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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

@Goonergal go for it!!
Aw @Emma_369 I hope you’re going to be feeling better after your swim!
@maglil55 hooray for No 1!! One of my kids had nitrous at dentist when he was about 10, and he was So Funny! He said he felt like an astronaut, and his legs and arms floated towards the ceiling. Too cute. I am exhausted just reading how much you squeezed into what can only have beed about an hour!!!
@ianpspurs arthritis in knees is awful, and I’ve heard UK drs are not allowing as many replacements as formerly. There are some promising new treatments coming along, though!
mmmmm @dunelm now that’s my kind of cooking!
@Rachox how is your rehab coming along? :)
 
XBX level 16
Breakfast: tea, combination muesli with milk, couple of the "biscuits" made yesterday - they have not improved:meh:
shopping today, spotted a bargain. PB at £1.10. Not my preferred brand, but Mr Slim likes it. At the till came up 25p. :woot:Went back and got another.
lunch: Ate the rest of the so-called biscuits. and a chunk of cheese, cup of coffee
Cleaned windows in the rain, got some very strange looks o_O, planted some veg seeds, in pots and worked on my tapestry, could it be finished this year? Been abandoned for about a decade. Decided it had to be finished, or scrapped, not carrying it untouched to yet another house.
BG before dinner 4.8
dinner: traybake with Potatoes, onions, red pepper, few cherry toms, all tossed in rapeseed oil. roasted for 20 mins. Turned, added handful of capers, good squirt of lemon juice and two pieces of salmon, cooked for 10 mins, served with green beans. Was a big plateful of food, around 25g carbs, but somehow came in at only 366 calories, so had two more chunks of cheese.
Yesterdays glass of wine was still in the fridge, intend having that after the test.
overview of recent diet: neeed more veg! and fruit.
BG two hours after dinner 5.3.
now for that glass of wine:)
 
@SlimLizzy peanut butter keeps forever, you should have bought more lol. Your meals look scrumptious but sorry the biscuits (I assume I’d call them cookies here? Or are they a cracker thing?) were meh...Your tapestry - is it embroidered? Woven? I’ve been carrying around a giant patchwork quilt-top that I made in the early 80’s from fabric I’d sewn with back to high school. Then I threw away most of my scraps before a move in ‘84, since I’d made my memory. I don’t think I’ll ever finish it! We’ve moved 3 times since then!
Bfast 1/2 avocado, egg, 2 or 3 cherry toms, decaf/soy/creeeeaaammmm. Before adding the cream I used the hot soylatte to melt 2 sq 90% choc in my mouth. Hence room for lots of cream ;)
Lunch 1.75 cans Dr Pepper flavor seltzer, and another decaf black out with Mom. Should not have finished it- too much caffeine in my system. A double decaf espresso is still fairly caffeinated!
Supper celery, toms, wilted spinach with a tin of sardines with hm dijon balsamic vinaigrette, and a wedge of @Goonergal ‘s cheesy skillet bread from her CMT. It was too wet for my taste, too spoonbread-y. I’ll work on it because it has definite potential! IMG_7742.jpgIMG_7741.jpg
Goodnight and good morning!
Whoa. Edit to add: my bg dropped from my 129 to my 89 between 2 hr pp of bfast and before supper (only 5 hrs!). I did not exercise. Too Many Variables! After supper (2 hr) it is 97. That’s a rise of your 0.444, which may be a record for me. It is often well under 1, but the two bg’s are generally a good bit higher. I have No Idea. Too many variables.
@Rachox, is it you who manipulates all the numbers so you can see at a glance which did what when compared to when did which what happen (etc!). Do you have software, an app, a long pencil and tons of patience? The math brain goes without saying ;)
 
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Goonergal said:
Hi all. After a bit of advice from those of you more experienced at cooking and substituting ingredients than me. The attached recipe was posted on a carnivore page on Facebook. Appeals but quantities are enormous - by my calculations about 900g of pork scratchings alone!!! Or about 20 packs of the M&S brand!

According to the guy who posted it makes two very thick 12 inch pizza bases. Would like to scale down to a thin 7 inch but no idea where to start.

Any ideas? Thanks.
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That does seem like a lot of scratching, even for those of us full of the love for scratching!

Just a comment; the scratching I am buying here are fried pros rinds, and in terms of texture, much, much more like pork crunch, than crackling, so a much drier initial product.

I'm obviously sampling many different options here, but thus far, the fresh cooked variant, from the night market just across the road are best. They're just in a polythene bag, sealed, full of air, by a rubber band, yenthey keep for days, and even a Day or so when opened. Not that the last part has been tooooo rigorously tested, you understand.
 
zauberflote said:
@Goonergal ‘s cheesy skillet bread from her CMT. It was too wet for my taste, too spoonbread-y. I’ll work on it because it has definite potential!
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Interesting. Mine wasn’t wet at all. Let me know if you improve the recipe though. I have my eyes on some cheesey scones that someone posted on here.
 
DJC3 said:
Sadly that’s not the case in my house
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I have a feeling that may not be due to rancid oils or green mould on it though.

I hear evaporation is rife in Cornwall and in London.

You'd think things would be better in the big smoke? ;)
 
Not sure if there are any Nutella fans on here, but if there are, this recipe is highly recommended! We made a batch last night and had some with our vanilla chia pudding this morning. It's not as sickly and sweet as Nutella. The hazelnut flavour really comes through. I used avocado oil because I'd run out of coconut oil. It is amazing! I always preferred the more expensive hazelnut chocolate spreads without all the rubbish in and this is much more like those. The only problem is that it's a really small batch and will not last long at all in this house!

https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/homemade-low-carb-chocolate-hazelnut-spread/
 
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BibaBee said:
Not sure if there are any Nutella fans on here, but if there are, this recipe is highly recommended! We made a batch last night and had some with our vanilla chia pudding this morning. It's not as sickly and sweet as Nutella. The hazelnut flavour really comes through. I used avocado oil because I'd run out of coconut oil. It is amazing! I always preferred the more expensive hazelnut chocolate spreads without all the rubbish in and this is much more like those. The only problem is that it's a really small batch and will not last long at all in this house!

https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/homemade-low-carb-chocolate-hazelnut-spread/
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I find alldayidreamaboutfood's recipes and flavours to be pretty good. My reckoning is her recipes are well tested, a bit like twosleevers.com, where she sometimes asks her Facebook group to test a recipe she has built, and to give feedback.
 
@BibaBee I’ve saved the nutella recipe, thank you, I love Nutella. I wonder if it’ll be subject to the same ‘evaporation’ that I find with almond butter though
 
Goonergal said:
Evening all.

Bet the bacon and eggs tasted good @Chook the slow roast lamb sounds delicious.

@DJC3 the egg story made me laugh. I once came home from work to find one of the rings on the (gas) hob had been on all day. Luckily no damage done.

Having got up early enough to bake, cool and refrigerate a chocolate olive oil cake for a colleague’s birthday do tomorrow before leaving home for work at 6.30am, am now feeling a little tired.

Lunch today was Nando’s. 2 plain legs.

Dinner was pan fried Dover sole with lemon butter sauce followed by my new addiction - whipped creamy cheese, cream and cocoa mousse. With a blob of extra thick double cream on top.

Some chocolate almond squares are currently in the fridge firming up. Most of those will need to be frozen to keep them out of temptation’s way.
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Ooh the creamy cheese, cream and cocoa sounds lovely...please do share as I'm getting fed up with sugar free jelly all the time
 
AngiH said:
Ooh the creamy cheese, cream and cocoa sounds lovely...please do share as I'm getting fed up with sugar free jelly all the time
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@AngiH its really simple. For 1 large (or 2 small portions) I put 35g M&S whipped creamy cheese (it’s the lowest carb cream cheese I’ve found and delicious) with 70ml double cream, 7g Lidl cocoa (again lowest carb I’ve found) and a teaspoon of erythritol. Blend until thick and transfer to a ramekin. Delicious but it’s really not sweet. If you like things sweet you’ll need to adjust the sweetener. Enjoy.
 
Goonergal said:
@AngiH its really simple. For 1 large (or 2 small portions) I put 35g M&S whipped creamy cheese (it’s the lowest carb cream cheese I’ve found and delicious) with 70ml double cream, 7g Lidl cocoa (again lowest carb I’ve found) and a teaspoon of erythritol. Blend until thick and transfer to a ramekin. Delicious but it’s really not sweet. If you like things sweet you’ll need to adjust the sweetener. Enjoy.
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Ooh thank you so much, I will pop to m&s food to get the whipped cream cheese. Mmm hungry now
 
Goonergal said:
@AngiH its really simple. For 1 large (or 2 small portions) I put 35g M&S whipped creamy cheese (it’s the lowest carb cream cheese I’ve found and delicious) with 70ml double cream, 7g Lidl cocoa (again lowest carb I’ve found) and a teaspoon of erythritol. Blend until thick and transfer to a ramekin. Delicious but it’s really not sweet. If you like things sweet you’ll need to adjust the sweetener. Enjoy.
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I've got some of the whipped cheese in the fridge. I'm now having wicked thoughts about this mixed with the LC Nutella! :hungry:
 
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