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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)


Thanks for the review of the DGF rolls. I missed the free roll offer by a few minutes, but I’ve ordered some now. 0.6 g carbs per roll is not to be sniffed at! The bamboo fibre works well in their wraps so I’m hopeful.
So glad Cooper is recovering well too.
 
B- eggs, cheese and kimchi.
L- DGF wrap filled with cream cheese, Turkey breast, avocado, kimchi and polytunnel lettuce.

A friend has recommended some low carb wraps from Morrisons. They are 8g carbs so a bit more than I’d like ( he’s not diabetic, just prefers to eat low carb) but the price of 30p each is very competitive they are called Deli K if anyone’s interested.

D-pork chop, turmeric roasted cauliflower and chard from the school polytunnel sautéed in butter. Some local cheese and red wine. Now having a cup of tea with milk
@maglil55 great idea to wear your neck fan while ironing. I can imagine most people would think it was a pair of headphones if you wore it out.
 
Another hypo - caught it just in time today - was hot and started to feel a bit shaky so I started shoving carbs in (one sweet, 3 apricots, some milk and some yoghurt with a spoon of sugar in it. Took a while to stop shaking, but BG dragged itself up to 7.5 about an hour and a half later. Must be something to do with the heat, but I can't think what. I did dose for my steak and veggies, but a very low dose - just about the least that the pen would deliver. Still too much, obviously.

I wish there was some medical person who could advise on this on the Island, but they are all saying (now) "Fine, if low carb is the way you want to go but we don't know enough about it, so just do your own thing." Doing my own thing is beginning to look a bit dodgy. Maybe I should leave the insulin until after eating and see what effect the food alone has.
 
Morning all. Lovely day up to now. I was going to have chicken for lunch today but hadn't got any left in the freezer so it's sausages and turkey burgers instead. I really need to check what I have in there. I can cook them with tomatoes and onions or roasted cauli and broccoli and half a carrot. We'll see when the time comes. Yesterday I had a tuna-melt panini with salad for lunch and it didn't spike me much. But I did have an ice cream which did spike me. Luckily didn't do much harm. Have a lovely day folks.
 
Hi All
so yesterday.
Brekkie usual slice LC toast and copious tea.
lunch was at Thai with friends. Chose veg stir fry with prawns.
supper cauli bhajee and 4 Tandoori prawns.
today same brekkie.
lunch small bit crustless quiche with h/m Waldorf salad.
supper will be early evening roast at son’s house.
@Annb hug for the hypos, I would not be surprised if the hot weather is involved.
@shelley262 great news about Cooper, such responsibility and worry.
 
Breakfast: half a bowl of chicken and mushroom soup. Minute amount of insulin. Took my BG down from 13.9 to 11.9. Still a bit high and now back up to 12.4.

Will probably take another miniscule amount of insulin and have some lunch - smoked mackerel to use up and some cherry tomatoes.

3rd meal: probably cauliflower and broccoli cheese.
 
Different today. BG started out fairly high and did drop after insulin and breakfast but climbed again before lunch to 13.9 so I took 10u of insulin and had my mackerel and a couple of RyVitas. A drop to 10.9 after 2 hours. Now on its way up again. Feeling pretty grotty too, but that is probably the heat.

Em came for a short visit with Hugo (the basset hound). He seems to have settled down pretty well now, although he still looks sooo miserable. He's clearly feeling the heat too. When they left, I asked Em to leave all the doors open to get some air into the house. Unfortunately, it also left a whole load of flies into the house. If I had the energy, I would get the vacuum cleaner out and suck them up, but I'm not feeling up to it. I hate flies!
 
Evening all

French tarragon is not fully hardy and its seeds are sterile, so when my plants didn't make it through the Winter, I ordered replacements. Our supplier slipped up and sent lemon verbena, a herb I'd never grown. What a happy accident! I've already harvested a few leaves for salads and it was an instant hit with family. Worked well in today's lunch too.

B: Two eggs scrambled in butter with a generous dollop of double cream, sautéed chestnut mushrooms and a tomato, garnished with chopped flat-leaf parsley and seasoned with one or two grindings of black pepper.
Water to swallow tablets.
Espresso.

L: Baked whole sea bass, belly stuffed with lemon verbena and garlic, drizzled with olive oil and accompanied by asparagus spears with butter and a medley of broccoli, leeks, and red peppers with garlic.
Low carb pud made with milled flax seeds, home made granola, unsweetened almond milk and cream.
Water to drink.

D: Blue Stilton salad made with lettuce, Romano peppers, celery, salad onions, cherry tomatoes and black olives, dressed with homemade mayonnaise with garlic and mint for dipping, scattered with pecan halves and macadamia nuts roasted in butter
Water to swallow tablets.
 
The majority of flies enter buildings when they detect the smell of food and will find their own way out quite quickly if you leave a fanlight open.

The exception is the Lesser housefly, Fannia canicularis. That's the one that flies in jagged patterns in the middle of a room, especially around light fittings.
 
The promised storm still hasn’t arrived, been waiting all weekend and not putting washing out just in case. I hope it breaks tonight, it’s so muggy.
B- cheese and asparagus omelette
L- stupid lunch. A DGF cake, as we were having an early dinner so didn’t want much. Then took beef out of the oven. I’d cooked it on a trivet of onions, they were soft and caramelised, cooked in the beef dripping. I intended to whiz them into the gravy, but I tasted one… then ate the lot. They were delicious but onion is not a low carb veg so I’m annoyed at myself.
D- roast beef, roast broccoli and creamy parmesan cabbage. Couple of glasses of red wine.
Early evening - frozen DGF cookie and a cup of tea
 
Breakfast kefir with shelled hemp seeds
Lunch two boiled eggs then a few strawberries from garden with yoghurt then a few squares of 100% chocolate
Mid pm LC ginger cookie
Pre Dinner ACV in water and a few nuts then slow cooked salt Brisket ( Waitrose from slow cook range) easy and delicious we had with salads. I ate green salad first and left higher carb coleslaw and beetroot till last. Also had glass of red wine and then LC cake and decaffeinated coffee.


Lovely long early morning forest walk with Cooper again today - it's so lovely to see him well and relieved that when take him back in a couple of days he'll be off his tablets and be as well as he was when they left him in family care while they were on honeymoon!
I've still to pay the vets bill as their computer systems were not working last week - so something to look forward to on Monday! Still he needed the meds and we needed to feel we'd done our best. We were very anxious about it all.
 
Well done Cooper and @shelley262

After the quiz last night I did take a cornetto icecream, and ate the lot

Storm hit in the night, much lightning thunder and torrential rain. Only half filled the water buttt though. Very disturbed sleep.

Mid morning, bacon served in a wrap made of a 1 egg omelette
Mid afternoon 2 sqs hm lc rhubarb cake
D: steak with aubergine and cauliflower. Last of the hm lc chocolate pudding

More rain this afternoon, but gentle and just what the garden needed after 33 days without any.
 
I was getting excited then and was ready to order but I’m not paying £5.49 for a sliced loaf
 
I reckon they're using the Psyllium Husk that turns things purple? So glad to read Cooper is better. He's such a pretty looking dog.
 
Some of your menus are a real inspiration, thank you all. Please can I join in? I need to be accountable, and what better place than here.

B - 2 back bacon rashers, 1 fried egg, 10 sautéed button mushrooms, 3 chipolatas, all fried in butter.

D - half ribeye steak cut into ribbons and marinated in grape seed oil, sherry, and garlic, fried with stir fry veg added (spring onion including leaves, finely sliced cabbage, celery, kale, baby spinach leaves and mung bean sprouts (just started sprouting my own, it takes just 5 days for lovely crispy sprouts.)

Desert was an experiment, Greek yoghurt, thick double cream, teasp cocoa, and a dash of keto maple syrup. A real success, it tasted just like chocolate cheesecake.

Oh and two glassed of red wine.
 
Saturday 17 June bed 7.5 FBG 7.7 No jujitsu. The youngest grandson is off colour. Part of the problem is they had friends to stay, and it was around midnight before they finally fell asleep. They're tired, but as we discovered, the younger one did have something brewing!

B. TAG and a bit crustless quiche. Benecol dairy free.

L. 2 slices of ox tongue. We were supposed to be heading up to the Fort, but son wanted to head to Costco. Left the grizzly children at home.

D. We'd arranged to go out with son, DIL, and the grizzling boys. What a disaster! Incredibly busy, they should have had 25 staff in, and 16 of them didn't turn up. They had to put on a restricted menu as there was only one in the kitchen instead of 4. That made life very difficult for me as their normal menu is easily adapted. I had spicy halloumi with a spicy mayo and salad. It was supposed to come with my burger with melted cheese on top plus coleslaw (I'd stripped it of brioche bun, onion rings, fries, and some kind of saucy stuff. It appeared as a starter, so I ended up with a solitary burger, melted cheese, and a spoonful of coleslaw for a main. Youngest, who insisted on coming out, discovered he really was starting to feel unwell and was wailing to go home. Eldest came out in sympathy and refused to order anything, but liked the look of my halloumi. He ate half of them. He then went onto others' onion rings and brother's fries (which he decided he could not eat). The service was surprisingly good despite all the missing staff. Whether that was good luck or the fractious children, I don't know. I did have a 00 lager as thankfully I had decided to drive.
When we got home, I had another 00 lager and a CC little chocolate pot with raspberries, as there was no way we could stay for anything else!
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a food dr bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa.
Tea at ILs: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake!
 

Welcome! Your food sounds great. I tried sprouting broccoli seeds a while back but had no success at all. What’s your method?
 
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