What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Morning all. Catching up after a very long working day yesterday. Wasn’t a great sign when I dozed off on the tube on the way to the afternoon/evening event. Totally exhausted by the time I got home - one of those things where you have to network and make polite conversation.

Another hungry day.

Breakfast - 50g almonds, 4 Coop chorizo and Gouda rollitos, 3 squares of Montezuma’s Absolute Black with orange and cocoa nibs kindly placed in office snack drawer by a colleague

Lunch - Nando’s. 3 plain wings, plain leg and half an avocado.

Dinner - M&S at station still open on way home. Out of my normal rollitos but had a chorizo and Diablo cheddar version which filled a gap.

In between - succumbed to a few nuts at event: mostly peanuts (tasted strangely sweet) but also picked out the few almonds and hazelnuts. Oh and one large potato crisp may have found its way into my mouth, at which point I had to move right away from the nibbles. Plenty of cream and almond butter when I got home.

@DJC3 sending hugs and hope you have a better day today.

Goonergal said:

Dinner - M&S at station still open on way home. Out of my normal rollitos but had a chorizo and Diablo cheddar version which filled a gap.

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Those rollitos are one of the rare sunny uplands in shop bought food ready to eat food for the WOE. (Entente cordiale in a hacienda are you Boris??)

Kingmidas said:

Brekkie - low carb bread, peanut butter, tea

Mid morning - quick couple of cubes of cheese as I was peckish and I had to go to the bank for work and anticipated a long wait (I wasn't wrong ...)

Lunch - lo dough pepperoni pizza (yum!) Strawberries and double cream

Dinner - ranch steak with mixed tomatoes and rocket. Chocolate 'mousse' - more like ganache really, made with melted 85% choc and double creamView attachment 28355

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That's a good looking lo dough pizza. Must admit I 'm glad to have it in my store cupboard as a quick and easy meal.

maglil55 said:

That's a good looking lo dough pizza. Must admit I 'm glad to have it in my store cupboard as a quick and easy meal.

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Yes me too, and I actually quite missed having it to hand when I ran out so I ordered another boxfull! I also fling it in the oven to toast a little bit, and have it with pate or full fat cream cheese as well for lunch

DJC3 said:

Just finished watching Bake Off - talk about rubbing salt into my wounds, but I love it.
B: bacon and a fried egg with a large grilled mushroom. Coffee and cream
L: smoked mackerel, prawns iceberg lettuce with an individual pot of Tesco carsar dressing.
Small slice of lemon drizzle cake I found in the freezer this morning happily.
D: beef stir fry with mange tout, broccoli and konjac noodles - (I thought they were ok, expected to hate them) sesame oil, soy sauce and chilli.
Greek yoghurt with a few raspberries and a spoonful of @Rachox recipe choc granola.

@SamJB I love an authentic curry too. As students we used to make a pork vindaloo using a joint called hand of pork - it was very cheap, not sure if you can still get it.

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I'm a bake off fan as well. Cruelty to have showstoppers with chocolate in that heat. I rather like Noel Fielding and Sandie as the presenters. Mel & Sue were irritating me.

DCUKMod said:

Near the beginning of my LC journey, when I was scouring t'internet looking at recipes, I would regularly ask my butcher for cuts not obviously displayed in the window or cabinets. Being a decent butcher, he knew what I was talking about when I was using US terms, although he did once ask if it was a test.

When I bought my cauldron, I tasked myself, for a period, with only using cheaper, notionally tougher cuts of meat. Almost without exception I found the IP to be triumphant in transforming them.

One of my fave beef dishes is for shin. Beef or pork cheek is fab, and even lamb hearts can be transformed in the cauldron.

In the spirit of the thread, tonight we had cottage pie, with little potato and loads of cheese. MrB breaks into it, I pillage the under layer of deliciousness, and steal all the burnt on cheesy bits (we always top with a cheesy layer). Does such pillaging of the cheesy layer help entente cordiale in this hacienda? Not always, but my shoulders are broad. I'll cope.

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My son is very into cheaper cuts of meat but is a man after @ianpspurs heart in favouring his sous vide operation (with 2 stick sous vide and one free standing). He also buys large quantities which are best suited to the sous vide to be honest as he can butcher, marinade and seal and cook in these big plastic crates then have a load of meals ready for the freezer that just require finishing.

DCUKMod said:

As yet, I'm a bit of a light weight on the SV, but should really make myself (and himself) use it more. Having bitten the bullet on an airfryer/dehydrator/rotisserie thingy, I'm thinking SV, plus airfryer to finish could work quite well.

You have any airfryer don't you? (Of course, if you say yes, I might just never be done asking you questions!)

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I do indeed. Great for speed (and when all other gadgets are in use).

Couple of days to catch up on. Monday - bed 4.7 (probably down to the few glasses of wine I had) FBG 6.1. A bit more settled and only crept up to 8.1 before dropping today. Still not 100% but starting to feel human again.
B. Always starving when I've had wine the day before. Bit GF black pudding, 2 rashers crispy streaky bacon, fried egg and 4 mini plum tomatoes. Tassimo Americano grande with a dash of cream.
L. Leftovers from yesterday - 4 king prawns and 2 bits smoked salmon.
D. Yet more leftovers - remains of the stroganoff with celeriac chips. Keto creme brulee with 6 raspberries.
(Hubby had the sticky toffee pudding)

Bed 5.5 FBG 6.2. Still getting a kick to 8.3 today before it started down. Not a good day. Sister took a turn for the worse so was stressful waiting for doctor to appear. Will see what today brings.
B. Slice of Tesco high protein bread with pate pate the fruity one.
L. Tassimo Americano grande with a dash of cream.
D. Chicken breast battered out, stuffed with cheddar and wrapped in Parma ham. Served with couple of mushrooms, lettuce, mini plum tomatoes and 1/2 avocado. Another Keto creme brulee with 6 raspberries.

Bed last night 5.3 FBG 5.4. The worm turned at 7.6 this morning so I'm certainly on the mend. All quiet re my sister so hoping things are stabilising again.
B. Wee bit GF black pudding, 3 rashers crispy streaky bacon, scrambled egg and a slice of Tescos high protein bread toasted.
L. Tassimo Americano grande with a dash of cream.
D. Will be one of these cheesy corned beef eggy thingy as I can't be bothered going to the supermarket. Will need to go tomorrow as the boys will be here for dinner.

DCUKMod said:

All other gadgets in use?!!???? Does not compute.

All I can say is you clearly need more gadgets!

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Slow cooker, IP (Still just one), George, 7 burner range cooker (2 ovens and grill) , stove top pressure cooker and The air fryer (and my vacuum sealer). And son is still trying to convince me to get 2 or 3 sous vide.

maglil55 said:

Slow cooker, IP (Still just one), George, 7 burner range cooker (2 ovens and grill) , stove top pressure cooker and The air fryer (and my vacuum sealer). And son is still trying to convince me to get 2 or 3 sous vide.

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Go on, join the sous vide folk - your son must be right, such lineage can't fail

Goonergal said:

Morning all. Catching up after a very long working day yesterday. Wasn’t a great sign when I dozed off on the tube on the way to the afternoon/evening event. Totally exhausted by the time I got home - one of those things where you have to network and make polite conversation.

Another hungry day.

Breakfast - 50g almonds, 4 Coop chorizo and Gouda rollitos, 3 squares of Montezuma’s Absolute Black with orange and cocoa nibs kindly placed in office snack drawer by a colleague

Lunch - Nando’s. 3 plain wings, plain leg and half an avocado.

Dinner - M&S at station still open on way home. Out of my normal rollitos but had a chorizo and Diablo cheddar version which filled a gap.

In between - succumbed to a few nuts at event: mostly peanuts (tasted strangely sweet) but also picked out the few almonds and hazelnuts. Oh and one large potato crisp may have found its way into my mouth, at which point I had to move right away from the nibbles. Plenty of cream and almond butter when I got home.

@DJC3 sending hugs and hope you have a better day today.

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Almond butter is nice. Only discovered a few weeks ago in Tesco on a visit to the UK. I've been a big peanut butter fan since, well, let's say a long time ago. If I remember correctly the almond butter was significantly lower in carbs. Must try and find some here in Spain.

DCUKMod said:

As yet, I'm a bit of a light weight on the SV, but should really make myself (and himself) use it more. Having bitten the bullet on an airfryer/dehydrator/rotisserie thingy, I'm thinking SV, plus airfryer to finish could work quite well.

You have any airfryer don't you? (Of course, if you say yes, I might just never be done asking you questions!)

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Son is into sous vide and dehydrators big time!

Dessert was cream, sliced strawberries topped with melted dark chocolate and crushed nuts. Ring a bell?

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness or start of cold dark and dreary? Anyhow, it was lacto fermentation 101 in P towers - whey shooting season has started Menu below
Breakfast: 3 pints tea with h/m almond milk
Mid morning snack: Coffee with 2 tsps inulin, cream and carb n cal free vanilla syrup
Lunch: CCB; Tea (2 pints)
Afternoon snack: None
Evening meal : 2 x h/m Pork and Beef burgers with cheese slices; salad- last of farmer’s market leaves, radish, cucumber, spring onion, cherry tomatoes; Acv dressing, lots of chia seeds

maglil55 said:

I'm a bake off fan as well. Cruelty to have showstoppers with chocolate in that heat. I rather like Noel Fielding and Sandie as the presenters. Mel & Sue were irritating me.

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I agree re the presenters - thought it would lose something with the new format but I think I like it better too. Mel & Sue irritated me a bit as well.

ianpspurs said:

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness or start of cold dark and dreary?

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It’s the spider season, that’s what it is, and they are everywhere. I can never enjoy September because of them.

Hope all had good day - very sunny and warm here.
Dentists irritating he did X-rays and although I’m not aware of any probs he declared that two of my old fillings need redoing! I’m never sure about trusting dentists but am booked in for a months time for treatment and serious cash haemorrhage!
Breakfast one slice of bacon and egg
Lunch tin of mackerel with olive oil and acv and a few crispbreads and nuts
Dinner lamb chop with celeriac mash followed by sf jelly and yoghurt.
Planning day long hike tomorrow - about 6 miles upriver and then back on other bank - if all okay in morning really love this time of year.

Evening everyone
High fbg again but decided to have a substantial breakfast as I was going to a funeral and from past experience most catered events are very carby so had
Scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and avocado. ( for a change)Coffee and cream.

Funeral was late morning so it was a lunchtime reception - finger sandwiches, mini cakes and cream teas. I nearly had a bowl of cream on its own but contented myself with a few cups of peppermint tea.
The chap who died was the consultant at the lab I worked at, he was only 61, recently retired and T2 diabetic but not well controlled - like many medical folk he didn’t take good care of himself and died of a heart attack. It brought home to me the importance of sticking to lchf and trying to get some control.

D: DD keto chicken casserol with broccoli.

Tomorrow is my HbA1c and lipid profile blood tests - not expecting great things as bg has been so high the last couple of weeks. MySugr numbers now climbing at a rate of knots. Whatever is causing it, I’ll just have to stick with the programme and ride it out I guess.

@xfieldok that pud sounds lovely, wonder where you got the idea?