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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Rachox said:
Dinner out at Nando’s: 4 boneless chicken thighs with coleslaw.

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Mmmm... I have both raw chicken (legs) and coleslaw in the fridge, and your dinner looks gorgeous. I won't say what I had to eat tonight, because it's in the low carb forum, but it was quite small, and I added frankfurters and mushrooms to it, plus I've tested it before and it raised my blood glucose by an acceptable amount. Tomorrow is either chicken legs, sirloin steak, or salmon. I haven't decided yet.
 
Well thankfully you've deduced the probable allergen that triggered your eczema. An admirable piece of detective work there @RosemaryJackson!
 
Evening all

Today:

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.

Baked halloumi and sweet red peppers,
Roast cauliflower with Egyptian duqqah using toasted, crushed almonds. hazelnuts, pistachios with sesame, fennel, cumin and coriander seeds.
A small portion of hummus with Kalamata olives.
Salad using cucumber, rocket, salad onions, raspberries, strawberry halves and mint, dressed with olive oil, garlic, a touch of lemon juice and topped with toasted sesame seeds.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

D: Seafood salad made with brown shrimps and mussels, lettuce, Romano peppers, celery, baby plum tomatoes, halkidiki olives, oregano and salad onions, dressed with an olive oil, balsamic and garlic vinaigrette, topped with toasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
My grains are going mad too! I am just making about half a pint of kefir a day, and discarding some grains each time. I still put a little bit of shop bought in, but the taste of the home grown stuff has improved a lot since the grains had a growth spurt, and I think I'm adjusting to the home grown taste now too. One of my friends is going to have some grains from me to try making their own kefir now as well, this stuff is taking over the world!
 
Day out with a friend today, day off low carb - only two meals and small ones at that, so while some damage is done I'm ok with not worrying about it. I'm planning for an extended fast soon, so I will keep things as low carb as possible now in preparation.
 
So pleased that you've worked out what has been causing your painful problem, @RosemaryJackson, that is good news.

I had a call from my nephew & great nephew, they were coming over & bringing a takeaway dinner, for me, kebab meat & coleslaw. It was lovely to spend some time with them & rather good that, even though I pinched a chip, I only had a tiny .1 rise.
Or maybe it was a dodgy strip!
 
Hi All
Interchanged Mon & Tues suppers but anyway…Yesterdau usual brekkie. Lunch at local pub with two friends was a small Caesar salad sans anchovies! My meal was the best of the three as Welsh Rare it with haddock on toast was cold and congealed but she accepted it. I wouldn’t have. Supper was chicken breast chunks baked with chestnut mushrooms and jar of TTD mushroom sauce. Like @IanBish and @Rachox I swerve most of the sauce and similarly l like to pour my own gravy on a roast!
@RosemaryJackson so glad you were able to figure out the cause of the allergy that was a horrible episode for you. I have eye injections regularly and while grateful for the treatment I just wish those administering them could show a bit more empathy. But thats another long story. @Annb sorry you have been feeling so rough due to maybe another allergic reaction. I think of you in your trusty chair with a blanket as my mum mobility issues and often did the same. I think when I moan about trivia you are so stoic and bear it all with such grace.
Today just had usual brekkie of slice LC toast, butter, copious tea.
Lunch will be two hard boiled eggs and hoping sandwich with LivLife bread.
Supper will be chunky cod fingers with broccoli.
@Antje77 I have been trying to figure how the magnificent Efraim helped with the fencing??
 
PenguinMum said:
@Antje77 I have been trying to figure how the magnificent Efraim helped with the fencing??
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By very(!) closely supervising everything I did to prevent me from making mistakes and having to undo them again!



Yesterday my plan was to make a Thai green curry. Never made that, but Lidl sold boxes with everything you need to make it so I thought to give it a try.
But then I remembered I'm going out for dinner at an Afghan restaurant today, a birthday present from a friend.
So I decided to postpone the curry, will make it tomorrow I think.

A while back I bought a low carb bread in Germany, and I still have some in the freezer. So for my main meal I tried if it would work for a 'tosti' (two slices of bread with lots of cheese and meat in the middle, pan fried). So far, every low carb bread I tried it with tasted like porridge, yuck, but with this one it was pretty acceptable!

I hope one of my friends will visit Germany too so they can bring me more of that bread.
 
Proper shower day today since it is leg rebandaging day, so I can take the old bandages off and let my legs and feet feel the air and the water. Heaven!

This is also the day I weigh myself and I am down by another kilo from last week. Happy with that.

Breakfast fairly early because of going out. I had a 3 egg cheese omelette. It was going to be 2 eggs but that only left one lonely egg sitting in the tray, so I included it as well.

I think 2nd meal today will be sausage and mashed swede or celeriac (if Neil can find one for me in the shops - they don't have them very often here - too exotic maybe).

Thanks for your kind thoughts @PenguinMum. The reactions I have, I'm informed by doctors, are not allergies but intolerances (word games) because I don't develop rashes or swollen face or throat. I consider myself quite lucky because,although they make me feel pretty awful for a while, they are not dangerous, unlike my DIL - allergens send her into anaphylactic shock. I think I've got off fairly lightly.
 
Coffee and cream
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Porchetta and cherry tomatoes
Corned Beef
Cheese, gerkins and cherry tomatoes. ( didn't realise the Gerkins were so high.)
More cheese
 
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I have Nando’s envy now!
 

I have Nando’s envy now!
 
@shelley262 and @jpscloud I wish I lived near either of you, I’d gladly take out a subscription for your lovely fresh kefir.
I’ve been away in Birmingham for a few days meeting up with old college friends. We had some lovely meals, surprisingly the best steak ( actually one of the best steaks I’ve ever eaten out!) was in the Premier inn restaurant where we stayed. Really impressive.
Today started with goat milk kefir ( I’ve missed it)
Lunch was airfried salmon fillet with salad which included my latest batch of fermented cauli. Choc chia pud to follow.
D- gammon steaks from the super local pork farm. Grilled mushrooms, steamed kale and cauli cheese. 2 glasses l/c white wine and handful of almonds afterwards.
 
That looks delicious @DJC3!

I had a large fry up breakfast at around 1pm with bacon, sausages, scrambled eggs, mushrooms.

2 glasses of kefir after breakfast.

Very full all afternoon after that so just had 2 packs of pork puffs and a handful of nuts later then a couple of montezuma's buttons. Those are so good for killing sweet chocolate cravings.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: coffee shop cappuccino.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and DGF orange chocolate eggs with a fellow forum member.
Dinner: salmon and peppercorn sauce with broccoli and cauliflower.

 
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