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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

It's only lunch time here. Baked beans for breakfast, skipped the toast. Will have canned soup for lunch. Not a great day really. I wouldn't be eating at all except for lantus... have to stop those hypos! Edit: I'm skipping my bolus (don't do this! My new regime says I can but this is not advice) but I'm only 4.3
 
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DJC3 said:
Tuna melt muffin around 11am
1pm remains of last night’s chicken caprese casserole in a DGF wrap, followed by a mini bar of Montezuma’s absolute black.
Dinner was a large and fabulous ribeye steak with salad and a Stilton stuffed mushroom.
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Good to get the boiler replaced before the date they're supposed to stop selling gas boilers in 2025 and make us all go over to solar, heat sumps or hydrogen. It'll never happen. We're not in a million years ready for that. And as for hydrogen heating? I'll pass the bomb in my house, thanks!
 
Well @Antje77 , if I can find it in Asia, you can likely find it in the Netherlands...... :hilarious: :hilarious: :hilarious: :joyful::joyful:

We only went to the shop to buy Robinson's No Sugar Added fruit squash, as sugar free soft drinks are like rocking horse doings.
 

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Breakfast: Lorne sausage and 2 fried eggs.
Lunch: Spiced lentil soup. Neil bought himself a tin of lentils to try but they didn't do for him so I have the rest of the tin to use up. Making it with curry powder, chicken bouillon, onions and coconut milk. On the hob just now and will be ready long before lunch time.
Last meal will be smoked haddock poached in cow's milk and cream with some braised leeks.

Teachers on strike here today, so Em will be coming to spend the day here when her mum goes to work shortly. I need to make my bed, so I'll co-opt her as an assistant. Stripped it yesterday, but couldn't remake it so just had to lay on top of it last night, wrapped in a fleecy blanket. Spent the majority of the night in the kitchen chair as a result.
 
Morning all. Well, tried out the Omad and it seems to have steadied me down a bit and am going to continue with it. Feel a bit more energetic today so am going to make some Keto bread. I do miss bread. For my one meal, I'm having 2 Bratwurst sausages with cauli cheese and broccoli. If I need a snack, I'll have raw cauli florets dipped in hm Keto Ranch dressing. Didn't ever think I would eat raw cauliflower but I love it.I shall be 85 this year so it just proves you are never too old to learn something new. Can't teach an old dog new tricks? Rubbish LOL. Have a good day everyone
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Morning all. Well, tried out the Omad and it seems to have steadied me down a bit and am going to continue with it. Feel a bit more energetic today so am going to make some Keto bread. I do miss bread. For my one meal, I'm having 2 Bratwurst sausages with cauli cheese and broccoli. If I need a snack, I'll have raw cauli florets dipped in hm Keto Ranch dressing. Didn't ever think I would eat raw cauliflower but I love it.I shall be 85 this year so it just proves you are never too old to learn something new. Can't teach an old dog new tricks? Rubbish LOL. Have a good day everyone
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What is cauli cheese? How do you make it?
I know cauliflower rice....
 
saky said:
What is cauli cheese? How do you make it?
I know cauliflower rice....
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It is cooked cauliflower in a cheese sauce. To keep in low carb it is often a sauce made just with cheese and milk or, preferably cream - not the traditional white sauce made with flour or cornflour. Cream thickens the sauce better than just milk.
 
Annb said:
It is cooked cauliflower in a cheese sauce. To keep in low carb it is often a sauce made just with cheese and milk or, preferably cream - not the traditional white sauce made with flour or cornflour. Cream thickens the sauce better than just milk.
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It's just cooked cauli sprinkled over with grated cheese and put under the grill. I can only do simple !!! lol Will try it mixed with cream, hadn't thought of that. Thanks Ann
 
saky said:
What is cauli cheese? How do you make it?
I know cauliflower rice....
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Re my cauliflower cheese method I par cook the cauliflower then add some double cream a good glug then top with grated cheese and bits of butter as this produces a thicker sauce.it only takes a few mins in oven or airfrier. I also enjoy cauliflower mash just mash cooked cauliflower with dash of cream, cheese and butter plus season to taste. I sometimes also give my cauli mash a few mins in oven or air fryer to give it a lovely crispy top but sprinkle with extra cheese first if do this.
 
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AndBreathe said:
Well @Antje77 , if I can find it in Asia, you can likely find it in the Netherlands...... :hilarious: :hilarious: :hilarious: :joyful::joyful:

We only went to the shop to buy Robinson's No Sugar Added fruit squash, as sugar free soft drinks are like rocking horse doings.
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I can, actually.
I love it, but I don't love it at 17 euros a jar!

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Antje77 said:
I can, actually.
I love it, but I don't love it at 17 euros a jar!

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Ouch!

On another issue - I just tested my BG about 3 hours after having the lentil soup for lunch - it was 15.9 on the Libre and 17.8 on the fingerprick! Surely about a cupful of lentil soup can't do that. It was a bowl full but I wasn't enjoying the texture of the "wholegrain" lentils so I left half of of it. Just taken a correction dose to bring it down to a reasonable level asap.
 
Black coffee until 1.30 then two fried eggs and mushrooms on one slice of LC toast followed by kefir and two squares of 90% chocolate plus about 6 nuts
5ish salmon in lemon butter with a few peas and four small hm new potatoe chips with glass of red wine then pudding LC blondie warmed and served with yoghurt.
 
Antje77 said:
Why didn't you tell me you needed me to come along to get groceries, prepare dinner and keep you on the straight and narrow, I'd have been happy to!

Day two of trying to eat my way through a giant pot of peanut and sauerkraut soup.
By now I'm positive I don't like it much.
Just once more tomorrow and I have given myself permission to throw out the rest after that, no use freezing it as it will never be thawed so it would just take up non existent room in my small freezer forever.

Slices of cheese are now sitting in the dehydrator so I'll only have to turn the thing on tomorrow (and add slices of duck breast as well).
I used a little of all 5 different cheeses I happened to have in my fridge to increase the chances of ending up with something good. :joyful:
A very mature hard goats cheese, another very mature black pepper cheese, some Parmesan, a regular mature Gouda, and some halloumi.
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Good idea to bin the soup. My freezer is full of little tubs of stuff I never fancy but can’t bring myself to throw now.
My money’s on the Gouda being the most successful.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a DGF chocolate topped gingerbread.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: Brie and cranberry on a LC roll with orange baby tomatoes and coleslaw followed by DGF Xmas pudd and cream.

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