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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Tuesday 19 March - bed 7.1 FBG 5.9. I will not fall behind - repeat!

B. TAG and a quick slice of SRSLY bread with egg and salad cream. Benecol dairy free.

L. Nothing

D. Stuff needing eaten! A buratta, prawns with Marie Rose, veggie salad, a bit cheese, santini tomatoes, and 2 chicken drumsticks. A strange combo but I enjoyed it.

Gin & soda.

Wednesday 20 March bed 5.7 FBG 6.7. I came right down to 4.3 today. First time I've been in the 4's for ages. A bit of running about today. As well as encouraging grandson into school, teaching him, getting other grandson back and forward, son to a funeral, and the boys are here for dinner.

B. Boys wanted chilli, so we had chilli. I had it too with lettuce, tomato, salsa, smashed avocado, sour cream, cheese, and a LC wrap. There are kidney beans in there but not enough to make a huge difference. Scoop of Halo Top with raspberries.

I think I had a gin and soda too. Son is now looking at cars.
 
Wonderful day out today but did mean a late dinner
Early glass of kefir with my supplements before heading out
During the day a small pot of nuts and coffee shop flat white with a deliciously guilt free low carb chocolate orange and pecan egg

When back home small portion of hm chilli and LC garlic bread.
 
Had a lovely dinner at the Afghan restaurant.
If you ever visit the city of Leeuwarden, I highly recommend the mixed grill, skip the rice!

And don't do as I did.
Not only had I two of the amazing böreği (deep fried very thin filo dough filled with feta, yum!), but I couldn't resist the bread coming with the other starter of olives, hummus, zaziki and another tasty dip. Didn't have much of the bread, I had most of the dips with a spoon, there is no rule on not using a spoon for dipping as far as I know of.
Not regretting, and it looks like I'm coming down from shortly hitting 11 very nicely.

For drinks, I had a doogh, a yoghurt drink.
I think this restaurant adds some finely crumbled feta cheese to the drink, which is amazing, and I'm going to buy feta to try and replicate the effect with my kefir.

Mains was a very generous mixed grill: small lamb chops, steak, and chicken, all perfectly grilled, done but juicy. And more than enough for a full meal with a little salad. I couldn't finish it, so I'll have some more of the meat tomorrow.




 

How did the flat white affect your BG? I used to love them but I seem to be particularly sensitive to milk spikes. ( or coffee shop coffee in general which is sad)
 
Think I might have missed a day or 2....
Today
Small yoghurt with chia seeds and blackberries
2 slices HiLo bread toasted with marmite and a little cheese
2 dgf cakes

Vegetarian guest
d: vegetable fritatta., green beans. Very small ice cream. Small brandy and soda. Carb eaters had crusty bread and butter

Emptying fridge ready for being away next week. The fritatta used up sad carrot, broccoli stem, cold cooked broccoli, end of dry cheese
 
MrsA2 said:
You can get sour gherkins. I found some in Asda and some in Morrisons, but not often. Try the Polish or European aisles. Trouble is they don't keep long when opened and tend to be large jars
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Yes @MrsA2. I tracked down some Hungarian sour gherkins one Christmas. The family really enjoyed them. Unfortunately, they disappeared shortly afterwards, never to be seen again.
 
DJC3 said:
How did the flat white affect your BG? I used to love them but I seem to be particularly sensitive to milk spikes. ( or coffee shop coffee in general which is sad)
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Deliberately didn't check it would probably have had an impact but was a treat - I normally stick to black - and had only had kefir and nuts until the coffee in the afternoon so felt I had some leeway. I knew too my only proper meal was going to be late.
 
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Evening all

Today:

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

L: Mushroom and spinach frittata made with eggs, Cheddar cheese, onion, double cream and thyme.
Vegetable tray bake using broccoli, cauliflower, sweet red peppers and leeks drizzled with olive oil.
Steamed French beans smothered with butter.
Skipped pudding.
Water to drink.

D: Seafood salad made with mussels and brown shrimps, lettuce, Romano peppers, celery, baby plum tomatoes, Kalamata olives, lemon verbena and salad onions, with a dollop of home-made aioli for dipping, topped with roasted macadamia nuts..
Water to wash down tablets.
 
Oddly, I was thinking about Leeurwarden a couple of days ago. I was there, briefly, in 1963. Tom and I were engaged in April of that year and then he had to go back to sea but his ship went into drydock a couple of months later, somewhere close to Leeurwarden, so I flew to Amsterdam and Tom found us a little hotel in Leeurwarden. Then it seemed like a charming little town but the hotel was full of spiders - long legged, pale beige ones. I hated it. I was 18 and it was the first time out of UK for me and only the 2nd time on a plane. I was wondering what it was like now, after 60 years. So, it's a city now and probably vastly enlarged over the intervening years.

Best part about the hotel was the breakfast. I'd never seen bread and chocolate for breakfast and thought it a wonderful invention of the Dutch.

The Afghan food looks wonderful - possibly even better than bread and chocolate.
 
Annb said:
So, it's a city now
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Oh, it's officially been a city for at least the last 589 years, and depending on your definition of city, you might even claim it has been a city for 739 years!
Yes, it has grown since the 60's but it's still not a large city by any means, cities in the north of the Netherlands tend to be smallish.

Bread and chocolate sprinkles are still a very common breakfast in the Netherlands for both children and adults. Any hotel in the Netherlands will have sprinkles right next to the peanut butter, jam, and cheese to put on your bread. It tastes especially good on fluffy white bread with a generous amount of butter, haven't had it in at least 10 years though.
 
Just had breakfast - cold platter of h/b egg, wafer thin ham, cold sausages and tomato.

2nd meal should be haddock with a lightly spiced tomato sauce. That's if I'm not too frazzled by the day's events.

Charity shop men are coming to pick up large items of furniture and kitchen equipment to sell in the shop. Cupcakes to finish off for Em (I asked her if I could bake something for her because I am missing the baking opportunities). Then received a request for more cakes to make for a party for children and mums and some soup as well, probably for the mums. I don't suppose kids will be in the mood for soup at a party. Someone else is bringing chicken nuggets, pizza and such. The party is tomorrow lunchtime so will need to get as much done today as possible. Shouldn't be too difficult, unless I run out of steam.
 
I haven't had it since the summer of 1963 but I still remember it.
 
Talking about Leeuwarden reminds me of the wonderful time I lived in Nederland. I moved to a farm just outside Leeuwarden in 1959 to live with my Dutch fiance's parents. I lived and helped on the farm for 3 months and learned to speak Dutch, then moved to Heemstede near Haarlem to work as a Nanny. We married in the town hall there and later moved to Amersfoort. I cherish the 2 years I spent there. Back to the food. I have beef stew today and enough for tomorrow for both my granddaughter and me. I have ham, eggs, beetroot, cottage cheese and salad for tea.
 
Hi everyone! Sun is out... for now!

Breakfast is sausages, chaffle, greek salad and cauliflower (I go with whatever my stomach brain tells me to eat nowadays so breakfasts are increasingly odd!)

Dinner will be steak with cauliflower and purple sprouting broccoli with pork puffs as a side.

Slow weight loss is continuing and blood sugar is stabilising after lingering post virus illness. Blood pressure coming down very nicely as well. My blood sugar app wanted me to add a weight loss goal... no thanks! Weight loss is a primary goal but that's one number I don't worry about if I'm keeping my food in the healthy range.
 
LivingLightly said:
Evening @filly. If you find a brand of gherkins that is low in salt and sugar, please let us know.
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@filly - we get Mrs Elwood's Haimisha gherkins. Tesco always seem to have them, as do most of the big supermarkets. It does say they should be eaten in a ridiculously short time once opened, but both my DIL and I ignore that. We keep them in the fridge, they're pickled, and we still use them a couple of weeks later with no I'll effects. Note: it has to be the Haimisha one. They have a straight Mrs Elwood's but that's packed with sugars.
 
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