What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Stephen Bond said:

That looks amazing!!! I am in London next week so will definitely try and find that Pizza place! Gosh i could kill for a pizza!

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It’s in Camden near the tube station - upstairs at the Buck Street market. Also very close to the Regent’s Canal for a post-meal stroll. https://ketostreet.london/

So... I have been down with a truly horrible bug the last week or so, not flu, not covid, but a bronchial thing which responded to antibiotics... slowly! Anyway, eating was up and down, but i stayed Low Carb..ish! BG stayed well withn in my normal limits though.
Today, I skipped breakfast and lunch, and dinner was pork goulash with cauliflower mash and cabbage. I also managed to make a weird hybrid sort of chocolate mousse with monk sugar and 85% chocolate, eggs and cream. Garnished with a few blueberries and raspberries. Delicious, but the texture was a bit strange.

Goonergal said:

It’s in Camden near the tube station - upstairs at the Buck Street market. Also very close to the Regent’s Canal for a post-meal stroll. https://ketostreet.london/

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Your crackers and now Pizza!! You are the light at the end of my tunnel! Thank you again!!

Stephen Bond said:

Your crackers and now Pizza!! You are the light at the end of my tunnel! Thank you again!!

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Thanks. Don’t think I can take credit for the crackers, that must have been @shelley262 or @DJC3 , unless you meant ‘you’re crackers’

Goonergal said:

unless you meant ‘you’re crackers’

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Of course you are, or we wouldn't have gotten along so well!

Bought all ingredients for my grandmother's 'Transsylvanian sauerkraut' (no idea exactly how Transsylvanian it is but I love the dish) except the meat because I knew I had some in my freezer still, bought when it was on offer.

Except it wasn't there.

So now what?
I do have lots of different foods in my kitchen so making a meal out of it shouldn't be a problem really, but I have no idea what to eat. And besides, what I really want is that pizza in @Goonergal 's picture.
Not too much time left to decide, I'm starting to get hungry, but motivation is low because whatever it turns out to be, it won't be pizza.

Stephen Bond said:

Your crackers and now Pizza!! You are the light at the end of my tunnel! Thank you again!!

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Absolutely you take credit for the crackers because you sent me the recipe, or it might have been a link.... But before you i was crackerless!

I have a nasty cold and have eaten nothing today. It doesn't seem to be a problem, except for sitting by the radiator which is on high and imagining the wheels in the meter spinning around.....

Black coffee until 1ish when had a spoon of kimchi and sauerkraut while cooking a couple of fried eggs in butter -served them on one slice of LC toast. Followed by a few frozen berries mixed into a few spoons of kefir and yoghurt - it makes a lovely quick soft frozen dessert.
3ish LC cookie
5ish slow cooked hunters chicken with some sprouts then a warmed LC chocolate brownie.
@Outlier yup it's odd but some days I'm definitely hungrier than others - sometimes it's feeling the cold eg I went out this morning for a hike fasted and found it harder than usual today as I was so cold.

Bag of salted almonds and a gallon of black coffee for breakfast then a brisk walk up to Camden to meet @Goonergal for lunch at Keto Street pizza place. I am eternally indebted! It was so good to do something as normal as meeting for a chat and a meal without the palaver of discussing menu swaps and asking about ingredients. No photo as Goonergal has already posted. It was SO good. @Stephen Bond you really must try this place if you’re in London.
High protein lunch meant I wasn’t hungry for dinner but Paul was, so decided I’d just have a starter to keep him company. Charcuterie platter at our hotel. It turned out to be a sharing platter so quite a lot of meat plus a glass of red. I somehow managed it!
I bought some keto donuts at Keto Street. One cinnamon (1g carb) and one choc&pistachio (2g carbs) they might be breakfast.

B: a very small chunk of cheese
Dance class 1
Early lunch: last nights leftover stuffed peppers (stuffing was day before leftover veg and leftover smoked mackerel with extra cheese)
Dance class 2
D: sausages cooked in a sauce made from leftover veg and leftover beef stock. A low carb microwave choc cake shared with the boys

Love the look of Keto Street @Goonergal , just spoke to my daughter who lives in London with her Type 1 coeliac boyfriend. It’s about half an hour on the tube from her house so we are going to go there when I next visit!

Today’s food:
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 Food dr bar.
Dinner: chicken supreme, Brussels and broccoli followed by SF raspberry jelly and cream.

Antje77 said:

So now what?
I do have lots of different foods in my kitchen so making a meal out of it shouldn't be a problem really, but I have no idea what to eat. And besides, what I really want is that pizza in @Goonergal 's picture.
Not too much time left to decide, I'm starting to get hungry, but motivation is low because whatever it turns out to be, it won't be pizza.

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Or why wouldn't it?

I've just invented the celeriac pizza!

Doesn't taste like real pizza of course, but a fat head pizza doesn't either.
And it did hit the pizza spot!
I spotted a nice round celeriac in the kitchen while trying to decide on what to eat. Pizza's are round as well, basically they're just vessels for tomato sauce, cheese and various toppings, so why not?

I parboiled thin slices of celeriac for a minute or two, winged a tomato puree based tomato sauce (added water, salt, fresh garlic and dried thyme because I couldn't find the oregano, plus a little Branston pickles for sweetness) and added cheese, sucuk and onion.
Yes, the cheese looks ridiculously orange but that's because the only cheese I had that would melt well was a pepper cheese, my other current cheeses are all of the very hard and very mature variety.

Had it on @Goonergal 's pretty fishes plate of course (I've waited for that plate for three years, thanks to covid), she was the one who planted the pizza craving today so it's only fitting to use her plate.

Had rather a lot of the sausage and veg stew. It tasted great and I had a second helping so I was pretty full. I'd defrosted a pot of raspberry cream that I'd frozen a few days ago and had no room for it but I did finish it after a while.

BG was a bit high until about mid day but then came down to within range. Towards 6 pm Libre beeped and told me I was at 3.9 (which is about 4.1 on the finger prick test) but it came back up to 5.0 by 6.30. That's when I had my 2nd meal.

Not too bad a day really. Em will be here early tomorrow again so she'll have breakfast - this time I'll cook less bacon so won't need to use left-overs.

Haven't eaten today either, still with nausea. Graph still flat but maybe a bit lower than I'm happy with (will see what Dr says). No bolus ('cause not eating) but I did have basal dose last night at 9PM. Dr appointment in a few hours

Antje77 said:

Doesn't taste like real pizza of course, but a fat head pizza doesn't either.

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I make "pizza" with big field mushrooms as the base and the usual pizza toppings minus mushrooms because I already have a giant one forming the base haha. I reckon they taste like pizza

Antje77 said:

Or why wouldn't it?

I've just invented the celeriac pizza!

Doesn't taste like real pizza of course, but a fat head pizza doesn't either.
And it did hit the pizza spot!
I spotted a nice round celeriac in the kitchen while trying to decide on what to eat. Pizza's are round as well, basically they're just vessels for tomato sauce, cheese and various toppings, so why not?

I parboiled thin slices of celeriac for a minute or two, winged a tomato puree based tomato sauce (added water, salt, fresh garlic and dried thyme because I couldn't find the oregano, plus a little Branston pickles for sweetness) and added cheese, sucuk and onion.
Yes, the cheese looks ridiculously orange but that's because the only cheese I had that would melt well was a pepper cheese, my other current cheeses are all of the very hard and very mature variety.

Had it on @Goonergal 's pretty fishes plate of course (I've waited for that plate for three years, thanks to covid), she was the one who planted the pizza craving today so it's only fitting to use her plate.

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You are making that jar of Branston stretch @Antje77 !!

It's almost 11am here, and I'm about to go out walking. MrB is playing golf so I have several hours to just please myself.

I started the day (after he left) sweeping and mopping floors, so not all jolly japes, but with the warm weather they dry almost immediately.

Brekkers seem to have settled into a hard boiled egg salady thing for me and fruit with yog for the Mr.

Dinner last night was a delicious spicy chicken salady thing which ahd a lot of heat, but not quite so much as a few nights ago when I had a stir fried pork with garlic and chilly thing. Boy that was hot, and I like hot. So hot I had to take a Gaviscon - first in years, but never mind

Last night MrG had a stir fried garlic chicken things with ginger, garlic and chilli, but more aromatic and gingery than chilli-ish. It was OK, but didn't quite hit the spot due to lurking mushrooms which he doesn't care for and a bit too much ginger. Having tasted a little, I'd have it another time, but not him. He also has some steamed rice.

AndBreathe said:

You are making that jar of Branston stretch @Antje77 !!

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About halfway through now.

Lots of carbs in it so I tend to not use more than one or two teaspoons at a time, which still adds lots of flavour but doesn't add many carbs to a meal.
And I love the stuff so I dread the day the pot will be empty. So I don't use it often. Not the best habit, wouldn't be the first time I've let something I really like go off from trying to stretch it for too long!

Breakfast at 9 am: omelette with vegetables mixed through. BG just now is 8.1. Started out at 6.4 at 3 am, rose to 9.3 at 7.30 and 10.2 before breakfast. Higher than I wanted. It's not milk, so I'll have to rethink why the readings are so high in the mornings. The drop after breakfast is fine, and I'm hoping it will go further down during the morning, but it's that rise before breakfast that bothers me.

Burns Day today and I have a haggis and a swede, so I am well set up for later in the day. Too much there for me, but I might be able to do something with the left-overs.

Em was asking this morning which country is famous for its music and suggested that maybe it would be Scotland because it is famous for bagpipes. I suggested that that might be the very reason that some folk would rule Scotland out! I actually do like bagpipe music - in the right place and the right context but definitely not in the room with me. Tom used the play a chanter, but never progressed to actual pipes. Neil has tried pipes, but his lungs weren't up to it so he now has a kind of electrical version which doesn't sound quite the same. Alistair has a great singing voice (sings a lot of Leonard Cohen songs - has that depth, like his Dad) but, like me, can't play any instrument.

Antje77 said:

About halfway through now.

Lots of carbs in it so I tend to not use more than one or two teaspoons at a time, which still adds lots of flavour but doesn't add many carbs to a meal.
And I love the stuff so I dread the day the pot will be empty. So I don't use it often. Not the best habit, wouldn't be the first time I've let something I really like go off from trying to stretch it for too long!

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There's likely enough sugar in it to keep fine forever!