What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Saturday bed 7.2 FBG 6 7. A weird day. BGs going up and down but mostly in range. It's just I'm usually quite stable. Must be this cold. After the run to jujitsu, I'd promised I'd take eldest into Edinburgh so, cold or no cold, you can't break a promise.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with egg.

L. Coffee with a dash of soya milk from one of the street vendors. We were at the St James Quarter (he wanted to go to a Mall) and conveniently there was a Lego store there. (Yes he got something).

D. Just cold cuts. Slice each of mortadella, roast beef, ox tongue, corned beef and coronation chicken. Coleslaw and a bit Port Salut. Followed with a hot shower!

@Riva_Roxaban now that's something that does appeal to me - Home Made fishcakes. I'm having trouble trying to get something that "tastes" with this illness. @RosemaryJackson I hope your weather was as nice as ours with your heating broken down. Hopefully it is fixed quickly.

Today bed 6.9 FBG 5 7. BGs still yoyoing but within range.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with egg.

L Nothing

D. Usual campari and soda. I got Hubby to batter out 2 turkey escalopes. Seasoned with salt, pepper and Italian herbs. Fried in butter and olive oil, then I topped it with wafer thin ham and thinly sliced Emmental served with stir fried curried cabbage and mushrooms. At least I could taste it!

Forgot the sort of "open plan" turkey cordon bleu not bless. I reckon my food is looking too beige!

Breakfast: low carb granola, carbzone toast and butter, mocha
Lunch: pepperoni pizza and garlic bread made on a lo dough base, diet pepsi
Dinner: home made chicken liver pate on olinas seeded crackers, berries and cream, 3 x 85% Hotel Chocolat batons

maglil55 said:

I'm having trouble trying to get something that "tastes" with this illness.

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When I'm ill I absolutely love creamy tomato soup. Might be worth a try.
Very easy to make too, which is important when ill.
Tin of tomatoes or passata, cream or cream cheese, water, stock cube (I use a herbs stock cube instead of meat), optional minced meat, either just like it is or made into mini meatballs. Some fresh herbs are nice as well but not needed. And of course you can add things to it as you like, but the basic version is very satisfactory too.

Was going to make a sauerkraut dish with mashed cauliflower, but found I just wanted to do nothing and recover from the sailing weekend. So much socialising needs time to recover from.
So I had a quick meal of a burger, a large fried onion and some raw endive with mayonnaise for dinner. Quick and tasty!



Reread my earlier post and laughed out loud at this:

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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Just to make sure: I definitely did NOT sleep in a cabin made of sausages, yoghurt and chocolate like a horror version of the witch's house in the story of Hansel and Gretel!

Writing in a second language when tired can be interesting!

B: a coffee with cream and a chunk of cheddar grabbed way out for a walk
L: 2 slices hilo bread toasted with cheese on. 2 lc cookies
Midafternoon, an lc hot chocolate made by hubby who, instead of 1 tiny sweetnrr, put in a whole teaspoon of Truvia!
D: bacon wrapped, cheese stuffed cauliflower. Half before trip to cinema (The Duke, highly recommend). Half on return as suddenly hungry

Spent the day in London with my daughter in celebration of Mother’s Day, sad it’s so soon after my own mother’s death
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee at home.
Lunch at the Flat Iron, steak, cauliflower cheese and leafy salad. Then a five mile walk along the banks of the Thames to my daughter’s house.
Dinner: mozzarella, bacon and pesto salad made by my daughter’s type 1 boyfriend who completely understands low carb. A brilliant day all in all

maglil55 said:

Riva_Roxaban now that's something that does appeal to me - Home Made fishcakes.

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The salt and vinegar chips will put your taste buds into gear.

Forgot to mention the box of 6 ketonuts sent to me by my son who is working abroad. 5 made it to the freezer. The 6th disappeared between walk and lunch

Antje77 said:

Writing in a second language when tired can be interesting!

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I knew what you were on about that you're snacking in your cabin.

That "worst" as in dried sausage, means terrible in English, example that's the "worst" sausage I have eaten. I knew what you meant as it's not far from the German "wurst" spelling.

Sausages are also called snags here and various other names off non politically corrects words.

Hello everyone
I have been away for a break in the beautiful city of Bath and we had great weather so walked miles every day. Managed two meals a day by having big brunch and evening meal. Brunch was eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes and avocado sometimes on a bed of toasted sourdough of which I ate half. Lunchtime pit stops were a glass of chilled wine al fresco taking the weight off in a pretty square. Suppers included Nandos chicken with broccoli and rainbow slaw. Chicken another night in a French restaurant which though a lovely piece of meat was served on a bed of lentils which I ignored and accompanied by green beans and lacked flavour. The best supper was at Cotes which was seabass in a champagne & butter sauce with green veg.
So came back to Indian t/a Tandoori King Prawns and cauli bhajee. Yesterday was crispy Peking duck with side salad. Breakfasts as usual a slice of HiLo toast and lunch a small salad with cheese/cold meat. Yesterday had a visit from my grandpuppy who always expects scrambled eggs so I did some for both of us.
Today back to reality proper so lunch will be salad, small bit quiche, coleslaw.
Chilli tonight with cauli rice for me.
I didnt use my meter while away and didnt watch tv news and I have come back calmer and more relaxed. We’ll see how long that will last!

Morning all. A foggy day here, hopefully when it clears it will be beautiful. Skipped bf. 1st meal will be pork steak done in slow cooker with veg. Fried onion as well. Tonight will be scrambled eggs with cream and cheede. Have to b good after yesterday. Desserts were too tempting and I am but an old weak- willed woman!!!

Yesterday: brunch of 2 fried eggs with lardons, thinly sliced pork rasher and mushrooms. Dinner of 3-egg omelette with cheese and side salad. My salad was made of supermarket Italian style mixed leaves including rocket (I love rocket) green olives, black olives, tomatoes, cucumber, pepper and a small amount of chopped ransom leaves (wild garlic) which has just started growing in the garden. No dressing - plenty of flavour without it.

PenguinMum said:

Hello everyone
I have been away for a break in the beautiful city of Bath and we had great weather so walked miles every day. Managed two meals a day by having big brunch and evening meal. Brunch was eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes and avocado sometimes on a bed of toasted sourdough of which I ate half. Lunchtime pit stops were a glass of chilled wine al fresco taking the weight off in a pretty square. Suppers included Nandos chicken with broccoli and rainbow slaw. Chicken another night in a French restaurant which though a lovely piece of meat was served on a bed of lentils which I ignored and accompanied by green beans and lacked flavour. The best supper was at Cotes which was seabass in a champagne & butter sauce with green veg.
So came back to Indian t/a Tandoori King Prawns and cauli bhajee. Yesterday was crispy Peking duck with side salad. Breakfasts as usual a slice of HiLo toast and lunch a small salad with cheese/cold meat. Yesterday had a visit from my grandpuppy who always expects scrambled eggs so I did some for both of us.
Today back to reality proper so lunch will be salad, small bit quiche, coleslaw.
Chilli tonight with cauli rice for me.
I didnt use my meter while away and didnt watch tv news and I have come back calmer and more relaxed. We’ll see how long that will last!

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We're heading there in October with all my former colleagues/wives/husbands for 6 days (since we've been unable to meet up for 2 years thanks to you know what! I can't wait. So many great restaurants.

Not sticking to OMAD today.
Breakfast was bacon, egg and some more of the bubble and squeak.
2nd meal will be mackerel cut into strips (as in faux whitebait) and fried with a salad of coleslaw, tomatoes and courgette strips.

Very tired after having to help Neil clean out part of my larder - he was checking something for me and decided that I had too much out-of-date stuff in there, so started hauling it out and asking me if I wanted to keep it (the implication being that, of course, I couldn't want to keep it). Most of it went into the bin - some exotic kinds of flours which I never got around to using and some bags of sugar which were bought for baking before covid and haven't been used in these last 2 years - some of it turning to liquid.

Apart from the usual cups of tea, my first food was x2 Ryvita seeded with peanut butter. Lunch was bit of corned beef, half a tin of leftover salon and an apple. Took my BG before my dinner an hour ago my was 5.2 If it stayed in the 5s I would be happy I can tolerate Ryvita but no on its own and only early in the the morning - maybe because I burn it off

(March 27th)

Breakfast (9am): 0% greek yogurt with keto granola topping, black coffee
Snack (10:30am): None
Lunch (12pm): Caesar salad topped with chicken at a restaurant. Awful!
Snack (3pm): None
Dinner (6pm): Salad of tomatoes and cucumbers, chicken nuggets (not low carb....)
Evening Snack (10pm): Two low carb beer

I did not get a chance to walk on the treadmill

maglil55 said:

We're heading there in October with all my former colleagues/wives/husbands for 6 days (since we've been unable to meet up for 2 years thanks to you know what! I can't wait. So many great restaurants.

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sorry @maglil55 , someones got to say it.......
How many former wives and husbands do you have!

Ha a good dollop of full fat greek with seeds after an exercise class as was then heading out with a friend.
Was pleased I had eaten as nothing suitable in the cafe menu where we stopped at lunchtime so just a herbal tea.
Did mean I snacked too much on getting home, a chunk of cheese then some nuts.
D: 2 bratwurst sausages on a bed of creamy cheesy cabbage. 1 scoop Oppo.

Antje77 said:

Was going to make a sauerkraut dish with mashed cauliflower, but found I just wanted to do nothing

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Still not motivated to cook today.
I did do other useful things though, like wrestling a new second hand dishwasher from the car (where it had been sitting for almost a week) to my kitchen and installing it!

Earlier this afternoon I was staring in the fridge trying to decide what to eat for dinner, spotted a nice Münster cheese and had a very satisfying large bite of it.
One of the benefits of living alone is that you can just do things like this without risking a telling off!
Still felt pleasingly naughty though.



Not doing proper cooking doesn't mean not having a tasty meal at all, very happy with today's result!
I had a sudden craving for sauerkraut but didn't want to do the whole mashed cauliflower thing, so I decided to put the other burger from yesterday's package on a bed of sauerkraut, with some mayo, mustard and cucumber on top.

Can recommend!
Juicy burger on a bed of sauerkraut works very well.

With it, I had a slice of low carb bread, half with stinky Münster cheese and half with a 'smoked trout salad'. 'Salad' in this case beig Dutch for anything with mayonnaise, so egg mayo is an egg salad, tuna mayo is a tuna salad, celeriac mayo is a celeriac salad and so on, and every supermarket in the Netherlands sells at least 30 varieties of sandwich salads, none of which actually involve any greens.
I added some sharp cress to the sandwich as well.