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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Our last full day here on holiday. Earliesh start so no breakfast, or even tea!
Finally about 1 pm an iced coffee and a bagel with cream cheese (was all there was)
Short sharp peak to 9 from 6.
Mid afternoon hubby had an ice cream. I had 2 bites and didn't really want those,,it's just curiosity.
D: 18:30 a delivered deep dish pizza. Delivery is such a treat for us. Bg peaking (I hope!) at 9. A single malt

13000 steps but mainly slow.

Tomorrow packing and travelling so probably no posting. See you all in Blighty peeps
 
Hi All as ever behind again …so back to Friday evening which was a Lo Dough pizza with half a log of Abergivanny goats cheese, black olives, chopped tomatoes and sprinkling of dried Italian herbs.
As usual all brekkies were slice LC toast and copious tea.
Lunch Sat was small cold plate of ham, cheese, side salad and spoon coleslaw.
Supper was Tandoori King Prawns, cauli Bhajee but let myself down by having TWO popadoms which was not good. Sunday lunch was three buttery scrambled eggs. Supper was roast spatchcock chicken with green veg and cauli cheese.
Don’t know what lunch today will be but likely to be another small cold plate moving stuff in the fridge along. Supper will be pork stirfry with lots of veg and ginger and soya sauce on top of cauli rice.
I don’t know if I said but I have encouraged Mr PM to cut back drastically on bread and liquid bread and just those changes over the last month have reduced his tummy and a loss of 8 lbs. @Antje77 don’t worry about the messy kitchen as long as you and the animals are looked after. @RosemaryJackson you are working hard but don’t go hungry. @Annb hope the bg settles down a bit and you can still find nice things to eat. Finally @DJC3 thanks for the idea of fried eggs on marmite toast can’t think why I haven’t had it before. Finally @maglil55 that seafood is right up my street, are you allowed to say which restaurant in Bath? I will book ark for our next visit.
 
Morning all. Well, bg is down! So am hopefully on the right track. Couldn't mamage treadmill so did sitting execises and that seems to have worked. Will keep that up. Pensioners lunch today but will avoid the pudding which, with my sweet tooth is a HUGE sacrifice lol. Tea tonight egg mayo with cress. With my record with eggs, that's a hopeful! Have a good day everyone.
 
Bacon sandwich for breakfast.
2nd meal will be turkey mince, onion and scrambled egg mixed through a la Goonergal.

I made some cupcakes for an event this afternoon but there has been a last minute change and it will now be on Wednesday afternoon but the cakes will still be allright by then. Also made a big pot of soup which will,possibly, be even better by then.

Also today, had my (now) regular Monday visitor and we had one of the cupcakes each with our coffee. Didn't do much damage to my BG, thank goodness.
 
Coffee and cream
Scrambled eggs with Shropshire cheese and butter
Pork (ended up in bin)!
Tuna, tomato and cucumber. Cheese.
 
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I couldn't eat a Jaffa cake before I was Diabetic. Make me feel sick.
 
PenguinMum said:
@Antje77 don’t worry about the messy kitchen as long as you and the animals are looked after.
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Thank you!
Telling myself it's alright is hard work (although I'm getting better at it) so someone else telling me the same helps!

The problem has been solved too, my help and I did a couple of hours of work this morning and while my house is far from being squeaky clean (it never will be, doesn't suit me), I can see the floor in the living room and the counter in the kitchen again!
I didn't even get a telling off from my help, so I guess she's more aware of exactly why I need her than I feared.

Dinner was the same as yesterday, peanut soup with pork belly pieces. Looked the same too so no need for a pic. Instead you'll get a picture proving peanut soup is very tasty!
I finished the bowl, then Poes cleaned the bowl further, and finally Wolf spend a good amount of time making sure not a single molecule of soup was left in the bowl.

 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a Food dr bar.
Dinner: lamb burgers with cheese on a LC roll with side salad followed by SF blackcurrant jelly and cream.

 
B- 3 h/b eggs. Lots of black coffee.
A long and stressful drive for an appointment. Set off in plenty of time and ended up being an hour early. Good thing I packed a book and lunch - SLC roll filled with Turkey, tomato and coleslaw. Couple of squares of dark choc and a surprise pack of Cheesies.
D- airfried duck breast. Mushrooms cooked underneath. Green beans with garlic and almonds. Silly me - opened the pack of almonds 15 mins beforehand so by the time I needed them there was only 1/2 pack left. 2 glasses wine.
 
Finished an extended fast (48hrs) at midday and had sardines w olive oil, mustard, salt & lemon juice, an avocado, then some yogurt.
I have some minestrone soup cooking for later - using up the last of the winter greens in the garden, which will make room for some spring planting.
I'll make bread for my family to enjoy with their soup - none for me sadly. I'm on the hunt for a recipe for a low carb bread-like thing I can make to have instead.
 
Today was to have been taken up by keeping out of the way of my cleaner as she did the floors and then getting around to some breakfast after she'd finished. Got the place organised (beds made, bins out everything up off the floor) but she's just phoned to say she has no childcare and the schools don't reopen until Thursday. So she can't come until then. I'll think about breakfast soon then. It will be the same as yesterday's second meal - Goonergal's recipe for mince, onions and egg all mixed together - what I think, in the past, would have been called an egg "mess" (same idea as Eton Mess, I suppose).

2nd meal will be chicken thighs - no veg.

Have to be a bit creative today - Neil isn't well enough to go shopping so have to use what I've got available. Might do a bit more baking for the event tomorrow though - I'm not happy with what I have so far.
 
Morning all. First... the confession! I had the pudding yesterday, it was bread and butter pudding, probably the worst kind for me but couldn't resist. So didn't make the huge sacrifice after all. Had bacon and egg for tea. Today I'm having sausage, egg and tomatoes. For tea I have Avocado with prawns and a Keto Ranch dressing. Bg's same as yesterday so am fairly happy about that. I can't use the treadmill yet so am doing other exercises that seem to be helping.
@Annb, did you make the tomato soup? It sounds delicious because I love tomatoes.
 
Yes, I make the tomato soup. It's a very simple one: tinned, chopped tomatoes (cheaper than unchopped ones and easier to use), chopped onion, stock (either chicken or vegetable from a stock cube), a carrot chopped and some basil (fresh when available but dried in this case), tomato puree and some celery chopped. Onion, celery and carrot sweated down in a knob of butter and a little olive oil. Once softened, but not heavily caramelised, add tomato puree and cook it down for a minute or two to avoid a bitter aftertaste, add tinned tomatoes, basil and stock cubes*, rinsing the tin(s) out with water, and simmer until the vegetables are very soft. Blend the soup in a food processor (or one of those stick blenders). Season to taste. Add butter to make a more mellow taste. Add double cream. The blending thickens the soup so it doesn't need any starchy thickener. Sometimes the tomatoes are a bit bitter but the added butter usually takes care of that. This time I whisked an egg and put it in the bottom of the soup bowl so that the hot soup could cook the egg when stirred in. I also garnished it with some crisp fried onion pieces that I bought online.

*In fact, I use Knorr stock pots which are a gel, not dry cubes, but it makes no difference to the taste.

I also bought online some pork crackling from Amazon - Salt and vinegar flavour because the producers didn't just do salt. They came today so I had to try them. I'm not fond of vinegar at the best of times but these ones have a coating of the flavouring and it really isn't vinegar; it's a powdered acid product and the flavour is really vinegar and salt, not the other way round. It also says on the label "no allergens" but it includes avocado oil, acidity regulator E262 and acid E330 as well as yeast extract. There are a few people I could mention for whom most of those are allergens. Even the pork part, in Neil's case but, also in Neil's case E262 and E330 make his chest problems worse. Well - he won't be eating them anyway but that isn't the point. Constant vigilance is required for our family.
 
Brie x 2 Tomatoes x 3
Coffee and cream x 2
Smoked salmon
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a PE protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: gammon with a fried egg, Brussels and carrots followed by SF cherry jelly and cream.

 
B- scrambled eggs with parmesan.
Lots of black coffee.
L- sliced beef, celeriac remoulade, cherry toms, chilli sauerkraut, cheese, chopped nuts.
DGF brownie
D- early 2 slices beef wrapped around Edam and gherkin - Just to make sure I was able to resist the free pasties that accompanied an archaeology talk given at the village hall this evening! They smelled fab.
Couple of glasses white wine when I got home
 
For late breakfast yesterday we went back to the place we had been the week before.
I knew I needed to be sustained for quite a while so had a 4 eggs spinach omelette with feta and a side salad.

It was easy to remove the croutons and only have a bit of the dressing. I'd learned my lesson and told them to hold the pancakes and hash browns this time.

Hubby (non diabetic ) on the other hand went for an all American blowout of French Toast with extra banana and cinnamon butter and cream. You can see the stack in the background!!! At least he didn't add to it the huge jar of maple syrup that was delivered. He struggled to finish it. And, yes he did get indigestion.

7pm ish, on the plane had some pretty decent prawns followed by beef and cheese. Really good for airline food.

A 7 hour flight and a 6 hour time difference meant I've lost a night and a few meals as I didn't eat again until dinner this evening. Slow cooked beef with 2 lots of green veg. Proper coffee icecream.
Fitted in a good walk as well as walked to a memorial service in the next village.

Think I'm glad to be home. Just very dark and wet weather wise
 
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