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 DGF millionaire’s shortbread.
Dinner: meatballs in tomato and mascarpone sauce followed by SF strawberry jelly and cream.

B- scrambled eggs on lc toast and marmite.
Late lunch- Nando’s 1/2 chicken, which arrived too late to eat yesterday so eaten cold today. DGF cake.
Afternoon snack - 2 squares Montezuma’s peanut butter absolute black bar.
I don’t think I’ll have dinner as I’m not hungry yet.
Edit to add I did have a sort of dinner - piece of very ripe Brie, few walnuts and a tot of gin.

DJC3 said:

Your soup looks and sounds wonderful, I bet the bacon was a really good addition today.

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It turned out I didn't have bacon after all (or technically I did, but it was at the very back of the fridge, hidden by other stuff, and it clearly told me I should have checked the fridge a very long time ago ) but I did find a forgotten 'droge worst' (Dutch dried sausage), which was at least as tasty after frying small bits of it!

The soup itself was much better too, second day really makes a difference!

Small rib steak, well cooked (not runny) eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms for breakfast.
Nothing for smoko, lemon cordial with a big scoop of the go powder.
Chicken legs, green veggies, gravy for lunch.
Small container of pea and ham soup, two slices of toast for supper at six.

Six pepper crackers with blue cheese watching Prime.

On the subject of meal time we also have a "lappo" this is mainly a cigarette break of five minutes every hour in the meat works / abattoir industry.

Antje77 said:

I put 5 bell peppers and half a bulb of garlic in the oven without preparation. Took out the garlic after 20 minutes, left the bell pepper for 45. Peeled both after cooling.
Fried onion, added a stalk of celery after a while, and freshly grated ginger and turmeric. Added tomato paste.
Added water, two stock cubes (herbs, not meat) and some dried green herbs, no idea which ones, I just used the first pot I saw.
Let it simmer until everything was soft, added 2/3 of the bell pepper and all of the garlic and used the stick blender.
Added the rest of the pepper cut in small pieces.
Added the leftover cream, not creamy enough so I added some cream cheese as well.
When dinner time came I garnished with parmesan and smoked paprika before putting the bowl of soup in the microwave.

I think today I'll throw in some fried bacon cubes as well. I think halloumi cubes would work well too, if you prefer vegetarian, but I don't have halloumi and I do have bacon.

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Thank you that is super clear.
it is the first time I saw pepper soup and that looks brilliant.

Annb said:

But did I get it right? You might have a different memory of how it used to work. It was never very clear cut and now it is just a total mess with people just making up their own minds about what to call a meal - and why not? The only name I consistently use these days is breakfast because that is what you do in the morning - break your overnight fast. Sometimes I use "brunch" even though it is breaking a fast because it seems too late in the day to be eating breakfast. I usually have breakfast and a 2nd meal (the meal with no name).

Em's here and that might delay my 2nd meal, but it is still planned to be baked fish with some peppers and some lemon and maybe some other pickled veggies as well.

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Yes you did. Brunch I think is an American saying. Breakfast, dinner and tea and then supper. The Hoi Polloi had breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. I'm sticking to what I was brought up with, bf, dinner and tea )and no supper if I was naughty!)

Morning all. I had such a bad carb day yesterday, I am going to fast for as long as possible and then eat carb free till tea time. Have got myself in the doldrums after talking about my beloved daughter so am trying to get out of it.

Riva_Roxaban said:

On the subject of meal time we also have a "lappo" this is mainly a cigarette break of five minutes every hour in the meat works / abattoir industry.

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That's a new one on me.

I didn't bother with the fish yesterday evening because it didn't thaw sufficiently to open it out (it was kind of squashed in a bag). Just had some bits and pieces of smoked salmon, cucumber, lettuce - all just picked at and not made into anything.

Breakfast this morning was a slice of wholemeal toast with butter and Marmite and some tea. Can't drink too much until I've been to my GP appointment this afternoon - can't take the risk even without taking my diuretic pills.

The fish is defrosted now, so I'll bake it when I come back this afternoon for my 2nd meal.

I weighed myself this morning for the first time in about a fortnight. I have gained 5 lb and am now 17 st 8 lb! That's an average of 21/2 lb a week. Disappointing.

After a lapse last night (raspberries and alpro cream and more nuts than I want to admit to) I was still low carb but not fast 800 friendly so today I fasted for 16 hours then had

Lunch-
Bfree protein wrap
Morrisons plant revolution coleslaw
This isn’t bacon fake bacon (best one I’ve tried so far in terms of closeness to taste of real bacon)

Tonight I am having vegan shawarma with plant based Philadelphia and protein wrap

Total carbs 31g
Total cals 824

Fingers crossed the snack demon doesn’t tear their ugly head again at 8pm!

Brunch (and I'm not American - but I can borrow as it's such an accurate word) stirfry salmon. Dinner will be roast beef with cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage.

Back home hopefully for a couple of weeks - says she crossing fingers! Started making some more Lactobacillus Reuteri yoghurt today - missed it while away- and also stewed some pink local rhubarb with ginger and lemon.
Brunch cooked some mushrooms in butter and then scrambled three eggs into the mushrooms and butter served with a few lc seeded crackers followed by four squares of 100% chocolate
Dinner see photo - two lamb loin chops - marinated all day in herbs and olive oil before cooking - served with side salad and hm red cabbage sauerkraut (made 2 months ago but seems happy in fridge!) had small dry red wine and lc blondie with a few spoons of yoghurt.

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: Aldi chicken and chorizo kebabs, leafy salad, coleslaw and two baby tomatoes followed by DGF blueberry crumble with clotted cream.

A wee bit behind. Wednesday 27 April bed 6.9 FBG 7.6.

Been a bit busy. Youngest grandson was really upset this morning and would not go into school for the morning. I ended up teaching him all day. His hay-fever was quite bad but, despite this, he really focused and I stretched him by doing some Math and comprehension ahead of his level. He's very bright.

B. TAG and 2 M&S crackers with whipped cheese.

L. Nothing.

D. A kind of shepherd's pie. I did add some cannellini beans which did spike my BGs. Cauli mash topping with Cheddar cheese on top.
Yet another HC dark fix chocolate.

Thursday 28 April bed 7.2 FBG 7.6

Got youngest back to school this morning. He was highly delighted that I gave him a certificate for completing 20 worksheets and a math tutorial with me this week. He informs me he doesn't want to go to school because I'm a better teacher and there are no mean boys. He was delighted though to hand over a very large folder with all his work to his teacher.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with coronation chicken which needed used.

L. Nothing

D. After jujitsu (eldest grandson got his first stripe on his belt) 3 M&S GF sausages, 1 GF Black pudding, fried egg, santini tomatoesvand 4 of Hubby's chips.
4 strawberries, 8 raspberries and a dash of cream

Antje77 said:

It turned out I didn't have bacon after all (or technically I did, but it was at the very back of the fridge, hidden by other stuff, and it clearly told me I should have checked the fridge a very long time ago ) but I did find a forgotten 'droge worst' (Dutch dried sausage), which was at least as tasty after frying small bits of it!

The soup itself was much better too, second day really makes a difference!

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Wow! It sounds delishios! I want to try cook it even thought it seems difficult

Zhnyaka said:

Wow! It sounds delishios! I want to try cook it even thought it seems difficult

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Not a difficult recipe at all!
Just chop up the components of the recipe and rewrite it in your own words, as a step by step instruction.

The main thing is to use peppers, cream, tomato paste and garlic.
Putting the peppers in the oven until blackened makes them easy to peel and very tasty, the same goes for the garlic.

Today was going to be the pepper soup again, but I'm going sailing tomorrow with a friend and her mum, and I thought the soup would be a good thing to bring with me to share.
So I had a quick meal of spicy green beans with garlic and sambal, and a burger on a bed of sautéed leek with cheese and black pepper.

I pretty much agree with @Annb on the saga of tea, supper, lunch, dinner etc.
In our household breakfast is always breakfast except when it gets to 11ish and it becomes brunch. Lunch is something that happens occasionally. Then, of course, there used to be the treat of afternoon tea which now would have to be specially made for diabetics. Oddly, we refer to the evening meal as tea (Monday to Saturday) but dinner on a Sunday. It is also dinner when we go out for an evening meal and at Chistmas time!

Lots of food going on during my time away. Lots and lots of it!

Today was omelette and bacon for brekkie, followed by Hotel Chocolat 85% hot chocolate and whip. Dinner was at a Brazilian bbq place with endless meat. My favourite, Picanha is pictured yum!

Last day of our holiday today. Frightened to get home to the scales after 10 days of 3 catered meals a day
B: yoghurt with seeds, then smoked salmon, herring and mackerel
L: meatballs (but arrived coated in breadcrumbs and fried), cheese and too many if hubbys nacho chips/crisps
Mid afternoon, most of a slice of cake. Bg shot up and stayed there until
D: champagne, pate, beef, veg, cheese. Far too much wine (it's been included with every lunch and dinner and they kept topping it up when I wasn't looking!)

Have walked a minimum ov 11000 steps most days, 18000 twice

Sort of looking forward to home tomorrow but Belgium and the Netherlands tour has been very interesting, if cold in parts

Cheese on toast for breakfast.
Two hard boiled eggs with celery salt sprinkled on, lemon cordial osmolax brew for smoko.
Pork loin chops, green veggies and mushroom butter sauce for lunch.
Sausages and hot english mustard sandwiches for supper at six.

Blue cheese on low carb wheat crispbread crackers watching Prime.

Edit: Should have put crispbread in.