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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Happy Birthday Rachox! Trust your Day was a good one.

Had a busy morning so didn't think about eating. At about 1pm I fried up two thick bacon rashers and an egg.

Dinner was a bit of a disaster really, it was supposed to be sea pie, I thought I'd make the white sauce with cream. In the pie dish on top of the fish and sauce I placed a layer of mushrooms, instead of mashed potatoes on top I added mashed cauliflower and cheese. Trouble was the cream curdled and liquor from the mushrooms added to the watery consistency of the sauce. Potatoes I'm sure would have soaked some of the mushroom liquid, cauli doesn't have any absorbency. We live and learn. I only ate half of it and it seriously clipped my appetite ;)

I'm sure I've had less than 10g carbs today.
 
Rachox said:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar, specially selected flavour as I’m another year older today!
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and a kind dark chocolate and nut bar.
Dinner: avocado with prawns, mayo and coleslaw.

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Wishing you many more happy returns, Rachox!
 
Happy Birthday @Rachox hope it’s been a good one.
@MrsA2 I completely agree about fresh garden apples. (I’m currently trying to make one last a week) so much nicer than imported shop ones.
@PenguinMum that steak was delicious, it was reverse seared, I don’t know if you’ve tried this way of cooking it? ( I learnt it from Goonergal) It does need to be a really thick steak ( which happily it was)
Got too hungry to skip breakfast today so around 10am had 2 Edam ‘crackers’ and a slice of beef.
Late lunch of leftover chicken caprese casserole. Couple of squares of Montezuma’s absolute black.
D- IP beef curry, cauli rice and a DGF roti. Sadly although all lc ingredients there must have been too many carbs here as post meal BG was 8.2

Tomorrow I’m going to a festival. Not sure what to do about food. I’m guessing most food stalls will be carby veggie fare.
 
Rachox said:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar, specially selected flavour as I’m another year older today!
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and a kind dark chocolate and nut bar.
Dinner: avocado with prawns, mayo and coleslaw.

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Happy birthday Rachox. Hope it was a good one.
 
DJC3 said:
Tomorrow I’m going to a festival. Not sure what to do about food. I’m guessing most food stalls will be carby veggie fare.
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Put some hard boiled eggs in your pocket in case there is very little to be had there.

I had fresh broad beans with some bacon but they were clearly picked after their prime.
Does anyone know if they get higher in carbs the longer they stay on the stalk?
It definitely tasted like they do, and my Libre seems to agree. If only I remembered how much insulin I took for them the last time I had them...

The bacon cubes weren't impressive either, apparently they've reduced the salt in bacon over the past years, but I always forget. If I want those tiny tasty little salt bombs in my food I have to add salt when frying the bacon cubes.

At least the chicken livers with onion, garlic, and tomato paste were delicious!

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My fish restaurant dinner was really really good. The plates weren't purple, just the odd lighting.
Shared tempura prawns and mussels in cream sauce for starter.
Then shared hake in butter, salmon aranchini, octopus, and lamb kofta (not fish)
Hubby had bigger share of the carby bits
 

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Rachox said:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar, specially selected flavour as I’m another year older today!
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and a kind dark chocolate and nut bar.
Dinner: avocado with prawns, mayo and coleslaw.

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Hope you've had a lovely day on your birthday Happy Birthday
 
Antje77 said:
Does anyone know if they [broad beans] get higher in carbs the longer they stay on the stalk?
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Your hunch is spot on.

Studies in pea varieties as well as broad beans have shown that their starch content rises as the bean matures. The carbohydrate stores are needed if and when the bean germinates and develops into a new plant.
 
LivingLightly said:
Your hunch is spot on.

Studies in pea varieties as well as broad beans have shown that their starch content rises as the bean matures. The carbohydrate stores are needed if and when the bean germinates and develops into a new plant.
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Good to know, and having correct hunches is always good for the mood. :joyful:

I'm off to google how to grow broad beans. I have a lot of beans left, the taste is not too good, my diabetes doesn't like theim either, and the beans themselves apparently want to germinate and develop into new plants. So why not, if it's not too complicated?
And if it is complicated I'll simply cook them and feed them to the chickens and turkeys.
 
Rachox said:
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 Carb killa bar.
Dinner: chicken Balti curry and cauliflower rice.View attachment 61912
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Have you a recipe for your coconut porridge - and for your chicken balti please? Apologies if you've already put it up
 
Angelofthemarches said:
Have you a recipe for your coconut porridge - and for your chicken balti please? Apologies if you've already put it up
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Here’s the recipe for the coconut ‘porridge’:
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The Balti curry was a Sharwood’s jar!
 
Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Smoked salmon Cheese tomato and 3 slices of green pepper
Steak and tomato shallot
 
Antje77 said:
Good to know, and having correct hunches is always good for the mood. :joyful:

I'm off to google how to grow broad beans. I have a lot of beans left, the taste is not too good, my diabetes doesn't like theim either, and the beans themselves apparently want to germinate and develop into new plants. So why not, if it's not too complicated?
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Lol. Unfortunately, my diabetes doesn't like broad beans of any age these days but, before I was diagnosed, we grew them for something like 12 years. They're easier than peas, which need a lot of water.

We sowed a hardy variety outdoors in early November. That way the young plants were well established and less liable to aphid attack in Spring. Once the flowers had developed small pods, I used to pinch out the shoots at the top. This encourages plants to divert their energy into the pods rather than more vegetative growth. It also reduces damage from blackfly, which tend to colonise soft, young growth.

Btw, the shoots are too good to waste; they're delicious steamed or stir-fried.
 
Breakfast was 3 bacon rashers and 1 egg.

Late morning shared a packet of pork scratchings with John my husband over a gin and slimline tonic.

Late lunch was 2 smoked mackerel fillets with pickled beetroot on the side.

Dinner ? I'm just not hungry so I'm taking advantage and starting my overnight fast early.
 
I made my sausages and leeks, but had to take an awful lot of painkillers and that dulled down my appetite. So it was still there to be eaten today. However, today is worse than yesterday. Nothing but painkillers and a couple of cups of tea and water. Not feeling hungry. My ankles and feet are incredibly painful so I can't walk. Standing is desperately painful and it takes ages to slide my feet, bit by bit, across the kitchen. I was going to ask Neil to get the wheelchair in out of the car, but when he came through, he was feeling awful as well, so I didn't. Done nothing at all but sat in the big chair taking pills and trying to get my legs and feet into a comfortable position for a few minutes.

BG sitting around the 6 mark all day.

We'll see how it goes tomorrow.
 
@Annb thinking of you I'd imagine having the pain to deal with in addition to the side effects of the painkillers must be very hard to deal with. Hope your pain subsides soon.
Black coffee only first thing. Went out for a forest hike which was lovely until the heavens opened about 30 mins away from home - needed complete change of clothes but still had wonderful walk.
1ish two boiled eggs and half a keto roll buttered followed by LC brownie with a few garden berries and yoghurt
5ish curry on cauliflower rice with chopped coriander and glass of a single gin with soda water followed by LC crumble.
@DJC3 hope festival went well and you either took a LC picnic or found something LC to buy. I often end up simply fasting in that sort of situation or taking a couple of hard boiled eggs with me as @Antje77 suggested. It's amazing how filling 2 boiled eggs can be.
@JenniferM55 good luck with your fast. I always find fasting easier in the morning and find it much easier skipping breakfast and sometimes lunch but have always found not having dinner tough although I do eat early so can get a longer fasting time. Getting it right for you is the most important thing.
 
LivingLightly said:
Lol. Unfortunately, my diabetes doesn't like broad beans of any age these days
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Last time they went very well for me (although I don't remember how much insulin I took for it), but that time they tasted like spring on a plate. This time, they mostly resembled mashed potatoes in a chewy skin...
LivingLightly said:
We sowed a hardy variety outdoors in early November. That way the young plants were well established and less liable to aphid attack in Spring. Once the flowers had developed small pods, I used to pinch out the shoots at the top. This encourages plants to divert their energy into the pods rather than more vegetative growth. It also reduces damage from blackfly, which tend to colonise soft, young growth.

Btw, the shoots are too good to waste; they're delicious steamed or stir-fried.
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Whoa, you're moving very quick here!
I'm only at the stage of working out how to save the seeds for planting, chances of actually growing beans from my leftovers at this point are very close to zero, not having had any luck with (or talent/dedication for) growing anything ever so far.

But on that very slim chance that something will actually sprout next spring, trust I'll come back at you with additional questions! :joyful:

Not having my planned beans tonight (if I eat something carby it better be something more tasty than mealy beans) means improvising. I think it will be something with chicken livers and a new kind of low carb wrap I haven't tried before.
 
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 phd bar.
Dinner out, belated birthday meal as hubby was working last night: burger with bacon, cheese, tomato and lettuce, I only ate the smaller half of the bun!

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