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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Found one of these How to Wrap a filled Wrap. On the last fold make sure it has something that sticks to it. I put lettuce in and had to add mayo to keep it in!

 
What to do with slow cooked chicken - many ways. Not all carb friendly but adaptable.

These Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes Make Dinner So Much Easier

Just set it and forget it!
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I do hope he's not in pain and can soon have the pleasure of his single malt again xx
 
Boiled chicken skin is not very pleasant and it doesn't really fry up very well. The dogs and cats will love it though. I would take the chicken out of the pot, it will probably pull apart quite easily so you can pull off the legs and wings and might be able to pull off the breast and back meat (there is some very good meat - not much but good) on the back of a chicken. Then it should strip from the leg bones quite easily too. I would leave it in chunks and put back in with the vegetables to eat as a stew. The wings - if they have enough taste - just suck the meat from them. It's too fiddly trying to strip meat from chicken wings. Having been boiled they may not be very tasty though. Might be OK dipped in some sort of yoghurty dressing (raita?) or a barbecue sauce. Dogs and cats would love them and our old farm cat was very keen on getting hold of cooked chicken bones, but it isn't good for them - the bones can break into sharp bits that can choke an animal.

I had a thought about popcorn. You could always substitute popped cheese for popped corn and use some of the dressings suggested above. Or, perhaps mixing popcorn and popped cheese or even just putting small chunks of a melty kind of cheese in with the hot popcorn. That's if, unlike me, you can dare to make popcorn.
 
Cauliflower rice makes great fried rice. I add spring onion, peas when stir frying, butter, beaten egg, and Tamari Soy (lower in carbs). Anytime we go to the Thai, I take Cauliflower rice with me, and they cook it for me to have with our meal *I know the owner.
 
Saturday 11 February bed 7.7 FBG 7.4. After all the rushing about yesterday, I wasn't on the Jujitsu run as my hairdresser was able to come and give me a good cut prior to my next operation. Still had to go shopping for food and later took grandson to pet superstore for Guinea supplies! My consultant told me to go to Boots and get cheap reading specs to see me through until the allotted time has passed 2nd operation. I got 2 pairs as the 2nd pair was half price. A mere £7. I now have various specs hanging around my neck.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SRSLY LC toast with pate.

L. Made a trip to butcher's after hair do, so on return from all shopping, I had a SRSLY sandwich with the butcher's fabby roast pork and coleslaw.

D. Chicken escalope, dressed with my almond flour, parmesan, flaxseed mix (I added some tumeric). I had it with stir-fried cabbage. Stir fried in butter, and I mixed through a tomato, basil, and garlic sauce and topped it with parmesan. CC little chocolate pot.

Enjoying the fact that it's half term, even if yesterday and today have been really busy.
 
Dinner has gone back in the fridge as not defrosted
Coffee and cream x 2
Ham and red pepper and tomato, cheese.
 

That’s fantastic news. So glad you’ve found a way that works for you.
 
@saky your meals always look so colourful and interesting. You inspire me to be more delicate in my presentation.
@tonydiabetes123 I try really hard not to snack but I often fail! 100% cocoa chocolate and/or nuts are what I tend to go for, oh and cheese. I do try to keep hard boiled eggs in the fridge for an almost zero carb snack if I feel I might be in danger of going off piste.

Todays food:
B- cheese and ham omelette
Linner- Chicken and mushroom pie ( fat head dough crust) with broccoli and celeriac topped with Gouda. ( @Antje77 my daughter who came for lunch also loved this celeriac side. It’s a real hit!)
Couple of glasses of wine which probably account for the raspberries, cream and DGF cake a couple of hours later when inhibitions were overcome.
 
@Antje77 I hope the chicken turned out well. I’d agree with the others that just slow cooking in a little water & veg would be best. So long as you check the the meat is cooked- you’ll be able to pull the legs off fairly easily once cooked - just pull the meat off and add to the liquor. Rubbery Chicken skin is horrid. Give it to the animals. (It’s lovely if airfried or roasted to crispness) it will however have imparted it’s richness and good fats to the liquid and will help to make your resulting stew delicious.
Please post a photo of your finished meal. ( before you eat it, not once you’ve finished it!)
 
Sunday 12 February bed 7.4 FBG 6.8. No lie in today either. Usual swimming lesson but, first I had a 10 mile jaunt to have my pneumonia vaccine. For once, there was no weird reaction to a vaccine.

B. TAG and a SRSLY sandwich with roast pork and coleslaw.

L. Nothing was away at swimming lesson with youngest. They were using flippers today to help them with butterfly. Amazing the sheer joy on his first try with flippers. He's fast swimming; he's jet propelled with flippers!

D. Usual Campari and soda. Did a stir fry. Hubby got noodles, and I used cabbage again. Thinly cut steak, peppers, red onion, broccoli, sugar snaps, mushrooms, spinach, tomato, and chilli.

Now quietly sipping a vodka and diet coke - tomorrow I do have a lie in (but will probably wake at my normal time).

@Antje77 - Personally, I would have butchered the chook into legs, wings, breasts, etc to cook it. A freshly killed chicken, though! Wonderful. I was used to them in Italy. It was looking good in your photos. I recall when we still had cats, as soon as chicken went onto cook they would be sitting staring at the cooker. I swear they were drooling
 
Just black coffee until 2ish then a small salad, slice of LC bread toasted and cooled and smoked salmon pate then kefir, a few nuts and 100% chocolate square
Mid pm low carb cake ,- try not to snack but if I do I try to keep it in my eating "window" time.
5ish roast chicken dinner (@Antje77 I roast a whole chicken in oven after simply adding some olive oil and open roast for a few hours) served with green vegetables and one hm small roast potatoe also glass of dry white wine followed by LC brownie warmed and served with yoghurt.
 
Brunch - 3 scrambled cheesy eggs. Mug of earl grey tea

Dinner - 5 chicken strips with a lemon & herby topping and large side salad. half of a small bar of moser roth chocolate 85% (I haven't came across the 90% ones yet in my local Aldi) Large glass of pepsi max
 
I pulled the legs and the wings off, took the skin off the rest of the chicken and then pulled all the other meat off in a much unorganised fashion.
Meat went back to the pot, skin and funny looking bits went to the cats and dogs.

Today I went for the meat without the bones, I'd had done enough dissecting for the day. So legs and wings are still there for tomorrow.
Turned out a fine dish, except for... I don't like chicken very much!

So after this chicken is finished, I'll stick to the occasional leg or wing when eating at friends' places (I do somewhat like those) and I'll leave any chickens slaughtered in the future to my neighbour, he likes them.

 
@Antje77 that chicken looks wonderful. Have you tried it yet? It would also have been good cooked plain in a slow cooker, nothing added. The browning in butter is simply that, browning for appearance
 
B: 2 slices hm lc cheesy soda bread with butter and marmite.
L: cold chicken thigh and a half, 30g camembert, some hm hummus, mayo.
3 hours dancing.
D: slow cooked beef, carrots and swede, juices thickened with arrowroot. Broccoli on the side. 2 sqs 85% chocolate
2 frozen chocolate mousse squares with extra cream
 
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