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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

@BibaBee re stockpiling Greek yogurt, can you freeze it successfully?
Does anyone shop in Aldi regularly? There isnt one near me but last summer I bought 4 to a pack Special Selection Sea salt dark choc and nut bars which were 6g/bar and so useful to keep one in my bag for when I was away from home. I looked on their website but couldnt find them and wondered if they still did them, they were by the tills. I dont want to make a long trip to find they no longer do them if I can help it though prob will find other stuff to buy lol.
Today I had a slice HiLo toast with thick butter for breakfast as much as anything not to take my meds on an empty tum. Still stayed in the 6s till 5pm was 5.0. Did 2 scrambled eggs and parma ham on side but only ate half. No taste buds, still feel rough. Lots of tea today and water.
 
shelley262 said:
Hi all
Breakfast boiled egg and about a third of German Lidl roll sliced and buttered
No lunch had lunchtime interview for an article about low carb program that will be in simply you magazine shortly and time raced away today!
Dinner beef short rib slow cooked and served with buttered cabbage and small glass of red wine. Will have decaf coffee with cream later with some high percentage chocolate. ( maybe a little slither of the hotel choc Yule log or one of my other Christmas chocs)
Love this thread and all the recipes on here @Emma_369 can understand that despite your amazing fast you are missing posting all credit to you re length of time you’ve been fasting i genuinely can’t imagine how anyone could fast for that length of time. I must love food too much!
@maglil55 as ever in awe of your busyness, difficult family stuff and your amazing superstar granny feats!
edit managed to give rest of hotel choc Yule log to OH I just had a bit but pleased it’s been despatched at last! Just the Xmas chocs to go now!
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It’s great that you did an interview - let us know more about when it’s published - maybe put a photo of post here
 
Hungry19 said:
Yes - I noted that single cream has lower fat - I choose double cream, it can be watered down and used in tea.
Think u deserve cheese n olives (and another glass of wine )
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Started with single cream, as have long term history of problem with digesting fat, it seems to be gradually easing, so long as i dont overdo it. So now on whipping cream, 38% fat. Will be dropping quantity to start with, gradually building it up again.
thanks for commenting
 
PenguinMum said:
@BibaBee re stockpiling Greek yogurt, can you freeze it successfully?
Does anyone shop in Aldi regularly? There isnt one near me but last summer I bought 4 to a pack Special Selection Sea salt dark choc and nut bars which were 6g/bar and so useful to keep one in my bag for when I was away from home. I looked on their website but couldnt find them and wondered if they still did them, they were by the tills. I dont want to make a long trip to find they no longer do them if I can help it though prob will find other stuff to buy lol.
Today I had a slice HiLo toast with thick butter for breakfast as much as anything not to take my meds on an empty tum. Still stayed in the 6s till 5pm was 5.0. Did 2 scrambled eggs and parma ham on side but only ate half. No taste buds, still feel rough. Lots of tea today and water.
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Sorry to here you still feel rough. I pop into Aldi quite regularly, so will keep an eye out. No idea if Greek yoghurt freezes, but I might give it a go. Has anyone on here made labneh (middle eastern cream cheese) from Greek yoghurt? I think you can preserve labneh balls in olive oil with herbs.
 
Hungry19 said:
Yes - I noted that single cream has lower fat - I choose double cream, it can be watered down and used in tea.
Think u deserve cheese n olives (and another glass of wine )
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Had small snack: cheese and olives, amazing how they bump up the calories. Now am 18 calories over target. Yippee. Never expected to find eating enough hard work.
 
SlimLizzy said:
Had small snack: cheese and olives, amazing how they bump up the calories. Now am 18 calories over target. Yippee. Never expected to find eating enough hard work.
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I find that nuts are great for bumping up calories. Just a small 30g portion of almonds have 184 calories and just over 2g of carbs. They are packed with fibre and good fats too. My husband is now at the point where he needs to maintain his weight and adding nuts as a snack has definitely helped stall the weight loss. He doesn't like plain nuts, so I roasted my own with spices and a little salt (far healthier than the shop bought ones).
 
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BibaBee said:
Sorry to here you still feel rough. I pop into Aldi quite regularly, so will keep an eye out. No idea if Greek yoghurt freezes, but I might give it a go. Has anyone on here made labneh (middle eastern cream cheese) from Greek yoghurt? I think you can preserve labneh balls in olive oil with herbs.
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Thanks @BibaBee. Those bars were great as a meal replacement on the run.
 
DJC3 said:
@maglil55 that salmon recipe looks good. I only tend to cook fish on Mondays, as our bins are emptied on Tues so any smelly wrapping or skin is whisked away. The stuffed fish fingers for the boys are a brilliant idea, think I’ll try them with the girls next time I have them round for tea.
I’m glad you got through your very poignant and emotional weekend with the family around, it does help if you can be together to share memories.
I’m off to York in a couple of weeks as it’s my niece’s 18th birthday which will be hard for her to celebrate without her dad.
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It's a really nice salmon recipe. Especially the avocado salsa. We're past our difficult week now although sister's stuff is now being cleared but BIL still wants to do his own thing.
The boy were quite tickled with the stuffed fish fingers. I did a Mary Berry salmon terrine one Christmas that was layered with asparagus and it was that which planted the seed for the stuffed fish fingers. They are good veggie eaters anyway but it made it more entertaining for them.
 
Goonergal said:
@dunelm how are you enjoying carnivore?
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Hi @Goonergal, I’m finding it very easy. Two meals or three it seems to make no difference. My blood sugars are fairly stable, readings from my Libra, so 8 hour graphing. I seem to get a drop to 3 or so early morning and then a liver dump at about 0830. Not worried about the liver dump as it’s just a kick in of glucose to get the body up and running.
Tonight, my reading pre food was 5.6, 2 hours later, 4.7.Meal ideas are challenging , apart from that, steady away. Don’t think that it a long term thing but quite interesting.
 
DJC3 said:
They look like they will be strong tasting as they are quite dark green but actually they’re very mild and dont take much cooking. I think the fact that they are not available all year round, and really are seasonal is another thing that appeals. I got mine on a market stall but I have seen them in Sainsburys on occasion.
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I've got them in M&S before. I stir fried with some shallot, pancetta and pine nuts.
 
Today's feeding. Bed 6.4 Fbg 6.5. School swimming this morning. It was his favourite breast stroke. He's positively jet propelled with that stroke and ended up letting everyone have a start and still finishing first.
B. Tassimo americano grande with a dash of cream.
L. 3 Morrisons GF pork chocolates, fried egg and 2 rashers back bacon. Slice of that seeded Dr Almond bread toasted.
D. A load of bits - M&S tuna and beans, fresh anchovies, mozzarella pearls, remains of prawn cocktail, spoonful of M&S whipped cheese and a small avocado. Saw a brilliant way to cut avocado. Half cut the avocado as normal but then cut all the way round again so you are cutting quarters. It falls apart.
Few berries and cream.
 
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@BibaBee I’m so sorry about your migraine. I’ve only had three or four, but now I have a related thing called vestibular migraine. It’s a processing error that gives me the illusion that things are moving when they’re not, (or that it’s me moving when really the other thing is moving), and can go in toxicity all the way up to “hard spinning” while driving, I’ve heard. My more or less chronic symptoms have worsened with LC, so the dropping of some food or addition of some food has taken me over my tolerance level. My advice to myself is, move to somewhere that the barometric pressure never changes! Wanna come along?
@SlimLizzy I had some to me terrifying BG rises after hard sweaty exercise last summer, even though I was well hydrated. I haven’t had sweaty exercise since then, mainly because it’s cold out so I don’t drip at all even though I may be going subjectively just as hard. You are up to 70! skips in just what, two weeks? Verrry impressive!
@PenguinMum I freeze skyr all the time. It’s like cheese or milk - a whole different texture when you thaw it, and no amount of whisking gets it back. No flavor difference, and things cook fine. Hope your crud departs very soon!!
I hope to use my bday IP to make my own yogurt finally again. Then strain it. Or hey, try making it with cream and see where that gets me.
Yesterday very interesting. Thought I’d try not eating lunch until I was actually hungry for it. I decided that AS I was finishing a second mug of creamy decaf, so there was a cheat there. Ended up powering through to supper! But my back hurt so much (I get that when hungry) that the only way I made it to 6:00 was by sitting down working from 4:30 on. So yesterday was a 2MAD! Yay me! BG way down in normal realm by 6:00, and semi-stayed down-ish. Wanted to try it today but if I take Mom for lunch, she won’t eat if I don’t. Maybe tomorrow?
Bfast 1/2 avocado, egg, decaf/soy/cream. Off to get Mom ready for 1:00 opera-at-the-movies Met Opera “Live in HD” series. Half hour drive to theater, sat in car on this gorgeous spring wannabe day to eat
Celery, toms, cuke, lc tortilla with swiss cherse previously melted on it. Saw Carmen.
Apparently spending that much time with Mom is draining! I dropped her off at 5:40, went next door to the hot bar at organic foods store and had lemon basil curry chicken. Out. Of. This. World! The chicken appeared to have been pounded, sauce was curry flavors, lemon juice, basil, lemon slice mush, yogurt, and heavy cream. Meltingly tender. That turned out to be the appetizer! Came home (eating hot sloppy chicken with fingers while driving), fed cats, put olive oil on sardines left over from Monday, and then needed [sic!!] cheese. It was definitely comfort/stress eating, and I was “eating around” all the veggies I really wanted. Ah well.
New bedtime snack is Creamy Cinnamon Toast chia pudding. Made with cinnamonnnnnn, soy milk, and cream, and served with a little butter. I don’t sweeten it just as I don’t sweeten anything right now - I am sure that I’d have just as little control over non-carb sweeteners as over sugar. And protein, apparently.
 
BibaBee said:
I find that nuts are great for bumping up calories. Just a small 30g portion of almonds have 184 calories and just over 2g of carbs. They are packed with fibre and good fats too. My husband is now at the point where he needs to maintain his weight and adding nuts as a snack has definitely helped stall the weight loss. He doesn't like plain nuts, so I made roasted my own with spices and a little salt (far healthier than the shop bought ones).
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After someone mentioned the environmental cost of almonds have now moved on to brazils and pecans, both have a higher fat content than almonds. Dont think there is a huge difference in cost either.
 
SlimLizzy said:
After someone mentioned the environmental cost of almonds have now moved on to brazils and pecans, both have a higher fat content than almonds. Dont think there is a huge difference in cost either.
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Dont overdo the brazil nuts ,they contain a lot of Selenium. Limit is about two per day to avoid Selenium poisoning
 
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