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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

maglil55 said:
Wednesday 6 September - bed 6.4 FBG 6.5. Where's the sun gone? Woke up to mist this morning. Boys were here for dinner, and I wasted a lot of time trying to trace 2 Amazon parcels that had been "handed to resident" when they had not! Long story short, he'd dumped them outside the door of a totally different resident who was on holiday. We'd still be without them had it not been fir an Eagle eyed Evri courier who was delivering to other address and spotted the parcels, realised they belonged to us, and brought them to our property. Amazon had already scheduled a refund, and although I informed them how the parcels had been found, they informed me I was to keep the refund by way of apology.

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

L. A sandwich with SRSLY bread, Benecol spread and lovely rare roast lamb from the butcher's.

D. 3 GF beef olives with carrot, broccoli, and gravy. CC Little chocolate pot with raspberries.

@MrsA2, if I'm 3lbs or less up on return from holiday, I'd call it a result. especially after socialising with former work colleagues/husbands/wives!
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Winner for that Evri courier and for getting a refund in compensation.
 
Strawberries and double cream for breakfast.

Bit of a rush to get showered and out in time for my leg bandaging appointment. I was wakened by the Libre at 2 am telling me that BG was 2.8 so I had to get up to do something about it - I didn't have anything by the bed, which I usually do. Staggered through (no symptoms so it may have been wrong; I didn't wake myself sufficiently to do a fingerprick test). Had a couple of fruit pastilles and fell asleep again in the chair. By 4 am BG was 7.4 - pretty much the same on both Libre and fingerprick. That's usual in the middle range of readings, it's at both ends that they usually disagree. Didn't stir myself again until 7.30 when I had to jump up to have a shower, leaving little time for making breakfast.

Lunch: reheated lamb with some broccoli and tomato.

Probably a further meal of ham salad, if I can be bothered, or if I feel hungry.
 
Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Porchetta and cherry tomatoes.
Beef
Pickled Herring and cherry tomato
Smoked salmon
 
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Welcome back @MrsA2 I’ve been wondering where you’d got to, sounds like a wonderful holiday and I too think that +3lb is a great result after all that temptation.
@maglil55 great result for you too with the delivery and a refund to boot!
I’m over a week carnivore now but still haven’t seen BG drop below 6. Very frustrating, it occurred to me I should do more exercise so did a 20 min strength workout this morning. I do walk a lot, but mostly with Dennis which is like walking with a toddler as he stops to investigate every leaf and twig. It’s definitely not brisk walking.
Back on topic
Black coffee and water all morning.
L-cheese crisps with h/m ox liver pate.
Went for a swim, didn’t stay in long as the sea was teeming with jellyfish. Are a packet of Cheesies afterwards.
D- air fried chicken breasts coated in pork panko and a big dollop of butter mayo sprinkled with cayenne.
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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.
Dinner: spag. bog with sliced sautéed courgetti with a sprinkle of extra mature cheddar.
It’s been a good day today, I like to support small independent businesses, but my local pharmacy has owed me Victoza since the end of June. A friend of mine 50 miles from me has had no problem getting hers. So I approached Boots and between them and my lovely surgery I now have some just in time for holibobs. Off away tomorrow so just pics of my evening meals from me for the next week!2023-09-07 19.31.05.jpeg
 
Evening all

Today:

Record-breaking temperatures well above the seasonal average expected here once again. Too hot to cook this morning, so prepared lunch first thing and refrigerated.

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: Appetiser: gazpacho
Salad using asparagus spears, snap peas, mung bean sprouts, cucumber matchsticks, shredded cabbage, Padrón chillies, basil, coriander and mint, dressed with avocado oil, ginger, garlic, lemon zest and a touch of lemon juice, topped with toasted almonds and cashews.
Water to drink.
Strawberries with Greek full-fat yoghurt.

D: Seafood salad made with king prawns, mussels, lettuce, sweet cicely, cherry toms, celery and salad onions dressed with home-made aioli for dipping and topped with walnut halves.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
I can't remember if I had breakfast!
There was a cwc at some point
L: 2 cheese on hilo toast with extra cheese and sliced Polish sausage.
1 flat peach

Afternoon was spent shopping then baking for an event in a couple of weeks. Being me, I kept tasting and it was all proper sugar. Just waiting for them to cool then in the freezer they go. I won't be going to the actual event so no danger of eating them myself.

D: was 2 90% sausages
 
Thursday 7 September bed 5.9 FBG 6.7 Another busy day. Usual school runs, gardeners arrived, mist held on today, Aqua class and eldest got out early for lunch (but he walked to ours). You're all correct. That was indeed a result with Amazon, and I fed back to Evri about how their courier went above and beyond.

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

L. A SRSLY sandwich with roast lamb and Dairylea cheese.

D. I wanted a hot dog. I still have SRSLY hot dog rolls in the freezer. I bought hot dog size GF tomato and pork sausages yesterday at the butcher's. A little white onion, mustard, ketchup, and crispy onions. Salad on the side. CC little chocolate pot with blackberries.

Physio tomorrow morning so he can have a good check on my legs. 20230907_184055.jpg
 
@DJC3 cayenne in the butter mayonnaise sounds good I added chilli flakes to mine today.
Just a quick recap I've been out just for a drink with friends had large glass of water and a large chilled dry white wine while out. Earlier ate
10ish two boiled eggs and one keto roll. I also had a taste of the peel from an amazing jar of Seville oranges marmalade - made by someone locally and bought at a church bazaar. Before diabetes I made a batch of it every year and gosh I so enjoyed that bit of orange peel!
1ish a few garden berries and yoghurt followed by two squares of 90% chocolate
5 ish chicken breast fried with bacon served with the butter Mayonnaise with added chilli flakes and a few peas.
@Rachox hope you enjoy your holiday and thrilled you managed to get some victoza as know it suits you.
@MrsA2 welcome back and as others have said well done in the face of massive temptation
@maglil55 well done on refund from Amazon I always find it hard to get a response. I had a message today while out that my parcel had been handed to resident today but luckily got back to find it outside our house it's often left at other houses.
 
2 smoked back bacon with mushrooms, sauted in butter.

Fresh ground coffee with double cream, frothed.

G&T was a welcome break from painting garden fences, think I'm now 1/3 finished ;)

Dinner was a huge prawn cocktail.

Fresh ground coffee with double cream, frothed.

2 squares of Lindt 90% chocolate
 
Breakfast: the remainder of the lamb and veg from yesterday (didn't need or want a further snack of ham or anything so only 2 meals yesterday - if you call strawberries and cream a meal).

2nd meal: found some more little boxes of some kind of stew in the freezer - this time it's just labelled "vegetables".

I salvaged what I could of the disastrous baklava and made another tray, which did work, last night. Today, I have a Genoa cake in the oven - another hour to go before it's done. Tomorrow afternoon I will make the blackberry cheesecake for my friend's birthday on Sunday. Keeping the savoury things as simple as possible - salads, proteins, butter mayo, shop made French batons, oatcakes. Traditional afternoon tea, of course, includes pretty little sandwiches but I'm not bothering with that - it will be a DIY open sandwich bar.
 
NOTE TO ME: Give up on broccoli as well as cauliflower. It's not quite as bad as cauli but still pretty painful. My stomach doesn't mind it, but further along the digestive route really does. Don't know which veggies are in the boxes out of the freezer but hope there was neither cauli nor broccoli in it.
 
Hi All
So back to yesterday.
Brekkie was usual slice LC toast, butter, copious tea (Builders v little milk, as I say just show the milk to it lol)
Lunch was pack of Rollitos, 6 strawberries.
Supper was chunky cod fingers with small side salad.
Today same brekkie.
Lunch han salad with a crumble of Shropshire Blue over top. Another 6 strawberries before the h/g ones disappear!
Supper will be skinless smoked haddock and scallops cooked in a little double cream (after frying v finely chopped shallot in a little butter) and a handful of freshly chopped parsley & tarragon at the end. Mine will be with cauli rice.
Mr P now back so need to put a bit more effort in to meals lol.
@Annb hug for the pain caused by cruciferous veg. Never easy to juggle all the needs of different conditions but you do it very well and with great patience.
 
3 egg mayonnaise for brunch.

Dinner will be roast lamb with cauliflower, cabbage and any stray runner beans that are still beaning (or is it running?) preceded either by a few walnuts or some unripe hazelnuts. No wine for the next 5 days (sigh).

If hungry between those 2 meals, will have a small Greek yoghurt, but hoping I can manage without.
 
Taurine capsules arrived in the post today - just a small pack to see if I can tolerate them but in any case, Neil says he was considering getting some to try, so we can try them together. Suggested to Alistair that DIL might like to try them to help reduce her BG but he says she drinks sugar free Red Bull (Yuk), so should be getting enough.

Frozen veggies defrosted and they are Mediterranean veggies - no cauli, no broccoli.

Oddly, it's not the cruciferae leaves that give me problems - just the flowering parts, nor is it the roots because I can eat swede, turnip, radish an so on with no issues at all.
Antje77 said:
@Annb , I want to make the fish with bacon you made a while back.
I have a nice chunky piece of cod and a pack of thinly sliced streaky bacon, can you tell me what to do with it? I can't find the post anymore.
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I cut the fish into pieces about 5 or 6 cm long by about 4 cm wide (that was to make it the same wide as deep). I put it in some lemon juice but no salt - I hoped the lemon juice would firm it up since I didn't want extra salt. Then I took rashers of streaky bacon (thin cut) and just wrapped them around the fish leaving the ends open (I felt I would have been better to have used toothpicks to hold them together but it worked allright without). Some more lemon juice squeezed over them and I laid them, bacon up in a baking dish and baked them in the oven at about 190C - my oven doesn't have a temperature guage any more so it's only a guess. Took them out after about 15 minutes when they looked done. The bacon wasn't very crisp but it was cooked.

If I had used toothpicks, I would have put them in fish ends up, spaced apart, and put some salt and extra butter on them, and I will do that next time. Neil bought me some Parma Ham and I will be trying again but using the P Ham and salmon this time - it's chunkier and I think it will work at least as well.
 
Thank you @Annb !

I didn't have lemon but I did butter the fish before adding salt and pepper, looking forward to eating them tonight!
I'll have them with @maglil55 's celeriac dauphinois, so all new foods to try today. :joyful:

Or at least I think this is celeriac dauphinois, I had no idea about the amounts. Does this look about right?

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