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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

maglil55 said:
B. 30g M&S Cornish Cove Cheddar
L. 5 M&S chargrilled calamari, remains of Tesco tuna crunch, 6 M&S Honduran king prawns and salad with 3 walnuts.
Snack - Slice red Leicester cheese wrapped in slice of Tesco Fire smoked Turkey.
D. Chicken breast in red wine and mushrooms and a mountain of mixed green vegetables
(Grandson No 2 is with me for a while on Tuesdays so early food is always cold - especially when No 2 decided to be the Devil Child today )
@Chook - if you want to bounce anything off me feel free to pm me. I had to learn quick and I have a very good memory!
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.....and after 11 days since the horror readings of up to 19.7 I'm back in the 6's......Best was 6.4 worst 6.7 (my fingertips are all bruised from all the testing I'm doing)
 
Chook said:
Hi @Brunneria :)

Is your green soup from a recipe? If so could you point me in the right direction for it. I think I'm going to have to start making myself pots of soup for lunch.
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No online recipe - I made it up - but it was unbelievably quick and simple.

100g smoked cheese
1 bag organic spinach
1 large courgette
4 spring onions
1 chicken stock cube
About a litre of water.

Put everything in the bender.
Whizz it till smooth (i have a vitamix blender which then heats it up too, but if you don't you can heat it normally)
Heat on hob, or in microwave.

The important thing is that none of the ingredients need cooking, so no need to actually boil it. Just heat it up to drinking temperature.
:)
 
B: Bulletproof coffee

L: beef stew with silver skin onion, loads of broccoli

D: fried sea bass with chilli, cavalo nero and green beans, a couple of glasses of white wine, berries with double cream.

Excellent BS readings all day.
 
maglil55 said:
@Chook - if you want to bounce anything off me feel free to pm me. I had to learn quick and I have a very good memory!
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Thank you @maglil55 - I may well take you up on that if they get a bit heavy handed.

I've GOT to stop having these cooked breakfasts although that might be a bit difficult soon. Mr C has got himself a new job (within the same company) which he starts in January. Instead of rotating shifts he will be working just the afters shift and usually, when he's working afters, we have a cooked breakfast together. I've got to stop doing that..... but I do like the sitting down to eat together and catching up with each others' news. Ah well.... I'll sort it out somehow.

Anyway - today -
Breakfast: Chipolatas, bacon, eggs, spoonful of beans
Lunch: Nothing
Dinner: Home made vegetable soup (all the veg that was in the fridge) and cheese filled Lidl protein roll
Supper/snack: probably not. :(
 
Brunneria said:
No online recipe - I made it up - but it was unbelievably quick and simple.

100g smoked cheese
1 bag organic spinach
1 large courgette
4 spring onions
1 chicken stock cube
About a litre of water.

Put everything in the bender.
Whizz it till smooth (i have a vitamix blender which then heats it up too, but if you don't you can heat it normally)
Heat on hob, or in microwave.

The important thing is that none of the ingredients need cooking, so no need to actually boil it. Just heat it up to drinking temperature.
:)
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Ta muchly :)
 
Hello
B. Red berries with Greek yoghurt

L. Slice ham and piece of Stilton

40 minutes swimming

D. Smoked haddock with salad. 7 strawberries with yoghurt
I have a pomegranate pot for later if indeed a snack
 
Tuesday

Breakfast - Porridge made with water, finished with a splash of almond milk and a tablespoon of ground flax seeds
09.30am - 6 month visit to the diabetic nurse!
Lunch - homemade veggie soup
Dinner - a hybrid between a crustless flan and the spicy toad in the hole I used to make.

Lidl chipolata sausages put in a loaf tin in the oven to begin cooking together with half a largeish onion cut into chunks. when they got half cooked I turned the oven up a bit and added a batter made with 30g of chickpea flour, 1 tbsp of ground flax seed, 1 egg, almond milk, a pinch of garlic salt, some fresh ground black pepper and a teaspoon of Patak's tikka curry paste. Fed the two of us with some broccoli on the side.

It wasn't exactly toad in the hole but it was very tasty and will be making a repeat appearance (it worked out at 21g of carb each including the broccoli). :)
 
I need to add 200g of tinned red salmon mashed with balsamic vinegar. I was hungry and couldn't settle and was in danger of eating heavy carbs so I ate the salmon. My sugar was 5 and an hour later 6.5. So I'm happy and feel better.
 
B: Yoghurt
L: Left over chilli (small) and a small bowl of salad
D: Salmon, pak choi, carrot, spring onion and courgette

The odd brazil nut and a glass of Cote de Thongue
 
B: none
L: none
S: 1 bag Whitworths garlic and herb flaxseed crackers (6.5g carbs) - they were tasteless cardboard, but might have been nice if i had used them for cheese or cream cheese!
D: homemade chicken tikka masala with aubergine, peppers and konjac rice.
 
B. 2 M&S 97% pork sausage, rasher of bacon, portobello mushroom, 4 cherry tomatoes, fried egg. Black Tea
L. 2 slice parma ham , 3 slice salami
D. Pork loin done with Tamari Soy , garlic and ginger and sesame seeds. Bok choi, mushrooms and vegetable stir fry.
Snack 3 walnuts and a less sugar latte.
No 1 grandson at school No 2 at preschool so time to cook and enjoy a peaceful breakfast after the drop offs!
 
Morning meal; ham and tomato, and then fried mushrooms as I was hungry
Later coffee, grapes and almonds
Evening meal; chicken thighs and peas - chicken thighs cooked in Tefal actifry - lovely crispy skin, but not very hungry.
Realised I had forgotten tablets, so more coffee, Metformin, and all the other things I take.
 
Crikey - its like Christmas Central here today! I've received a load of my own eBay purchases but I've also taken in loads for neighbours - its making me feel very Christmas-y.

Today:

Breakfast: Chipolatas and a spoonful of baked beans.
Lunch: Handful of nuts
Dinner: Smoked bacon and cheese omlette and salad
Snack: Small bag of Sunbakes popcorn
 
Resurgam said:
Morning meal; ham and tomato, and then fried mushrooms as I was hungry
Later coffee, grapes and almonds
Evening meal; chicken thighs and peas - chicken thighs cooked in Tefal actifry - lovely crispy skin, but not very hungry.
Realised I had forgotten tablets, so more coffee, Metformin, and all the other things I take.
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OK How do you do your chicken in the Actifry? I.e how long and do you coat them with anything? Hubby only ever does chips in It!
 
Two boiled eggs, strong black coffee for breakfast.
Kale, kimchi, salmon and mushroom bowl for lunch.
Kale, steamed chicken and tofu for evening meal.
Big cup of black tea now.
 
maglil55 said:
OK How do you do your chicken in the Actifry? I.e how long and do you coat them with anything? Hubby only ever does chips in It!
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Take 1kg pack of thighs, open, drop into Actify device, close lid, switch on, set for 45 minutes. After about 15 minutes enjoy the lovely chicken odours as you get the rest of the meal sorted. When the timer sounds, open, pinch as many of the crispy skins as seems reasonable, serve.
 
Resurgam said:
Take 1kg pack of thighs, open, drop into Actify device, close lid, switch on, set for 45 minutes. After about 15 minutes enjoy the lovely chicken odours as you get the rest of the meal sorted. When the timer sounds, open, pinch as many of the crispy skins as seems reasonable, serve.
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Thanks for that - so no oil?
 
maglil55 said:
Thanks for that - so no oil?
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no - there is enough oil in the chicken - it will be extracted during cooking so the meat is gently rolled around in it. It is not a vast amount, but of course it varies from pack to pack. You can sometimes get enough to make roast potatoes, but normally it takes a couple of times to accumulate enough for that. I get the crispy skins and himself gets the roast potatoes.
 
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