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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

B: 3 very small eggs scrambled
Got busy over lunchtime and missed it so fell off the wagon in the supermarket while doing big shop. Should never shop hungry. 3 p.m. Milk chocolate with hazelnuts :bag:. Tried mitigating it when home with a piece of blue cheese. Suffered with tiredness and headache. Serves me right.
D: curry out. Chose a starter of dry lamb as my main but did have half one of hubbys prawns in batter and 2 mouthfuls sons squid and a mouthful of his fish curry. Drank sparkling water.
Could have been a lot worse
 
Bacon, two egg and cheese omelette, mushrooms, couple of slices of toast and vegimite for breakfast,
Spicy seafood marinara mix , a small portion of reheated pasta spirals for lunch, with a rough red to go with it.
Sausages and hot english mustard sandwiches for supper at six.

Two glasses of merlot from lunch to finish the bottle before I went to bed.
 
Had a fun day yesterday at daughter’s hen do. Not quite the garden party it was intended as we had a lot of rain and had to keep dashing indoors and the gazebo nearly blew away.
Breakfast at home was cheese and cold meat.
Wasn’t sure what food I’d be able to eat later, but I was well catered for with platters of cheese and charcuterie, olives, veg&dips. Lots of carby food too but not remotely tempting to me, apart from the egg mayo sandwiches cut into neat triangles.
Had to pop home for an extension lead so picked up a SLC roll to bring back for supper, filled it with chicken and coleslaw while they all had pizza and popcorn watching Encanto at the ‘silent cinema’ set up in a tent in the garden. Silent because we all had headphones to listen so no noise to disturb neighbours. Apart from our singing.
Copious coffee and tea with a dash of s/s milk. They are teetotal so no booze, and no one has a hangover this morning. Hopefully a picnic on the beach today.
 
DJC3 said:
Thank you. I remember you mentioning this a while ago. Its very interesting. It’s odd that if we are all converting galactose to glucose, that we don’t all show the spike though.
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Guess it comes down to differences in how we metabolise foods. In my case I suspect a slight intolerance doesn't help.

Leading on nicely (to stay on topic) to the fact that I've already consumed too much dairy in the form of yoghurt (Fage 5%) and cream this morning. The latter was with the remaining bit of chocolate brownie - needed to add salt to that this morning!

I also tried a purition shake mix. Was given it for free at the PHC conference. Mixed it half and and half with some almond 'milk' I had in the fridge and double cream. Ugh! Tasted far too much like dessicated coconut. One mouthful and the rest went down the sink! The rep had assured me it didn't taste like coconut.......

Later on I'm planning kippers and then cheese/leftovers from yesterday.
 
Breakfast will be bacon and eggs - to be had earlier than I would have intended because I am having to go out and shan't be back until late afternoon. I have already been "bad" by having a banana smoothie; just a very ripe banana with some full cream milk and some lemon juice. Just because I saw the banana going browner than Em would eat it.

2nd meal will be the fish that I should have had yesterday with some salady stuff.

BG 8.5 at present. I'll see what it's like in a while, after the milk shake has taken effect..
 
DJC3 said:
I make it with 1 tablespoon chia seeds, 1 teaspoon cocoa powder and 100g coconut cream ( or coconut milk which is usually slightly higher carb) plus a drop of vanilla extract if I have any. Mix together and leave in the fridge for an hour or 2.
I used to make it with zero carb almond milk but I needed to add a sweetener then.
There are lots of recipes around, here’s the diet doctor one: https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/low-carb-chia-pudding
I think @Rachox sometimes uses a flavoured Actimel for a change.
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I made the chai pudding today and it was a nice change thank you
 
Day 2 of the hen do and I’m bored of cheese and cured meats! Had this for breakfast as everyone else had croissants.
Picnic Lunch on the beach another SLC roll, filled with the last of the salami ( thank heavens) cream cheese and chopped yellow pepper.
During the afternoon I had a couple of handfuls of nuts and a h/m yoghurt plus a lot of tea with skimmed milk which is all they had.
It’s been a lot of fun but I’m looking forward to being able to cook a proper meal tomorrow.
 
Not quite enough leftover casserole turned tomato soup with lots of things for two days. :happy:

Had a rather small portion of the cauliflower/vegetarian minced meat/cheese sauce casserole left, but with a tin of tomatoes, stock cube, water and some very ripe creamy blue cheese added it's suddenly a two day meal again.
The blue cheese should have been cream cheese or cream, but I didn't have any (not counting the tub of horror I found in the back of my fridge), and the blue cheese did the job just nicely. :hungry:

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Did my sourdough bread experiment today baked the bread this morning using sourdough starter all developed over last week so plenty of time for the live culture to eat some of the sugary starches in the rye flour plus replaced 30% of rye flour with 0 carb oat fibre to bring it down.took blood sugar before my one buttered slice it was 4.5 as normal but went up rapidly and was still 9.3 2 hours later - don’t remember anything at this level for years so an epic fail for that foodie experiment shows flour is out for me.i can eat low carb bread without a rise as well as root vegetables fermented but clearly I’m sensitive to real bread flour! Still it was a faff making and tasted a bit too nice so probably better that it’s ruled out I’ll stick to fermented vegetables, kefir and yoghurt which all do work for me.
Today’s food
10ish bacon,egg and one slice of lc bread and small glass of hm kefir
Lunch one slice buttered sour dough bread - my experimental slice
Mid pm to allow me to see impact of bread slice first had some hm yoghurts and rhubarb
5ish roast chicken dinner with cauliflower mash and asparagus and glass of dry white wine followed by lc blondie. Post dinner bgs happily down to 5.2. Guess it’s low carb for me still suiting me 5 years on.
 
Skipped breakfast, which was a bit of a mistake as we popped in to a local food festival early. Could be dangerous. Luckily there wasn't much there to tempt me. Just bought 2 very expensive cheeses.
L: the filling of a chorizo quiche, not very nice, blue cheese, cucumber, coleslaw. An apricot.
Gardening. Raspberries doing really well really early this year and actually picked enough to go in the freezer rather than my mouth.
Avoided biscuits at an event this afternoon :angelic:
D: roast chicken, cabbage, carrots, green beans. An apricot with ff greek and a sq 85%.

Starting a libre tomorrow as going to use sons absence to do OMAD for 4 days. I need to lose a couple of pounds and hoping this does it. Looking forward to your support
 
Wednesday 22 June - bed 8 FBG 8.5 - Still higher than normal. After youngest's sports yesterday it's the eldest today but, he doesn't like sports day. That means he srays with me and does some work. He did it quite willingly and it made pick up easier!

B. TAG and a bit crustless quiche
L. A couple of M&S crackers and egg mayo.

D. Bunless burger with Emmental cheese slice, lettuce, tomatoes, nicked 3 of Hubby's chips. Strawberries and clotted cream.

Thursday 23 June - bed and FBG both 7.3.

B. TAG and a bit of crustless quiche.

L Nothing

D. Cooked chicken breast with a salad of lettuce, avocado, tomato, port salut, beetroot, coleslaw and walnuts. Oh, and a boiled egg.

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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.
Tea at ILs: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake!
 
1000hrs B bacon peices and cheese omelette
1400hrs L roast beef with broccoli and carrots with tiniest bit of gravy made from juices
2000hrs D cold meats salad
2 x cheeky glasses of red while
 
Friday 24 June - bed 7.1 FBG 7. It's Friday! Half day at school but I'm feeding them tonight so Mum & Dad can have a couple of quiet hours in the pub to have a few drinks (Mum's birthday on Sunday).

B. TAG

L. Well more a slightly later breakfast, 2 slices of SLC toast with ox tongue and coleslaw.

D. Now that SLC are selling pizza bases on their own, I made my own pizza. Base is pretty good. Put them directly onto the wire rack in the oven, Fan 200C. To the base I added a smear of tomato (I cook any tomatoes going soft with garlic and herbs to use), mozzarella balls, pesto, sliced tomatoes, salami, herbs and grated mozzarella. Gin with a hibiscus flower and diet lemonade. 20220624_183248.jpg
 
shelley262 said:
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Did my sourdough bread experiment today baked the bread this morning using sourdough starter all developed over last week so plenty of time for the live culture to eat some of the sugary starches in the rye flour plus replaced 30% of rye flour with 0 carb oat fibre to bring it down.took blood sugar before my one buttered slice it was 4.5 as normal but went up rapidly and was still 9.3 2 hours later - don’t remember anything at this level for years so an epic fail for that foodie experiment shows flour is out for me.i can eat low carb bread without a rise as well as root vegetables fermented but clearly I’m sensitive to real bread flour! Still it was a faff making and tasted a bit too nice so probably better that it’s ruled out I’ll stick to fermented vegetables, kefir and yoghurt which all do work for me.
Today’s food
10ish bacon,egg and one slice of lc bread and small glass of hm kefir
Lunch one slice buttered sour dough bread - my experimental slice
Mid pm to allow me to see impact of bread slice first had some hm yoghurts and rhubarb
5ish roast chicken dinner with cauliflower mash and asparagus and glass of dry white wine followed by lc blondie. Post dinner bgs happily down to 5.2. Guess it’s low carb for me still suiting me 5 years on.
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Shelley, it's obviously entirely your choice how you deal with this particular bread challenge, but please don't forget that your body ,ay have needed different digestive enzymes to tackle the bread, and wasn't able to produce them instantly after such a long respite. A one more time could show a gentler response.

Personally, I haven't had baked goods of any sort for years. Literally, years - since before going GF several years ago, so I'm supremely unfussed by the thought of bread, but observationally, I know others feel differently.
 
@maglil55 that pizza does look the real deal. I made one yesterday evening using LoDough and added a little tomato pesto then blobs of goats cheese, black olives and slivers of two cherry toms. Works for me when I want an easy light supper as I did yesterday. Feeling a bit sorry for myself with a chesty infection atm and don’t fancy eating so today might be scrambled eggs if I can work up any enthusiasm.
 
PenguinMum said:
@maglil55 that pizza does look the real deal. I made one yesterday evening using LoDough and added a little tomato pesto then blobs of goats cheese, black olives and slivers of two cherry toms. Works for me when I want an easy light supper as I did yesterday. Feeling a bit sorry for myself with a chesty infection atm and don’t fancy eating so today might be scrambled eggs if I can work up any enthusiasm.
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Hope you get better soon.
 
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