What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

dinner today- spinach-brocoli soup, salad with curd, mustard sauce dressing, homemade chocolate almond bread.

Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Beef and tomato
Salami, cheese and tomato
Lamb Hogget mint and red and yellow peppers.

10ish Two fried eggs and one slice of LC toast
1ish hm soup - last portion - with one slice of LC fruit loaf toasted, followed by peel of one local cox Apple and four squares of 90% chocolate ( really need to go back to 100% chocolate again but currently offers on the lindt 90% keep tempting me!)
5ish salmon with green beans and a few hm new potato chips with glass of dry white wine followed by LC rhubarb crumble with yoghurt

Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs smothered with butter and avocado slices seasoned with black pepper, plus a wedge of ewe's milk Beenleigh Blue.
Water to swallow tablet.
Double espresso.

Mid-morning black filter coffee.

L: Packed lunch made with leftover walnut and mushroom roast.
Lettuce, Romano peppers, celery sticks and baby plum tomatoes with a dollop of home-made mayonnaise for dipping.
Almonds and hazelnuts.
King prawns and brown shrimps.
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, mint and a touch of lemon juice, topped with toasted pine nuts.
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 phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: avocado with prawns, mayo and coleslaw.

Started early with goats milk kefir, then black coffee until breakfast at 10: eggs, cheese,avocado and sauerkraut.
5:30 dinner was a sort of Beef stroganoff with buttered cabbage noodles. A bit later I had a brandy coffee and handful of Montezuma’s Absolute black buttons.

Held out until 2.30pm to eat, except for a mug of coffee frothed with cream

At 2.30pm had hm chicken and veg soup

3.30pm G&T with a bag of pork scratchings

5pm dinner of hake fillet, tuna steak, 'cream cheese/double cream' sauce, halloumi chips, tender stalk broccoli spears

90% dark chocolate

The day's food was rather protein heavy, but carbs coming in under 14g

JenniferM55 said:

halloumi chips

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Your halloumi chips look amazing! How do you make them?

Antje77 said:

Thankfully I'm blessed with very good friends with a sound head, so I called my friend to help me out on this one. Together we worked out that my brain is being stupid, but we can't change that right now. Ordering a Turkish pizza with doner will have me need to work on diabetes until deep in the night, but this is much easier on my anxiety right now than dealing with special requests, so I'd better enjoy that lahmacun tomorrow!

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I had my very much not low carb meal today and I've just about dipped back in my comfortable range after some 5 hours. Took me a large dose up front and two substantial corrections, and now I'm on the lookout for going too low, sitting at 5.4 at the moment with active insulin on board. Didn't go ridiculously high though, hitting high 8's or low 9's at peak.

The lahmacun wasn't bad, and neither was the doner, for a small town pizza place in the country.
The problem is that half my life I lived in Amsterdam, right around the corner from the best doner place in the city...
So things are bound to disappoint compared to that. I'm just too spoilt.

B: ff greek with seeds and 8 blackberries
11:30 early lunch of a 90 second bread with some Blacksticks blue and half an avocado.
2:00 an iced decaff with milk in Starbucks (hate the place but it was convenient to meet someone) Had one taster bite of a cinnamon roll they were offering. Even that one bite, and the milk, sent me from 7 to 9.
6:30 Hotel meal of 1 kofta, followed by chicken and mushrooms . Had one spoonful of potato and quite a lot of cauliflower cheese. 2 white wines and 4 bites of melon. 5 to 9, not happy but it did come down quite quickly as then danced from 8 until midnight.
Going to bed on a 4.8, unusual for me

Antje77 said:

Your halloumi chips look amazing! How do you make them?

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Thank you, I only fried them in a couple of tablespoons of olive oil, got the oil really hot before I popped them in. It takes literally a few seconds before they are done, during which try not to blink just in case they get burnt

Morning all. Cwc for bf. Tuna mayo and small salad at lunchtime and belly pork slices air fried with steamed veg for dinner. That should keep me under 20g carbs. Yesterday my total was 26 and todays fbg was a disappointing 7.4 but I'm blaming the DP because I took it later than usual! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! Have a lovely weekend folks

Must have another go at halloumi fries - never really had much success with them because I have always tried to coat them. Maybe if I fry them, as you say @JenniferM55, in really hot oil and don't bother coating them, it will work.

Breakfast was butter chicken - the last pack of that in the freezer.

2nd meal will be beef pie. Experimental crust and if it doesn't work out, I can always scrape the filling off and have it on its own or with halloumi chips.

Lunch- egg omelet with mushroom in it, 2 spoons cream.cheese, salad, winter meron fry with curd in it, mix veg fry

Dinner- spinach broccoli soup, salad, winter melon with curd, peanuts roasted

Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Beef and butter
Biltong 30g
Smoked salmon x 2

Managed to fast till 4pm today, it does help to keep busy doing something you enjoy. I spent all morning and best part of the afternoon in the garden.

A packet of pork scratchings broke my fast, together with a well deserved (IMHO) G&T.

5.30pm dinner was hm chicken and veg soup with double cream.

2 squares 0f 90% Lindt chocolate

Carb count today 10g. Think I'll have an early night.... I'm pleasantly shattered

10ish two boiled eggs with keto roll
This morning was my annual flu jab - I've now got a sore arm so used as an excuse to have a more relaxed day as had planned gardening this pm but have delayed to tomorrow instead! While out I also went to a local harvest market and bought some ancient rare varieties of Apple's grown near us (wish could remember their names) they look very green and a bit misshapen but farmer says they are crisp and sharp so looking forward to trying a slice and some of the peel in a few days.
2ish a few garden raspberries and yoghurt followed by four squares of 90% chocolate
5ish lamb curry with LC roti and gin with soda water then LC brownie.

Evening all

Our Indian Summer has returned!

Today:

B: Two poached eggs and scallops with chopped, flat-leaf parsley, asparagus spears smothered with butter, all seasoned with black pepper.
Water to swallow tablet.
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 extra mature Cheddar.
Steamed runner beans smothered with 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.
Four squares, Montezuma's Absolute Black 100% chocolate.

S: Tea with dash of milk (gave me something to do with my hands while OH tucked into refreshments, none of which were diabetic-friendly).

D: Seafood salad made with tiger prawns and mussels, rocket, avocado, cucumber, last of the salad burnet, baby plum tomatoes, salad onions and Halkidiki olives with home-made aioli for dipping and topped with toasted sunflower and pumpkin seeds.
Water to swallow tablets.

solo091 said:

Ortolana authentic Italian pizza with mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, zucchinni, bell peppers, eggplants, artichokes, black olives,

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Did you use a regular pizza base or a lower carb alternative?
I have found some low carb alternatives to pizza I find acceptable, but so far none that really hit the pizza spot, so I'm always interested in alternatives.

And on finding acceptable alternatives to comfort foods, I had a big win today with cheese fondue!
(I'm lazy, so unlike my father I simply used a ready made pack of cheese fondue, 3.5 gr of carbs per 100, rather than making it from scratch. Did add garlic, black pepper and clove powder.)

Some people dip all kinds of raw veggies in their cheese fondue, or have it with a substantial side salad.
Not I.

Cheese fondue used to be a rare special festive meal with both my father and my mother, and the meal used to consist of the fondue and bread, nothing else.
Quite hard to replicate this in a low carb fashion, including the delightful guilty pleasure of not caring about veggies for a day. I'm sure cauliflower/carrots/celery/chicory dipped in cheese fondue tastes great, but that was not what I was after: having a very tasty salad when you expect a chocolate cake just doesn't cut it.

A low carb wrap turned out quite an acceptable bread substitute, and dipping chipolata sausages (3 for me, one for the dogs and cats) worked well as an addition because low carb wraps don't taste quite that good.
I even ate some of the bell pepper!

So cheese fondue is back on the menu for special occasions, and without making me sad.
Will use the leftover fondue to make something cheesy with cauliflower and leftover green beans, ideas on how to are welcome!

Friday 6 October - bed 6.7 FBG 7.6. I know some of you are having lovely weather, but it's really awful here. Non-stop heavy rain. There's going to be some flooding issues. Son was in Glasgow for a meeting, eldest here after school, youngest away with DIL.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SRSLY toast with cream cheese and salami. Benecol dairy free. Then gone by 8.45 to physio.

L. Nothing. Too busy ferrying people different places.

D. Air fried chicken drumsticks, sour cream dip, cheese coleslaw, avocado, and tomato salad. CC Little chocolate pot with raspberries.

Saturday 7 October - bed 7.7 FBG 7.6. It's still raining! Son wants to go to COSTCO, then shopping. Going out today required careful planning. I had to reroute twice due to severe flooding.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SRSLY toast with cream cheese and salami. Benecol dairy free.

L. A piece of crustless quiche

D. Cold cuts - ox tongue, ham, 1/2 slice corned beef, mini German sausage, chicken. Vegetable salad, coleslaw, and one tomato. CC little chocolate pot with raspberries.

@RosemaryJackson, it will be lovely for you to have your grandchildren about.

@shelley262- you've reminded me that I need to get online and book our flu & covid boosters.

@DJC3- my favourite was always a tia Maria coffee. Too much sugar now, so I've trained myself to "like" brandy coffee. I did have a gin and soda with a strawberry to cheer son's good news. He was encouraged by his manager (the job he only started 7 months ago) to apply for a managers job, and he got it! He's worked really hard, but even he didn't expect this.