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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: chilli and LC rosemary and sea salt focaccia from the freezer (still not supposed to stand for long periods after my foot op) followed by Greek yoghurt and strawberries.

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PenguinMum said:
@Antje77 good look with the food on the sailing trip. Hope you enjoy the week and find some good things to eat. You will miss your animals and they you!
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Thankfully my dogs are with me!

Today was the first evening of provided food surprise.
I've reduced my hopes for the rest of the week now.

It was lasagne (actually pretty tasty lasagne, lots of veggies in it too, and they didn't skimp on the meat) and no sides, like salad or such.
I started the meal low because the walk there was longer than I had anticipated and I was aiming for 4's before meal, and then we had to stand in line for our turn for at least 15 minutes as well.

Had a smallish portion and fished out most of the pasta.
Still went higher than I like.

Breakfast/lunch pack consisted of a small yoghurt (25 grams of carbs, of which sugars 23, nope), 2 white rolls (1 cheese and 1 ham), one brown roll (slice of turkey), 1 raisin roll and a muffin.
So I gave mine away.

Thankfully I'm quite good at packing emergency rations so now I'm enjoying some chickory with hummus and pork scratchings with aioli in my cosy little cabin with my dogs! :joyful:

If that isn't enough I'll have different kinds of nuts, chocolate or salami to choose from without even leaving my bed. :happy:

I don't think I'll attend most of the group meals this week though.

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Survived the pub meal. Usual pub fare on the menu so not much lc choicebut kept telling myself I was there to enjoy the company and the chat so stuck to a burger with chilli's and cheese, swapped the chips for side salad and left the bun. Drank only ginger tea.
When I got home I had 1 sq hm lc rhubarb cake and a sq of hm lc chocolate ice cream
 
DJC3 said:
I don’t have any experience of insulin dosing but bone broth is practically negligible in terms of carbs. The DietDoctor recipe for basic bone broth ( which sounds similar to the one you make, and mine) is 0.3g
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Yeah, I think my broth must have been something similar (basically no carbs). I ended up skipping the dose and monitoring, and my BSL didn’t budge :) The broth was great, I had 3.5 cups and there’s still more for lunch today. So, 6 meals out of one $6AU chicken. Can’t complain about that
 
Antje77 said:
If I remember correctly, you're on small doses of insulin even with your occasional more carby meals, is that right?
If so, the amount of carbs in this soup may well be so low that you'd need less than 1 unit for this soup.
If you were to invite me over for dinner tonight, I would eat first with this soup and then keep a close eye on my numbers to see if it did need a little insulin.
No problem to rise a bit if it turns out it did need insulin, and you'll know what you'll need for this type of soup after today's experiment!
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Yes that’s correct about my insulin doses being low for dinner even with the more carby options which I don’t often have but do occassionally (e.g. roast potato with the chicken the other night). I did end up skipping the insulin and the ice cream and monitored for the experiment. BSL stayed flat and, yes, now I know! I’ll be cooking this again because it’s so nice and cheap as well. Edit: in hindsight I probably didn’t need to skip the sugar free ice cream, but by skipping it I know what the broth does to my BSL by itself (nothing) so it was probably worth the sacrifice
 
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Morning all. Thank you Antje, that will be my meal today. I wouldn't have thought of putting the peppers in the microwave either! Had a carby meal yesterday at pensioner's lunch with the added stress of one of the ladies on my table having a mini-stroke. That was really upsetting even tho she was fine after. I will have to be careful what I eat today, my levels were too high for my liking last night and this morning. Have a nice day everyone :)
 
B: microwave eggs, ham, cheese
L: leftover chicken broth from last night (2.5 cups); glass of hazelnut milk
Snacks: pistachio nuts; pork crackling
D: pork sausages (cajun seasoning), gravy, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans; no sugar added ice cream
After dinner snacks: strawberries so far. I may skip my pre-bed protein shake because for some reason my fasting BSL has been a bit higher than ‘usual’ this week, but I haven’t decided yet (I reckon it helps me sleep but will decide in 2 hours when I have my basal insulin)

Edit: I’m having the protein shake because my BSL is 4.3 (Dexcom), 4.2 (finger) and I don’t feel like going to bed at that level (I’d still have bolus insulin on board and the dexcom alarm would probably go off anyway). The shake doesn’t raise my BSL quickly — not enough carbs — but I find the protein does raise my BSL, just more slowly. Hazelnut milk, faba bean protein powder, chia seeds, sugar free drinking choc
 
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Breakfast: Just finished (11.50 am). Mixed salad with chopped up ham and 4 little wedges of spiced roast potato.

In the oven: one pot with chicken thigh, orange, button mushrooms and shallots; one pot with chicken thigh lots of garlic and lemon.
On the stove top: all the bones out of the thighs with veggies to make chicken stock.
I have also baked a bag of Maris Piper potatoes which I will empty out and make "shells" to put in the freezer plus some mash, also for the freezer. Hoping that the shells will be less BG damaging - mostly the fibrous skins and that the mash will also be less harmful having been frozen. We'll see.

Will decide later which of the 2 chicken dishes to have for 2nd meal. The other one will go in the freezer.

Expecting visitors again this afternoon and have made a lemon drizzle cake for them. Not for me, of course. Em will call in on her way home from school and will take what is left home with her. This cake is becoming everyone's favourite and is always requested. Lemon is my favourite flavour as well, but I will be strong about this.
 
DJC3 said:
Glad you found a work-around the onion dilemma @IBEX82
@shelley262 I don’t know if it’s the ACV, the salad starter or what but my BGs are definitely lower these past few days which is a blessed relief. Thanks for pointing us in the direction of the GG
Back to a spell of IF for me so just black coffee this morning.
L-salad with ACV/oo dressing. 1 slice livlife toast with pate. Rhubarb, h/m yoghurt and seeds.
Mid aft - Decaf coffee&cream and a DGF cake.
D- instead of salad starter I had yesterdays garlicky greens reheated. Surprisingly good.
Main was broccoli fritters and salad. I’ve been looking for recipes to use up the bag of oat fibre in my cupboard and came across this. I meant to have just 2 but ended up eating all 4. ( only 1g carb each though so no problem) https://lowcarbfood.co/recipes/low-carb-broccoli-fritters-with-cheddar-cheese/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Oat Fibre Recipes Push&_kx=JNng6jsqoIzSbsh_brCzDYx9JXQjslzjAeS6rX8h5rQ=.U4xysM
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I have just start today taking ACV I had 1/2 a teaspoon in my green tea before my lunch, here's hoping it will add muster to my bg!
 
So far today I have had......
B - Small handful of walnuts, 1 cup of tea.
L - Cup of green tea with 1/2 tsp of ACV. Half a left over tin of red salmon with a bit of rocket.
D - Probably naked burger with salad and ACV salad dressing (my own recipe).
Snacks will be cucumber with chopped avocado.
 
Breakfast: Greek yoghurt and a few strawberries

Lunch: scrambled egg and bacon

Dinner: homemade steak burger, topped with cheddar cheese, mixed greens salad and some peri peri mayo.

Snacks: 30g KP salt and vinegar peanuts, and a carb killa oreo protein bar.
 
@Lainie71 hope the ACV helps lower your bgs as it has mine. Advice is to have a tablespoon daily ideally 10mins before your biggest meal. I can't do a whole tablespoon in one drink so split it to before lunch and before dinner. Like you I also use it in a salad dressing as really enjoy it on salad. Today had my tablespoon split into two pre meal glasses of water one before lunch and one before dinner.
Breakfast rhubarb with hulled hemp seeds and some kefir
Lunch home cooked ham with sauerkraut and salad followed by an Apple peel and a few squares of 100% chocolate
Dinner starter of hm hummus with a few veg crudities then frittata and salad and small glass of red wine then LC cake with decaffeinated coffee.
 
B- 2 boiled eggs mashed with butter.
L- salad with h/b egg and a tin of mackerel in olive oil. DGF cake to follow.
D- ACV in water, then small salad to start with (ACV/oo dressing).
Lamb stew ( put lentils in it so I’m waiting to see what BG will do) rhubarb, h/m yoghurt &seeds for pud.
 
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 chasseur followed by Greek yoghurt and strawberries.
 
Still on the ship, very long (and early! ) workday.
We left at 7 am and arrived at 2:30, and then there was an unexpected repair to do so workday ended at 4 pm.

During the day I had a slice of low carb bread and a cracker, one with butter, marmite and a very good cheese, one with butter, homemade (not by me) pesto and a different kind of cheese.

Late afternoon it was lots of peanuts.

And I decided to try my luck with the group meal again, much better than yesterday!
Spinach, potatoes and gravy (had 1 small potato with the carby gravy, looks like I nailed the dosing for it) and an enormous meatball.

Dogs got lucky as well, they were allowed in the dining place and one of the people at my table only ate half of her meatball!
 
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B: 2 hard boiled eggs with mayo.
Dance class 1
L: 2 cold chicken thighs. 1 cc choclate pot with 2 teaspoond cream (don't try it @maglil55, too addictive!)
Dance class 2
Mid afternoon 2 dark chocolate balhsen biscuits. We have visitors and I felt I had to offer them something .
D: 2 sausages, 1 lamk kofta, half a beef burger. Roast asparagus, beans and radishes, cauliflower. Too much red wine, mostly with diet lemonade. A couple of gingerbread left from Christmas..again because I felt I should offer visitors something and couldn't resist myself.

Have also been out and bought bread, cereal and Crousaants for breakfast... I know I should be able to resist and have my own low carb food... and pigs might fly!
 
B: protein shake
L: protein shake!
D: stir fry (beef & mixed vegies)

I’m going to skip my usual post-dinner snacks because although I wake with a fasting BSL that I’m happy with for me (usually around 6.0) I‘ve noticed that my sleeping BSL rises around 11PM or midnight to the high 7s and stays there until 5 or 6AM. Although my DN is ok with this my long-distance vision is getting blurry again and I’m blaming my night BSL and I’m blaming that on the snacks. I’ll have something if I’m in the low 4s at bedtime but otherwise tonight is a snack free night to see if that lowers my sleeping BSL without having to mess with my basal insulin because I’m fine with my daytime figures. I’m already thinking about snacks though hahaha
 
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