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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Got up just before 0200- couldn't sleep and was feeling quite nauseous so had a cup of hot-ish water. Then felt hungry but it was too early to eat (0500) so I had a cup of warm milk. That settled me down and I dozed in the chair until 0730. The only meal I intend to have today is fish soup but that won't be until much later. Today is the day for my cleaner to come, so have spent quite a lot of the morning so far stripping my bed, putting that in the washing machine, emptying bins, getting things off the floor, cleaning toilets and wash basins, filling the dishwasher - couldn't get everything into it so there's still a fair amount soaking in hot soapy water in the sink which I'll try to get washed when my legs are feeling up to taking my weight again.

Soup will be after she has gone. Other than that, it will be tea, tea, tea.

I do have some cold chicken available if I can't get by with just the soup and some nuts. Must remember to take my pills though - I often forget until late in the day, if I'm not eating first thing.
 
ravensmitten said:
3am Yoghurt and dark chocolate, couldn't sleep so got up to do something very boring, like accounts, works like a charm most times :D
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A charm indeed, I have to add though it HAS to be something boring, and that NEEDS to be done and that is probably something that's been put off for quite a while also.

Doing your accounts is, probably not boring if you actually like accounting, but that probably should go without saying. You never know though, I've been on the internet since the days we had a 300 baud modem.

"I TAKE UMBRAGE AT YOUR REMARKS BECAUSE I FIND ACCOUNTING ENTHRALLING!"

okay.


@Annb I'm with you there on forgetting to take medication if not eating early, I'm just having some cucumber and hummus after rushing about all morning in a tired haze, and realised I should have taken mine earlier, oops! :bag:

Hope everyone has lovely weekends.
 
My cleaner just phoned - she's injured her back and is on crutches at the moment. Oh dear, poor lass. She's only just recovered from quite serious surgery and was dancing around the house with her young daughter when somehow something in her back gave way. Painkillers didn't help and eventually she had to have injections into her back. That is allowing her to struggle around, but she can't work. She was so apologetic at not being able to come to me today. I'm not worried about the cleaning, but I am worried about her health. Her main job is as a home carer - that, I imagine is where the initial damage has been done.

I can heat my soup now and have today's meal.
 
Dropping this in early today, there might be more eaten later. Last night I couldn't sleep (I see a few others had the same problem, have we all forgotten our tinfoil hats?!) and was hungry. I got up and had a tin of chicken korma at 2am which if you can believe the tin was very low carb with no nasties like sugar or seed oil... my morning BG would beg to differ. I felt really lousy as well, that'll teach me. Fell asleep watching my favourite inane you tube channels, I was too ashamed to watch any of my motivational reversing diabetes ones!

Onwards and upwards today, bit of housework until about 12.30 then:

steamed asparagus spears to start
glass of kefir with half shop bought and half home made - getting there!
4 small pork burgers made with minced pork, minced onion and harissa seasoning (delicious!!)
fried tomatoes
choffles (added a bit of coconut flour, very nice but the original is better I think)

I might or might not have a slice of my home made low carb bread later with some peanut butter, we'll see. Hope everyone is having a great day!
 
Antje77 said:
I highly recommend crawling into the neighbours bed when forgetting to make your own, but a lot depends on the neighbours. Pick the wrong ones and things can become very awkward...

My first meal of the day (late afternoon, having a very lazy hangover day) was a slice of LC bread with 'herringfilets in sahne sauce' (herring in cream sauce, very tasty) I bought in Germany. Either the carb count on the tub was completely wrong, or I misread, being too lazy to get my reading glasses.
This led to a rather wild correction with insulin at 6:50 pm.
Followed by a text message from my friend down the road to ask if I was up for a full moon swim at 7:10, not ideal from a diabetes perspective, but she's had a rough week and could use the swim. A pre-swim winegum and some crossed fingers made me end up at 4.3 and dropping upon getting home again, not bad!

But also not the right moment to spend 20 minutes in the kitchen to cook, so I don't think a proper meal will happen today. Likely it will be a fried duck egg and cheese on low carb bread, all fine. :)
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I have been trying for ages to buy decent Herrings and not in a sauce. Going to Germany is a bit of a stretch :-)
 
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 sweet red peppers and mushrooms, moistened with double cream and topped with extra mature Cheddar cheese.
Steamed French beans and mangetout with a knob of butter and toasted pine nuts.
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 Kalamata olives with home-made aioli for dipping and topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to wash down tablets.
 
Three meals today
Breakfast kefir then two boiled eggs and LC roll
Lunch kimchi and sauerkraut with cheeses and LC seeded crackers
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Dinner hm chicken curry served with lots of fresh coriander and mint raita plus a LC roti. Also gin and soda water. Just had a LC chocolate bun made a batch today and froze most just left one out to have after dinner with decaffeinated coffee
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MrsA2 said:
Ideas please
I picked up a tin of sauerkraut in lidl this week. Ingredients are cabbage 97% and white wine 3%. Nothing else
But I've never eaten sauerkraut in my life and it's a big Tin.
Suggestions please
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Not sure - I avoid preserved tinned or jars of sauerkraut I only buy the fresh fermenting variety or make my own. Think you'd regard it as a tin of wine flavoured cabbage so maybe warm it and eat as a vegetable with a meal or as a bed for something like Bolognese or casserole? Others may have used tins and have ideas for you
The fermented fresh sauerkraut you'd just have in small quantities as flavour is powerful and your gut needs to get accustomed to it over time! Some people report bloating et c when first try sauerkraut or kimchi so fermented stuff needs building up slowly while your gut adjusts.
 
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MrsA2 said:
Ideas please
I picked up a tin of sauerkraut in lidl this week. Ingredients are cabbage 97% and white wine 3%. Nothing else
But I've never eaten sauerkraut in my life and it's a big Tin.
Suggestions please
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Never bought tinned, but my supermarket sells sauerkraut in vacuüm bags that can be kept at room temperature for a very long time, so I guess it's the same idea.

My supermarket sells both cooked and raw. You'll have to check the directions on the tin to see which you have.
I'm lazy so I usually buy the cooked one but sometimes accidentally buy raw.

It can be eaten raw, no problem, or cook for 15 to 20 minutes (just a spoonful of water added to the sauerkraut when cooking in a pot with a lid.
The Germans like to add sauerkraut to their sausage rolls, and I agree. Goes well without the roll too. :hungry:
When I'm having one of my sauerkraut periods I like to add it to a cheese sandwich or an omelet as well. Or just munch on some when passing the fridge.

Here are my two favourite sauerkraut recipes:

Zuurkoolstammppot. A very traditional Dutch dish, although I use cauliflower purée instead of potatoes. Very low carb too.
- Make cauliflower purée. I usually add butter and cream or cream cheese. Mustard works very well too for this dish. I use the stick mixer to make a very smooth purée.
- Add (cooked if raw) sauerkraut, about as much in volume as purée.
- Serve with sausage/meatballs/pork belly in any form.

Transsylvanian sauerkraut. I looked this one up, it's a recipe my grandmother gave me and it's kept in the cookbook I inherited from her.
I still make it, but I deviate quite a lot from the recipe nowadays. I think the best variation I made was with slow cooked oxtail. I've never added the flour in the recipe and I've never used chicken stock in my life (what are stock cubes for, eh) but I'll give you the recipe as it was given to me:

500 gr sauerkraut
1 cup chopped onions
two tablespoons lard
garlic
2 tablespoons paprika
3 cups chicken stock or water
500 gr pork shoulder, diced
1.5 teaspoon caraway seeds
1/4 cup tomato purée
salt
1/2 cup cream
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons flour

- Fry onion in lard, add garlic
- Add paprika
- Add 1/2 cup of stock and meat
- Put sauerkraut and caraway seeds on top
- Mix tomato purée and rest of stock and pour over the sauerkraut
- Leave to simmer for an hour but make sure the sauerkraut stays moist
- Mix the creams with two spoons of flour (no don't add the flour, it's completely unnecessary) and mix into the dish.
- Serve with extra sour cream on the side.
 
Afternoon all. Very late today, have been out for breakfast with a friend. Sausage, bacon, egg, beans, 1 slice toast (naughty I know, but beans on toast was irrisistable! For a late lunch, 2mad today, my butcher called them 'ovenbusters', it's like a very thick rib plus above ground veg. That should be enough for today. The gravy I will make from a stock cube plus herbs and xanthan gum. Hope the rest of the day goes well for everyone.
 
Breakfast was cold chicken breast, chopped into small pieces, with a sauce made of yoghurt, tomato puree, a little salt and a touch of double cream, with 2 RyVita. Not sure if that will be enough for the day but not planning to make anything else. If necessary, I have plenty of cheese and some ham to snack on.
 
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Was just thinking of going downstairs to do myself scrambled eggs for breakfast when hubby brought his breakfast of 2, yes 2, toasted hot cross buns in, to eat in bed.
Well there are somethings a girl can't resist, so I did have half a bun with lots of butter.
We then went out for a 2 hour hilly walk, so hope I've walked most of it off.

Very hungry when we got back so an early lunch of 2 slices walnut and mushroom loaf with coleslaw. Cwc and a handful hazelnuts

We are out at a neighbours tonight, expecting a full roast and huge amount of alcohol. Am taking my own pudding of a no sugar blackberries crumble.

I've made some combinations of avocado/coconut/chia/chocolate mouse type pudding too, to eat in the week and hopefully keep me away from any bad stuff as my willpower is a bit lax at the moment
 
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