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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

B: 2 scrambled eggs
Went to visit a friend, who forgot about my way of eating and prepared a lunch of ham, cheese and salad ciabatta rolls
By the time we ate it was after 2 and I was very hungry. I tried taking the top off my roll but the mayo meant everything stuck and what was left was very small, so I ended up eating it all, and a good few too many tortilla chips as well. Did manage to evade the bakewell tart offered for pudding.
It's definitely harder to change or refuse food made for you by friend than asking for or swapping a restaurant dish.
D: cabbage carbonara made with yesterday's gammon. Tasty.
22:00 back after an evening meeting, hungry and cold, so ate cheese and ice cream!
Not a good day food wise
 
Hi all. Didn't post this morning because I had no idea what I was having and forgot to get anything out of the freezer. So went shopping, ate out and went completely off the wagon. I know my levels will be high so it's mea culpe again. I'll try harder tomorrow. Promise. I hate being diabetic!
 
Breakfast: the last of my home made sausage - cold and with a small amount of ketchup on it again for moistness.

Later I will have the piece of steak that Neil got for me on Monday when he did some shopping. Some fried onions will go nicely with it - no mushrooms left. Should have put them on today's list but I forgot.
 
@MrsA2 and @RosemaryJackson hugs to you both, we’ve all been in those situations. But tomorrow is another day. You can’t change today but don’t let it influence tomorrow.
My food today-
B/Brunch - bacon, eggs, spinach and tomatoes
Lots of black coffee throughout the day
D- cold stuff as our hoped for meal out at a pub didn’t happen. (No taxis ) sliced beef, local artisan cheese, cherry toms, olives and pecans. Wine.
 
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: gammon steak, fried egg and roasted veggies (who needs a carby sauce when you can have a runny egg!) followed by SF cherry jelly and cream.

 
Lost alerts to this thread during my family weekend and fiddling with the forum on my phone so have been MIA.
Haven't eaten many interesting things in between either. Sunday and monday was what I was sure was a tomato soup from the freezer but turned out to be leek soup with lots of tasty little meatballs. Tuesday was burger with fried onions on a spinach salad.
Yesterday was low carb bread, slice with liverwurst and mustard and a slice with a very quick pickled egg mayo thing (pickled egg, mayo, salt, pepper, lots of unhappy chives I forgot to water). Forgot to cook as too busy with my Sinterklaassurprise.

I took two thick pork belly strips from the freezer on monday, thinking to use them on tuesday with a nice veggies and peanut sauce dish but life got in the way. Only yesterday I found out I left them on top of the fridge instead of inside.
Sometimes you get lucky: it hasn't been over 7 degrees in my kitchen so it didn't make a difference, and the cat must be stupid!

Finally back to some real cooking today, spicy mixed veggies (onion, bell pepper, Chinese cabbage and spinach, with some black beans in chilli oil and hot sauce) with an oniony peanut sauce and marinated pork belly pieces. Very easy and effective marinade too, just rubbed them in black bean and garlic sauce.

Two pork belly strips is enough for 4 days, so I froze half again after marinating.



Also had 5 of these, because diabetes suddenly decided it wanted less insulin for no good reason.
I finally finished my last bag of very old hypo treats (with some help from nephews and nieces last weekend) so I was very happy to start the bag of exciting foreign sweets I bought in England almost two months ago.
Turned out they weren't joking, and I'm definitely not up to the chew challenge!

Pretty sure those sweets are still stuck to my teeth in a week, no matter how much I brush!
A shame really, they taste amazing.
The only other thing I've ever eaten which was as sticky as this are Chokotoffs, unbelievable!

 
No menu today as I went way off ona detour off the food tracks.

I did have a couple of lowish carb pepper crackers with blue cheese on though.

Usual single malt glass of goodnes before I went to bed.
Antje77 said:
Sometimes you get lucky: it hasn't been over 7 degrees in my kitchen so it didn't make a difference, and the cat must be stupid!
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I bet he / she has it stashed awy for the next time it see's you put something on the fridge top.

Edit: spell chechers are not wortha shirt.
 
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@Antje77 Take care with those sweets I broke a tooth on them many years ago. Ended up having to have tge tooth crowned. A very expensive tube of sweets (They were sold in tubes in those days)
 
Should have gone for fruit pastilles as opposed to fruit gums. The gums are like sticky leather, albeit tasty leather but the pastilles, made by the same people, are softer and can be cleaned off the teeth. DIL keeps a tube of them in her emergency kit. I have jelly babies, which I like less than fruit pastilles - deliberately. I would need to be very low to have one of them. Not sure I could bear knowing there was a packet of fruit pastilles available.
 

Food looks great ( not the fruit gums) and I love your plate.
Is Sinterklaassurprise food or is it related to your long suffering cleaner crawling round your loft?
 
DJC3 said:
Food looks great ( not the fruit gums) and I love your plate.
Is Sinterklaassurprise food or is it related to your long suffering cleaner crawling round your loft?
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Not food related so I took it to the parallel thread.

"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Boys or girls? The kittens I mean!
www.diabetes.co.uk
Thankfully I have no problem seeing any kind of sweets as hypo treatment only, so I'm lucky to be able to treat my hypos with something I actually like.
My current pack will go to my young neighbour as soon as I've bought something less sticky though, he'll be happy with it.
 
Coffee.
Early: Scrambled eggs, sauerkraut. Pomegranate juice - a DIY attempt at fermenting some. It still tastes a bit too sweet, so just had a small glass. It was nice and fizzy.
Lunch: Salad w walnuts and blue cheese dressing.
Later: Roasted spicy chickpeas, few corn chips. Matcha tea.
 
Morning all. I'm a bit more organised this morning! Coffee with cream for bf. Pork chop with broccoli and cauli for dinner and smoked trout, cole slaw, plum tomatoes and celery for tea. I've bought a bottle of Baileys from Tesco (£8 off) so on the odd morning I can have a tablespoonful in my coffee. Makes me feel decadent!! Have a good day everyone. At least it's not raining.
 
@maglil55 - Have you tried engaging with a pharmacist on your allergies, meds and antibiotics. I take something that really restricts what I can have in terms of both painkillers and antibiotics. Oh boy, does the specialist pharmacist get on it! She rules with a rod of iron!

There's nothing worse than taking something that makes another worse.

Oh, and breakfast has just been kefir, followed by Greek yoghurt and a few pomegranate seeds.

Friday's are always a very compressed eating window, due to golf arrangements.
 
I grabbed a pot of "something" out of the freezer last night for today's meal - the label had rubbed off, of course. Turns out to be more chicken. It's a small portion of chicken stew so for tonight's meal I'll add some spring onions, some peas and any other veggie things I can find that I think I can cope with and make it up into some kind of meal.

Breakfast was scrambled eggs.

I bought a big pot of beef bouillon and another of chicken bouillon from Amazon for making drinks etc and Neil came home yesterday with a small pot of vegetable bouillon which he couldn't find for the last 2 weeks. So I'm well set up now for not-tea-hot-drinks.

Em is spending the day with me - both parents working and today is a long weekend at the school (Thanksgiving?). She's just polished off a fried egg for her lunch and I daresay we'll do some baking later. At the moment she's in thrall to my tablet playing some game or other. She'll probably be here tomorrow as well, and maybe Monday.
 
Thursday, went to stay with a friend. This one gets lc!
Lunch was cold sausage, cold gammon, hard boiled egg and a selection of cheeses!
Dinner was lamb with cauliflower cheese and spinach
Rather too much red wine (but that was my fault rather than hers )
Breakfast was smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.
There was double cream for my coffee (just one a day)

I've invited myself back just before Christmas!
 
Packing up for home after our few days away in Devon so breakfast was just black coffee.

Stopped in at Plymouth to attend to some business and took the opportunity for lunch at Nando’s. I do miss it! 4 chicken thighs, Halloumi and broccoli.
Dinner at home - smallish rump steak, few fried onions with cherry toms and spinach swirled through at the end. Glass of red.
Had the best, rapturous welcome from Dennis who’s been staying with my daughter.
 
Think I might come too
 
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