What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

@DJC3 hug for unexpected crises and minor emergencies.
Still no real appetite and not tasting properly but have decided to push through and last night ate a child size portion of Bolognese on top of green beans with a big spoon of grated parmesan (sad not to be able to taste that). This morning had usual slice LC toast with good butter and lots of tea. Lunchtime had the remaining small portion of last night’s dinner. Tonight will try Green Cuisine plant burgers baked with portobello mushrooms. Might add a squirt of Nandos sauce to nudge my taste buds!

Breakfast - 2egg omelette
snack - handfull of Brazil nuts
lunch - 2x dark ryvita + hummus + coleslaw (30g carbs)
snack - FF grk yoghurt + handful of pecans (5g carbs)
dinner (cooking now) - cabbage + butternut squash + chorizo (25g carbs)
supper (to come) - red wine and some smelly camembert that is trying to get out of the fridge by itself (5g carbs)
+ oatmilk in coffees

10ish two boiled eggs with low carb buttered roll and a glass of hm kefir
1ish a few nuts, pieces of cheese and portion of cultured veggies followed by a few garden berries and hm yoghurts plus a few squares of 100% chocolate
5ish frittata and salads followed by sf jelly with a few berries and hm yoghurt
@PenguinMum sorry to hear about your repeat bout of covid and losing your sense of taste - sounds dreadful, taste is crucial to enjoying food and drinks @DJC3 sending hugs to you too for your difficult times - thinking of you. Take care you guys.

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: coffee shop cappuccino and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: bolognese with sliced sautéed courgette followed by SF strawberry jelly and cream.

Thanks for the hugs, I’m staying with my daughter this week so hopefully a quieter one ahead. @PenguinMum good call with the Nando’s sauce, I do hope it sparks your tastebuds into submission.
Breakfast was a chicken and edamame snack pot from M&S after early morning dog walk and school run.
Lunch was roast beef and salad in SLC roll
D- Another of the batch-cooked DD Chicken caprese casseroles.
Yoghurt making on hold until I get back home @shelley262 then I’ll be in full production mode again.

@Pipp so sorry for the lost dinner, and after fasting all day too

10:30ish 2 hard boiled eggs with a whole avocado. 2 full sugar biscuits (just to prove I can't be trusted to have them in the house!!)

1ish a handful of pecans and a bit of cheese

Mid afternoon : a coconut icecream bar, 14g of carbs. Spike to 8.

D: pork chop with caulifower cheese. 2 sqs 85% chocolate

Off to a meeting (took the real biscuits so they are now out of the house) but came home hungry so 2 boiled eggs and 2 apricots.

Looking back not a good day , too many bad snacks.

Got side tracked yesterday by Blue Care coming early on Monday so no menu for Sunday.

Bacon and two egg and cheese omeltte, two slices of toast and ginger marmadade.
Two small sausage rolls with the BC nurse for smoko.
Two chicken legs, mashed potato (MRE) and gravy for lunch.
Small portion of savoury liver and bacon for supper at six.

Glass of single mal before a early night.

Had to get away to get all my stuff to the conference centre this morning, so just grabbed the last 2 RyVita and had them with butter and Marmite.

Lunch was at the conference centre cafe and I chose the least harmful dish I could see - sweet and sour chicken. It came absolutely swimming in a sauce which was, admittedly sweet, but not in the least sour. Just fished the chicken and vegetables out and left the rest. I still felt hungry but told my stomach to shut up and leave me alone. However, about an hour later my Libre alarm went off to tell me my bg was 3.5. Had a piece of flapjack but they were very small pieces and it didn't help. Bg just kept on plummeting so I had to have one of the biscuits I'd baked. That seemed to work.

We all had dinner at the centre as well and it was pointed out to me that there were omelettes which I hadn't noticed before. I ordered a cheese omelette with salad but no chips. It eventually arrived with chips but I didn't eat them. The omelette was very good though. Back to the conference and my Libre went off again. I was wondering by then why I was feeling odd and realised when a full blown hypo developed. Scrabbled in my bag for a boiled sweet, found 2 old ones that must have been there since the ark grounded and one fairly recent one. That one shoved bg back up to 5.8.

Too many vegetables for my system to cope with though, which I discovered around 9.30 this evening. By then I was in the middle of baking off the rest of the biscuit doughs so had to take the current batch out of the oven so they didn't burn. Still - all done now and ready for packing up in the morning. Innards still rumbling a bit so not sure what kind of a night I'll have.

Morning all. For bf 2 Ryvitas with ham. For main meal it will be roast turkey and green veg. Any snacks will be vlc. Have been ill and am having to cut the fat down as it was affecting me badly.

Annb said:

Innards still rumbling a bit so not sure what kind of a night I'll have.

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It was a short one. In bed by 12.30, asleep pretty rapidly and awake again by 2.45. Everything was aching by then so I took some pain killers and sat in the chair for the rest of the night - dozing off and on.

No breakfast so far, but it will just be some toast - white bread to reduce the fibre content.

2nd meal was going to be at the conference but I can't go today (reasons in parallel chat) so will make Goonergal's dish of onions, bacon and mince from a day or so back. Think I'll pass on the cauliflower mash I was going to have with it though.

@Pipp hug for the loss of your dinner and of course that it landed on important stuff but I wanted to rate your post as funny for your comment to @MrsA2 about her brownie!
@Annb you take care sounds like you have done too much.
@RosemaryB good to see you back but sorry to hear you’ve been ill.
I’m trying to read others posts and then write my days food but keep being distracted by dramatic breaking politics news........
Well while I await the next resignation announcement here’s what I ate today
10ish hm yoghurts and kefir with seeds and a few garden berries
1ish a few pieces of cheese, nuts, cultured veggies and 2 lc seeded crackers followed by a few berries and hm yoghurts plus a few squares of 100% chocolate
5ish chicken marinated in Indian spices with salad of garden leaves and herbs and cultured veggies followed by sf jelly.

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 food dr bar.
Dinner: gammon steak with Brussels and green beans followed by SF cherry jelly and cream.

Forgot to mention my good bargain from Morrisons the other day. They were selling off bulk packs grom their pizza and salad counters so got a kilo bag of grated cheddar for £1. It's now in 100g bags in the freezer .
Still didn't quite offset the £470 garage bill for my car though!

B: ff greek with seeds and 2 apricots (finding my bg stays reasonable if I have fruit with other foods, especially creamy ones)
Dancing
L: egg mayo with lettuce and cucumber. Extra grated cheese. 1 Bounty bar ice cream.
More dancing
Filled car with petrol eek!
D: cauliflower cheese bites smothered in grated cheese. 1 sq 85% choc.
I drink herbal teas, lemon and ginger being a favourite and just found it tastes nice if made strong, left to cool then topped up with fizzy water. Very refreshing.

B-small pack of roast chicken slices ( yellow sticker from Coop on way home from school run)
L- 2 cold sausages
D-courgetti carbonara kindly made for me by my daughter, while they had spaghetti. Mini bar of Montezuma’s Absolute black.

today could have been better ...
breakfast - left over veggies from last nights dinner
6 mile hilly walk to pub where i ordered a beer to have with my salad lunch - only to find that they didnt have salad on the menu :-(
so i ordered the sausages and tried not to eat the mash .. i failed as i was hungry
6 mile hilly walk back to the car
supper - 3 dark ryvita with some more of that runny camembert, chicken liver pate and coleslaw

0930hrs b chia seed pudding with nuts and friut
1300hrs l mince with salad
1830hrs D hm burger with steamed veg and olives

Toasted cheese and tomato sandwiches for breakfast.
Last of the pea and ham stew for lunch.
Savoury tinned corned beef. onion, spudlites hash for supper at six.

Singe malt whisky before I went to bed earl.y

Hello All. At last I am back in my usual eating pattern. Not eating a proper meal for at least 5 days affected my digestive process when I resumed. Last night not quite as bad as the previous one. Firstly @Annb sorry for all the extra eating issues due to being away from home. I don’t know how you cope with it all but full of admiration for how you do. Hope today is a calm day for you. @Pipp I think that dinner upending drama would have sent me to bed in tears!
Yesterday brekkie slice LC toast and lots of tea.
Lunch was a comforting mug of Chicken soup and 2 mini Higgidy quiches. Then had a 3 hour nap which proved very restorative. Supper was my chicken, chorizo, pepper & paprika stir fry with cauli rice and there were signs my sense of taste is returning. Yay!
Today have had the usual brekkie. Lunch is a mystery atm but will be something scrappy grabbed from the fridge, likely chunk of cheese, pickled onion for taste, and anything else LC that jumps out at me. Supper will be a Lo Dough pizza with blobs goats cheese, black olives and a few chopped cherry toms and a dusting of dried Italian herbs. Mr PM is out for dinner so that will make an easy and light supper.