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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Evening all

Beautiful weather here; warm sunshine, but puffs of fair weather cumulus cloud and a gentle breeze meant it was never uncomfortably hot.

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 almonds.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

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 pumpkin seeds.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
10ish fried one slice of bacon, egg and some tomatoes from garden
1ish small amount of yogurt and a few berries - 2nd cropping almost over now just a few to come over next week or so I think. Tomatoes also only a few weeks left.
4ish very early as meeting friends for a drink, small steak and some mushrooms
Out - just back - had a wonderful few hours of catch up with longstanding friends and various celebrations and two small glasses of red wine. The long uphill walk home and probably the wine built up some hunger so indulged in a few LC seeded biscuits and cheese and one square of 90% chocolate with a decaffeinated coffee. Definitely broke my not eating in the evening rule today but really enjoyed my evening. Early out in the morning though to pick up Cooper our youngest sons poodle and bring him to ours for a few days so will have an eating gap now until lunchtime tomorrow.
 
Second to last night of holibobs will have dinner tomorrow night before we head home. Tonight Poulet Breton at Café Rouge. Chicken in a mushroom, cream and leek sauce with green beans. Very dim lighting!

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So back to yesterday.
Brekkie usual slice LC toast, butter, copious tea.
Lunch was two soft boiled eggs followed by 4 strawberries (all that was left!)
Supper was chunky cod fingers and cauli cheese.
Same brekkie today.
Lunch likely to be boiled eggs and ramekin of strawberries again.
Supper will be food prepped for friends coming to stay for a few days. Have made cottage pie, with a corner of buttery mashed swede for me. Afters will be apple & blackberry (from our garden) crumble with traditional flour based crumble due to nut allergies. I will have a small portion of the fruit (though it has sugar in, due to allergies again) with a big spoon of Fage Greek yogurt.
It will be a lovely catch up weekend with very old friends but I will need to be on constant carb alert. Eating out for early dinner tomorrow and big cheeseboard and wine when we get back. Note to self: ignore the crackers, grapes and chutney!
 
Breakfast: Thin slices of belly pork with 2 fried eggs.

2nd meal: Duck breast, probably with cabbage cooked with some sour cherries.

Legs very bad this morning but there's lots to do so I'll just have to get on with it and hope the pain killers keep me going. Not happy to find that I am putting weight back on and that my BG control is slipping. That's just since I went to the Counterweight class. I thought I was just recording what I eat , not changing it, but I must be so will have to tighten the reins a bit more and see where that gets me. Bought a new, big, sweatshirt online (Fruit of the Loom) and it was a bit big across the shoulders and too long in the arms, but it cut in sharply under my bulging abdomen and looked awful. Neil has now inherited a bright blue sweatshirt which fits him perfectly. He doesn't have much of a tum since he came off the steroids.
 
PenguinMum said:
So back to yesterday.
Brekkie usual slice LC toast, butter, copious tea.
Lunch was two soft boiled eggs followed by 4 strawberries (all that was left!)
Supper was chunky cod fingers and cauli cheese.
Same brekkie today.
Lunch likely to be boiled eggs and ramekin of strawberries again.
Supper will be food prepped for friends coming to stay for a few days. Have made cottage pie, with a corner of buttery mashed swede for me. Afters will be apple & blackberry (from our garden) crumble with traditional flour based crumble due to nut allergies. I will have a small portion of the fruit (though it has sugar in, due to allergies again) with a big spoon of Fage Greek yogurt.
It will be a lovely catch up weekend with very old friends but I will need to be on constant carb alert. Eating out for early dinner tomorrow and big cheeseboard and wine when we get back. Note to self: ignore the crackers, grapes and chutney!
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We're getting together with all my former workmates and spouses next week in York. More than one of us has dietary requirements, but we are booked into restaurants I know and that are adaptable for everyone. As you say, it's lovely to catch up. You may recall it was Bath last year. I'm looking forward to eating out every night!
 
Thursday 14 September - bed 6.4 FBG 6.7. Spent most of the day thinking it was Friday as they are on holiday until Tuesday now. Grandson's "varsity" jacket he wanted for his birthday arrived today. Black with white sleeves, and he wanted 2 letters on it. He did specify red for the letters, but they offered white. It's quite smart.

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

L. A cheese triangle on the move as I was at my aqua class.

D. After getting boys home (via the Fort with eldest for Guinea pig supplies), 2 pork loin chops, lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, egg mayo. CC little chocolate pot (2 of them!) 4 blackberries. 20230914_184857.jpg
 
Out first thing picking up Cooper dog.
12ish one fried egg on LC toast followed by a few berries and yoghurt and two squares of 90% chocolate
3ish after very long forest dog walk a LC ginger cookie
5ish salmon in lemon butter with cauliflower cheese and glass of dry white wine followed by LC chocolate brownie and decaffeinated coffee
Off for another lovely dog walk in about half an hour. Making the most of his stay as he goes back home in a few days.
 
Evening all

Today:

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

L: Packed lunch made with leftover spinach and mushroom frittata.
Lettuce, Romano peppers, celery sticks and cherry toms with a dollop of homemade mayonnaise for dipping.
Almonds and hazelnuts.
Water to drink.
Wild blackberries to round off lunch.

D: Smoked salmon and cream cheese salad made with sweet cicely, baby plum tomatoes, mint, Kalamata olives and mustard cress, dressed with olive oil and a touch of lemon juice, topped with toasted pine nuts.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
Antje77 said:
Finally a real cooking day, made enough for 3 days too. :)

Zuurkoolstamppot (cauliflower purée mixed with sauerkraut) a kind of German smoked sausage and some pieces of 'zuurkoolspek' (sauerkraut pork belly). Yes, this variety of pork belly is really named after the dish it's meant to go with. Not a fancy new selling strategy either, zuurkoolspek has been around for at least as long as my parents have lived. It's a brined piece of pork belly meant to be boiled. Frying after boiling is optional, so I had one slice boiled and soft enough to melt in your mouth, and two fried. Still don't know which I like better.

The stamppot turned out unusally good. I added a spoonful of mustard, and a spoonful of Branston pickles, and I think the last did the job of turning a good dish into an amazing one!
You don't exactly taste the pickles but there's much more flavour as a whole.
Also, I'm pretty sure this is the first time ever that someone had zuurkoolstamppot with Branston pickles, which makes me happy! :joyful:

I bought my only pot of Branston pickles almost a year ago on my holiday in the UK. The less I had left, the more frugal I used it lest the pot would be empty one day.
Happy to inform you that the stuff simply doesn't go off, I haven't even kept it in the fridge and it has been opened for almost a year!
Even happier to let you know that my neighbours down the road went to Scotland with their camper this summer and I boldly ordered more pickles. So there's 3 more pots of them in the larder, and the only reason to use it sparingly now is the carb content. :happy:


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Before getting to the end of your post, I was getting ready to volunteer an aid parcel for you. You have enjoyed that Branston SO much!
 
AndBreathe said:
Before getting to the end of your post, I was getting ready to volunteer an aid parcel for you. You have enjoyed that Branston SO much!
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Thank you! :joyful:
I'm all good for the next year, and with some luck I'll be able to buy more in about a year myself. I hope to see you again too. :)

Good thing there are no parcels needed, I've lost all my trust between your Royal Mail and our PostNL. A friend sent me a parcel some two months ago and it has vanished. Was really looking forward to it too because the contents were a surprise! :mad:

On topic: Same meal as yesterday and the day before yesterday, very nice zuurkoolstamppot with zuurkoolspek and rookworst.
Next week will be interesting. I'll be sailing with a large group of people with a learning disability. As a rule, you eat with the group but that's likely to be mostly impossible. I expect lots of improvising and cold food, and I'll make up for 5 days of lack of vitamins when I get back.
 
Lots of lovely pics of delicious food!:)

Dismantled the row of tomatoes, the harvest is now stewing in a slow cooker with sauteed onion, garlic, and oregano. I'll be making little portions of the sauce to store in the freezer, the contents will no doubt turn into a non-pasta sauce with mince, or adding to veg soups, over the coming months. Hopefully the little portions will help with balancing carbs as Tomatoes can be carby.

Managed to get to 2pm on only carbonated water except for a coffee with cream at 10am.

G&T

5pm (ish) had a butterfly-ed salmon steak with cream sauce, sauteed cauli rice in butter.

Was a bit greedy with the Lindt 90% chocolate, I had 4 squares tonight :oops:. All within my 20g of carbs per day.
 
JenniferM55 said:
Lots of lovely pics of delicious food!:)

Dismantled the row of tomatoes, the harvest is now stewing in a slow cooker with sauteed onion, garlic, and oregano. I'll be making little portions of the sauce to store in the freezer, the contents will no doubt turn into a non-pasta sauce with mince, or adding to veg soups, over the coming months. Hopefully the little portions will help with balancing carbs as Tomatoes can be carby.

Managed to get to 2pm on only carbonated water except for a coffee with cream at 10am.

G&T

5pm (ish) had a butterfly-ed salmon steak with cream sauce, sauteed cauli rice in butter.

Was a bit greedy with the Lindt 90% chocolate, I had 4 squares tonight :oops:. All within my 20g of carbs per day.
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Think I may be doing a Similar thing with my tomatoes sometime this coming week. I find it a sad time of year as garden crops start to finish but great if you can get some frozen for the Autumn \winter. Like you I can easily get tempted by the lindt 90%.
 
JenniferM55 said:
Hopefully the little portions will help with balancing carbs as Tomatoes can be carby.
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Have you tried them using a glucose meter?
The internet tells me that tomatoes are less than 5 grams of carbs per 100 gram (of course depending on type and ripeness), and I happily eat away in them cooked or raw without noticing much of a rise in BG.
 
@shelley262 so glad Cooper is visiting. Any chance of an up to date pic?

b: ff greek with seeds
lovely forest walk on way to Lidl.
l: 4 hm lc seed crackers with a little coleslaw and 2 chicken thighs.
spent the afternoon alternating between baking and cementing! The cementing yesterday seemed to raise my bg even though most of it was done sitting down. Today that and the carby baking meant I was up to 10 a few times.
walked to our local brewery, had one white wine. Nibbled on cheddar and olives. Walked home again. Bg back to 5 for a while.

I didn't actually eat any of the baking, just tasting, but still libre shows me it was too much for me
 
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