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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Today:

Breakfast: Two cups of double decaffeinated espressos with cream and a bit of xylitol.

Around 11 a.m.: Hamburger on a low carb bun with cheddar, pickled cucumber, onion, tomatoes, mayonnaise, mustard and low-carb ketchup on a home-made low carb bun.

Late dinner: Cauliflower fried in butter with onion, garlic, tahini and sea bass fried in butter (shared some of the sea bass with the cat). Desert: Home-made low-carb mousse au chocolat.
 
ziggy_w said:
Hi @badcat,

I agree. Tahini is great and almost zero carb, which is even better. Do you have any good recipes with tahini?
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I like tahini on its own on LC toast, in baba ganoush (aubergine dip) roasted courgette 'hummus' . Also love it in various tahini based sauces - tahini sauce, tahini and lemon sauce, tahini and miso sauce etc served with vegetables like broccoli or leeks or with salads like roasted cauliflower and almond salad. Also love it with baked fish. Most recipes I have found / adapted come from middle eastern cookbooks like Yotam Ottolenghi's

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...-cauliflower-sprout-burnt-butter-black-garlic
 

Hi @badcat,

Thanks for the fabulous link. Drool! I have already bookmarked the page.
 
Yesterday:

Breakfast: Left over homemade chilli from the night before.
Snack: Home made matcha green tea latte.
Lunch: Chicken and green salad.
Dinner: Home made crustless quiche and salad. I made hubby some banana bread, so did have a little slice of that (naturally paid for it with a 14.3mmol reading late last night).

Can't decide this morning whether to have left over crustless quiche for breakfast, or to cook a couple of poached eggs? hmm decisions decisions.
 

Both?
 
Friday...

Breakfast: Two boiled eggs and buttered Lidl protein roll soldiers

Lunch: 10g macadamias, 10g almonds, 10g walnuts

Dinner: Lamb chops* last of the gorgeous cauliflower mash, runner beans and some kale

Drinks: Coffee with breakfast and mid morning, sparkling mineral water and red wine with dinner and another during the evening

* I won't be buying Morrison's lamb chops again - sooooo fatty and quite tough
 
badcat said:
Mmmmm tahini with anything or even tahini with nothing, I love tahini
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I've only ever had it in home made houmous. I do like the flavour and its interesting to know it can be used in other things.
 
heh said:
Tea
B: Strawberries & Greek yogurt, 2 boiled eggs
L: Corned beef butty on Tesco high protein bread with tomato, 12 grapes, Activia zero cherry yogurt
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Chicken, mushroom & barley risotto, 2 glasses of vin blanc
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I love and miss barley risotto but I haven't had it since diagnosis as I thought it would spike my BG (I never tried it so I don't really know) - I hope you don't mind me asking but how did that lovely risotto of yours affect your BG?
 
I wasn't going to cook breakfast but yours @Chook sent me off to scramble a couple of eggs with parsley and toast 1/2 A Lidl high protein roll with lurpack melting on it. I too have leftover cauli mash from yesterday. Just wondering what to have with it. That better than potatoes cauli mash is becoming a regular side now.

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Chook said:
I love and miss barley risotto but I haven't had it since diagnosis as I thought it would spike my BG (I never tried it so I don't really know) - I hope you don't mind me asking but how did that lovely risotto of yours affect your BG?
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I don't know, I'm not self testing so I can't help you.
 
Breakfast - none

Lunch - 20g salted almonds, 2 squares Lindt 90%

Dinner - sea bass fillet with lemon, thyme & black pepper butter, sautéed kale, leeks and cabbage; 10 raspberries with double cream

Drinks - 1 mug of tea with cream, 1 Diet Coke, 1 sparkling mineral water, tap water throughout the day
 
Amazing figures for me. Went to bed on 4.8 FBG was 5.8 and despite mucking about for a while after the fasting check pre breakfast was also 5.8. Had to check again 30 mins after breakfast and I was 6.4 but highest I got to was 7.1 and now pre dinner I'm at 4.7. I have no idea what's different I just hope this continues.
B. 2 scrambled eggs with parsley , 1/2 Lidl high protein roll with lurpack and Tassimo Americano Grande with a dash of cream.
L. Tassimo Americano Grande with a dash of cream and a pack of Urban Fruit triple toasted coconut chips. ( Had been shopping and that was enough).
D. Couldn't be bothered cooking so slices each mortadella, ox tongue, thin ham, corned beef, cheese coleslaw, lettuce, 4 cherry tomatoes, tablespoon roasted peppers, 1/2 avocado, 20g red Leicester, boiled egg and Helmanns. Won't be hungry after that!

See ìf this odd trend continues.

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Breakfast milkshake of skimmed milk blueberries strawberries sugarfree chokolate oats . Spoon full of honey
Lunch : smoked herring coffee with skimmed milk
In between Macadamia nuts

Dinner lidl protein Roll with salami an tuna on the other half With Mayo 2 tomatoes 3 packets of sugar free gum
 
B - 2 boiled eggs with 1 slice Hi lo toast
L - low carb mini pitta with grilled cheese and tomato on top and some watercress. 75g choc and hazelnut Oppo ice cream
D - low carb coffee and pecan muffin, greek yogurt and some raspberry chia jam
Drinks - 1 coffee with lactofree cream, sparkling water
 
That all sounds lovely - in particular the hamburger. low carb Ketchup - I haven't found that yet.
 
B - Saturday treat of eggs, Bacon, Mushrooms and a cup of tea.
Snack - some mixed nuts.
L - Spag Bol - with replacement pasta in the form of 0 carb noodles.
D - some nuts and a few bits of chocolate - more tea.
 
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