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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

2 eggs scrambled with left-over cabbage and carrot plus some spring onion.

Later will have a sort of French style peas - peas cooked in veg stock with some shredded lettuce, but I'll leave out the potato thickener. Might add a few nuts or seeds.
 
Yesterday (May 14th)

Breakfast: 2 Babybel cheese, black coffee
Lunch (12pm): Leftover grilled pork rib chop and a tomato salad
Snack (3pm): MacDonalds sausage, cheese, and egg, black coffee
Dinner (6pm): Another leftover grilled pork rib chop and a small takeaway wonton soup
Evening Snack (10pm) - 1/4 cups peanuts and a light lager

Walked 4.19km
 
I would call these flat beans runner beans. They also look like an Italian one that they call Romano beans. The other green beans are narrower and need their ends trimmed off. I just refer to them as green beans apart from the French green beans (Haricot Vert) which are narrower and more tender. The other one you referred to that you have to pod I call broad beans. Usually I skin the bean itself as well as the skin can be tough.
 
Meant to say, a nice easy recipe for the just green beans (haricot vert or otherwise) is cook them to whatever texture you like. Dot an ovenproof dish with bits of butter, put the beans in and scatter grated Cheddar over the top. Season with salt if required and cayenne pepper for a bit of heat. Add some cream on top (not lots). Mix then add more cheese on top, few more dots of butter and put in the oven for 20 mins.

I've also added things like onion granules or garlic granules. These beans are also nice when cooked tossed in butter and chopped garlic that's been fried. Also good when you cook off chopped pancetta and stir the beans through (garlic goes well in that too). Chopped spring onion also mixes well.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Atkins double chocolate bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and chocolate chia pudding.
Dinner: fry up of bacon, eggs, a couple of cherry tomatoes and mushrooms followed by SF raspberry jelly, cream and LC chocolate and raspberry granola.
 
B: a nut bar, in the car on way to a break away, yay! Freedom.
L: 2 drumsticks with green salad. 25g Godiva 72% with raspberries, to die for about 7g carbs
D: 2 drumsticks, one hard boiled egg 20g cheese and salad bits. 25g godiva with raspberries. 1 glass malbec
 

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Thursday bed 5.8 FBG 6. DGF supply arrived today and freezer still causing issues. Think I'm in a race against time to clear the freezer before it goes totally.

B. TAG and my usual 2 slices of SLC toast with Dairylea.
L. Nothing. A very intense maths afternoon. Yesterday was fractions (not decimals). Today was decimals and percentages and how they fit with fractions. I thought he did well yesterday but he exceeded that today.
D. Tripe - my Italian version from the freezer and one of the broccoli/cauliflower souffle things (also from the freezer).
I did have 2 DGF Brookies ( never had them before; rather more ish).

@Annb - we've made huge progress with grandson. It's not the schools holding them back. The so called Curriculum for Excellence isn't even close to that. It's dreadful. I subscribed to both English and Scottish curriculums and the English one is vastly superior especially when it comes to literacy. I've told the school that although I'm trying to introduce variety, I will focus one one area if I see a gap. They're certainly not stopping me. I've been fortunate too that when they do give him work to bring home he tells me "We did this ages ago". He still does it though - very quickly!

Friday - bed 6 FBG 6.5

Was feeling a bit "off" bit of a sore throat and stuffy again! Weather is dire and cold.

B. TAG then a mad rush about getting DIL to her clinic, son on a run to recycling quick trip home before going back for grandson for a short schooling session.
L. Nothing - freezer getting worse. Now has permanent fault showing but Engineer coming Tuesday with lots of parts!
D. Smoked sausage with mustard and another souffle thing. Has a brookie and a Notella from the DGF supply. Hope the freezer gets fixed before I have to eat them all!
 
That’s a pretty shocking breakfast! Hope you’re feeling better.
I feel a lot better now, just have wait it out till I get the results in a couple of weeks and have to do it all again for the problem to be fixed.
Its not the best food I have had in a private hospital, but they made up in quantity than what you get in a public hospital for breakfast.
 
I slept in yesterday catching up on a bit of sleep.

Steak mushrooms tomatoes and a couple of well cooked eggs for brunchfast
Reef fish and green vegies and few chips for dinner.
A toasted cheese and onion sandwich for a snack during the evening.
 
Craig, have you not been diagnosed with diabetes yet? My son is the one who has it here, and he just found out about it. I am a borderline diabetic, but I've been borderline for years. Hoping to head off full-blown diabetes. My breakfast was greek yogurt and whole wheat cereal and almond slivers and dates (in the cereal). My oven isn't working, so it's so hard to cook for Sam. We're both trying to go low carb. It takes time to adjust, I think. Rome wasn't built overnight! My advice is to take is one day at a time.
 

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Yesterday (May 15th)

Breakfast (8am): 0% Greek yogurt, black coffee
Lunch (12pm): Leftover grilled pork rib chop, coleslaw, stole a few of my wife’s French fries
Snack (3pm): No food, black coffee
Dinner (8pm): Grilled sirloin steak, topped with pesto sauce, roasted button mushrooms stuffed with Boursin cheese
Evening Snack (10pm) - No food, a Bitburger lager

Walked 3.62km
 
I didn't have a second meal yesterday - too tired to do anything. So today I made the (supposedly) French style peas. I like peas, but not any kind of green beans, nor have I enjoyed cooking lettuce in the past but I decided to make an effort. It was fab! I made enough for at least 2 meals, but it was sooo good that I finished it all. No more food today.

I fried off half a chopped onion in oil and butter, then added a chopped up potato (naughty me) and fried that off as well. I added some lemon pepper and salt and then about 150 g French beans. Then about 1/2 litre of veg stock and a whole pile (didn't measure but about 150 g) of frozen peas. Then a whole cos lettuce in 2 cm (approx) slices. Cooked for about 1/2 hour. Couldn't resist having the whole lot for my brunch.

I'll ask Neil to get me some more green beans next time he goes to the shops.
 
French style peas is another one that chopped, fried pancetta goes well with. I think it's a Jamie Oliver recipe (although I do have a little recipe book of nothing but peas so it might be that).
 
French style peas is another one that chopped, fried pancetta goes well with. I think it's a Jamie Oliver recipe (although I do have a little recipe book of nothing but peas so it might be that).
@Annb (and Antje77 - possibly one you can use) - it was a Jamie Oliver recipe but, as usual, I changed it. Here's the main recipe. All I did with this was exclude the flour ( I just reduced the stock,) However, I did fry off chopped pancetta which I added at the end AND I also put shaved parmesan on it before serving. You're right Ann, it is delicious although I'd forgotten about it until you mentioned it.

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/braised-peas-with-spring-onions-and-lettuce/
 
Saturday Bed & FBG were both 5.1. Back to jujitsu with the boys. Spoke to SIL while I was waiting for them and arranged to go up next Friday. Shopping after (not much). Then home for 1 hr until son was ready to go out (which pretty much wiped my day out).
B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with ox tongue and Dairylea.
L. DGF brookie
D. Chicken in a creamy Dijon and tarragon sauce with a broccoli/cauliflower souffle thing and a mix of green veg (freezer stuff is reducing). It's just a well as the temperature for the freezer was showing 13° - that's +ve 13°! Which it couldn't be as everything was frozen apart from the odds and sods on the top shelf. If it was 13° I'd have sat in there as that was warmer than outside.
Did the good old computer trick; switch off; switch back on after 10 mins and........back to flashing 8's with the errors.
 
Today Sunday Bed 5.1 again FBG 5.2. Swimming lesson day. I just cannot sleep late although I'm really tired. Awake at 6am, shower at 7am.
B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with ox tongue and coleslaw.
L. Another DGF Brookie before heading off to get the boys to swimming.
D. Usual campari and soda. Rib eye with mushrooms, another green veggie back from the freezer, one onion ring (Hubby was having them so I nicked one) and the broccoli/cauliflower souffle thing (only 2 left in the freezer). The very last of the grenade ice cream bars (hopefully I can buy more later this week if the freezer issues are resolved).

On the subject of the freezer, overnight it decided to reset itself, produce more ice!! and the freezer is showing -23°! The stalactites are huge though from the ice hopper.

Niece has also been released from quarantine in Perth, had to stay another night as the flight to Canberra had gone by the time she was released but, she had to check out and move to another hotel for the night as she was in a quarantine hotel. She's now home and delighted to see her husband & sons after 4 months.
 
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