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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

shelley262 said:
Roasted with olive oil and pepper it was delicious. Bit of sweetness on crispy bits but my bgs were ok although had smallish portion.
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Good to know thanks. I tried patty pan squash recently but didn’t like the watery texture. A proper carving type pumpkin looks much tastier.
 
Two egg and cheese omelette, bacon mushrooms for breakfast.
Tub of yoghurt, cordial mix for smoko.
Seafood and salad for lunch.
Left over salad and some prawns in low carb wraps for supper at six.

It's salad season again, the temps have gone up in to the thirties. it was 35° yesterday, summer is around the corner. :D
 
shelley262 said:
Know it’s another week to go to Halloween but got tempted today when out shopping by this small edible pumpkin and used some of its flesh for dinner!
Breakfast one each of sausage bacon egg and mushroom
Gave lunch a miss as pumpkin feast planned for dinner!
Dinner roast brisket of beef with roast pumpkin and glass of red wine followed by DGF pumpkin brownie and yoghurt. Really enjoyed my pumpkin themed dinner and haven’t carved a pumpkin in years -great fun.
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Must be pumpkin carving day!

I'd never carved a pumpkin in my life, but a friend invited me to come over to carve pumpkins, it was great fun!
One of the knives broke while working so I left it in the pumpkin for extra scariness. :hilarious:
However, no pumpkin soup, pie or roast for me, I like almost all foods but definitely not pumpkin.
I did take all the waste home though, tomorrow I'll try pumpkin on the guinea pigs, bunnies, goats, chickens and my neighbour's turkeys now living in my garden :)

Got home late so no cooking, but I treated myself to a smoked salmon sandwich as a belated reward for my nice hba1c. I've eaten lots of veggies in the past days and will again tomorrow, so I figured I could do a day without. My other sandwich was one with an egg, fried chorizo slices and stinky Muenster cheese. :hungry:

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Antje77 said:
However, no pumpkin soup, pie or roast for me, I like almost all foods but definitely not pumpkin.
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I was like that when I was younger,I classed it as pig feed.

Staying with a relation, the first veggies she served up was mashed potato and pumpkin mixed together, it also had fine chopped onions mixed in as well.

I got the taste for that dish, but I like it on it's own baked or mashed up on cottage pie.

The main pumpkin we buy are Queensland Blues and JAP, but there heaps of differint varieties here to try

Never eaten those lantern pumpkins though.
 
Riva_Roxaban said:
I got the taste for that dish, but I like it on it's own baked or mashed up on cottage pie.
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It is of course possible (and even quite likely) that there are pumpkin dishes I do like. But I can live happily ever after being sure I do not like pumpkin, even if I'm wrong, there are so many other veggies I do love!

Happy to report that all my animals except the cats love pumpkin, even the dogs ate some! :hilarious:
The guinea pigs went for the inside stuff furst, before starting on the parts usually used to cook!
 
Didn't get around to breakfast today - very groggy after a bad night, so I just had some tea and some pills.

The order from Tesco last Tuesday contained a fairly large box of mushrooms - I ordered our normal size, but the larger one was a substitute. Neil has been using them up but he has only got through about a third of the box and thinks they are now too far gone to use. He's wrong, they're perfectly serviceable. So anyway, I made cream of mushroom soup but didn't get it done before Em came in from school, so it is still in the pot and, so far, I've got by on tea. It's quite a big pot of soup, so it will do for a meal later on and quite a lot left over. Unfortunately, once again, there's no space in the freezer, so I'll have to use it up tomorrow.
 
Annb said:
Neil has been using them up but he has only got through about a third of the box and thinks they are now too far gone to use. He's wrong, they're perfectly serviceable.
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I like my mushrooms best when they're somewhat old. When frying old mushrooms lose the water in them quite easily, which makes them shrink while cooking in their own juices and only frying when the water has evaporated and at the very start.
This leaves you with disappointingly little fried mushroom but the taste is all concentrated so they are much more tasty than fresher ones!
 
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Breakfast coffee
Lunch scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and slice of lc bread followed by Greek yoghurt
Dinner Cajun spiced chicken with salad followed by Lc brownie.
I’m trying a few days of two meals again and yesterday experimented with breakfast and dinner with no lunch but found that much more difficult as compared with just extending my overnight fast until lunchtime - which is my go to two meals model! Rarely do One meal a day anymore as I find it too hard to eat a big meal and a big amount would be needed for good nutrition if doing OMAD regularly.
 
Looks like I’ve finished eating for today but I’m hungry. We’ve only just got home from saying happy birthday to SIL. I put a beef Shawarma in the IP before going out but I didn’t expect to stay that long. If I eat now I know fbg will be high.
No breakfast as I had a fasting blood test late morning.
Lunch was small leftover portion of chicken curry stew and a few M&S seedy crackers
All in all a highly unsatisfactory food day. I’m drinking mint tea now to take my mind off it
 
I made an experimental oven dish today with leek, tuna and mushrooms, and most of the ingredients I use for tuna melt muffins. And now I'm not sure if it needs longer or if I simply didn't use enough eggs, as it didn't set. I gave it another ten minutes and then I'll pronounce it done!
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and gingerbread Carb Killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and chocolate chia pudding and LC nutty granola.
Dinner: creamy garlic prawns with sautéed sliced courgettes followed by SF raspberry jelly, cream and LC nutty granola.
 
Brunch - 2 slices slc bread toasted and filled with egg mayo. Mug of earl grey to set me up for the day

Dinner - chicken breast with garlic mayo on top with large side salad. Still hungry :hungry:so had a white chocolate peanut butter carb killa bar washed down with a much of earl grey tea.
 
Antje77 said:
I made an experimental oven dish today with leek, tuna and mushrooms, and most of the ingredients I use for tuna melt muffins. And now I'm not sure if it needs longer or if I simply didn't use enough eggs, as it didn't set. I gave it another ten minutes and then I'll pronounce it done!
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The extra ten minutes did the trick!
I didn't expect it to taste as good as it did, what a wonderful surprise! :joyful:

Forgot to mention I topped it with Muenster stinky cheese, which made it a very unusual and yummy dish, but don't try this at home if you're not sure you absolutely love stinky cheese because your whole house will smell of it! :D:hungry:

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Sausages, eggs, and some fried up leftover veggies for breaklfast.
Two ANZAC biscuits, lemon / lime cordial with a scoop of Osmolax mixed in for smoko.
Cold meat and salad of lettuce mix, capsicum, tomatoes, red onion rings, sliced mushrooms, black olive pieces, for lunch.
Leftover salad in low carb wraps, couple of small spoons of mango sorbet for supper at six.

Another warm day yesterday, not quite as hot as Sundays was though. Couple of electrical light shows last night with a thunder storm rolled through the area, the energy company are repairing the power lines that came down over north Bundaberg.
 
Ff greek and seeds for breakfast
Lunch was 2 chicken drumsticks with a small salad and a bit of manchego
Found a "real" chocolate shop so bought what I thought was sugar free but turned out to be a vegan copy of chocolate. A tiny 38g bar wasn't worth the 13 g of carbs. Tasted like stale cheap milk chocolate to me.
Memo to self to read more than just the carb count on the label.

Made up for it at dinner though. Had booked into a gastro pub that turned out to be more fine dining than upmarket pub.
2 oysters to start, arrived fried in breadcrumbs, but tasty and small.
Main was venison with mushroom sauce and pickled blackberries. Had a side of greens and stole 2 of hubbys chips cooked in proper old fashioned dripping.
Finished with a cheese plate.
Don't ask the price...and I'm not testing bg either!
 
Hi All
Yesterday usual brekkie slice HiLo toast, lots of tea.
Lunch Rollitos and last spoon cheesy coleslaw.
Supper was roasted Med veg with herbs and 2 inch wide strip of Mr PM’s lasagne.
I have never eaten pumpkin but hated the smell of it when carving with the children. I don’t mind butternut squash but not mad about it.
 
Breakfast: chicken sandwich - 29 g carbs so that's enough for the day.

2nd meal: mushroom soup (cream of). One large mug full. (large mug must be about 300 ml).

Trying to get organised to go to Inverness tomorrow. The flight is at 8.15 am and we have to be there 60 minutes in advance. So we'll leave home about 6.45. Should be back in Stornoway by just after 4 pm and home by 4.45 or so. Had a slight panic when I couldn't find my appointment letter, but eventually found it printed on the back of a notice about Covid19 (or may the notice was printed on the back of my letter) - confused me for a while.

Did my second lateral flow test this afternoon. My throat and nose really didn't appreciate it and didn't want to co-operate - coughing, spluttering and sneezing. Still needs must. Went to the pharmacy to get an insulin prescription - my basal dose pen will run out tomorrow morning - but the pharmacist couldn't find the prescription and was certain that there wasn't one, nor was one due because he had fulfilled a prescription last week for it. I persuaded him to look again because I only ordered it on Friday. He found it amongst a box of prescriptions that nobody had collected. All's well that ends ... but I was a bit concerned that I would run out tomorrow morning and then be away and not have any for the following day. Have to take some with me, just in case I am delayed getting home.
 
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