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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

@maglil55
Could you kindly remind me of the monkfruit and Lakanto sweetners you use please, with a picture of products if possible?

Am currently in the States and trying to see what's good to load up on and bring back
 
Back to normal today, for a few days before going away again.
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: Chinese take away: crispy duck, 3 small pancakes, a smidge of sauce and veggies followed by DGF raspberry Bakewell and cream.
Takeaway to celebrate our 34th(!) wedding anniversary!
 
Congratulations on 34 years together.
 
I love your aunt @Antje77 I hope you can eat so well in the UK.
Happy Hols @Rachox it looks like the food is agreeing with you. I haven’t dared try a peshwari naan since diagnosis, I used to love them.

Today had the classic low carb breakfast of bacon and eggs. Never get tired of it, nor am I used to the fact that I can eat this and still be healthier than I was 6 years ago!

Lunch- leftover chicken cordon Bleu casserole, cold, with salad.

D- Venison steak, air fried, with mushrooms, broccoli and edamame beans ( which reminds me, @MrsA2 edemame beans are pretty low carb, I don’t find they have too much impact on BG, just in case you get the same meal on the plane home)

Edit to add - I missed a few posts at the end - didn’t see you are already home @Rachox Happy Anniversary!
 
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Great looking breakfast! Hope the peanuts sustained you through the journey
 
MrsA2 said:
@maglil55
Could you kindly remind me of the monkfruit and Lakanto sweetners you use please, with a picture of products if possible?

Am currently in the States and trying to see what's good to load up on and bring back
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Lakanto Classic and the Lakanto Golden. They look like sugar. Classic is white, Golden is brown.

Their products are starting to appear in the UK again but I still get mine from the US or Australia as I have relatives in both places. The US prices are good. You should get it in Health Foid stores.

Happy holidays!
 
Annb said:
A darn (sometimes spelled darne) is a thick piece of fish, presented as a steak. It is usually cut across a round fish and includes the spine but sometimes it can be a thick piece of fillet served as one large piece or steak.

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Ive never heard this expression either, this thread is so educational!
Is it a colloquial term or is my Cornish fishmonger likely to know it? ( I will soon tell by his flummoxed expression if he doesn’t)
 
Thursday 22 September - bed 8.4 FBG 7.8. I'm having a bit of bother with my BGs again. I've been feeling a bit "off" which would explain the iffy legs.
Today was eldest grandson's 12th birthday. He had a try at not going back to school after lunch because it was his birthday but failed! He declared he was coming back to ours after school to start on his new lego set though.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with pate.

L. Grenade ice cream bar.

D. Remains of the chicken and corn pie filling from yesterday with wilted spinach and 4 of Hubby's chips.

We're all taking grandson out for a meal tomorrow for his birthday and he'll be having a trip to one of these indoor assault places in the midterm week with his pals.

Friday 23 Seotember - bed 8.7 FBG 7 2

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with pate.

L Nothing - going out tonight.

D. At our favourite Argentinian Steak House (boys like their steak too!). Garlic prawns with aloi and rocket to start. Ribeye with mushroom, wilted spinach and spiced cauliflower. Lots of dry white wine. No dessert but I did have a coffee with brandy. Grandson delighted in getting dressed up in his suit again plus his black trilby. He was rather pleased at numerous people telling him how smart he looked. The restaurant did bring him a birthday dessert with a candle and sung Happy birthday. He really doesn't like being the centre of attention, but he got through it.
 
Today was odd, foodwise, and I expect the oddness will stay for the next 10 days too!

First a copious breakfast at my aunt, then nuts and a beer during the long boat trip.
Arrived at the camping at around 10 pm, another 45 minutes to find my spot and put up my tent (I'm the only guest so it's funny there was a sign saying which one is for me).

Enjoying a beer now, and dinner will likely be a bag of pork scratchings, even though I have other food with me in my tent.

Everyone knows what a bag of pork scratchings looks like so you'll get a picture of my cozy bed instead.

Edit: pork scratchings with aioli plus a portion of Greek yoghurt makes a fine meal!
Goodnight all.
 

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I bought a batch not so long ago too. I can be addicted to their vegan fudge brownie. I still have a few cookies in the freezer!
 
Went out for breakfast. A rather splendid omelette with bacon and avocado, with sour cream on top too!
Then a good mooch around Wholefoods supermarket. Horrified at prices, and how relatively few low carb items there were.
Skipped lunch.
90 minutes sunny walk
Dinner (if you can call it that) 1 small glass red wine. A few low carb crackers and some salsa, 1 sq 85% choc
 
DJC3 said:
Ive never heard this expression either, this thread is so educational!
Is it a colloquial term or is my Cornish fishmonger likely to know it? ( I will soon tell by his flummoxed expression if he doesn’t)
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I think it is a proper term and not confined to Scotland. I haven't checked that in a dictionary though.

Translation of darne from this French/English dictionary
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/french-english/darne

darne
noun (feminine) steak
(de poisson) tranche de poisson - fish steak
eg manger une darne de saumon - to eat a salmon steak

I must have learned it when I was a catering student. I think it is commonly used by chefs in UK as well as in French restaurants.
 
Goonergal said:
How is that possible?!
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Easily if you dislike all nut butters! I consider myself lucky that I do
. I think I've said before that I can only eat nuts where absolutely nothing has been done to them. Just the plain ordinary nut from the shell. Do anything to them at all and it makes me nauseous. No idea why, I've just always been that way.
 
Eating early today. Colder than I should be given the temperature. Had some Greek yoghurt and cream followed by air fried pork belly pieces.

Now watching the London marathon while listening to helicopters circling outside (start is not a million miles from me and the race goes past the end of my high street- wheelchairs have just passed)!

 
Just had a 3 (small) egg, mushroom omelette for breakfast. Already had a cup of tea and a cup of black coffee and am on my 2nd tea.

Lots of cooked chicken thigh left from yesterday, so the 2nd meal today will be some of that in a kind of pie filling, without the crust, obviously.
 
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