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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

3 fairly close together meals today
Packet of M&S rollitos as late breakfast
SLC roll with cheese and some of yesterdays leftovers ( chicken and roast veg) DGF cake.
Cod fillets in sauce made from cream and cheddar. Spinach stirred in at the end. Served with airfried veg ( cauli, courgette, red pepper) glass of wine.
 
Breakfast: Greek yogurt and mixed seeds black coffee.
Lunch: olives, ham, and apickled onion, black coffee.
Dinner: tuna steak, green beans , cheese sauce, tonic water.
 
Asparagus were on offer at my local supermarket, a pound for only 3 euros!
It was hard to choose between eating 4 for 3 days or 6 for 2 days, but considering the turkey eggs needed to be eaten I chose to have them with 2 large eggs and spread them over 3 days.
I also had a spoonful of a bought smoked trout/mayo spread to go with it, very tasty.

 
2nd day of my holibobs so just a pic of dinner! Tonight at an Indian, lamb bhuna and curried mushrooms with a small piece of hubby’s peshwari naan

 
Antje77 said:
a pound for only 3 euros!
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I’d go for that exchange rate, 3 euros for a £

To stay on topic, following yesterday’s lamb ribs I later had yoghurt, double cream no raspberries and sausages/bacon cooked in the air fryer.
 
Goonergal said:
I’d go for that exchange rate, 3 euros for a £
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Help me out with the language here!
You measure people in pounds (and stones, making everyones weight/weight loss a complete mystery to me), right? You don't measure food in pounds?

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Oh wait, I think I get it. You say pound but you write Lb or Lbs, is that right?
 
The UK enjoys being different to everyone else and loves sticking with tradition, especially if it doesn't make a lot of sense. Obviously a metric system would make things much easier, but we would have to relearn everything and that's not for us! Especially us oldies. So, many of us stick with Lbs and ozs, £ and d (pence) (would actually prefer to keep the s. as well, but that has been taken away from us). What could make more sense than having a coinage which includes 12 pence (made up of farthings thrupences, sixpences and halfpennies) to a shilling and 20 shillings to the £ (pound) and which also included the regrettably long lost guineas, sovereigns, crowns, half crowns, groats etc?

Food today has been avocado on toast for breakfast and then ham and cheese for lunch (still taking antibiotics when I remember, so need to have some food in my stomach despite the instructions, to stop my stomach rejecting the pills). Later I will have some of the ragout with some palm heart pasta.
 

You can write either. I was just trying to be funny!
 
Antje77 said:
But what do you say out loud when reading Lbs and ozs? An Lbs weighs a pound doesn't it?
So if I bought 500 gr of asparagus (which I did ), do I write a bought a Lbs of asparagus?
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Both £ and Lb are pronounced as pound. An oz is an ounce. An s was a shilling and a d was a penny - plural pence. That d is based on the ancient Roman coinage, as is the symbol £, so of course we still use it! Tradition is all. 500 gr is near enough a lb, pronouced a pound. but written as 1 lb. Lbs is the plural. Simples! Well, if you're British and been doing it all your life. So much harder for us to think in terms of grams and kilograms, although we have to these days in most shops. Here you will often hear people referring to a measurement of weight as "in old money", which only makes sense if you're British and know that nobody is talking about money at all, but about weights.
 
DJC3 said:
Brilliant! I’d never heard of singing swede, she didn’t say why it was called that, maybe it sings as it is being cooked, with the steam escaping? I will definitely be trying it though, I hate peeling swede.
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Me too. Love it. Don’t think I thanked @AndBreathe for posting it. I did see a post previously about putting swede whole in microwave but next time I buy one I am going to give it a go and maybe sing along! @Riva_Roxaban I don’t think I could eat a fish as pretty as that polka dot one or as scary as the prehistorice one!
today had usual brekkie of lc toast and lots of tea.
Lunch was two slices ham, small spoon coleslaw and small but crustless quiche.
Supper will be chunky fish fingers since its Firsday (!) with either asparagus or green beans or both.
@Annb I hope you are feeling better and I wondered if the walking aid might be at the wrong height for you.
 

I am going to adjust the height and see if that helps my shoulder. It does seem though that I have to lean forward to use the frame and that makes me feel unbalanced (physically, that is, mentally is another issue). The frame is adjustable by about 6".
 
Fingers crossed for you. You don’t need to replace one problem with another!
 
DJC3 said:
Brilliant! I’d never heard of singing swede, she didn’t say why it was called that, maybe it sings as it is being cooked, with the steam escaping? I will definitely be trying it though, I hate peeling swede.
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It does "sing", although I doubt swede choral groups are popular.
 

You go for it (on the singing front), but I doubt the family will care to join in. They're more likely to enquire if you're in pain.

It is a clever way to cook swede, but be careful when you come to deal with it afterwards. Without wanting to state the obvious, it is very hot indeed, so your hands will need protection.
 
@PenguinMum I’ll join in the swede chorus with you, it won’t be tuneful but it’ll be joyful! BTW my steak was from the night before, another steak bar called Miller&Carter. It’s a chain so there are a few around, they were very accommodating and the steak was gorgeous.
Today I had about a gallon of black coffee in the morning.
Lunch - Romaine lettuce leaves spread with cream cheese and topped with chicken and sauerkraut. Very messy.
Dinner - Roast lamb, roast pepper and courgettes and some Edelman’s beans. 4 squares Montezuma’s peanut butter Absolute black.
 
3rd day of holibobs so just a dinner pic. Spanish chicken with mozzarella and a side salad and one new potato. Started eating before I remembered to take the photo, so excuse the incomplete chicken and new potato!

 
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