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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

The fish in bacon looks about right - can't quite tell with the dauphinois
Antje77 said:
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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The fish and bacon look about right - can't tell about the dauphinois but I don't think you can go very far wrong if you have sliced celeriac, cream, butter and cheese, in whatever order you prefer. I put onion in it as well, but that might just be me. I did see (James Martin, I think) a cook heating milk and cream with onions in it, then straining them out before putting the milk onto potatoes. Don't see the point, myself, but each to his own.
 
Just realised that the salmon is out of date tomorrow, so I'd better revise my plans and have it wrapped in P Ham tonight. I can have it with the Mediterranean vegetables.

Em came in after school and brought with her some tomato soup that she had made - this was the first of a series of cookery lessons they will have - next week it is Empire biscuits. She was keen to tell me that there were no starchy carbs in the soup, so we had a little discussion about what carbs are in what foods. She gave me a taste of the soup, which she thinks is the best tomato soup she has ever tasted, and has taken the rest home for her Mum.

Her drawing is coming along well and she was showing me her method for drawing hands - a very difficult thing to master really so we had another chat about how hands are different shapes but how her method works pretty well with adjustments for all shapes. "Well, Granny, you know, I think if I am going to be any good as an artist, I will have to study anatomy." Didn't some other artist, some other time have the same thought?
 
10ish fried one slice of bacon, one egg and some of my home grown tomatoes and served with one slice of LC toast
1ish some garden berries with yoghurt and two squares of 90% chocolate
5ish salmon and some sliced garden beans and last of the butter mayonnaise. Had soda water to drink with splash of dry white wine. Just had LC brownie with decaffeinated coffee and cream.
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Evening all

Today:

Some cloud around this afternoon, so a degree or two cooler than Tuesday and Wednesday. We're volunteers at our local nature reserve and Friday is our day on the rota. Much as I love warm weather, I was thankful not to have the sun beating down on us all afternoon.

B: Two poached eggs with a knob of butter and avocado slices seasoned with black pepper, plus a wedge of teifi.
Water to swallow tablets
Double espresso.

L: Packed lunch made with leftover ceviche.
Lettuce, Romano peppers, celery sticks and cherry toms with a dollop of home-made mayonnaise for dipping.
Almonds and hazelnuts.
Water to drink.
Wild blackberries picked on the hoof to round off lunch.

D: Smoked salmon and cream cheese salad made with sweet cicely, vine tomatoes, lemon verbena, Kalamata olives and mustard cress, dressed with olive oil and a touch of lemon juice, topped with toasted pine nuts.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
Black coffee and water all morning.
Lunch was 50g h/m ox liver pate and cheese crisps. Did another exercise workout this morning and finally saw a 5 before lunch ( high five but any 5 is welcome)
BG after lunch was 7.1!! Ive had problems with liver spiking me before but this was only 50g total and included a lot of butter and some cream. Seems very harsh!
Dinner was airfried chicken thighs with Halloumi chips. No photo as it was all a bit beige and boring.
 
Friday 8 September - bed 6.9 FBG 7.1 Mist rolling in from the Forth yet again. It had burnt off when I worked my way through town to head to the Physio, but at the Physio, it was pretty poor visibility. I had to contend with double parked lorries and many U turns from other drivers. Road works on the way back caused more delays.

B. Very late on, TAG and LC granola with blackberries and sugar-free coconut milk. Benecol dairy free. It was so late I had to head off to collect the boys as soon as I finished it.

L. Nothing - I'd only just done breakfast!

D. I just repeated the hot dog and salad. I haven't had it yet, but I will probably have a little chocolate pot. It will have to be a couple of strawberries tonight.
 
Procrastination is a great way to cook a wonderful meal!

I'm going to apply for an actual job (part time work in the library), but this will be the first ever job in my 46 years of life needing an actual letter and resumé, so I've never written those.
Tackled the resumé on wednesday, very hard if you're starting from scratch with an odd history. Was busy yesterday, so fine not writing the motivation letter, and found myself suddenly all motivated to cook something interesting today, despite the heat. I only now realise what likely sparked that sudden motivation for cooking...

Never mind, I have until sunday to apply, and the food was great, so all is well. :joyful:

Thanks a lot for your recipes @maglil55 and @Annb , they made a wonderful meal!
Next time I make celeriac dauphinois I might pay some more attention to my pepper grinding though. Four or five layers of celeriac and the recipe calling for ground pepper on every one of them is dangerous if you're used to adding pepper only once or twice while cooking.
Still, while it's become a peppery dish, it didn't turn out too peppery so I'll happily eat a second portion tomorrow. :hungry:

Also, making a dish that needs the oven to be on for over an hour (15 minutes of preheating included) isn't the smartest thing when temperatures are already tropical. :banghead:

The meal was great though, and I absolutely enjoyed making and eating something new to me!

Celeriac dauphinois and cod in bacon:

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Had to be up early as workmen expected.
Can't remember breakfast exactly, think it might have been ff greek with almonds and chia seeds.
Lunch, for carb eating friends, green salad, coronation coleslaw, pasta salad with chicken, tomatoes, cucumber, ham, pork pies and sausage rolls, cous cous.
Pud was strawberries with cream whisked with yoghurt over a brownie. I had one
D: not really, picked at olives and ham at the pub while boys drank beer and finished off the pork pie and sausage rolls. I drank soda water.
Later 1 mini ice cream
 
Had breakfast early[ish] as we were taking an hour or so trip to Papworth Hospital for my husband's pacemaker check. Breakfast consisted of 2 rashers of smoked back bacon, a creamy scrambled egg, and mushrooms sauted in butter.

Dinner was unsmoked haddock fillet, coated with egg and almond flour, it took seconds to fry in butter. Accompanied by asparagus and cauli with butter mayo.

Thank you @DJC3 and @Annb - the butter mayo is brilliant, the recipe is a keeper and will become a staple in our house. The mayo is a thick consistency but it does 'melt' into a liquid form when next to hot food, a delicious hollandaise sauce.

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Looking in the freezer to see what I could use up, I found a box with home made corned beef in it, so that decided what breakfast would be. Also decided to push the carb level up a bit to do justice to the corned beef so made a sandwich. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy corned beef. Actually, I do also enjoy the tinned stuff but don't want some of the added things they put in so I never buy it these days.

2nd meal will be some stovies from the same shelf in the freezer. The sausage I used was broken up Lorne sausage and I used celeriac instead of potato plus, of course, some onion and some carrot.

I guess the carbs will be about 35 to 40 grams for both meals. Calories - absolutely no idea.
 
Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Sausages all day with tomato and cucumber
Plenty of water but bloods still higher than usual. 32 degrees!
 
Gosh, what a hot day! Shouldn't complain though. Had a sewing day as it was too hot outside, and made myself a pair of navy drill pants with winter weight fabric, they turned out a tiny bit smaller that I wanted, but they still fitted with a bit of tugging, by Christmas I'm hoping they will glide on ;)

Breakfast was 2 rashers of smoked bacon, a poached egg, and butter sautéed mushrooms

G&T with a bag of pork scratchings after 2pm.

Dinner was a thick slice of boiled gammon, poached egg with butter mayo on top, half a small apple from a young tree (red delicious) in the garden, celery, lettuce and 2 garden cherry tomatoes. Glass of red wine.

All this for 9.5g of carbs...... what a rotten diet :arghh:;)

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Breakfast two boiled eggs and keto buttered roll
Lunch LC lemon cake with a few garden berries and yoghurt
Dinner lamb curry with fresh chopped coriander and LC roti with a gin and soda water followed by decaffeinated coffee and two squares of 90% chocolate
Had a low carb bread delivery today and got it all split and frozen. Had last big delivery over 3 months ago from Seriously low carb and just emptied my freezer stocks and went to reorder but they had a promotion on yesterday so fruit loaf out of stock. so on recommendation of a LC friend I'm trying a new to me low carb bakery hey lo they were quick to deliver and also stock my favourite lc seed crackers olenas so able to spend enough for free delivery. I ordered yesterday lunchtime and they arrived 10am today and split and in freezer by 11! I cut up pieces of kitchen towel to separate the slices so can just grab a slice when needed and toast from frozen.
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Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs and scallops topped with chopped, flat-leaf parsley, asparagus spears with a knob of butter, all seasoned with black pepper.
Water to swallow tablets.
Espresso.

L: Aperitif: dry white wine
Tuna steaks rolled in finely chopped celery and sage, baked with sweet red peppers and aubergines, moistened with cream and topped with grated Cheddar cheese.
Steamed runner beans with a knob of butter.
Salad using lettuce, Romano peppers, vine tomatoes, Welsh onions, mint and Kalamata olives, dressed with an olive oil, garlic and balsamic vinaigrette and topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

D: Seafood salad made with tiger prawns and mussels, rocket, avocado, cucumber, salad burnet, cherry tomatoes, salad onions and Halkidiki olives with home-made aioli for dipping and topped with toasted pistachios.
 
Up way too early!
B: ff greek with frozen blackberries and chia seeds
Yoga, which felt gentle but really wiped me out
L: a new (to me ) cheese, parlicks with olives. A sheep cheese with olives in, was quite nice but prefer my olives on the side. Opened a pack of crackers I'd though would be low carb per slice, but the slices were so small that the carb count is actually quite high. Boys instructed to eat them up. Cheered myself up with some hm lc mango and coconut sorbet

Slept 2 hours!

D: prawns with salad including some hm coleslaw. Too many squares of 56% chocolate someone had bought me as a present.

Have kept off the alcohol though!
 
Fish fingers!

I really like fish fingers but they don't like me. Until I had this lightbulb moment today. :joyful:
I still had cod left, it was a big pack, but I didn't want to use the oven again in this heat.
Someone on this thread mentioned using mayonnaise instead of egg for sticking crust stuff on things a while back. So I cut my cod into fishfinger shapes (use scissors, much easier than a knife), spred salt, pepper and mayonnaise on them and rolled them through crushed pork scratchings. Fried them in butter and oil.
Absolutely amazing, glad I still have some fish left for more fish fingers tomorrow!

Had them with leftover celeriac dauphinois not looking its best after the microwave, but still tasting very good.

Next time I'll try with one of those cheap frozen and pressed blocks of fish, that's what's in cheap store bought fish fingers after all.

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You're correct @JenniferM55 it has been an incredibly hot day....and I decided to go raincoat shopping! Saturday 9 September bed and FBG both 6.7. I got my hair done early doors then headed out. "Inexplicably" my car headed for Dobbies where I can also find Lakeland, Hotter, and Cotton Traders....oh dear, and no Hubby with me, and they all had Sales on! 90 mins later I had 3 pairs of sale shoes from Hotter, a raincoat from Cotton Traders - 1/2 price, and a varying assortment from Lakeland (although I almost stuck to what I actually needed). Then I had to tackle food shopping.

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

L. Nothing. Much too occupied at the shops.

D. Cold cuts, roast pork, ox tongue, ham, roast beef. Lettuce, san marzano tomatoes,coleslaw, vegetable salad. CC Little chocolate pot with raspberries.

@Antje77 that's how my celeriac looks. I should have added that when you reheat on day 2, you will get a lot of oil from the cheese. Just fish it out. It still tastes great.
 
I’m in full-on snake mode at the moment having eaten the most enormous ribeye steak with a bit of butter on top. I don’t think I’ll be able to move for hours.
Breakfast was scrambled eggs.
@JenniferM55 the butter mayo is fab isn’t it? Goes with pretty much everything.
@Antje77 I hope you get your job application in Tomorrow, wishing you very good luck with it.
@maglil55 I sympathise with your roadworks. We have them seemingly every few yards. The latest set went up at the end of our lane this morning. I’m sure the council are trying to cut off our village completely from the rest of the world.
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