What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Holiday routine, nothing like my normal!
Breakfast: DGF crimbo crumble with extra thick double cream.
Lunch: turkey, pigs in blankets, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels, carrots, one small roastie, 1/2 a stuffing ball and a splash of gravy, followed by DGF Xmas pud with cream.
Dinner: cold meats, salmon, salad, M&S crispy bacon strips and cheese followed by DGF mince pie and cream.
There was a theme amongst my pressies, my family know that dark chocolate is preferred!

Merry Christmas everyone. @MrsA2 , I’m so sorry to hear of your loss.

A relaxed day, having seen the balance of the tribe on Saturday. Dinner featured rack of lamb, which MrB had coated in coriander seed and garlic salt. I hope my breath is less anti-social by tomorrow.

Now regretting even the 3 chipolatas. Felt pretty bad again and just dozed in the kitchen chair until a few minutes ago. Now just shutting down the laptop and going to bed. Maybe better by morning.

Hope everyone else had a better Christmas day than I did. Not to worry, I'll survive.

A Christmas dinner provided by my neighbour, eaten over a couple of hours, interspersed with booze.
I didn't ask for anything special, but it looks like he has a pretty good idea on my eating habits by now, and he doesn't mind a mostly carnivore meal himself either.

First starter: The small bits cut from the goose breasts cut from the geese our local hunter brought a couple of days ago, fried with salt and pepper. The main parts of the breasts are in the freezer now, but those small bits served as a perfect appetiser. I found out I like the taste of fried goose a lot, never had it before.
Served as fingerfood to share, in a cat food bowl, because why not.



Second starter: A nice garlic flavoured thin salami like sausage from his Christmas hamper. No need for cutlery or dishes here, and who likes washing up anyway!



Yet another starter, or maybe this is the first part of the main dish, no idea.
Slow cooked goose legs, absolutely amazing! And again served as fingerfood in the same catfood bowl.



Here's the 'rollade' before cutting. Don't know what it's called in English or even if it is a thing. It's rolled up meat (pork in this case) with herbs and spices, again from neighbour's Christmas hamper.



Mains: Rollade and Brussels sprouts with cubed bacon and fried potato. The veggies were his leftovers from yesterday, very easy to avoid the potato when plating, except for two small slices, a treat!



No dessert, neighbour doesn't care for sweet stuff and neither do I.
Pets got served multiple times as well, and enjoyed raw goose, fried goose, salami like sausages, slow cooked goose and pork rollade, and were assigned to cleaning dishes and pans.



One of the dogs even shared in the booze, a sweet local liqueur called schylger juttersbitter.
I stuck to lower carb 'jenever'. Not my usual drink of choice, but this was a special bottle.
Our other neighbour passed away a year and a half ago, and he was a bit of a secret drinker.
My neighbour picked up his smoker (to smoke fish and stuff, a homemade thing) from our late neighbour's wife last week.
And found this surprise bottle hidden in the ashes!



Never have I had such an easy Christmas from a diabetes pont of view!

Antje77 said:

A Christmas dinner provided by my neighbour, eaten over a couple of hours, interspersed with booze.
I didn't ask for anything special, but it looks like he has a pretty good idea on my eating habits by now, and he doesn't mind a mostly carnivore meal himself either.

First starter: The small bits cut from the goose breasts cut from the geese our local hunter brought a couple of days ago, fried with salt and pepper. The main parts of the breasts are in the freezer now, but those small bits served as a perfect appetiser. I found out I like the taste of fried goose a lot, never had it before.
Served as fingerfood to share, in a cat food bowl, because why not.

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Second starter: A nice garlic flavoured thin salami like sausage from his Christmas hamper. No need for cutlery or dishes here, and who likes washing up anyway!

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Yet another starter, or maybe this is the first part of the main dish, no idea.
Slow cooked goose legs, absolutely amazing! And again served as fingerfood in the same catfood bowl.

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Here's the 'rollade' before cutting. Don't know what it's called in English or even if it is a thing. It's rolled up meat (pork in this case) with herbs and spices, again from neighbour's Christmas hamper.

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Mains: Rollade and Brussels sprouts with cubed bacon and fried potato. The veggies were his leftovers from yesterday, very easy to avoid the potato when plating, except for two small slices, a treat!

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No dessert, neighbour doesn't care for sweet stuff and neither do I.
Pets got served multiple times as well, and enjoyed raw goose, fried goose, salami like sausages, slow cooked goose and pork rollade, and were assigned to cleaning dishes and pans.

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One of the dogs even shared in the booze, a sweet local liqueur called schylger juttersbitter.
I stuck to lower carb 'jenever'. Not my usual drink of choice, but this was a special bottle.
Our other neighbour passed away a year and a half ago, and he was a bit of a secret drinker.
My neighbour picked up his smoker (to smoke fish and stuff, a homemade thing) from our late neighbour's wife last week.
And found this surprise bottle hidden in the ashes!

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Never have I had such an easy Christmas from a diabetes pont of view!


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Evening @Antje77. Wow! You or your neighbour selected the right bird, IMO. There's nothing like goose. Just reading about it made my mouth water and I'm already pleasantly full with Yuletide fare.

Evening all

Today:

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

L: Mushroom and chestnut pie made with spinach, leeks, dry red wine, thyme and mustard for the filling and using almond flour, sesame seeds, oat fibre, butter and an egg for the pie crust.
Steamed broccoli and cauliflower with toasted slivered almonds smothered with butter.
Carrots, onions and apple sautéed in butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.
Succumbed to the temptation of a home-made chocolate truffle. (A timely phone call saved the day!)

D Seafood salad using tiger prawns, brown shrimps, lettuce, baby plum tomatoes, celery, 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.

I cooked my duck and the cabbage mixed with some pickled apples and pears. It's still sitting on top of the stove. Still don't need to eat anything. I did have my bacon and eggs this morning but haven't needed food since although I thought I'd better cook it before it went off. Done nothing else today except drink tea.

@Annb. Oh dear. I think we should move Christmas. The shops are so busy and it seems as though everybody and a few of their dogs feels below par.

Expect you needed a break. I hope you feel rested tomorrow after a good night's sleep.

Coffee and cream x 2
Cheddar/balsamic onion cheese
Smoked salmon
1 Glass of Rose Champagne
Roast Gammon slight mess up with the glaze.
More Cheese

LivingLightly said:

@Annb. Oh dear. I think we should move Christmas. The shops are so busy and it seems as though everybody and a few of their dogs feels below par.

Expect you needed a break. I hope you feel rested tomorrow after a good night's sleep.

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I suppose I do need a break from the one long break I always have, being retired and housebound most of the time.

LivingLightly said:

Evening @Antje77. Wow! You or your neighbour selected the right bird, IMO. There's nothing like goose. Just reading about it made my mouth water and I'm already pleasantly full with Yuletide fare.

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I agree on goose, very tasty! It was more or less selected for us. With the local hunter dropping all those geese off at neighbour's doorstep it seemed ridiculous to kill one of our own birds for Christmas when 8 free geese were unexpectedly delivered.

I think I found another personal Christmas tradition: Realising I need to eat on the 26th as well when it's way too late for groceries.
Happened today, and I have a very strong feeling the same thing happened in previous years.
Had a slice of low carb bread with cream cheese and Turkish sucuk sausage, and the last few olives from the pot, all fine.

So instead of my own meal, I'll share the meal my friend had with her family and a T2 family friend.
The friend has been diagnosed with T2 this spring, and after a couple of months of "NO! " started to listen to my non diabetic friend and reading up on stuff, and used his glucose meter to test meals, very indirectly thanks to this forum, going from forum, to me, to my friend, to their friend. Things really kicked off during the summer holidays, and he's now been able to ditch the gliclazide!

Here's their amazing Christmas dinner, which suits the now low carbing friend, the vegetarian husband, and the picky children. All prepared by my friend with severe (non diabetic) gastroparesis who is relying on tube feeding and can only eat a couple of morsels of carefully selected food herself.

Two hours after receiving this picture through whatsapp, I received a second message, only saying: "6.8 after my dinner!"

I am so very proud of my friend Inge and their friend Paul. <3

Back to normal eating pattern of two meals and two LC snacks with coffee, not back to normal foods though!
Breakfast: crimbo crumble washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a DGF mince pie and cream.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and seed crackers with paté.
Dinner: lamb roasted with garlic and rosemary, one small roast potato, one small stuffing ball, pigs in blankets, Brussels, broccoli and carrots with a little gravy and rosemary jelly added after I took the pic.

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Antje77 said:

I agree on goose, very tasty! It was more or less selected for us. With the local hunter dropping all those geese off at neighbour's doorstep it seemed ridiculous to kill one of our own birds for Christmas when 8 free geese were unexpectedly delivered.

I think I found another personal Christmas tradition: Realising I need to eat on the 26th as well when it's way too late for groceries.
Happened today, and I have a very strong feeling the same thing happened in previous years.
Had a slice of low carb bread with cream cheese and Turkish sucuk sausage, and the last few olives from the pot, all fine.

So instead of my own meal, I'll share the meal my friend had with her family and a T2 family friend.
The friend has been diagnosed with T2 this spring, and after a couple of months of "NO! " started to listen to my non diabetic friend and reading up on stuff, and used his glucose meter to test meals, very indirectly thanks to this forum, going from forum, to me, to my friend, to their friend. Things really kicked off during the summer holidays, and he's now been able to ditch the gliclazide!

Here's their amazing Christmas dinner, which suits the now low carbing friend, the vegetarian husband, and the picky children. All prepared by my friend with severe (non diabetic) gastroparesis who is relying on tube feeding and can only eat a couple of morsels of carefully selected food herself.

Two hours after receiving this picture through whatsapp, I received a second message, only saying: "6.8 after my dinner!"

I am so very proud of my friend Inge and their friend Paul. <3

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Antje77 said:

I agree on goose, very tasty! It was more or less selected for us. With the local hunter dropping all those geese off at neighbour's doorstep it seemed ridiculous to kill one of our own birds for Christmas when 8 free geese were unexpectedly delivered.

I think I found another personal Christmas tradition: Realising I need to eat on the 26th as well when it's way too late for groceries.
Happened today, and I have a very strong feeling the same thing happened in previous years.
Had a slice of low carb bread with cream cheese and Turkish sucuk sausage, and the last few olives from the pot, all fine.

So instead of my own meal, I'll share the meal my friend had with her family and a T2 family friend.
The friend has been diagnosed with T2 this spring, and after a couple of months of "NO! " started to listen to my non diabetic friend and reading up on stuff, and used his glucose meter to test meals, very indirectly thanks to this forum, going from forum, to me, to my friend, to their friend. Things really kicked off during the summer holidays, and he's now been able to ditch the gliclazide!

Here's their amazing Christmas dinner, which suits the now low carbing friend, the vegetarian husband, and the picky children. All prepared by my friend with severe (non diabetic) gastroparesis who is relying on tube feeding and can only eat a couple of morsels of carefully selected food herself.

Two hours after receiving this picture through whatsapp, I received a second message, only saying: "6.8 after my dinner!"

I am so very proud of my friend Inge and their friend Paul. <3

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Bravo! A magnificent effort! Thanks for sharing @Antje77.

@MrsA2 I’m so sorry to read about your bereavement, it’s such a difficult time of year to lose a loved one. I hope you’ve taken the advice of the others on here to heart and forgotten about BG levels for a while.
@filly I’m glad you did get your glass of champagne eventually. Cheers!
My food over the festive couple of days has been low carb but without structure - not enough space between eating windows. BG is fine but that maybe because the booze is keeping my liver occupied.
Today we had various cold meats & salads. We ended up giving the Christmas Eve ruined roast beef to the dogs. They enjoyed it at least. I think the problem was that the freezer it was in conked out a few weeks back and by the time we got a replacement it was 1/2 defrosted. I refroze it anyway but it seems to have changed its structure. Lesson learned.

Morning all, hope everyone has survived Christmas. Had a good time and made good choices on the whole. Lovely turkey lunch at my sisters on Xmas day with a small stuffing ball, resisted the roasties!Did have a very,very tiny spoonful of Xmas pud with lots of cream and a pistachio Lindt. My annoying SIL just had a selection of cakes Xmas evening so I had 2 walnuts
Yesterday
B Greek yog with raspberries and seeds
L KC roll with turkey and salad
D HM gammon with salad and coleslaw, cheese and seed crackers

The further I get away from the decaffeinated tea drinking, the better I feel. I will give it another try in a week or so though.

Nothing so far to eat, just some tea.

At some stage it will have to be the duck and cabbage that I didn't cook on Monday, or eat on Tuesday. If I can wait until afternoon, it'll probably be enough for the day.

Ferries and planes off again, due to weather. Shops will empty rapidly and won't be resupplied until the storms have passed so there won't be anything there until Saturday or Monday.

Haven't actually eaten anything yet but I am making chicken soup at the moment. Just as well to have something that can be heated quicklyon the camping gas stove in this cold, windy weather (in case power goes off).

I will stir fry the duck and cabbage shortly and make it my one meal today.

Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Omlette with pepper and cheese
Gammon and tomato

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Thank you to all for you kind and supportive wishes xx
I've found wearing the libre helpful. It's certainly shown effects of stress and the carbs I've been comfort eating, but has helped me stay reasonable. In the past I would have face planted into loads of sweets, without limit, but instead I'm just noticing, recognising triggers and moving on. It would have been so easy to ignore everything and regress without it.

So Christmas panned out:
Xmas eve, bereavement and birthday
Xmas day for 7.
Can't remember breakfast, maybe not any except picking while cooking.
Lunch was full turkey dinner for 6 and 1 nut roast for vegetarian
Starter was a soup I'd frozen earlier, tomato, celery and apple flavoured with sherry. Served with bread for carb eaters.
Main turkey (or nut roast), red cabbage and carrot/swede mash, parmesan coated parsnips
(All frozen ahead), green beans, roasted for carb eaters,stuffing balls, pigs in blankets.
Used a version of @LivingLightly walnut and mushroom nut roast. Very tasty.

Much later Xmas pudding for those that wanted it. Cheese board.

Boxing day, and another birthday!
Can't remember breakfast, if any.
Lunch for 9, (1 veggie) cold turkey, gammon ,cheeses, salad, pickles including jarred fermented veg.
Dessert was any combinations of lc jelly trifle with blackberries (which went down very well with all), Xmas cake, Xmas pudding, birthday carrot cake, gingerbread, mince pies. Cream, brandy cream or custard Editted to add I didn't eat all these, the carb eaters did! I had 2 bites, 1 of cake, 1 of pudding and lots of the lc jelly

Evening was 3 types vegetarian pastries, served warm, (I did have quite a few) cheeses.

At various times I had white wine, red wine, only small and often watered down. Did try a Baileys Light but has different flavours to the original and a bit of an after taste of sweeteners. Think I'll stick to small amount for the original instead, or make my own lc version. . And I got a headache but that could have been anything.

Today
A bit of a back down to earth day (understatement!), and we've heard of another imminent bereavement.
Both bereavements will bring a lot of problems after. The problems from the first are starting already.
Controlling what I can
Early breakfast 5:30, some chocolates and 1 piece gingerbread.

Palmed as much of the carby stuff as I could off on our departing guests

Early lunch, finally a tasty mushroom and bacon omelette and lc jelly and mouse.

Mid afternoon an lc hot chocolate. First tried the light Baileys in it but not very pleasant. Much better with a splash of the real thing.

Dinner: turkey fricassee with sherry and mushrooms. Rice for the boys. Pud was coffee ice cream with 1 chopped up florentine. Red wine

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a DGF mince pie.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and seed crackers with paté.
Dinner: I have been watching family eat cheese and biscuits somewhat jealously over the last couple of days, when I remembered eating cheddar on ginger nuts as a child. I then remembered I had some DGF ginger cookies in the freezer. So here we are, my pic will tell you what happened next! Yum!