Yep on the days the flat has been jolly cold and taken forever to get remotely warm, readings up. On warmer days like today reading all down.Yesterday - two yes TWO avocados. Small Greek yoghurt. Dinner was keto fish pie. I am bounding with vitamins!
Today will be brunch of lumpy soup, and dinner of roast lamb with cauliflower, sprouts and cabbage.
I have discovered that my BG meter/strips don't like the bitter cold. After I left them in the only heated room for an hour, I got a much more usual reading. Might be the case with some of you as well.
I have a metre in the bathroom that is like the Baltics and have been getting readings from 7 -9.5s fasting. The metre in the sitting room which is a lot warmer, readings are within my range 5.5 and 6s. Bizarre eh!Yep on the days the flat has been jolly cold and taken forever to get remotely warm, readings up. On warmer days like today reading all down.
At least my hands have been warm the last couple of days.I have a metre in the bathroom that is like the Baltics and have been getting readings from 7 -9.5s fasting. The metre in the sitting room which is a lot warmer, readings are within my range 5.5 and 6s. Bizarre eh!
I think British and American sausages in general have a high carb content, unlike Continental ones. I have no idea why that is. There must be a reason - probably from some dim and distant time several hundred years ago for what might have been a good idea then, but is no longer relevant. Must see if I can find anything about that.Have I mentioned how much I love snow peas before?
They're expensive and decadent, and today I treated myself to a very large portion of them!
The plan was to go for groceries on saturday, but everything was stupid and I couldn't get myself to do it. Likely something to do with stupid december and stupid 8 and 3 years anniversaries of both my father and my beloved dog dying, which was yesterday. Still miss them a lot, both of them, and I'm glad they share this strange anniversary, one of those days each year is quite enough.
Anyway, no groceries meant stretching out what I had for a few more days and meals have been rather boring.
So today I decided to treat myself with a very easy but also very yummy meal: a ridiculous amount of snow peas with butter and salt, and a couple of chipolata sausages.
Snow peas were half the bag, other half is for tomorrow. Sausages are half the package too. I wonder what bright soul has decided to put 5 sausages in a pack, how do you even devide that unless you're a family of 5 and eat very small portions of meat?
There's an interesting difference between sausages in the UK and in the Netherlands (worst or worstjes).
Like the UK, we have countless different kinds of sausages, ranging from sausages to be fried, to sliced cold sausage meat to use on sandwiches, and dried sausages to have with a beer.
But unlike UK sausages, I buy any kind without even checking the back: I've never found any kind of sausage containing more than 2% carbs, and usually it's under 1%. (An exception is bloedworst (black pudding). Some have added rice, some don't.)
I was so puzzled when first joining the forum and being warned to check the carbs in sausages! I must have spent a full hour in the supermarket checking all those packages to find the sneaky high carb ones but they just weren't there!
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Well my little bit of Canada is fortunate to have a real butcher so can get sausages that contain just meat, herbs and spices. Delicious too.It looks as though the reason we have so much carb in British sausages is that during the rationing period, during and after WW2, cereals of various kinds were added to make the little amount of meat available, go further. Then, of course, manufacturers realised that they could make these sausages cheaply with not only less, but with poorer quality meat. The "traditional" British banger was born. Banger because the cereal allowed the addition of a comparatively large amount of water and when cooking, they would sometimes explode in the pan. There won't be anyone left who can remember the real British sausage from pre-war days. Of course, with the poorer bits of meat, the mixture had to be ground down very finely and there are sausages on the market that are unrecognisable as a meat product. Better quality meat doesn't need to be ground down quite so much and the meat can be identified. These kind of sausages are also popular in America, although they do have a wider variety on their market. Not sure about Australia or Canada. @Riva_Roxaban would know - about Australia anyway.
So sorry that you and your family are coming down with some bug. That's the last thing you want at this time of year. Last week, Em's family all came down with a vomiting bug - that 's Alistair, DIL, Em, Braidie, Em's big sister and husband*(?) and their 3 children. It all started when the youngest seems to have brought it home from the nursery she attends. It was miserable, but it passed in 24 hours. I hope yours passes as quickly.Sunday 18 December - bed 7.5 FBG 7.9. Youngest not well enough for last swimming lesson before the holidays (which he is not happy about!) This is the fun day and they get Chocolate Santa's. I'm starting to get a tickly cough now too.
B. Just TAG
L. Vegetable bouillon and later a CC little chocolate pot
D. Cooked a ham joint and has with a carrot/turnip mash and cheesy cauliflower mash. Campari and soda. DGF Christmas pie with a touch of cream.
BGs rising during the day and I started to get a headache. Yuk!
Monday 19 December - bed 8 FBG 8.9 Had a steamy shower before bed but it didn't help with the cough. Dentist cancelled my appointment for today as my new bridge is not back from the lab yet. Eldest grandson went to school but he is starting to feel "off" now. Youngest was milking it today but it backfired when he was reminded that you stay in bed when you are unwell. I'm resting between trips out. Hubby is coming down with it now and DIL has succumbed too!!
B. Vegetable bouillon
L. Vegetable bouillon
D. Vegetable bouillon and leftover cold cuts with coleslaw and vegetable salad. No cooking involved. CC little chocolate pot.
To cap it all my broadband has developed a fault and is going on and off. It's affecting the TV , landline and no Internet and there's no way I'm going to use all my data.
Should learn to put the lid on the pan if I don't want to have my sausages stolen.Sausages are half the package too. I wonder what bright soul has decided to put 5 sausages in a pack, how do you even devide that unless you're a family of 5 and eat very small portions of meat?
It's pretty easy really, if he says he prefers male pronouns, just use them, no matter the extent of his transitioning. Doesn't matter what's in his pants or under his shirt really, those parts are called private and they are.*husband is questioned because he was a woman but is to some extent transitioning to a man. She (he) is self identifying as male. I have no idea what the correct terminology is - traditional language doesn't have the vocabulary. We are told that "she" is no longer acceptable and we have to use "he" but that just doesn't seem right. Just too old fashioned, me.
That is what we are doing. Using his new name is becoming fairly easy as time goes on. It's really just the personal pronouns that I'm finding difficult. That and actually thinking of him as a man. It's all in my head, of course and is my problem - not theirs.Same as yesterday, minus the cooked half sausage I didn't eat yesterday to divide equally over two days.
Should learn to put the lid on the pan if I don't want to have my sausages stolen.
I also made a low carb wrap with mayo, mustard, aioli, slice of ham, grated cheese and spinach leaves, part to eat with my meal and part to have on the go tomorrow.
It'll be a long day tomorrow, cleaner first (I'll ask her to drop off my dogs at the neighbour when she's finished, I'll have to leave halfway our weekly chores) and then a long drive to Amsterdam to visit a dying friend, very happy we'll get to properly visit one more time!
I hope to have the energy to buy some big city foods I can't get around here after our visit before driving back on the same day. Planning on visiting a good Turkish supermarket and a real Indonesian take-away at the very least!
All this driving, visiting and shopping will be too much in one day but sometimes things are as they are, and I'll have friday and saturday to recover for the next round of driving and socialising.
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It's pretty easy really, if he says he prefers male pronouns, just use them, no matter the extent of his transitioning. Doesn't matter what's in his pants or under his shirt really, those parts are called private and they are.
Using those male pronouns takes a little getting used to, but using them will become just the new normal, and quicker than you'd expect!
Nothing wrong with an honest mistake now and then, that's easily solved with an "oh sorry, my mistake" and just continue the conversation.
It really doesn't matter if "he" seems right or wrong to you, just do it and you'll find out it's not that bad after a while.
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