What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Munkki

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today's food
Breakfast Spoon of M and S low carb no grains granola with kefir and a few garden berries
Lunch two boiled eggs and low carb roll
Dinner steak with onions and mushrooms and glass of red wine
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Just had a few garden berries with spoon of yoghurt.
What is the low carb granola? From M&S??
 

IanBish

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I've been feeling like a curry again. So today I made a beef Jalfrezi, served with a small portion of Basmati rice. The beef was lovely, the rice not so much.

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LivingLightly

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Breakfast today was h/m yoghurt with blackberries picked on my morning walk.
Lunch:
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chicken and avocado salad.
Dinner was delicious grass fed picanha steak with chimichurri ( herbs from my garden - I don’t have green fingers so I’m ridiculously pleased by this) and roast veg.
Some culinary herbs are really easy @DJC3 and worth the trouble. No need for green fingers.

I tend to stick to perennials; sage, thyme, rosemary and bay are reliable in Winter and mint varieties are pretty resilient. Bees love oregano flowers, but you'll get fewer leaves if you allow the plants to flower. French tarragon is not completely hardy, so best grown in a container and moved under glass in Winter.
 

LivingLightly

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My eating was exactly the same as yesterday, I think my meal plans must seem boring to others but I know what controls my weight and blood sugars and I’m a creature of habit so it suits me!
pic of todays dinner:

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I tend to rotate the same tried and tested, diabetic-friendly meals quite a bit @Rachox. Although my pool of recipes changes through the year as and when new ingredients come into season, there is quite a lot of repetition with just the occasional experiment every once in a while.
 

shelley262

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What is the low carb granola? From M&S??
It's m and S collection grain free fruit and nut granola and costs £5 for box of 360g but I only have a small about 15g portion mixed with a few extra nuts, seeds and kefir.
Carbs for a portion of 45gs it suggests are 3.7 g of carbs.
 
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shelley262

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Breakfast fried some garden tomatoes in olive oil and served on low carb toast with a fried egg
Lunch hm hummus with a few olives, garden tomatoes, nuts, celery, piece of comte cheese and two low carb seeded crackers followed by the peel of a local apple.
Dinner hm chicken curry with low carb roti and a gin with soda water.
 

LivingLightly

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Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs and two scallops, plus 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 aubergines, moistened with double cream and topped with extra mature Cheddar cheese.
Steamed runner beans with a knob of butter and toasted pine nuts.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.
Two squares, Montezuma's Absolute Black 100% cocoa chocolate.

D: Seafood salad made with king prawns and mussels, avocado, garden tomatoes, salad onions and Kalamata olives with home-made aioli for dipping and topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to wash down tablets.
 
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shelley262

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Breakfast two high pork content pork chipolatas with mushrooms cooked in olive oil and a fried egg
Lunch last of hm hummus with celery, olives a few garden tomatoes and nuts
Dinner roast chicken with salads - including a lovely home made coleslaw made from finely chopping some organic celery and red cabbage with a small amount of a local apple, walnuts, toasted Black sesame seeds, juice of small lemon and Olive oil.
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filly

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Coffee and cream
Egg and potato salad
Roast Pork and tomato and red Pepper
 

LivingLightly

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Quite a quick lunch today, but all cooked from scratch. Pork chop, Maris Piper spuds roasted in coconut oil, British (as opposed to Parisian) carrots and garden peas. The roasties were lovely.

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How did the flavour of roasties cooked from scratch compare with potatoes given the 'resistant' starch' treatment?
@IanBish.
 
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LivingLightly

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Breakfast two high pork content pork chipolatas with mushrooms cooked in olive oil and a fried egg
Lunch last of hm hummus with celery, olives a few garden tomatoes and nuts
Dinner roast chicken with salads - including a lovely home made coleslaw made from finely chopping some organic celery and red cabbage with a small amount of a local apple, walnuts, toasted Black sesame seeds, juice of small lemon and Olive oil.
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Three wholesome meals @shelley262 and that home-made slaw sounds delicious.