What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[LivingLightly]

I would have assumed that being a basic requirement in a naturist resort!

Welcome back to this thread for diabetic foodies @jape.

 

[LivingLightly]

Evening all

Today:

B: Two eggs scrambled in butter with a generous dollop of double cream, sautéed chestnut mushrooms and garden tomatoes, all seasoned with a good grinding of black pepper.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.

L: Aperitif: dry white wine.
Whole sea bass baked en papillote, belly stuffed with sprigs of French tarragon and garlic, drizzled with olive oil.
Steamed asparagus spears smothered with butter.
A medley of baked broccoli, cauliflower, onions, garlic and sweet red peppers.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.
Two squares, Montezuma's Absolute Black 100% cocoa chocolate.

D: Salad made with anchovy fillets, quail's eggs, avocado, lettuce, Padrón chillies, salad onions, lemon verbena and a touch of lemon juice, with a dollop of home-made aioli for dipping, topped with walnut halves.

 

[IanBish]

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

The "starch-resistant" potatoes were bought frozen. The ones cooked from scratch were much, much nicer.

 

[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 another carb killa bar.
Dinner: Bahian chicken and mushroom curry made with a Las Iguanas spice mix with cauliflower rice.

 

[filly]

Coffee and cream
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Cottage Cheese and tomato
Roast Pork and more tomato......

 

[DJC3]

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.

Yes I have all those ( except tarragon which I don’t like) and they are all doing well. Long may they last!

 

[LivingLightly]

The "starch-resistant" potatoes were bought frozen. The ones cooked from scratch were much, much nicer.

Thank you for confirming my suspicions @IanBish. That's useful to know. I steer clear of potatoes myself, but still cook spuds from time to time for family and friends, some of whom have type 2 diabetes.

 

[DJC3]

B- H/m yoghurt with blueberries and M&S grain free granola.
We had our main meal at lunchtime today - it was another DietDoctor recipe involving pork fillet, mushrooms and green beans in a creamy rosemary infused sauce.
D- After Aquafit class was cheese, nuts and a couple of the Olina’s pumpkin crackers. I finally bought them from Amazon but have since found them in a deli nearby.
Forgot photos today.

 

[LivingLightly]

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 another carb killa bar.
Dinner: Bahian chicken and mushroom curry made with a Las Iguanas spice mix with cauliflower rice.

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Is Las Iguanas spice mix a Latin American creation @Rachox or did it originate in Mexico?

 

[LivingLightly]

Yes I have all those ( except tarragon which I don’t like) and they are all doing well. Long may they last!

Yes, they're all reliable @DJC3 no matter what the weather is like.

I lost my chervil this year (it is in any case a short-lived plant) and for the second year in a row forgot to sow basil, but I can always buy pot-grown basil locally.

 

[LivingLightly]

Evening all

Today:

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

L: Courgetti alla Carbonara made with chestnut mushrooms, eggs, double cream, Parmesan, nutmeg, butter and spiralised courgettes, finished with extra Parmesan and flat leaf parsley.
Steamed French beans and mangetout smothered with butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

D: Seafood salad made with brown shrimps, mussels, lettuce, finely shredded red cabbage, apple peel, celery, b garden tomatoes, salad onions, kalamata olives and mint, with a dollop of home-made aioli for dipping, topped with toasted pistachios.
Water to wash down tablets.

 

[Rachox]

Is Las Iguanas spice mix a Latin American creation @Rachox or did it originate in Mexico?

The Las Iguanas menu says it’s Brazilian

 

[LivingLightly]

The Las Iguanas menu says it’s Brazilian

Sounds excitingly different @Rachox. Thank you.

 

[RosemaryJackson]

Monday Lunch Club yesterday. Soup to start; cottage pie with cabbage and carrots. S/f jelly with 4 strawberries. Tin salmon for tea.

 

[ianpspurs]

Hello again Old friends - well Adele is a Spurs gel. I'm here for a possible favour but I'll stay on topic.
Keto Hana's raspberry granola (30 gms) soaked overnight in almond milk with 48 gms ground flaxseed then added 108 mls Biotiful original Kefir (overestimated) 3x 750/800 mls Assam with almond milk over a 4 -4.5 hr period
Keto chef multi seed roll, president soft butter, Cornish cruncher cheese. (prompted google search for ketoish sweet pickle* - may try this if and when available) JKP forgot to order the Jarslberg
CWC and 2 x h/m blueberry muffins - 100 gms in all (Sugar free Londoner recipe) while waiting to collect grandchildren
Large salad with 3 extra large free range eggs from M and S via Ocado
The favour? Does anyone still have the recipe or link to the infamous CCBs - yes I know I created the recipe (sorry about those burnt suacepans ) but that was about 6 Prime ministers and 1 monarch ago. Thanks in anticipation.
*cheese roll sans pickle after 8 years is just " not giving" or as my neighbors (I know, I know) would say. I've tried the SRSLY one and have limited tolerance for the taste of most LC/Keto swaps - see below

 

[Antje77]

The favour? Does anyone still have the recipe or link to the infamous CCBs - yes I know I created the recipe (sorry about those burnt suacepans ) but that was about 6 Prime ministers and 1 monarch ago. Thanks in anticipation.

What are CCB's?

 

[Outlier]

One avocado.

Dinner will be preceded by my usual small quantity of nuts - brazils, walnuts, hazelnuts and almonds - then grilled pork chop with broccoli, cabbage, a few runner beans (they are almost over now) and cauliflower. Butter on the veg.

 

[ianpspurs]

What are CCB's?

Caramel Chocolate Bars. Ground flaxseed, inulin bound with melted butter, a layer of caramel made from inulin and butter - hence the burnt saucepan reference and a dark chocolate probably with cream so a ganache? coating. I/we still have the moulds to make these into bars ( and the analysis, but not the recipe, in Cronometer - 3.4 carbs). Originally I was one of several who bought these monsters - they/that trend lasted a while

 

[Antje77]

I love the search bar, searched for Caramel Chocolate Bars by member @ianpspurs , and presto!
Turns out @Rachox has made them in the past as well.
I think there is some variation in your historical recipes so pick your choice.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today-low-carb-forum.75781/post-1785579
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today-low-carb-forum.75781/post-1859584
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today-low-carb-forum.75781/post-1867743
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...lood-glucose-full-on-chat.163627/post-2398090
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...lood-glucose-full-on-chat.163627/post-2398090

 

[ianpspurs]

I love the search bar, searched for Caramel Chocolate Bars by member @ianpspurs , and presto!
Turns out @Rachox has made them in the past as well.
I think there is some variation in your historical recipes so pick your choice.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today-low-carb-forum.75781/post-1785579
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today-low-carb-forum.75781/post-1859584
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today-low-carb-forum.75781/post-1867743
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...lood-glucose-full-on-chat.163627/post-2398090
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...lood-glucose-full-on-chat.163627/post-2398090

Thanks @anje. Think I finally settled on the last one - definitely no erithrytol ever again for me. Chocologic is very high fibre