What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

DJC3 said:

I wish I’d seen your post before cooking my dinner. I had sprouts but no bacon. I did however have a little pot of bacon fat from 2 days ago that would have been perfect to cook them in. I agree, It’s a tasty combination.

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I even keep pots of chicken fat that I skim off my hm chicken stock and the use to cook poultry. Nothing wasted as far as possible!

Skipped breakfast
Cwc
L: a bit of gammon, a bit of cheese. Last of the (commercial) pickled veg.
Libre finished yesterday so no bg records, but I'd had a suspicion these were taking me too high.
A bag chicken crackling. Bit of 85% dark choc.

Compared the chicken crackling packet with one of the pork crunch. The chicken is double the fat, carbs about the same but more flavourings added to the chicken. The pork weighs less but I struggle to eat a whole bag whereas the chicken was easier to eat.

D: gammon with 2 fried eggs and swede chips. A small coffee icecream with a splash of Baileys.

The Baileys Light has been given a strong thumbs down from the whole family. It doesn't taste like the original and was actually voted unpleasant by some. It doesn't even act well in hot chocolate or over ice cream. Has quite an odd chemical taste so heaven knows what they replaced the cream and sugar with to make it "Light". We will be throwing most of it away ( and I usually don't waste anything!)

shelley262 said:

I even keep pots of chicken fat that I skim off my hm chicken stock and the use to cook poultry. Nothing wasted as far as possible!

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Our eggs tonight were fried in the turkey fat

DJC3 said:

I saw on the news yesterday night what the floods are doing in your neck of the woods. They also said how much more frequently they are happening. It’s such a worry. I do hope the water starts to recede on Fri as predicted.

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DJC3 said:

Ps forgot to add @shelley262 and @AndBreathe the chunk which flew off my daughter’s roof yesterday was found in the neighbours garden and Paul’s roofer friend went round this morning to fix the hole temporarily. Insurance unlikely to pay as it was originally a bit of a botch job done by her father in law

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I would say it's worth contacting her insurer, after all it's for times like this that we fork out the premiums! IME, they tell you to go ahead with repairs, so it doesn't hold up urgent remedial work.

I believe storm Henk is our eighth named storm this Winter. It looks as though climate change has affected the frequency as well as the intensity of our weather phenomena.

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a phd bar.
Dinner: carbonara made with 50g of Natural and Low Carb Kitchen pasta (so glad I didn’t have the suggested 100g portion (!) I’m stuffed!)

Evening all

Today, the tenth day of Christmas

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, avocado and four tiger prawns seasoned with a good grinding of black pepper.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.

L: Mushroom stroganoff made with chestnut mushrooms, dried porcini mushrooms, onions, vegetable stock, tomato purée, paprika, garlic, olive oil, butter, parsley and soured cream.
Cauliflower rice with toasted cashews and peas.
Braised cavolo nero with garlic and toasted almonds.
Skipped pud.
Water to drink.

D: Seafood salad made with brown shrimps and mussels, lettuce, Romano peppers, celery, baby plum tomatoes, 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 really need to start cooking properly again, I keep finding excuses for one more day of low carb crackers/bread with cheese or (store bought) egg mayo or such. On the 1st it was a new years dip in our local (very small) canal with lots of neighbours, followed by a get together, plus a hangover; yesterday it was going to the pool with a friend and getting home at 7 pm, without motivation for cooking still.
Today it was making a new couch for the living room. Well, my neighbour did most of the work but I was still knackered after we were finished, and had wrestled the old one out the door and the new one in.

Todays crackers were one with pate and one with egg mayo and bacon. Midnight snack will be chicory and hummus as always.

The couch isn't completely finished yet, it needs a cover still (a white couch with a very muddy garden plus pets doesn't make sense at all), but for now it looks like it's much friendlier on my painful neck and back than the old one.
And completely made with materials we had laying about, no cost at all!

Morning all. Getting back into normal eating hopefully now festivities are over. Still plenty of cheese left but pacing myself!
Yesterday
B Yog, seeds, raspberries
L Avocado, hummous,salad
D Fish pie made with celeriac mash, green beans, broccoli

Breakfast: 2 RyVita with cheese melted onto them.

Out to get foot pulses checked - they're still there - and bandaging done. rushing as usual so I just put chunkis of cheddar onto the Ryvita and microwaved for one minute. Quick and tasty but the 2 crispbreads mean I need to be very careful about carbs for the rest of the day. Still managed to almost have a hypo by the time I got home (overheating and starting the shake at 3.3).

2nd meal will be bacon and eggs. There is still a small portion of buttered chicken left, but I don't feel like yet more chicken.

Breakfast 2 x boiled eggs with toast and lurpak light butter.
Lunch - Pork Pie and pickled onions.
First time posting here, looking at things need to get a low carb diet, and to exercise more, but not sure what foods actually are low in carbs but I still like !! having steak pie with chips and gravy for tea.
Need to exercise is I believe one of my main issues rather than necessarily overeating - If I can improve that im sure can reduce my h1ab2c back to a reasonable level again, had it under control for about 3 years up until covid striking and then fell back into bad habits and less exercise !!.

Had one of those days and eating went slightly up the pole. Parcel didn't turn up again. Food delivery broke down. Then 2 hours late.
So Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Pork chop and tomato
Salami and cream cheese (too much cc)

Hi @Adeace , welcome to this thread.

Adeace said:

First time posting here, looking at things need to get a low carb diet, and to exercise more, but not sure what foods actually are low in carbs but I still like !!

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I'd have a read of this informative piece, written by one of our members to start with: https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html

Your food choices for today are quite heavy on the carbs, with toast, pie crust and chips, so lots of room for improvement.

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There are times when you can’t plan for many reasons so just eat as you can. That was me today as we were so busy.
Breakfast ( rushing out the door late) Greek yogurt, berries and seeds.
Lunch 2 sausages, an egg and some salad.
Tea “Spag Bol “ with shiritaki noodles .
All unplanned but I’m pleased with this .

Adeace said:

Breakfast 2 x boiled eggs with toast and lurpak light butter.
Lunch - Pork Pie and pickled onions.
First time posting here, looking at things need to get a low carb diet, and to exercise more, but not sure what foods actually are low in carbs but I still like !! having steak pie with chips and gravy for tea.
Need to exercise is I believe one of my main issues rather than necessarily overeating - If I can improve that im sure can reduce my h1ab2c back to a reasonable level again, had it under control for about 3 years up until covid striking and then fell back into bad habits and less exercise !!.

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It's not necessarily overeating that puts BG up but eating even small amounts of the wrong kind of food for your body. In my case it is those foods which are carb heavy (bread, potatoes, rice, oats, pastry, root veg, sweet things, and it looks as though you do include a large amount in your meal) which can cause a rapid and long lasting rise in BG. I can eat my fill of lower carb foods with no adverse effect. You may be the same as me, or completely different. Exercise helps, if you can do it but all even a little effort to move on my part seems to make my liver decide to flood my system with glucose. What is right for you, is right for you but on this thread you will find lots of interesting ideas to try.

I meant to have breakfast today after my goat milk kefir and vitamins but suddenly it was 11:30 so made it lunch instead: Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and avocado.
The weather was so horrid I couldn’t persuade Dennis out for his afternoon walk so I did something I never do - put the tv on in the daytime! We curled up on the sofa and watched a new Netflix series while I had a low carb cinnamon donut and coffee and he had a chew toy.
Dinner was a pork curry. Stirred in some baby spinach at the end. Choc chia pudding to follow, made with some of the leftover coconut cream from the curry.

Adeace said:

Breakfast 2 x boiled eggs with toast and lurpak light butter.
Lunch - Pork Pie and pickled onions.
First time posting here, looking at things need to get a low carb diet, and to exercise more, but not sure what foods actually are low in carbs but I still like !! having steak pie with chips and gravy for tea.
Need to exercise is I believe one of my main issues rather than necessarily overeating - If I can improve that im sure can reduce my h1ab2c back to a reasonable level again, had it under control for about 3 years up until covid striking and then fell back into bad habits and less exercise !!.

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Evening @Adeace and welcome to this thread. We hope you find it useful.

Exercise is good for a body, as you realise, but when it comes to blood glucose levels, it's what you swallow that really matters. Most of us here couldn't handle pastry and potato chips for tea, but there are some pleasant alternatives should those prove too carb-heavy for you.

You successfully reduced your HbA1c in the past so, barring illness or injury, you can do it again that's for sure.

Evening all

Today, the eleventh day of Christmas:

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, avocado and three crevettes all seasoned with a good grinding of black pepper.
Water to swallow tablets.
Espresso.

L: Walnut and mushroom nut roast made with onions, eggs and flax 'egg', garlic, stock and rosemary.
Steamed Brussels sprouts with toasted slivered almonds smothered with butter.
Carrots, onions and apple peel sautéed in butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

D: Seafood salad made with king prawns and mussels, lettuce, Romano peppers, celery, baby plum tomatoes, Halkidiki olives and salad onions, with a dollop of home-made aioli for dipping, topped with toasted pistachios.
Water to swallow tablet.

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: cheese and mushroom omelette.

Mid morning small kefir and my supplements
Lunch same as yesterday kimchi with olives and celery with four low carb seeded crackers and a range of cheese.
Dinner slow cooked chicken served with cauliflower cheese ( my usual low carb version just a few florets with a dash of double cream and cheese oven cooked for 35 mins),
Met a good friend today who had been doing really well with low carb which had been helping her to reduce the amount of insulin she needed to manage her long term type 2 diabetes. She had a difficult holiday where she really fell off the wagon. Interestingly though she's keen to get back to it because not only have her blood glucose readings more than doubled but a lot of other health issues have come back that also went away with low carb eating. She's also now got thrush, digestive disorders, higher blood pressure and just feels '**** ' Interesting just how quickly things go back when you go back to high carb eating however, thankfully, she's already improving after a few days of getting back to it. Some hope for others that you can improve things by managing your carb intake.

Antje77 said:

I really need to start cooking properly again, I keep finding excuses for one more day of low carb crackers/bread

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I almost managed to eat a proper meal, but just before I arrived at that point, the road diverted and I ended up with crackers again instead,

I made a nice cauliflower puree with a generous amount of Branston pickles mixed in, I thawed (is that the right word or should it be defrosted? What's the difference?) a container of Christmas leftover deer (or maybe roe) stew a friend gave me (again, is it still called deer when it's food or should I call it something else? Your language is harder with unusual foods! ), and then I got distracted by finishing my new couch and a side table and it was too late for proper food.

No problem, two crackers, one with a nice stinky Christmas cheese and one with egg mayo (store bought) did the job. A chicory head with hummus will be eaten later on to provide some vitamins. By now I sure hope there's a lot of vitamins in chicory, I've been depending on that for at least a week.

Tomorrow will be an adventure, and proper food will be had.
I'll be visiting a friend in the city of Groningen to see a concert, and I'll spend the night on her ship with my dogs. We'll share the cauliflower puree and the deer stew before the concert, and she'll add a salad as well.
I'll also bring my swimming stuff, she lives on a sailing ship so I've got to try the water.