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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

The next thing I want to know is about SRSLY or DGF tortillas. With tortillas, I used to cut them into triangles and deep fry them. They puffed up nicely to have with chilli in a Mexican meal. I wonder if the LC one does tge same.
 
My food today was
5 am breakfast of 2 scrambled eggs and a chunk of brie
11 am second breakfast/ early lunch of 5 rashers bacon, a small piece of quiche (both from the farmers market haul) and coleslaw.
3pm coffee ice cream
6pm sausages (from the market) with greek salad (tomatoes, cucumber, olives, feta cheese in olive oil)

Really mixed up day time wise after waking early and veering between being really hungry then very full.
 
Saturday 10 June - bed 6.1 FBG 7.1 No jujitsu this morning. The youngest has a bad chesty cough. Still busy, though, as the eldest wanted to come back to ours again to work on his office design. I'm certainly not going to discourage him! School work? On a Saturday?

B. TAG and 2 slices of SRSLY toast with roast pork and coleslaw. Benecol dairy free.

L. A few almonds (while grandson is demolishing the GF stash).

D. A spiced minute steak. Lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, and mayo, plus a stuffed mushroom. Stuffed with spicy mince, bit red onion, mozzarella, bit streaky bacon, and a bit of one of these stock pots to melt into it. Moretti Zero. CC Little chocolate pot and a strict limit of 6 of the Muscat grapes. They are soooo good.

@Annb - your teacher friend might be available. The school holidays are not too far away.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a DGF lemon cookie bar.
Dinner: coronation chicken with leafy salad, coleslaw and two baby orange tomatoes.

 
Evening all

My husband was celebrating his birthday today, so we enjoyed a slap-up lunch with family at our favourite Italian ristorante. Two of us are diabetic, but staff at this particular eatery are happy to swap the potatoes (which come as standard with some entrées) for extra portions of non-starchy vegetables; sauces are served separately, also gravies on request.


B: Two poached eggs, scallops and asparagus spears with a generous knob of butter and some chopped flat-leaf parsley, all seasoned with one or two grindings of black pepper.
Water to swallow tablets, followed by espresso.

L: Aperitif: gin on the rocks with a slice of lemon.
Goat's cheese served with half a pear poached in red wine, walnuts, lamb's lettuce, rocket, avocado, tomato and cucumber dressed with vinaigrette, topped with toasted pine nuts.
Monkfish positano, calabrese, carrots, spinach with garlic and butter plus deep fried zucchini matchticks.
Skipped pudding, Water to drink.
Espresso
Brandy on the house.

D: Seafood salad made with crevettes and kalamari, lettuce, fennel fronds, cherry tomatoes, celery, Romano peppers and salad onions dressed with olive oil plus a touch of lemon juice, lemon verbena and garlic, topped with toasted sunflower and pumpkin seeds.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
Short ribs,...... pressure cooker, then if not having them "wet", finishing in the AF would work.

Short ribs were one of Goonergal's favourite troughs. She had her PC rountine to a fine art.
 
Breakfast kefir with hemp seeds
Lunch half a LC roll with ham and mustard then - as very hot - made my quick frozen yoghurt mixing a few frozen raspberries with yoghurt, lovely and cooling
Mid pm LC cake with black tea
Had my daily pre Dinner Apple Cider Vinegar(ACV) in water as well as a few olives and walnuts while we had a wild thunderstorm - it's thankfully a bit cooler now but looks autumnal with so many leaves on the ground! A local road had to be closed as a tree was blown down - all very dramatic. Main hm chicken curry with lots of fresh chopped coriander and a LC roti. Had a long drink of gin with soda water after dinner.
@MrsA2 I love short ribs but always slow cook them.
 
She has already offered - even if it is during term time. She says she'll take days off to go with me. Kind of her but I'll try not to avail myself of the offer.
 
No breakfast apart from black coffee as we wanted an early start to the Royal Cornwall show before the traffic jams got too bad.
Brunch - a pasture reared rib eye steak, perfectly cooked then sliced, served in a bag so I ate it with my fingers. Heaven!
Mid aft- strawberries and clotted cream.
Late aft- gin and soda.
Late evening- home and very hungry. Luckily still had a small portion of pork stroganoff in the fridge so heated that with cauli rice. Too hungry to eat salad first which was a mistake as I bolted it down then had cheese and olives afterwards. 2 glasses red wine.Too late to be eating this much. Will I never learn?
@Magli55 please let us know if you try the DGF wraps as tortillas, I don’t deep fry so can’t experiment.
 
I have been experimenting a lot since I got my hands on the wheat gluten based no egg bread recipe and I made a veggie pizza and Garlic bread... it was very tasty and filling.. recipe here


if i calculated it correctly the whole pizza and garlic bread was about 70gms carb. Between my wife, my daughter and I, we could only finish half of it so roughly 12 gms carb per person... give or take ... numbers seem about right too as I had no spike whatsoever....
 
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Morning all you lovely people! The weekend is here again, it seems to come round a lot quicker than it used to! My Sunday lunch will be air-fried chicken thighs, broccoli, cauli, mushrooms and 2 new potatoes plus gravy. I've had a cold sausage for my bf, which I don't normally have. I didn't really like the mackerel so I'm going to make mackerel pate a la @MissMuffett. Maybe I will like that better. I can have that on lettuce leaves with some tomato and cucumber. I am eating much better now, I see so many different recipes on here, it's great. So thank you everyone, you are keeping me on the straight and narrow! Have a great day folks.
 
RyVita and cheese for breakfast. Couldn't raise the energy to do anything else.

There's lots in the fridge which I should do something about but can't really be bothered. Not really hungry.

It's this cold, that I caught from Em. Her mum was quite right to keep her off school if she felt as bad as I do. But it is just a cold so I don't know why it's getting to me.

Diabetes nurse gave me my HBA1c result - it's down to 53, so that's a step in the right direction.

Have made a coffee cake for DIL to take to school with her - apparently they take it in turns to take cake/s for the staff room. DIL's favourite is coffee and walnut, but nuts are not allowed in school. So it's just coffee. That has taken me all my energy to make so that's me done for the day. Some more fluids - lemon and ginger tea and that'll do me I should think.
 
maglil55 said:
I was thinking that too. Goonergal did love her short rib. The whip at Hotel Chocolat also sparks memories of her.
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Indeed.

Today, I was taking photos of our garden to send to MrB's daughter who also enjoys her garden, and I just really missed GG in that moment. She must have had hundreds of photos of our gardens and the locale when we were away. Whilst an apartment dweller, she loved nature.

I'm overdue a trip to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens to see if their Abutilon is as fabulous as ours this year.

(Theirs is always magnificent and way more mature than hours, so I can only dream for a few years yet.)
 
Annb said:
Diabetes nurse gave me my HBA1c result - it's down to 53, so that's a step in the right direction.
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That's not a step in the right direction but absolutely brilliant!

Don't forget that on insulin you can't aim as low as on diet only because of hypos, and even more so if your not the youngest anymore.
I think that 53 is the official target for T1s on insulin (at least in my country), and the risks of insulin are the same, regardless of type.

Some of my neighbours had come together to throw a 'poetical picknick' over two gardens today and I had a wonderful afternoon. Poems were read in a very informal way, and the whole garden had conceptual pieces of art representing a 'hilarious saint'. The pieces were numbered and a booklet was given with descriptions of the 'saints' represented, lots of fun hunting through the garden to find them all!

The host had supplied food and drinks, ranging from fruit to crisps, salty snacks, deepfried snacks etc, but she had also made sure to provide plenty of cheese cubes, olives and cherry tomatoes with little mozzarella balls on a stick especially for me, so sweet!
I also had two bitterballen though, can't resist those.
 
Annb said:
Diabetes nurse gave me my HBA1c result - it's down to 53, so that's a step in the right direction.
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Hey Ann that is magnificent. I am already in awe of how you manage your aches and pains but this is really fab. So happy for you.
so back to Friday.
Brekkie ususal slice LC toast good butter& copious tea.
Lunch was egg mayo on little gem leaves.
Supper was bbq meat, 2 sausages, 1 beef burger and thin slice of chicken with side salad & Stokes tom ketchup (not much) on the burger. Discovered on hols on Suffolk and love the ketchup & mayo.
saturday same brekkie.
lunch prawn & avo with mayo (Stokes oc)
Supper leftover bbq meat with h/m Waldorf salad.
Today same brekkie.
Late lunch excellent roast at a pub who were brilliant with swaps for roasties & Yorkie into extra veg and kindly added a side portion of cauli cheese.
 
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