What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

11ish fried a few garden tomatoes with one slice of bacon and one egg with one slice of LC toast (still got a couple of Hey lo low carb bread loaves in freezer - I freeze in slices separated by piece of kitchen towel so can toast one slice from frozen easily-- and I'm enjoying it ) plus small glass of kefir
1ish sauerkraut and small piece of vintage cheddar followed by the last 6 home grown raspberries with yoghurt then four squares of 90% chocolate
5ish salmon with lemon butter and a spoon of garden peas with glass of dry white wine followed by LC Blondie.

Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, slices of avocado and tiger prawns seasoned with black pepper.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.

L: Mushroom and spinach frittata made with eggs, extra mature Cheddar, leeks, double cream and thyme.
Salad using chicory, sweet cicely, celery, mint, Kalamata olives and salad onions, dressed with an olive oil, garlic and balsamic vinaigrette, topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to drink.
Skipped pudding.

D: Seafood salad made with brown shrimps, king prawns, lettuce, baby plum toms, celery, Halkidiki olives and Welsh onions dressed with home-made mayonnaise, topped with toasted sunflower and pumpkin seeds.
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: chilli con with cauliflower rice.

Cwc
B: A 90 second bread but played with recipe so ok-ish, with cheese

An incident in the morning upset me and I allowed it to let me emotionally eat and binge, the worst since diagnosis in 2019. Wearing a libre so topped out at 15.5, my highest ever, not proud.

D: 1 sausage slow cooked with cauliflower and swede
8pm 1 glass red.

Evening all.

9.30am had breakfast of streaky bacon, cut into julienne and fried till crispy, added a mixture of 2 eggs, cream and seasoning, then scrambled.

Coffee with double cream

2pm had a packet of pork scratchings. Didn't have a G&T today, hubby has a knee replacement op a week tomorrow and he's now refraining from alcohol, I kept him company.

5pm Aberdeen Angus beef mince made into a burger with a knob of Castillo blue cream cheese in the middle, served with a handful of lettuce and celery, and a teaspoon of salad cream.

2 squares of 90% dark chocolate

Peel from an eating apple (35g)

Only 8g carbs today.

DJC3 said:

@maglil55 my jabs were 2 weeks apart, it was the covid one which knocked me for 6. Had to look on my NHS app to see what type it was : Comirnaty. Never heard of it! Hope you get the Pfizer one. @Antje77 hope you are feeling less wrung out now. It only lasted a day with me. Glad you are also over the effects @PenguinMum , good to see you back.
@JenniferM55 I’m so glad you had a cramp free night, fingers crossed the electrolytes as recommended by @shelley262 are helping. Cramp is horrible.
Todays food started with goats milk kefir which is fast becoming my best drink of the day.
Black coffee, Aquafit class then quick lunch of scrambled eggs on SRSLY toast and a slice of garden apple to follow.
Out again, handful of almonds around 4pm.
Dinner was haddock with pork panko crumb fried in lard, with garlicky greens. 20g Montezuma’s Absolute black buttons to follow.
@shelley262 I’ve also started the Zoe ferments study but 3rd week might be difficult, Like you I’m on hols then ( and forgot about it) View attachment 63629

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Cominarty is the "new" name for the Pfizer jabs.

I was involved in the vaccine programme when it changed, so every patient receiving it had to have yet another piece of paper to read.

This is the NHS release on it: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/documents/impact-of-granting-a-conditional-marketing-authorisation-for-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-comirnaty/#:~:text=26 August 2021&text=Pfizer-BioNTech has been granted,the end of August 2021.

Edited to add: I see this has already been covered.

oh well..............

MrsA2 said:

An incident in the morning upset me and I allowed it to let me emotionally eat and binge, the worst since diagnosis in 2019. Wearing a libre so topped out at 15.5, my highest ever, not proud.

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Sometimes life happens, tomorrow is a new day!

Very odd day, both diabetes and food wise.
Applied a new sensor yesterday to start today, it didn't work. Phoned Abbott and had to give it two hours before giving up on the sensor. Plus an hour to warm up the new one and the old one left me with 4 hours without a sensor.
I felt adventurous and stubborn so I decided to dose for and eat my first (low carb) meal without doing a fingerprick now I didn't have a working sensor. Very cheap way to feel like you're living an adventurous life! I might even make a habit of it on sensor change days, I liked it.

I had a sound plan for a healthy low carb meal with sauerkraut and cauliflower mash.
But then I went to the neighbours-in-the-garden to ask to borrow their live mouse traps again (there's a mouse in my car still)...
Anyway, I've eaten a large meaty spicy snack thing (low carb), a miniature 'kaassoufflé' (small but not low carb), and two bitterballen (also small but not low carb) with a rather random amount of insulin while using a still warming up and uncalibrated sensor which kept shouting I was low (not true).

The bottle of rum on their table may or may not have influenced my choices.
No regrets, and it wasn't that many carbs, social stuff is important too (and so are kaassoufflé's).

Antje77 said:

No regrets, and it wasn't that many carbs, social stuff is important too (and so are kaassoufflé's).

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Well, maybe some regrets. Still at 8.2 with a fingerprick.
Still, I had a very good evening socially, which is important too.

Morning all. Went out for lunch with son and granddaughter and ordered sausage and mash with veg. Asked if I could forgo the mash and have extra veg and they were happy to oblige. When it came it consisted of 3 sausages and a heap of cabbage and a very small jug of gravy. It did not look appetising at all! Anyway for tea had a tin of salmon mixed with mayo and acv and that was appetising. Have a great day folks.

Lunch- 2 egg omlet with mushrooms, salad, greens fry, beans fry.

Breakfast: Salami - just having it right now. Only just managed to get organised for my cleaner coming and now there may be no time to make anything. There may be, but I never know when she will come.

2nd meal: Egg and bacon with maybe the left-over leeks and swede, if I'm feeling brave.

10ish small portion of kefir then bacon and egg with one slice of LC bread
1ish kimchi with a small cube of cheese followed by four squares of 90%chocolate
5ish slow cooked beef brisket with cauliflower cheese and glass of red wine then LC brownie
Will be away from this weekend on holiday for next week or so. Will be interesting to see how many low carb options are on offer at the Croatian Island hotel where we have a half board deal. It gets good reviews 're a wide choice of food supposedly but will report back when home again. Forecast a bit mixed but I'm determined to make the most with some exploration and hopefully sea swimming - my favourite.

Evening all

Here, the hot, sunny June and wet July produced a bumper crop of wild blackberries; perfect for rounding off a packed lunch on the hoof. What's more, the berries were ripe and ready for picking earlier than usual. Numbers are beginning to dwindle now though and it looks as though the season is set to end shortly.

Today:

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

L: Packed lunch made with leftover mushroom and spinach frittata.
Lettuce, Romano peppers, celery sticks and baby plum tomatoes 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 chicory, 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.

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 an Aldi protein bar.
Dinner: avocado with prawns, mayo and coleslaw.

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

Antje77 said:

I had a sound plan for a healthy low carb meal with sauerkraut and cauliflower mash.
But then I went to the neighbours-in-the-garden...

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So I had yesterdays planned meal today, again with a spoonful of Branston pickles mixed in the mash, and again it was very, very good!
I had a very decadent version of zuurkoolstamppot with sausage and pork belly done in three different ways: zuurkoolspek boiled, zuurkoolspek boiled and fried, and two paper-thin rashers of bacon.

Enough left for two more days too.

Evening everyone.

10.30am Coffee with 30mls of double cream
3.00pm Coffee with 30mls of double cream
4.30pm hm chicken and veg soup
6.00pm smoked salmon and cream cheese.

Don't really fancy any chocolate tonight, hopefully my appetite has changed.

13g of carbs.

Enjoy your hols @shelley262

B: 2 scrambled eggs
Decorating and cleaning
L: a Kind nut bar
Decorating and cleaning
D: 4 90% sausages, slow cooked in chopped tomatoes with Cauliflower and swede.
Surprise rise of 4 in bg. Was it perhaps the quantity as a smaller portion last night seemed to be OK.
A small glass red

break fast - 2 egg omelet with mushrooms, salad, cream cheese-1 spoon, stevia sweetened dish with almond flour & cream

Morning all. Yesterday went to son's house and we cooked bacon, egg and sausages thrown in. Also some tinned tomatoes. Was shocked to read 7.3g carbs in half a tin tomatoes! That was lunch cos I fasted till then. Tea was salmon, mayo and acv, very delicious. Think that's my favourite dish. Have a great holiday @shelley262. I'm going away for the weekend so won't be posting till perhaps Tuesday. Have a lovely weekend folks