What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Goonergal]

Evening all.

Ended up with a very delicious lunch today. Popped out before starting work to post a blood sample. Postbox is conveniently close to the butcher, so stopped by to see if he had any Barnsley chops. He did, but needed to cut them. He trimmed a couple of decent sized thin pieces of meat covered in fat and put them to one side. No way they were going to waste so asked if I could have them.

They crisped up very nicely in the air frier and accompanied a small chicken leg. Pic makes the lamb pieces look much bigger - a lot of that is puffed up fatty skin.

Dinner was carnivore pizza topped with chorizo and pepperoni.

Lick hands and all used kitchen implements.

Really made me laugh.

 

[shelley262]

This is a busy thread and I’ve had a busy day with no spare time to catch up so just a quick foodlog - will catch up with you all eventually!
Early morning a very enjoyable swim before my working day - hardly anyone in pool this morning so able to do lots of backstroke.
Lots of coffee until lunch
Lunch two boiled eggs and last of my home made low carb seeded crackers followed by some montezumas 100% choc with orange oil and a few salted almonds
Dinner sea bream in lemon butter, celeriac chips and asparagus with glass of white wine mixed with soda. Pudding DGF pecan blondie with a few garden berries and cream.

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and White chocolate phd bar
Late Lunch: left over crispy duck followed by Greek yoghurt, raspberries and vanilla and raspberry LC granola.
Dinner: prawn cocktail, coleslaw, pork scratchings and a leafy salad followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola

 

[MrsA2]

Even more strange is this one: . Why would we have an emoji for stinky feet???

Well, there's been something I've been meaning to mention

 

[Brunneria]

Evenin’ All,

another exciting day here in B Land. No small achievement, considering we are in total quarantine.

the covid test arrived last night, after the last post collection, via an Amazon courier. Who knew?
So the test was sent off this afternoon (I smiled reminiscently as I heard the gag reflex kicking off in the bathroom...).

Pup no 3 and I scooted off to the main post box half an hour before the 5pm collection deadline, and waved goodbye to it.

Then, by the time I got back, the second excitement had arrived!

https://lizza.net/collections/all/products/bread-in-a-mug-trial-pack-3-breads

They are a present for Mr B, ordered before he became ill.
Since he is feeling better, we ‘baked’ one of the plain ones, and shared it.
No intestinal upset for me (yet), and he LOVED it.
The resulting mug roll is, literally, the size of a 200ml coffee mug. So not enormous. Enough for 1, or a small portion shared.
So far, v pleased, which is a good thing, since I had to buy a job lot to escape the high postage. Each roll works out at £1.50 each, which is steep, but he can make them up himself. Once he’s allowed back in the kitchen, after he is cleared of Covid...

B: kefir
L: half mug roll with butter and marmite
D: pulled pork.

oh, and a 20g ‘magic’ 70% choc bar, which I am liking v much.

 

[Antje77]

https://lizza.net/collections/all/products/bread-in-a-mug-trial-pack-3-breads

I had a couple of beers, so gone is my common sense.
I wanted this, so I googled for it in the Netherlands. This mug bread wasn't available but they had a bread mix by the same brand. And other bread mixes from different brands which sounded interesting. And then it turned out you need to spend a minimum of 15 euros to order (and still pay for postage). By then I was sure I wanted bread (salivating as I type) so I just spent 20 euros on 3 different bread mixes plus a bag of low carb crisps to get to this 15 euros.

And I've never baked any kind of bread in my life!

It better be delicious for this much money!
Wish me luck with my bread baking adventures

 

[DJC3]

Good evening all. Lots to catch up on here - first off well done @annabell1 on your improved HbA1c especially as it will reflect all the stresses of lockdown etc.
@Chook hugs for your mad BGs today. @Mauriac is right though - you would have had a tedious 45 mins waiting if you’d got there on time. What is this Naked Glory please? I’ve never heard of it and it might be a good ingredient for the veggie in our household.
@Antje77 definitely winner of the best post this week with instructions to ‘lick hands’ etc. Wonderful!
@Rachox thanks for the heads up re DGF gingerbread. @shelley262 has given it the seal of approval so I’ll get onto it ASAP
Better get in with my food now...
A new system trying to keep BG from soaring. Decided on breakfast rather than extended fast til lunchtime which is my norm.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/keto-croque-monsieur which was great and very satisfying.
Kept me ful until mid afternoon and BG below 6 ( first time for weeks)
Mid aft had choc chia pud.
Dinner https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/keto-lisas-chicken-skillet-with-mushrooms-and-parmesan this is the sort of recipe DD so well- very simple, rich and delicious. I really liked it. Steamed broccoli with it and 2 glasses red wine.

 

[DJC3]

I meant to show you my latest gin infusion experiments - I have tasted a tiny tot of each of them so it still fits in with the thread title. They are strawberry, blackberry ( made with stewed, seived blackberries) double strength orange and raspberry. So far strawberry is my favourite surprisingly. The bits of bleached strawberry floating about are very offputting though - they look like lumps of flesh.

 

[zauberflote]

@Brunneria thank you! This will put either/both my 45-yr-old Hamilton Beach traditional blender or/and my young baby Cuisinart to the real test! Spiked chicken soup with honey holds no appeal!
@Mauriac I'm a true fan of Lindt 90% chocolate bar. The problem for me is that my cardiologist is not in favor of saturated fats in particular....as Maglil55 says, I had to wean up to that, but you are almost there! I eat mine a tiny bite at a time-- the flavor is in the melting.
@annabell1 congratulations on the numbers! Every decimal counts
@Annb here in Virginia we don't gave a rule about households, but when I am reporting to the Covid Symptom Study app and it asks about households, I count my two kids (4 people total) as my household as we've been visiting each other all along and I am not ready to give up my new and first grandbaby, care thereof! So there!
@Chook hope that BG falls soon, and! you get a good night's sleep.
@Antje77 you need a sweet that goes down fast, yes? I think all gummi's are a great choice for fast-acting, or you could do fresh deep fried Mars Bars!!
@shelley262 thanks for peeking in!
Bfast avocado, 2 boiled eggs, tiny nibble Lindt 90%
Barre class, very nice
Lunch pecans/avocado oil, swiss cheese, flax crisps/dilute soymilk
It's a little early, but goodnight all and good morning while I'm still asleep!

 

[Mauriac]

Breakfast: A glass of water
Lunch: Quorn 'ham' with smokey mixed bean salad and kimch, a pear and some St Augur.
Afternoon snack: Macadamia nuts and 2 slices of real ham.
Pre-Supper: 2 glasses of white wine and a few almonds and walnuts.
Supper: Cod poached in milk with a tomato sauce, cauliflower and cabbage; raspberries with 2% yoghurt; 20g of 80% chocolate.

By my calculations, that is about 1750 calories and 55g of carbs.

Could someone tell me please how to do multi-quote as I want to reply to some of the posts but don't want to do it individually?

 

[Rachox]

Could someone tell me please how to do multi-quote as I want to reply to some of the posts but don't want to do it individually?

To answer several people on the same post you can just click on the reply button underneath each post you want to reply to. So click one member’s reply button, their quote will appear in your text box, type your reply to them. Then click the reply button on the next member you want to reply to, their quote will appear underneath what you’ve already written, you can then reply to them. Click on Post reply when you’re done.
If you want to just quote part of someone’s post like I have done here, just high light the section you want to quote and a little grey reply button appears, use this rather than the normal reply button. Hope that helps

 

[MrsA2]

you want to quote and a little grey reply button appears, use this rather than the normal reply button.

Oh! I never knew that. How handy. I've been doing lots of frustrating deleting

 

[Antje77]

@Antje77 you need a sweet that goes down fast, yes? I think all gummi's are a great choice for fast-acting, or you could do fresh deep fried Mars Bars!!

Now there's a challenge!
Making batter I can probably do when hypo, but I'm hesitant about deep frying while having a shaky, sweaty, impaired brain function hypo
One of my distinct hypo symptoms is suddenly being ridiculously clumsy and I don't have an electric fryer or such, deep frying is done with a pan of oil on the gas stove...

Otherwise, you're right, all gummi's do the job. But licorice does as well, and my last bag was a gummi, so I might choose a licorice next.
Which still leaves a lot to choose: at a guess my local supermarket has about 80 varieties of licorice, no exaggeration!

Or perhaps I'll take those foamy banana sweets...

 

[Mauriac]

To answer several people on the same post you can just click on the reply button underneath each post you want to reply to. So click one member’s reply button, their quote will appear in your text box, type your reply to them. Then click the reply button on the next member you want to reply to, their quote will appear underneath what you’ve already written, you can then reply to them. Click on Post reply when you’re done.
If you want to just quote part of someone’s post like I have done here, just high light the section you want to quote and a little grey reply button appears, use this rather than the normal reply button. Hope that helps

Thank you.

 

[Mauriac]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ QUOTE]
How do you make low carb coconut 'porridge' please? It sounds nice.

plus a bag of low carb crisps

And I've never baked any kind of bread in my life!

It better be delicious for this much money!
Wish me luck with my bread baking adventures

Are low carb crisps nice? How low is low?

Hope your bread making goes well. I made it for the first time since chilhood this summer and was surprised how easy it was. The first lot I made was with a bread mix and it was incredibly easy but even making it for scratch was pretty straightforward using Felicity Cloake's recipe on the Guardian website.

I meant to show you my latest gin infusion experiments - I have tasted a tiny tot of each of them so it still fits in with the thread title. They are strawberry, blackberry ( made with stewed, seived blackberries) double strength orange and raspberry. So far strawberry is my favourite surprisingly. The bits of bleached strawberry floating about are very offputting though - they look like lumps of flesh. View attachment 43910

These look gorgeous - I love gin. Perhaps you could start a distillery. I'll definitely sign up for regular deliveries

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@Mauriac I'm a true fan of Lindt 90% chocolate bar. The problem for me is that my cardiologist is not in favor of saturated fats in particular....as Maglil55 says, I had to wean up to that, but you are almost there! I eat mine a tiny bite at a time-- the flavor is in the melting.

I've had the Lindt 70% and that is nice. At the moment I'm eating Waitrose own brand 75 or 80%, both of which are lovely.

 

[Annb]

Oh! I never knew that. How handy. I've been doing lots of frustrating deleting

Me too!

 

[Mauriac]

Me too!

I didn't see the grey button though and had to delete. I must be doing something wrong. All I see it 'Post Reply', 'Upload a File' and 'More Options'

 

[MrsA2]

I didn't see the grey button though and had to delete. I must be doing something wrong. All I see it 'Post Reply', 'Upload a File' and 'More Options'

You have to select the text in the post first, then the grey button magically appears

 

[Goonergal]

I didn't see the grey button though and had to delete. I must be doing something wrong. All I see it 'Post Reply', 'Upload a File' and 'More Options'

Like this. Took me a long time to figure it out too. I work off an iPad so it might look a bit different on a phone/laptop/desktop.

 

[DJC3]

@Mauriac the gins look pretty Dont they? I’m experimenting so I can give some of the nicest ones for Christmas presents. Trouble is, at the rate I’m sampling them I’m not sure there will be any left!