What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Evening all

Today:

B: Two eggs scrambled in butter with a generous dollop of double cream, sautéed chestnut mushrooms and baby plum tomatoes, sprinkled with 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 asparagus spears smothered with butter.
A medley of baked broccoli, onions, leeks, red and yellow sweet peppers with garlic chestnut mushrooms.
Water to drink.
Raspberries and Greek full-fat yoghurt.
Four squares, Montezuma's Absolute Black 100% chocolate.

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

D: Salad made with anchovy fillets, eggs, avocado, lettuce, Padrón chillies, salad onions, lemon verbena and a touch of lemon juice, with a dollop of home-made aioli for dipping, topped with pecan halves.

B: cwc, 1 hard boiled egg
Managed to time the dog walk to coincide with the Remembrance parade, on top of a hill. So cold most of the Brownies and Cubs ended up in tears! We had dressed for the weather and walk so were warm to start with but were cold by the end. The kids were only in sweat shirts.

Cwc
L: rump steak with broccoli and mixed veg. Too many tastes of a cinnamon roll.

D: little cheese, sauerkraut and pickled cabbage. Strawberries, walnuts, chopped 85% chocolate and a tablespoon greek yoghurt.
1 glass red

MrsA2 said:

B: cwc, 1 hard boiled egg
Managed to time the dog walk to coincide with the Remembrance parade, on top of a hill. So cold most of the Brownies and Cubs ended up in tears! We had dressed for the weather and walk so were warm to start with but were cold by the end. The kids were only in sweat shirts.

Cwc
L: rump steak with broccoli and mixed veg. Too many tastes of a cinnamon roll.

D: little cheese, sauerkraut and pickled cabbage. Strawberries, walnuts, chopped 85% chocolate and a tablespoon greek yoghurt.
1 glass red

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Hug for those kids. All the important folk at the wreath laying ceremony in London were wearing big, heavy coats to keep the cold out. Whoever was organising those children should, perhaps, have thought of that. I know they want to be in uniform but I doubt if those poor kids were thinking very much about the people who had given life and limb for their country.

Yesterday
1 x small mug of boiling water with chicken stock cube dissolved in it and a tablespoon of ACV
1 x small mug of decaf coffee/Options Belgian Chocolate made with water, topped up with cream
Several glasses of water
100ml kefir (thanks @shelley262)
Small handful of mixed nuts (no cashews or peanuts in the mix)
Dinner (supper) piece of haddock fried in lemon butter, with prawns, and purple sprouting broccoli. Just remembered the garlic cloves are still in the squisher thingy waiting to be squished into the butter.
2 tablespoons of plain yoghurt (low fat so added cream) as an experiment to see if it reignited my sweet craving - it didn’t yay.

Morning all. It's suddenly turned so dark here I've had to put the light on! I've looked for the Keto Chef website but could only find an American one so what am I doing wrong? Yesterday went out for lunch and had a carvery. I'm eating less so my levels are coming down. For my tea I had a tin of pink salmon with mayo and spring onion. I've also found a peppermint and licorice tea that is very tasty. Pensioners lunch today so taking my 2 crackers and cheese for afters. They don't give me potatoes and no carbs to speak of so I'm quite happy. I feel as if I'm in command! But I bet T2 has the last word! Have a good week folks

Found it!

Used 90 second bread coconut flour batter but fried it in some bacon fat left over from yesterday and had it with scrambled egg. Worked quite well as a breakfast, as long as I don't think of it as a substitute for bread.

2nd meal will be some more of the fish pie. Yesterday I had half of it, but it was far too much so today I will have half of the remaining half. Neil isn't feeling up to going shopping today so I'm short on veg so it will be on its own. Still there are a few vegetables in it.

Annb said:

Used 90 second bread coconut flour batter but fried it in some bacon fat left over from yesterday and had it with scrambled egg. Worked quite well as a breakfast, as long as I don't think of it as a substitute for bread.

2nd meal will be some more of the fish pie. Yesterday I had half of it, but it was far too much so today I will have half of the remaining half. Neil isn't feeling up to going shopping today so I'm short on veg so it will be on its own. Still there are a few vegetables in it.

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You’ve reminded me, I used to like that 90sec bread made into a cheese sandwich and fried in butter (bacon fat sounds good too) . That’ll be on my lunch list this week, thank you.

Scrambled eggs on SRSLY seedy toast for breakfast.
Nothing until a glass of goats milk kefir around 4pm
Dinner was fish pie using just cheese as a topping. Broccoli 2 ways: steamed florets plus chips made from the peeled stalk cut lengthways, tossed in oo and air fried.
25g Montezuma’s Absolute Black with orange. They have discontinued the mint variety which is disappointing.

Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Beef and butter
Cottage cheese and tomato
Keto roll and smoked salmon.
Felt hungry today and over ate.

Lots of tea early on
A babybel to take tablets, especially chemo one, at 10.00 am
Fage 5%, mixed nuts and seeds ( both Foodie Market) + blueberries around 11.00
CWC with the usual additions and a Dr Almond speculoos 13.00
H/m chicken Bretton, veg (celery, celeriac, kale, small sweet potato) and Punjab roasted massala soup. Plenty for another day plus Keto Chefs roll and butter around 3.00 pm after following a video workout
NLCK bœuf Bourguignon and their l/c sedani pasta
30 gms carb.

B: small handful walnuts and a couple of spoons of ff greek
Dog walk
L: at garden centre offering 2 for 1 lunches. What find, I had basil pesto courgetti with added Salami. One of nicest low carb I've ever had out. Could have had chicken or smoked salmon instead of the salami. Hubby had a pizza style sub, followed by large slice coffee cake. 2 coffees, all for £19

D: dusted basa fish on salad with sauerkraut and pickled cabbage. (Hubby had his fish in a sandwich, and fries)
Pud will be strawberries with yoghurt and chopped 85% chocolate

B kefir then fried one slice of bacon and egg on slice of KC low carb bread toasted
Busy and out all day but did make sure that the beef ( which I marinated overnight in ACV, seasonings and red wine ) was popped into slow cooker with some veggies so would greet us on return. I did take a few squares of 90% chocolate with me.
D slow cooked beef then pudding of berries and yoghurt.
@DJC3 agree with you it's sad about the mint being discontinued this was one of my favourites but hadn't seen it recently now I know why! I've recently been mainly eating the 90% Lindt as I've found some good offers but ought to bite the bullet cost wise and buy Montezuma s again it's more expensive a bar but I eat a lot less so better for me really and probably cheaper for that reason!

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: Blue cheese stir-fry using pointed cabbage, Blue Stilton, chestnut mushrooms, onion, thyme leaves, double cream and a touch of white wine vinegar, topped with finely chopped parsley.
Steamed French beans and mangetout smothered with butter.
Water to drink.

D: Seafood salad made with crab, brown shrimps, lettuce, celery, apple peel, baby plum tomatoes and mustard cress with a dollop of home-made aioli for dipping, topped with parsley and toasted almonds.
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: Balti chicken curry with cauliflower rice.

Finally found some Olinas seed crackers in Waitrose last week. Bought the last 3 packets. Popped back today hoping they'd restocked but no, still an empty shelf. They were among the "healthy snacks and protein bars and free from" . Not with the crackers

I did pick up these kallo vegan things. 6g carbs for 4. Bit bland tasting but suppose so are ordinary plain crackers. At least these have a snap and a crunch. There's a beetroot flavour as well but haven't tried them yet

Slightly overbaked 'fish fillet a la bordelaise' (Aldi, 8.something grams of carbs for a 200 gram portion) and a salad of cucumber, raw onion, endive and olives. Dressing was the leftover spicy mayo and yoghurt based garlic sauce that went with my shawarma yesterday with added salt and balsamic vinegar.
The combination of mayo and balsamic vinegar never gives a salad an appetising look, but it does taste good!

I also bought my neoprene swimming shoes today, and ordered the gloves which weren't available at the store.
And I bought one of those bright orange inflatable swimming buoys!
I think I'll feel much safer using it. Should I go hypo while swimming, I can just hold on to it and let one of the others push me back to shore instead of burning more glucose by swimming.
And I can take something sweet with me attatched to the buoy.
I don't think it'll make much of a difference, I'm only in the water for minutes right now, but psychologically it may make a real difference, even if it means I end up higher than I like because I took some extra sugar to swim a little farther away from safety.
So far, I went back quicker than I wanted every time for fear of hypos.

Major preparations going in our household, brother, sister-in-Law, niece, nieces' husband and their 18 month old little one are coming for an overnight visit on Wednesday. Seeing that we won't be seeing each other over Christmas, I thought it would be great to have a pretend 'Christmas Day' on Wednesday. My brother has lost a whopping 15kg doing low carb, so I'm afraid we'll all will be low carbing .

I've made some mincemeat for mince pies, using a few chopped dates, dried apricots and dried cranberries, sweetened with demerara alternative sweetener and flavoured with the usual Christmas spices, cinnamon, and all spice. Presently ingredients are soaking up brandy. A chopped pear or two will most probably be added to the mixture to bulk it out, provide a bit of moisture, and maybe reduce the carbs a bit. Obviously will be making low carb shortcrust pastry. It's no where near low carb, but I think this may have a little less carb impact than the normal fayre. Hoping for some mincemeat left to make more pies over the Christmas period. Main dinner is easy, cooking a turkey crown, with chipolatas, sausage meet stuffing, sprouts with bacon, cauli cheese, pigs in blankets, and roast potatoes and parsnips for those who're not watching their carbs. Pudding will be a Christmassey cheese cake. and a cheese board. Think the menu is all about damage limitation. Life does have to go on, so think a bit of indulgence won't hurt too much. That's my excuse anyway!

Didn't eat anything till 3pm when we had hm chicken soup, made from a carcass, onion, carrot, mushrooms and celery, served with double cream.

Gin and tonic

Dinner was 3 mozzarella chaffles without butter (Keto Twins recipe).

I seem to have been nibbling all day! Not looking forward to my Feet on the Floor reading tomorrow, as I was experimenting with food as well.

120ml kefir, about 12 mixed nuts throughout the day, decaf coffee/Options Belgian Chocolate with cream, 2 x Babybels
Dinner (supper): salmon, with prawns and mushrooms fried in butter, broccoli, 200ml plain low fat yoghurt (all the shop had) with a tablespoon of double cream.

Antje77 said:

Slightly overbaked 'fish fillet a la bordelaise' (Aldi, 8.something grams of carbs for a 200 gram portion) and a salad of cucumber, raw onion, endive and olives. Dressing was the leftover spicy mayo and yoghurt based garlic sauce that went with my shawarma yesterday with added salt and balsamic vinegar.
The combination of mayo and balsamic vinegar never gives a salad an appetising look, but it does taste good!

I also bought my neoprene swimming shoes today, and ordered the gloves which weren't available at the store.
And I bought one of those bright orange inflatable swimming buoys!
I think I'll feel much safer using it. Should I go hypo while swimming, I can just hold on to it and let one of the others push me back to shore instead of burning more glucose by swimming.
And I can take something sweet with me attatched to the buoy.
I don't think it'll make much of a difference, I'm only in the water for minutes right now, but psychologically it may make a real difference, even if it means I end up higher than I like because I took some extra sugar to swim a little farther away from safety.
So far, I went back quicker than I wanted every time for fear of hypos.

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Nice! I've looked for the Poisson à la Bordelaise or the broccoli one here, sadly, it seems they don't have them. Used to live in France & had them on the 'can't be bothered' evenings. Glad your tootsies will be a tad bit protected now for your dips & that you'll be a bit more relaxed. Okay, as relaxed as you can be getting in 8° water!

@MrsA2, pleased you found the Olina's, shame their shelving isn't the same in all stores. Plus the others, will look out for them, thanks.

Dinner was a ribeye with asparagus, mushrooms & only because I had to, a rather over ripe avocado.