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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Wednesday 11 October - bed 7.6 FBG 7.4. Boys here today for dinner. That means multiple variations! They are also staying at the weekend, so I need to make sure I'm well stocked for two growing/hungry boys.

B. 2 slices of SRSLY with 2 cheese triangles and salami. TAG.

L. Benecol dairy free (forgot it at breakfast)

D. A very enjoyable buratta salad, with some of M&S large prawns (and salami). After producing 3 different meals it was quick and delicious! CC little chocolate pot with a couple of raspberries.

Thursday 12 October - bed 7.8 FBG 7.6

Aqua day. Later class on Thursdays. Boys are getting demob happy as well now!

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

L. A bit of crustless quiche.

D. I wasn't sure until I found some of my LC dressed salt and pepper squid in the freezer. Salad on the side & tartare sauce. Horrors! I've run out of little chocolate pots!!
 
Have a lovely holiday.
 
Friday 13 October - half day Friday & start of school holidays!! Sadly, my steam generator iron died on me after almost 10 years of good service. On the grounds I could not do without, that required an immediate search to find who had a similar model who was nearby. I ended up with the same manufacturer, but a very upgraded model. It's so much better than my original. Ironing was a pleasure (almost!)

B. TAG

L. 2 slices of SRSLY toast with cream cheese and deli roast pork (fresh from my butcher). Benecol dairy free.

D. Chicken breast, which had been marinating in black garlic. Salad of avocado, lettuce, and tomato on the side. CC little salted caramel pot with a raspberry and a blackberry on top! (I've restocked).

2 gins and soda with a dash of sugar-free strawberry. Required to set me up for the 2 bickering boys.

Uric acids are too high, so I'll be having a discussion on Tuesday with the doctor, but I suspect allopurinol will be added to my meds. Given the choice between that and more gout attacks, it's a no-brainer.
 
One meal today. Haddock fried in butter.

I've been cooking for a pot-luck brunch tomorrow. Blueberry muffins and a keto breakfast casserole. I did have a bit of one muffin to check what they were like. They were fine, but since then, I am not!

BG jumped by 5 almost immediately. Took some insulin to being it down, which it did, but it went back up to 11.0 after a while. Chest has been a bit tight for a few days (it happens now and again since covid in 2020) but I couldn't find my oxymeter. Found it today and %age is in the low 90's. Pulse is also measured on the meter and it was 115 bpm but has now dropped to 92/95 after a rest with my legs up. Did have a pain in my chest, but it has eased off. I shan't bother cooking or eating anything else today.
 
Sorry you're not feeling too good @Annb, I have a problem with my bpm every now and again, 6 months ago I made myself a plate of mixed cheeses, after which my bpm shot up to 130 and stayed there... it was a hospital job - Tyramine hormone in cheese was suspected to be the culprit. You're so wise to rest up.

Breakfast or rather brunch was at 11.30, consisting of streaky bacon rashers, a fried egg and 3 large sliced mushrooms sauteed in butter.

Coffee with double cream x 2

About 6pm, had one Scotch egg, it was quite filling, but really tasty.

2 squares of Lindt chocolate

Decided this morning I'd make some Scotch eggs, recipes I'd seen online said they were between 1g and 2g of carbs. The ones I made turned out to be 3.5 carbs and a whopping 530 calories each, not that I'm counting calories, just merely keeping an eye on them. I didn't have any 'proper' bangers in the freezer, only a packet of chipolatas. Coating was ground pork scratchings and cheddar cheese. Cooked in the air-fryer. Managed to make 4 of them, the rest will no doubt be eaten over the next few days.

Day's net carbs = 13.3g

 
Evening all

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 grated, extra mature Cheddar cheese.
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.

D: Seafood salad made with tiger prawns and mussels, rocket, avocado, cucumber, baby plum tomatoes, salad onions and Halkidiki olives with home-made aioli for dipping and topped with toasted pumpkin seeds.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
Cwc
B: 2 scrambled eggs
Decorating and cleaning
L: salad with St Agur and cheddar cheeses
Decorating and cleaning
3pm : a nut bar
Decorating and cleaning
D: savoy cabbage carbonara (bacon, onion, garlic, savoy cabbage, cream cheese, more cheese all stir fried until done)
3 glasses red (but 2 were very small)
Pud was a lidl chocolate protein pot, but split between the 3 of us and served with a tablespoon of double cream.
Whole pot was 12.4 g carbs but a third was only 4.
Didn't like it much on its own but the cream lifted it to rival the cc chocolate pots but at half the price per portion. @maglil55
 
Morning All so back to Friday
Brekkie usual slice LC toast cooled, butter and copious tea.
Lunch was last of the cheese from the Cotswold Cheese Shop (don’t remember heir names but very satisfying) and three small water biscuits. Tea.
Supper was Moules sans frites for me.

Saturday same brekkie.
Lunch was two eggs in eggs cups, chunks of cheese.
Supper was chicken shaslik and cauli rice, later Marmite peanuts (my bad!) and two gins & soda watching Strictly.
Today just had usual brekkie.
Lunch will try to skip ow something very small.
Supper will be bbq meat, plan two meaty sausages and a little chicken and will salad win out or mashed swede with butter (which needs cooking and sounds comforting in this chillier weather. Mr P was adamant that he wanted ONE MORE bbq this season! I would have gone for roast chicken, oh well!
 

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Feeling a lot better today - BG reasonable, pulse and oxy levels returned to fairly normal. That was a nasty reaction to something but unless it was something in blueberries which I really react to, I can't think what. That was the first time I've ever had blueberry. Other berries have never caused issues.

Breakfast: 2 RyVita with soft cheese.

Going to this pot luck brunch shortly so will possibly have some of the keto breakfast casserole - nothing in that to do me any harm.

Possibly nothing else all day but if I do get hungry, it will have to be either smoked salmon or parma ham.
 
Because I was going to this pot luck brunch, I just had a snack of RyVita with soft cheese around 9.30 am.

Libre alarm went off while I was there but the battery was in its last third of charge and, as often happens, refused to give a reading. I hadn't got a chance to check it before it went off completely, so I didn't know if it was low or high. Just had to wait it out and see what would happen. What happened was a hypo so I had a couple of chunks of watermelon - not enough so had some of the sort of keto breakfast casserole I'd taken with me (extra peas and sweetcorn). That stopped me sweating and shaking but still felt pretty awful for the rest of the time I was there. At home now and BG is 5.0.

Will, after all have a main meal today. Something with spinach which I forgot to put into the casserole and pork mince which should be used today. Nothing smart or clever, just mash it together somehow. Might add the remaining cooked swede to it. Doesn't sound very appetising, but it will fill a gap, so to speak.

One of the few times Tom offended me was when I had gone along on an expedition with a group of his cadets, to feed them all. Unfortunately, the college cook had been given a list of supplies I wanted but omitted to put in some essential ingredients for my plans so I ended up in a badly supplied kitchen, with no oil or butter, just a small quantity of lard, some tins of corned beef, an onion, some dried potato and a cooker which only had a grill working and an electric kettle. I cut the onion into tiny pieces and made a corned beef hash which I had to cook under the grill. It wasn't a great success, I have to acknowledge but felt quite injured when Tom said : "Ah well, it filled a gap."
 
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Haven't felt in control today, I'm not sure why....

The 3 remaining Scotch eggs sitting in the fridge has been a distraction for some reason. So they needed to be 'no more'!

Breakfast at 9.30am a cold Scotch egg.

Coffee with double cream at 10.30am

2.30pm had another Scotch egg, gave my husband the other one for his lunch.

Made two apple and plum crumbles, one for the freezer and one for hubby's deserts in the week. While baking I ate the Bramley's peel.

5.30pm - I was supposed to have a rib eye steak for tea, but I didn't fancy it. I made my husband a rib eye steak dinner, while I opened a tin of tuna, tuna was mixed with some mayo and half a chopped small Red Delicious apple from the garden - there's just one left now on the tree.

Carbs came in at a smidge under 20g, just wondering if I need those 2 squares of chocolate I've promised myself?
 
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Evening all

Today:

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

L: Aperitif: dry white wine
Baked whole sea bass, belly stuffed with sprigs of French tarragon and garlic, drizzled with olive oil.
Steamed French beans smothered with butter.
A medley of baked broccoli, red onions, leeks and garlic woodland mushrooms.
Water to drink.
Raspberries and Greek full-fat yoghurt.
Four squares, Montezuma's Absolute Black 100% chocolate.

D: Salad made with anchovy fillets, eggs, avocado, Padrón chillies, Welsh onions, lemon verbena and a touch of lemon juice, with a dollop of home-made aioli for dipping, topped with walnut halves.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
Hubby doesn't like them, so I suspect I'd eat the whole pot
The tiny pots limit me nicely.
 
Cwc
Not really B: 1 rasher bacon, 2 teaspoons egg mayo (taken from packed lunch I was making)
Decorating and cleaning
L: 3 egg mayo with 1 rasher bacon, 2 cherry Tom's and cucumber. Half a mini pork pie. A nut bar
Decorating and cleaning
4pm a lc hot chocolate with a splash of brandy in.
D: joint of beef cooked 11 hours in slow cooker with swede, onion and a slash red wine. Served with savoy cabbage and green beans. 1 glass red

Had been hoping today would be last of Decorating, but no another half day and at least the same of cleaning, never seen such a dirty house.
 
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