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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Amazing set of blood sugar readings so far today - six readings and all in the 4s. Even the morning rise limited itself to 0.1 mmols. I’ve had days where the daily average is under 5 quite a few times, but if the post dinner reading follows the trend, it’ll be my first ever complete day of 4s. Fingers crossed!

Breakfast - none

Lunch - Shake Shack. Bunless cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, onion and mayonnaise.

Dinner - tried a new recipe (see below) based on one posted by a friend on Facebook, of marinated chicken served with broccoli and followed by chocolate chia pudding with cream.

Recipe was a variant of this (used cream instead of buttermilk, left the skin on the chicken and ditched the sugar). Marinated for 24 hours - very tasty and 3 more portions now in the freezer:

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

L. Bacon roll cup tea

EM. Pork chop cauliflower cheese green beans mushrooms,
Followed with Raspberries Creme fraise
Cup tea

Coffee later nothing to eat until tomorrow's lunch, out with my sister for late birthday lunch out. K
 
Not v hungry today so
B - 2 scrambled eggs with mushrooms, baby plum tomatoes and 1/2 lidl roll
L - 1/2 pot M&s tomato soup
D - 1/2 pot M&s mushroom soup with some chilli seeds
Drinks - 1 nespresso with soya cream, 2 litres sparkly water
785 cals 49g carbs
 
Today, Sunday ...

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and xylitol. A homemade low-carb roll with goat cream cheese and smoked sockeye salmon.

Lunch: Half a low-carb roll with butter, half a glass of red wine.

Snack: Four squares of 85% chocolate.

Dinner: A homemade pizza (base was the same as the low carb roll) with sour cream, cheddar, beef salami, onion and tomato.
 
ziggy_w said:
Lucky you! I've been looking for it, but haven't seen any rhubarb in Germany for the last two months. I also like to juice rhubarb to give a little flavor to the water I am drinking. I have also been thinking about making rhubarb icecream, maybe along the lines of rhubarb-prosecco sorbet, but haven't tried it yet. Well, maybe next year!

Definitely sounds as if your crumble would crisp up nicely. When I was making regular crumble cake (before diagnosis), the ingredients were just flour, sugar, and butter -- so yours are much the same.
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The crumble worked out. Needed a bit more adjusting but it tasted good although I would have liked it crisper.
Anyway, the rhubarb. Having cut it into bits (8 stalks) I used a James Martin Method - put them in lines on a baking tray sprinkled them with 4 tablespoons of water with a little ginger mixed in then sprinkled them with 1/3 cup xylitol. Popped the tray in the oven at 170c fan for between 10 - 15 mins. Good thing was the rhubarb held its shape and there wasn't too much liquid. Transferred the rhubarb to another dish.
Topping - started with 1 cup almond flour and 1/4 cup desiccated, unsweetened coconut, 1/3 cup golden milled flaxseed, 1/3 cup chopped walnuts , 1/3 cup xylitol, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 3 tablespoons butter cut into small bits. Put everything except the walnuts in a bowl and rub in the butter to form crumb. At this point I felt it was a bit wet so I added another 1/2 cup almond flour and another 1/4 cup coconut. Once I got a Crumb I added the chopped walnuts (probably could have added more). Cover the rhubarb with the crumb and pop in the oven at 180c for about 25 mins and check the crumb is cooked.
Worst I got was 6.7 and I was back in the 5's pretty quickly. It was a tasty crumble , quite tart but I prefer it that way.
 
Well that worked well. Despite my usual bigger than average Sunday dinner went to bed on 5.2 and FBG was 5.8. Back to fasting today and the worst I got was 6.9 when I was dashing about with the boys this morning and it is now on a rapid drop. Today is a day for fasting and leftovers.
B. Nothing just water
L. Probably a mug of Marigold Swiss bouillon and water.
D. The wee bit smoked salmon and 4 prawns that are left. Remains of the stroganoff with cauliflower rice and yes another portion of that rhubarb crumble. Will feed the rest to Hubby and brother (who have no idea it's a low carb version).
I can recommend roasting the rhubarb first in the oven. Will try and work out carbs.
 
OK have sat with my ingredients and worked this rhubarb crumble out manually.
Calories 215
Carbs 13g
Sugar 2g
Fibre 6g
Fat 15g
Protein 6g
 
maglil55 said:
The crumble worked out. Needed a bit more adjusting but it tasted good although I would have liked it crisper.
Anyway, the rhubarb. Having cut it into bits (8 stalks) I used a James Martin Method - put them in lines on a baking tray sprinkled them with 4 tablespoons of water with a little ginger mixed in then sprinkled them with 1/3 cup xylitol. Popped the tray in the oven at 170c fan for between 10 - 15 mins. Good thing was the rhubarb held its shape and there wasn't too much liquid. Transferred the rhubarb to another dish.
Topping - started with 1 cup almond flour and 1/4 cup desiccated, unsweetened coconut, 1/3 cup golden milled flaxseed, 1/3 cup chopped walnuts , 1/3 cup xylitol, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 3 tablespoons butter cut into small bits. Put everything except the walnuts in a bowl and rub in the butter to form crumb. At this point I felt it was a bit wet so I added another 1/2 cup almond flour and another 1/4 cup coconut. Once I got a Crumb I added the chopped walnuts (probably could have added more). Cover the rhubarb with the crumb and pop in the oven at 180c for about 25 mins and check the crumb is cooked.
Worst I got was 6.7 and I was back in the 5's pretty quickly. It was a tasty crumble , quite tart but I prefer it that way.
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Hi @maglil55,

This sounds soooooo good! I have to admit I am a bit envious.
 
Hi All,
Been away for the last week, so food has been rather unusual.

Mainly
Coffeesubstitute and cream, low carb nut bars and Paleo porridge for breakfast and lunch
with meat, veg, berries and cream for supper
There have also been a number (an excessive number!) of meals out, where I tried to stay totally gluten free, but lapsed rather on the carbs. Mainly due to chips of very variable quality. Oh, and that bag of popcorn... Haven't yet had the courage to get on the scales.

Now I am back it will be straight back on the DietDoctor recipes.
 
maglil55 said:
I got 1kg of chia seeds at costco today. Chia pudding will be on the go soon. Going to have a go at low carb rhubarb crumble for tomorrow and noticed the brilliant idea of ùsing some ground chia in with the rhubarb to absorb some of the liquid to keep the top crunchy. Bit of an experiment as I obviously can't use brown sugar and oats in the mix so will chop up some of my walnuts and hope xylitol works. Will be using almond flour and might put some unsweetened desiccated coconut in it too.
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Hi,
I have this recipe for crumble topping. Looks good, but I haven't used it myself yet.
http://stepawayfromthecarbs.com/low-carb-rhubarb-crumble/
 
I'm properly back too - I've stayed with a variety of people over the last week and I have had a difficult time of sticking to both ND and low carb AND not offending my hostesses by not eating their food ... and far, far too much wine..... plus a couple of encouraging carb experiments which indicate that the ND may be working to put my diabetes in to remission but I won't get too excited just yet as my fastening BGs still aren't great.

Today is day 1 of week 8 of my Newcastle Diet and I've decided to remain on it for the full 12 weeks in order to (hopefully) lose the recommended amount of fat from around my pancreas and liver so they start functioning properly again.

Anyway back to normal life yesterday:

Sunday....

Breakfast: Two rashers of bacon and one egg

Lunch: 150g fresh raspberries

Dinner: Roast beef, a tablespoon each of carrots, broad beans and cauliflower cheese, small piece of roast parsnip then filled up the gaps on my plate with brussel sprouts, runner beans plus gravy

And another couple of glasses of red wine :oops:
 
Hi breakfast was full fat yoghurt with raspberries sprinkled with milled omega seed mix
lunch 2 crispbreads with ardennes pate, couple of pickled quails eggs and some houmous with celery
dinner wll be pork in gravy with savoy cabbage
 
Hi all

Breakfast - none

Lunch - 2 rashers bacon, 1 fried egg, 1 (probably carby - in cafe) sausage, fresh tomatoes

Dinner - small portion of Diet Doctor salmon zoodles; 2 squares Lindt 90%
 
Tea
B: Mushroom omelette, tinned grapefruit
L: Chicken & mayo butty on burgen, some grapes, Activia NAS yogurt
T: Italian herb & garlic chicken with carrots & fine beans & glass of white wine
Tea & sparkling water throughout the day.
 
1 bulletproof, four coffees with double cream and about 6oz of fried lamb mince. Today is not a ‘hungry’ day.

I’m finishing of the perishables in my fridge, defrosting the bone broth, putting the lamb ribs in the freezer (reduced, bargain ) and then doing a bone broth fast. I did six days last time and I want to see if I can emulate that and reach for a PB.
 
B - aldi nutty paleo muesli ( its low carb at 7g carbs for 45g - more like granola than muesli) with lactofree milk
L - shake
D - 1/2 pot m&s soup with 1 slice toasted hi lo bread & some rquefort cheese
Snack - 10g chilli munchy seeds
Drinks - 1 nespresso with soya cream, 1 tea with lactofree milk, sparkly water
960 cals 51g carbs
 
been a bit busy with BiL visiting us since Friday,:wacky::rolleyes: he will go back home today :(
can't remember my last posting here, so I will just give Sunday's and today's .....
Sunday
B- my mix of Paleo cereal (soaked overnight in M&S Coconut cream! :hungry::cool:)
L- we were out shopping in Milford Haven, my family wanted a 'Subway' so I ate my Paleo bar (Banana bread! :hungry:)
D- I had smoked haddock with mixed veg and cauliflower rice with a sprinkle of vegan 'cheddar'

Drank ^ 4L stll water and a few mugs of herbal/fruity teas

The vegan 'cheddar' smells pretty rank, but the taste is pretty good!!
I'm not a true vegan.... as you can tell, cos I do eat some fish now and again :cat:
but my new diet is dairy free.... as advised when I started Acupuncture treatments in mid-July:happy:
I did try to go vegan in my 20's, but missed cheese back then, so stayed with the veggie diet (since 17 years old) and no fish between 1981 to 2002. from 2003 I started adding fish slowly back into my diet, as I'd been fishing with my new boyfriend (now my Hubby :angelic:) I was a bit squeamish at 1st.... and he had to help me with bait and killing the fish!!! but since then I will catch, kill and clean/prepare and cook mackerel and trout that I've caught :cat: but not the smoked haddock!! o_O:eek::cat:
 
Good morning all

Yesterday ( Mon)

B- nothing
L- small slice of frittata, 1/2 protein roll, 1 hard boiled egg and pkt pork scratchings
D- diet doctors keto cabbage casserole, with green salad leaves and 1/2 protein roll. Soooo good even the carb eaters enjoyed and asked for more, will definatly be making again

Today
B - nothing
L- will be 1/2 protein roll and some slices of pork
D- tonight will be gammon and diet doctor cauliflower cheese another favourite with my carb eaters.

Have a good day all xx
 
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