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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Good to know about that drink @Goonergal . I find it so difficult that our selection of non alcoholic drinks is really only water or tea, neither of which feel celebratory enough for an occasion.

Yesterday
B ff greek with seeds and strawberries
L: cold meats and hummus on lettuce leaves. Did have one stuffed vine leaf.
Tea: neighbours birthday do, took my own lc bites of rhubarb cake and millionaire bite, but still succumbed to real choclate cake. Only ate half a small slice as it didn't taste as good as it looked.
D: burger (no bun) and large glass of wine
Ate very late so no surprise bg was 7 this morning. Whether it was the cake or the late dinner I have no idea

Today
Breakfast, just enough ff greek and strawberries to swallow tablets "with food"
Skipped lunch
D: roast beef, carrots, cabbage and broccoli. Instant gravy. 1 small scoop ice cream with added double cream.

Garden is now producing alpine strawberries and first raspberries, yum
 
Todays evening meal was the very last bit of wednesday's fritatta thing, with a garlicky tomato salad and some fried shrimps because the leftovers weren't enough for a full meal :)

Yesterday was the same, except almost all of it went to the dogs. I've learned I'm not 20 anymore when it comes to whisky on an empty stomach, and after returning home from my neighbour and cooking, the stomach made it very clear it preferred to stay empty until I'd slept it off.
The dogs even ate all of the salad, including lots of raw onions! Glad someone enjoyed yesterday's meal, even if it wasn't me!

Tomorrow will be shopping day. Haven't had green beans and marinated pork belly pieces with peanut sauce in a while, so hopefully there are still biological pork belly strips to be had :)

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27.06
Breakfast nut granola and 2x CWC
CWC
Lunch, planned avocado was too unripe to eat so slathered some camembert onto the single slice of toast. Salad. Tea
The tea remained undrunk, while we battled to shift our bed upstairs.
5pm made fresh tea.
MrSlim is reconstructing the bed base , which had to be cut in half to get it up the twisty stone stairs.
Dinner, ready made frozen gratin de poisson, bit like the inside of a fishcake with crispy cheese crumbs on top. Not the fish pie I was expecting. Carrots and Frozen French beans
2 glasses rosé, 3 squares noir at noir chocolate.
Both exhausted and still not able to move into our new bedroom.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: roast chicken, one small roast potato, broccoli, green beans and Brussels with gravy made from meat juices thickened with flax, followed by SF raspberry jelly, cream and LC chocolate and ginger granola.
Mid afternoon: coffee chia pudding and black coffee.
Tea at ILs: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake!
Off on my holibobs tomorrow so my regular eating plan is being left at home!
 
Usual bacon cheese and mushroom omelette, tomatoes for breakfast.
Feeling a bit crook in my guts, so did not have anything for lunch except a coffee.
I had mashed up veggies and gravy for dinner, felt better after eating something.
 
And I'm behind again. School's out for summer though so I'll have more time to myself now. Grandson has done more work with me in 6 months than he's done in two years at school! Unlike the lunatics running thing here, I believe it's more important to be able to read, write and have great skills with numeracy rather than playing all the time.

Monday 21 June - bed 8.2 FBG 7.2. Wasn't feeling great and it was reflected in the BGs. Legs were in a bad way too.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with pate.
L. Nothing
D. Leftover stuffed flank of lamb from yesterday with peas and one of the broccoli/cauliflower souffle things. Must get a shoulder of lamb and try it with that to see if it is just as delicious. Few cherries.

Tuesday 22 June - bed 7.1 FBG 7.2

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with coronation chicken.
L. Nothing
D. Chicken salad with avocado, coleslaw, tomato, mozzarella, veggie salad. Grenade Ice cream bar.

Wednesday 23 June - bed 6.3 FBG 6.8

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with coronation chicken.
L. Nothing
D. Repeat of yesterday's chicken salad mix and another grenade ice cream bar.

Thursday 24 June - bed 7.2 FBG 6.9

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with egg mayo.
L. Nothing
D. Another salad - fishy this time. Poached salmon, prawns, mozzarella, tomato, 1/2 avocado, veggie salad. Oppo choc chip ice cream.

Boys were here for dinner and they'd wanted mac & cheese so I'd had to have something different today.
 
SlimLizzy said:
We have had two items go off in the fridge. Both uncooked prepacked poultry, with several days left before use by date.
This really is waste.
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I know all about fridge and freezer Issues! My large fridge freezer was driving the engineers up the wall for weeks. I eventually put a thermometer in both sides and discovered it certainly wasn't close to the temperature shown on the front. Touch wood, after them installing hundreds of £s worth of parts (it was insured) it seems to be functioning now.
 
MrsA2 said:
b: a vegetarian cooked breakfast in a Waitrose cafe, 1 egg, 1 large mushroom, half a tomato, small spinach, small avocado and haloumi. They'd way overcooked the haloumi so it had gone beyond rubbery into crunchy, but it made a nice base for the egg, like toast almost. Will try recreating that at home sometime

L: some crab pate on M&S super seedy crackers. The latter has been being praised on another fb group and I have had trouble finding any. Very low carb indeed, only 4 g for the whole packet. Just seeds stuck together somehow to be a small cracker but very handy when you need something to hold pate/hummus/cream cheese etc. £1.80 a pack but long life for store cupboard

D: crab pate on lettuce leaves, and even on cheese slices (it was reduced on eat today date!)
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Can you post a photo of the super seedy crackers so I can see what the pack looks like please?
 
@PenguinMum - I was way further back than you and hopefully I'm about to catch right up again! @Riva_Roxaban - my brother was always reinvigorated with the blood transfusions. He got them once a month. Hopefully, as you said, the effect remains for a while.

Friday 25 June - bed 7.3 FBG 6.9.

I was feeling a bit off again today. Last day of school and the poor P7's didn't get their last day. They all had to be sent home yesterday morning as one of them tested positive for covid so all of them, plus teachers into isolation.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with coronation chicken.
L. Nothing - got the boys home then went for shopping. Also took Hubby on a plant buying spree.
D. Chicken wings with a hot sauce rub and salad stuff again. 1/2 avocado, tomato, veggie salad and mini mozzarella.
 
Breakfast: some mackerel pate on 2 of the GF crispbread slices (11.8 g carb). This time I was determined not to have any extra crispbreads despite still being hungry so I had some bits of ham to fill up a bit more. FBG was 10.5, up to 12.3 before breakfast and still 12.5 after. so not too bad.

I took some minced pork out of the freezer last night, to make some sausage meat, so will have to do that but will not eat it today because I still have some veggie soup left from yesterday, which I will have for my 2nd meal today.

I have developed what appears to be an abscess above my front tooth, although it isn't really very painful, just a slightly tender swelling which hurts a bit when I bite anything, so I phoned the dentist and, amazingly, was given a cancellation at 2.10 this afternoon! I also phoned the optician for an appointment but they can't see me until 09 August. At some stage, I will have to phone the diabetes clinic and see if they have the result of the c-peptide and kidney function blood test from a couple of weeks back.
 
Saturday 26 June - bed 6.8 FBG also 6.8. No jujitsu today as the instructors are at competitions so I got a lie in until 8 30 am! Got shopping done early as I had eldest grandson later as Mum & Dad were meeting friends for Mum's birthday.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast. One with coronation chicken one with egg mayo.
L. Nothing
D. Made a chicken and sausage pie with mash for Hubby & grandson. I had a broccoli/cauliflower souffle thing, 1/3 cob and peas. I did have a small bit pastry though. Grenade Ice cream bar.

Sunday 27 June - bed 7.1 FBG 6.8 so I didn't suffer too much for the pastry. Swimming lesson day.

B. 2 slices of SLC toast with egg mayo.
L. At swimming lessons.
D. Usual campari and soda. Duck breast with a mix of spinach, broccoli, peas, corn and green beans. 1/2 a roast potato and mushrooms. Grenade Ice cream bar.

46th anniversary today but quite happy to just stay in. I need a few days to recharge my batteries.
 
Back from dentist. A new young woman I've never seen before. She was very thorough and explained exactly what she was thinking. She's going to have to take out 2 teeth - one top front and one bottom front! That's not so good since it means 2 plates - top and bottom. Main problem is inflamed gums and damage to the bone so the teeth can't be saved. She's quite happy to leave the abscess as long as it isn't painful and deal with it when I get the tooth out. At least, she has confirmed that it is an abscess and nothing more sinister (I had a good friend who had a mouth ulcer that wouldn't heal and was found out - too late - to be cancer.) So I have my teeth until 23rd July - just as well we can still wear masks!

Haven't eaten anything else yet, but the soup is ready to go and that should be enough for today. Currently my BG is at 11.8 - down from 12.9 earlier. Why so high now? Who knows. Can't still be high from yesterday. Maybe my inflamed gums.
 
B: 2 egg ham omelette
L: fridge stuff that needed eating. The liver from yesterday’s chicken fried in butter, leftover pork tenderloin ( no idea when I Cooke that, hoping it wasn’t too long ago) 1/2 bag mixed salad leaves. Last of the h/m strained yoghurt and a few blueberries.
D: h/m burger, 1 slice Edam, sliced gherkin. 1 SLC roll and around 60g airfried celeriac chips. Few 100% cocoa mass buttons to follow.
@maglil55 happy Anniversary, I hope you’re having a lovely day.
 
B: ff greek with seeds and 2 large strawberries
L: cold beef and cheese and a hot chocolate drink with cream
D: h/ m chicken curry done in the slow cooker with whole cauliflower and kale hidden in it.

Bg still a bit high. Think its either the pain killers I'm on, or the lack of exercise or the fact I keep having to have breakfast as have to take them with food
 
Evening all.

Happy anniversary @maglil55 - hope you’ve had a good day.

Another slightly off piste day. Nuts for breakfast, Hotel Chocolat dark chocolate Brazils while out and then a bit more than half a rotisserie chicken for dinner. Provided fuel for a mega hoover - flat was looking atrocious. Much better now.

Off to Brum for a few days in the morning.
 
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