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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Atkins bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a phd bar.
Dinner: same as yesterday LCFC pizza with coleslaw, radishes and cherry tomatoes followed by SF strawberry jelly and cream.
Eaten more than my one or two squares of 85% chocolate today, I usually eat it after I post here! However today I needed some comfort food as I have developed shingles and it’s so uncomfortable :(
 
Pretty poorly here. Thinks it's covid. Will test tomorrow. Means our holiday due to start Wednesday is very probably off

Boys are waiting on me in bed so lunchtime had yoghurt seeds and blueberries
Mid afternoon a piece lc cake
Supper was 2 scrambled eggs with 2 rashers bacon, and 2, yes 2 scoops icecream
Drinking a full cup of herbal tea every hour, Vicks on chest, tissues every five minutes

Both cats have decided my bed is the place to be, so there's 3 of us up here
 
Rachox said:
Eaten more than my one or two squares of 85% chocolate today, I usually eat it after I post here! However today I needed some comfort food as I have developed shingles and it’s so uncomfortable :(
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Chocolate is allowed at easter as it is a good excuse as any.

Hope you can shake the shingles off really quick, a friend of mine has still got it lingering on her face and neck after a year.
 
Bacon and two egg and cheese omelette, slice toast and vegimite for breakfast.
Spicy buttered hot ✓ bun for smoko, glass of lemon / lime cordial with a large scoop of osmolax mixed in.
Seafood marinara mix in a spagbol type sauce, small portion of reheated pasta spirals for lunch.
Scrambled eggs on toast for supper at six.

Felt a lot better yesterday (Saturday), my gut is not as bad as it has settled down a bit better with the larger size Fentanyl 50 mcg/hour patch, that my pharmacy delivered yesterday morning after phoning my GP up.
 
Goonergal said:
@DJC3 saw your question about monkfruit. I used to get it from here: https://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-1999974-lakanto-monkfruit-classic-sweetener-8-29-oz seems it’s on offer at the moment at under £6.
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Thank you, unfortunately the golden monkfruit is sold out there too, and that’s the only one I like. I had this trouble the last time I tried to buy some over a year ago. Everywhere seemed to be out of the golden one. I’ve added my email address to the waiting list though, so hopefully it’ll be back in stock soon.
 
Hugs @Rachox for shingles, I’m sure it’s more than ‘uncomfortable’ I hope it clears up soon.
More hugs to @MrsA2 for covid symptoms, keeping my fingers crossed for your holiday this week.
Yesterdays food:
B- 2 fried eggs on a slice of cheese and wilted spinach, ginger and turmeric sauerkraut.
L- Turkey slices, celeriac remoulade, lettuce, flowed by a DGF cake
D- airfried chicken thighs with roast veg. 2 glasses dry white wine.
 
Had 1st meal about 11.30. It was some more of the ratatouille with a couple of fried eggs on top. Still have another serving of the ratatouille to use. Might add some peas and some kind of meat (chicken possibly) to make a kind of minestrone (without the pasta) for tomorrow.

I thought I had some gammon steaks in the freezer but searched for it last night and couldn't find it, but I did find a pre-baked chunk of gammon and it's defrosting ready for my 2nd meal today of gammon and courgette in mustard sauce with some quickly cooked cabbage in butter.

The reason I was looking for ways of cooking courgettes was that I asked Neil to buy me one moderately sized courgette but all he could get was a pack of 3 very large courgettes, so I'm looking for ways to use them up before they go off. Still have one to use so am trying to invent something for that and am thinking in terms of something layered with onion, tomato and another vegetable, the name of which escapes me at the moment (it's white, turnippy kind of thing - not kohl rabi, often used instead of potato). You know the one I mean. My memory often fails me this way - worse these days than it used to be, but I've always had problems this way.

Just looked it up - celeriac!
 
(April 16th)

Breakfast (9am): Black coffee
Snack (10:30am): None
Lunch (12pm): 0% greek yogurt with keto granola and blueberries, tuna mayo
Snack (3pm): None
Dinner (8pm): Beef burger pattie with cheese
Evening Snack (10pm): No beer. 0% greek yogurt with keto granola and blueberries.

Walked 6.44km to bring my YTD total to 496.77km
 
Annb said:
Had 1st meal about 11.30. It was some more of the ratatouille with a couple of fried eggs on top. Still have another serving of the ratatouille to use. Might add some peas and some kind of meat (chicken possibly) to make a kind of minestrone (without the pasta) for tomorrow.

I thought I had some gammon steaks in the freezer but searched for it last night and couldn't find it, but I did find a pre-baked chunk of gammon and it's defrosting ready for my 2nd meal today of gammon and courgette in mustard sauce with some quickly cooked cabbage in butter.

The reason I was looking for ways of cooking courgettes was that I asked Neil to buy me one moderately sized courgette but all he could get was a pack of 3 very large courgettes, so I'm looking for ways to use them up before they go off. Still have one to use so am trying to invent something for that and am thinking in terms of something layered with onion, tomato and another vegetable, the name of which escapes me at the moment (it's white, turnippy kind of thing - not kohl rabi, often used instead of potato). You know the one I mean. My memory often fails me this way - worse these days than it used to be, but I've always had problems this way.

Just looked it up - celeriac!
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I like zucchini/courgette fritters as a base for a poached egg and a bit hollandaise. Lots of recipes online, I usually use the one on Once upon a chef site but I use a bit of ground flaxseed instead of flour. The fritters freeze well too.
 
Annb said:
Ended up just fasting yesterday - couldn't be bothered making anything. In fact I slept most of the day and again pretty well all night until I made myself wake up at 5 am because my cleaner had put off coming to today and I wanted to have everything organised in time. She just phoned to say she's gone down with a horrible cold so she won't come today after all. So I can sleep some more if I need to.

Anyway, this morning I was fairly hungry so I had cheese on toast (wholemeal). Total grams of carb should be about 20. So no more carbs today for me!

Later I will make something with cauli rice and smoked mackerel. Possibly a kind of kedgeree. If I remember rightly, the original kedgeree was lentils and rice, not fish. But I will do it the more common way in this country and use fish as the protein element; maybe some hard boiled egg as well.
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I haven't made kedgeree for ages and it works well with cauliflower rice. I put boiled egg through mine too. The trouble is that it makes me think of coulibiac, and I love love love coulibiac! Until I find a LC pastry mix that is edible, however, coulibiac is off the menu.
 
Still catching up! Monday 11 April bed 6.8 FBG 7.7

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

L Nothing

D. Using up cold cuts. Slice each of wafer thin chicken, roast beef, pork, ox tongue, coronation chicken, mortadella, these tiny German sausage pieces and coleslaw.
Strawberries & blackberries with cream.

Tuesday 12 April bed 9.2 FBG 8.2 - just hoping I'm not going to be hit with another bug!

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

L Nothing

D. 2 GF sausages, 1 GF Black pudding, fried egg and santini tomatoes.

I seem to have hit another can't be bothered cooking/ Nothing appeals to me phase!

Wednesday 13 April BGs reverted to a lower level Bed 7.9 FBG 6.8

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with whipped cheese.

L. Nothing

D. 2 poached salmon fillets, 1/2 avocado, santini tomatoes, whipped cheese and a pack of M&S Pancetta crisps.
 
Thursday 14 April bed 7.9 FBG 6.8

@Goonergal - much as I enjoyed the travelling when I was working, I don't miss it now. Especially, when I was away 3 or 4 days a week. The lifts out immediately put a number of memories in my head. I was evacuated so often from hotels, it got to the stage my colleagues preferred not to travel with me. They reckoned I was cursed. In the midst of all the fire evacuations I also had 2 bomb scares. One in Manchester and one in Leeds.

B. TAG and 4 M&S Wheaten crackers with whipped cheese.

L. Nothing

D. 6 chicken wings which were very hot! Overdid the hot paprika. Mayo and coconut milk to cool the mouth. It was a jujitsu evening so didn't really want much when I got home.

Friday 15 April - bed and FBG both 6 8

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with ox tongue and whipped cheese

L. Nothing

D. I'm turning into @Goonergal I think. A carnivorous meal of 4 double loin lamb chops (air fried) with mint sauce. Remains of coconut milk from yesterday.

Later, one if the mini Dark raspberry bars from Lidl. (@MrsA2 - just the Hazelnut and the milk chocolate ones remain in my Lidl stores so I can't buy any more until next time. Thus was only my 3rd mini bar so I do still have lots left.)

This was a chaotic day. DIL, both boys, hubby and myself all getting hair cut etc at ours. The mini whirlwind was here too. For something with such little legs he is very fast and likes to play chasing!20220415_193202.jpgfacebook_1644870679217_6899087669324997193.jpg
 
MrsA2 said:
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.
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There's a very nasty "super cold" doing the rounds. I know, I've had it (preceded by Norovirus!). You may be "lucky" and it will be the super cold - nasty but you should be improving by Wednesday
 
DJC3 said:
@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)
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There's an issue getting Lakanto Monk Fruit currently in the UK. It is some kind of hang over from EU approval rules. It was supposed to be reapproved 2020 but then a certain pandemic got in the way. I had to get my last batch brought over from the USA It's on sale in Australia too but they've been unable to travel for a while. I always got mine from mydietshop before these issues started.
 
DJC3 said:
@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)
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I also found this site too. Like LuckyVitamins they are based in Calfornia. They do say they have new low cost shipping rates to the UK but you also have to watch for tax on incoming goods. That has to be paid once you get notification before the courier can deliver. @shelley262 did you get a request to pay tax before you got your liquid Lakanto from lucky vitamins?

https://www.allstarhealth.com/en-gb...6yd52tmFVNUji2pnMU351ioDYR9Aao6RoCeKUQAvD_BwE

They do appear to have Golden in stock.

Correction @Goonergal was lucky vitamin not @shelley262 (although I suspect that was from the USA too).
 
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MrsA2 said:
Pretty poorly here. Thinks it's covid. Will test tomorrow. Means our holiday due to start Wednesday is very probably off

Boys are waiting on me in bed so lunchtime had yoghurt seeds and blueberries
Mid afternoon a piece lc cake
Supper was 2 scrambled eggs with 2 rashers bacon, and 2, yes 2 scoops icecream
Drinking a full cup of herbal tea every hour, Vicks on chest, tissues every five minutes

Both cats have decided my bed is the place to be, so there's 3 of us up here
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Like the food - not the bug (at least I hope it's a bug - not Covid) xx
 
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