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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 a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a phd bar.
Dinner: crispy cheese and tomato omelette followed by SF strawberry jelly and cream.
 
I have also heard of listening to a cake to hear if it’s cooked…even if it is a low carb version
 
Goonergal said:
Is he willing to share his methodology?
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Very informative answer on the methodology. Which leads to the next question: Is he willing to invite us over for dinner?

I'm pretty sure travelling to where you live is a lot less complicated and has a much greater chance of eating perfect pork chops than trying this myself!

I had the same as yesterday with less bacon (because I only had two rashers left) and an added small chopped chorizo sausage.

Shopping is planned for tomorrow morning, will need to buy groceries for a nice vegetarian meal. My friend is coming over to help paint my bedstee (bed built into the wall, very old fashioned) on saturday, so it will have to be something either very quick and easy after a long day of hot work, or preferably something I can prepare tomorrow to heat up on saturday.
I still have some cheese and onion sauce left which I could use, but that's not a must.
Suggestions are welcome!
 
DJC3 said:
Lucky WI. All sounds wonderful.
I’m intrigued by ‘fridge gravel’.
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Fridge gravel is whatever uncooked sad veg left at the bottom of the fridge blitzed in the food processor (like making cauliflower rice) then cooked a tablespoon or 2 of butter or olive oil, adding splashes of water when needed. Seasoning to taste
Just a mixed veg 'rice' really, but if it contains cabbage stalk, an onion, and cauliflower or broccoli stems seems tastier somehow.

Can also then add loads more water, cook until soft = instant soup. Could be blitzed to be thick and smooth too.

Nothing wasted in this house
 
Skipped breakfast, but did nibble a cold chipolata before midday exercise class

L: chicken thigh and 2 chipolatas. Hm lc brownies with tiny spoon commercial ice cream

D: out at Italian restaurant. Meatballs in tomato sauce served with spinach. Glass of white. Service very slow so had hm lc rhubarb cake with cream, when home again
 
Lost the plot yesterday food wise ate something that blew my bgl to the moon, I had a low of 4.3 this morning so I woke something up inside.

No menu today.
 
As on previous days, legs too bad to be wandering around the kitchen, or standing at the stove so I just reached for what I could from my chair - cheese sandwich, and it was white bread because I haven't managed to make any wholemeal. Not the best breakfast, but it filled a gap and now - some hours later, my legs have freed up a bit (thanks to pain killers) so I have managed to get out the rest of the sausage casserole and will reheat that for later. BG currently 10.4 - that's the bread.

Just had a letter from the hospital to tell me my HBa1c, tested last week, was 58. Still not wonderful, but no worse than the last time, so that's not as disappointing as I expected.

Also this morning I've cooked off some mushrooms (past their date, but still in good condition) and will make some kind of pate later for using in the coming days.
 
Got lured into buying some ‘products’ today. Pretty clean ingredients but mixed reviews from me.

Both from Planet Organic - first was a brownie loaf. Only hint of sweetener is chicory root fibre (inulin) and it’s not sweet. Quite gooey too. Would have again, even if the stated portion size of ‘20g slice’ is more than optimistic. Anyone fancy their chances of slicing this into 10?! Five slices will be on the small size.

Second was a ‘paleo’ loaf. Not sweet but also not really savoury - tastes more like cake. And the coconut taste really comes through (not a taste I remotely enjoy). Might be better with a sharper cheese than the cream cheese I had on hand. Don’t think this one’s a goer.

Prior to the shopping I’d had my favourite brisket and onions from the Smoko stand in Shoreditch.

 

Another ferment started today- see photo - using padron peppers, asparagus stalks and turmeric - unusual combo but it’s veg that needed preserving or cooking. Also succeeded in my first kefir - it’s still a bit thin but gather it can take a week or so to get a thicker kefir, so will continue making daily while kefir grains get bigger and more efficient . My dormant, gifted 2 weeks ago, sour dough starter, I took out of fridge for a feed today to wake it up and hope to start the next stage tomorrow, feeding it again and then making the levain - it seems a bit complex and the dough won’t have reached the baking stage until Sunday as lots of resting and fermentation needed (but it needs time for the yeast bacteria to start to digest the sugars....more next day or so.
Today’s food:
9,as went to mid am yoga class, overnight seeds and hm yoghurts
1ish spoon of sauerkraut and of kimchi with a two egg mushroom omelette, followed by some hm kefir and a few garden berries and 100% chocolate
5ish salmon in lemon butter with asparagus tips(used the stalks in my ferment) and cauliflower cheese with glass of dry white wine followed by lc brownie.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Dinner: LC Marguerita pizza with coleslaw followed by SF cherry jelly and cream.

Edit to add my pic keeps rotating, I can’t get it to post the correct way up!

 

I’m not hungry but the thought of a pigasaurus chop with crackling has made my mouth water!
 

That looks such a beautiful colour.
I’ve also tried some not quite room temp yoghurt - in the airing cupboard actually so it’s just a bit warmer. It worked very well. I’ve currently got a batch with inulin cooking in the IP just using UHT milk which suits me as I can’t be trusted to watch a pan of milk and stop it boiling over.
It still seems that yoghurt, even long fermented, is spiking my BG and I’m quite cheesed off about it.
 
Thanks for the fridge gravel info @MrsA2 - great idea.
Todays food:
B- h/m yoghurt with seeds
L- Brie, ham, sauerkraut, olives. I’m trying to wean myself off pudding so had a microwaved egg afterwards. Not the same thing at all but actually it worked as it put a bit of time in between eating and my stomach realising it had food in it.
D- Duck breast cooked sous vide yesterday but longer than @maglil55 ‘s as these were enormous. Nearly 400g each. Who knew ducks could be so well endowed? Crisped up in airfryer today and served with stir fry veg. Fabulous. 2 glasses red and a dollop of stewed rhubarb after.
 
B: 1 apricot with handful pecans chopped into ff greek
L: blue cheese on 2 crackers. Hm lc coffee cake with cream
D: 2 pork medallions in mushrooms and cream. Fried courgette. Boiled broccoli. More hm lc coffee cake. Large white wine.

Somewhere in the day another 2 apricots have disappeared into my mouth. I was supposed to be testing them with libre, but replacement only just arrived and I can't decide when to use it. Might save it for upcoming trip in 2 weeks but will have to stay away from fruit bowl meanwhile
 
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