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Thanks for the New Year wishes @Chook @Annb @annabell1

Posting now as the chances of me making it anywhere close to midnight are zero. Whoever thought it was a good idea to go swimming for the first time in months at 7am this morning, when both tired and hungry?!

Was then thwarted by a lack of rotisserie chicken in M&S so have thus far eaten an unhealthy combination of cheese portions, Awfully Posh pork crackling, cream, almond butter and kind bars.

Dinner will be whatever I have the energy to prepare from the fridge. Bacon wrapped halloumi or bacon and eggs are looking most likely at the moment.

Happy New Year to all!
 
Monday 30 December - bed 4.8 FBG 5.4. Got another day in. Glad to read that @annabell1 and @Tipetoo are both safe. @Tipetoo - many thanks for that fire map. I got in touch with my SIL this morning as another one had sprung up near them but she said it's about 30 mins away (that doesn't sound far to me) but the wind is blowing the other way. She did say this is the worst she has ever seen. @Quinn1066 - are you also safe from the fires?
@Chook - I hope you survive the next few days. I remember your posts when you woke up with the dogs staring at you. It was almost hypnotic! Have you considered sending the relatives out to eat?
SIL said they had a quiet time at Christmas what with FIL funeral 2 days before. I think I mentioned my one surviving brother went to their daughter's in Manchester this year as her MIL had taken a turn for the worse. Unfortunately, she died on Christmas Day. Never a good day for a family death but Christmas has to be close to the worst.
B. TAG with ADOC. Skinny bread with Dairylea.
L. Nothing
D. Hubby decided he wanted steak pie so I had it minus the pie so I guess it was stew! Served with sprouts and veggie chips. The last LC creme brulee with raspberries and blackberries.
Surprisingly, I've stayed off the LC Baileys. That may change!
 
Today 31 December - Hogmanay. Bed 6.6 FBG 5.8. I'm not keen on the year end. Always feel it's tinged with sadness. I've always felt this way. We're off out tonight. I still prefer to go out as my brother always came through at New Year. His daughter feels the same so she went off to Thailand after Christmas with friends. We're off to the Eskmills Venue - same as last year. Son's band is playing (they're a regular fixture for this firms party nights now). It's on until 2am but we're coming home at 12.30am as we're restricted by taxis and the fact we get tired. It was a good night last year though.
B. TAG with ADOC.
L. Had to nip out to take car seats to son as he was going with his friend & his kids to the trampoline centre for them to burn off energy. On return I had 4 chipolatas and a fried egg.
D. Will add it tomorrow as the other great thing about this venue is they adjust the meal to suit my LC eating. They did a brilliant job last year so I'm sure this year's will be just as good.

Can I wish everyone a very Happy and prosperous New Year and going back to Granny "Lang may yer lum reek" which is an odd way of saying may your chimney smoke a long time - it's a way of wishing you a long and healthy life.

Happy 2020 everyone xx
 
maglil55 said:
Monday 30 December - bed 4.8 FBG 5.4. Got another day in. Glad to read that @annabell1 and @Tipetoo are both safe. @Tipetoo - many thanks for that fire map. I got in touch with my SIL this morning as another one had sprung up near them but she said it's about 30 mins away (that doesn't sound far to me) but the wind is blowing the other way. She did say this is the worst she has ever seen. @Quinn1066 - are you also safe from the fires?
@Chook - I hope you survive the next few days. I remember your posts when you woke up with the dogs staring at you. It was almost hypnotic! Have you considered sending the relatives out to eat?
SIL said they had a quiet time at Christmas what with FIL funeral 2 days before. I think I mentioned my one surviving brother went to their daughter's in Manchester this year as her MIL had taken a turn for the worse. Unfortunately, she died on Christmas Day. Never a good day for a family death but Christmas has to be close to the worst.
B. TAG with ADOC. Skinny bread with Dairylea.
L. Nothing
D. Hubby decided he wanted steak pie so I had it minus the pie so I guess it was stew! Served with sprouts and veggie chips. The last LC creme brulee with raspberries and blackberries.
Surprisingly, I've stayed off the LC Baileys. That may change!
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Good idea!! Why didn't I think of that. Menu now changed to incorporate two evening meals and one breakfast out. :playful:

My BIL is very weird. He met the woman he calls his wife on an online game. He was in UK and she was in US. There was a bit of surreptitious trans Atlantic naughtiness for a couple of years before he abandoned his wife and daughter to live in a friend's spare room. He then went to America on a short term visa to live with 'Ms. Wargame' - that was 4 or 5 years ago. He's probably right that there would be legal issues if he tried leaving the US and even if he did manage to get out the US immigration certainly wouldn't let him return to the US.
 
Hi Everyone, and thanks for all the new year best wishes. Back at ya!

This morning was a vile scram egg bacon combo in cafe in covered market in local town centre.
Mr B has discovered a fab brekkie place in the covered market, and was salivating at the thought of introducing me to it.
I was too.

unfortunately, when we got there, turns out its shut til 6th Jan.

so we tried the cafe round the corner.
:eek: Ohdearohdearohdear.

I asked for scrambled eggs and bacon, without any toast.
Watched her write it down, and we paid.

I got, two slices of white toast smeared with cart axel grease marge with a small amount of slightly stirred white and yellow rubbery marbled egg on top, done in micro (cos heard them shout across the kitchen about how it was cooked ages ago, and might need another zap) :hilarious:
Had to tip the eggs off and pass the soggy toast to Mr B.
His sausages were excellent, he says, but the rest was v disappointing too.

oh well, some places you just don’t go back, do you?

L: smoked salmon

D: will be sausages (Mr B is back at work, so he won’t be getting them twice :D
 
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Oh @annabell1 - that is horrible. Please keep safe!

My last post before having a little break (planned this time). The Mr C's offspring from Kent are coming to stay for a few days. Wish me luck! Two of them are having to sleep on sofas in the lounge - I hope they like dogs. Last time I slept in the same roof as all three dogs I was woken up multiple times by cold wet noses touching me and the middle one just stands there staring for hours.

I'm trying to work out a menu for the four days that my visitors have said they are staying that incorporates low calorie, low fat, salt free, vegetarian, low carb, no gluten and no nightshade vegetables.:banghead: TBH, its me thats the really awkward one.

Anyway.... I don't know if its the sunny weather or my avoidance of all things nightshade and gluten but my joints are feeling a lot better today. We took the Christmas decorations down this morning, had a bit of a spring clean before the visitors turn up tomorrow, so the house is all back to normal for a few hours. I really love the decorations when they first go up but my love affair with them lessens each day until I'm glad to see the back of them for another year.

These are yesterday's and today's menus:

Yesterday:
B: 100% mozzarella chaffle with almond butter
L: A few small chunks of various cheeses (in an effort to reduce the cheese mountain in my fridge)
D: A huge salad with cider vinegar and EVOO dressing with cubes of cheese and chopped up Quorn cocktail sausages (don't think I'll bother with those again)

Drinks: Coffee with caffeine at breakfast then water the rest of the day with a glass or two of Christmas red wine (along with the cheese I've also got my own personal Christmas wine lake - which will come in handy over the next few days)

Today:
B: Half cheddar / half mozzarella chaffle with a few baked beans and a couple of fried eggs
L; Four small chunks of a variety of cheeses - the only one I didn't like is a smoked one
D: Crustless quiche with salad - I've made the quiche with a hard goats cheese and roasted garlic cloves and small roasted butternut squash chunks - Mr C thinks its a bit strange to make quiche without a crust but I said I've doubled the filling to make up for it. :smug:

Drinks: Decaff coffee until lunchtime, plenty of water and a glass or two of red with dinner - then probably Prosecco to toast the New Year in.
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Thinking of you over the next few difficult days the wine lake may well help to combat the stress take care of yourself and try and take some time out for yourself - preferably without the middledog staring at you - sounds spooky!!!
 
Wishing all on the forum reading my post a very healthy and happy new year. New year here in Bewdley seems to have arrived early as, as I’m typing this, fireworks are already going off and dogs are barking!
Thank you all for your happy new year wishes and hope I’ve managed to catch @Goonergal before she goes to bed!! For the probably only time ever I’ll be awake before you @Goonergal tomorrow as I always stay up on new year until at least 12.30!! I know I’m a lightweight but working on my rest and recuperation still......had to say no to a friends new year party we usually go to as I’m still in recovery - but getting there. Had a long walk this morning in the forest in the drizzle but loved it and did mindfulness this afternoon seeing my usual almost whole point drop in my bgs after a 20 min session!shows just how closely my stress levels reflect in my bgs.
Breakfast coffee with frothed lactofree whole milk
Lunch hm veggie soup with lc cheese scone
Mid pm half freshly cooked lc chaffle with pretend maple syrup and cream
Dinner half bottle of cremant ( well a glass to date - rest later!), beef curry with other half of chaffle as a substitute naan.
Later planning coffee with cream, a slice of hc choc log and home made lc baileys to toast new year when cremant finished!
 
shelley262 said:
Thinking of you over the next few difficult days the wine lake may well help to combat the stress take care of yourself and try and take some time out for yourself - preferably without the middledog staring at you - sounds spooky!!!
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LOL - no, he's not spooky - just very, very loving. His hope is (I think) that staring at me will wake me up and he'll get the cuddles he craves. Its the youngest dog that's a bit spooky.
 
Chook said:
LOL - no, he's not spooky - just very, very loving. His hope is (I think) that staring at me will wake me up and he'll get the cuddles he craves. Its the youngest dog that's a bit spooky.
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I used to have a wicked cat who used to wake me up by putting a claw up my nose if I slept facing the side of the Bed! I learnt to sleep under the duvet facing the middle of the bed!!!
 
maglil55 said:
. @Tipetoo - many thanks for that fire map. I got in touch with my SIL this morning as another one had sprung up near them but she said it's about 30 mins away (that doesn't sound far to me) but the wind is blowing the other way. She did say this is the worst she has ever seen.
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You're welcome, we will be flying back to Bundaberg tomorrow (Thurs) so we might catch a glimpse of the smoke as we come back from Geraldton in West Australia.

Edit: Typo.
 
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@maglil55 yes I am safe from the fires, there were a few on Tuesday when it was the 40 degree celsius day, but nothing near me.

Yesterday 31/12/19
Breakfast: Usual low carb porridge, 100g greek yoghurt
Lunch: 122g celery, 66g tuna in spring water, 50g saurkraut, 34g cheese
Dinner: 250g turkey mince burgers (lean turkey mince), 256g broccoli.
 
B: Scrambled egg, 1/2 avocado, 50g smoked salmon.
L: late DGF Strawberry&cream blondie with a large dollop of clotted cream
D: Home cooked ham, salad and olive oil. Champagne.
There will most likely be a bit more champagne later
Happy New Year to everyone here, may it be peaceful, healthy and fulfilling.
 
DJC3 said:
B: Scrambled egg, 1/2 avocado, 50g smoked salmon.
L: late DGF Strawberry&cream blondie with a large dollop of clotted cream
D: Home cooked ham, salad and olive oil. Champagne.
There will most likely be a bit more champagne later
Happy New Year to everyone here, may it be peaceful, healthy and fulfilling.
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How much cream did you make DJC3? I hope your supplies aren't running low yet.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Late lunch after swimming: Greek yoghurt, coffee chia pudding and LC chocolate granola.
Late afternoon: birthday cake phd bar.
Dinner: last of the left overs, pigs in blankets, Babybels spread with paté, coleslaw, leafy salad and pork scratchings followed by my last portion of LC Christmas pudding with cream :hungry:
I shall be having some bubbly at midnight, my one and only drink of the year with some nuts if I feel peckish!

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Hello all,

First of all, happy New Year to everyone on this thread.

In twenty minutes, I will be watching "Dinner for one", a German New Year's eve tradition -- remember watching it even as a kid.
(Btw, it is a British sketch -- so apart from the German introduction, it's in English, here's a link, if anyone is interested https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/Dinner-for-One-Das-Original,dinnerforone191.html)

Right now the cat is cuddling up with me, but as soon as the fireworks start, she'll be hiding in the back of the closet. Poor pets, glad this is only once a year.

@Tipetoo, @annabell1, @Quinn1066 -- Glad you're all safe from the fires, but still sounds pretty scary. Keeping my fingers crossed for some good rain.

OMAD again today ...

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and erythritol.

Lunch: Nothing.

Dinner: Fondue Bourguingnonne (chicken, calf) with six different homemade sauces (sate, tsatziki, honey mustard, chili-lime mayonnaise, cheese-butter with truffle, and ketchup-barbeque with tomato, bellpepper, onion). Also cornichons, baby corns (surprised they are only 5g of carbs per 100g) and some olives. 20g of 85% chocolate. Plenty of red wine.

Will be opening some pink sparkling wine for midnight.
 
maglil55 said:
Can I wish everyone a very Happy and prosperous New Year and going back to Granny "Lang may yer lum reek" which is an odd way of saying may your chimney smoke a long time - it's a way of wishing you a long and healthy life.

Happy 2020 everyone xx
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Lang may yer lum reek - wi' someone else's coal! That was the saying down in Ayrshire - at least among my husband's family. Maybe they're just a tight fisted lot.:wacky:
 
ziggy_w said:
Hello all,

First of all, happy New Year to everyone on this thread.

In twenty minutes, I will be watching "Dinner for one", a German New Year's eve tradition -- remember watching it even as a kid.
(Btw, it is a British sketch -- so apart from the German introduction, it's in English, here's a link, if anyone is interested https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/Dinner-for-One-Das-Original,dinnerforone191.html)

Right now the cat is cuddling up with me, but as soon as the fireworks start, she'll be hiding in the back of the closet. Poor pets, glad this is only once a year.

@Tipetoo, @annabell1, @Quinn1066 -- Glad you're all safe from the fires, but still sounds pretty scary. Keeping my fingers crossed for some good rain.

OMAD again today ...

Breakfast: Two double decaffeinated espressos with cream and erythritol.

Lunch: Nothing.

Dinner: Fondue Bourguingnonne (chicken, calf) with six different homemade sauces (sate, tsatziki, honey mustard, chili-lime mayonnaise, cheese-butter with truffle, and ketchup-barbeque with tomato, bellpepper, onion). Also cornichons, baby corns (surprised they are only 5g of carbs per 100g) and some olives. 20g of 85% chocolate. Plenty of red wine.

Will be opening some pink sparkling wine for midnight.
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Big thank you from me and OH for link to dinner for one itsamazing - what a classic funny too that it’s cult watching in Germany I’d never seen it but heard of it and Freddie Flintoff great comedy actor. Thank you and HappyNew year x
Edit just researched it and gather it’s also popular in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and some Scandinavian countries as well as South Africa.
 
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i fell of the wagon today had -

2 mars bars, 2 cunchies, 1l of coke , 4 mr kipling cherry cakes and a packet of poppables, 30 mini sauage rolls.

to balance it out i had some chicken with salad.

oh well, at least it can only get better in the new year :)
 
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