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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Just black coffee until 1ish when had tin of salmon to which I added some olives and olive oil (as salmon tinned in brine not oil) plus spoon of kimchi and spoon of suerkraut 6 nuts and a dash of apple cider vinegar followed by kefir and two squares of 90% chocolate
5ish pork casserole with sprouts and one small hm roast potato followed by LC blondie warmed and served with yoghurt.
 
B - Small chicken breast an hour before workout, earl grey tea (no milk) with slice of lemon
L - Chicken breast again with salad. Green tea
D - Dice lamb stir fry with okra, spouts, cabbage, bean sprout and water chestnuts. Left over half avocado with pepper and a dash of salt . Twining's raspberry/lemon herbal tea, with green teabag dunked in for good measure.
 
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Antje77 said:
I'll still have to try, can't have my neighbour dig up his dehydrator and not do my experimenting.
But being warned twice, I'll make a small amount as to not waste too much cheese.

Today was an easy meal, will be doing some real cooking again tomorrow. :)

Lidl had very thick cut bacon (not something normally available in the Netherlands, I had never seen anything like it until I visited the UK in october) so I had to try!
Had it with 3 very tiny eggs and a quick salad of arugola, tomato, cucumber, olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper with halloumi. :hungry:

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Looking forward to seeing if you crack it.
PS Your fry up looks great.
 
Sunday 29 January bed 7.4 FBG 7.6. A few aches and pains but otherwise OK. Back to swimming lessons today.

B. TAG and a bit crustless quiche. It was quite late on as I slept until 10.15am. As my Mum used to say, if you sleep late your body needs it.

L. Nothing away to swimming with youngest grandson.

D. I made chicken Cordon Bleu. Served with cauliflower cheese, mix of spinach, tomato and exotic mushrooms. It was lovely but way too much. Left about half.. usual campari and soda.

Monday 30 January bed 7 FBG 7.1 Woke up thinking it was Sunday again! It wasn't. Up and off on the school runs as normal.

B. TAG

L. 2 slices of SRSLY toast with ox tongue and coleslaw.

D. Left over cold cuts. Ham, chicken, ox tongue, pork & egg, roast beef and mini German sausage. Coleslaw and smashed avocado. CC Little chocolate pot.

@DJC3 so glad the check up went well. I hope you savored ever drop of the Bolly. Trouble is I can't shift Edina and Patsy out of my head now

@shelley262 - have to admit the eye tests don't bother me now. I'm spending so much time between the Eye Pavilion and the optician that it's feeling almost "normal". I still don't like the sneaky field tests though.

Welcome back @RosemaryJackson and Mrs T 123. Welcome also to the new contributors.
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Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a DGF shortbread.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: kedgeree made with cauli rice followed by SF blackcurrant jelly and cream.

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Annb said:
If you really like peanuts, why not? Don't think I would like it though. Peanut butter is OK as a thickener, of course, but that's with other, strong flavours.
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shelley262 said:
Not sure like sound of peanut soup so don't think appeals to me. Like sauerkraut with other things though! You'll have to let us know what it's like and what you used to make peanut soup.
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I don't like peanuts or peanut butter much, but I love peanut sauce and peanut soup!

Adding sauerkraut to the peanut soup was, interesting I guess. :)
First half of my bowl was spent trying to understand the flavours before I could even start to decide if I liked it or not. So I like it for this reason already.
As for my final decision, I like the sour of the soup as a novelty but I don't think I'll be adding sauerkraut to peanut soup again after I've finished this pot. There's enough left for 3 more days, but I might give up after the 3rd day and ditch the last bit.

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DJC3 said:
Looking forward to seeing if you crack it.
PS Your fry up looks great.
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Neighbour came by with his dehydrator for the popped cheese bits so I had the parts run a cycle in the dishwasher and spent some time finding out how to dry cheese.
Apparently you need to use small bits or thin slices of cheese and dry them at 40 degrees for - and here the sources don't agree - 4 to 12 hours.
Success also seems to depend on the kind of cheese used but sources again disagree on what works and what doesn't.
I currently have 4 kinds of cheese in the fridge so I'll just try a little of every one of them. :joyful:

(See @AndBreathe , I do like to try out a new kitchen gadget! Especially a borrowed one.)

The only thing I couldn't find out is if I can put the cheese on baking sheets in case it does melt. Would that prevent the drying you think?

Also, there's lots of room in the dryer, so suggestions on what else to put in it alongside the cheese is welcome, would be a waste of electicity to have the thing run almost empty for some 10 hours.

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Antje77 said:
He has one, brilliant idea @Annb !
He doesn't know where though, hasn't been unboxed yet since he moved so I need to have some patience.

The good news is that he wants to use it himself at some point in the next few months because he has to have his index finger amputated and wants to keep it (yes, he's an unusual man), so he'll search for the dehumidifyer, hopefully this week. :)
I prefer to make my cheese things before he uses the thing for his own experiment really.
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Geezzz! Your neighbour in the Garden always makes me think of Alan Bennett's Lady in the Van starring Maggie Smith. Maybe you should offer it as a sequel?
 
Had visitors staying so forgot to post yesterday as we were drinking wine together!

Today: woke early so came down and had a coffee with cream to keep me awake. Also had a slice of panettone with lots of butter :bag:

Quick dog walk.
L: crispy cheese omelette. Yoghurt with seeds. Cwc
2 sqs 85% choc.

D: gammon with courgettes and carrots. Made a tasty quick sauce by mixing 1 teaspoon dijon mustard with 2 tablespoons greek yoghurt.
1 scoop coffee ice cream
I glass wine
 
No breakfast again, just black coffee.
lunch at 3:00pm was 2 slices of ham, coleslaw, lettuce, decaff black coffee x 2
dinner at 6:50 pm was beef casserole, butternut squash, tenderstem broccoli with butter, and seasoning. Glass of mineral water.
That’s my lot for the day, apart from some more water.
 
Tuesday 31 January - bed 7.1 FBG 7 4 Got a call to go pick up eldest from school - unwell. DIL working and son away sorting out redundancy paperwork. Poor wee soul was not great at all but he managed a lunch of sorts and a nap.

B.TAG

L. Bit of crustless quiche while caring for a sick boy.

D. After everyone deposited home - cheeseburger on a SRSLY seeded roll, coleslaw, lettuce, tomato, onion, mayo.

PS son's redundancy is not an issue. He had a much better job already lined up months ago. 20230131_182903.jpg
 
6.30am Brekkie - 2 boiled eggs mashed up in a cup with butter. Mug of earl grey tea

elevensies - other half of phd white chocolate blondie bar with mug of earl grey

Quick dinner before catching up with some friends of prawn cocktail salad, McDonalds cheese burger (picked up on way home from work) and I replaced the roll with a low carb co one that I had. Last of the kefir & strawberries
 
maglil55 said:
Tuesday 31 January - bed 7.1 FBG 7 4 Got a call to go pick up eldest from school - unwell. DIL working and son away sorting out redundancy paperwork. Poor wee soul was not great at all but he managed a lunch of sorts and a nap.

B.TAG

L. Bit of crustless quiche while caring for a sick boy.

D. After everyone deposited home - cheeseburger on a SRSLY seeded roll, coleslaw, lettuce, tomato, onion, mayo.

PS son's redundancy is not an issue. He had a much better job already lined up months ago. View attachment 59112
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Glad your son has his new job lined up, so the family doesn't need to be stressed over that.
 
maglil55 said:
Geezzz! Your neighbour in the Garden always makes me think of Alan Bennett's Lady in the Van starring Maggie Smith. Maybe you should offer it as a sequel?
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I wish I could watch that!
It seems to be on youtube, but in a blurred version as to not get caught breaching copyrights.
 
Didn't post yest, ate a fair bit more than prev days and was zapped directly after food later in the day went to bed about 4pm for a nap and just woke up ten hours later, feel I'm sleeping a whole lot better recently, and maybe want to sleep a little more than I have been previously, maybe to 'catch up' a bit.

Want to get away from too many ultra processed meats eventually but saw some chorizo and pepperoni in the local that was yellow stickered (read discounted) at 30p a pop, and the carbs seemed low so it was fair game. Managed to grab the mackerel I was starting to crave though.

Need to do a proper shop without visiting the local convenience supermarket as I'm making things up with whatever is left in the fridge , and added in what I found on clearance there. Also need to go to the greengrocers to vary up my veg intake, we only seem to have lots of broccoli and lettuce at the moment, hate wasting stuff so getting through that first.


1: 2 egg omelette with a handful of diced chorizo, then threw some lettuce in the pan and quickly sautéed that.

2: Smoked mackerel with about 50g houmos a few olives thrown in, more lettuce

3: Ate the whole pack of pepperoni (120g eek!) as it was going out of date and no one else wanted any, with even more lettuce (really need to go to the grocer soon.) and onion with a little of the houmous that was left, followed this with 2 strawberries, 6 blueberries and about 100g of plain yoghurt.


Far more food than I've eaten in the last few days in terms of bulk, and in 3 meals not 2. I think the carbs were still pretty low though (food diary app tells me around 30g but who knows unless really work it out myself.)

Felt woozy soon after 3:

Should really get something to test BGs, although my numbers were far better last visit to the docs.

I think I have an old meter in the first aid box I got for free in 2016, but couldn't afford the strips past the free ones at the time, no idea if it still works or should look to get a new one.
 
Antje77 said:
I wish I could watch that!
It seems to be on youtube, but in a blurred version as to not get caught breaching copyrights.
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It's mostly a true story (apart from probably the usual dramatic licence). It's based on the relationship that Alan Bennett built up with a lady that lived in the driveway of his home for about 15 years in vans. A curious story. I think you will see why your Neighbour in the Garden makes me think about this.
 
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