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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Your comments led me to a Google search on clove tea…interesting and very easy to incorporate into my regular teas. Looks worth a try anyway especially as I have a jar of the little things sitting on the shelf, leftover from Christmas mulled wine. Thank you.
 
Dr Robert Lustig goes on about the microbiome in his Metabolical book, needs fibre to grow apparently. I'll be trying soem of those teas and things too @shelley262 , keep the advice coming

B: ff greek with seeds and berries. 90 minutes later still hungry so 3 seedy crackers with a little pate
L: half a perfect avocado ( a rare experience), 2 slices cheese wrapped around seedy crackers
Big supermarket shop. - not liking the prices
D: hm lc chicken curry using kale instead of spinach, rice for the boys. 1 scoop icecream
 
Made a large pan of soup today.
Didn't like it.

I did eat a little over half a bowl, but I'm afraid the rest of the soup will not be eaten, what a waste.
 
Gather when you make yoghurt you can use inulin to provide the fibre to encourage the bacteria to grow - some traditional methods use sugar of course! Will see how his recipe goes and share if works well.
@MommaE his green clove tea recipe is as follows
Boil a tablespoon of whole cloves in 500mls of water - when boiling reduce to a gentle simmer for 10 mins.add a green tea teabag for last 2 mins of simmering then remove from heat and discard teabag. Then stir in a teaspoon of inulin ( a fructooligosaccaride give it fibre and a slight sweetness) then serve or you can sip throughout the day. Gather you can reuse the cloves a couple of times you can also add a cinnamon stick on serving if liked - I didn’t today but may try another time. Hope you like it
 
L: half a perfect avocado ( a rare experience), 2

Very true, I’d almost given up buying them, I had to throw so many out. Then just when you give up hope you get a perfect one and all is forgiven!
 
Very true, I’d almost given up buying them, I had to throw so many out. Then just when you give up hope you get a perfect one and all is forgiven!
I read a couple of days ago that to check on the ripeness before you buy it you remove the little nub at one end and check the colour underneath it. If it’s nice and green it’s ripe.
 
Made a large pan of soup today.
Didn't like it.

I did eat a little over half a bowl, but I'm afraid the rest of the soup will not be eaten, what a waste.
What flavour soup? Some additions might make it better
 
I read a couple of days ago that to check on the ripeness before you buy it you remove the little nub at one end and check the colour underneath it. If it’s nice and green it’s ripe.

I shall try that. Thanks for the tip.
 
Hello. The chocolate is Green and Blacks Velvet Edition from Tesco.
Morning bg 6.5. Bf FF Greek Yoghurt with blueberries and a bit of cream; L. Tuna mayo in lettuce; Dinner. Breast of Lamb. Something puzzles me. What does having fat with carbs do? TIA
 
Hiya My understanding is that having fat with carbs seems to increase the time From eating that your sugar spike happens. So for example if you had a traditional pizza it would take 3 or even more hours before you saw the impact of thecarbs. The fat itself dosent raise your blood glucose levels.
 
What flavour soup? Some additions might make it better
Leek, some other veggies, a stock cube, some vegetarian shawarma, cheese, things like that. Should be tasty but wasn't.
I did eat a little over half a bowl, but I'm afraid the rest of the soup will not be eaten, what a waste.
Completely forgot to tell you, I went to the DIY store this morning to ask for advice on installing the dishwasher, hoping I could buy the necessary parts in case I could persuade neighbour-in-the-garden to install it this weekend.
Turned out I didn't need a new tap installed so I walked out with 32 euros worth of bits and bobs, and now this very old yellowed and free dishwasher works!

So what's a pot of soup to be thrown away compared to not having to buy a new dishwasher!
 
That menagerie of yours should clean that pot of soup up for you, so not really a waste.
They did eat about half of the leftovers in my bowl but weren't very enthousiastic. I'm afraid they won't be willing to finish the whole pot, they're only very small dogs and it's a large pot.

 
Thanks Shelley262, I'm gradually learning!!! Mrs A2, I couldn't taste them either, but at least it was crunchy! I also bought the salted caramel and I really like that
 
Two slices of middle bacon, two egg and cheese omelette, mushrooms for breakfast.
Cold boiled egg with a splash of salt, lemon cordial / osmolax mix for smoko.
Lamb fore quarter chops, green veggies, gravy, pineapple jelly for lunch.
Toasted low carb cheese and onion sandwiches for supper at six.

Half dozen pepper crackers and Danish Blue cheese on them, watching Borat's American Lockdown & Debunking Borat tv series on Prime Video.
 
Very true, I’d almost given up buying them, I had to throw so many out. Then just when you give up hope you get a perfect one and all is forgiven!
I buy them frozen. It solved the problem of trying to ascertain optimum time to eat them.
 
Breakfast : Fage yogurt, pumpkin seeds, black coffee
Lunch salmon, olives, mayonnaise, black coffee
Dinner: ham and mushroom omelette, green beans, mineral water.
 
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