What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast: decaf hazelnut coffee with cream

Lunch: shredded ham salad with petit pois, sugar snap, mangetout, radish and baby cucumbers with Hellmanns, fresh mint ,lemon juice & zest , and a handful of pea shoots; mint tea. Followed by the minute crumbly remains of my pumpkin bread with a chunk of butter; followed by a slice of Livlife bread with butter and chia berry spread; followed by two pieces of Lindt 85% choc; followed by a long zzzzzzzzzzz....

Dinner; 100% beef meatballs baked with mixed olives and red pesto; large pile of green beans; more of raspberry Oppo with a few fresh raspberries. Apple, cinnamon & ginger tea.

Brunneria said:

Ooooer. This is when I really wish I could still eat veg...

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12805/roast-pumpkin-with-cream-thyme-and-parmesan

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*drools all over screen*

At one company Christmas party they had butternut squash soup on the menu. I remember thinking, "That sounds yucky." Tried one spoonful and fell in love.

DCUKMod said:

I an have you tried, or considered trying Magnesium Oil for your sleep issues?

I started using it to round off my D3 + K2 routine. As someone who slept well anyway, I was unconcerned about the impact on my sleep, but I actually wake even more rested.

I have to rotate where I apply it, as my skin seems very sensitive to it, so I don't use it near the crooks of my elbows, or behind my knees, or I end up with an itching rash.

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Thanks for that. Last 2 nights I have slept much later - could be accident but I have adjusted routine to my body clock not Julie's. I would function best on a 5.30 am to 9 pm day which is almost the polar opposite of how Julie would function. Seems my body clock was far more influenced by agrarian roots than i ever imagined - maybe you can only disguise the terroir that shaped you for so long. Not eating potatoes makes one some kind of celebrity hereabaouts. In the Mayenne I was told you eat your own height in bread every day here it is almost the same for potatoes.

Spl@ said:

Well washing machine emptied it's self in the kitchen.

Just finished cleaning it up so I have had 2 eggs and a rasher of bacon today.

Tempted to just go through now. Eat tomorrow.

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Worst I've had to clear up was pre extension in our teeny tiny kitchen. Hubby had made his best mushroom soup ever for Christmas dinner for the family. We were organised, 12 due to arrive, was getting containers out of the fridge and he dropped both of them! Lids flew off and the kitchen looked as if it had been bombed by mushroom soup. Nightmare to clean and only room for one person to do it.
Fortunately it didn't affect dinner as there was always loads.

DJC3 said:

Posting early this evening as granddaughters are round for a sleepover, they are busy being dogs at the mo so I’ve got a little window of calm.
Breakfast: Halloumi spinach, mushrooms and a poached egg. Coffee with milk as I’d stayed at daughter’s and she’d run out of cream. I didn’t like it much - got so used to cream now.
Lunch out (after walking her dog and girls) at a lovely cafe: swordfish steak and salad with mayo.
Dinner will be slow roast belly pork with buttered cabbage.

Made some IP custards but using an electric beater rather than my hand whisk increased their volume and so overfilled the pots - they didn’t like it and have turned to scrambled egg. Boo.

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I feel for you. My mind is full of thoughts of IP creme brulee.

DJC3 said:

@Geoffno6 you’re doing a fantastic amount of exercise - you say the weight is still falling off, are you trying to lose weight?
I hadn’t heard that you’re not supposed to drink alcohol with metformin, but I’ve certainly found that I can’t drink as much since I’ve been doing lchf. Probably just as well.

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Have to agree that you cannot drink as much and I find I'm kind of limited in what I can drink. Campari and soda is fine as is dry white. Vodka is also fine but my favourite liqueurs are pretty much off limits (except when I succumb to Baileys)

Bailey's is to me what a chocolate orange is to @Brunneria!

ianpspurs said:

Morning oh wise ones. 2 questions. From whence hail the IP silicone trivets and is their purpose to stop/slow down heat transfer in some recipes? I need to find some love for this device - slow old job but we have moved from outright hostility.

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I got mine on Amazon. I've used it when following a recipe such as my favourite creme brulees and when a joint of meat etc needs to be kept out of the cooking liquid. The trivet is also useful for putting veggies in and keeping them out of the liquid. I frequently add veggies later on the trivet just as if I have a seasoned rub on ribs, chicken , beef etc it is always on the trivet not in the liquid. It does cook a little slower as you are essentially steaming not boiling.
Other dessert recipes you really don't want sitting in water (cheesecakes, cakes etc) go on a trivet (No soggy bottoms).
I guess I'm saying you are correct - it slows the process but it also lets you stack items with different cooking times and steam rather than boil.

neithskye said:

Thank you. I was so concerned I went and saw my doctor today. She wasn't worried. I stopped taking Jardiance last week (still on Metformin) and was only diagnosed in July (so still quite new to all my lifestyle changes) so it's probably just things rearranging themselves.

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You'll get there. I probably spent at least a year reading and learning and I still don't understand all the things that happen but most of the time I manage. The support from the like minded people here is invaluable.

Another major trivet benefit is when you use the handles to lift the joint/pot/bones out of the cauldron.

Robbity said:

Yesterday:
Breakfast - Couple of teaspoons of choccie coconut manna fat bomb, hazelnut decaf with hazelnut milk and truvia

Lunch - remains of my spicy minced lamb with aubergines, courgette and tomatoes; followed by a mix of ground hazelnuts, crunchy hazelnut butter, cocoa, .powdered erythritol, and hazelnut oil - a sort of porridge type pudding; mint tea. And just for fun: pre meal 7.0, 2hrs post meal 7.0

Dinner ready made cauliflower cheese which sounded great but tasted very bland, with some weird tasting crispy bacon - not one of my best dinners, but happily preceded by rather a lot of chocolate marzipan, scoffed while cooking it; turmeric tea.

Bedtime cocoa with hazelnut milk and last of cream.

Lots of lime flavoured water & a couple of pieces of lindt 85% choc.

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Today: had a bad night with leg and ended up sleeping very late so nothing before lunch except water

Lunch: cold roast beef with baby cornichons, little gem lettuce, radishes and Hellmans; pumpkin bread with butter and my last tiny windfall apple. Turmeric tea,

Dinner - Heck 97% pork sausages with sprouts and baby leeks cooked in butter with parsley, rosemary, sage and sweet paprika; followed by fresh raspberries and some rather disappointing Oppo Raspberry Nipple ice cream so named as they've collaborated with a breast cancer charity; lemongrass & ginger tea. And another nice flat pair of readings; pre meal 6.8, and 2hrs post 6.7. (It gives me a a bit of a smile to see a bit of flat as a pancake when my overall levels are staying so high due to blooming leg.)

As usual plenty of water....

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I feel for you with the leg. Same night I had a nightmare with both legs. My problem is nerve damage from a crash. The muscles in both legs seized up and 1 am saw hubby working on both legs to try to release the muscles. Agony to release but agony to leave alone too. Painkillers don't help when they're that bad either.

jayney27 said:

I beginning to hope that I have a pot of strips that are a bit “off” maybe it’s all the topsy turvy weather

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Stress? I know all about stress and erratic BGs. I've had a barrowload this year.

shelley262 said:

Hi all from a currently rainy and windy Yorkshire. Well funeral went as well as these things can he was relatively young well in my opinion as he was only one year older than me! His mum who is 86 and has terminal cancer was clearly lost but the service was very well done and comforting and good to see all the older generation together - in their 80s - my mum. Two aunts and an uncle all managed to have a good reminiscence together with my mum who’s 87 nearly 88 at the funeral lunch. Pleased could support my mum and other relatives. Went to drs too this pm and mum now on steroids as she’s not well but def bit improved this evening so it’s clearly her asthma from a cold rather than a chest infection. So hoping she’ll be well enough for pre operative assessment in morning at hospital.
Breakfast one slice bacon and egg
Lunch at funeral range of cheese ( other offerings people tucked into include pork pies, sausage rolls, bread and dripping, very bready sandwiches, scones and egg custards in pastry) pleased to find the cheese! Think I heard my polar opposite at the buffet she was complaining about the high fat content and that she’d need to take the fillings out of the sandwiches and pies and just eat the bread @nd pastry! She gave me quite a look when I just loaded my plate with piles of cheese and looked my thin body up and down suffice it to say she had a lot of middle!) you couldn’t make it up.
Dinner pork casserole with roasted butternut squash followed by LC lemon cake and cream.
Hope everyone had a good day.

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Glad it went as well as can be expected for funerals. I know what you mean about the buffets. I find it amusing watching reactions. Overheard a group discussing a 'Healthy' diet which was carb laden and involved a lot of white bread. I bite my tongue sometimes with the temptation to say I'm not surprised it isnt working.

Goonergal said:

Hi all.

Seem to have joined the thread’s erratic BG club. Hoping it’s the current tub of strips.

FBG 4.3. Stayed in 4s all morning, 4.1 before lunch then shot up to 6.2 on smoked salmon and cream cheese! Still in 5s before dinner of ribeye steak with garlic butter.

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Like that - The Erratic BGs - sounds like a good group name

Brunneria said:

Ooooer. This is when I really wish I could still eat veg...

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12805/roast-pumpkin-with-cream-thyme-and-parmesan

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I have a tiny little munchkin pumpkin to cook - I was planning to bake it with some pumpkin spice, but I very much like the sound of this, and have some fresh thyme for a another meal I'm going to cook.

shelley262 said:

Hi all
Complex day, mum not well enough for her pre op assessment as still wheezy from her asthma attack - although steroids working - so visit to hospital cut short. Meant got back earlier than planned as thought would be at hospital much of today. Sorted out mum at hers and then headed back down motorway later this afternoon- more wet driving! Will get another date eventually from hospital and try again!
Breakfast one slice bacon and egg
Lunch a few rollitos
Late dinner chicken curry, red wine and some choc with coffee.
Looking forward to my own bed again tonight and later slower morning tomorrow if I’m lucky!

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Sorry to hear. Hope your Mum recovers soon x

Brunneria said:

Another major trivet benefit is when you use the handles to lift the joint/pot/bones out of the cauldron.

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Oddly I forgot about that and it's one of the main reasons!

Been having a catch up on the posts. Glad to say I'm pretty stable again after these weird very low dips - No spikes and no weird drops. Settled back into the gym, aqua fit and swimming. No 1 grandson is enjoying school again and No 2 is staying out of trouble. Finally got confirmation about my State Pension and I have won the bonus ball 2 weeks running at After School Club. Hopefully I've turned a corner (touch wood, touch wood, touch wood)
Bed 5.1 FBG was also 5.1
B. Skipped and no nasty rise. Was waiting for a grocery delivery so caught up on washing and cleaned out the freezer. Still had to nip out but most of what I needed arrived.
L. After a quick shop for odd items and a detour to Lakeland for a new brush and shovel (And a few other items....) 2 slices of roast deli pork, 4 Santini tomatoes and a little lettuce with helmans. Tassimo Americano grande with a dash of cream.
D. I guess if it was masterchef this would be the invention test!
Chopped up 1/2 white onion and sauteed with butter and a little olive oil. Added some hot sauce, chopped rustica mushrooms, spinach and halved Santini tomatoes and mustard. Meantime shelled, cleaned and sliced a lobster tail and added to the saute mix. Took lobster out and added white wine - reduced and added fish stock - reduced and added some beansprouts and oomi noodles. Put the lobster back , added a little cream to thicken and that was it. Very tasty.
Bed 4.9 FBG 5.3

B. 3 mushrooms, 3 Santini tomatoes, 3 rashers crispy streaky bacon and a fried egg. Tassimo Americano grande with a dash of cream.
L. Nothing - boys swimming lesson day.
D. Beef stroganoff (Rick Stein's recipe) with celeriac straw chips. I might make IP creme brulee and have with raspberries since @DJC3 has planted them in my mind.
Will certainly have a Campari and soda and maybe a wee prosecco.

6 weeks to our large family Christmas lunch. Better get present shopping underway.

I had a gift of a large bag of tomatoes today so I decided to make tomato soup ,I tasted one but it tasted quite bland so I added a large leek some garlic and half a chilli a veg stock cube .In pressure cooked for 10 minutes ,blitzed then sprinkled fresh basil chopped very fine , tiny sprinkle of turmeric and a swirl of cream .Husband declared delicious
Carol

maglil55 said:

I got mine on Amazon. I've used it when following a recipe such as my favourite creme brulees and when a joint of meat etc needs to be kept out of the cooking liquid. The trivet is also useful for putting veggies in and keeping them out of the liquid. I frequently add veggies later on the trivet just as if I have a seasoned rub on ribs, chicken , beef etc it is always on the trivet not in the liquid. It does cook a little slower as you are essentially steaming not boiling.
Other dessert recipes you really don't want sitting in water (cheesecakes, cakes etc) go on a trivet (No soggy bottoms).
I guess I'm saying you are correct - it slows the process but it also lets you stack items with different cooking times and steam rather than boil.

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Thanks but is the silicone one essential as we have a metal one which came with the IP?