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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Hi everybody. No bf. Dinner was 3 sausages with sprouting broccoli and cabbage with a spot of gravy. Tea was stick of celery filled with Philly and crab sticks plus 2 Ryvitas with Philly and smoked salmon. Snack 2 squares my choc. Going to see if I can find some Montezuma with orange oil next week. Or when I can drive again. Tomorrow it will be, no bf. Roasted chicken with roasted veg and mashed celeriac and spot of gravy. Tea will be probably 2 boiled eggs with 2 buttered Ryvitas. Have a nice peaceful Sunday.
 
Didn't have fish last night. Feeling pretty low and just didn't bother with any food. Today:

Breakfast: sausage casserole and a couple of eggs on top, with 1 slice of wholemeal toast.

Still feeling a bit grotty for some reason, so not promising myself any 2nd meal but if I do, it will be the haddock that I should have had yesterday with some kale. I was very tired last night and fell asleep in the kitchen chair so woke up at 2 am and went to bed. Didn't get up until 10 am. Still very dozy though. GP told me to increase the dose of Metformin which I only got around to doing in the last few days - having an effect on my digestion so maybe that's something to do with it
 
What have I eaten today? Absolutely nothing. I feel really dreadful. I've been sleeping on and off all day. I felt nauseous most of the day until I was violently sick (more than once). I still feel dreadful but better than I was. Being sick seems to have eased the pain in my side as well.

All I've had is a lot of water. Son is taking the boys to school tomorrow morning to let me rest.
 

This has been going on for too long @maglil55. Possibly time to consult a doctor? Do take care of yourself - you are so good at taking care of others so taking time for yourself is in order.
 
Agree with @Annb its time to check out with a dr it sounds dreadful take care and pleased that others in family stepping up to help you takecare
 

2nd day of slightly adapted cauliflower recipe wasn’t sure if fancied cauliflower mash or cheese with my dinner so did a combo! Boiled some cauliflower florets until soft then mashed very roughly using a fork so lots of texture added some cream and the put in oven proof dish with sprinkle of cheese 180 fan for 20 mins. Had some of smoothness of mash but the crispy slightly burnt bits of cauliflower cheese.
First thing some hm yoghurts with my supplements
Lunch salads with some cheeses including some very tasty Harrogate blue and m and s lc crackers followed by hm yoghurt and some berries and four squares of 100% chocolate with orange oil- last of this bar will be opening the almond version tomorrow
Afternoon don’t know why but smell of chicken cooking triggered big urge to snack I’m wondering if I just didn’t have enough protein at lunch- good job no nuts left - had to resort to the M and S lc seeded crackers managed the rest of the opened pack good job they are so low carb at 4g per whole pack.
Dinner roast chicken dinner with cauliflower cheese mash and a few organic carrots and a glass of dry white wine followed by lc ginger blondie warmed and served with yoghurt.
@Antje77 hope you’ve had a wonderful birthday
 
Small rib steak, refried lefover veggies, two well done eggs, tomatoes for breakafsr.
No smoko again, lemon cordial / osmolax mix.
Pickled pork, mixed salad, pineapple jelly for lunch.
Leftover p ork and salad in low carb wraps for supper at six.

Pepper crcrackers with cheddar cheese and kimchi again watching tv.

Had a big electrical storm here last night, one lightning strike must have been very close as the flash and bang were almost simultaneous. We got 65 mm of rain at the airport where the official BOM rain gauge is, which is gunna cause some problems for some farmers.
 
B: one slice gouda before a much needed walk with a friend. Many issues put to rights.
Felt exhausted after but think that was becuase stress released
30 minutes in the garden before hunger drove me inside
Cheese and sardines on toast -sort of- had one slice of HiLo from the freezer and 2 very small slices of hm lc cheesy soda bread, but was too small to really hold the cheese, so had the reminder of the sardines with just a fork.
D: lamb steak cooked in air fryer for only 6 minutes then rested for 10, with cauliflower cheese. 1 pot lc chocolate mouse made yesterday with ricotta cheese. I glass white wine with soda
 
Yesterday on Facebook (in a group on language, strange enough), some other members of the group and I got somewhat carried away on typical Dutch birthday party food from the 80s.
So, it being my birthday today, I decided to go all out on 80s birthday food: devilled eggs but with the plate made up with rather random pieces of tomato and small pickled onions (Those onions and/or pickles went with almost everything in those days!), and a "shrimp coctail".

I have no idea if shrimp cocktail is a thing outside the Netherlands in the 80s, but it's literally that, a cocktail.
It should be eaten from a fancy glass but I don't have any so it went in a bowl. First some lettuce, then small shrimp. I added some tomato as well, then the sauce, consisting of half beaten cream, mayonnaise, tomato puree for colour and alcohol. I used cognac. I also added some dill and zest.
And of course parsley on everything.

I had a lot of fun preparing my meal, and it didn't taste bad either.

 
Gefeliciteerd @Antje77

We buy cocktail prawns which still has a a bit of carapace on it around the tail, your cocktail shrimp are basically the thing if we added lettuce and mayo stuff in a glass
 
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 Carb Killa bar.
Tea at ILs: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake!
 
Antje77 said:
But do you also add whisky or cognac or anything like that? That's what makes this recipe truly strange in my eyes!
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When you order one at a restaurant, all I have ever seen is what I described before, I would like to have a go at that one you have with the booze in it.
 
Antje77 said:
But do you also add whisky or cognac or anything like that? That's what makes this recipe truly strange in my eyes!
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Yes I seem to remember that being a thing, before people realised you could make an acceptable version just by mixing mayo and tomato ketchup. The fancy version of the sauce was called Marie Rose sauce, and was, I believe French in origin, hence the brandy
 
According to Wikipedia, "Marie Rose sauce (known in some areas as cocktail sauce or seafood sauce) is a British condiment often made from a blend of tomatoes, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice and black pepper. A simpler version can be made by merely mixing tomato ketchup with mayonnaise. The sauce was popularised in the 1960s by ***** Cradock, a British celebrity chef".

But the version I was taught to make as a catering student (one of several incarnations) used mayonnaise (home made, of course), tomato puree, Worcester sauce, lemon juice, seasoning and brandy. There are also some versions that use part cream, part mayonnaise. And as @MrsA2 says, a simpler version is a mixture of mayonnaise and tomato ketchup. I make it sometimes and use part double cream, part mayonnaise, part tomato puree, lemon juice, a touch of chilli and a little soya sauce.

No breakfast for a while yet - I have an appointment in Stornoway at 9.20 for a PCR test so will wait until I get back to eat. Then it will be some of the sausage casserole I made a couple of days ago. Possibly it will be just one meal today. That's how yesterday ended up, unintentionally.
 
Good news my HbA1c is now 31mm down from 35mm in November . Breakfast plant based protein shake with unsweetened almond milk. Lunch lc bread with tuna and cucumber, my protein crisps and a 10 cal jelly. Tea will be Cauliflower rice and mayflower curry chicken and mushrooms. Snacks salt and vinegar peanuts and protein bar and maybe some cheese on a few crackers
 
Annb said:
The sauce was popularised in the 1960s by ***** Cradock, a British celebrity chef".
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What a shame that my mother tongue has been so diminished by modern usage that a perfectly ordinary female name (albeit not a common one these days) should be unacceptable to a non-sentient digital program. I also hate that when the children's story of "Swallows and Amazons" was filmed, it was felt necessary to change the name of one of the characters to avoid silly people giggling.

Just came back from getting my PCR test done (result later today) and had my one meal today - another third of the sausage casserole I baked the other day - plenty of vegetables and about 11/4 sausages.
 
Breakfast; paleo granola, low carb toast and butter
mocha
Lunch; super seeded crackers, chicken liver pate, peppers, olives and tomatoes, one pip and nut butter cup
salted popcorn mid afternoon
Dinner: chicken breast in peppercorn sauce, peas, tomatoes and a tiny roastie, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and cream. 90% lindt
 
brunch at 1400: Chicken soup (home made) with bits of chicken, courgette, green pepper, red pepper, garlic, vegetable stock cube, thyme, oregano, paprika, cayenne, olive oil.

Dinner will be leftover lamb from roast lamb joint 2 days ago, peppers green and red (other half of each went in brunch) aubergine, tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, vegetable stock cube (I use a lot of these) and a smidgen of grated cheddar for extra flavour.
 
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