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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and anAtkins bar
Dinner: spaghetti bolognese with sliced sautéed courgette in place of spaghetti followed by SF jelly and cream.
 
Well... I now know why I don't buy ready meals! I said this to Neil and he suggests I'd be as well just to buy pot noodles. I could put them straight into the bin without bothering to strip the lid off.
 
Sunday 28 November - bed 6.8 FBG 7.7. After the gales on Friday we awoke to snow this morning. Now I have 40ft of fencing down covered in snow. Swimming off the agenda today!

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with egg mayo.

L. Nothing

D. Usual campari and soda. Beef olives dome in the IP with carrot, onion, asparagus. Had a couple of Hubby's potatoes. Blackberries and a spoonful of brandy cream.

Had a go with my birthday "hoover". I'd already done the upstairs landing and I was horrified at how much came out with a second pass with the new "beast". I guess I can concede it's very powerful!
 
Two hard boiled eggs, slice of low carb toast and vegimite for breakfast.
Tub of greek yoghurt, lemon cordial and osmolax brew for smoko.
Chicken pie with out the lid on, tub of low sugar orange jelly with mango sorbet for lunch.
Two baked bean sandwiches for supper at six.

Still not eating very much, I am hungry, but for some reason I can not get any more down unless it's softish stuff.
 
Rachox said:
I used to hate sprouts! I would have a single token sprout on Xmas day only. It’s one of the foods that I now enjoy as my tastes have changed since going low carb.
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Faced with a son who calls them shrunken cabbages, I discovered a recipe I use every Christmas and he eats them! Cook off chopped pancetta in a dry wok. Remove and add chopped shallots then baby sprouts (halved). Season and stir fry. How much you cook depends on how much bite you want in them. I still prefer some bite. You can slow the cooking by turning down, add a little stock and put a lid on. Toast some pine nuts a bit in the oven then add the pancetta & pine nuts to the mix. Squeeze of lemon juice and that's it.
Balsamic works well on it too.
I cook it in advance and I have 2 four compartment heated trays which keeps veggies etc in good condition for up to 2 hours.
 
B: some cheesy seed crackers I made a couple of days ago
L: more cheesy crackers, this time with leftover chicken and 3 pickled cucumbers
D: Caulifower baked in bacon. Very tasty but a bit of a fiddle to put together as the caulifower is kept whole . Used some of the remaining sauce to fill peppers which I served as a side. I've put the recipe in my cmt but did cook it for at least 40 minutes not the 25 in the recipe, based on past experience of cooking a whole cauliflower. And don't stint on the pre steaming in the microwave either
 
Ah the dreaded Peterborough! Bet they arrive tomorrow.
 
Annb said:
Well... I now know why I don't buy ready meals! I said this to Neil and he suggests I'd be as well just to buy pot noodles. I could put them straight into the bin without bothering to strip the lid off.
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It's one of the things that annoy me since diabetes!
It's not like I was eating ready meals all the time before, but I hate how I can never just have a relatively sensible ready meal instead of cooking, and then there's the even more impossible options of shoving a pizza in the oven or getting chips and a kroket or a kaassoufflé (Dutch equivalent of fish and chips) by way of an easy meal every once in a while.
Antje77 said:
It's the time of year we Dutchies get all stressed because we need to get our Sinterklaas poems and surprises (surpreesuhs) ready before the big day on the 5th of december.
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Happy to inform you I've sewed on eyes and noses on 4 socks now to turn them into guinea pigs, and even better, I wrote 9 short (and rather bad) poems to go with various presents!
Only the main poem left to write, but that can wait as it goes on the outside of the surprise. I'll print the shorter poems tomorrow at the library (no-one can read my handwriting) and then I can start wrapping and assembling and sewing ears.

Could have used a ready meal, because after accomplishing all that, and playing an online pub quiz on insulin (got 7th place of about 50) I didn't feel like cooking my planned meal of stuffed bell peppers, so I had two slices of lc bread instead: one with cheese, tomato and mayonnaise, one with the last of the marinated pork belly pieces.
 
Belated "Happy Birthday wishes to you" x
 
Monday 29 November - bed 7.9 FBG 6.8. Busy, busy day. Very slippy underfoot. House like a cafe with coffees and bacon rolls (demolition of 40ft of destroyed fence/posts in progress. Youngest having a bad day, son + DIL had to get to their double jabs, then last meal with DILs parents before they head home - and breathe!

B. Just TAG
L. Finally had a slice of SLC toast and pate.
D. Remaining cold cuts - ox tongue, ham, roast beef, mini German sausage, coronation chicken and a boiled egg DGF Christmas pie with blackberries and a spoonful of brandy cream.

This fence is not going to be cheap. Garden is full of lots of treated wood. Still, last one survived 30 years!
 

Missed your birthday @maglil55, belated birthday wishes. Hope the effects of the storm haven't spoiled things for you. That was quite a demolition job the storm did. Did you lose power as well?

Food today - about 1 pm, a sausage and pickle sandwich (slices from a small wholemeal loaf, pork sausages and home made pickles). Might have some fish fingers (without the breadcrumbs) later with some salady things.

No 2 son has just left - Em managed to fall down the stairs this morning and bumped her head. She already had a bruise on her head from banging it on a cupboard door and hit it in the same place. DIL kept her home today although she seemed OK but she wanted to check through the morning in case of concussion. Em is getting too much like her dad. He is famous for the amount of damage he does to himself just moving around the place. He does do DIY jobs, but is a danger to himself when he does - always has a new scar every time we see him. He's careful of everything except himself.
 
1 cup black tea, 3 mugs coffee with cream, brunch of home-made soup (chicken thigh, chopped greens, herb butter, olive oil, green pepper, a very few onion slices, lots of garlic, herbs and spices, chicken stock from yesterday's roast) through afternoon with fizzy water or black tea, supper will be steak, sprouts and green beans. I don't usually finish the steak even though it's a small one, so that will be part of tomorrow's brunch, thinly sliced with mushrooms and lardons.
 
Lunch two boiled eggs with half a hm lc roll followed by yoghurt
Dinner lamb loin with roasted cauliflower and glass of soda water with dash of dry white wine followed by lc choc brownie warmed and served with spoon extra thick cream
Just had first lc DGF advent choc with decaff coffee and had mixed feelings I’m so adapted to 90 to 100% choc that it tasted a bit too sweet for me. I’m sure they will be eaten and enjoyed but my regular choc will probably stay in the 90% plus range.
 
Antje77 said:
I didn't feel like cooking my planned meal of stuffed bell peppers
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Another day of not cooking.
One of my two goats is suddenly very ill. So between vets visiting, doing google searches, getting the goat comfortable, calling the vet again with the results of my google searches and requesting another medication, and finding the courage to inject the goat with a needle big enough to give any diabetic nightmares, I now have to decide what to eat. I guess it'll be another sandwich.
Fingers crossed for the goat, it doesn't look too good.
Pic of that needle here : https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/type-1stars-r-us.150597/page-1558#post-2464406

I did visit the library to print my Sinterklaas poems though, but further work on the surprise will have to wait until tomorrow.
 
So sorry about your goat @Antje77 I hope it’ll pull through, what a worry and what responsibility - that needle looks industrial.
First breakfast- Montezumas absolute black Advent calendar chocolate.
Second breakfast- fridge tidying pate on lc toast, sliced Turkey breast and olives.
Lunch- received delivery of lc pies from The Low Carb Food Co. I need to stop buying stuff! Had a pork pie ( 1g carb per pie!) pretty good, pastry not as crisp as a regular one but none of the white stodge underneath.
Dinner- small lamb chop, 1/2 gammon steak and a baked mushroom.
 
DJC3 said:
received delivery of lc pies from The Low Carb Food Co. I need to stop buying stuff! Had a pork pie ( 1g carb per pie!) pretty good, pastry not as crisp as a regular one but none of the white stodge underneath.View attachment 52274
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Ooo, I have some of those pork pies and a couple of pizzas on order with my usual order of bread and bread rolls. Glad to hear there’s no white stodge, I was never very keen on that bit of a pork pie!

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a DGF choc chip cookie.
Dinner: bacon melts with Brussels and brocolli followed by SF jelly and cream.

Wish me luck for tomorrow, blood test to check that iron tablets and all this green veg has done the trick with my levels,
 
Riva_Roxaban said:
Keep that away from my backside, I feel for that poor old goat.

Hope it recovers with what ever the $#@% you injected into him / her with that syringe.
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The goat is so far away it didn't even seem to notice the injection.
The injection was thiamine, B1, in case he has goat polio. Earlier today the vet treated him for listeriosis, which causes encephalitis. Symptoms are similar so treating for both seemed best. In both cases his chances aren't too good. We'll see.

Had a slice of lc bread with two eggs with Turkish sausage and cheese.
 
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