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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Antje77 said:
Yum!
I found affordable asparagus!

Had them with 2 mashed eggs with butter and salt, some smoked trout salad which was on offer and a couple of very small baby potatoes, again with butter and salt.

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That asparagus looks tinned. Do you not get fresh in the Netherlands?
 
MrsA2 said:
Oh, I've never thought of peeling them...but I suppose thats what they do to tinned ones. I am an idiot
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If you don't peel them it's impossible to bite a piece off! In my family asparagus have been a luxury food since I were a child, and they are finger food. Asparagus in one hand, fork with some egg in the other, combine in mouth.
Not sure why really, as it's a messy way of eating and juices will drip down your elbow. I've simply never questioned this being the way to eat white asparagus, but it does enhance the special festive feeling!
 
Antje77 said:
Not tinned at all! Just peeled and cooked.

But they were cheaper because it were the lopsided ones!
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I saw on a food programme that the white asparagus is much more common in Europe than in the UK - and the presenter thought it had a better flavour. Unfortunately, asparagus is one of the foods that I can't eat. The rest of the meal looked great. Great also being able to buy lopsided or otherwise odd vegetables.

Edited to add: I had some of the chicken and vegetable bake around 6.30 pm but didn't finish it - half of it was quite enough. BG dropping though, will have to keep an eye on it.
 
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Yesterday - Saturday - brunch - 2 eggs mashed up in a cup with butter. Mug of earl grey tea

Saturday night out for food & drinks woo hoo! - surf n turf steak with large salad which included cheese & coleslaw. Followed by too many rums & diet cola. I think everyone just goes out earlier (including me) as pubs close earlier.

Today - Sunday brunch - hungover so 1 dgf raspberry & coconut cake with mug of earl grey tea

Dinner - not very hungry as very warm here - I spent day washing & sitting out in sun (our summer -1 day I think) so just prawn cocktail, 2 slices slc bread toasted with corned beef. followed by 1 phd smart bar (white chocolate blondie I think) washed down with mug of earl grey, also had lots of water throughout the day
 
13.06.
Breakfast wasn't any really, got up early, before 6am and went straight outside to work in the garden before it got too hot. Well that was the plan.
CWC about 8.30
CWC about 12 30
Lunch mixed salad, avocado one tiny slice of toast. (Pain kapnor is a French specialist bread with 28g carbs per 100g) very small portion of potato salad, few olives, one fresh apriciot, sugar free squash and cup of tea.
Several glasses of squash in the afternoon and early evening. One cup of tea.
We both worked too hard and too long so dinner was very late.
Dinner bbq sausages, one really tiny piece of potato, lettuce, macedoine salad, few olives. 2 glasses of wine
Bedtime, my usual lemon and ginger tea.
 
Hi All so back to Friday. Brekkie as is every day slice of HiLo toast and tea.
Had a surprise lunch at the pub with eldest sun and had a fab griddled asparagus and goats cheese salad with lambs lettuce, thin slices of crispy radishes and mange tout dressed with lemon & basil vinegrette. Baked salmon with lemon butter and a little brocolli in the evening. Sat had a long lazy lunch with great friends at Cotes outside under an umbrella. Had seabass with buerre blanc and shared olives and mussels. Later Mr PM wanted Indian t/a so although I did not needit I had cauli bhajee and four Tandoori prawns. Wearing Libre and bg held up really well all day. Dranks loads of water. Yesterday lunch was a small plate with tiny bit of smoked salmon (struggle with it) tiny bit of smoked mackerel (again not my fave) and spoon of small prawns and a few olives quarter avocado (again a struggle for me). Had made up a platter for husband and second son who turned up unexpectedly so I joined in.
In the evening had 2 beef burgers off the BBQ topped with Emmantel and fried mushrooms, very filling, 2 glasses chilled Rose.
Today plan lunch of M&S salt and pepper calamari and salad. Tonight fry up of chicken, chorizo, red pepper, paprika with cauli rice.
I hadn’t been out to eat for 18 months but in the last couple of weeks have been really making up for it since double jab and all outside.
Can I ask if anyone has found instant coffee raises BG. I am a bit curious because the Libre seems to rise if I have a couple of mugs between brekkie and lunch. I am not a lover of strong coffee and its easy to reach for a spoonful from a tin. My current one is a new to me Nescafe Gold Blend Roastery Collection, Light Roast.
 
Bad night after another one of my suffocation dreams. Went to bed about 1.30 am and got up at 2.30 am and watched "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" for a while. This time the breathlessness continued after I got up, so it was an uncomfortable couple of hours. Once it settled, I went back to bed (about 4.30 am) and slept until 7.30. BG at that stage was 12.3. Took some insulin as a correction dose, which didn't work and BG remained in the 12s. So ...

Breakfast: around 11.30 was beef and vegetable soup. Very nice, but not very filling. BG beginning to drop now - currently at 10.5.

I have just turned my "corned beef" out. It doesn't look very much like corned beef, but it definitely tastes the part. So the 2nd meal today will be corned beef salad.

Just heard from the garage that the Scenic is finally done and ready for collection. So shopping will be done tomorrow and I will be able to get to the fish shop. Looking forward to that.

Also heard this morning that a friend who was living in Worthing has just died (not sure, but I think they turned off his life support) after recurring cancer not being diagnosed during the lockdown. He had been sick for many years - since soon after he received a kidney transplant in the 60s. All the medication he had to take made him sick and he lived with pain for most of those years. I guess it was a release, but so many regrets for the poor soul and his wife who had cared for him all that time.
 
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.
Dinner: gammon steak, mushrooms, broccoli and green beans followed by SF raspberry jelly, cream and LC chocolate and raspberry granola.
 
I turned the other half of the asparagus into an aparagus and leek salad with eggs, mayo and more of the smoked trout salad stuff. Very festive with a chopped tomato and some shrimps on top, and enough left for tomorrow!

 
b: ff greek with seeds and 3 strawberries
L: chicken leg with green salad. 2 lc millionaires bites I made yesterday
D: frittata with asparagus, leeks broccoli, chorizo and a slaw made from raw leeks with plain yoghurt, mayo and mustard
 
Baked beans on low carb toast for a non bulky breakfast, which made a change of tastes and plenty of fibrous roughage.
Two keto choc mint crunch protein bars for lunch.
Grilled red emperor fillet, green veggies for dinner.
 
14.06
Breakfast 2x CWC
Raspberries and ff Greek yoghurt
Not a very successful breakfast as I got really hungry and had several biscuits with my coffee mid morning, although the work digging the last vegetable bed might have had something to do with that. I was determined to finish it. Small part of the bed left fallow, it's too late to plant some crops so they will have to wait for Autumn sowing.
Lunch mixed salad, ham and cheese, one slice of toast. (12g carbs) One apricot, squash and tea.
Several drinks in the afternoon.
Glass of wine.
Dinner moussaka, roasted cauliflower, carrots and broccoli. Another glass of rosé. Coffee with cream and far too much chocolate.
Lemon tea as usual before bed.
 
Grabbed a slice of corned beef before rushing out to the town with Neil. He did the shopping while I waited in the car outside the supermarket. Then we went to the fish shop. It was a bit of a disappointment. First there were only 2 people allowed in the shop at a time and it was VERY COLD waiting in the queue outside (right on the harbour and a very cold wind blowing off the water). Once inside there were no shellfish at all despite the shop being called Islander Shellfish but I did pick up a pack of proper anchovies in oil (not the fillets you get in tins, but proper whole fish) a skate wing and a piece of properly smoked haddock as well as a piece of fresh salmon.

Apart from the little bit of corned beef, nothing eaten so far but I will be making a brunch of streaky bacon and fried eggs.

2nd meal will be the skate wing fried in butter with some capers and maybe a tomato salad to go with it.

I'll need to use the salmon tomorrow while it is still fairly fresh but the smoked haddock will keep, as will the anchovies - having all sorts of ideas about how to use them. Feeling inventive.
 
Got taken out for a pub lunch today.
Starter of prawn and crayfish cocktail
Then spicy burger with spicy cheese. Asked then to hold the bun and chips. Waitress suggested extra avocado so I said yes.
But when bill came they still charged full whack for the main AND extra for the avocado. Felt I couldn't complain as was being paid for.
Did steal 4 of hubbys whitebait that came fried in breadcrumbs and about 6 of his chips

Drank sparkling water with lemon

Was very filling so will try for OMAD today
 

Mmm! Whitebait. Lucky hubby.
 
@Annb sorry about the lack of shellfish but the rest of your catch of the day is sure to be magnificent. I must get skate wing again I haven’t had it for ages.
@SlimLizzy I forgot to say I’m glad you got good advice re the hoglet the other day.
I’ve decided to try upping the protein again a la PE diet. I think I was eating too much fat with it last time.
B- 2 slices Edam rolled up round 2 slices prosciutto
L- tuna salad with zoodles, Hb egg, and 1/2 avocado
D- sirloin steak with mushrooms, spinach and a couple of cherry tomatoes all sautéed in garlic butter.
 
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