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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Kingmidas said:
More pudding activity today after dinner - espresso chocolate cheesecake. Chocolate almond crust and coffee topping. Had with 4 chopped up strawberries and cream. Very good! Recipe here:-

https://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/keto-espresso-chocolate-cheesecake-bars-low-carb/

Rest of the day
Breakfast - 90 second microwave bread, toasted, with sweet freedom choc spread. Tea.

Lunch - bacon, eggs and mushrooms.

Dinner - bolognese without pasta but with triangles of lo dough garlic bread and dessert as aboveView attachment 31641
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Oh my! That cheesecake! :hungry:
 
DJC3 said:
Oh no I’m so sorry! Get lots of sugar free jelly in, it was the only thing that soothed my throat.
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I’m supposed to be fasting! But will bear that in mind - do have a packet that can be made into a large jelly sitting around somewhere. Meanwhile have been drinking lots of iced water. Are you recovered now?
 
Hungry day again plus one of those days that flew by - very busy.
Breakfast scrambled eggs and coffee
Lunch sardines in olive oil, nuts and two squares of 95% choc
Dinner pork chop, roast celeriac and squash with white wine spritzer with soda followed by chocolate chia pudding and cream.
Good luck to those on various fasts - mine last week seems to have left me hungry this week!
 
Evening all. Just got back from swimming so another late dinner for me. Made it before I went so my daughter and husband could eat and left me a little bit to warm up now. A proper cheat night using jars of sauce as was a rushed night but surprisingly low carb enough for me. Ended with a bowl of 6 mini pork & beef Italian style meatballs (2.4g carb for the 6) 40g of Lloyd Grossman Bolognese sauce - ( I weighed my 40g out properly which would be 2.5g carb) with lots of cheese melted on top and a side of spinach and red chard with mayo
Lunch was a chilli & lime chicken breast and 5 ribs of fire off Morrison’s hot counter
Breakfast was my usual protein peanut & chocolate bar with several coffees consumed throughout the day
 
Kingmidas said:
More pudding activity today after dinner - espresso chocolate cheesecake. Chocolate almond crust and coffee topping. Had with 4 chopped up strawberries and cream. Very good! Recipe here:-

https://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/keto-espresso-chocolate-cheesecake-bars-low-carb/

Rest of the day
Breakfast - 90 second microwave bread, toasted, with sweet freedom choc spread. Tea.

Lunch - bacon, eggs and mushrooms.

Dinner - bolognese without pasta but with triangles of lo dough garlic bread and dessert as aboveView attachment 31641
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Wow! Yours look even better than the photo on the recipe. Definitely adding that to my list.
 
Goonergal said:
I’m supposed to be fasting! But will bear that in mind - do have a packet that can be made into a large jelly sitting around somewhere. Meanwhile have been drinking lots of iced water. Are you recovered now?
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Yes it’s taken a full week. Not got my voice back properly but I feel very mych better. Iced water is good for it too though isn’t it? I usually struggle to drink enough water but the feel of the coldness slipping down my throat was so lovely I drank loads last week.
 
Lunch yesterday The last of the mystery bags.
Dinner: Steak and mushrooms and mashed spudlite.
Breakfast: Bacon and eggs and coffee to wash the digoxin tablets down, at the Atrium Cafe at the private hospital where I go to get my blood tests done at the pathology shop this morning.
 
shelley262 said:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/diabetes-diet-how-two-people-14077222
Someone asked me to let them know on this thread when my story in magazine simply you appeared still waiting for that one but meanwhile Sunday mirror interviewed me a few days ago and it’s in paper tomorrow there are some inaccuracies especially dates etc but it’s broadly correct and hope gets message across to others about this forum and way of eating talking of which today I was back to three meals after slow introduction of food after fast
Breakfast bacon and egg
Lunch sardines and four lc seeded crispbreads
Dinnernuts while cooking, chicken curry served on cauli rice and mushrooms followed by choc chia pudding and double cream plus four hc 100% choc buttons also had a gin and soda water and just sipping coffee decaf and cream.
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Can I just say not only do you look 20 years younger you look like a totally different person.
 
zauberflote said:
Cool article @shelley262 ! I notice the guy went on a “diet”....
Yahooooo @Rachox ! but boo more crutches etc
@Tipetoo we only just got King Cake! Hot cross buns are very ephemeral, and you have to be in the store before they’re all gone. I think they’re nasty bc I’ve never liked candied citron. For us, the Valentine candy/plush/cards went up almost before the old year was out... and all the green accessories have been up for a week or so But Easter baskets and candy showed up as of this week. We know how to eat candy, we do.
Thanks for recipe @BibaBee . I think I emailed myself the link last time I saw it here but now I have CMT!!
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Ah but have the Easter Peeps appeared yet?
 
Chook said:
Good morning everyone, a grey, rainy day here today.

It's the first day of my fast so my menu for the next few days will (hopefully) look like this:

Breakfast: Black Coffee with caffeine
Elevenses: Black Coffee without caffeine
Lunch: Another decaff coffee
Mid Afternoon: Herbal or fruit tea
Dinner: More herbal or fruit tea
Mid evening: yet another herbal tea
Pre bed: Chamomile tea
More herbal or fruit tea if/when I get the munchies.

At least two litres of still mineral water spread out over the day/evening.
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Good luck with the fast x
 
Sorry you're still off colour @DJC3. I visited M&S today on the way back from Aqua and I took selected some "bits" - nice easy meal. @Goonergal - IKEA? At the weekend??? Really?? If son drags me kicking and screaming in the direction of IKEA it requires a lot of relaxation, alcohol, meditation to get me there. Even then just approaching the door makes me break out in a sweat. I've tried laying a trail but nothing gets you out without forcing you around the entire store Segways would be good. I actually like their stuff - just hate their stores!
 
SlimLizzy said:
OH WOW

this sounds impossibly delicious
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It is. The first attempt I made that Christmas was a disaster though. This is not a dessert to be assembled in advance. The meringue pretty much melted. Refused to be beaten by it and attempt number 2 was successful. It was always at the back of my mind that this was a very adaptable recipe.
 
BibaBee said:
Any recommendations for a LC pancake recipe for tomorrow? We've had pancakes every Shrove Tuesday for the last 20 years....not about to change that evening if they need to be low carb! Great use for the lemon curd, not that there is much left! :oops:
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There's a ricotta pancake recipe on my CMT - souffle - not flat but I've made them a few times and they are delicious and very light.
 
maglil55 said:
It is. The first attempt I made that Christmas was a disaster though. This is not a dessert to be assembled in advance. The meringue pretty much melted. Refused to be beaten by it and attempt number 2 was successful. It was always at the back of my mind that this was a very adaptable recipe.
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@maglil55 Can I have the recipe, please? for the lemon curd and meringue. Meringue was a particular favourite of mine, and my Raspberry Hazelnut Meringue Cake was a much requested feature at many family occaisions.
Have also made lemon meringue roulade. Disaster! Decorated the kitchen with the lemon cream. Pudding was delicious though. Havent had the heart to attempt anything like that since diagnosis.
Adaptable recipes are the best.
 
Tipetoo said:
You must be sick of hot cross buns, they have been on sale since new years day here.
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I love hot cross buns, but they must be the proper ones, with fruit, candied peel, spices and no sticky glaze. Can take or leave mince pies though, so was easy to leave those entirely alone. So far have resisted the Hot Cross Buns.
 
Bed 7.7 FBG 7.1. Back on the school run. Still very much in "cant be bothered " mode but at least the rain stopped but my mini bulbs have taken a battering. After school run off to Aqua - thankfully no lunatics with glass bottles this week.
B. Tassimo Americano grande with a dash of cream. 2 Tesco rollitos.
L. Made a detour to M&S after aqua. Picked up 2 pairs of school trousers for No 1 as his left knee has gone through two pairs. It's a common occurrence with him. Both pairs labelled and adjusted now. Lunch consisted if a spoonful each of M&S whipped cheese, tuna with red onion and beans , Honduran prawns and 2 lamb koftas.
D. Fed the boys on broth and blueberry pancakes. I had roast chicken, cauliflower cheese and veggie chips. Few berries and cream later. Note to self. 50g of Montezuma black forest is too much!
 
Thanks all for your condolences on the leg cramps!! The situation is that if I do a certain number of time consuming things every blessed day, I have a decent chance of not having cramps until after I wake up for good. I am beginning to suspect the electrolyte balance, and am glad I see cardio later this month.
. @SlimLizzy sure sounds like an “omelet with everything” to me! Glad you’re seeing dr tomorrow :) And how about, one day cook new things, another day crash.
@BibaBee milk or something, cream maybe, oil or melted butter, egg, baking powder, almond and flax? The only pancakes I’ve ever made were that except flour not almond/flax.
@maglil55 yes to the peeps- about a week ago ;) I haven’t been in an Ikea since... 1992? I don’t think you could pay me now. I’d shop online. We still have the “möbelfakta” couch from that trip, fresh cushions and a reinforcement where the younger never stopped dumping rather than seating himself, but otherwise going strong.
 
Bfast 1/2 avocado, egg, decaf/soy/cream, a very few burnt hemp seed hearts and a tbsp of perfectly toasted ones.
Lunch cans of Dr Pepper flavored seltzer. I am addicted to this flavor!
Supper in a huge rush to get to rehearsal. Wilted spinach with hm balsamic dijon vinaigrette, celery, almond butter two polite but not stingy spoons, couple bites of this Cotswold cheese I OD’d on yesterday, and an lc tortilla. Edit to add: and two small spoons of the first creme fraiche I’ve ever eaten. Sadly, I’m not impressed. It’s good creamery cream, but my taste runs to actual sour cream, which is tangier. There were a couple of sweetened flavors available, and those might be better. I went in that store because their website said they had halloumi. They didn’t. Sigh. So is halloumi like fresh mozzarella, or maybe Mexican white frying cheese?

My FBG was as high this morning as if I’d eaten a triple scoop ice cream cone last night. It can only have been the amount of cheese, right? It was alot...there were no bad carbs, hardly any carbs at all even.
 
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Well, I've just had the most ginagerous hotel breakfast. Typically Thai, there were loads of dinner menu options on there, so I took the opportunity to go on a roasting trip, of stuff not yet encountered.

Of course, I've had red curry before, and with lots of Thai/Holy basil, it's fab, but for breakers, it's something else - in a positive way. The omelette was pleasant enough and I can confidently say I'm fuelled until at least dinner - probably tomorrow!

Now off out
 
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