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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Yes, I know the expression 'to kick the bucket', I meant I never saw the expression 'to turn the corner' for recovering after illness.
The giggle was because the translation means kicking the bucket in Dutch (so that's how I read it for a second before making sense of the post), not something you usually say to people who are feeling unwell!
 
Oh dear what have I done….lost in translation!!!
 
Belated happy birthday @maglil55 and @jessj . @Antje77 wonderful meal.
2 babybels and 2 mugs of tea
2 slices KC bread toast with Wagyu dripping (+ Himalyan pink salt) from the brisket we cooked some time ago. A local butcher (not advertising just showing the products) does 20% off Wagyu each Wednesday CWC with syrup and Ceylon cinnamon
Almond milk cocoa/hot chocolate - Aldi cocoa powder, sweetener
Leg of lamb (½ price in Sainsbury’s) celeriac creamed/pureed, roasted broccoli, cauliflower and creamed baby spinach with nutmeg, gravy from the lamb and veg. 1 glass of red. JKP and MIL like leg of lamb but I really don't - I prefer shoulder (the animal walks about using those muscles all its life. It is surely never going to be succulent like shoulder. I’m aware I’m blessed to be able to make these choices) studding it with anchovies and garlic helps somewhat but we forgot - rushed off to see granddaughter in a ballet concert. Looking at the cals I should have had/may later have some red fox cheese and Fenland celery. Maybe I'll find the bourbon later as it is NFL time. I added gravy. Veggies were good - sadly, leg of lamb was what leg of lamb is. MIL/JKP wouldn't eat it pink
 

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Sorry - misunderstood your post.
 
Rushing out but was going to be out all day so took time to put dinner in slow cooker and have proper breakfast
B kefir then fried a few small tomatoes, one slice of bacon and egg and had with slice of LC toast then headed off for day - just some black coffee during outing.
D slow cooked beef casserole served with French beans and glass of red wine followed by LC crumble
Day included a hike but no views as mist was very dense - we all agreed it was atmospheric and wintry. Enjoyed spending family time together despite the weather.
 
My salmon and Mediterranean type vegetables were cooked very well in the "Wonderbag" but I think I left it too long because it was quite cool by the time I opened the bag up. Edible and quite a lot left for another meal or 2 but there was only one bit of salmon, so I'll have to add something else to it for another meal.

I'll try it again with some meat and see if that works but will have to open it up earlier. This time I left it for 7 hours, maybe 5 would have done. It's all trial and error at the moment.
 
@Antje77 your family do sounded fantastic. Re Yarg they also make a variety wrapped in wild garlic which obviously gives it just a hint of garlic flavour. Its delicious.
Belated happy birthday wishes to @jessj and @maglil55 ( btw thank you for the reminder about low carb Baileys!)
@JenniferM55 I make swede mash with a ton of butter and a hand blender so it’s a creamy puree really, rather than mash. Lots of pepper too of course. It goes down well even with swede haters.
@PenguinMum I’m with Mr P, I’ve become really intolerant of crowds and traffic, but in such circumstances it has to be done. Such exciting times ahead for you all.
I had a nice day today. Granddaughters stayed overnight. Scrambled eggs on toast (SRSLY for me) for breakfast.
Later a family trip to the theatre in Plymouth. Crossing the border always calls for a visit to Nando’s so that was second and final meal. 1/2 chicken ( medium hot) rainbow slaw, long stem broccoli and a side of halloumi. I did intend to bring the chicken leg home for tomorrow’s lunch but instead I ate the lot.
 
Evening all

Belated birthday wishes @maglil55 and @jessj

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 a good grinding of 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, cauliflower, onions, and sweet red peppers.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.
Four squares, Montezuma's Absolute Black 100% chocolate.

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.
 
Sunday 26 November - bed 6.6 FBG 7.6 - Fish meals seem to agree with me. Back to normal today, although this cold continues to torment me. It's a weird one. One moment you feel OK, the next the cough starts again and it's exhausting. Took the youngest to his swimming lesson today, too. @jessj - you're the second person I've come across that was born 25/11 (although I suspect I have more than a few years on you even if I normally don't feel old!)

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

L. Nothing - at swimming with the wee fellow.

D. Hubby cooked! Roast chicken, green beans, one small boiled potato. Campari and soda. CC little chocolate pot with raspberries. I had a teaspoon of thick brandy cream on it (to ease my throat
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I did laugh at the "kick the bucket," "turn the corner," saga. It was so funny. Started me coughing again, though.
 
DJC3 said:
Re Yarg they also make a variety wrapped in wild garlic which obviously gives it just a hint of garlic flavour. Its delicious.
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Do they sell yarg up north? Like north of the line between Hull and Liverpool?
I might need to start a thread on cheeses (and other stuff) I need to buy when I visit the UK again next year...
maglil55 said:
I did laugh at the "kick the bucket," "turn the corner," saga. It was so funny. Started me coughing again, though.
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Glad we made you laugh, sorry for the cough though.
Still, if you're going to be coughing anyway, it being from laughing isn't the worst!

Today was one of my go-to meals I hadn't had in a while: green beans, onion, mushrooms and some leftover bell pepper, spiced up with black beans in chilli oil and a black bean and garlic sauce, with marinated pork belly pieces and a fried egg.
The pork belly pieces weren't as nice as usual, coming from the oven, and my neighbour complained about his roll taking ages this afternoon. I'm afraid I killed his cheap electric oven last week when I accidentally left it on for some 20 hours on high...
(His oven is in the shared barn attatched to my house, and it's much quicker than my own ancient gas oven which needs 15 minutes of preheating, hence my using his.)

Still a tasty meal, as proven by the picture. (Forgot to take a pic until right after I finished eating.)
I made enough of this meal for 4 days, but planned to cook the meat separately every day. With the dodgy oven, a change of plan may be in order.

 
B: 1 fried egg on 1 slice livlife bread.
Long (2 hour) walk with a friend. I'd planned it to finish at a Christmas fair in the next village but 2, but when we got there I'd taken us to the wrong hall. The right one was another 30 minutes away so we gave up and hubby came to drive us home. Was still a good walk and a very good catch up chat though.

L: cheese with seedy crackers. Later 1 hm kc muffin and 1 sq coffee walnut cake

D: hm beef curry with stri fry cabbage and veg. Did have 1 onion bhaji.
Boys had rhubarb crumble and custard for pudding and I couldn't resist a small spoonful, but I didn't really like it. Too sticky and synthetic tasting
2 glasses white wine with soda. Even this was tasting sweet today.
 
Antje77 said:
Do they sell yarg up north? Like north of the line between Hull and Liverpool?
I might need to start a thread on cheeses (and other stuff) I need to buy when I visit the UK again next year...
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I don’t know I’m afraid. It’s not usually found with the prepacked cheeses in supermarkets but it might be available if there’s a deli counter, otherwise a proper cheese shop. ( sadly rare as hens teeth)
Maybe others on here who live up north can answer?
A cheese thread is a great idea!
 
DJC3 said:
A cheese thread is a great idea!
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Here it is!

Fantastic cheeses and where to find them

There's been mouth-watering talk of Wensleydale, Shropshire Blue, yarg, Lancashire cheese, stinky French cheese, cheese hampers, Montgomery's mature cheddar truckle, Stoney Cross and more on different threads. Most of those cheeses are unavailable in my country, and often unavailable of good...
www.diabetes.co.uk
 
Breakfast soon - mushroom and onion chowder.

2nd meal: an experiment with stuffed cabbage leaves. I'll use the rest of the pork sausage meat and mix in some vegetables and some cheese and fill the leaves with that and bake them in ramekins. I saw Michel Roux doing somethng like that with aubergines to line the ramekins and filled with Mediterranean vegetables so I thought I'd try a Scottish version of it. Might make some swede mash to go with it. Seeing that mentioned the last few days has made me want to have another try at it.
 
Morning all. First off.... belated birthday wishes to@Maglil55 and @jessj and anyone else who is having or has had a birthday that I've missed! And @Annb, what is a wonderbag? Sounds magical. Pensioner's lunch today so I have to be careful. Bless 'em, they do their best to help me control the diabetes and I am taking a sf jelly with double cream for afters so tea has to be carb free. Wish me luck, I'm notoriously weak-willed! I have one more Forget-me-not club to go to, then I'm packing it up. It's basically all the cakes you can eat and all the tea/coffee you can drink and it does me no good at all. And I can't say No. Anyway, have a good day and a great week folks. I'll try to live up to this emoji!
 
Break fast - 65 grams peanuts and walnuts. Washed down with almond milk coffee.
Snack - Almond milk chocolate drink.
Lunch - raw papaya salad, red cabbage leaves, veg curry, tofu fry, egg white fry.

Snack - 2 cups of almond milk coffee.
Dinner - Raw red cabbage, mix veg curry, 3 egg whites with mushrooms & fenugreek leaves, chia seed pudding with almond milk & 20g peanuts.
 
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I told Neil I was considering getting a slow cooker after Christmas and a few days later this "slow cooker" arrived in the post for me. It works on the same principle as a hay box but is more compact and washable. You bring food to the boil in a pan , put the lid on it, put it into the heavily insulated bag and leave it for some hours. The food cooks in the residual heat. It worked for the fish stew I made yesterday and I will keep on trying it to see what its limitations are. It was developed to help women in the developing world so they didn't have to spend most of the day hunched over a smoking wood fire and so children wouldn't have to miss out on schooling to hunt around and collect firewood.
 
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