What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Annb]

Was going to have breakfast but the workmen arrived so I just took some slices of ham out of a packet and a small chunk of cheese. Then I dropped the rest of the new pack of ham and it spread itself all over the kitchen floor. Silly me! Then I tasted the ham and figured that it was the best thing to have happened to it. The few slices I took also went into the compost bin. I ate 2 tiny chunks of the cheese and immediately my stomach rebelled, so I didn't have any more. The effect remained all day.

2nd meal was to have been a chickpea salad, which I actually made to take with me to a pot luck meal for a small gathering of friends. I went and took it with me, but Mrs Tum reminded me not to take liberties so I just had a cup of tea. Once home again, I put a salmon fillet in some foil and baked it quickly with a sliced up lemon. Tum accepted that alright, so I'm not going to bed empty.

 

[MommaE]

A good question @MommaE.

For this particular all-in-one-pan recipe, I stir the courgetti in raw. They need very little cooking.
Usually, I serve this dish straight away, but if you let it stand overnight so the flavours mingle, it tastes even better, IMO.

Thank you. I’ll give that a try.

 

[sueh21]

Morning all,
Yesterday
B Coconut porridge,blueberries
L HM Cauliflower cheese soup
D Sausages, celeriac mash, roast veg- peppers,courgette,onion,mushrooms

 

[Annb]

Cold chicken leg for breakfast. Unfortunately my stomach wasn't even happy with that and would only settle down after a couple of cups of black tea.

The rest of the chicken is there for using but I'm doubtful about it now. 2nd meal will have to be scrambled egg, I think. Stomach should be OK with that.

20.20 - scrambled egg didn't happen. Just had a cup of milky coffee instead.

 

[filly]

Coffee and cream x 3
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Trout smoked and cheese and tomato
Trout Smoked and green pepper and tomato

 

[DJC3]

B- Toasted SRSLY fruit loaf spread with cream cheese. I have to eat breakfast now I’m on new meds for Ménière’s disease which have to be taken 3x daily with food.
L- Cheese omelette and salad.
D- Pork steak, mushrooms and cabbage (sadly overcooked as we had a visitor just as I was about to dish up). Glass of l/c red wine.

 

[Rachox]

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 anAldi protein bar.
Dinner: salmon and cream cheese on a LC roll with coleslaw.

 

[LivingLightly]

Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs with butter and avocado, seasoned with black pepper plus a wedge of ewe's milk Beenleigh Blue.
Water to swallow tablet.
Double espresso.

L: Packed lunch made with leftover walnut and mushroom roast.
Celery sticks and baby plum tomatoes with lettuce cups for scooping and a dollop of home-made mayonnaise for dipping.
Prawns and brown shrimps.
Almonds and hazelnuts.
Water to drink.

Mid-afternoon: black filter coffee

D: Smoked salmon and cream cheese salad made with rocket, celery, baby plum tomatoes, salad onions, Halkidiki olives and Romano peppers, dressed with olive oil, lemon verbena and a touch of lemon juice, topped with pecan halves.
Water to wash down tablets.

 

[Antje77]

I'm way behind with posting again, I enjoy working during the week and spending time with my neighbour in the weekend, but it leaves less time and energy to spend on the internet.
So here's this weeks food, I always think I'm going to post so I do make pictures!

Sunday: An experimental asparagus and nettle soup. Yuck!
Very bad idea, don't try this please.

Monday should have been the second day of the soup, but one day was more than enough. So LC bread with chorizo and a fishy mayo type thing.

Tuesday: Green beans, onion and bell pepper flavoured with some black beans in chilli oil and soy sauce, with thin pork belly strips marinated in a black bean and garlic sauce.

Wednesday: Same, with an added duck egg.

Thursday: And again.

Yesterday: A lovely evening with my neighbour. Grilling on wood instead of charcoal takes a long time because you need to add more wood and wait for the flames to go low again all the time so it was an all evening thing lasting past midnight.

- Skewers with onion, bell pepper and slices of salami.
- Spareribs.
- White asparagus rubbed with olive oil and salt.
- Pork belly strips. There were two, Tale dropped one, the dog was quicker, so we gave the other one to the other 4 dogs and cats, it's not like we hadn't had enough to eat by that time.

 

[Annb]

Realised this morning that, yet again, I didn't want to eat. This is getting ridiculous. Must be developing some kind of eating disorder. So I scrambled a couple of eggs in butter and forced myself to eat it.m Result - feeling hungry. Can't win.

There's some goulash ready to have for meal number 2 today so no excuses for doing without.

Spent quite a lot of time cooking yesterday so there's food enough for 3 weeks or so in the freezer, as long as I feel like having the same thing several days running, which might just turn me off food again.

 

[shelley262]

Yesterday while away in Brum for a concert and meet up
Fasted all day as very busy and knew meeting up to eat at Dishoom with friends
Had peppered mutton which was delicious and we shared sides including raita, salad and chilli broccoli so enjoyed it

Today
Attending PHC conference virtually so dashed back First thing this morning.
First meal quick lunch of kimchi, smoked salmon and some herbs from garden and then a few frozen raspberries with hm yoghurt

Had popped chicken curry in slow cooker first thing when back so that was dinner which I've just had - not as good as yesterday s but enjoyed.

 

[DJC3]

Good to see the animals are still eating as well as you @Antje77 ! You have some good looking meals there.
Today I spent walking and listening through my new earbuds to the first day livestream of the PHC conference which was brilliant and thought provoking. It was especially nice to chat to @shelley262 online in between the talks and discuss them. I’m looking forward to tomorrow already.
B- Greek yoghurt and seeds.
L- cheese and mushroom omelette with salad.
D- another M&S yellow sticker job: chicken breast wrapped in bacon with a mustard sauce. Served with green beans and a glass of l/c red wine.

 

[filly]

Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Cheese tomato and corned beef
Smoked salmon
Green and black cocoa powder and cream

 

[shelley262]

Good to see the animals are still eating as well as you @Antje77 ! You have some good looking meals there.
Today I spent walking and listening through my new earbuds to the first day livestream of the PHC conference which was brilliant and thought provoking. It was especially nice to chat to @shelley262 online in between the talks and discuss them. I’m looking forward to tomorrow already.
B- Greek yoghurt and seeds.
L- cheese and mushroom omelette with salad.
D- another M&S yellow sticker job: chicken breast wrapped in bacon with a mustard sauce. Served with green beans and a glass of l/c red wine. View attachment 67740

Your chicken in bacon with sauce looks excellent for a quick prep meal. I can't wait until tomorrow either some very thought provoking information about using the way we eat to improve our metabolic health see you there.

 

[LivingLightly]

I'm way behind with posting again, I enjoy working during the week and spending time with my neighbour in the weekend, but it leaves less time and energy to spend on the internet.
So here's this weeks food, I always think I'm going to post so I do make pictures!

Sunday: An experimental asparagus and nettle soup. Yuck!
Very bad idea, don't try this please.

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Monday should have been the second day of the soup, but one day was more than enough. So LC bread with chorizo and a fishy mayo type thing.

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Tuesday: Green beans, onion and bell pepper flavoured with some black beans in chilli oil and soy sauce, with thin pork belly strips marinated in a black bean and garlic sauce.

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Wednesday: Same, with an added duck egg.

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Thursday: And again.

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Never mind @Antje77. Thank you for taking all those photos.

Much as I enjoy home-made soups, it seems a shame to use asparagus spears now at the peak of their short season. That said, imported asparagus is available for most of the year and the fibrous ends of the spears, which are usually discarded, make a tasty broth which can form the basis of some delicious soups.

I have a patch of stinging nettles (growing well away from a path I might add), but have never experimented with nettle soup. Has anybody here had a go? (My plants are left undisturbed in the hope that a passing Small Tortoiseshell or Peacock butterfly will lay some eggs).

 

[Annb]

Never mind @Antje77. Thank you for taking all those photos.

Much as I enjoy home-made soups, it seems a shame to use asparagus spears now at the peak of their short season. That said, imported asparagus is available for most of the year and the fibrous ends of the spears, which are usually discarded, make a tasty broth which can form the basis of some delicious soups.

I have a patch of stinging nettles (growing well away from a path I might add), but have never experimented with nettle soup. Has anybody here had a go? (My plants are left undisturbed in the hope that a passing Small Tortoiseshell or Peacock butterfly will lay some eggs).

Tom used to make nettle soup using just the small leaves from the tips of the plants. I think his soup contained onion and potato though and he said it was very like young spinach rather than mature spinach leaves or kale. Never felt like trying it myself, I have to say but he grew a nettle patch in the (rather large) garden at his parents' house.

 

[LivingLightly]

How interesting! @Annb. Thank you for sharing.

 

[LivingLightly]

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 oregano, baked with sweet red peppers and aubergines, moistened with double cream and topped with extra mature Cheddar cheese.
Steamed French beans and mangetout 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 Kalamata olives with home-made aioli for dipping and topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to wash down tablets.

 

[MrsA2]

Re nettle soup, have tried this in several occasions while leading Scouts. Plain nettle can be too nettley, (ie earthy and bitter) try adding onion, potato and or other greens.

 

[MrsA2]

Friday
Breakfast lc buffet. Took some cheese, ham and nuts for lunch.
L: at a wine tasting. Only 9 to try!!! Limited myself to the dry whites and reds. Nibbles provided so had cheese, nuts and salami. However resolve failed and had 2 wonderful sweet marzipan biscuits to finish.

D: Aperol spritz aperitif, shared a mixed fish starter that was so big didn't really need more (squid, tuna, prawns Marie Rose, octopus salad, smoked salmon, smoked haddock, langoustine and crevete) so had them box up the bressola, walnut and cream cheese salad I'd ordered. Wine was drunk.

Saturday
Breakfast buffet, avoided all carbs. Saved cheese and nuts for lunch.

L: yesterday's salad with extra brie and nuts. Half a coffee gelato.

D: caprese salad (tomatoes, mozzarella and basil) followed by unnamed white fish that came in a tomato and caper sauce. Wine was drunk.

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