What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast kefir then fried a few tomatoes in olive oil and served with a fried egg
Lunch some cheese and low carb seeded crackers with peel of a local apple.
Dinner slow cooked beef served with cabbage and a glass of dry red wine

Not going to the ILs for tea this Sunday, as I have a cold and I don’t want to give it to them, so no Jaffa cake!
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: egg mayo on a low carb roll with coleslaw.

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A couple of black coffees this morning.
Lunch was avocado with prawns and chilli mayo followed by a DGF Crimbo crumble.
Dinner was a roast: chicken with cauli cheese, buttered cabbage, a large mushroom, airfried bacon and a sausage. The sausage was Waitrose no 1 Cumberland. 0.4g carb each and very tasty.

jape said:

Scrambled eggs
Italian sausage, Cucumber salad, LC toast with tomato salsa
Raspberries, Baklava
Coffee with 10% cream, Hot lemonade, Water

Calories - 1278
Fat - 80 g
Carbs - 77 g
Fibre - 23 g
Net carbs - 53 g
Protein - 69 g
Na - 1786 mg
K - 1530 mg
H20 - 2513 ml
Fast Ins - 8 units
Long Ins - 26 units

My Middle Eastern friends twisted my arm to have one piece of Baklava with Turkish coffee. Although only 80 calories and 9 g net carbs it did raise my BG level more than I would have liked (to 7.2 from 4.8). I do not intend any insulin for the rest of the day, so I'll see if my BG goes down during the evening.

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I can't say I'm surprised that baklava played havoc with your blood glucose levels @jape.
Was that the first time you'd tried this luxurious Middle Eastern delicacy?

Evening all

Today:

B: Two eggs scrambled in butter with a generous dollop of double cream, sautéed chestnut mushrooms and a vine tomato, topped with parsley and 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 calabrese, onions, leeks and sweet red peppers.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.
Two squares, Montezuma's Absolute Black 100% cocoa chocolate.

D: Salad made with anchovy fillets, 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 pecan halves.

IanBish said:

Today for lunch I did a sirloin steak, with broccoli, green beans and a couple of thrice-cooked potatoes (par-boiled, fried in bacon fat, and finished off in the steak juices). I also did fried mushrooms, but they didn't fit on the plate, so I had those separately.

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Looks yummy @IanBish. I only have 1 roastie and I never eat the yorkies. In fact, when the chef started my plate he said, oh you never have yorkies do you!

Monday lunch today is a mystery. I'll take my own pudding (sf jelly and yoghurt). But my evening meal will be late so it will be purely protein.

B-scrambled eggs and avocado
L- toasted l/c bread with h/m mackerel pate. Do you recognise the bread @LivingLightly ( if you can see it under the slab of butter!)


D- pork in mushroom and white wine sauce with airfried veg ( courgette, red pepper, broccoli and mushrooms). I’m doing sober October but I don’t think the wine in the sauce counts as all the alcohol was cooked off.

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: bolognese with sliced sautéed courgette and a sprinkle of grated mature cheddar.

Coffee and cream
Pork coleslaw and tomato x 2
Ham

Breakfast kefir with nuts and seeds
Lunch cheese, sauerkraut and four low carb seeded crackers followed by one Apple peel
Dinner hm Bolognese with a small amount of low carb pasta followed by low carb brownie

DJC3 said:

B-scrambled eggs and avocado
L- toasted l/c bread with h/m mackerel pate. Do you recognise the bread @LivingLightly ( if you can see it under the slab of butter!)

D- pork in mushroom and white wine sauce with airfried veg ( courgette, red pepper, broccoli and mushrooms). I’m doing sober October but I don’t think the wine in the sauce counts as all the alcohol was cooked off.

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It's good to see you enjoy home-made Nordic bread @DJC3.

Evening all

Today:

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

L: Cheese-crusted omelette stuffed with mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, spinach, thyme and cream cheese plus grated Cheddar cheese for the crust.
Salad using lettuce, watercress, celery, salad onions, Kalamata olives and mint, dressed with an olive oil, garlic and balsamic vinaigrette, topped with walnut halves.
Skipped pud.
Water to drink.

D: Seafood salad made with tiger prawns, brown shrimps, lettuce, sweet cicely, vine tomatoes, celery, Romano peppers and salad onions dressed with olive oil and a squeeze of lemon juice, parsley and garlic, topped with toasted almonds. Water to wash down tablets.

LivingLightly said:

It's good to see you enjoy home-made Nordic bread @DJC3.

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I do prefer it toasted with lots of butter ( as you can see!) I find it a bit dry and ‘bitty’ otherwise. I’m grateful for the recipe though, thank you. It’s lasted A long time in the freezer, I just take a slice out now and again when I’m in the mood for a hearty meal.

LivingLightly said:

I can't say I'm surprised that baklava played havoc with your blood glucose levels @jape.
Was that the first time you'd tried this luxurious Middle Eastern delicacy?

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I have had Baklava many times before. However, I do not keep it at my home because of it being diabetic unfriendly. As expected, after a few hours my BG did fall to a light hypo (without any insulin) that necessitated chewing a glucose tablet. Oh, the joys of diabetes!

Yesterday (Sunday) my food consumption was an absolute disaster on all counts (calories, fats, carbs,proteins, sodium and potassium). After my second meal, I noticed that BG has surged to over 9.I injected some insulin resulting in a hypo in the early evening. Then I ate an apple that solved the problem. At 1 o'clock this morning I was awaken by my Libre - another hypo! I can deal with hypos during the day, but hypos at night time or the early hours of the morning is quite scary. That's the reason why I no longer inject any insulin at bedtime.

Hard boiled eggs, tomato salsa on LC toast
Argentinian prawn, cauliflower rice, peas, carrots, roasted onion and garlic toast
Apple, raspberries, macadamia nuts
Coffee with 10% cream, hot lemonade
(macadamia nuts seem diabetic and CKD friendly, but from a calorie perspective they are a horror story)

Calories - 2378
Fat - 141 g
Carbs - 208 g
Fibre - 83 g
Net carbs - 124 g
Protein - 124 g
Na - 3133 mg
K - 4056 mg
H20 - 1610 ml
Fast Ins - 15 units
Long Ins - 26 units

Today (Mondoy) was thankfully a bit of a redemption.

Hard boiled eggs, cream cheese, LC toast
Salad (tomato, cucumber, bell peppers, avocado, bacon bits, cheddar cheese, roasted onion and garlic dressing)
Apple
Coffee with 10% cream

Calories - 1213
Fat - 75 g
Carbs - 86 g
Fibre - 28 g
Net carbs - 57 g
Protein - 59 g
Na - 1682 mg
K - 2277 mg
H20 - 1210 ml
Fast Ins - 10 units
Long Ins - 26 units

Long day on the ferry back to the Netherlands starting early.
Rather vile coffee brewed in front of my tent. I didn't bring enough ground coffee with me so I bought something random at a supermarket.
Definitely bought the wrong brand so I've been suffering for 3 days. Very much looking forward to tomorrow morning, the English stuff will be ceremoniously binned and I'll finally have some decent coffee.

On the ferry I had various pieces of keto cake bought yesterday at the Keto Bite place in Frinton, some chorizo crisps given to me by a friend (very nice, thanks!) and some cashews.

Came home at about 8:30 pm expecting to have a cold slice of bread or such for dinner.
Instead, my neighbour asked me if I had eaten already when I came to pick up my dogs, and plated me a meal of brussels sprouts, cubed bacon, fried potatoes, and a beer and whisky.
Most of the potatoes went to the dogs, but without a prebolus this wasn't a good idea from a diabetes point of view according to my sensor.
It fed the soul though, which may be more important sometimes, and I still had very little carbs over the day after all.

jape said:

I have had Baklava many times before. However, I do not keep it at my home because of it being diabetic unfriendly.

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That's wise @jape if you find baklava irresistible. At least you knew how to manage the resulting blood glucose numbers effectively.

DJC3 said:

I do prefer it toasted with lots of butter ( as you can see!) I find it a bit dry and ‘bitty’ otherwise. I’m grateful for the recipe though, thank you. It’s lasted A long time in the freezer, I just take a slice out now and again when I’m in the mood for a hearty meal.

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Perhaps experiment with a little more olive oil to avoid dryness @DJC3 or add an extra egg for a more moist loaf. Lashings of butter makes the perfect partner. A single slice is remarkably filling!

Yesterday's mystery monday lunch...veg soup, 1 scoop creamed pots, calabrese, carrots and meatballs. My own pudding. Later I had ham with fried eggs. Today I'm fasting for as long as possible then I will have scrambled eggs and later a tin of salmon with acv. Very dull and dark here today but at least it's not raining.