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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

We're not as bad as some areas. The wind did wake me up Saturday & Sunday but the worst we had, was my neighbour & I had rather a lot of "tree" surrounding and under our cars. They had been pruning the trees and bushes in the residents parking area a few days before so, there was a lot of "loose" bits! Grandson just had an upset tummy. He's paid attention and is eating much better now.
 
@DJC3, my grandparents lived with us when I was small as my Mum looked after them. We had a very large bag garden where grandpa grew all the fruit and vegetables we could possibly need and then some. The Berry crop then led to mass production of jam and jelly by my Mum and grandma (including blackcurrant!). Apart from the home industry he also bred many things. Lots of budgerigars (if the eggs didn't take, I would get a tiny fried egg) and champion Chow-chows (no we didn't eat them!).
 
Tuesday bed 6.7 FBG 6.9. Another switching day as Hubby was at the football, I was driving him there and back!

B. TAG and on return from school run, back bacon, 2 fried eggs and 4 santini tomatoes.
L Nothing
D. DD buffalo chicken with fried shredded cabbage and spicy mayo. Looks a bit "beige" by my standards.
 
Breakfast: bacon and egg

2nd meal: about to have the remainder of the tagine from yesterday.

Em came back in on her way home from school, had her Lotus Biscoff ice cream, then a cup of tea, then an experimental sandwich - whole meal bread (unbuttered) marmite spread as thinly as she could on the soft bread and roasted peanuts scattered over the bread. As an experiment, it wasn't a great success and it wasn't a surprise when she left most of it on the plate. Then another cup of tea. Then home when her dad came to collect her (a mix-up about who was to take her home so he arrived in pyjamas and dressing gown to get her). I guess that's the state he was in when he rushed out to get the dogs as well.
 

My concentrated monkfruit extract liquid arrived this morning so had a try out of making chocolate,orange, nut truffles using a bar of Montezumas 100% as the chocolate base however good news and bad...I was very very careful with the sweetner drops because of warnings about degree of sweetness which has meant that the truffles are not much sweeter than the actual bar! So thegood news is that all those remaining will be eventually heading my way! I’ve boxed and frozen 15 of them - OH had two and said they are nice but just not sweet enough for him ! I’ve got a couple in fridge for tomorrow. I like them but back to drawing board for other family members - think need to go up to 4 to 5 drops for amount of ingredients I used........ more trials needed!

Lunch two eggs scrambled in butter with one hm lc roll followed by yoghurt and a few raspberries and my sample of two truffles ( they work out at about 0.7 g per truffle)

Dinner venison meatballs in passatta and 10g of lc protein pasta with glass of red wine followed by LC blondie warmed and served with spoon of cream.
 

I don’t know why I was gobsmacked to read you would be given a fried budgerigar egg to eat. No different to any birds egg I suppose, but I still had to read it twice!
I’m going to dream of Homemade black currant jam tonight.
 

The sandwich made me laugh it sounds like one of Letitia Cropley’s (from the vicar of Dibley)
That tagine is certainly serving you well.
 
Starting to think about finishing up the fresh supplies we got in this week, ready to go home on Friday. ( hope to goodness girls are negative by then, so far one is and is back to work but the other isnt)

B- sort of caprese omelette with mozzarella, cherry toms and spinach.
L- salad with lettuce, chicken, Hb egg, red pepper, cherry toms, St Agur blue creme instead of dressing. Also 1 small cracker I bought in a lovely cheese shop I found today ( also bought loads of cheese obviously) the cracker was made with spelt flour and half the weight was seeds. As each cracker was small I thought the amount of spelt flour wouldn’t cause too much damage - mistake. It did. Lesson learned.
D- 1/2 spatchcock chicken with galicky cavolo nero and green beans. Red wine.
@shelley262 those truffles look wonderful
 
Tuesday
Breakfast Fage yogurt, black coffee
Late lunch: black coffee and a piece of brie
Dinner: minced beef, bolognaise style, but without pasta, topped with cheddar cheese.
Sugar free tonic water.

Wednesday
Breakfast: Coconut ‘porridge’ blueberries, black coffee
Lunch: just a decaff black coffee, followed by another one hour later
Dinner: Salmon, egg, brie, mayonnaise on small portion of salad, mineral water

Think I have caught up.
Future reports should read “ Did do better, tried, and succeeded.”
 
Well my experiment of a late night snack did keep the hunger pangs at bay, but my fbg was higher than normal at 7.2.
Have been told that someone I spent a lot of time with on Monday, tested positive for covid yesterday . Let the watching and waiting begin

Skipped breakfast
Day out at a museum for hubbys belated birthday treat.
Nothing on the cafe menu for me, luckily had taken cubes of cheese, olives and nuts so munched on them. A fair amount of walking.
D: more of yesterday's lamb and liver mince, baked with spicy tomato sauce on top. Green beans. 1 sq 85% and 1 glass red wine
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and Carb Killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Atkins bar.
Dinner: crispy cheese omelette with a few cherry tomatoes followed by SF blackcurrant jelly and cream.
 
Still no cooking, the assembly of the new storage place is taking longer than expected. Something to do with the very simple thing not exactly fitting as it is, so I've adjusted what isn't meant to be adjusted, which always takes a lot of time. Especially if it involves finding the right length screws somewhere, then finding the right bit to go with them (didn't find it), more searching for different screws of the same length, searching for a non existant drill, finding an alternative way to make a hole, things like that.
With all my pots, pans, plates and mugs still occupying every usable surface in the kitchen, I wasn't going to chop vegetables or such.

So my main meal was bread again, this time with bacon and eggs. Not enough, really, I guess I'll make up with more midnight snacks than usual later tonight.
 
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Hello. Thank you Shelley262 and DJC. It's actually all of you that are keeping me on track! I really wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't joined this forum. I'm happy to say my morning bg was 6.1. My bf was half a hm lc roll with the rest of the egg mayo with cress on top. My dinner was 2 Bratwurst, 2 bacon (it tasted much better after just boiling it as someone on here said) 1 egg and 1 fried tomato. My sweet was 3 squares of 70% raspberry and hazelnut choc. Altogether30.1g carbs. And my bedtime bg 6.6. At 83 I should be cool, calm and collected but I am so excited to be in control for the first time!
 
DJC3 said:
The sandwich made me laugh it sounds like one of Letitia Cropley’s (from the vicar of Dibley)
That tagine is certainly serving you well.
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Em likes to experiment with food, combining unlikely things to see if the whole is better than the sum of the parts. I think experimentation is a good thing so encourage her (unless it is so outlandish that it would be dangerous). She'll grow up to be the same kind of cook as me - as Neil and her dad. We're all experimental cooks. And like Em, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
 
Two hard boiled eggs, two slices of low carb toast with a small portion of musical fruit on them for breakfast.
Cold chicken leg, lemon cordial / osmolax mix.
Grilled whiting fillets, mixed salad, green jelly with a spoonful of lemon lime sorbet on it for lunch.
Cold meat and leftover salad in low carb wraps for supper at six.

Changed our online delivery date to today (thurs) to try, and dodge the out of stock we have been getting. so far no texts saying "there is a problem with your order".
 
"Musical fruit on toast"?
What's that about, @Riva_Roxaban ?

Also, I'm tagging you too often late at night when I'm on my phone. If I start typing your name, predictive text shows me 'Riv', 'River' and 'Riva_Roxaban' after typing the first three letters.
Antje77 said:
I guess I'll make up with more midnight snacks than usual later tonight.
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So far I've had peanuts, cashews, pork scratchings with aioli and a very small piece of chocolaty nut squares in bed.
Pretty sure I'll have a couple more of those before turning off the light.
 
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