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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

maglil55 said:
@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.
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I wouldn't dare fish it out, my dogs would never forgive me!
Instead I simply ate the meal and let the dogs do the washing up. :)
 
Second night of holibobs too tired to post last night but I had Chinese chicken and cashews, tried not to eat too much of the sauce and got away without much of a blip in blood sugar. Tonight (pic below), I gave away the top of the bun and all but six chips! Blood sugar steady again :)

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Tried a new oat recipe from a book Tom bought years ago (he loved oats) to see if it would suit my birthday friend today. it looked OK with no added sugar but with raisins, nuts and apples in it. Also had ff milk so I thought it should be allright for her. When I looked at the method, I wasn't so sure, but carried on regardless. It should have been an oat and fruit bar to be cut into squares. What a waste of an apple, nuts and raisins! It's just like cold porridge with some fruit and nuts through it. Might do for a breakfast, reheated and served with cream but not as an afternoon tea treat. I think I'll have to give up on the idea of oaty treats for this lady.

The blackberry cheesecake is looking fine though.

Breakfast: (no not failed oaty treat) bacon and egg (2 rashers streaky and 2 eggs).
2nd meal: cod in egg and ground up nuts, fried in butter and will try deep fried carrot as suggested by Alistair.
 
Managed to make my overnight fast last until 2.30pm, I broke it with 100g of mussels flavoured with salt and apple cider vinegar. Just as well I had them on their own, they are a little carby for my way of eating at 7.4g of carbs.

Dinner was a rib-eye steak cooked in butter, residue made a sauce with added cream. Cauli rice sauteed with butter, mushrooms poached in stock. Glass of wine.

A couple of tablespoons of cream mixed with half teaspoon of pure cocoa.

That's me finished.... my 4 hour eating window is now firmly closed!

What a relief, we've just had a thunderstorm, thought I was going to melt away (I wish ;) )
 
Skipped breakfast.
Late lunch of prawns, a very small peach and a small chunk of cheese.
Mid afternoon, a hm lc ice lolly made of chocolate avocado mousse and frozen
D: roast chicken, green beans, broccoli, carrot and gravy.

Not moving much, it's too hot. No sign of it breaking here yet
 
Sunday 10 September - bed 6.7 FBG 6.2. We've had a downpour, no thunderstorm. It's better than it was, but it's still humid. We're both feeling a bit Blurg with the humidity. Swimming lesson day, and they just had to have some other sports on at the same time. Parking was murder! He swam well for his first post accident swim.

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

L. Nothing

D. Lamb gigot chop, green beans, and asparagus, and I still had some celeriac, which became parmentier celeriac. CC little chocolate pot with raspberries. Campari and soda. Neither of us finished the lamb, veggies. It was still too humid.

That rib eye looked so good, @DJC3. 20230910_184657.jpg
 
Evening all

My kitchen faces north so stays cool most of the Summer. That said, with another scorcher in prospect, I changed today's lunch-time plans to avoid additional heat and humidity in the run-up to lunch.

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

L: Aperitif: dry white wine
Salad made with Beenleigh Blue and Teifi, lettuce, Romano peppers, celery, salad onions, cherry tomatoes, mint and Kalamata olives, dressed with an olive oil, garlic and balsamic vinaigrette and topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to drink.
Raspberries and Greek full-fat yoghurt.

D: Salad made with anchovy fillets, eggs, avocado, Padrón chillies, cucumber, salad burnet and a touch of lemon juice, with a dollop of aioli for dipping, topped with toasted almonds and chopped chervil.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
I spent most of the afternoon writing my first application letter ever (for a parttime job in the library). So 'breakfast' only happened at about 4pm, a slice of low carb bread with lots of cheese.
This, and the heat meant not getting hungry again at a decent time to cook, plus brain just said 'no' to everything except complaining about the heat after having been forced to write that letter.
Then a 2 hour phonecall during the time window where cooking would still have been a possibility. Very useful too, I know a lot more about possible questions and answers should I be invited for an interview now!

Long story short, I guess my evening meal will turn out to be an extended midnight snack of a double portion of chicory leaves dipped in hummus, and pork scratchings with aioli.

I hope the fish will still look and smell right tomorrow.
 
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Breakfast one slice of bacon, fried home grown tomatoes and two eggs ( broke yolk of one egg so added another one as felt cheated!) Also had first slice of LC Hey lo seeded bread toasted very tasty but definitely much smaller albeit thicker than other LC breads I've tried.
Lunch a few garden berries with yogurt and two squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner steak, onions, mushrooms and a few tomatoes and a glass of red wine followed by LC brownie and decaffeinated coffee.
Agree with others its still humid but temps thankfully are starting to drop. Love your feeling Blurg description @maglil55 sums it up really well.
@Antje77 good luck with your application I'm crossing fingers and toes for you.
 
Brunch today was 2 h/b eggs, Edam crisps and butter mayo.
Late afternoon we went out for our belated anniversary meal in Charlestown where they shot a lot of the Poldark tv series. I used one of my ‘lieu days’ so I could have a couple of glasses of wine and some veg.
Started with a glass of Prosecco on the house! Very timely as we were just deciding whether or not to push the boat out and start with a glass of champagne which was £14 /glass!!
Starter was locally caught mackerel fillet on heritage tomato salad.
Main was slow roast beef. I asked to swap the carby sides for more greens and was happy with a big pile of steamed savoy cabbage with lots of butter. 1 small glass red.
There was a live band playing in the harbour when we’d finished so we spent a nice 1/2 hr listening in the sun before going home.
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Antje77 said:
Long story short, I guess my evening meal will turn out to be an extended midnight snack of a double portion of chicory leaves dipped in hummus, and pork scratchings with aioli.

I hope the fish will still look and smell right tomorrow.
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Change of plan!
My own post made me hungry so I made fish fingers (fish, salt, peper, mayo for stickyness. crushed pork scratchings) after all.
I did decide that cooking something was better than cooking nothing so I didn't bother with veggies or salad. If I call it carnivore instead of lazy it even sounds like a balanced and thought out meal! :hilarious:
 
Stuck with the bacon and eggs today after all. Very busy getting organised for the "Afternoon tea" for my friend's birthday and by the time they arrived I could barely move. To be sociable I had a couple of pieces of cheese while everyone else was having the goodies but that was enough to satisfy any pangs of hunger I might have had. Must use the fish tomorrow.

I made some butter mayo for the salads but wasn't keen (I did try a little of it). Too thin for my liking and I think I prefer mayo with olive oil as usual.

Just remembered - I did have something else - a Banbury cake. Very nice. But very bad for my BG which went up into the 11's and is still in the 10's. Ah well, never mind. Tomorrow's another day.

My friend has been told that she is T2 and given some odd recommendatins for her diet. However, it turns out that she doesn't test her BG - has been told that she doesn't need to because she isn't on insulin. She goes in to the clinic once a month to have her BG tested. Apparently it was 50 last time - obviously using a system I'm not familiar with so I have no idea what that means, unless that is HBA1c, in which case her result is better than mine. She has no idea of what it means either.
 
Breakfast: Egg mayo (left over from yesterday) with a couple of RyVita.

Must use the fish today for my 2nd meal.

Haven't really recovered from yesterday but today I have my Zoom "Move More" class and this afternoon the "Counterweight" session at the Sports Centre in Stornoway. Not sure I'll survive!
 
Hi All
So back to Saturday..
Usual brekkie of slice LC toast, butter, lots of tea.
Lunch was 2 soft boiled eggs, ramekin of strawberries.
Supper was t/a of Tandoori King Prawns and cauli bhajee, one popadom and couple large glasses of cold Rose.
Yesterday same brekkie.
Same lunch also, having a real thing with eggs in egg cups atm.
Supper was Mr P’s bbq selection, two types marinated chicken, meaty sausages and pork ribs. Small side salad.
Today boring I know but same brekkie and lunch.
Supper will also be repeat of leftover cold bbq meat and side salad.
@DJC3 belated happy anniversary, that mackerel starter looking dab and nice touch to start with a glass of fizz on the house.
@Antje77 well done on the job application, I would struggle now, too rusty, hope you are successful. Good luck also on making fish fingers! I buy the chunky premium kind but I know there are some awful cheap versions out there!
 
@DJC3 and @Rachox plus heads up for others who may be interested - I watched them live at the time - the PHC 2023 conference talks are being released for free from this evening on you tube they are on a staggered release but start with the imho excellent Dr Ben Bikman edit link still active click on watch on YouTube

Busy out and about most of day so black coffee and two boiled eggs I'd taken with me to power me along.
Dinner chilli chicken with some onion with a LC wrap some kimchi and home grown tomato salad
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Pudding had a few garden berries and yoghurt.
 
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