What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Goonergal]

2 chilli & lime chicken quarters

Do you have a recipe for those? Sound good.

 

[Emma_369]

Do you have a recipe for those? Sound good.

They were off the hot counter at Morrison’s - I’m never organised enough to plan lunch so rely on what I can grab quick for work

 

[Kingmidas]

Inulin - how/what do people use it for? Having had to come into city centre to sort out my late mums finances I came across a wholefood shop so I stocked up on desiccated and toasted coconut and nuts - and also bought a small bag of inulin. Now, what do I do with it

 

[ianpspurs]

Inulin - how/what do people use it for? Having had to come into city centre to sort out my late mums finances I came across a wholefood shop so I stocked up on desiccated and toasted coconut and nuts - and also bought a small bag of inulin. Now, what do I do with it

I am not a great guide to how to follow LC but I do use inulin quite frequently for fibre boost. At a basic level add a tsp to hot drinks - probably start with 1 a day and don't go much higher than 2; also put inulin in the cup first and ensure drink is hot or it doesn't dissolve; it makes an excellent topping for creme brulee when blowtorched; it makes caramel/toffee when mixed and heated with butter - you can add sweetener; if mixed with milled flaxseed it produces a digestive biscuit like effect - mix with butter and you get a cheesecake base or mix the toffee, melted high cocoa chocolate and allow to set for a high fibre bar. Again, take no notice of me I'm not very good at this.

 

[Chook]

Day 2 of Tai Chi DVD was a lot better. I did the same routine an hour after breakfast and my BG went down by 1.3 units. I did use the chair as recommended by @maglil55 so didn't get that going to fall over feeling even though I didn't use it much. I think it will become easier with repetition and hopefully my posture for the movements will improve. So, meals...

Breakfast: Kippers and scrambled eggs

Lunch: Nothing

Dinner: Lamb stew

Pudding: Greek yoghurt with chia seeds

Drinks: black decaff coffee, still mineral water, Asda lemon meringue flavoured tea, yet more water

 

[dunelm]

They were off the hot counter at Morrison’s - I’m never organised enough to plan lunch so rely on what I can grab quick for work

@Goonergal - a few on the web. Some with sugar in though.
Here is one that may be worth a go;
INGREDIENTS

• 4 tablespoons oil
• 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon black pepper
• 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts or 4-6 boneless chicken thighs

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Whisk together oil, vinegar, chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, and lime juice. Combine with chicken in a zip lock bag, press the excess air out, and seal. Chill for 30 minutes or up to 8 hours.
2. Preheat grill to medium-high. Use tongs to transfer chicken to the grill, then discard the marinade and bag.
3. Grill for 6-10 minutes on each side or until cooked through. Serve with lime wedges and cilantro.

 

[dunelm]

I am not a great guide to how to follow LC but I do use inulin quite frequently for fibre boost. At a basic level ad a tsp to hot drinks - probably start with 1 a day and don't go much higher than 2; also put inulin in the cup first and ensure drink is hot or it doesn't dissolve; it makes an excellent topping for creme brulee when blowtorched; it makes caramel/toffee when mixed and heated with butter - you can add sweetener; if mixed with milled flaxseed it produces a digestive biscuit like effect - mix with butter and you get a cheesecake base or mix the toffee, melted high cocoa chocolate and allow to set for a high fibre bar. Again, take no notice of me I'm not very good at this.

@Kingmidas - what @ianpspurs said. I came across it as it has been shown to help with controlling blood sugars.
It’s a prebiotic fibre but as stated, don’t overdo it. It’s very good I think but too much can cause tummy problems.

 

[shelley262]

Inulin - how/what do people use it for? Having had to come into city centre to sort out my late mums finances I came across a wholefood shop so I stocked up on desiccated and toasted coconut and nuts - and also bought a small bag of inulin. Now, what do I do with it

Like @ianpspurs I use inulin for a range of things but mainly in my morning coffee every day! I find it works for me, I know TMI! I also add it as part of the sweetners now to several recipies as it isnt as sweet as other sweetners but mixes well with others to bring overall sweetness down. Hope that helps

 

[shelley262]

@Kingmidas - what @ianpspurs said. I came across it as it has been shown to help with controlling blood sugars.
It’s a prebiotic fibre but as stated, don’t overdo it. It’s very good I think but too much can cause tummy problems.

agree take it slowly and you adjust

 

[shelley262]

Hi all posting very early today as I am out this evening celebrating a friends big 60! Fizz in fridge ready as are my LC nibbles Ive developed some cheesy variants of the herby crackers recipie below:
Herby cheese bites

6 grams of carb for whole mix if 40 small biscuits each biscuit is 0.15g of carb. (Assuming using full fat strong cheese – lower fat cheeses and pre-grated varieties can have things added that make them carby eg potato starch!)

Ingredients

· 80g of Ground Almonds

· 20 g of Psyllium Husk

· 100g of grated cheese (recommend vintage cheddar)

· Seasonings optional and add to taste I used:

· Herbs mix 1 teaspoon

· Mix of salts and pepper – I included pinches of celery salt, onion salt, paprika and regular salt and pepper

· Half a teaspoon of English mustard powder if you like a kick

· 70mls of water to mix

Method

1. Put oven on to 160 fan

2. Line one or two trays with silicone liners - as makes about 40 biscuits

3. Put all dry ingredients, including cheese, into a bowl

4. Mix the water to dry ingredients - adding more PH if very sticky or more water if it’s very dry and not binding into a ball for rolling out.

5. Sprinkle PH onto a surface and tip dough out on it and roll and press out until as thin as possible - the thinner the better.

6. Press out size and shapes of biscuit required - should make about 40 if thin enough (I use a cookie cutter about 1 inch in diameter.)

7. Bake in oven for 20 mins - checking and then leaving longer and/or in a cooling oven if not crisp enough. As they have cheese in them they won’t be fully crisp until fully cooled so make sure you cool them right off before putting into a tin!

Ive now added this to the recipe booklet from this thread and have been tidying the booklet up.

REQUEST - do any of you have any more favourite recipes that you would like to share in the booklet which I can add whilst I am updating it? I will scroll back through thread and add a few extras from there but would be grateful for any tried and tested tips and recipes.
RE CCBs I am looking for the definitive recipe and think it would be really helpful to see which recipe you are using at the moment @ianpspurs and @DJC3 plus anyone who thinks they have the knack. Ive not done them for months so need an updated version as I know lots of modifications have been based on experience of cooking them!!
PM me if you'd like to add something or make any suggestions Ill set up a thread for the revised booklet when happy with it hopefully in a few weeks time......
food to date
Bacon and egg, cheese and LC biscuits - dinner and party food later

 

[Brunneria]

Hi All,
Think I have been forgetting to post food.

Sun, Mon and Tue evenings were ribs. I love ribs.
With the earlier meals being scram egg, cheese and prawns in chilli mayo, respectively. Yum.

Seem to have forgotten food so far today, but will be snaffling plenty of chicken in garam masala and cream later on. DietDoc version. Vaguely.
Bought the wrong chicken bits! Usually buy boned chicken thigh fillets (yes, I am THAT lazy), but a huge great tray of bone in thighs and drumsticks have arrived. 2 KG!!!

This obviously calls for desperate measures, cos I ain't filleting the meat off half a flock of chicken limbs.

The solution is simple: Instant Pot them to fall-off-the-bone meltingness, fish out the bones, and stir in the cream/spice mixture I will prepare on the hob (onion, peppers, chillis, garam masala and plenty of double cream)

Sorted.

And then I can make stock with all the bones, too.

 

[ianpspurs]

Hi all posting very early today as I am out this evening celebrating a friends big 60! Fizz in fridge ready as are my LC nibbles Ive developed some cheesy variants of the herby crackers recipie below:
Herby cheese bites

6 grams of carb for whole mix if 40 small biscuits each biscuit is 0.15g of carb. (Assuming using full fat strong cheese – lower fat cheeses and pre-grated varieties can have things added that make them carby eg potato starch!)

Ingredients

· 80g of Ground Almonds

· 20 g of Psyllium Husk

· 100g of grated cheese (recommend vintage cheddar)

· Seasonings optional and add to taste I used:

· Herbs mix 1 teaspoon

· Mix of salts and pepper – I included pinches of celery salt, onion salt, paprika and regular salt and pepper

· Half a teaspoon of English mustard powder if you like a kick

· 70mls of water to mix

Method

1. Put oven on to 160 fan

2. Line one or two trays with silicone liners - as makes about 40 biscuits

3. Put all dry ingredients, including cheese, into a bowl

4. Mix the water to dry ingredients - adding more PH if very sticky or more water if it’s very dry and not binding into a ball for rolling out.

5. Sprinkle PH onto a surface and tip dough out on it and roll and press out until as thin as possible - the thinner the better.

6. Press out size and shapes of biscuit required - should make about 40 if thin enough (I use a cookie cutter about 1 inch in diameter.)

7. Bake in oven for 20 mins - checking and then leaving longer and/or in a cooling oven if not crisp enough. As they have cheese in them they won’t be fully crisp until fully cooled so make sure you cool them right off before putting into a tin!

Ive now added this to the recipe booklet from this thread and have been tidying the booklet up.

REQUEST - do any of you have any more favourite recipes that you would like to share in the booklet which I can add whilst I am updating it? I will scroll back through thread and add a few extras from there but would be grateful for any tried and tested tips and recipes.
RE CCBs I am looking for the definitive recipe and think it would be really helpful to see which recipe you are using at the moment @ianpspurs and @DJC3 plus anyone who thinks they have the knack. Ive not done them for months so need an updated version as I know lots of modifications have been based on experience of cooking them!!
PM me if you'd like to add something or make any suggestions Ill set up a thread for the revised booklet when happy with it hopefully in a few weeks time......
food to date
Bacon and egg, cheese and LC biscuits - dinner and party food later

Re CCbs: I always have inulin and flaxseed mix to use and this is the base of ours; 3 tbls flxseed and 1 tsp of inulin; basic model is as per booklet but with liquid sweetener to my taste - current batch too bitter; best version of toffee/caramel has 3 heaped desert spoons inulin, 1/2 pack butter and liquid sweetener - (there is "extra butter" which we mix with flaxseed and inulin mixture); the toffee/caramel goes in a mould with chocolate on top - kind of LC mars bar but the toffee goes hard in the fridge. My CCBs are the size of a bar of soap. No idea if this helps

 

[dunelm]

Just making a fresh batch of tumeric tea. If you would like to make some yourself then do use fresh tumeric, add a chunk of ginger and a good grinding of black pepper to help with absorption.

Anyhow.
Breakfast; 2 cups of tulsi tea and a pot of koffy.

Lunch;
2 poached eggs and one slice of bacon.

Dinner;
In the oven at the moment, stuffed red peppers with mozzarella, cherry tomatoes and basil. Will drizzle lemon juice on once cooked and have with a green salad.

 

[shelley262]

Re CCbs: I always have inulin and flaxseed mix to use and this is the base of ours; 3 tbls flxseed and 1 tsp of inulin; basic model is as per booklet but with liquid sweetener to my taste - current batch too bitter; best version of toffee/caramel has 3 heaped desert spoons inulin, 1/2 pack butter and liquid sweetener - (there is "extra butter" which we mix with flaxseed and inulin mixture); the toffee/caramel goes in a mould with chocolate on top - kind of LC mars bar but the toffee goes hard in the fridge. My CCBs are the size of a bar of soap. No idea if this helps

Thank you @ianpspurs x

 

[ianpspurs]

Thank you @ianpspurs x

The extra butter is liquid which "floats" when inulin very suddenly turns to toffee - looks as though it either won't work or will boil over. Can't be left and stirring is constant - note I walk the dogs or exercise and the toffee fairy does all this.

 

[DJC3]

Hi All,
Think I have been forgetting to post food.

Sun, Mon and Tue evenings were ribs. I love ribs.
With the earlier meals being scram egg, cheese and prawns in chilli mayo, respectively. Yum.

Seem to have forgotten food so far today, but will be snaffling plenty of chicken in garam masala and cream later on. DietDoc version. Vaguely.
Bought the wrong chicken bits! Usually buy boned chicken thigh fillets (yes, I am THAT lazy), but a huge great tray of bone in thighs and drumsticks have arrived. 2 KG!!!

This obviously calls for desperate measures, cos I ain't filleting the meat off half a flock of chicken limbs.

The solution is simple: Instant Pot them to fall-off-the-bone meltingness, fish out the bones, and stir in the cream/spice mixture I will prepare on the hob (onion, peppers, chillis, garam masala and plenty of double cream)

Sorted.

And then I can make stock with all the bones, too.

Ooh that sounds even better than the original, and I love the DD garam masala chicken.

 

[DJC3]

Hi all posting very early today as I am out this evening celebrating a friends big 60! Fizz in fridge ready as are my LC nibbles Ive developed some cheesy variants of the herby crackers recipie below:
Herby cheese bites

6 grams of carb for whole mix if 40 small biscuits each biscuit is 0.15g of carb. (Assuming using full fat strong cheese – lower fat cheeses and pre-grated varieties can have things added that make them carby eg potato starch!)

Ingredients

· 80g of Ground Almonds

· 20 g of Psyllium Husk

· 100g of grated cheese (recommend vintage cheddar)

· Seasonings optional and add to taste I used:

· Herbs mix 1 teaspoon

· Mix of salts and pepper – I included pinches of celery salt, onion salt, paprika and regular salt and pepper

· Half a teaspoon of English mustard powder if you like a kick

· 70mls of water to mix

Method

1. Put oven on to 160 fan

2. Line one or two trays with silicone liners - as makes about 40 biscuits

3. Put all dry ingredients, including cheese, into a bowl

4. Mix the water to dry ingredients - adding more PH if very sticky or more water if it’s very dry and not binding into a ball for rolling out.

5. Sprinkle PH onto a surface and tip dough out on it and roll and press out until as thin as possible - the thinner the better.

6. Press out size and shapes of biscuit required - should make about 40 if thin enough (I use a cookie cutter about 1 inch in diameter.)

7. Bake in oven for 20 mins - checking and then leaving longer and/or in a cooling oven if not crisp enough. As they have cheese in them they won’t be fully crisp until fully cooled so make sure you cool them right off before putting into a tin!

Ive now added this to the recipe booklet from this thread and have been tidying the booklet up.

REQUEST - do any of you have any more favourite recipes that you would like to share in the booklet which I can add whilst I am updating it? I will scroll back through thread and add a few extras from there but would be grateful for any tried and tested tips and recipes.
RE CCBs I am looking for the definitive recipe and think it would be really helpful to see which recipe you are using at the moment @ianpspurs and @DJC3 plus anyone who thinks they have the knack. Ive not done them for months so need an updated version as I know lots of modifications have been based on experience of cooking them!!
PM me if you'd like to add something or make any suggestions Ill set up a thread for the revised booklet when happy with it hopefully in a few weeks time......
food to date
Bacon and egg, cheese and LC biscuits - dinner and party food later

New cracker variant sounds like a winner.

I stopped measuring anything for the CCBs so they may not be anything like they are supposed to be in the @ianpspurs household. I’ll make them again this week measuring and recording what I put in. I think my main tangent is making the caramel with butter and cream and hardly any erythritol. I’ll send you the recipe if it works and put my thinking cap on for others

The microwave flaxseed cracker should def be included

I ordered the insulated coffee filter you recommended today!!!!

 

[ianpspurs]

Evening all hope today was at least as good as possible for you, if not much better,
Breakfast: Tea - 1 mug with inulin 1 without - both 1.5 pints
Brunch: Tea; Dog walk; Cocoa (soya milk and cream (hmm) ) and very tiny Dr Almond cookies? Whatever is in those means I can eat something made with almond flour - very strange
Lunch: Not “earned” by effort; chicken thigh; 3 radishes; 4 cherry tomatoes; small piece jarlsberg; 10 cms? Cucumber; babybel
Evening meal: Turkey mince; nduja; h/m stock; mushrooms; tomato paste and tinned tomatoes; broccoli
Kind of a joyless box ticking period - steps/exercise, 14 hrs with 250 steps, as LC/IF as I can bear just all a bit ho hum but provided it keeps A1C etc stable keep calm and eat LC.
@DJC3 I don't think the food fairy properly measures and erythritol is anathema

 

[shelley262]

New cracker variant sounds like a winner.

I stopped measuring anything for the CCBs so they may not be anything like they are supposed to be in the @ianpspurs household. I’ll make them again this week measuring and recording what I put in. I think my main tangent is making the caramel with butter and cream and hardly any erythritol. I’ll send you the recipe if it works and put my thinking cap on for others

The microwave flaxseed cracker should def be included

I ordered the insulated coffee filter you recommended today!!!!

Thank you so much especially for recording your amounts for CCBs. Will scroll back for microwave seeded crackers. I’m sat here with a yummy cup of decaf from my machine this evening contemplating getting ready for my night out. I tend to make a full jug and then it’s there when needed!

 

[DJC3]

Breakfast one fried egg on a slice of Emmental cheese. Coffee&cream.
Lunch: One of the microwave seedy crackers. Half topped with cream cheese ( M&S whipped) and smoked salmon, the other half topped with the egg mayo I scraped out of the middle of the sandwich I’d made for Mr C’s packed lunch yesterday ( and which he forgot) followed by lazy mousse

Dinner DD chicken provencal with lettuce and lemon mayo.

If anyone needs psyllium husk powder thereis a voucher in H&B Healthy magazine. The mag costs £1:99 but the voucher is worth £8 so is worth it. (PH has the unprepossessing name Colon Care Plus powder in H&B)