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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

The fish was 2 very small pieces of cod - not my favourite fish but I made a fish pie with broad beans and a little red onion, double cream and some mashed potato I found in the freezer. BG has stayed low all day - around 5 to 7.5, maybe the new insulin but I've been feeling pretty awful all day as well with my "restless-legs-all-over" thingy. Usually, when I take Co-codamol for my arthritis, it gets rid of it, but not today. I did have a snack around mid-day of a few berries and yoghurt but that didn't put BG up either.
 
Two egg and cheese omelette, slice of middle bacon, tomatoes, couple of pieces of low carb toast and vegimite.
Chicken and salad wrap which was part of the food I took with me to the oncology unit. Not there long enough as only one bag of blood given, ate the rest of the food when I got home for lunch.
Dinner was mixture of steak and a lamb chops and sausages , onion and mushroom fryup.
 
Breakfast, Sausage & scrambled egg.
Lunch, tuna sunflower oil and left over cauliflower cheese mash.
Dinner beef kofta curry made with tomatoes, carrots, beef mince , fried aubergine, and 30grms rice.
Blood sugar before eating dinner 5.6 2hrs later, 10.5....white rice is not my friend x
 
The effect of white rice can be reduced by cooking and keeping in the fridge overnight. This does something to the starch and makes it less easy to digest. If this and a smaller portion size doesn't help - try cauliflower rice.
 
Brunch: leftover fish pie from last night. Cold because I couldn't be bothered to heat it up. It's OK cold. Probably not the best idea, though, when the temperature is as low as it is today.

2nd meal: will be the last of the spiced cauliflower. Might add some hard boiled egg to it.

Neil usually goes shopping for me on Thursday or Friday and intended to go today after his hospital appointment but he's asking if any of my (rather long) list is urgent - not feeling too great. He can't do it tomorrow either - he's promised to help his brother with resiting some wiring in his kitchen and laundry because DIL is remodelling the laundry to keep it better separated from the house. That is - his brother will be assisting Neil - he is the one with the skills. So the shopping will have to be left until Monday. We'll survive but I'll have to see what is already made and in the freezer.

My big Brabantia waste bin in the kitchen has just broken - it's a pedal bin and the lid has detached itself from the mechanism that pushes it up with the pedal. It's not repairable so I'm looking for a new one - this one cost me about £50 but to replace it is something like £125! Looking around (online) for something a lot cheaper. Might just go for plastic, which is a lot cheaper and more easily washed.
 
2mad today:
Tuna salad with avocado tomato and h/b egg.
Spiced pumpkin latte cake from DGF. I really like these, they aren’t as sweet as some of the varieties.
Chicken traybake with aubergine, courgettes, peppers and 1/2 tub olives and feta cheese cooked with it.
Peppermint tea now to try to distract me from the rest of the DGF cakes I haven’t yet frozen.
 
Back on IF.
morning. Black tea, black coffees.
12pm. Megabrek. Fried egg, avocado, baby chestnut mushrooms and plum tomatoes, garlicky buttery spinach, lc toast and butter.
14000 steps. Still slow and limpy but getting there.
Snack. Mixed nuts, 3 small crackers with butter and cheese.
D. 7.00pm. Thai green prawn curry, Sicilian lemon dessert pot.
 
Started the day with a very cold yoga class brrr! It's a new one so lots of beginner stuff and not enough movement to keep me warm. Memo to self: next week wear and take more clothes

Brunch of 2 scrambled eggs on 1 slice courgettes bread. Coffee with cream
Mid afternoon about 10 grapes that fell off the vine into my mouth. Working on the traditional keto theory this should be OK, as by next week either the wasps or the frost will have got them all. Definite feast or famine crop as making either grape jelly or wine is off the cards now.

Tea was bolognaise mince on boiled cabbage. Ff greek with 2 chopped brazils and 2 sqs chopped cherry 70% Montezuma.
 
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 SF raspberry jelly.
Dinner: cheesy scrambled egg on Marmite on LC toast followed by DGF coconut raspberry bar with cream.
 
I have tried the spiced pumpkin latte cake too today and I really liked but it does almost taste savoury this one and it is the only DGF that OH hasn’t been sure about - think may sprinkle a bit of Cuban rum on them next time -goes well with coffee type flavours!
Breakfast two boiled eggs with one slice of lc hm bread.
Lunch one slice of LC toast and slice of vintage cheddar followed by fage yoghurt and a few garden picked raspberries
Mid pm succumbed to two squares of 90% lindt planned one !still only 2 squares left now and haven’t ordered more!
Dinner venison wrapped in Parma ham with cauliflower cheese and glass of red wine followed by DGF cake.
 
Oh, hello there!
I somehow lost this thread for 3 days (nothing exciting from a food point of view in those days) and hadn't noticed.
How's Errant doing today?
It doesn't seem to be the best week for cats. I went to the vet with my Poes two days ago because he is coughing and seems to be short of breath. Looks like he has a heart murmur turned into heart failure. They gave him an injection to get rid of fluids, and one of prednisone, and tablets for the fluid for 10 days.
Doesn't seem to help much yet, if anything, the coughing sounds 'wetter'.

Today's meal is worth a picture.
I used two leaves of savoy cabbage instead of a bun for burgers (made one large burger into two small ones) with some fried onion, a slice of cheese, some jalapeno, slice of tomato, mayonnaise and hot sauce.

Very tasty, but equally messy.
I suddenly remembered I didn't do burgers on buns even before diabetes for exactly this reason!
Still, it looked very pretty until I started to eat.

 
Two egg, cheese and ****** looking mushrooms omelette, tomatoes for breakfast.
Tub of chobani 15% protein greek yoghurt, lemon / lime cordial and scoopful of Osmolax for smoko.
Two chicken legs cut in to four pieces, veggies, gravy for lunch.
Toasted low carb cheese, onion and tomato sandwiches for supper at six.

Get my eyes tested today at the optometrists, they are way overdue for a tune up.
 
@shelley262 pumpkin latte with rum sprinkled on top! I can’t get the thought out of my mind now, I bet that’d be wonderful.
@SlimLizzy and @Antje77 sorry to hear that both your cats are unwell. I hope they perk up soon.
 
You are definitely selling that new Montezuma chocolate!
 
Dr Snoddy said:
You are definitely selling that new Montezuma chocolate!
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I had found 1 bar of the Black Forest, hubby had found the Cherry with a truffle filling. Both are too good and are being eaten too fast. Won't be buying again for a while as need to get back to the 14g a bar ones rather than these at 33g. Too easy to overindulge. You have been warned!
 
Sorry to read that your cat Poes is so sick, i do hope he recovers quickly. Its always upsetting when a pet Is ill. I am sure you will be doing the best you can for him.
Today Errant is eating better, but his voice is still very croaky and quiet. The vet gave him an antibiotic injections and some antibiotic tablets to start tomorrow
Errant also has had a heart murmur, he was coughing a lot during the winter, but he had got very overweight, stopping in and sleeping most of the day. Cant blame him when the weather was miserable. Anyway I cut his food by a tiny amount each week until he had lost a whole kg. Of course he didn't approve of reduced rations and was very vocal about it, but the result has been amazing. He is slimmer, obviously, but is also able to run and jump. Which he could not do before because of his previous injuries.
His heart murmur has actually gone. The vet yesterday told me his heart is fine.
 
Breakfast: scrambled eggs made with butter and cream.

2nd meal: Neil managed to get a ham hock yesterday so I'll be boiling that today and making some pea and ham soup with a bit of extra meat. I'll be using frozen peas - I forgot to soak the dried ones and anyway I really like it made with frozen peas.

Neil is trying not to buy too much at a time at the moment because he seems either to have injured his shoulder or be developing some sort of arthritic problem so he doesn't want to carry too much weight meantime.

He was given his 3rd covid vaccination along with a flu jab yesterday. He was offered it early as one of those people with impaired immune systems. Haven't heard anything about the over 70's yet.
 
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