What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Annb]

Confession: I had a medjool date. I asked Neil to buy me some figs and some dates because I have an idea for an experimental recipe or two. He came home with medjool dates, which I hadn't even thought about. I can easily resist deglet dates in any form (pressed, chopped, glazed etc) but not medjools. I'd actually forgotten how sweet they were. I think I can resist them in future.

My bug has settled on my chest, unfortunately. In fact 2 nights ago, I woke up thinking someone was talking to me only to discover that what I could hear was my wheezing lungs! At present, along with the congestion, my throat and lungs are kind of tickley with every breath. I daresay it will pass before long.

 

[maglil55]

Rollitos do come from M&S in their 3 for £8 deli range and there are three varieties cigarette shaped cheese wrapped in ham or chorizo and they usually have a good use by date. I find them useful for lunch on the go. I like the sound of your hearty autumnal lunch.

@RosemaryJackson Sainsburys do Carr's Water Biscuits and Carr's Melts (plain & cheesy) which are pretty good at 2.5g carbs per biscuit. Their seedy versions are higher.
You can get the seedy biscuits online too.

 

[maglil55]

Thank you so much for typing out the recipe and I am a big fan of Rick Stein too. Do you think Fage 5% Greek yogurt would work instead of the soured cream, only because I usually have it in the house!

Don't see why not.

 

[DJC3]

PT in the park this morning so no breakfast. Managed to miss the rain showers.
Lunch was a fathead pizza, I found in the bottom of my freezer. @Mrs T 123 I thought of you when I looked at the date on them -16 Sep 2020 ! Tasted fine
D- large chicken salad with everything - avocado, walnuts, celery, h/m Caesar dressing and a dollop of chilli sauerkraut. Glass of dry white.
@Stephen Bond do you have the Copy Me That app? If you get it you can share recipes and see other peoples. Many of us have it and use the same user name as on here so we can see each other’s recipes. I have at least 3 low carb seedy crackers recipes on mine. The best I’ve found was from a newspaper and involves soaking whole linseeds until gloopy and adding an equal quantity of other mixed seeds plus seasoning, spreading on a baking tray and cooking on a low temp until crisp.

 

[Stephen Bond]

PT in the park this morning so no breakfast. Managed to miss the rain showers.
Lunch was a fathead pizza, I found in the bottom of my freezer. @Mrs T 123 I thought of you when I looked at the date on them -16 Sep 2020 ! Tasted fine
D- large chicken salad with everything - avocado, walnuts, celery, h/m Caesar dressing and a dollop of chilli sauerkraut. Glass of dry white.
@Stephen Bond do you have the Copy Me That app? If you get it you can share recipes and see other peoples. Many of us have it and use the same user name as on here so we can see each other’s recipes. I have at least 3 low carb seedy crackers recipes on mine. The best I’ve found was from a newspaper and involves soaking whole linseeds until gloopy and adding an equal quantity of other mixed seeds plus seasoning, spreading on a baking tray and cooking on a low temp until crisp.

That lunch sounds delicious!... and the cracker recipe too. How long do you soak the linseeds for? I literally have hundreds of recipes as i love to cook. When my son went off to Uni i adjusted loads of them to make them "son proof", so they might sound a little patronising! But i will try and find that app and install it and add a few recipes....When I get a moment i will adjust them for low carb. For example i am making stroganoff tonight, but will be leaving out the cognac!

 

[Stephen Bond]

Confession: I had a medjool date. I asked Neil to buy me some figs and some dates because I have an idea for an experimental recipe or two. He came home with medjool dates, which I hadn't even thought about. I can easily resist deglet dates in any form (pressed, chopped, glazed etc) but not medjools. I'd actually forgotten how sweet they were. I think I can resist them in future.

My bug has settled on my chest, unfortunately. In fact 2 nights ago, I woke up thinking someone was talking to me only to discover that what I could hear was my wheezing lungs! At present, along with the congestion, my throat and lungs are kind of tickley with every breath. I daresay it will pass before long.

I was a bit naughty too today. A friend gave me some weird fruits from her garden, no idea what they are, and neither has she, but the inside of them tastes like strawberries. They look a bit like very large rose hips???? Anyway I ate 10 of them, about 1/2 a teaspoon of fruit each. I had to!!! They would have gone off and it is the end of their season.

 

[Annb]

Even worse. Just had my 2nd meal today. There was lots there and it was delicious and I ate it all! Far too much and now my stomach is asking me why I did it. It just tasted so good that I couldn't resist, even though I knew I shouldn't. Ah well - tomorrow's another day.

 

[Antje77]

I was a bit naughty too today. A friend gave me some weird fruits from her garden, no idea what they are, and neither has she, but the inside of them tastes like strawberries. They look a bit like very large rose hips???? Anyway I ate 10 of them, about 1/2 a teaspoon of fruit each. I had to!!! They would have gone off and it is the end of their season.

Surprise mystery fruits tasting like strawberries are a perfect reason for eating a bit more carbs than planned!

But i will try and find that app and install it and add a few recipes....When I get a moment i will adjust them for low carb. For example i am making stroganoff tonight, but will be leaving out the cognac!

Why leave out the cognac?

Here's the website: https://www.copymethat.com/
It adds a little thing to your search bar (computer, don't know how it works on phone). If you visit a website with a recipe and you click it, it will copy the recipe without all the surrounding waffle, very useful!



I made peanut soup with lots of veggies and some marinated pork belly pieces again, easy and tasty.

 

[DJC3]

That lunch sounds delicious!... and the cracker recipe too. How long do you soak the linseeds for? I literally have hundreds of recipes as i love to cook. When my son went off to Uni i adjusted loads of them to make them "son proof", so they might sound a little patronising! But i will try and find that app and install it and add a few recipes....When I get a moment i will adjust them for low carb. For example i am making stroganoff tonight, but will be leaving out the cognac!

Here’s my recipe, couldn’t copy the photo though I’m afraid.

Ingredients
50g golden linseed
1 tab soy sauce
50g pumpkin seeds
50g sunflower seeds
Pinch chilli flakes
Steps
Put linseed in bowl with soy sauce and 75ml water. Leave to soak 2hr min.
Preheat oven 140C
Spread pumpkin and sunflower seeds on baking sheet and bake around 30 mins
Cool slightly, mix into linseeds
Press mixture out v thin on lined baking sheet.
Bake about 1 hr
Cool break up and store in Tupperware.

Notes
V forgiving recipe. Use 50 g linseeds but any mix of other seeds to make up the 100g in next stage.

Ps I have to agree with @Anthe77 about the stroganoff - why leave out the cognac?

 

[maglil55]

That lunch sounds delicious!... and the cracker recipe too. How long do you soak the linseeds for? I literally have hundreds of recipes as i love to cook. When my son went off to Uni i adjusted loads of them to make them "son proof", so they might sound a little patronising! But i will try and find that app and install it and add a few recipes....When I get a moment i will adjust them for low carb. For example i am making stroganoff tonight, but will be leaving out the cognac!

I used to add brandy until I got the Rick Stein's recipe and the stroganoff has never had it since.

 

[maglil55]

Thursday 3 November - bed 5.8 FBG 6 6

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with ox tongue and coleslaw.

L. A bit crustless quiche and it had to be a DGF Christmas pie. I did stop at one!

D. Poached salmon fillet, prawn cocktail, lettuce and santini tomatoes. Didn't finish it. I'd overdone the salmon due to not paying attention and it went dry quite quickly.

My resistance failed. I made another Affogato.

@Stephen Bond - I know the manoeuvre. My good looking sadist (otherwise known as my physio) taught me a while back as vertigo is a long term issue on and off. This is different though. It's not quite as bad as the usual vertigo attack and with the other symptoms I had, I suspect it is a lingering effect from the bug I had. It's gradually disappearing thankfully.

Can I also say, I really don't like the additional eye drops from the eye Pavilion. Now that I have a pre op assessment, and word that they aim to operate in a 12 week window, they are working to get the pressure in my eyes down further. I'm now on a combo drop first thing but then I have another which has to be done twice daily. Firstly, it stings like mad and secondly, timing is everything as it blurs my vision for quite a few minutes (which they say does haopen). At least I know when the drops are in with the blurring!

 

[Stephen Bond]

Breakfast... Skipped it
Lunch... some small pieces of cheese, the inside of a slice of pork pie, 10 tiny weird fruits.
Dinner.. Stroganoff (with the cognac burned off!), cauliflower mash. Desert Greek Yogurt, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries and melange of seeds and 1tsp of stevia sugar substitute, couple drops of cider vinegar.
Bedtime drink cocoa made with cream and water, stevia and a tiny splash of Bacardi.
Going to bed before doing a test, as up early tomorrow. Going mushroom hunting.
I have put on one and lost one whole kilo last week, due solely to one debauched weekend!
PS.. Stayed up to test in the end.. 4.9 .......2 hours after dinner, was 5.5 before.

 

[Rachox]

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 Lidl protein bar.
Dinner: rare evening off for hubby so we ate out. I had a full English, (no beans), pic below, I only ate one hash brown, I gave away the other one
(Blood sugar 4.8 before I ate, 5.6 1 hour later, just waiting to see what the 2 hour reading is….. )

 

[Mrs T 123]

Hi All
So yesterday and today brekkie usual slice LC toast and lots of tea.
Lunch was a mug of soup and a chunk of cheddar
Supper was chicken breast roasted and cauli cheese (frozen from Sainsburys) whichI am finding very convenient for one person, just goes in the lower shelf of oven. Lunch today will be some rollitos on the run. Supper will be the also usual chunky cod fishfingers with broccoli.
I have been wondering about the tally of milk in tea. I don’t use very much, like it mahogany colour about 3 large mugs daily. I would struggle to drink it black I think but then again maybe I am deluding myself that I need any milk in tea. Its possible the large weekly pack of Marmite peanuts (which doesn’t stretch to 7 days) is a more viable no no.
@maglil55 thanks for the idea of beef stroganoff something we haven’t eaten in years. Hope you are much better, everyone I know this year brought back some bug from holidays, Covid or other. Its the actual travel journeys to blame I imagine.

I can't do black tea but what I do is water down the milk, as in only have half the amount of milk say 50mls topped up with another 50mls of water not because I am miserable but so that I only drink half the amount of carbs that 100ml of milk would be - an idea perhaps? - I like my tea almost half and half (baby tea) ha ha

 

[Mrs T 123]

PT in the park this morning so no breakfast. Managed to miss the rain showers.
Lunch was a fathead pizza, I found in the bottom of my freezer. @Mrs T 123 I thought of you when I looked at the date on them -16 Sep 2020 ! Tasted fine
D- large chicken salad with everything - avocado, walnuts, celery, h/m Caesar dressing and a dollop of chilli sauerkraut. Glass of dry white.
@Stephen Bond do you have the Copy Me That app? If you get it you can share recipes and see other peoples. Many of us have it and use the same user name as on here so we can see each other’s recipes. I have at least 3 low carb seedy crackers recipes on mine. The best I’ve found was from a newspaper and involves soaking whole linseeds until gloopy and adding an equal quantity of other mixed seeds plus seasoning, spreading on a baking tray and cooking on a low temp until crisp.

OMG so funny the ones I have have probably been in my freezer 3/4 months so I guess they will be fine ...

 

[Mrs T 123]

Brunch - 2 slices bread from Low Carb Co. buttered & filled with egg mayo. 2 squares lindtt 90%. Mug of earl grey tea

Dinner/Snack (Late shift today) - 1 packet of chicken fridge raiders, pepsi max, 1 roll from Low Carb Co. filled with just cheese, half of a cookies & cream phd bar, mug of earl grey tea

@Rachox your fry up looks sooo good and is making me feel hungry but I will just get to be bed instead ...

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

Three hard boiled eggs, two slices vegimite on toast for breakfast.
Got a Red Roster whole roast chicken and veggies on the way home from getting my feet checked, and getting my toenails cut at the podiatrist. Also had half a KPM from the NT and L/Lsorbet for lunch.
Toasted bacon sandwiches for supper at six.

Glass of single malt before bedtime, had another good nights sleep according to the Fossil.

Feet are good considering what else is going on, still got a bit of feeling in my feet.

 

[MrsA2]

An avocado and a bit of a bad avocado for breakfast

L: seedy crackers with brie. 1 chicken thigh. Several sqs 85% choc

Had to go to a "bit of a do" in London. Packed 2 large chunks emergency cheese.
Posh nibbles weren't too bad, tiny single mouthfuls. Had a few of the smoked salmon on teeny tiny blini, several of the larger just smoked salmon, a pate (but the relish in it was sooo sweet), a couple of sausage rolls so posh the pastry was very very thin and the filling huge and meaty. A bruschetta, a goat's cheese roll up, a mushroom thing, a tempura veg thing that wasn't so pleasant served cold. 3 King prawns
And nearly 3 glass white wine, but luckily came to senses and put down the third.
Was feeling very hungry part way through the evening and we were planning to grab something on the way home, but all the trains connected and no time so ended up sharing the emergency cheese with hubby.
Long way to go (4 + hour round trip) just for free drink and nibbles, and eating way past my normal cut-off, but that sort of thing doesn't happen often.

Not tested bg

 

[Stephen Bond]

5.9 this morning.... 4.9 Last night 2 hours after dinner... I had a hot cocoa with half cream half water and 1/2 teaspoon of stevia before bed and after i did my 2 hours after dinner test.... So the cocoa powder pushed the figure way up over night. It was not the cream, as i had a lowish reading after dinner and there was loads of cream in the stroganoff.

 

[DJC3]

5.9 this morning.... 4.9 Last night 2 hours after dinner... I had a hot cocoa with half cream half water and 1/2 teaspoon of stevia before bed and after i did my 2 hours after dinner test.... So the cocoa powder pushed the figure way up over night. It was not the cream, as i had a lowish reading after dinner and there was loads of cream in the stroganoff.

Possibly not the cocoa but just the good old Dawn Phenomenon doing it’s thing, getting you ready to wake up.