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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Gezzabelle said:
First day of needing to get seriously back on track. Almost forgotten how to do LCHF....hopefully this is somewhere close :) Need to seriously get back on track and shed some weight. Awaiting latest review results on the 18th May and not hopeful of good results after a bad few months :nailbiting:

Breakfast ...2 eggs scrambled cooked in butter
Lunch.........Tin of salmon with baby spinach and mayo
Dinner........3 high meat content (90%) pork sausages, mushrooms cooked in butter with small tub of single cream and a little grated cheddar cheese and a heaped tspn of Philadelphia
Few raspberries with sugar free jelly
Snack....Small packet of pork scratchings
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Those mushrooms sound yummy - think I'll make some cream of mushroom soup today :-)
 
I went adrift last night after the crisps - two squares of chocolate and then 1 1/2 Lidl rolls with butter. Amazed at 6.8 FBG

Back on track today
Cheese omelette with mushrooms

Mushroom soup (made with mushrooms cooked in butter, stock and a tub of Philly garlic and herbs)

Chicken drumsticks with broccoli, cauli and leeks with cream
 
Breakfast: Toasted Lidl Protein Roll with butter and raspberry sludge
Lunch: Big cup of Costa coffee with cream (in Costa)
Dinner: Mr C is making some kebabs - some chicken and some lamb - with salad and tzatziki
 
Ultramum said:
I went adrift last night after the crisps - two squares of chocolate and then 1 1/2 Lidl rolls with butter. Amazed at 6.8 FBG

Back on track today
Cheese omelette with mushrooms

Mushroom soup (made with mushrooms cooked in butter, stock and a tub of Philly garlic and herbs)

Chicken drumsticks with broccoli, cauli and leeks with cream
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That soup sounds divine....I need to try that :D How does it affect your BG ?
 
Lunch....2 eggs scrambled cooked in butter with a heaped tspn Philadelphia
Dinner....2 quarter pounder scotch beef burgers ( all but carb free ) 1 egg fried....an avocado mashed with grated cheddar cheese and fried in butter...that's a new invention and omg soooo yummy :)
Sugar free jelly
Snack....small packet of pork scratchings
 
Touch wood again - my BG is being good again. Bed 6.3 FBG 6.8 and I only got to 7.4 pre breakfast. It never went any higher than this all day. Rest of the day was spent in the 5's and low 6's.
B. Heading off to swimming so another cooked breakfast of 2 Herta Chicken sausages, 2 rashers crispy bacon, fried egg, 3 Vittoria tomatoes and 3 chestnut mushrooms.
L. Tassimo morning coffee with cream. 2 walnuts
D. Beautiful day so salad it was. 1 slice each boiled ham , chicken and ox tongue. Load of lettuce, 2 Vittoria tomatoes, 1/2 avocado, boiled egg, bacon bits , 4 mozzarella pearls and Helmanns. Also succumbed to the wee bottle of prosecco I was eyeing yesterday.
Before I went shopping I had 2 squares of lindt 90% - how did that make my BG go down to the low 5's? Is the secret to BG control lindt 90%.
 
Am I the only type 1 diabetic who has just eaten like 7 Bourbon biscuits and had chicken and baked beans for dinner haha need to learn from you guys what to eat
 
Gezzabelle said:
That soup sounds divine....I need to try that :D How does it affect your BG ?
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Exactly the same two hours after as before :-)

Serves four
500g mushrooms
One onion
Two cloves of garlic
Two oxo (vegetarian)
1l of water
Bring to the boil and simmer for 25minutes
Whizz up in blender
Add 200 g Philly garlic and herbs

Eat! It's like drinking garlic mushrooms :-)

Works with plain Philly and no garlic if you aren't keen on garlic
 
Breakfast - nothing. Wasn't planning on skipping it, but wasn't very hungry so gave it a whirl.

Lunch - Nando's. 5 plain wings with salad

Snack - 100ml pot of Oppo vanilla ice cream. Not as nice as the chocolate flavour

Dinner - salami and cheese
 
JacquiMorrison said:
Am I the only type 1 diabetic who has just eaten like 7 Bourbon biscuits and had chicken and baked beans for dinner haha need to learn from you guys what to eat
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Only thing I could eat out of that is the chicken but I'm type II. I'd love to have beans on toast but way too many carbs for me.
 
This is a good morning so far. I went to bed on 5.4 which for me is great (must have been the prosecco ). FBG 6.4 and pre breakfast got to 7.2 but hubby called for an opinion on what plants I wanted in my many hanging sleeves so I tested again before I ate breakfast anď I was down to 6.7. Libre confirmed the little jump and turn. Even after breakfast it is barely moving.
B. Had to eat more chicken sausage so 2 Herta Chicken sausages, 2 rashers crispy bacon, 3 chestnut mushrooms, 3 Vittoria tomatoes, 1 fried egg and a Tassimo morning coffee with cream.
L. Nothing - it's Sunday so more than enough food and drink for dinner with the family
D. To start - mixing up some tomato , red pepper , sliced olives, parsley , garlic and harissa to dress a lovely piece of Hake fillet. Also used harissa to spice some cauliflower slices to go with it.
Main is veal escalope which will be done either with marsala or a creamy mushroom sauce. The carb eaters have new potatoes as well as green beans, broccoli, sprouts.
Dessert I have a sugar free lemon jelly made with blueberries, strawberries and raspberries in it ( M&S have one but not sugar free). The carb eaters also have zesty orange profiterols - another newbie at M&S.

Noticed that M&S also have Pork Belly crisps and salami crisps. They are not with thè crisps. They are in little plastic packs beside the many variations of chicken slices near their cold meats. The pork belly crisps are low carb , the salami ones are a use with moderation although I suspect they will be delicious.

It's Sunday so there will be the weekly campari and soda and a wee prosecco

May fit in 2 square of Lindt 90% Excellence to see if my BG falls again.
 
Ok, so the last few days have been

Mon-Thur: skipped breakfast and lunch (too complicated for hosts, so fasted) with small meat portion and green veg for evening meal. Supplemented by nuts and 70% choc til i ran out.
Fri: skipped B and L, with a nice big beef rib dinner out at restaurant. Felt much better.
Sat: skipped B, and stopped at motorway services to have naked burger for lunch. D was a tin of tescos Rogan Josh (10g carbs) :yuck: and konjac rice.

Normal eating should resume today. Thank goodness!
 
maglil55 said:
So I had 2 squares of lindt 90 % when I was at 6.4 - now at 5.4. Is there some secret BG lowering something in Lindt Excellence?
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Haha! I find that 2 squares of 70% Lindt raises my bg by less than 1 mmol/l for less than an hour.
So i will happily snaffle them whenever I like (within reason!)

On the other hand, 4 squares has a lot more than double the impact.
 
Today:
FBG was 7.3
Breakfast: Eggs, bacon, chipolatas, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes, half a spoonful of baked beans

First Lunch: As yesterday - huge cup of Costa decaff with two jugs of cream

Then went to Brigg garden centre to find something nice to go in the wall trough thingy by my back door. Just gently strolling arouns so I can't explain why I felt a bit wobbly on the drive home and then got quite a shock to find myself at 3.2 when I got home!!!! 3.2 - where did THAT come from.... so

Second lunch / snack: some defrosted Sainsbury frozen cherries (yum!) back up to 5.1 and feeling much better - I don't understand why I went so low as I've been a bit high all week and I had a huge breakfast.

Dinner: Lamb shanks slow cooked in red wine, shallots, dried mushrooms, garlic and herbs (good ol' slow cooker), roast parsnips (just a couple of bits), butter braised carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and a few broad beans

Wine.

Evening snack: possibly a few peanuts although I find they give me a high FBG the following morning.
 
Brunneria said:
Haha! I find that 2 squares of 70% Lindt raises my bg by less than 1 mmol/l for less than an hour.
So i will happily snaffle them whenever I like (within reason!)

On the other hand, 4 squares has a lot more than double the impact.
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I'm going to have to try the 70% Lindt - I've only had the 85% and 90%. I like them both but in very small quantities and I especially like them for making the Delia inspired choc truffles.

@Brunneria - I bet you lost some weight while you were away! :) You should have taken one of your cakes and some double cream like you did before. Is that Tesco rogan josh lamb or chicken? That sounds like something Mr C would like to take to work.
 
Brunneria said:
Haha! I find that 2 squares of 70% Lindt raises my bg by less than 1 mmol/l for less than an hour.
So i will happily snaffle them whenever I like (within reason!)

On the other hand, 4 squares has a lot more than double the impact.
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Weirdly I'm still dropping. Now at 5. That's the second time BG has dropped after eating Lindt although I agree I wouldn't eat more.
 
Chook said:
Today:
FBG was 7.3
Breakfast: Eggs, bacon, chipolatas, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes, half a spoonful of baked beans

First Lunch: As yesterday - huge cup of Costa decaff with two jugs of cream

Then went to Brigg garden centre to find something nice to go in the wall trough thingy by my back door. Just gently strolling arouns so I can't explain why I felt a bit wobbly on the drive home and then got quite a shock to find myself at 3.2 when I got home!!!! 3.2 - where did THAT come from.... so

Second lunch / snack: some defrosted Sainsbury frozen cherries (yum!) back up to 5.1 and feeling much better - I don't understand why I went so low as I've been a bit high all week and I had a huge breakfast.

Dinner: Lamb shanks slow cooked in red wine, shallots, dried mushrooms, garlic and herbs (good ol' slow cooker), roast parsnips (just a couple of bits), butter braised carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and a few broad beans

Wine.

Evening snack: possibly a few peanuts although I find they give me a high FBG the following morning.
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Have you been eating Lindt 90%?

I'm still searching for a replacement for one of my Curly Reds which died. It's a bad corner - wind howls around ìt so I may stick with annuals. I've got some Strawberry and the raspberry dianthus which I've planted there before and osteosperum seems to do well too. The sleeves are pŕogressing.
 
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