What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and Fibre One caramel protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and chocolate chia pudding.
Dinner: mushroom, cheese and tomato omelette followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate and raspberry granola.

DJC3 said:

Thank you! I felt it might be better to bake it with a bit of oil first too. I’ll report back later with a photo if it goes well.

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How did your haddock, aubergine and Jarlsberg gratin work out?

Wednesday 5.6 FBG 6

Did I mention, just to add to everything else that was going on, my dishwasher is kaput, and my freezer went weird. Dishwasher, fine, Hubby is washing by hand currently until I decide what I want. The big fridge freezer is another matter. Fridge is fine but the freezer part.....son reckons it's haunted. It stopped producing ice but the ice still in the caddy was melting, running down the inside of the freezer door and refreezing. I have stalactites on my freezer door! Most food remained frozen but the ice cream had to be ditched. Boys ice cream lollies were liquid inside. Engineer was coming in today and would you believe the ice caddy was full when we got up! Engineer really went over it but we're at the stage it could be a few things so we have to wait for it to go weird again! Boys ice creams are also so frozen they have to thaw a bit before they can bite them.

B. TAG
L. 2 slices of SLC bread with ox tongue and coleslaw.
D. Remains of yet more cold meats Hubby had yesterday, tomatoes and a cauliflower thingy. DGF blueberry and lemon.

Another day for breakfast as work is mental the now - 3 eggs with butter mashed in a cup.

Lunch - 2 slices of SLC bread with Boursin, a lump of smoked sausage and a sugar free jelly.

Dinner - roast chicken, a mini corn on the cob, some cabbage and cauliflower cheese.

maglil55 said:

Hubby is washing by hand currently until I decide what I want.

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This sounds like the perfect solution really

Dinner was green beans and mushrooms with spicy pork belly pieces again
I'm also in the process of making a new batch of chocolate and nut things to fill the freezer (waiting for it to set enough to be able to cut in pieces, but not set so much it will break everywhere).
This time with roasted walnuts, almonds and experimental pumpkin seeds. I noticed that according to the bag they were best before march 2020, so high time I used them
And yes, my mum's fruit bowl is put to good use for the au bain marie melting of the ingredients. It's perfect because it fits any pot!

maglil55 said:

I fry them in a frying pan with a little olive oil. I also tend to slice them, put them on kitchen towel, salt them and leave them for a while. It draws liquid out. Rinse under a cold tap and pat dry.

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Thank you. Makes sense to draw out as much moisture as poss if putting in a dish with a bit of sauce.

Max68 said:

Hi all, sorry haven't been on for a while. Was just a quick message to say thanks for all the support. After my HBA1c jumped up from 51 to 70 between July 20 and Feb 21 I had another check this week and it has dropped to 59 thanks to your support in helping me drop my carb intake and also doing my daily walk. It's far from perfect but if I've managed to get it down by 11 in just under three months I know I can get it down by at least another 11 by August. Hoped for better but at least it hasn't gone up! Know I can do better so onwards and upwards. Thanks again.

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Well done you! Good to see you back.

Luckily my hungry 24 hours proved to be just that. No idea what caused it.

Skipped breakfast as straight into an exercise class followed by a walk with friends. This one we rested halfway at a pub for a garden lunch. I had burger with salad and left the bun. Very civilised albeit cold (weather I mean, not the burger) just munt tea to drink.

An lc hot chocolate when home again

D: newly invented cheesy mince layer bake. The layers were beef mince cooked with onions and a tin chopped tomatoes with layers of cabbage and slice edam cheese, sort of lasagne like without the pasta and with added cabbage.
An lc brownie and cream to finish

MrsA2 said:

The layers were beef mince cooked with onions and a tin chopped tomatoes with layers of cabbage and slice edam cheese, sort of lasagne like without the pasta and with added cabbage.

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Sounds quick, easy and tasty

Bacon and eggs with some reheated veggies for breakfast.
Lunch was cancelled for lack of interest.
Grilled coral trout fillets, green veggies and a few chips for dinner.

maglil55 said:

Way behind again Sunday bed 5.8 FBG 6.1
Travelled up with Hubby as niece goes back to Australia on Friday from Manchester. She's busy now getting her covid test ready to fly. We'd hoped quarantine might have been lifted by the time she returned but no such luck. 14 days in a hotel in Perth and when she "escapes" she'll still have another 4 hour flight to get to the east coast.

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For future reference @maglil55 , never have a PERTH arrival point. I can say this with complete freedom given I live here. The Premier of that state is a total moron with strong totalitarian tendencies who thinks nothing of enforcing a state lockdown with little or no notice, all over a single case of covid.

Finally home from the road trip

2 fried eggs and bacon
1 milk coffees
2 x almonds (6)
3 low carb beers (1.7gms each)
4 x red wine
Indian lamb cutlets, Bombay curry oops some naan and rice
Did walk 10km
BFG 5.0 ????

Evening all.

Enjoying a little break away from home = no air fryer, but also very little food prep/clearing up

Lunch today was 3 chicken drumsticks - leftover from a raid of the Morrison’s ‘Market Kitchen’ rotisserie the night before and reheated.
Dinner was from Five Guys. Bunless bacon burger with grilled onions.

FBG higher than I’d like this morning and continued rising after 1hr dog walk so had breakfast to see if that would stall it. Scrambled eggs did the trick.
Hair appointment at lunchtime hurrah! 9 months worth of locks cut off. Had a bit of a walk along the surprisingly empty Fistral beach which was glorious.
Starving when I finally got home so airfried a couple of belly pork slices ( from the half pig we got yesterday from a local farm) and a chicken thigh. While they were cooking I had a DGF cake and BG shot up again. I’d often thought I might be sensitive to these and I think I now have proof. Probably a good thing as I’m trying to recondition my sweet tooth, but a bit sad too.
Dinner, which I only ate half of as I’d not long finished lunch was a takeaway bacon cheeseburger. Rest of the family wanted a Friday night takeaway, I should have just declined really, such a waste.
(Had room for a glass of red wine though)

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and Fibre One caramel protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and coffee chia pudding with LC chocolate and raspberry granola.
Dinner: 2 x lamb kebabs, leafy salad, pork scratchings and coleslaw followed by a white chocolate Carb Killa choc ice.

Brave Ape chocolate porridge with strawberries
Lunch: Chicken salad, pack of cheeses and a fibre one protein bar. Dinner: chicken salad(again! Not feeling very inspired tonight) 1x dgf bake well blonde and 1x grenade carb killa bar.

No breakfast
L: 1 piece lc soda bread with 30g gouda. Ff greek with 6 blueberries
Mid afternoon, stuck in a traffic jam for an hour so boredom tucked into 100g cold chicken and 1 nut bar that I had just bought ...for the weekend!
D: shakusha with egg that hubby cooked. 1 tablespoon ff greek with 1 sq 85% chopped into it

Drank some supposedly sugar free kombucha, but it was as sickly sweet as any of the other 'low calorie ' soft drinks I've tried. Only erythritol listed as a 'natural' sweetener. Wasn't quite as nasty aftertaste as some other drinks but I won't bother again and it was expensive at £2.50 for 500ml.

Mike d said:

For future reference @maglil55 , never have a PERTH arrival point. I can say this with complete freedom given I live here. The Premier of that state is a total moron with strong totalitarian tendencies who thinks nothing of enforcing a state lockdown with little or no notice, all over a single case of covid.

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She didn't have a lot of choice the number of flights that are suspended I'm afraid. She's about 5 hours out currently and not looking forward to her 14 days "imprisonment". Even worse, she reckons that she'll have to check in to another hotel on the evening of day 14 as she doesn't think her "release" time will let her get back to Canberra. At least they bumped her up to Business Class.

maglil55 said:

She didn't have a lot of choice the number of flights that are suspended I'm afraid. She's about 5 hours out currently and not looking forward to her 14 days "imprisonment". Even worse, she reckons that she'll have to check in to another hotel on the evening of day 14 as she doesn't think her "release" time will let her get back to Canberra. At least they bumped her up to Business Class.

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Yep, I know .. hence the use of my words "future reference". Avoid PERTH always.

And to emphasise my original post, they just found another case or two today in the capital (SAT aftn my time). So another lockdown is on the cards. News not 15 minutes ago

Thursday bed 5.1 FBG 5.7. @Antje77 - a dishwashing Hubby may sound like a perfect solution and, it probably would be if only he would put them away once washed and dry. It's not difficult as each has its own place.
B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with egg mayo.
L. Nothing
D. A burger I got at my butchers. A chimichurri burger. They're good a GF things so this was dense in texture but very tasty. It has a very artistically arranged onion on top that looked like a flower. One of the broccoli souffle things. A grenade ice cream bar and a DGF coconut and raspberry.

@Mike d - niece is now tucked up in her 14 day "prison". She's sent me photos of the room and to be fair it's rather nice. Very large and nicely furnished. Still, I wouldn't fancy being stuck in a hotel room for 14 days.

Friday bed 4.7 FBG 5.3

As this is a half day at school, grandson very sensibly suggested I bring work with me for him to do in the car rather than rush home then back to collect little brother. We got more schoolwork done in 30 mins in the car than we did in the afternoon yesterday!

B. TAG and a slice of SLC toast with egg mayo.
L. 2 slices of SLC bread with roast beef, mustard and tomato.
D. Decided to go shopping this afternoon rather than Saturday. On return I has 2 icy cold, sugar free Vimtos (freezer still producing stalactites). I'd got a deli chicken in Morrisons but was less than happy to see the chicken breast was decidedly pink so I ended up with a boiled egg, lettuce, santini tomatoes and coleslaw. Later I had 4 strawberries, scoop of chocolate brownie Oppo (now being stocked by M&S) and a dash of cream.

Reason for the Friday afternoon shop is that Grandsons are starting Brazilian Jujitsu tomorrow and I'll need to leave about 8.30am with son to get them there. I only have to pick up my butcher order and I can do that on the way back as it is en route. Their swimming is also back on Sunday so my total days of uninterrupted peace are over. At least I have the Bank Holiday on Monday.