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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream (2 tsp) washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: left over tuna melt and veggies from last night followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries.
Mid-afternoon: lemon chia pudding and black coffee.
Dinner: ‘lasagne’ made with butternut squash slices with cauliflower and brocolli followed by strawberries and vanilla Oppo and 1 square of Tesco 85% chocolate.
 
B: halloumi, 2 fried eggs, 1/2 a grilled tomato and 1/2 an avocado.

L: rocket, the other 1/2 avocado and a few flakes of M&S hot smoked salmon

Mid aft: handful of walnuts

D: brussels sprouts fried with streaky bacon and a dollop of creme fraiche on top. Followed by the low carb lemon cake and a spoonful of cream.

@shelley262 I was pleased with the cake, thenks for the recipe - the mixture looked odd, couldn’t get rid of the lumps but once cooked it looked and tasted great. Even the discerning cake eaters I live with pronounced it yummy.

I’m going to have a glass of red now as Ive found my fasting bg so much better when I do this. What a fantastic discovery, it really is medicinal.
 
Update, 2 hrs after evening meal 5.6
 
I agree about cake mix did look odd but it does work you can also heat it up if you haven’t added icing to it. It does taste very naughty and my OH is loving it too.
Agree about red wine it is def helpful on fasting bgs.
 
shelley262 said:
I agree about cake mix did look odd but it does work you can also heat it up if you haven’t added icing to it. It does taste very naughty and my OH is loving it too.
Agree about red wine it is def helpful on fasting bgs.
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I have the ingredients for the lemon cake on my shopping list for Friday morning, going to have a baking session Friday afternoon Glad you mentioned the funny consistency of the mix.
 
Agreed, low carb baking is different but I’m so pleased still to be able to have a little treat. Now we have lemon drizzle and chocolate olive oil cake, we just need a low carb coffee and walnut!
 
Well push me to the bottom of the stairs, but since I still have a ton of Tesco UltraSlim shakes in the cupboard from when I was going to do the Newcastle Diet, and was short on time this morning, I had one. Made with semi-skimmed milk rather than skimmed.

They are curious things I think: packed with sugar and very sweet tasting, but they don't give you cravings for more sweet stuff at all. And the whole business of having a mid-morning crash after eating carbs just didn't happen, and never did when I'd tried them a few months ago either. I was extremely mentally alert and not hungry all morning at work.

Not sure why this is. Maybe there's something to be said for artificial food which is packed with a wide range of vitamins and minerals and protein, so it gives the body a lot of what it needs and it doesn't crave more.

Lunch was far more sensible carb-wise: chicken, leaves, a mini pepper, a stick of celery and a few baby plum tomatoes.

Dinner was the same salad stuff but with one entire whole slice of toasted LivLife bread with prawn cocktail on top.
 
Been away for a few days, so food has been v disrupted, and almost entirely in restaurants.

Monday: one meal day of half rack ribs and chickenwings, with garnish and coleslaw

Tuesday: one meal day of full rack ribs with coleslaw, and a mouthful of warm, fresh, crusty white bread roll, with lashings of butter. Then I did have a snack of chorizo crisps with cream cheese at around 8pm

What with the garnish and the coleslaw over each of the last 3 days, this is more veg than I have had in a short time, for months.
Interesting reaction.
No upset tum (which is good) and shows my gut has recovered. Although there was some discomfort.
But... I didn’t really enjoy the veg, and there was quite a lot of disinterest. Lol.
And I have to confess that i didn’t feel as well with the meat and veg combo as I always do with the just meat options.

I’m very happy to be home and back to simpler less vegetabley fare
 
@maglil55 you are a star! Thanks for the coffee and walnut cake. I do miss baking, and I certainly miss the small but perfect pleasure that is tea and cake in the afternoon.
 
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