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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Jayne1983 said:
Omg these look so good x if u don’t mind can you tell me how u make them x
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Sure!
The basic recipe is:

100 gr dark chocolate, 85% cocoa or higher
60 gr butter
60 gr nut butter
nuts (more than you think)

Melt everything au bain marie
Add nuts
Put into shallow bowl with baking sheet
Let set for a few hours until firm enough to cut (not too long or they will break in all the wrong places)
Let set longer before eating or freezing.

I like to roast my nuts in the oven before adding.
My favourite spices to add are chilli, powdered ginger and powdered cloves. About three times as much as what you think will be too much.

I like to use almond butter and walnuts, but the original recipe is with peanut butter and peanuts.
This time I used mainly walnuts but also some pecan nuts and sunflower seeds. I wanted to use pumpkin seeds but they were expensive, and I found the sunflower seeds for only 3 euros or so for a kilo, and they taste nice too. (probably that cheap because they were sold as bird food, they taste just like sunflower seeds so fine with me.)
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and a Carb Killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Dinner: LC pizza with coleslaw, sliced radishes and two mini orange tomatoes followed by DGF lemon drizzle cakes with cream.
 
B: ff greek with seeds and blueberries
Mid morning: 1 cold bratwurst
L: 30g cheddar with 4 cocktail sausages and some olives. 1 nut bar
Bought a whole salmon and filleted it to give a generous side for tonight, 6 large portions for the freezer, a bowl of good bits for human consumption, a bowl of skin and bits for the cats
D: Salmon which had been marinated with a topping of spices ( ground mustard seeds, paprika and garlic in yoghurt) while we popped to the pub for an outside drink in the sun. 1 glass of wine, roast peppers, celery slow cooked in tomato, broccoli. 1 small scoop ice cream.

Some salmon left for tomorrow, I do like cold salmon

Seem to be streaming with a cold, which might explain the bad day yesterday. Hoping its not covid as have to test negative on Wednesday to go on holiday ..

Love the choc nut square @Antje77 . Did you just use 100g chocolate and an awful lot of nuts to get over 1kg total?
Can't help with chicken livers. Have tried them 3 times since going lc and just can't get on with them, or only as small bit of pate but it make so much.
 
MrsA2 said:
Love the choc nut square @Antje77 . Did you just use 100g chocolate and an awful lot of nuts to get over 1kg total?
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No, no, I just cincupled (if this isn't a word, it should be) the recipe by using four 125 grams chocolate bars from Lidl!
They freeze well, saves me the hassle of making it more often!

DJC3 said:
D- https://www.myketokitchen.com/keto-recipes/keto-pepper-pork-stew/ which was v enjoyable.
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This sounds just like the kind of meal I love!

I took @Annb advice on the chicken livers and added some more veggies so I can stretch my 350 grams of livers to 3 days.
Made enough veggies for 3 days but will fry the livers fresh before eating each day because the Google told me they turn rubbery when you reheat them.
Tasty!

 
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Still catching up. Saturday 9 April - bed 6.6 FBG 6.1

B. TAG and 4 M&S Wheaten crackers with whipped cheese.
L. Grabbed a couple of Hubby's crisps.
D. Cold cuts again. Wafer thin chicken, beef, pork, mortadella, mini sausage slices, coronation chicken, coleslaw and M&S serrano ham crisps.

Sunday bed and FBG both 7.5. Strange day. BGs a bit up and down.

B. TAG - GF Black pudding, 2 slices back bacon, fried egg, santini tomatoes and 1 slice of SLC toast with butter.

L. Nothing last swimming lesson before the holidays.

D. We went out to our Argentine Steak house with son, DIL and both boys.
3 scallops done in chimichurri. Rib eye with tomato, Portobello mushroom, wilted spinach with feta and pepper sauce. A lot of sauvion blanc! A brandy coffee, cream no sugar. Lovely night.
 
Antje77 said:
I've never made chicken livers before, so I need to Google what to do with them to make a tasty meal.
Or I can ask you of course
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I have never really cooked chicken livers, but I have used them as bait to use when we used to go fishing in both fresh and salt water.

Caught some nice fish with them as well.

No, no, I just cincupled (if this isn't a word, it should be) the recipe by using four 125 grams chocolate bars from Lidl!!
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I could not find cincupled

Quadrupled might fit better with your mix.
 
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@Antje77 I missed your original post re chicken livers but flash fried in butter is the best in my book. Definitely don’t overcook or reheat.
Pate is a good choice too

@maglil55 I can’t remember where to get lakanto golden monkfruit from. I know you’ve told me before, Every UK site I’ve tried has sold out. My daughter annoyingly used all mine while I was away a few weeks ago, she thought it was the sweetener I don’t like ( which is pure erythritol)
 
Mashed up hard boiled egg sandwiches, for breakfast.
Nothing for smoko, had a lemon lime cordial drink with osmolax in it to help things along
Cottage pie with mashed pumpkin on mine, green veggies, orange jelly osmolax mix.
Small tin of baked beans on toast for supper at six.

Chunk of chocolate easter bunny that came with our last shopping order from the Woolies shopping pickers as a easter present.
 
Antje77 said:
No, that's 4 times. I wrote the recipe based on 100 gr of chocolate, using four 125 gr bars cincuples the amount.
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I see where you are coming from probably quintuples is a result I have just found.

4 X 100 is quadrupled, 4 x 125 is still quadrupled, if you used 5 x 100 it would 500 is quintupled , 5 x 125 is 625 is quintupled as well.

Yummy chocolate goodness though, I hope they last over the easter.
 
Hi All had such a fun day with the gathering of the clan yesterday. My soon to be DIL had a bad migraine and didnt come but sent home a t/a pack with youngest son. The only photo I have @DJC is the Ras al Hanout cauli salad which was the biggest hit and was easy and made according to my memory of eating it out. I made a paste of the spice and olive oil and massaged the florets and put them in a medium over for 15 mins, added a little water from the kettle so they didnt dry up too much. They came out al dente and added can of drained chickpeas, pomegranate seeds and blobs of natural yogurt and goats cheese, topped with mint leaves. I baked salmon fillets with herby butter in tin foil and made a Med veg pasta bake (using the 50/50 allocation) with a thick cheesey top, Jersey Royals baked with fresh rosemary and English asparagus drzzled with OO, seasoned and 15 mins in oven. It was all such an easy “put everything in the oven”. I got a chocolate roulade from Cook and added lots of mini eggs and a huge bowl of berries. I am afraid I tried to be good but drank too much French rose wine and the chickpeas etc(?) and though I dodged dessert I did snaffle a few or more mini eggs (the ones with crispy shell).


Today its just the two of us so will bbq tonight enough for two days and use up the leftovers from yesterday. Hopefully it will be a couple of relaxing days in the sunshine with easy relaxing food. Happy Easter everyone.
 


@PenguinMum, where was my invitation????? My mouth is still watering!
 
Hey Rosemary my daily diet is one of the most predictible and boring ones on here usually.
 
(April 15th)

Breakfast (9am): 0% greek yogurt with keto granola, Black coffee
Snack (10:30am): None
Lunch (12pm): None
Snack (3pm): None
Dinner (8pm): Grilled sirloin steak, side of ravioli and red sauce
Evening Snack (10pm): Low carb beer and small portion of peanuts

Walked 6.60km to bring my YTD total to 490.33km
 
5 coffees with cream

Brunch of salad: mixed Italian-style leaves, tomatoes, cucumber, half a yellow pepper, half a red one, mange-tout, olives, small amount of cheese, 2 hardboiled eggs, slice of ham, generous slug of olive oil.

Dinner will be roast lamb with cauliflower and purple sprouting broccoli
 
Had my meal of ratatouille with a couple of fried eggs at about 3.30 and I was hoping that I wouldn't want anything more today, but I am hungry, so I might have to rethink that.

I also stirred myself out of my stupor because I kind of imagined a new dish of fried onion and courgette in a mustard and cream sauce. I'm sure it isn't completely original but I haven't seen, or heard of, it before. Not sure what to do with it. Probably will work as a side dish with some sausages. I'll have to store it until I get some sausages. Might work with some bacon, of course - I have some of that. Tomorrow maybe.
 
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