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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee (Yes @ianpspurs normal service resumed!)
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: LC roll with egg mayo and cucumber.

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Evening all

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

L: Salmon fillets baked with broccoli, mushrooms, double cream and lemon verbena.
Steamed French beans and mangetout smothered with butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

D Seafood salad using tiger prawns, brown shrimps, lettuce, baby plum tomatoes, Romano peppers, Kalamata olives, mint and salad onions, dressed with an olive oil, balsamic and garlic vinaigrette, topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
MrsA2 said:
Here are the pictures of the Chicken Cracling snack type product I found at a farm shop.
Like pork scratchings/crunchies but made from just chicken skin and seasoning. Tiny amounts of sugar, oils, rice flour..
Under 2g carbs entire packet, though I could only eat a third at a time.
If anyone finds them any where else please let me know.
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Amazon has them 10 × 40g bags for £19 something.

 
Advice please: I’m going to a charity Christmas fair at the Eden Project on Thurs. tickets cost £20 which includes a ‘light lunch’ and glass of wine. They’ve just emailed the lunch options. What on earth am I going to choose? IMG_3689.jpg
 
DJC3 said:
Advice please: I’m going to a charity Christmas fair at the Eden Project on Thurs. tickets cost £20 which includes a ‘light lunch’ and glass of wine. They’ve just emailed the lunch options. What on earth am I going to choose?
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Bring your own.
Or donate a smaller amount of money if you want to support them but don't attend, and go somewhere else for a nice lunch with the leftover money.
DJC3 said:
@Antje77 that’s great news re the onions. I’m often wary of adding too many but have never checked specifically.
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Same story today, I made some cauliflower mash to mix with the leftover onions and added some fried onions as well. Way more onions than cauliflower in this mash.
So slightly less onions than yesterday, less meat, and some added cauliflower mash.
Ate an hour ago, BG has gone up by 0.3.

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DJC3 said:
Advice please: I’m going to a charity Christmas fair at the Eden Project on Thurs. tickets cost £20 which includes a ‘light lunch’ and glass of wine. They’ve just emailed the lunch options. What on earth am I going to choose? View attachment 64428
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I would starve the day before and after to have a Cornish pasty!!! Just me!
 
DJC3 said:
Advice please: I’m going to a charity Christmas fair at the Eden Project on Thurs. tickets cost £20 which includes a ‘light lunch’ and glass of wine. They’ve just emailed the lunch options. What on earth am I going to choose? View attachment 64428
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A hard one but safest option is probably to eat filling of beef pasty not the pastry and hope not too many root veg or as @Antje77 says regard as a charity donation and take a low carb snack to have with your wine.Hope you enjoy the event even though lunch is not what you'd choose.
 
DJC3 said:
Advice please: I’m going to a charity Christmas fair at the Eden Project on Thurs. tickets cost £20 which includes a ‘light lunch’ and glass of wine. They’ve just emailed the lunch options. What on earth am I going to choose?
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Don't go. Just send a contribution to the charity. :happy:
 
DJC3 said:
Which new air fryer did you get? I’ve just bought a Ninja dual (a pre Christmas present for me). And one of their biggest newest ones for no 1 daughter. I’m keen to try a roast beef joint in the dehydrate setting which people on various fB groups are raving about.
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We bought this baby here: https://www.klarstein.co.uk/Kitchen...-and-bottom-heat-Digital-Stainless-Steel.html

it ships from Berlin, but buying from the co.uk website, no customs to pay

it has been used twice now - all good, although like anything new it’ll take a few uses to be fully comfortable. Easy to clean, bright light but not a small beastie.
 
DJC3 said:
Advice please: I’m going to a charity Christmas fair at the Eden Project on Thurs. tickets cost £20 which includes a ‘light lunch’ and glass of wine. They’ve just emailed the lunch options. What on earth am I going to choose? View attachment 64428
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Ask for just a plate of crispy fried sage leaves & 4 glasses of wine instead.... :sorry:
 
MrsA2 said:
Here are the pictures of the Chicken Cracling snack type product I found at a farm shop.
Like pork scratchings/crunchies but made from just chicken skin and seasoning. Tiny amounts of sugar, oils, rice flour..
Under 2g carbs entire packet, though I could only eat a third at a time.
If anyone finds them any where else please let me know.
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I buy chicken crackling in Thailand, when my more usual street food crackling dealer isn’t at the local night market. Delish.
 
Thanks for your speedy responses. @Annb @shelley262 @Antje77 (and another excellent BG result after the onions!) @PenguinMum ( your reply really made me laugh, I’m just not brave enough to do that though!)
I’ve already paid for the ticket so that’s a done deal and I can’t not go as I’m going with a friend for a day out and a bit of Christmas shopping. There are some good stall holders booked there apparently.
I expect the middle of the pasty will be mixed with lots of potatoes and onion, so unlikely to do my bg much good.
I think taking a lc snack with me might be the best option. I don’t want to not eat anything, I think that’d make my friend feel awkward and she might not enjoy her lunch if I’m not eating.
I’m glad they thought to email the lunch options, it was a bit of a shock but at least now I can be prepared. Thanks all.
 
DJC3 said:
Thanks for your speedy responses. @Annb @shelley262 @Antje77 (and another excellent BG result after the onions!) @PenguinMum ( your reply really made me laugh, I’m just not brave enough to do that though!)
I’ve already paid for the ticket so that’s a done deal and I can’t not go as I’m going with a friend for a day out and a bit of Christmas shopping. There are some good stall holders booked there apparently.
I expect the middle of the pasty will be mixed with lots of potatoes and onion, so unlikely to do my bg much good.
I think taking a lc snack with me might be the best option. I don’t want to not eat anything, I think that’d make my friend feel awkward and she might not enjoy her lunch if I’m not eating.
I’m glad they thought to email the lunch options, it was a bit of a shock but at least now I can be prepared. Thanks all.
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Paul has just said I must get the pasty and bring it home for him!
 
Thank you all for your get well wishes for my throat - this is such a wonderful community :D. It's still playing up, but it's not as painful as it was. It's the tickly cough that's now giving me a problem. The no sugar Cavonia for a tickly cough arrived yesterday, as did a box of no sugar Fisherman's Friends, menthol and blackcurrant lozenges. Haven't been taking the lozenges, although I desperately wanted to as I read they are nearly all carbohydrate, on closer inspection I see they are mostly carbs from polyols, so I think I'm quite safe to take a couple every hour or so?

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Through the morning I had a couple of chaffles, one I picked at during the morning, and the other with a spoonful of thick cream and keto maple syrup,

Had a shot of Aber Falls Welsh single malt which was a present from my brother from Wales, it wasn't too bad either, I was only testing of course :cool:

Dinner was a chicken breast, scored and smeared with a mix of Greek yoghurt, juice of a lemon and a couple spoonfuls of Pataks Korma paste, then baked. Was going to have cauli rice with but hubby didn't fancy it, and I couldn't be bothered cooking it for myself so we had the hm coleslaw from yesterday.

4 squares of 90% Lindt chocolate and a handful of walnuts.

Pleased you are now back where you belong @Rachox. Hope your DinL gets better soon @maglil55, think this thing is doing it's rounds.
 
DJC3 said:
Thanks for your speedy responses. @Annb @shelley262 @Antje77 (and another excellent BG result after the onions!) @PenguinMum ( your reply really made me laugh, I’m just not brave enough to do that though!)
I’ve already paid for the ticket so that’s a done deal and I can’t not go as I’m going with a friend for a day out and a bit of Christmas shopping. There are some good stall holders booked there apparently.
I expect the middle of the pasty will be mixed with lots of potatoes and onion, so unlikely to do my bg much good.
I think taking a lc snack with me might be the best option. I don’t want to not eat anything, I think that’d make my friend feel awkward and she might not enjoy her lunch if I’m not eating.
I’m glad they thought to email the lunch options, it was a bit of a shock but at least now I can be prepared. Thanks all.
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I'd order the Pumpkin soup, but only eat a small amount of it. I'd eat cheese I'd taken with me, or eat 2 or 3 eggs just before going so it looks like your joining in.
Or email back and ask if there could be a low carb option
Or choose whichever, test before and after and call it research!
 
 
MrsA2 said:
I'd order the Pumpkin soup, but only eat a small amount of it. I'd eat cheese I'd taken with me, or eat 2 or 3 eggs just before going so it looks like your joining in.
Or email back and ask if there could be a low carb option
Or choose whichever, test before and after and call it research!
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I’m rubbish at leaving half a meal if I’m enjoying it - no self control! But its a good plan to have a decent, filling breakfast beforehand so I’m not very hungry at lunch, then just take a snack to eat. ( and remember to bring a pasty back for Paul)
 
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