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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Brunch of one small avocado followed by a small amount of leftover roast chicken shreds fried in wok with aubergine, mushrooms and leeks. Next time I do that I'll fry the aubergine first as it needed a bit longer than the other ingredients. Dinner will be steak, brussels sprouts, purple sprouting broccoli and cauliflower. Possibly a piece of Brie.
 
Coffee and cream
Cottage Cheese and cherry tomatoes.
Coffee with unsweetend almond milk.
Ranch steak in butter. (Got the butter, ranch steak turned out rubbish so ended up in the bin. Ended up with tin of tuna, cucumber and tomato.
 
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Monday
breakfast, coffee with cream
no lunch, just black coffee
dinner beef and mushroom casserole, broccoli, sugar free tonic water with lemon slice.

Tuesday
breakfast Fage yogurt with walnuts, black coffee
lunch coffee with cream
afternoon coffee with cream
dinner, omelette cheese ham mushroom, mineral water.
 
10ish small portion of kefir with my supplements
1ish 3eggs scrambled in butter served with strips of smoked salmon (using a pack bought for Christmas now close to date will eat rest tomorrow)
5ish chicken slow cooked casserole served with one hm small roast potato. pudding in a few mins will be a heated DGF ginger bread with some yoghurt.
 
Bit behind.

Good to see you back @shelley262

 @maglil55 and @DJC3 I got given a couple of free samples of those CC chocolate pots outside Liverpool Street station last summer. Quite enjoyed them. Hope you feel better soon @maglil55

Yesterday’s main event was a delicious piece of slow roast lamb shoulder - went back for seconds so not much left for another day. Prior to that some Fage 0%, cream and raspberries.

Today was Fage 0% followed by a fat head pizza with pepperoni and Polish sausage. Plus some Hotel Chocolat 80% pralines.

Oh and took delivery of a new air fryer which will be fully tested tomorrow.

 
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@Goonergal that’s the airfryer I have. I’m pleased with its cooking ability but it’s a pain to keep clean, in fact I’ve pretty much stopped trying to keep the sides and back clean. I wipe the door inside and put foil on the bottom tray but that’s about it.
B- chaffle cooked in frying pan. My granddaughter got a waffle maker for Christmas which made me remember Chaffles.
L- h/m mushroom soup. DGF cookie ( frozen)
D- Lamb keema ( keto fitness club recipe) used my home made paneer which has been in the freezer since May 2020. I think it was past it’s best, it crumbled apart rather than sticking together. I’m annoyed with myself for not using it earlier.
 

Have you tried Elbow Grease (product, not concept) on your AF?

I just spray it on and wipe off - ideally when the AF is cool but not yet cold. It is very effective.


Food this end was odd today. MrB was lunching with his golfing chums, so I had some AF chicken with lemon pepper and some cauli cheese. Both rather mundane, but we're shutting down one of the freezers at the weekend, so there could be some weird concoctions in the coming days!
 
3 January bed 7 2 FBG 5.6 - Still feeling hideous. I think it might be better if I didn't have this imbalance in my eyes, but imbalance in vision and vertigo are not good partners!

B. TAG, water, and paracetamol!

L. Nursery food - 2 boiled eggs mashed with butter and 2 LC crackers.

D. 6 of the last pack of chipolatas from Christmas Day (took them out of the freezer) CC little chocolate pot and a CC snowconut stick!

@Goonergal , they are tiny, but they are a really nice chocolate fix.

Schools back tomorrow. My SIL will have a quiet house now. 2nd daughter and her family are back in Manchester and 1st with 2 sons currently approaching the tip of India on their way back to Canberra. Very brave, most of them braved the New Year's Day Looney Dook in the Sea with DIL and fellow wild swimmers.
 
My DIL swears by that stuff (even if it does look radioactive!)
 
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: meatballs in tomato and mascarpone sauce with broccolli, Brussels and carrot followed by DGF Xmas pudding and cream.

 
Odd but good day today.

Yesterday was an odd but bad day because a friend had died. Expected, but not expected so soon and sudden, and it threw me off more than I expected. Will need to compose a touching yet funny speech for her funeral on tuesday, the best funeral speeches are the ones that make us both cry and laugh.
Yesterday was also the last day of making do with whatever was left in my cupboards after a week of isolating.
So evening meal was a low carb wrap with egg mayo with a little of the Branston pickles I brought from the UK for flavour, fried and raw onion (the only vegetable left in the house), some grated parmesan, and the last of the amazing giant English bacon rashers I still had in the freezer.

I'll miss that jar of Branston pickles when it's gone!



Today was an odd but good day.
Rough start with annual blood draw so no morning coffee.
Grocery shopping right after the blood draw, so I felt pretty smug I thought of bringing a pot of coffee, carton of milk and a mug with me so I could at least have my coffee before braving the supermarket!

Arrived back home at the same time as my best friend and her two sons (9 and 11) and nephew (14). We live too far apart so we don't see eachother nearly enough, having them over for a kitten playing session was great!

She brought lots of goodies: a red spicy cheese, a green pesto and fenugreek cheese (had a green and a red cheese cracker for lunch) a black pepper cheese, and best of all, a low carb chocolate cake!

After all that I was too tired to cook, so I had an early meal of a slice of low carb bread with the rest of the egg mayo and bacon, and a late meal of another cracker with bright green cheese and a dessert of chocolate cake.

Looking forward to finally having my favourite midnight snack of chicory and hummus again later on, haven't had it for a week, thanks to covid.

Friend and children are spending two days in a holiday home nearby, so tomorrow we'll go to the pool, and after that we'll make a fire in the garden with my christmas tree (and a smoke bomb my neighbour made).

Here's the recipe for the chocolate cake, just use egg white instead of sugar to make the bottom stick, works very well: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/c...tuPz9EynsrIgtg6jGQZv8VWS12yxc7NoCyR4GyS7fQDrM



 

Thank you, I’ll try it.
 
I missed posting and reading yesterday because it was hubbys birthday.

Yesterday
Skipped breakfast
Pub lunch of shared boys squid and whitebait starters. Main was a very nice bacon and brie omelette. Did eat some of the chips. 1 small glass wine and soda.
Evening a tiny bit of cheese and seed crackers. Half of a macaroon hubby had been given and shared.

Today
A piece of cheese mid morning
Lunch was hm veg soup and rather too much brandy cream. Had found some reduced for only 50p and keep eating it by the spoonful.
D: frittata using up the smoked salmon and various green veg. Kalettes tossed in butter and parmesan. Enough left for a meal tomorrow too.
 
Two hard boiled eggs, two slices toast and the "last" of the jar of ginger marmalade for breakfast.
Four small whiting fillets, small portion of sweet potato chips, bit of salad stuff for lunch.
Ham, cheese and tomato sandwich for supper at six.

Usual glass of single malt before bedtime.
 
@maglil55, I hope you soon get over that bug. It sounds horrible.
Trouble even standing up today so I just had the easiest breakfast available - a ham sandwich. Made that sat at the table and reaching into the fridge for ingredients.
Em came for the afternoon and made some cupcakes, which I only supervised from my big chair. Neil put them in the oven for her and got them out when done.
2nd meal was meatballs in tomato sauce. A pack of frozen meatballs, made who knows when, with a sauce made of onion and passata with a little beef bouillon powder and some butter. I just chucked it all in a pan and Neil put it on the stove for me. I did manage to hobble to the stove to take it off when done.
BG a bit high today. Hoping for a better tomorrow.
 
Em made some chocolate ganache yesterday to top her cupcakes with (I didn't have any useable icing sugar to make any other icing - it's all gone damp and lumpy). The chocolate was a milk chocolate, which I wouldn't have used for ganache, but that was what she wanted. Unfortunately, she made far too much and there was lots left when she went home so when I hobbled to the stove for my meatballs, I reheated the ganache with a big knob of butter and made a kind of chocolate spread with it. Tasted a little on a finger tip this morning - far too sweet! For me anyway, but I'm not going to eat it. Dark chocolate would have made a more acceptable spread, I should think.

Breakfast will be shortly and today I will get to the stove and make my bacon and eggs.

2nd meal today is easy - enough meatballs left for another 2 or 3 meals.
 
Hi, new here and wanting to try low carb. Just diagnosed with type 2. Are there any good British carb counting apps? Everything I’ve found is American and doesn’t always have the correct info for British foods. Thanks
 
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Hi, new here and wanting to try low carb. Just diagnosed with type 2. Are there any good British carb counting apps? Everything I’ve found is American and doesn’t always have the correct info for British foods. Thanks
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Hi and welcome. I found Carbs&Cals very useful when I started.
You’ll find lots of useful tips and nice food ideas on this friendly thread.
 
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