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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Hi @maglil55 - yes, the right hand one is Jack. He is still a monster dog but only when Mr C is here. If its just me then he behaves himself (mostly).

I'm back from my weekend away - we buried MIL's ashes next to FIL's on Saturday in what must be the windiest and coldest churchyard in the UK. The food at SIL's was every bit as anticipated - she cooked a steamed suet bacon and leek pudding on Friday evening and a rib-sticking steak and kidney pie with a suet crust for Saturday lunch. Other meals were bacon or meat sandwiches. I just ate whatever veg she cooked and Mr C took my servings of the pudding and pie. I really can't expect anyone to remember that I don't eat carbs, that I'm veggie and am trying to avoid gluten but wished I'd remembered to take my own food.:bigtears: Luckily at supper time on Saturday she cooked beans on toast with fried eggs. I was so hungry that I'm ashamed to say I ate the whole thing - toast and all!

I've also come back with a right hand that either has pins and needles or goes number in rotation and only feels okay if I shake it hard then hold it down by my side. No..... I've got no idea either. If its still like it in a week I think I will have to take it to show the doctor which regulars here will know I really hate to do but this is a tiny village with only the one GP's surgery.

Today....

Bed time last night: 10.4 (shortly after the baked beans and eggs on toast
FBG this morning: 6.9
No Breakfast
Late brunch / early lunch after getting home (BG was 6.4): Chaffle, 2 eggs, 100g baked beans and mushrooms
2 hours later 6.4

Dinner will be from Deliciously Ella - butterbeans and wilted spinach with home made pesto - I'm halving the amount of butterbeans given in the recipe and doubling the spinach.

Drinks: Usual black decaff for breakfast and brunch and then plain water the rest of the day. Only five days left of my dry January (late start) - not sure what I'll do when Friday comes round as, after the first weekend, I haven't missed it but Mr C has - but then it was his mother we buried. Well done him for not giving in to the offers of whisky, brandy and rum from my semi-alcoholic BIL (OMG that man can chug it back).
 
ianpspurs said:
Liked the sound of the pork (not chop) and cabbage BUT - followed the link. 900/6 = 150 gms? That pork chop looks much bigger (really small/tea plate in photo?) and just how much cream, cream cheese and sour cream is in that casserole?. I notice the macros are similar to the Tuna dish. It seems I have so much work to do on my tastes to achieve what others have - seemingly all eating keto. It is quite depressing. I'm not trying to be querulous I am just utterly bewildered by this keto stuff. What is the cabbage even doing there, surely it would be best to just go carni if that is a veg option?
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@ianpspurs - I'm with you on this, I don't enjoy cream, cream cheese, sour cream or anything like that in savoury cooking. I'm not really keen on it on desserts and really don't like it in tea or coffee.

Green cabbage is alright in moderation but can't say I liked it every day which was the recommended menu when I did the DD challenge 2-3 years ago. I do like red cabbage though - but not every day.
 
Just about to watch rugby then Spurs hoping today will be an OMAD. Tea with almond milk and inulin 2 x 800 mls, tea with no inulin 2 x 1 pint, lacto free whole milk hazelnut latte from Nespresso. 240+ gms gammon (IP did a good job of that at Christmas ) and highly adapted DD cabbage casserole. I felt the cabbage was fine but Julie was not at all keen.

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ianpspurs said:
Forget the name I am interested in the practicality. Garlic mayo probably a swap I would make. If I chose to have that as an OMAD would it be suggested I had a 1 or 2 serving size? I had a very unhelpful experience with the "personalised" DD mealplan. Once we move and the dust settles I would like to try again but some of the suggested portions are ridiculous - small to non existent - let alone requiring me to set aside all kinds of taste objections.
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I think the idea is to eat until you’ve had enough, not worry about the proposed portion sizes. I just assume they are a general guide. It’s not likely a 5ft x 7st woman would eat the same as a 6ft x 14st man so go by your appetite.
Shame the personalised plan was a bit rubbish, it’s easy to make your own meal plans on the website though. Hope your next foray is more successful.
 
I dont weigh or measure meat fish or veg. I know now if its too much. I go to the butcher and point to the lamb chump chops I want or buy 400g mince which yields 3 meals (chilli, Bolognese, Keema, ) I freeze one portion unless Mr PM is especially hungry and it gets used up. I dont go for cream dont like the stuff but dont mind Fage yogurt with a curry. Veg is usually served plain or with a little butter. Salad is however much I want. But thats just me.
Today’s intake was usual breakfast of LL toast, butter, tea x2.
Lunch out with No 2 son and GF was lots of sliced avocado on small slice of brown toast topped with red peppers from a jar and capers and lemon. Surprisingly lovely but I was t brave enough to check bg after or indeed restrained enough to leave the toast. There may be trouble ahead!
This evening when !r PM is back we spatchcock chicken with Sunblush tomato and Parmesan and brocolli. There may be a G&ST involved, or two ;).
 
Evening all. A rare lazy day today - felt very indulgent not to even shower until gone noon. Then a trip to Waitrose for a couple of things wound up with yet another game of freezer Tetris fitting in the on offer short rib, wild Alaskan salmon and assorted other items.

@Antje77 you’ll have to come to London if you want one of the fish plates :D
@PenguinMum I refuse to drink Diet Coke unless I can see the bottle or can it comes out of.
@Chook I’d get that hand looked at sooner rather than later.

Breakfast was a couple of fried eggs and some bacon lardons that needed using up, with a sprinkling of herbes de Provence. Editing to add the piece of crunchy Red Leicester cheese that followed. Quite addictive.

Dinner - finally mastered pressure cooking beef short ribs in the IP. Added some bone marrow. Yum.

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Chook said:
Hi @maglil55 -

I've also come back with a right hand that either has pins and needles or goes number in rotation and only feels okay if I shake it hard then hold it down by my side. No..... I've got no idea either. If its still like it in a week I think I will have to take it to show the doctor which regulars here will know I really hate to do but this is a tiny village with only the one GP's surgery.
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I have the same problem (what doesn't she have, I hear you ask). It affects both hands from time to time. Dr says it's probably carpal tunnel syndrome. It can be very annoying, but usually only happens when I am at rest. I still think it may be something to do with diabetes; or circulation. Happening right now, in fact, but only mildly so I can keep typing.

Breakfast today was bacon, egg and tomato with tea, of course.
Dinner was at 5 pm (gives me longer before the next meal tomorrow). It was spicy lamb with vegetables - cauliflower, onion and red, green and yellow peppers. Cooked it for about 3 hours to make the lamb shoulder tender. It looks like a lot on the plate, but it is only one of my smaller plates (used to be called a dessert plate) and I only had about two thirds of it - I was very full at that point.

I do have a dinner set with largish plates - we bought it in Japan along with a tea set, in 1965 (my goodness, that's about 54 years ago!) but it doesn't get used because everyone is afraid of damaging it. Waste of money that. I can't dispose of my mother's/grandmother's/mother-in-law's/grandmother-in-law's crockery either. Those plates are all pretty big. So I use an odd assortment of plates bought from charity shops - gives plenty of variety and I like old plates. Grandparents' dishes are all around 100 to 130 years old, can't use those, or, it seems my own ones.
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Goonergal said:
Breakfast was a couple of fried eggs and some bacon lardons that needed using up, with a sprinkling of herbes de Provence. Editing to add the piece of crunchy Red Leicester cheese that followed. Quite addictive.

Dinner - finally mastered pressure cooking beef short ribs in the IP. Added some bone marrow. Yum.

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That looks fantastic.
 
maglil55 said:
I've been in two Icelands and neither have the cauliflower rice back in. M&S have packs in with their stir fry deals and I've bought them, split
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I am really disappointed with them because that is why this mum goes to Iceland! I also dont understand it. @Chook said Asda do it so will make a pilgrimage this week. Tesco have it on their website but the two branches closest (both 5/6 mils away) do not stock it.
 
Evening all. IF has gone for a Burton today. I’m retired so every day is a Sunday really, yet I still find Sundays the hardest to stick to a plan.
B: black coffee just didn’t cut it, finished a bit of salami in the fridge then some cheese
Late morning Costa coffee& cream.
L: couple of chicken wings air fried.
D: IP ‘roast’ chicken, cauliflower cheese, air fried Halloumi wrapped in bacon. Couple of glasses of Chablis we bought for Christmas and didn’t get round to.
I’m expecting higher fbg tomorrow as I expect the macros are all wrong today.
@PenguinMum I like the sound of your dinner, glad you had a good weekend with your son and friends.
@Chook blimey! that was a very hard few days in every way, glad it’s finally done and hope you get normal service resumed in your right hand soon. Maybe a 111 call to be sure?
@maglil55 hope the iffy legs are improving. I liked the Parmesan chicken a lot too. I wasn’t expecting to think much of the pizza omelette but it was surprisingly good ( like a lot of their recipes) and the bit I had left which was meant to do me for a couple of lunches, got eaten by various family members passing through - they all declared it v tasty which is some consolation I guess.
@Goonergal I play freezer Tetris a couple of times a week too.
 
PenguinMum said:
@Annb your lamb shoulder with veg looks great but I am a big lamb fan. I now love mixed pattern plates whereas when I was first married everything has to match but its strange how you have different priorities as you age isnt it?
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I’m the same, much prefer a mix and match approach now.
 
DCUKMod said:
To be clear, I haven't done any of the Diet Doctor stuff, following any recipes. I might have freestyler around a few though.

If you have a big appetite, the do a bigger batch. As I read it, many of DD's recipes seem leftover friendly in that a recipe is often mentioned as being for dinner, then next day's lunch. If the straightaway, next day thing doesn't appeal, you couldn't likely freeze some?
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They do it a lot the next day lunch thing and for the most part the leftovers are just as good second day. It seems to be their logic of cook once a day (other than when breakfast is there but that's so quick I don't count it as cooking). I agree with @DCUKMod -:if it's not enough eat more. They do say stop eating when you're no longer hungry. I do believe the recipes have really improved (even although I still fiddle with them).
 
ianpspurs said:
Just about to watch rugby then Spurs hoping today will be an OMAD. Tea with almond milk and inulin 2 x 800 mls, tea with no inulin 2 x 1 pint, lacto free whole milk hazelnut latte from Nespresso. 240+ gms gammon (IP did a good job of that at Christmas ) and highly adapted DD cabbage casserole. I felt the cabbage was fine but Julie was not at all keen.

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Looks good (and spurs did well).
 
@Annb Those dinner plates look lovely, and yes time flies doesn't it, my parents still have my grans sunflower plates which would be about the same age, probably purchased in the 60's and the dinner plates were the same size as your picture. I tend to use large plates for dinner, but I like room to maneuver my food o the plate, and a crowded small plate makes spills more prone. But then I do weigh my portions so size of plate doesn't effect meal size for me.
 
mouseee said:
Coffee and a slice of LC toast

Lunch Halloumi fries from the market as we went into town. They are amazing and not coated in anything so LC with a few pomegranate seeds sprinkled and a yogurt dressing.

Dinner Jerk chicken with cauliflower 'rice and beans' I added about half a can of aduki beans and there were no significant rises.

Did make and eat too many of the almond butter biscuits that I found a recipe for. One would be fine, but probably not the six I ended up eating!
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Biscuits sound nice, would they work with peanut butter? Have over half a 1kg tub left.
 
Bed 6.3 FBG 6.4. Saturday 1 February - really horrible weather today and I had to venture out. Hubby was off to the football.
B. TAG with ADOC.
L. Having held off as long as possible with no improvement in the weather, I had a third of the remaining keto, pizza omelet - cold and just as good as I remember cold pizza to be.
D. Having tackled a round of Tetris with the fridge and the freezer! I had a small Skyr coconut yoghurt and another TAG waiting for Hubby to get back. Dinner was a baked salmon fillet with lettuce, tomato, 1/2 avocado, roasted peppers and mayo.

Today Sunday bed 6.4 FBG 6.2. Usually swimming lesson day and general run around.

B. TAG with ADOC and another 1/3 of that keto, pizza omelet.
L. Nothing on the swimming/general run around.
D. Couple of fine milled oatcakes with pate (was hungry). Bavette steak with pepper sauce, green beans, asparagus and mushrooms. It was OK but I prefer rib eye. Later a small raspberry Skyr yoghurt.

@Chook - the cabbage on DD is much better now and Yes, @DJC3 I did really like the DD Chicken fajita bowl. That's one which will be done again.

I didn't lose any weight on Week 3. I don't know about this week yet. Now that I'm back on schedule it's snorkels to the ready for the Deep Dive.
 
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