, parsley and creme fraiche. Dry red wine and the last of my misshapen chocolate adventure.
 
Morning all. Yesterday’s food before I forget. Black coffee then boot camp which left me feeling a bit sick and BG of 8.7 staggered back home for bacon sandwich made with the Keeto bread, heavily buttered. Heaven!
Mid afternoon a DGF cake with a cuppa. ( thanks for the heads up re ginger cakes @Rachox I’ve ordered some now, although my freezer is still full of my last order)
Dinner was Cobb salad to use up bits and pieces and make some room in the fridge
@Chook thanks for the Naked Glory and Alt info. Are they frozen or chilled? I hope your lurgy isn’t too horrible.
@maglil55 woohoo on weight loss!
@Mauriac the only thing I’d add to all the lovely bread and cracker suggestions is this https://hemsleyandhemsley.com/recipe/flaxseed-buns/ they are my favourite and very easy. They use a bit of maple syrup but I don’t use it and it makes no difference at all ( I tried with sugar free maple syrup once or twice, but couldn’t tell the difference)
 
Yesterday I had:

Breakfast: A glass of water
Pre-lunch (well it is the weekend. ) a few macadamias and almonds and a large glass of wine.
Lunch: pork pâté with 2 tomatoes, bean salad; a pear and 20g of 90% chocolate.
Afternoon snack: 20g of 90% chocolate
Pre-supper: 2 small glasses of wine and 3 Waitrose smoked salmon and cream cheese terrine slices (they're tiny in case that sounds piggy)
Supper: mince, with 35g of carrots, french beans, 75G of tomatoey lentils followed by blackberries with 2% Greek yoghurt and a peach.
Late evening snack after I got the munchies but didn't want any more carbs: 2 slices of ham.

I make that just over 2100 calories and about 85g of carbs. This is a bit higher on both than I would like so I'll try and be a bit better today.

Can I just say thank you to everyone for all their suggestions and recipes and for how wonderfully friendly and non-judgemental you all are. I have been going through a stressful time for the last few months and it has been really uplifting to come on here and find such warmth from a group of total strangers. If I could have you all over for a socially distanced low-carb party I would!
 
I'm feeling a lot better today, just a bit of sore throat left. FBGs slowly drifting back downwards - 9.6 this morning.

Yesterday's fish pie was gorgeous - picture below

@DJC3 - I have only seen the Alt as a chilled product but the Morning Glory has both chilled and frozen. So far I've only tried the chilled and loved both the 'roast' and 'bbq' varieties.

@Mauriac - I think this thread is as friendly as it is because we have all struggled with what to eat after diagnosis and are very happy to pass on any hints or tips to make life a bit easier to others if we can. I know I learned a lot more about what to eat to control my diabetes from this thread than I ever did from any medical professionals.

Today

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

Dinner: salmon baked with butter, lemon and fennel, griddled courgettes and asparagus and maybe some wilted chard.

Black decaff coffee and water throughout the day.

While we were away the chard patch has turned into a chard jungle - you can definitely have too much of a good thing!

 
FBG 10.9. Not too happy with that.

Warm water and a cup of tea with milk - around 6.30 am.

Late breakfast/early brunch at 10.30 - one slice of a pork terrine from the freezer (after 36 units of the new insulin). BG 2 hours later - 9.7. A bit of an improvement. More tea.

Just now - another cup of tea with milk and a Co-codamol to try to settle some of today's issues.

Later I will make a kind of bouillabaise with some frozen fish and some tinned tomatoes. Must add some more to tomorrow's shopping list - my stock has almost run out. The tomatoes, onion, garlic and peppers in it shouldn't do too much harm. Shan't use any more risky veg than those.

My cleaning lady phoned to tell me that she got tied up with things and forgot to come yesterday but I've had to put her off until next Friday now. Too much going on this week.

Thinking about making some cheese crisps but really feel just like dozing in the chair. The Co-codamol will put me out if I do sit down there. And, if I do, I might just eat all the cheese crisps that I make. Risky.
 
Hi All
Yesterday has my usual slice of HiLo toast, thick butter and lots of tea.
Lunch was egg mayo, sliced ham and salad bits.
Supper was h/m chicken curry and cauli rice.
Bramble gin and soda beforehand.
Today same breakfast.
Lunch was grilled bacon left over from Mr PM’s breakfast and egg mayo.
Supper will be stirfried rump steak with veg ginger and a little oyster sauce.
Probs a gin or two beforehand.

@Annb hope you have a nice snooze and feel better for it.
@Chook now I want fish pie..yours looks delish!
@Mauriac you seem to be off to a great start on the LC journey. I am still learning after nearly three years. Agree this is a really lovely thread and one of my favourites.
 
PenguinMum said:
@Mauriac you seem to be off to a great start on the LC journey. I am still learning after nearly three years. Agree this is a really lovely thread and one of my favourites.
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Thanks. I just hope I can keep it up. Because we are not having anyone over for a meal or going to anyone and not really eating out (although we do have two meals out planned but I'm getting a bit worried about going with the rise in cases) it's making it easier. I'm one of those people who can trundle along nicely on an eating plan as long as nothing interrupts it. As soon as something happens, such as a meal out or Christmas, I go off it and then can't get back on for weeks or months.
 
Yesterday:
Breakfast:
2 egg omelet
1 avocado
1/4 of apple
Lunch:
1 tomato
2 hot dogs (meat only)
serving old cheddar
Dinner:
low-carb tacos (meat cheese and hot-sauce on lettuce wrap

Macros: ??? I didn't log everything, but I am more than satisfied.
FBG this morning: 6.1

Today: Nothing. It's a fasting day.

Oh...black coffee all day, every day.
 
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