What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Friday bed 6.1 FBG 6.2. Still got that tickly cough. 1/2 day at school but eldest wants to have lunch at ours. He's no trouble anyway but I want a chat with him anyway as he's been a bit unsettled the last couple of days.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with a slice of ox tongue and Philly.

L. 6 cherries.

D. Went with Rose veal liver, streaky bacon, fried egg, santini tomatoes and cauliflower mash.
One of the Lidl little dark raspberry bars.

maglil55 said:

That's why I only ever have a scoop of Oppo when I have it.

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The churning, gurgling tum, or the carbs? @maglil55

No breakfast as had fasting blood test. Had booked for hba1c but she took several vials as apparently I was down for full bloods. Mix of interest and apprehension...

Brunch of 2 pieces hm lc soda bread with some Wensleydale cheese. 3 seedy crackers

Later while cooking up my bargains from yesterday, had too many olives

D: steak with aubergine parmigiana and a few celeriac chips. Coffee pudding with 2 chopped brazils and 1 square 85% chopped. 1 white wine

MrsA2 said:

The churning, gurgling tum, or the carbs? @maglil55

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The carbs! I can be quite restrained and mostly 1 small scoop is enough. I find Oppo can be a bit sweet.

Goonergal said:

carnivore carbonara

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That looks great and a nice video explaining how to do it, i come here looking for new ideas as desperate to add more stuff into my weekly meal plans

Good Morning all. Beautiful day again. Skipping bf. 1st meal will be chicken drumsticks coated in 5 spice airfried with cauliflower rice. Tonights meal is going to be sardines on 2 Ryvitas, may even go mad and have 3! Happy Mothers Day to all the mums out there.

ultradad said:

That looks great and a nice video explaining how to do it, i come here looking for new ideas as desperate to add more stuff into my weekly meal plans

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It was very tasty.

(March 25th)

Breakfast (9am): None
Snack (10:30am): None
Lunch (12pm): Leftover sirloin steak with sautéed onions and mushrooms
Snack (3pm): 0% greek yogurt with keto granola topping
Dinner (8pm): Sirloin steak again! Just meat.
Evening Snack (10pm) – One low carb beer and handful of peanuts.

Walked 7.97km to bring my YTD total to 349.63km.

Today will be a 2MAD day. Em stayed overnight and has been wolfing down as much crispy bacon as I can provide her with. So far she has had about 7/8 of a pack - and she told me she didn't want breakfast.

So, making bacon made me hungry and there was an experimental coconut rice pudding in the fridge! Just waiting to see what impact it has on BG - not as bad as the impact on my stomach, I hope. Didn't enjoy it at all. I will eat later today. It will be bubble and squeak with left-over Brussels sprouts, gammon and some other bits and pieces from the fridge, all with a fried egg on top. Might have to pass on the egg - Neil couldn't get any when he went shopping yesterday. That might have been because he went late in the day, not feeling up to it earlier.

The tea tree ointment seems to be doing my sore some good. The larger red area is reduced and the central, dodgy looking part has calmed down a bit. So I'll keep going with that and see how we go.

MrsA2 said:

No breakfast as had fasting blood test. Had booked for hba1c but she took several vials as apparently I was down for full bloods. Mix of interest and apprehension...

Brunch of 2 pieces hm lc soda bread with some Wensleydale cheese. 3 seedy crackers

Later while cooking up my bargains from yesterday, had too many olives

D: steak with aubergine parmigiana and a few celeriac chips. Coffee pudding with 2 chopped brazils and 1 square 85% chopped. 1 white wine

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Hello, good luck for your hba1c results I got mine back last week it was 31mm xx

Early yoga, so nothing beforehand
11:00 2 soft boiled eggs with hm lc soda bread and marmite.
Cooked a fresh loaf of soda bread and some lc cookies for the freezer. Trouble was I nibbled about 6 of the cookies before they got to the freezer.
Less than 2g carbs each but have been feeling heavy and bloated and uncomfortable ever since.
No real dinner, just the good 3/4 of an avocado that needed eating

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a Carb Killa bar.
Dinner: mushroom paté sandwiches made with LC bread with two cherry tomatoes and some coleslaw followed by SF blackcurrant jelly and cream.

Two slices middle bacon, two egg and cheese omelette, mushrooms, tomatoes for breakfast.
No smoko.
Savoury liver and bacon, veggies for lunch.
Homemade fish cakes that had been rolled in crushed up salt and vinegar chips instead of bread crumbs, for supper at six.

Good morning all. Well, not a very good start to my day, my heating has broken down! Hopefully will get it sorted soon. Am skipping bf. Today my lovely son-in-law is taking me out to a carvery for lunch so I can still be good. I so enjoyed my sardines on toast last night it will probably be that again tonight .

It will be OMAD today. I have a mushroom pie filling, without the pastry top - mushrooms and onions with some garlic is all it is. Hope that will be enough. Still lots of bubble & squeak left, so might have some of that as a side dish to make sure I get through the day.

(March 26th)

Breakfast (9am): 0% greek yogurt with keto granola topping
Snack (10:30am): None
Lunch (12pm): Tuna mayo, rollups of sliced deli ham and Balderson 2 year old cheddar
Snack (3pm): None
Dinner (6pm): Pizza and garlic fingers with my kids and nephew
Evening Snack (10pm): Two low carb beer and baked chicken wings

Walked 8.05km to bring my YTD total to 357.68km.

Pizza was completely unplanned, we spent some time at my sister’s house late afternoon which turned into an impromptu pizza meal. I ate a modest portion, and my BS spike wasn’t as awful as I feared. Unfortunately, I was ravenous after my evening stint on the treadmill!

Antje77 said:

Added some bacon cubes fried with cucumber (I love fried cucumber!) to the last leftovers of yesterday and the day before to have enough for a meal.
Also had a couple of beers and some of my neighbour's whisky.

And then I saw someone needing a mate on a 3 masted sailing ship for friday and saturday in a Facebook group.
To give myself credit, I did check the weather forecast before reacting, but it's been a very long time between covid and general anxiety that I was sailing for work.

As a rule, you eat with the guests (those ships are manned by two professionals, me and the captain, plus some 30 paying guests). Food varies from spaghetti with ketchup with school groups to 5 course meals for family groups that happen to have an enthousiastic cook in the family, or it may happen you'll be taken out for dinner.
In this case it's a company outing with people from Belgium.

Which means it can go anywhere, foodwise.
Two full days of socialising and guiding people into the workings of the ship will likely stretch me to the max, mentally, without also throwing carb heavy food and trying to dose for it into the mix.
So I have a couple of days to work out a plan. In case of very good food, I'll want to eat with them, but if not or mediocre I'll want to have a back-up of something filling and low carb.
And of course I'll have to bring something easy for breakfast and lunch, but that's not so much of an issue. The guests will likely eat in the hold while I have to stay outside paying attention to the ship, very easy to transfer the fillings of their rolls to my slice of low carb bread.

I'll do some more thinking on it, but I sure make interesting decisions after drinking my neighbour's whisky!
And I'll send you a picture of course!

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Came back from two days of sailing yesterday night, more on that (and some picture spamming) will follow in the parallel thread. https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...en-parallel-chat.177870/page-100#post-2499931
Foodwise, it all went remarkably well, and diabetes behaved brilliantly!
Started both days on the higher side, going up to 8 something because I didn't dare take enough insulin for foot on the floor, considering the high activity start of the sailing day before that insulin would be out of my system. Dropped quickly again from hoisting sails and stuff, so this worked out perfectly.

It turned out my captain prefers cooking his own food over joining the guests, so for lunch I simply had my own bread with his cheese and some of my own dried sausage I got for my birthday. The second day I had the same lunch, but with a hard boiled egg added, I'd brought some hard boiled eggs with me as part of an easy emergency stash.

Captain had planned a meal of noodles with fried veggies and shrimp, very nice of him to ask if that was ok for my diabetes! I simply asked if he could do the noodles separately, so I had the veggies with shrimps, very little of the noodles to nudge my bg up a little as I was on the lowish side, and added two of my own hard boiled eggs to make a full meal, just perfect!

Had a couple of beers too, and correctly guessed I only needed half as much insulin as I usually take for it.
I think I should have bought a lottery ticket too, I made so many lucky guesses!

Did some late night snacking in my cabin of dried sausage, yoghurt and a couple of chocolaty nut squares too.

Over the whole two days I haven't needed to use winegums for hypos! My basal was a bit on the high side with all the unusual activity but that was easily solved with a couple of bites from an apple now and again, especially before high activity moments like lowering the sails and making the ship ready for the night again. It only needed three quarters of an apple, spread over two days though, and once two bites of a small cupcake when I had dropped to 3.8. (Dogs got lucky with the rest of the cupcake. )

Antje77 said:

Did some late night snacking in my cabin of dried sausage, yoghurt and a couple of chocolaty nut squares too)

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I am curious about the 'dried sausage'. In South Africa, we had something called droëwors' (droge/droog ? worst in Dutch), but I don't think it is the same.

jape said:

I am curious about the 'dried sausage'. In South Africa, we had something called droëwors' (droge/droog ? worst in Dutch), but I don't think it is the same.

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We have many different kinds, from salami and French fuet to Spanish chorizo.
But traditionally Dutch droge worst looks similar to your South-African droëwors. There are regional varieties with different spices, and some are thicker and others are thinner.
What they all have in common (and have in common with the droëwors as well) is that they are made without the white mold you often see on the French sausages.



The droge worst I had with me wasn't a traditional one but a piece of one of the five I received as a birthday present. They are made by a young Amsterdam company making very good quality worst from free range pigs.

This was my birthday present :

Evening all. Lamb has been the focus this weekend.

Yesterday a delivery of Herdwick lamb from a butcher in the north-west failed to show up (DHL’s fault, not the butchsr’s) so the much anticipated home cooked meal became an ordered in German Doner Kebab beef gym box with onions. Earlier I’d eaten cream, 0% Fage and raspberries.

Today the lamb did show up, but I had no notice, so had already defrosted some Waitrose lamb shoulder. That was slow roasted for lunch and delicious. Doubt anything else will be required today.