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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Morning all. Very nice day here so hope it is where you are. Yesterdays plan changed as did not go shopping so today hopefully will do so. I had a hm chicken stew out of the freezer and I managed to boil some eggs and make egg mayo. Will get the cooked chicken thighs today and for tea I have some prawns and Keto Ranch dressing. My Irish granddaughter is coming for the weekend and I am so looking forward to that. She doesn't mind eating 'my' diet.
Have a nice day everyone.
 
That all sounds good. Other than the prawns which I couldn't face, but if you can, good on you. Enjoy your granddaughter's visit.
 
Well, what I've had so far is 2 eggs, scrambled on one slice of frozen/defrosted wholemeal toast. Tea, coffee and more tea.
BG dropped at 11/2 hours from 9.7 to 7.8 but then rose again by the 2 hour mark to 9.5. I had my regular weekly visitor (that's why the coffee) so couldn't check again until just now (1.15 pm) and it is up to 13.9; and I didn't even have any of the cake I'd made. Visitor had 2 pieces and I sent Alistair off with the remainder just to make sure I don't have any. It doesn't look as though freezing and then toasting bread is any advantage in terms of carbs or BG.

I've made some mushroom soup, which I will be having shortly. Neil had already cooked more mushrooms than he needed, just to use up a pack from the fridge, so I used them up in soup.

Dinner will be the pork from the freezer. It's all ready to go and I will probably, after all, use the leeks to go with that. Just sweat them down in butter and that should be fine. Still not sure how small to make this meal.
 
There's more than a few bugs doing the rounds I'm afraid. Hope you feel better now.
 
Brunch - ham and eggs
Mid aft - lump of cheddar and handful of nuts.
Dinner - Fry up of chicken, chorizo, sprouts, mushrooms and spinach. Served with a dollop of cottage cheese, 1/2 avocado and the almost obligatory Nando’s peri peri sauce which I seem to have on everything currently.
 
Looks amazing, I want it!

I'll be having zuurkoolstamppot again, mash (cauliflower in my case instead of the traditional potato) mixed with sauerkraut and served with zuurkoolspek and rookworst.
Both worth buying if you're ever in the Netherlands, but if you want to have a go at zuurkoolstamppot it works very well with bacon too, or whatever else salty fatty meat you like.
I make the mash with a knob of butter, a generous scoop of crème frâiche, a 'garden herbs' stock cube and a stick blender.
 

I like the sound of zuurkoolstamppot almost as much as I like the name. I hadn’t thought of mixing in salty meat or sausage with mashed cauli but I can imagine the flavours would go really well. I do like a mixed up meal.
 
DJC3 said:
I like the sound of zuurkoolstamppot almost as much as I like the name. I hadn’t thought of mixing in salty meat or sausage with mashed cauli but I can imagine the flavours would go really well. I do like a mixed up meal.
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Stamppot is more or less out national winter dish.
Traditional varieties are sauerkraut, kale, raw endive, carrots and onions (hutspot), and even apple! (Hete bliksem). Most of them tend to come with bacon and/or a sausage type kind of meat, but stewed beef is a possibility as well and meatballs are common too.
They all work well with cauliflower mash instead of potatoes, just google for stamppot recipes and have google translate them for you, and substitute potatoes with mashed cauliflower!
 
When I lived in the UK as a teenager I used to buy delicious cold, cooked chicken thights from a couple of different supermarkets. I preferred not to cook where possible (very sparse facilities!) so for a year I think I pretty much lived off of those chicken thighs, bagels (no one had heard of low carb then!), Brie cheese, Braeburn apples and gooseberry fool! Happy memories.
 
Got my appetite back
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 phd bar.
Dinner: chicken and mushroom Balti curry with cauliflower rice followed by SF strawberry jelly and cream.

 
Hope you'll get some good advice from locals.
I'm about as far from the UK as possible, but someone, in another thread, said these Hunter & Gather products are very good. They use the best ingredients, so items are possibly a bit spendy compared to more commerical options available in supermarkets. I guess you'd have to have them shipped so perhaps not ideal if having a short stay. Will link anyway becuase they were endorsed by someone here! https://hunterandgatherfoods.com/products/unsweetened-classic-tomato-ketchup
 
Coffee. For some reason the last few days I've been leaving half my coffee. Just not keen on it at the moment for some reason so I'm planning to give it up for a while.
Lunch: I had left over egg yolks so I made "muffins" with red onion, cheese and walnuts in them. Pork sausage and too many crispy pork rinds.
Snack: 1/2 large avocado.
Dinner: Will be out this evening dropping the teenager to various activities and getting in some early Christmas shopping, so the husband and I will grab a burger. No bun for me. (A couple of his fries for me, seeing as he pinched some of my pork rinds earlier..)
 
Ann, why do you have to have anything with your belly pork? A boiled egg for b/f (non-exploding of course), bowl of soup midday and some belly pork for tea. That's your 3 meals a day and not too much for you hopefully. Good luck with it.
 
Morning all. Happy that my levels are heading in the right direction so today I'm going to make a sausage casserole in my slow cooker. That will be 2 meals, today and tomorrow I have some ham and coleslaw for my tea plus one Ryvita buttered of course. I probably won't post after tomorrow till Monday because my granddaughter will be here so have a great weekend everyone.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Ann, why do you have to have anything with your belly pork? A boiled egg for b/f (non-exploding of course), bowl of soup midday and some belly pork for tea. That's your 3 meals a day and not too much for you hopefully. Good luck with it.
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That was another of the young doctor's instructions - get back to eating vegetables. I had leeks with my pork and actually enjoyed it - no ill effecgts so far, so that's one experiment that did work. However BGs all over the place. Need to work on that.

This morning will just have some slices of ham. Sadly, my 3 small meals were quite unsatisfactory in terms of my appetite. I was pretty hungry all day. Perhaps if I up the fluids, it would help that.

Lunch will be the remaining third of the pork and leeks.

3rd meal will be some pan fried haddock - supermarket bought, so it won't be great, but it will taste OK fried in butter.
 
DJC3 said:
I like the sound of zuurkoolstamppot almost as much as I like the name. I hadn’t thought of mixing in salty meat or sausage with mashed cauli but I can imagine the flavours would go really well. I do like a mixed up meal.
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I was quite fond of putting crispy pancetta through cheesy mashed cauliflower. I've often thought that mixing cabbage through it would make a very acceptable "non potato" bubble and squeak.
 
Wednesday 16 November - bed 6.7 FBG 7.1. Much better but full blown cold kicking in now. Paracetamol and inhalation of eucalyptus steam continues. Youngest grandson has gone down with croup (his Dad was bad for this too) and DIL has a real nasty so, it's not really surprising. At least my legs have pretty much settled, fuzzy head is still lurking and I have a "crackly" chest. Otherwise I'm fine.

B. TAG

L. More brunch really. Slice of SLC toast and 2 scrambled eggs. A cup of Marigold vegan vegetable bouillon. (@Annb have you considered drinking this bouillon if you get hungry and if you can get it?).I just buy it in the supermarket but you can get it in Health Foid stores and online as well. One spoonful in boiling water makes a very pleasant hot drink. Minimal carbs as well.

D. Still feeling "off" and tge only thing I really wanted was a tin of tuna mixed with chopped piccolo tomatoes and mayo. Had this with a slice of SLC toast and butter. Usual CC little chocolate pot.
Later a vodka and diet coke to see if it would cure my crackly chest (that's my excuse!).

BGs loads better during the day but more effort is needed to stabilise the dawn phenomenon.
 
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