What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast: Twice cooked pork belly with a couple of fried eggs. Somehow not feeling satisfied. Don't know why.

2nd meal: There's some salmon in the fridge. And there are leeks waiting to be used. So, salmon on a bed of braised leeks will go down well.

Coffee and cream
Prawns, Feta and cucumber Small greek yogurt.
Small avocado, Feta and cucumber. Hard Boiled egg.
Nuts 1oz

No breakfast
L: 2 chicken drumsticks. About 4 hm lc biscuits while baking. Rest now safely in the freezer.
Unexpected gardening in lovely sunshine
D: a fish bake, from lidl, but the boys have most of the crumb topping, leeks, carrots broccoli. 1 hm lc biscuit witha small scoop ice cream

Breakfast at our hotel again: scoop of scrambled egg and 2 bacon rashers.
Lunch after a trip up the Spinnaker tower was nuts, cold chicken, olives and cheese.
Dinner out at Loch Fyne ( included a complimentary glass of fizz when they found out it was my birthday) 2 oysters with wasabi pickle then scallops and king prawns then sea bass with samphire and pak Choi with chilli&garlic. Coffee and brandy to follow. It’s been a good day.

Photo of my sea bass I forgot to post…

@DJC3 looks like you had a lovely birthday - good that you found some amazing places to celebrate in a low carb but enjoyable way.that sea bass looks amazing. I'm fond of Nandos too but like you dont live near one. A few days for me:
Saturday
Breakfast of one slice of bacon, fried egg and a couple of fried small tomatoes
Lunch kefir and yoghurt
Dinner hm chicken curry with LC roti and glass of red wine followed by LC cake
Sunday
Busy and just a few LC nibbles during day I took out with me including a trial of a small bag of macadamia nuts which were covered in onion powder to make them have a dry roasted flavour I'd impulsively added then to a low carb online shop to hit free shipping as like macadamia nuts normally but they won't be bought again!
Dinner some home cooked ham and salads with glass of dry white wine.

I had an absolutely lovely family weekend with uncles, aunts, cousins, their children and some offspring from my grandfather's first marriage.
I brought my own bread, thinking to ask lunch places to put whatever they had on that instead of their own bread.
But I love bread so plans went completely out the window and I decided diabetes was going to be very messy and a lot of work during the weekend, which is fine.
If I do mostly well for 362 days of the year, I suppose I can mess up during this yearly weekend and on christmas day.

Sat lunch: Wrong thread, very tasty though. And I did reduce some carbs by only eating the bottom slice of the sandwiches and leaving the tops. Not very effective if you eat may too many of them though.
Midafternoon 'snack': Had to stuff my face with licorice to treat a hypo because the walk where you have to solve riddles to know where to go next was not the announced 2 km but at least 8.
I love licorice but not when still full from lunch and even less while forced to sit out the hypo on a bench in the pouring rain. Still, I loved the puzzle walk and the hypo was only a brief intermezzo.
Dinner: That one was very friendly for my diabetes: Large plate of carpaccio for starters, big steak with some veggies for mains, stole a couple of fries. Lots of red wine too.
Dessert was delicious, but easy to stick to two small bites and have someone else eat the rest after picking off the fresh berries.

Breakfast: Wrong thread again. Let me just say that I absolutely love warm, buttery croissants...

Lunch: Even worse, I got a bit overconfident after dealing pretty well with the breakfast. Lunch was delicious but I paid for it with sleeping most of the way back in the car (my cousin and her family live close to me so we shared the almost 3 hour drive). I had forgotten how overwhelmingly sleepy I get from high BG.

'Dinner' at home: Not hungry after all that food, but at some point all those corrections with insulin kick in, so I had a couple of spoonfuls of very good honey, made by the bees of another cousin.

So all in all, very happy to have eaten some foods I never eat anymore, and again very happy I'm back to normal low carb foods with diabetes just a background chore.

11.30 am - just finished my Zoom exercise class. BG 8.1. Cutting down the basal insulin isn't really working for me so far. It was 10.1 earlier. Anyway, about to prepare:

Breakfast: smoked haddock with fried egg on top.

Later will have to get something out of the freezer - I'll try to find a pork or lamb dish. Don't really want any more chicken. Mixed salad to go with it.

Skipped breakfast 15 hr fast so just had green tea (was not hungry anyway).
So far today.......
L - Cold boiled egg and 3 rashers of bacon wrapped in Romany lettuce. 2 small cups of tea.
Copious amounts of water and green tea
D - Either lamb stir fry or burger with salad

Oh what a fun day. Excited after lower BS this morning.
Knew I was going out. Took a snack Feta and cucumber.
By 3pm feeling a bit light headed. My friend who has a mum who is type 2 on insulin, said did I need something to eat!!
So had cheese and crackers.......... eventually got home took blood sugar and up to 10.2
By this evening was 6.4 after dinner (Wagyu beef burger and avocado, more cheese)
Must take more food with me next time.

B: 2 scrambled eggs
L: 2 chicken drumsticks and half an avocado. 1 hm lc almond biscuit
D: steak with leeks and cabbage mixed with cream cheese. Hm lc chocolate ice cream, witha small Baileys

For those who haven't seen it there's sad news and a tribute page to Goonergal here

She was a great poster on this thread

Losing a friend, even if it's a distant friend, and losing a valued former colleague moderator suddenly is shocking.
Hearing the news of Goonergal's passing hit me quite hard today, and for me, this means I feel the urge to DO something, even if there's nothing I can do apart from calling friends to share my hurt and shock.

So I thought the best way to do something to remember her was to have a Goonergal-worthy meal on the pretty fishes plate I so shamelessly begged for in 2019.
We reached an agreement for a plate swap to happen in the spring of 2020, but then covid happened, preventing me from visiting the UK.
We didn't forget, and although my plate in the bargain had broken at some point in 2021, she still gave me hers when I finally visited the UK last october, 3 years after making the deal!

Now this plate means even more to me, and today I filled it with one of her go-to recipes: egg fried 'rice', with the rice substituted with minced meat.
Had to borrow an onion from my neighbour and used cucumber instead of courgette because A: I didn't have any courgette and B: I don't like courgette. And besides, this is a typical meal to use up leftovers, her recipe varied depending on what was in the fridge as well.

Bacon, minced meat, onion, some cucumber, the last bit of hard goat's cheese and a beaten egg.
Can recommend, and I hope I didn't shock anyone with the picture, which looks all too familiar on that plate.

Antje77 said:

So I thought the best way to do something to remember her was to have a Goonergal-worthy meal on the pretty fishes plate I so shamelessly begged for in 2019.

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Such a lovely tribute to Goonergal, thanks for posting this picture xx

Rachox said:

Such a lovely tribute to Goonergal, thanks for posting this picture xx

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It was very soothing for the soul to cook today.
It's a rather odd way of taking time and making room in your head to say goodbye, but that half hour in the kitchen cooking her meal felt as genuine a tribute as any speech could be.

filly said:

Oh what a fun day. Excited after lower BS this morning.
Knew I was going out. Took a snack Feta and cucumber.
By 3pm feeling a bit light headed. My friend who has a mum who is type 2 on insulin, said did I need something to eat!!
So had cheese and crackers.......... eventually got home took blood sugar and up to 10.2
By this evening was 6.4 after dinner (Wagyu beef burger and avocado, more cheese)
Must take more food with me next time.

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I usually have a small pack of nuts languishing in the corner of my bag for times when I just need something to eat, there and then. They can be there for months and months and still emerge fine.

Antje77 said:

Losing a friend, even if it's a distant friend, and losing a valued former colleague moderator suddenly is shocking.
Hearing the news of Goonergal's passing hit me quite hard today, and for me, this means I feel the urge to DO something, even if there's nothing I can do apart from calling friends to share my hurt and shock.

So I thought the best way to do something to remember her was to have a Goonergal-worthy meal on the pretty fishes plate I so shamelessly begged for in 2019.
We reached an agreement for a plate swap to happen in the spring of 2020, but then covid happened, preventing me from visiting the UK.
We didn't forget, and although my plate in the bargain had broken at some point in 2021, she still gave me hers when I finally visited the UK last october, 3 years after making the deal!

Now this plate means even more to me, and today I filled it with one of her go-to recipes: egg fried 'rice', with the rice substituted with minced meat.
Had to borrow an onion from my neighbour and used cucumber instead of courgette because A: I didn't have any courgette and B: I don't like courgette. And besides, this is a typical meal to use up leftovers, her recipe varied depending on what was in the fridge as well.

Bacon, minced meat, onion, some cucumber, the last bit of hard goat's cheese and a beaten egg.
Can recommend, and I hope I didn't shock anyone with the picture, which looks all too familiar on that plate.

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Lovely post, @Antje77 . We all have our own ways to say goodbye and to remember. It's a good thing.

AndBreathe said:

I usually have a small pack of nuts languishing in the corner of my bag for times when I just need something to eat, there and then. They can be there for months and months and still emerge fine.

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I had just run out of nuts which I would normally take.

I loved your tribute to Goonergal @Antje77 it was perfect. Mine was less so- I ate 1/2 jar of peanut butter with a spoon ( comfort food) and wished I could tag her about it here. I know she’d have understood.
Other food yesterday was scrambled eggs and bacon before we left the hotel.
Snack lunch en route home- nuts, cheese and 100% chocolate.
Dinner when we arrived back was steak from the freezer, no fresh veg so a dollop of sauerkraut.

Lovely tribute.