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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

No B - it's the rules innit; Lunch = costa almond milk latte; Evening - rotisserie chicken, lettuce,cucumber, coleslaw, avocado and haloumi fries (Halum's Milky). Plenty of Twam and another foray to the place where The Fens meets Breckland Little America that place - very,very well protected by Uncle Sam.
Low carb and low cal but busy bees today. If'n I can think of something I actually want to eat I may have something before beddybyes.
 
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DJC3 said:
Brilliant thanks. Have saved to my CMT now.
Have you ever made it with anything other than Chinese cabbage? The farm shop down the road doesn’t sell that sort of exotic veg (though I’m sure a trip to Asda would reveal it. )
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DJC3 - Napa cabbage or bok choy should work for the Kimchi. Our no-horse town ASDA always has bok choy and most often also napa cabbage. I hope you find the same.
 
Morning all. Seriously behind forum-wise but just caught up with the last few days of menus and food chat.

@zauberflote sorry about the kidney issues.

@Brunneria drooling remotely over your lamb chops and the carnivore + profiteroles way of eating sounds perfect!

@DCUKMod @maglil55 @DJC3 looking forward to finding that new thread you speak of

@Rachox and @shelley262 you are too kind to your offspring. I don’t recall ANY parental assistance with the cleaning of student digs.

@Chook nothing to add to the excellent Waitrose suggestions already mentioned, but their short rib and oxtail are delicious, as are the Free Range Cumberland sausages. The Awfully Posh Pork Crackling is also great and additive free - just pork and salt. Enjoy.

Getting back on track food wise myself. Had a few days of eating waaay too much - all very low carb, but extreme quantities. Last couple of days much more normal, although with more veg than normal as at my dad’s.

Thursday was lunch of beef short rib with dinner of M&S Serrano ham and manchego cheese rollitos, pork crackling and some cheese on the train.

Yesterday was lunch of bacon and eggs with a 30g pack of almonds. Dinner was roast lamb with garlic and rosemary, cauliflower cheese and a small dessert of almond butter (a partial jar left behind at Christmas was still in the cupboard). Snack of 20g Waitrose 90% chocolate - also left behind at Christmas and undiscovered by my dad!
 
DJC3 said:
Brilliant thanks. Have saved to my CMT now.
Have you ever made it with anything other than Chinese cabbage? The farm shop down the road doesn’t sell that sort of exotic veg (though I’m sure a trip to Asda would reveal it. )
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A nice white cabbage will do the trick - just keep testing after salting for an hour to ensure that the leaves and the centre bits have fully softened up.
 
Morning all. After all the time traveling that has been going on this month, my head hit the pillow at 2100 and, after a few misfires during the night, bounced off it at 0830.
Yesterday;
Breakfast at Düsseldorf flughafen - bacon and eggs with a teeny tomato and some green fluffy stuff as garnish.
Lunch at home; a 90 sec microwave bun with egg mayo topping - I used a “chia egg” substitute for the egg in the 90 sec bread and although it was OK on the plate and to eat, it did not look very appetising and also the bun did not rise so could not be sliced - may have to do a trial using ground flax seeds (a fleg?) - or just stick to an egg.
Dinner; baked cod, celeriac chips and a spicy sriracha mayo dip.
 
I have found protein low carb rolls for toasting at Aldi. Bliss - they taste good too, a little nutty bite to them. Had one with scrambled eggs and blue cheese for breakfast.
 
Thanks for all the Waitrose suggestions. I have just got back home and we were both impressed with the store and especially the layout. I took your advice and got some Livlife bread, cubed frozen celeriac, short ribs, oxtail, tinned sardines in olive oil, mackerel in olive oil, tuna in olive oil. We got a nice selection in a bbq three for £10 offer and Mr C got some carbiferous stuff just for him including Elderflower hot cross buns which he's teasing me with cos he knows I love anything with elderflower in it.

Today....

Breakfast: M&S Arbroath smoked kippers (gorgeous) and cream and butter scrambled eggs
Lunch: tiny bit of Mr C's extra mature cheddar cheese (bit too mature for me) :***:
Dinner: Slow roast brisket, sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, with small amounts of carrots and parsnips -and possibly a Yorkshire Pudding depending on what my BGs are like at the time
Dessert: if needed will be strawberries and extra thick double cream
Drinks: black decaff coffee, still spring water and red wine
 
ianpspurs said:
Nothing to eat until 4.30 - busy being Marie Kondo then to the dentist to learn I need a crown (bargain price - nottt) but no treatment today. Back to more Kondo madness - there is a reason which will become clear. @4.30 I was ready to eat my own fingers but hacked off some Chorizo and had 1 poppadom before walking the dogs. Evening meal was 3 W1 Linconshire sausages and some venison pigs in blankets cooked from frozen in the IP with added mixed herbs, Worcestershire sauce and liquid smoke. Still very hungry so had about 40 gms cheddar and 1,6 rows of Green and Blacks Raspberry and Hazelnut. Right or wrong Chronometer scores that almost spot on 20 gms carb. Finally, how many times must I tell ya - I don't wear makeup on Thursday.
Edit: The low carb/cal largely driven by dentist timing and lingering issues similar to @Tipetoo who has my great sympathy.
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The Marie Kondo interests me. Do tell. I am not one of the " does this give me joy" cult but I do confess to using her folding method - it make so much sense.
 
Chook said:
You get used to it - I've been doing this for 20+ years. It used to be easy when we did it all in one place but now we've got a huge list of things we like from different shops.

I do the big monthly shop for household stuff, toiletries, meat, tinned goods, food cupboard stuff, fish, dog stuff (lots of that) and frozen stuff. I also get things like cheeses, yoghurt, butter, lard and anything we regularly eat that has a long use by date. Also my husband has a pre-work meal and we buy the ingredients for those and will spend 2-3 hours in the kitchen on Saturday making those meals up and freezing in portions.

Each week we do a quick top up vegetable, eggs and dairy shop.

Its supposed to save us money - it doesn't!!
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I can relate to this. Just had a delivery from Morrisons but still ended up in Morrisons yesterday morning after physio just to buy the things you cant get on delivery - market street stuff fresh fish, butcher meat, deli counter etc. On top I go to Tesco for things Morrisons dont have, Sainbury's, M&S as grandson likes the plant kitchen veggie stuff and even Adsa as they have some items no one else has!
The "odder" things I get online from multiple locations. As you say, very different to a pre diabetic life.
 
Catch up time again. Been kind of busy as my downstairs (open plan) was a bit upsides down waiting for the mechanic. Thursday - a successful day for recovering school clothing. A less successful day on the BG front. Bed 8.2 FBG 7.3. Still got no idea what is causing these higher readings.
B. TAG with ADOC. Slice Tesco high protein bread toasted with pate.
L. Found Hotel Chocolate 100% buttons - ate 6 of them!
D. Boys wanted mince so I ended up also having mince with 5 slices of carrot, onion, green beans, peas and cauliflower mash.
Friday - bed on a more sensible 6.4 but FBG 7.4 followed by the DP surge. Got a libre on now to track this.
B. TAG with ADOC and another Tesco high protein bread and pate.
L. 4 slices mortadella while putting together food for both grandsons (1/2 day Friday).
D. Tesco vintage cheese burger, lettuce, mini plum tomato, small avocado, mayonnaise, 1 mushroom, veggie chips, 1 slice cheddar.
2 squares G&B mint.
Today - Saturday bed 7.8 FBG 7.6 but still with a surge.
B. TAG with ADOC. No time for anything else. Yesterday after my trip to the physio, I mentioned I'd nipped into Morrisons on the way back so was rejigging the fridge to fit everything in. Grandson arrived (No 1 didnt want to go to school craft fair - Mum & Dad roped into manning stalls). Morrisons order arrived same time. Then mechanic phoned to say he had a cancellation did I want him to come to look at washing machine? Guess the answer. 1 hour later he was there too.
L. Much later. Grandson back home, shopping away, machine fixed (Yay!) - 2 Morrisons pork, tomato and mozzarella sausages (really tasty). 2 rashers crispy streaky bacon, 1 mushroom, fried egg.
D. Will be cold cuts, ox tongue, roast pork, chicken breast slice, veggie chips, coleslaw, lettuce, mini plum tomato, mini avocado, helmans.
6 HC 100% buttons.
Hope you're recovering shelley262. It's another nice day again here but they say it will get cooler. I did manage to get a washing out and dried. Now on a cleaning cycle.
 
Gorgeous windy day here. I was shaking out a bedspread on the lawn, and the whole thing lifted right up and flew off my hands as though I were the flagpole and it the sideways ginormous flag. Need a kite!
BGs up still. Ugh!
Bfast remaining scrip scraps of broccoli, "mini-flaxabix"-- I just looked up weetabix and these actually are square-cornered mini lookalikes!, doused with olive oil.
Lunch was supposed to be liquid but I'm having a fatigue reaction so sitting here with the almond butter and a spoon...
Supper butter chicken in slow cooker so I'd better git crackin!!
 
Early start, gave up trying to sleep by 6am when the hailstorm hit us. Breakfast with the granddaughter who’d bunked in with me was scrambled egg and smoked salmon. CWC x2 and TWAM

Went out with family and dogs to the beautiful Trewithen gardens and had lunch in their ‘Tea shed’ all homemade and locally sourced stuff but fairly carby. I had a ploughmans with salad instead of bread - a great deal of cheese! 2 cups black coffee

Started to feel quite ill on the way home this afternoon, probably a combo of sleepless night, too much cheese and warm car filled with stinky dog breath. Feeling much better now I’m home and after some peppermint tea. Will stick to tea this evening I think. No more food today.

@zauberflote enjoy that almond butter after all your activity recently - well deserved.
@maglil55 glad you got everything sorted, especially your washing machine.
@Chook Waitrose is great isn’t it? I miss it here, it’s much further away.

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Evenin’ All,

A lovely late start, with an Aldi’s nut bar as a DP flattener.
L: bacon and egg
S: a slice of bought raspberry cheesecake. Mr B brought it back from a coffee run. Dear numpty. He was so proud he had remembered to ask for gluten free, that he had forgotten completely about the SUGAR. Anyway, I ate the cheesey bit, and left the base - and was astonished that my bg rose by only about 1mmol/l (thanks Libre!)
D: lamb shanks (2 small) in red wine, rosemary, bay, garlic.

And I spent the afternoon baking. The 2nd half of the Dr Almond profiterole mix, which made 27 small blobs this time.
Thats 27 of the little bundles of ecstacy.
2/3rds of them went into freezer. Mr B had one with cream and strawberry jam. I kid you not. :rolleyes:
While mine had the traditional (LC) choc sauce, of course.

Also made a loaf of Dr A’s bread, for Mr B’s pack ups.
 
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Brunneria said:
Evenin’ All,

A lovely late start, with an Aldi’s nut bar as a DP flattener.
L: bacon and egg
S: a slice of bought raspberry cheesecake. Mr B brought it back from a coffee run. Dear numpty. He was so proud he had remembered to ask for gluten free, that he had forgotten completely about the SUGAR. Anyway, I ate the cheesey bit, and left the base - and was astonished that my bg rose by only about 1mmol/l (thanks Libre!)
D: lamb shanks (2 small) in red wine, rosemary, bay, garlic.

And I spent the afternoon baking. The 2nd half of the Dr Almond profiterole mix, which made 27 small blobs this time.
Thats 27 of the little bundles of ecstacy.
2/3rds of them went into freezer. Mr B had one with cream and strawberry jam. I kid you not. :rolleyes:
While mine had the traditional (LC) choc sauce, of course.

Also made a loaf of Dr A’s bread, for Mr B’s pack ups.
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What is the carb content of Aldi’s nut bar? Is it worth searching out?
Great result after the cheesecake - bet you were nervous doing the pricking.
 
Hi all
Wow - nearly blown away today! Its thankfully now calming down but a lot colder.
Breakfast bacon and egg
Lunch bits of cheese, handful of nuts, and four squares montezumas 100%.
Dinner beef curry on bed of mushrooms with couple of glasses of fizz followed by LC,but felt very naughty, pud of last slither of last of this bitof lc choc cake, scoop of oppo vanilla ice cream, and splodge of double cream wonderful..... now about to catch up with line of duty.
My yucky cold is on the way out but not quite there yet - hoping it will be gone on Monday when head north to bonnie Scotland @maglil55 will wave as go past Edinburgh on way to Dundee!
 
DJC3 said:
What is the carb content of Aldi’s nut bar? Is it worth searching out?
Great result after the cheesecake - bet you were nervous doing the pricking.
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They are about 7g carbs, I think. They do a few flavours. The vanilla is pretty sickly. The dark choc is bland. And the peanut butter one is the best.

Really fortunate that the cheesecake was un-sweet. :D

Rather an un-carnivore day. :)
 
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