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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Hi all hope you’ve had a good day at least the sun came out for a bit! Just another days work tomorrow then hoping that I can focus more on family, caring and Christmas stuff! Maybe even shopping for a Christmas jumper @DJC3 ?
Brunch - no time for breakfast up a bit late so got straight down to work - mid morning had one slice of bacon, egg and half slice of Hi-lo toast
Mid afternoon some nuts
Dinner bolognese on bed of mushrooms( had planned to serve on re heated bare naked noodles - half a pack that I’d frozen - but they had turned rubbery so wouldn’t advice freezing them @DJC3 )- with glass of claret followed by raspberry clafoutis and fage yoghurt.
 
DJC3 said:
How did you make the gravy? Ive been thinking about how to do this for Christmas too. I was wondering whether just whisking a bit of xanthan gum into the turkey juices would work.
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I'm going to freeze this beforehand as my sister is cooking the turkey at her house and bringing it over! So no juices.
It's a Good Housekeeping recipe;
2 onions, 2 Carrots, 2 Celery sticks (I cheated and used Morrisons frozen soup base which has all three and is already chopped)
A packet of diced smoked pancetta
3 sprigs of thyme
3 garlic cloves in their skins
1 tbsp of olive oil (I used a tiny bit as there was a lot of fat from pancetta)
splash of white wine, 500ml chicken stock
Put all above - except wine and stock - in roasting tin, and put in oven 180 degrees fan. Roast until veg lightly caramelised. If hob proof put roasting tin on stove, mash veg down into pulp. Add wine and stock bring to boil and then simmer for ten minutes. Strain through a fine sieve.

So the thing missing is a thickener as I missed out the flour element. I had a tiny bit of cornflour on standby but just kept simmering it until it 'beefed' up a bit. I then added my own 'elements' for taste like a bit of worcester sauce and pepper. I would have used a bit of cornflour as I'm not following a super low carb diet but I realise not everyone can do this. It was super tasty!
 
Breakfast: - Water; Mini HIIT session; tea
Dockey : Dog walk; cleaning chickens and running repairs to their roof
Lunch : Coffee with cream
Mid Afternoon: Tea; 30 mins Exercise bike (Left it too late for Nordic walking)
Evening meal: Large salad with avocado and stilton; Large Salmon fillet fried in avocado oil; water
 
Tori71 said:
I'm going to freeze this beforehand as my sister is cooking the turkey at her house and bringing it over! So no juices.
It's a Good Housekeeping recipe;
2 onions, 2 Carrots, 2 Celery sticks (I cheated and used Morrisons frozen soup base which has all three and is already chopped)
A packet of diced smoked pancetta
3 sprigs of thyme
3 garlic cloves in their skins
1 tbsp of olive oil (I used a tiny bit as there was a lot of fat from pancetta)
splash of white wine, 500ml chicken stock
Put all above - except wine and stock - in roasting tin, and put in oven 180 degrees fan. Roast until veg lightly caramelised. If hob proof put roasting tin on stove, mash veg down into pulp. Add wine and stock bring to boil and then simmer for ten minutes. Strain through a fine sieve.

So the thing missing is a thickener as I missed out the flour element. I had a tiny bit of cornflour on standby but just kept simmering it until it 'beefed' up a bit. I then added my own 'elements' for taste like a bit of worcester sauce and pepper. I would have used a bit of cornflour as I'm not following a super low carb diet but I realise not everyone can do this. It was super tasty!
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Thank you It sounds very similar to the Jamie oliver one I did one year, it was very tasty and freezing ahead is a good idea.
 
shelley262 said:
Hi all hope you’ve had a good day at least the sun came out for a bit! Just another days work tomorrow then hoping that I can focus more on family, caring and Christmas stuff! Maybe even shopping for a Christmas jumper @DJC3 ?
Brunch - no time for breakfast up a bit late so got straight down to work - mid morning had one slice of bacon, egg and half slice of Hi-lo toast
Mid afternoon some nuts
Dinner bolognese on bed of mushrooms( had planned to serve on re heated bare naked noodles - half a pack that I’d frozen - but they had turned rubbery so wouldn’t advice freezing them @DJC3 )- with glass of claret followed by raspberry clafoutis and fage yoghurt.
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Thanks for the tip re freezing the noodles - I wont try now.
Good luck jumper shopping tomorrow.
 
ianpspurs said:
Breakfast: - Water; Mini HIIT session; tea
Dockey : Dog walk; cleaning chickens and running repairs to their roof
Lunch : Coffee with cream
Mid Afternoon: Tea; 30 mins Exercise bike (Left it too late for Nordic walking)
Evening meal: Large salad with avocado and stilton; Large Salmon fillet fried in avocado oil; water
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Not much tea today Ian. Are you trying to cut down after that frustrating 7.4?
 
Nice sunny day here so went out shopping and then had a mooch in Starbucks to escape the hell of next doors building work noise which has been driving me slowly round the twist for the last 9 months.
Todays menu has comprised of
Breakfast - hebba pap porridge with a slash of soya cream https://www.lowcarbshed.co.uk/product/heba-200g-10-off-p2-65ea
Lunch - Starbucks Grande soya cuppucino
Dinner - Natto with stir fried leek & mushrooms, Shiritaki noodles, toasted sesame seeds and radish kimchi followed by low carb berry cake
2 almond milk cappuccinos at home
1110 cals 37g carbs 23g fibre
 
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Oooooh. Confession time. Got home today after a week in a hotel and wife had done lasagne. Part leek part pasta to suit both as it keeps her carbs lower.
We worked it out to around 25g of carbs per slice (as such as you can slice lasagne, size maybe 2 1/2 to 3" square) Heh. I scoffed 2 helping thank you after the hotel junk.
That's prob 50 to 60g of carbs and even with an hours walk I was still 7 (4.4 pre) . Whoops. I can generally stay under 6.

Totally worth it though.

Lol. It's an obvious bump on mysugr.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch at Prèt: Italian salad, chicken and pistachios in mayo, with green salad, mini plum tomatoes and cucumber (there were olives too but I left them :***: cos I detest them!)
Mid afternoon: black coffee with SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
Dinner: mushroom paté on 3 x Tesco cheese thins with cauliflower and broccoli salad, pork scratchings and coleslaw followed by Oppo lemon cheesecake and cream.
 
I made an alternative low carb coconut porridge and it was good.
A dessert spoonful each of coconut flour and ground almond, half dessert spoonful of flax seeds, 150mls Alpro coconut milk, whizzed in microwave for 3 mins on high, with a quick stir halfway. Topped with a few frozen blueberries. Very nice. Didn't need anything else until evening when I had a mushroom omelette. Drank plenty of water and two decaff black coffees during day.
 
DCUKMod said:
today, in the land of the @maglil55 , I think the weather was like everywhere else. This morning, on my way to my conference, I turned on my heel at the front door to go back to my room for my hat. Thankfully, by the time I went for a stroll at lunchtime, the rainmaker had largely stoppe, leaving just a bracing wind.

Today's menu was largely focused on fish.

Breakers was coffee with cream. Lunch was a couple of portions of poached salmon, beautifully cooked, as the remainder of the menu was neither LC nor GF. Dinner was a mahoooosive portion of GF Bouillabaisse. It was lovely.

The conference content was very good, and I learned a lot. The following drinks reception and viewing of some current research work in progress was superb. I had a go at a couple of pieces of interactive "stuff". I made a model of myself, I watched my tongue on ultrasound, during speech, and learned how to make stuff from recycledantics.

More workshops tomorrow .

Tomorrow evening, I will go on the big tall thing with twirly chairs,...... probably!
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I would assume you didn't go on the Star Flyer? The big tall skinny swirly thingy bearing in mind it's been a flaming awful day.
 
set-in-stone said:
No mention of angostura on the bottle. Raspberries, strawberries so a bit fruity. And pink Love it!
Hubby is not keen, and I have no plans to convert him
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Going back to my barmaid days , Pink Gin was indeed with angostura bitters. The way I was taught was to put a little of the bitters in the glass , swirl it around and tip the excess out. Then add the gin. Going back a bit mind.
 
Hello everyone,

Just got back from an evening out at a French tapas place, really had a good time.

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and erythritol, the second one with xylitol.

Lunch: Tuna salad (tuna, mayonnaise, celery) and 2 scrambled eggs with cheddar and okra.

Dinner: Half a serving of sweet potato fries with tomato aioli, half a serving of mussels in white wine with sauce Rouille and half a serving of salmon quiche (without the crust). One and half glasses of wine.

Have a great weekend all.
 
ianpspurs said:
Not really, just doing other things today. At least 1 mug was the 1.5 pints one. (Hoping the random high readings are due to the batteries needing replacing)
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It really must be the batteries or something similar. Based on what you eat, it's hard to see how you would see random high readings. Must be quite frustrating.
 
maglil55 said:
I would assume you didn't go on the Star Flyer? The big tall skinny swirly thingy bearing in mind it's been a flaming awful day.
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To be candid, on one of my trips from The Balmoral to The Assembly Rooms, the weather was bright sunshine, and a very light breeze. The Star Flyer was flying and I vowed, provided it wasn't raining "later", I'd go on it. Well, when later came, it was dry, but the wind was more biting than a biting wind from the land of biting winds. No chance!

On my (very cold) walk this evening, the ice skaters in St Andrews Square were going good guns, but by then, my focus was on getting in somewhere to eat. I hadn't booked and everywhere was mobbed. I'm assuming being St Andrews day didn't help matters much.

It's been a good and very stimulating couple of days, but I'm about ready to get home to my own bed now
 
Finally home after a fabulous but tiring evening
Breakfast - coffee
Lunch - 4 slices corned beef and some dry roasted peanuts
Dinner - a huge subway salad of double steak and cheese with lettuce, onion, tomato, cucumber, gherkins, jalapeños, seeetcorn & mayo
And done more cardio this evening in running up and down stairs than I would usually do in a month :angelic:
 
ziggy_w said:
It really must be the batteries or something similar. Based on what you eat, it's hard to see how you would see random high readings. Must be quite frustrating.
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Very frustrating. I have replaced the batteries and now have a slight cold but readings are more normal Thanks.
 
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