What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Runner beans bought at the roadside from someone's garden, the best type of shopping there is!

With bacon and butter, and 3 more of the chipolata sausages with mustard.

Streaky bacon and mushrooms for elevenses.

Had a packet of pork scratchings mid afternoon.

Tried 2 coated prawns, BG quickly reacted at 7.6, so they're now off the menu.

Lasagna (if you can call it that), I exchanged the béchamel for double cream with grated cheddar, also exchanged the pasta sheets for leek (not much though, I was surprised at how carby they are). It wasn't a success, I must remember that substituting the pasta with a veg in any classic pasta recipe the sauce needs to have less liquid.

JenniferM55 said:

leek (not much though, I was surprised at how carby they are)

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Google gives me wildly varying results for the carbs in leeks.
For what it's worth, I've never noticed them to raise my BG.

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.
Dinner: cheese and tomato omelette.

Coffee and cream
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Tea
Cheese and onion omlette
Jules ice Lolly
Steak and butter Avocado

Breakfast: 2 soft boiled eggs and 2 RyVita with butter.
2nd meal: Minced pork with onion, apple, tinned tomatoes and a few haricot beans. Made enough for 4 meals so it was well within the calorie limit and over the day a bit high on carbs. That was the RyVita and the beans.
Not entirely sure that I'll last out the rest of the day with nothing else but in any case, although carbs are going to be out, I have plenty of leeway on the calories.

Today:

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, slices of avocado and crevettes seasoned with black pepper.
Water to swallow tablets
Espresso.

L: Cheese-crusted omelette stuffed with chestnut mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, spinach and cream cheese plus grated Cheddar cheese for the crust.
Salad using lettuce, chicory, celery, salad onions, Kalamata olives and mint, dressed with an olive oil, garlic and balsamic vinaigrette, topped with walnut halves.
Strawberries and Greek full-fat yoghurt.

D: Seafood salad made with tiger prawns, brown shrimps, lettuce, sweet cicely, vine tomatoes, celery, Romano peppers, mustard cress and Welsh onions dressed with olive oil and a touch of lemon juice, parsley and garlic, plus toasted almonds.
Water to swallow tablets.

Brunch of cheese and mushroom omelette with chilli sauerkraut.
4pm cheese crisps ( microwaved little heaps of grated cheddar) with pate
D- couple of fried minute steaks with sautéed red pepper and spinach. Threw a fried egg on top at the end, but before the photo.

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: salmon fillets with Brussels, carrots and peppercorn sauce.

Wednesday 30 August bed 6.4 FBG 6.1. It's definitely gout. Recommendation is yet another pill,but this GP gets me. He knew I'd be wary until I'd assessed the pros and cons. We've agreed I'll go for a blood draw in 4 weeks (they even put the appointment on!). If the uric acid levels are high, then we'll talk again. In the meantime, I have lists of foods that are best limited, more than a few I eat. This could get interesting.

B. TAG and LC granola with sugar-free coconut milk and blackberries. Benecol dairy free.

L. Nothing

D. Salmon fillet (oven cooked). I thought I'd overdone it, but it was just right. Salad alongside. CC little chocolate pot with raspberries.

Still lots of water.

If this flares up again, I 've to get an immediate prescription for colchicine. Otherwise, just make more diet adjustments.

I ended up stopping my stomach complaining too much last night with some smoked salmon and a few roasted peanuts. (A few more carbs but not much).

Today Breakfast: Greek yoghurt and 8 raspberries. I reckon 108 calories and <7g carbs.

2nd meal: I took 2 packets of soup out of the freezer. No idea what they are. One is very green, the other is very orange. I seem to remember not liking the green one very much although I did freeze it, so it couldn't have been too bad. I'll choose one and have it. Carbs? Shouldn't be much but since I don't know what they are, I can't be sure. Edit: the orange one is some kind of bouillabaise. That's the one I'll have. Some tomato in it but no other carbs, as I remember.

Probably a third meal today. That will be some more of the pork and tomato - that worked out at something less than 400 calories but did have almost 20 carbs. That's the haricot beans - not that there were all that many, but I shouldn't have put them in at all.

Weighed myself this morning and I've put another pound on. Not because of the advice given by the Counterweight nurse - I've only been counting calories for one day so it can't be that. Not that counting calories made me eat any more just more aware of how few I really am eating anyway.

Brunch - 3 hardboiled eggs with mayonnaise. There may or may not be a small plain Greek yoghurt later - depends if I get hungry.
Dinner will be a vaguely Mediterranean concoction involving aubergine, tomatoes, spring onions, a pepper, some leftover lamb from last night's joint, olive oil, garlic, vegetable stock cube, and sundry herbs. Pre-dinner will be 3 or 4 walnuts.
Not a wine week this week.

Emma Gill said:

Any advice would be gratefully received re following meals so far today:
breakfast, porridge and 2 strawberries ( I have yet to find an alternative to porridge) readings of 4.7 prior and 6.2 two hours later.
lunch, 1 slice of wholemeal toast, 2 fried eggs, 1 tomato, lettuce and cucumber. Followed by, 1 actvia yogurt with 2 strawberries. readings of 4.4 prior and 7.3 (one hour later, couldn’t wait 2 hours as heading back to work.
this quantity of food is a big change for me)
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I find that any kind of cereal or starchy veg product causes a spike even with insulin beforehand. That means that, for me, porridge oats, toast, waffles, rice, pasta, corn or wheat breakfast cereals, potatoes are out of the question. This may not be the case for you so you need to check the readings for yourself, as you are doing and then you can see what does cause a spike.

To replace these, an omelette - perhaps with cheese, mushrooms, bacon or ham take very little extra time and should keep hunger at bay. Greek yoghurt with berries makes a good breakfast but doesn't stave off those hunger pangs for all that long. Some people make different kinds of porridge (coconut/goji berry and so on) which are much less likely to cause a spike. There are also things called "chaffles" made with eggs and cheese which can be eaten instead of toast. I have a recipe for those somewhere but will have to hut it out, if you are interested. Others have the recipe and might be able to find it more quickly than I can. Or there are "melts" - can be tuna or other protein which are a bit like muffins for breakfast.

Bread of any kind is also out for me - even half a slice of wholemeal bread/toast needs large quantities of insulin to cope. Same with crispbreads like RyVita.

Veggie mince should be fine, unless there are many root veggies or potatoes in it or with it. All veggies have some carbs but those grown above ground have less (fruits are another matter though, but some like berries or even a little tomato aren't too bad). Onions are one veg I can't do without but they have carbs in as well. For me (I stress that it is only for me) I have to keep the carbs as low as possible or I have to use a ridiculous amount of insulin to deal with the rise. You may be different though and the only way to tell is to keep testing.

Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Porchetta, corned beef and tomato
Cheese and tomato
Smoked sockeye salmon but too salty. Couldn't eat it.

Hi All
So back to Tuesday supper which was leftover cold roast chicken and salad Touch of salad cream.
Yesterday usual brekkie of slice LC toast, butter, copious tea.
Lunch was sliced ham and mixed salad.
Supper was three meaty sausages, small spoon of Mr P’s beans and broccoli.
Today we went out for brunch since it was raining and Mr P going away tomorrow for 6 days. I had scrambled eggs on one slice brown toast and a side of sauteed mushrooms.
Tonight is Fish Finger Firsday so chunky cod fingers with tenderstem broccoli.

Yesterday for breakfast, back bacon, and mushrooms
for dinner, chicken stir-fry.

Breakfast today was slices of back bacon, mushrooms and tomatoes, all fried in the same pan with butter. Followed by coffee with cream

Mid day a G&T and packet of pork scratchings

Coffee made with cream

Dinner, smoked salmon and cream cheese.

Bought a 'frother' yesterday to blend cream added in coffee. Not sure if it's my imagination, but it does appear to have taken away any hunger. I really am not that hungry.... no complaining here

Been a bit rubbish few days healthwise but....today's food was
B Celery, walnut and quarter of an apple mixed with Greek natural yoghurt, small spoon of creme fraiche.
L Supergrain nutty salad from M & S.
D mushroom omelette with sliced cucumber snd a few sliced spring onions.

Will catch up later with missed posts while I've been away.
Today's food
10ish one slice of bacon, egg and mushroom
1ish yoghurt and garden berries plus one square of 100% chocolate

5ish home made chilli using olives instead of kidney beans and one slice of LC garlic bread with glass of red wine then pudding of LC cake with decaffeinated coffee.
Hectic enjoyable time away and ate lots but stayed low carb and did an epic mountain climb in wind and rain - it got colder and colder as we ascended and I wished I'd thought of gloves and hat but it was August and I was wrapped up in a lot of layers! OH got up the mountain to celebrate achieving his 70th but despite his major carb loading he did lose power in his legs at the end descending and we had to support him over the finish line.....meanwhile I'd been powered by two boiled eggs and had plenty of energy thankfully no doubt burning my body fat - but gosh I felt the cold! At least we all got down safe.

Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, slices of avocado and tiger prawns seasoned with black pepper.
Water to swallow tablets.
Espresso.

L: Mushroom and spinach frittata made with eggs, grated Cheddar cheese, onion, cream and oregano.
Salad using chicory, sweet cicely, celery, mint, Kalamata olives and salad onions, dressed with an olive oil, garlic and balsamic vinaigrette, topped with roasted cashews.
Skipped pudding
Water to drink.

D: Seafood salad made with brown shrimps, mussels, lettuce, cherry toms, celery, Halkidiki olives and Welsh onions dressed with home-made mayonnaise, topped with toasted sunflower and pumpkin seeds.
Water to swallow tablets.

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: meatballs with tomato and mascapone sauce, broccoli, cauliflower and carrots.