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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: fried halloumi chips with cauliflower, broccoli and red onion salad followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries.
Mid-afternoon: orange chia pudding with black coffee.
Dinner: chicken chasseur mixed veg and butternut squash mash followed by Breyers HP choc ice.
 
Evening all, Just finished watching The Truth about Carbs on BBC, I thought it was excellent. Has almost converted no 2 daughter who has at least conceded to give up the energy drinks.

B: avocado with omelette filled with feta and spinach

Nibbled on 20g Montezuma’s black to cheer me up on the long drive back from Cornwall

Lunch: got home but nothing edible in the fridge, just the stuff I’d left in there before I went away, including 1/2 pot of cream and 3 cooked new spuds. Yuk, think hubby and no2 daughter have survived on takeaways. I had a bag of pork scratchings and an Adonis blondie then went shopping.

D: bbq small steak, M&S chicken ‘flattie’ large green salad and olive oil and grilled asparagus

@shelley262 and @jayney27 fingers crossed for your blood tests tomorrow
 
Welcome back home I agree that truth about carbs was good. A few things in there that were a bit odd but in general messages good and better than usual!
 
Thank you for the good wishes, I enjoyed the programme too, let’s hope all our GPS and DN nurses were watching. We are living proof that this way of eating works for us.
 
Goodness, days to catch up.

Yesterday I was on the road, so went for 2x Macdonalds quarterpounders, no bun, and I scraped the gunk off. That lasted til evening.
Then I cooked a kilo of good quality beef mince with a pack of chicken livers, a smidge of onion, and a few seasonings, then stirred in grated cheddar. The liver really added something, including excellent nutrition. 5 good portions.

Today, i had a smaller mince portion for lunch, then ribeye for dinner.

Someone suggested I try either apple cider vinegar or digestive enzymes to help cope with my sluggishness after generous portions of meat. Am cautiously optimistic! The last 2 days of heavy beef intake have been a breeze with a single tablet of digestive enzymes. No feelings of overload at all. Obviously need more testing. But if it works it will be an astonishingly easy fix.
 
@Goonergal quick question - you have often posted that you’ve eaten brined chicken.
Do you brine it yourself? And if so how do you do it? I can only find recipes that include sugar as well as salt but I’d like to try it.
 
DJC3 said:
@Goonergal quick question - you have often posted that you’ve eaten brined chicken.
Do you brine it yourself? And if so how do you do it? I can only find recipes that include sugar as well as salt but I’d like to try it.
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Hi

Yes, I brine it myself. I adapted this recipe - the recipe does include sugar, but I just leave it out (don’t replace it with sweetener either - don’t see the point of sweet stuff in savoury food). Also use cream instead of buttermilk and play around with the herbs. So actually I’m using it as a guide rather than a recipe. I make a few portions and freeze some. It freezes well.

I bake it in the oven rather than grilling as recommended in the recipe and brine at least overnight but up to 24 hours.

http://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/253008/buttermilk-brined-chicken/
 

Thank you
I’ve saved to Copy Me That and can’t wait to try it.
Do you freeze before or after cooking?
 
Early start I know but last night's BBC programme set my mind rambling. Has anyone tried to make kombucha or kimchi or bought any? Keto heads on t'internet give them the thumbs but what about this community?
Edit: thumbs up obviously
 
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niniskins said:
For breakfast: 1 egg 2 eggwhites, cheese & ham omelette. Cup of 1% milk.
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Why do you not eat the two egg yolks or am I missing something
 
Evening all. Seem to be oscillating between extremes of fasting and feasting at the moment. This week is definitely the feasting phase. Think I’ll be attempting a re-set next week.

Breakfast - none

Lunch - smoked salmon and cream cheese and a bag of pork crunch

Post-lunch snack - Lindt 90% (appear to have set off an office craze for high cocoa chocolate)

Dinner - chicken leg with cauliflower cheese followed by lazy dessert of extra thick double cream mixed with almond butter and Hotel Chocolat 100% buttons. @DJC3 all this talk about brined chicken had me craving one of the portions I have in the freezer. Unfortunately I have some older plain legs that need to be eaten first.
 
ianpspurs said:
Early start I know but last night's BBC programme set my mind rambling. Has anyone tried to make kombucha or kimchi or bought any? Keto heads on t'internet give them the thumbs but what about this community?
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@ianpspurs kimchi is a Korean staple and I love it. I buy mine although I'm sure it's easy to make. I just adore anything pickled and the extra kick is brilliant. I buy mine from the local Chinese supermarket and it keeps indefinitely in the fridge in a plastic box and then 2 double zippy bags. It's very smelly.
 
@SueJB Thanks for that. I am looking at lacto fermentation generally as some research suggests the process is helpful for blood sugar control. Toying with the idea of buying a sauerkraut kit to do it properly. Have you ever tried that?
 
Evening everyone
Feeling really glum, a little while ago I took a 2 hr reading after a peanut butter PhD bar: it was 8.9!!! This is the highest I’ve seen since I started monitoring. Ive got my A1c on Monday so this will bring the average up too - heaven knows what it was after one hour.

Day started ok
B: 2 eggs fried in butter, 2 thin rashers bacon and a small fried tomato. Couple of mugs coffee and cream

L: none as I was out, except coffee from Costa

Mid aft: home and hungry hence PhD bar

D: had already ordered Nandos when I took the PhD bar reading, otherwise would have skipped it and done some exercise instead. Probably should have done that anyway in hindsight but I was still in shock. Had a 1/4 chicken leg with Med salad.
Waiting for it to go down a bit then will get on the exercise bike

Hope you’ve all had better days.

@Goonergal Ive bought the chicken - its about 2 pint of cream/ buttermilk, hadn’t realised it was so much so cant begin tonight. Shame it has to be chucked out afterwards. Do you actually wipe the chicken dry after soaking? Sorry to keep asking questions.
 
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