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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Antje77 said:
Ah, I get it now. So it's the preparation which makes it carby, not the scampi itself!
Scampi are eaten pretty regularly in the Netherlands as well, but I've never seen them with breadcrumbs or batter around here.
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Breadcrumbs & batter (tempura) are pretty common here. I still have them crumbed occasionally but using my own LC mix (on my CMT).
I also recall a couple of recipes from my "learning to cook in a restaurant" days. One was scampi Newburg. It started life as Lobster Newburg. There's a few recipes for this but the one I used was for the sauce was dry white wine, fish stock, paprika, pinch of cayenne, thyme, tomato puree garlic and parsley. The usual "don't overcook" the fish and only put them back at the end to coat in the sauce before serving.
The sauce was about a cup each of white wine & stock (or just increase the stock if you don't want alcohol in it). The alcohol bit also works with brandy (not a cup of it!) Or a dry white vermouth.
Basically chuck all the ingredients in and reduce it. It was usually served with boiled rice so cauliflower rice us an easy sub for that.
The other was a simple recipe with minced garlic, white wine, lemon juice & rind , fish stock and parsley. Another to reduce the liquid without the scampi in it. That one was served with pasta but courgetti zoodles would be great. Although Italians did not normally have parmesan and fish together this was a dish where a grating of a good parmesan on top was of benefit.
 
I still find the sensor takes a couple of days to "bed in" although it's annoying to have 2 of them on for 2 days.
 
Friday bed 6.7 FBG 6.6

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with ox tongue and Philly.
L. Nothing
D. These Mexican Melts (I had 2 in the freezer). It's pork mince bound with egg & parsley, molded around hot grated Mexican cheese, dipped in egg and coated in my LC crumb mix (even quantities of milled flax, Almond flour, parmesan, sesame seeds) for these I add a decent quantity of sweet paprika to the crumb mix. Had them with a salad of sliced radish, 1/2 avocado, tomato and red onion.
DGF bakewell blondie with a few raspberries.

Great day with the boys. 1/2 day on Fridays so eldest decided to could stay to the end of the day. He was as pleased as punch and announced that was Fridays sorted. Now we just have to build up Mon to Thurs. Even more proud to get a Certificate signed by the headmistress for his efforts. I do hope we are finally conquering his anxiety.
 

All this talk of scampi, langoustines and lobster makes me wish I didn't have a phobia about crustacea. It's an extension of my insect phobia. It's odd because I used to enjoy shrimps (my mother used to buy them by the pint from Macfisheries for my brother an myself to scoff). Also used to enjoy cockles when we went to the seaside - not sure I could eat them now although I do like mussels and the large shellfish the name of which I can't remember at present (having a senior half hour/memory like a sieve). But at some stage I made the link between seafood and the insects I have had a phobia about all of my life.

Scallops! That's the name I couldn't remember.
 
Breakfast: mild cheddar on crackers - just because I felt like it and didn't feel like standing for long enough to make eggs and bacon. (Legs still suffering from being on my feet too long as Em's kitchen assistant on Thursday - not as bad as yesterday, but still bad enough.) The cheese was supermarket plastic cheese bought by Neil on Monday and not up to much, unlike the last cheese he bought for me which was Davidstowe cheddar and much more tasty.

2nd meal: will be the savoy cabbage (Collard greens). I didn't have it yesterday after all because I found some sweetcorn cobs (quarters) in the fridge and had 2 of them instead.

My BG pattern isn't playing ball again, despite my efforts to control it early in the day using a correction dose. So I'll have to rethink that. Might work if I actually stir myself and have a proper meal very early on and have the appropriate amount of insulin with it. But then, would I manage to only have 2 meals in a day?
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Atkins bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and coffee chia pudding.
Dinner: Brie with a tiny smudge of red currant jelly sandwiches (using LC bread) followed by DGF chocolate birthday cake with cream and LC chocolate granola.
 
Got back from hols in the Lake District this evening. Another 10hr gruelling drive, nose to tail traffic and pouring rain. Haven’t managed to catch up on everyone’s posts yet ( no WiFi or any sort of signal where we stayed) but belated birthday wishes to @Rachox and @Annb and hugs @Antje77 for the animal misadventures. I hope the Apple tree survives.
@maglil55 those pork mince Mexican melts sound wonderful, I’ve copied that recipe. Thank you.
Today breakfast and lunch on the go.
B- cheese and walnuts
L-SLC roll filled with Brie, bacon lettuce and Mayo. Few 100% cocoa chocolates. Quite a lot of coffee.
D- one of the Iceland chilli prawn things. I was so glad to have these in the freezer. I had mine with some of the Aldi black bean pasta. Large glass white wine and a DGF caramel crunch brownie.
I’m glad to be home and back in control of my food. It was depressingly difficult to find anything low carb to eat out. Made a couple of disastrous choices which put a bit of a downer on an otherwise excellent holiday.
 
Two boiled eggs with tomato and some store bought smoked fish 'salad' (salad being the Dutch word for about anything meat, egg or vegetable with mayo) and a slice of low carb bread with lots of grated celeriac and mayonnaise.
I also sliced some fuet dried sausage, but didn't eat it because i was full after the rest of my meal. Will do very nicely for a midnight snack though, in fact it's already sitting in a dog-proof tub next to my bed .

Goats in the kitchen while I was preparing my food, and this time I was very sure I closed the gate between their part of the garden and the part where my poor little apple tree lives, which is where you can enter the house.
I suppose they learnt how to jump over the door. Screwed a random bit of wood over the door to make it higher, hope it helps.

Not sure how many carbs, but this is what my ******* goat ate today. The garden store sold me some stuff to put on the wounds so that's what I did.

 
No journeys or goat adventures for me today. A very much more mundane life
B: ff greek with almonds and seeds
A morning getting ready for village fete next week end. We run a sweet jar tombola so stuffed nearly 300 jars with sweets and walked away feeling proud I hadn't actually wanted to eat any of them.
Moral dilemma as to whether this is a good stall to run sugar-wise but I don't think it would make us £500 if the prizes were carrot and cucumber sticks!
L: a lidl bakery pizza with added cheese and a creamy coffee to try to mitigate effects.
Wearing a libre so part of 2 weeks experiments with food. Bg up from 5.6 to 9.2 within 90 minutes and taking until 6pm to get back to around 6. Surprised to see such a slow decrease, but part of the learning process
D: late, out at village event in a field. Greek salad, shared chips with hubby and 2 glasses wine.
Quick rise from 5 to 9 but back down within an hour. Is this OK?
Dancing and walking home brought me back to 4.2, slowly rising again.
 
Same here, because of the different time zone (GMT +10) I post yesterdays foods because I have not eaten today's yet.

Antje77 said:
I don't think either scampi or king prawns have any carbs.
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You're correct, both have zero carbs in their natural state.

Edit: I will put this one here as well so I stay on topic.

maglil55 said:
I loved Spooks. We binge watched it again during lockdown last year.
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We have been watching four or five episodes in the evening, we are up to season nine I think. I hope Amazon Prime have got the last season 11 I think being broadcast on ABC iView at the moment.
 
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That poor little apple tree! I do hope it survives but it looks really bad.

Goats, of course, sweet as they are, can be really destructive. One of ours gave us a scare when she got into the garden and ate a whole lot of daffodils. It should have killed her, but it just killed the daffodils and she went away rejoicing.
 
Saturday bed 6.4 FBG 6.3. Welcome back @DJC3 - hope you had a lovely holiday despite the food troubles. If you make the melts, and find the meat mix is too wet, add a little of one of the fibres. I have bamboo fibre and oat fibre. A little milled flax works as well.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with ox tongue and Philly.
L. Nothing - out with son for shopping although I did steal a few plain crisps from Hubby when I got back. Naughty me! It didn't do any damage though.
D. Just a cold cuts day. 1 each thin roast beef, ham, ox tongue, haslet with lettuce, santini tomatoes, coleslaw, 1/2 avocado. Lidl mini dark raspberry bar later.

@Riva_Roxaban - there were 10 seasons of Spooks here. Have they split the episodes differently in Australia? They did follow up with a movie here Spooks: The Greater Good with Kit Harrington (Jon Snow - Game of Thrones) as the main character. The excellent Nicola Walker who played Ruth is also the main star in Unforgotten. If you get the chance to see that in Australia do so. It is very good. We've just had the 4th series. Each series deals with a cold case.
 
Up at 2 am after about an hour asleep so pretty grotty at that stage. Had Co-codamol and a cup of tea and hung around for a while doing some chores and spending a short time on the forum but dozed off around 3.30. Neil got up around 5 so that woke me again. I made myself bacon and eggs as per the new trial. BG at that point was 14.9. Took 45 u of Humalog, thinking it would be sufficient to get it well down but it was still 8.8 at 10 am. Not too bad, but it's not as low as I would like. I decided to go back to bed but although I stayed there for an hour, I didn't sleep again. And I'm hungry - far too early to eat again.

When I do eat, it will be a veggie stew - quite a few veggies left to finish off before next shopping day so I'd better do that.

I will try not to have anything else today, but no guarantees.
 
Actually, 2 veggie casseroles in the oven. I found that there were too many to make one dish. So, dish #1: layers of onion, butternut squash, tomato, celery, courgette, chopped lettuce and peas with some passata. Dish #2 aubergine, celery, carrot, onion, squash and cottage cheese with a little veg stock to give a bit of flavour (and it needed using up). They'll take a while to cook, so I might just have a little snack of some cheese and apple to keep me going until this evening, when I can have some of one of the casseroles. Plenty to have tomorrow and to put in the freezer.
 

They do look good. Can't remember who it was, but come to mention it - has anyone seen anything of @Goonergal recently? Hopefully it's just lots happening in life and not illness that keeps her off the forum.
 
Yeah it was ok. Lol. X
 
Thank you. That does sound nice. X
 
PenguinMum said:
To all you cooks

Sorry to hear those misadventures Antje what a rotten start to your day it can only get better. Btw scampi here is usually langoustine tails covered in breadcrumbs, sometimes batter, and deep fried. Delicious but in my past now!
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