What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Brunch - slc porridge overloaded with greek yoghurt & berries. @DJC3 Yes it was the semi skimmed milk that spiked me before - I have been making it with coconut milk and hardly any rise at all

Dinner - h/m lc lasagne. 2 slices slc bread toasted and smothered with garlic butter. 1 no added sugar shortbread finger (9.4 carbs) from Boots - was shortdated and cheap so I bought a packet - tastes like the real thing but is a bit higher in carbs than I would like so I won't buy again but enjoying it at the moment. Mug of earl grey tea

Mrs T 123 said:

I thought you had bought it before around the same time as me - did you ever try it? Imo it tastes like what I would imagine baby sick to be like - disgusting - but I have eaten it a) because of the price b) because it has a lot of the good stuff in it - I overload it with greek yoghurt & berries and when that is all gone I chuck the rest of it in the bin - I will never buy it again but I think they have taken it off at the moment as they are trying to improve the taste - which wouldn't be hard ....

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I was going to buy it but when I went to check out the message said it would delay my order for about 5 days. I removed it as the bread situation was getting desperate. Glad I did!

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Atkins bar.
Dinner: salt and chilli ribs with roasted veg (pic for @jape !) followed by SF strawberry jelly and cream.

Mrs T 123 said:

Brunch - slc porridge overloaded with greek yoghurt & berries. @DJC3 Yes it was the semi skimmed milk that spiked me before - I have been making it with coconut milk and hardly any rise at all

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Glad you got to the bottom of it so you don’t have to waste the rest of the porridge. I’d imagine the coconut milk would give a better flavour too?

Evening all. Welcome @coby It’s good to have you here. This thread is great for picking up meal ideas and also I find, for keeping me accountable to myself. Even if I don’t have time to join in the chat just posting my food makes me think twice about what I’m eating.
Today starting the DD reset meal plan again
B- Fried eggs, Gouda and wilted spinach.
L- Roast beef and no-tato salad. I love this simple meal.
D- chicken caprese casserole. Then Sf jelly which wasn’t in the plan.
@maglil55 so glad your legs are better today.
@Annb I’ve never known anyone eat a bell pepper like an apple. Good for Em, I hope you can keep up a supply of them for her.

Rachox said:

Dinner: salt and chilli ribs with roasted veg (pic for @jape !)

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@jape is not the only one enjoying pictures, I love them as well!
Especially when they look as good as yours.

I still had boeuf/sauerkraut but not enough for two days and too much for one day.
So I had half, with half a rookworst (Dutch smoked sausage) from the freezer. Rookworst traditionally goes with 'stamppot zuurkool' (yes, in a few years you'll be able to order all kinds of Dutch dishes if you follow this thread! Zuurkoolstamppot is sauerkraut mixed with mashed potatoes.) so I figured it'd go well with my sauerkraut dish as well.
Will have the same tomorrow obviously.



Good thing I had already prepared my food, as I got a phonecall from my best friend (the one with the non-diabetic gastroparesis) at around dinner time.
She had an MRI last week to see if she had any gallstones left in her bile ducts after getting her gall bladder removed.
She logged in to her hospital account to see if there were any results, not expecting much because she hasn't had that sharp pain in the last 3 weeks.

Apart from the stones in her ducts it said a possible Cave Klatskin tumor needs to be investigated.
Sometimes access to your records isn't such a good thing, and this is one of those times.
We have no idea if this means something looks a little odd and they only want to rule this out, or if this very much looks like one of those tumors and she's basically ******.

She also has a husband with a burn-out and a mainly health-centered anxiety, which has come out in all its glory thanks to the pandemic. So she hasn't told him because she doesn't know anything yet.
She'll see her specialist for her gastroparesis on wednesday (on a different matter) so hopefully he can shed some preliminary light on her results.

I'll now stop procrastinating, which I have done for the past few hours and have a look at the tabs I've opened on this Cave Klatskin thing.
I'm pretty scared.

Today I followed @DJC3 onto the DD 2 week reset. Bed 6.9 FBG 7.2. The BGs only had a short lived foray into the 8's today and have been a lot better the rest of the day. I've even stayed off the gin!

B. An odd breakfast for me due to the reset a bit later.- TAG for now.
Brunch - 11.30 1 oz of Cheddar, wilted spinach and 3 fried eggs. It was surprisingly tasty.
L. It wasn't really lunch. I wasn't too hungry after the late "brunch" so much later I had an amended something. DD does tend to have too much food daily. I reduced it to 2 slices of wafer thin beef wrapped around M&S whipped cheese.
D. Changed it again. Had the DD baked cod Caprese with the remains of my cauli mash from yesterday. Cod was baked with pesto, mozzarella and tomato.

I have resisted alcohol, berries & chocolate!

Pipp said:

Now I am more confused. What is the parallel chat thread for?

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It's for chat without food involved which either is continuing something started here, or just something we want to share not relating to anything on this thread.
It's close to impossible to say when something is too much chat for this thread, but since the parallel thread has started, much less derailing to the point of moderating has taken place here.

A good example of a post which would have been better placed in the parallel thread is the second half of my previous post, right before your post.
I put it here because it all came out rather unplanned, it should have been a single sentence but it wanted out.
I've left it, because it's so big a fear, and I needed to share. Can't share with anyone else because it's still a 'nothing' and nobody knows but her and me.
Typical case of being a member first and a mod second.

(Won't object if my colleagues move half my post there though! Don't want to do it myself, feels like some superstitious bad luck )

Antje77 said:

It's for chat without food involved which either is continuing something started here, or just something we want to share not relating to anything on this thread.
It's close to impossible to say when something is too much chat for this thread, but since the parallel thread has started, much less derailing to the point of moderating has taken place here.

A good example of a post which would have been better placed in the parallel thread is the second half of my previous post, right before your post.
I put it here because it all came out rather unplanned, it should have been a single sentence but it wanted out.
I've left it, because it's so big a fear, and I needed to share. Can't share with anyone else because it's still a 'nothing' and nobody knows but her and me.
Typical case of being a member first and a mod second.

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I added the bit about Em, which was quite lengthy, because I am trying to get her to accept that with so many members of her family being diabetic, she is at risk and has to be aware of what she's eating from now on - she's already big for her age and a lot of it is (whisper it) f.a.t!

Big hugs for @Antje77 and her friend

B: lidls creamy greek yoghurt (the one with 25% cream) that had been soaking chia seeds overnight so was very thick indeed

Exercise class followed by coffee with girlfriends

L: prawns. Coleslaw and lettuce and mayo. Some St agur blue cheese on M&s seedy crackers (yes I found some in Canary Wharf in London, but at £1.90 a pack!) Then remembered I had some soda bread I made yesterday that wouldn't fit in the freezer so had a slice of that too.

Had a report to write that then led to another problem then another one then another, so somehow munched through 60g of some 70% raspberry dark choc while typing furiously as had a deadline.

D: leftover cabbage mixed with leftover pork with leftover fondue with left over cream cheese. Surprisingly tasty

Then found as hubby had been left to his own devices while I worked, that he had cooked custards tarts Portuguese style from his Christmas cook book. Riddled with sugar and then coverd in sugar syrup!!! But he looked so pleased with himself that I had a bite of one and a tablespoon of the leftover custard filling. Within 20 minutes I could feel the sugar coursing through my body. Tried to mitigate it a bit with some plain greek yoghurt. Luckily (or not!) I'm not starting my libre until tomorrow.

Then out to the meeting I'd done the reports for, went well but has been stressful lead up so celebrated witha brandy and soda and some blue cheese on the bread I finally remembered

So, sugar, stress, alcohol and late night eating all in one day. Maybe I'll delay starting the Libre...

Breakfast; raw gorilla l/c granola, one slice carbzone rye bread with butter
mocha
Lunch: scrambled egg, serrano and a slice of carbzone, protein bar
Dinner: goulash followed by raspberries and double cream.
One square of 90% lindt so far,... hungry after long walk and lots of housework!!

second day of intermittent fasting, decided it's more a case of mind over matter than hunger!

above should take into account another piece of lindt and a DGF mince pie I found in freezer. Also, spotted some SLC not cross buns in there I'd forgotten about, maybe tomorrow?

A 16/8 day today - as fancied eating a lateish breakfast so started eating at 11 rather than fasting to my usual one o clock
Breakfast two boiled eggs and a hm lc roll
Lunch tuna on 5 m and s crackers with two cherry tomatoes followed by fage yoghurt and a few raspberries and some nuts
Mid pm two squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner pork saltimboca ( basically pork loin wrapped in Parma ham and fried)served with mushrooms cooked in sage butter and salad followed by lc blondie warmed and then eaten with spoon of cream.
Probably another 16/8 day tomorrow I’ve enjoyed the three meals today.

Personal trainer Hiit session this morning so didn’t have the designated meal plan breakfast -I always feel quite sick after those sessions.
L- leftover chicken caprese casserole
D- not the meal plan dinner as a neighbour gave us a brace of pheasants at the weekend, so had them with a creamy mushroom, mustard and dry Sherry sauce. Cavolo nero and green beans with it.
I’m really craving a sweet end to the meal but trying to satisfy myself with a mug of decaf coffee and cream.

Unlike @DJC3 I did succumb to the need for something sweet. Been craving for a couple of days. Went out and bought Fage 0%, some raspberries and some Lindt 90%. Far too much of each has already gone. Very enjoyable though and far less damage than some of the alternatives that crossed my mind! No more this evening as bloods in the morning require fasting.

That followed today’s meal of beef topside slow cooked in the air fryer. Delicious. No pics of the cooked meat, but this was how it started out. Nice fat cap!

Goonergal said:

Unlike @DJC3 I did succumb to the need for something sweet. Been craving for a couple of days. Went out and bought Fage 0%, some raspberries and some Lindt 90%. Far too much of each has already gone. Very enjoyable though and far less damage than some of the alternatives that crossed my mind! No more this evening as bloods in the morning require fasting.

That followed today’s meal of beef topside slow cooked in the air fryer. Delicious. No pics of the cooked meat, but this was how it started out. Nice fat cap!

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Winner for sticking to the low carb sweet options and hope fasting for bloods goes well.

Goonergal said:

Oh my! Just had the best ever slow roast pork belly. Found a recipe which suggested wrapping the meat (but not the rind) in foil during cooking, to keep it moist and almost confit it. This was a fatty piece but boy did it work. Meat was meltingly tender and the crackling salty and crisp. Shame it was such a small piece!
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Went to the butcher today to show them your picture and tell them "this is what I want". They looked very relieved when I added "but I don't need it today".
They have to order it as a special order, as pork doesn't usually come like this in the Netherlands, but it should be in on friday!

Does it reheat well on subsequent days? And how best to do so? I didn't have the heart to tell them to make it a 200 gram piece, so I went with 'for 3 or 4 people, definitely less than a kilo'.

Positive covid test today! It has given me reduced appetite.
Keto pancakes for brunch.
Slow cooked pork in a flat bread this evening.

Bad head and hot eyes!!

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Atkins bar.
Dinner: chilli with cauliflower rice followed by SF orange jelly and cream.