What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Paul_ said:

Have you had these, @Rachox? If so, how did your BG react to them?

I saw them in Tesco when I was in there, but saw they had sucralose and maltitol in the ingredients. Ended up avoiding them as maltitol has had mixed results for me BG wise previously so I'm a little cautious around it.

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My blood sugars are fine with them. Others aren’t so lucky.

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: Brie and cranberry on a low carb roll with coleslaw.

A "perkier" bar which I sometimes find in Morrisons. Not a lot to them but fills a small gap.
Yoga
Lidl (where I actually stuck to the list yay!)
L : defrosted egg mayo ( had made it when I got a load of hard boiled eggs very cheap). Was rubbery and watery. Has some ham as well. Definitely a "fuel meal"
Made some lc brownies but forgot to add the eggs until just before cooking so they didn't mix in well.

Spent the afternoon curled up in my chair reading Malcolm Kendriks "the Clot thickens" about heart disease, incluidng the links to diabetes. Fascinating but quite easy reading. Pot of turmeric and ginger tea refilled twice.

D: stir fried pork and veg. Mini ice cream. Cucumber water. 2 brownies.

I haven’t read The Clot Thickens’ @MrsA2 but I have a lot of time for Malcom Kendrick. I’m on his group email list and always enjoy his discussions.
B- h/m strained yoghurt with blueberries and seeds.
L- cheese omelette, made from eggs collected a couple of hours earlier from daughter’s hens.
D- mixed chopped salad with a bit of everything that needed using up from the bottom of the fridge. The last of my fermented beetroot&ginger on top. A couple of airfried chicken legs to follow.
@PenguinMum and @Paul_ I agree about the issues around eating out, and eating with friends. It’s one of the reasons I really like Nando’s too

DJC3 said:

I haven’t read The Clot Thickens’ @MrsA2 but I have a lot of time for Malcom Kendrick. I’m on his group email list and always enjoy his discussions.
B- h/m strained yoghurt with blueberries and seeds.
L- cheese omelette, made from eggs collected a couple of hours earlier from daughter’s hens.
D- mixed chopped salad with a bit of everything that needed using up from the bottom of the fridge. The last of my fermented beetroot&ginger on top. A couple of airfried chicken legs to follow.
@PenguinMum and @Paul_ I agree about the issues around eating out, and eating with friends. It’s one of the reasons I really like Nando’s tooView attachment 66102

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Gosh that salad with kimchi on the top looks wonderful and so colourful too - your gut bacteria will be having a party!

PenguinMum said:

Hi All
I was interested in what @Paul_ said as I think the biggest loss of LC is the spontaneity especially when eating out at friends or a restaurant. I don’t like to influence what friends cook and try and swerve as best I can but tbh it rarely happens these days. Looking at a menu trying to figure out if I can find something suitable and if they will do tweaks does for me suck the pleasure out,, eg sometimes the only safe bet is steak and salad which is NOT what I want to eat. Then you look at some of carbier options which look interesting but I cannot have. Frequently the protein can’t be separated from the sauce. We only eat out on holiday now and have two safe takeaways instead near home. Its one of the reasons I like the simplicity of Nandos.

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Evening @PenguinMum and @Paul_

Provided that you and your fellow diners have decided on an eatery, I would go online before you meet up. Most restaurants have a website and publish the day's menus. I quite enjoy comtemplating my options, if I can do so in my own time.

Of course it's altogether different if you feel pressured to reach a decision quickly, because everyone else is ready to order!

Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs and scallops, asparagus spears smothered with butter, all seasoned with a good grinding of black pepper.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.

L: Aperitif: dry white wine.
Tuna steaks rolled in finely chopped celery and sage, baked with red peppers and mushrooms, moistened with double cream and topped with extra mature Cheddar cheese.
Steamed French beans with a knob of butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.
Four squares, Montezuma's Absolute Black 100% cocoa chocolate.

D: Seafood salad made with king prawns and brown shrimps, avocado, baby plum tomatoes, salad onions and Halkidiki olives with home-made aioli for dipping and topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to swallow tablets.

shelley262 said:

A 2 meal day today
Brunch kefir then one slice of bacon, egg, mushrooms (cooked in olive oil) and low carb toast. Thought I'd do a breakfast photo today
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Also had a spoon of my cooked rhubarb and yoghurt
Dinner hm chicken curry with LC roti. Also had two long gin drinks each made with a shot of gin mixed with a dash of my 'cordial' from cooking rhubarb a few days ago with lemons and ginger.( I'd left ginger and lemon in leftover cooking liquid and popped in fridge). Because of pink rhubarb it's a lovely pink colour and with addition of soda water made a wonderful long gin fizz. For pudding had some 100% chocolate with decaffeinated coffee.

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Your brunch looks lovely and such a pretty plate.

Annb said:

Breakfast: RyVita with cheddar melted on top, in the microwave. Not a great breakfast, but the thought of standing to make bacon and egg meant I'd just have gone without anything otherwise.

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I just did a Google search on 'bacon and eggs microwave'. which yielded lots of results that look quick, easy and tasty.
With the microwave easier for you to use at the moment, this may be a good solution for some tastier breakfasts.
Might be worth looking into some other microwavable foods as well.

Antje77 said:

Tomorrow will be a surprise.
My best friend (who I don't see nearly enough between my anxiety on driving and being away from home, and her children and nasty chronic illness) and her friend have rented a holiday cottage near to me for two nights.

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Had an absolutely amazing and very long day with my friend, her friend (who I was in class with when we were 10), and their children, they both have two, aged 6, 8, 9, and 12.
My Libre graph from today looks like I'm cured, food and activity must have been perfectly in balance. I took my first insulin of the day (apart from my long acting of course) at 8:30 pm, after coming home and before having a beer, and haven't needed anything to nudge my BG up either.

They came to my place first, feeding all the animals in my muddy garden was a true adventure, and everyone started the day with muddy clothes.
Zoo was next, they munched on sanwiches, I had brought a couple of hard boiled eggs and had them with their cheese and salami. I also brought some low carb bread but didn't eat it.

After that it was the swim I dared them to do.
Turned out a much bigger adventure than anticipated. There is a small swimming pond close to the holiday cottage they rented, which looked like the perfect spot. You reach it over a small path, which turned out to be very muddy, so we were all slipping and sliding with our cars. First car made it to the end of the path before getting stuck, my friend and I decided to turn around halfway. She managed, I got stuck as well.
With 4 children and two adults pushing, and the third adult spinning her wheels to geve us a nice mud spray, we got the first car out of the deepest mud, and decided to go swimming first.

The youngest was the bravest, she simply took off her clothes and walked into the cold water before any of us were even ready, that's one cool 6 year old girl!
The rest of the children and I quickly followed, and they all went in, head and all!

After wrestling my car free as well, and a scary slipping ride down the path we went to their place where the children took care of the fire for the sauna, which they love, giving us some space.

We had a lovely evening meal: olives, sausages (warm and cold) cheeses, pesto, raw bell pepper, cucumber, tomatoes, egg mayo, and spaghetti for the children.

(Separate post for pics because the forum refused to have them in the post.)

shelley262 said:

Do you ever slow cook @RosemaryJackson it's not only a good way to get cooking done before going out but it's also a brilliant way to get gravy. For example today I'm slow cooking a beef casserole. I soaked some dried woodland mushrooms (Waitrose cooks ingredients not foraging - I don't know enough) overnight and then use this as a simple but tasty stock. Put mushrooms and resultant liquid stock into slow cooker with a few veggies, the meat and lots of onion powder, and herbs and spices to taste I use some paprika, garlic and celery salt. I often just use the gravy as it is from the slow cooker as it's so tasty but if you like your gravy thicker you can put some of the resulting stock into a small pan and reduce down. If making a strogannoff type meal - add a dash of cream to the gravy as it thickens it. You can keep remaining liquid from casserole in fridge for a few days and warm in a pan for gravy to go with other meals or freeze. Ideally too you'll have made more than one portion for leftover meals and in leftovers the gravy thickens too.
Great to see you sounding happier with your food.

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I add half a teaspoon or so of xanthan gum to my slow cooker stews close to the end of their cooking time. It works well.

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flonvic said:

Your brunch looks lovely and such a pretty plate.

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Thank you the plate is one of a set of Royal Worcester ones I bought mum and I use them in her memory. Happy memories

Grace04 said:

I add half a teaspoon or so of xanthan gum to my slow cooker stews close to the end of their cooking time. It works well.

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Will give this a go sounds interesting I've never used it.

Lovely husband is aware I'm feeling a bit miserable so catered the food all day in the way he does best (take-out)

Yesterday's food-

Breakfast- Mcdonalds sausage and egg muffin minus the muffin and plus a ketoroma seeded roll from the freezer.
Lunch- 2 slices toasted heylo bread with streaky bacon and stilton.
Dinner- Nandos two plainish chicken thighs and toasted halloumni

Morning all,
Yesterday
B Yog, keto granola
L HM mushroom soup, hummous and salad
D Indian takeaway, chicken tikka with salad, saag paneer, cauli rice, raita, half a pooppadom

Morning all. @shelley262, I did what you suggested but I couldn't get the gravy as thick as I would have liked, but I'll try @Grace04's hint with xanthan gum next time. I still enjoyed it though but I will use fresh chestnut mushrooms not the dried Shiitake ones. Didn't like them! I've skipped bf so for lunch I'm having chicken legs with veg and will try a stock cube, herb gravy with the gum. For tea I will probably have 2 boiled eggs. Hope you all have a lovely Sunday.

shelley262 said:

Will give this a go sounds interesting I've never used it.

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It’s an acquired texture! I don’t like the slimy mouthfeel of xanthan gum but I find a lot of lc recipes use it for thickening. I never liked sauces thickened with cornflour either though, so maybe it’s just me.

shelley262 said:

Gosh that salad with kimchi on the top looks wonderful and so colourful too - your gut bacteria will be having a party!

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Haha I hope they did!
I’ve started putting fermented veg and their juice in with a salad recently, adding a drizzle of olive oil at the end creates a very good dressing.

RosemaryJackson said:

Morning all. @shelley262, I did what you suggested but I couldn't get the gravy as thick as I would have liked, but I'll try @Grace04's hint with xanthan gum next time. I still enjoyed it though but I will use fresh chestnut mushrooms not the dried Shiitake ones. Didn't like them! I've skipped bf so for lunch I'm having chicken legs with veg and will try a stock cube, herb gravy with the gum. For tea I will probably have 2 boiled eggs. Hope you all have a lovely Sunday.

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If you decide to try xanthum gum I’d suggest sprinkling it across the top of the liquid as finely as you can. If you start with clumps or lumps they difficult to smooth out.

MommaE said:

If you decide to try xanthum gum I’d suggest sprinkling it across the top of the liquid as finely as you can. If you start with clumps or lumps they difficult to smooth out.

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Ive ordered some really finely ground xanthum gum and will try this method of sprinkling a very small pinch of it. I do have a recollection I think of trying something like this when started low carb 7 years ago - it had slipped my mind- but I used too much so it went solid if my memory is correct. Always worth another try for me will report back its not very expensive unlike many other low carb ingredients!!