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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

DJC3 said:
They’re just called greens lol I’ve no idea if they have another name. They might be what are called collard greens in the US. Some sort of cabbage or brassica but a thick fairly fibrous leaf, quite strong tasting. I boil for a minute or 2 then sauté with butter and garlic
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Ah @Antje77 I’ve just seen above you’ve come to the same conclusion ( and confusion) as me with the collard greens.
 
shelley262 said:
Breakfast two boiled eggs and buttered hm lc bread
No lunch too hectic
Dinner Cajun chicken with salads followed by DGF peanut butter brownie with cream.
@Sugarlisa well done on weight loss.
@DJC3 that beef looks amazing
@Goonergal pleased your delivery good mine today from Ocado was a disaster I had to sort out a refund of 78 quid that’s how much was missing basically nearly all my shopping ! Plus they delivered several bags of someone elses shopping and yes you’ve guessed it it was all stuff I choose not to eat such as low fat yoghurt, bread, low fat cheese and spread,grapes,blueberries, bananas etc. Customer services suggested I found a home for it so ended up giving stuff to neighbours as all fresh stuff so not suitable for food bank! However I kept back a pack of quails eggs I’ve never tried them so will do. I’m away for a few days this week so couldn’t rearrange the delivery. Best laid plans!
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What a nightmare your shopping order was, and what a shame you couldn’t use any ( apart from quails eggs) but I should think your neighbours were happy with the extras.
Talking about shopping deliveries has reminded me I need to order more of the SLC rolls quickly so I can get them before Christmas. I was tempted to try your lovely looking bread - maybe in the new year when life is a bit less hectic.
Hope your trip away goes well.
 
DJC3 said:
They’re just called greens lol I’ve no idea if they have another name. They might be what are called collard greens in the US. Some sort of cabbage or brassica but a thick fairly fibrous leaf, quite strong tasting. I boil for a minute or 2 then sauté with butter and garlic
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Pretty sure you can't go wrong with any branch of the cabbage family when boiling for a minute or two and then sautéeing with butter and garlic :)
Same goes for many other veggies: string beans, carrots, grean beans... It's a very versatile recipe!

Glad I happen to have a lot of TP by coincidence.
Lockdown starting at midnight tonight in the Netherlands and announced this afternoon, except for essential stores like supermarkets. So everyone went to the supermarkets (which won't be closed) at the same time to buy TP.
I mean, whut?
 
14.12.2020
Breakfast CWC , nut granola
Lunch left over casserole, mostly gravy and veg, called it soup. Plus two ryvita and cheese, cup of tea
Dinner pork chops, baked potato, Cooke yesterday and fridges overnight, carrots,and brased leeks. Two squares orange crisp lindt chocolate, Glass of wine, one of tonic, tea and lemon tea at bedtime.
 
Hello all,

Thanks for the hugs and kind words re impending lockdown, @shelley262, @Goonergal, @DJC3, @Mrs T 123, @ianpspurs and @Annb. I know most of you have gone through this yourself, so hugs back. It probably take until the middle of next year until we're through the worst of this. Might actually take advantage of one more day of "freedom" tomorrow.

@Annb -- Glad your blood sugars are a bit lower. Hope eating a few more carbs and less fat will work for you.
@Antje77 -- Hugs for the lockdown -- so no reprieve between announcement and lockdown -- this is really tough. (Btw, we have the same word for lettuce and salad in German too (it's "Salat"), so if I am not careful I tend to also mix them up).
@shelley262 -- The bread looks gorgeous -- I might try substituting the gluten with psyllium husk after all -- the bread just looks too tempting. Hope you, your family and your mother will have a wonderful X-mas and a safe trip collecting your mother. Hugs for the messed up grocery order.
@DJC3 -- Great looking meat -- seems as if you're getting good use out of your sous vide apparatus (I guess it's a stick, isn't it).
@Goonergal -- Most days, I am on TMAD too (seems to happen naturally), but OMAD seems to escape me, just too tough.

Didn't post yesterday, so here are my foods for the last two days ...

Today ...

Breakfast: A double decaffeinated espresso with cream and erythritol. A slice of protein bread from Aldi (3.5g of carbs per slice) with h/m mayonnaise and smoked salmon.

Lunch: Nothing.

Dinner: Turkey salami, bresaola, and cheese. Red wine.
 
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Yesterday ...

Breakfast: A double decaffeinated espresso with cream and erythritol.

Lunch: A piece of flatbread (using the DD keto roll recipe) with h/m mayonnaise, a piece of romaine lettuce, brisket with l/c barbecue sause and cornichons. A naughty piece of regular praline, albeit small (so stayed below 20g of carbs per day.)

Dinner: Walnut cheese and regular cheese, roast beef, bresaola, turkey salami and sauerkraut with cream fraiche. Dry red wine.

@Sugarlisa -- Great menus and congrats on the weightloss. You could substitute noodles in the lasagne with sliced eggplant (aubergine) or zucchini (courgette). Evaporating some of the moisture in the eggplants and zucchini in the oven before before using them helps.
 
DJC3 said:
What a nightmare your shopping order was, and what a shame you couldn’t use any ( apart from quails eggs) but I should think your neighbours were happy with the extras.
Talking about shopping deliveries has reminded me I need to order more of the SLC rolls quickly so I can get them before Christmas. I was tempted to try your lovely looking bread - maybe in the new year when life is a bit less hectic.
Hope your trip away goes well.
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Good luck with SLC order. 2nd order now had to be resent by them. Post Office can't trace ever receiving the package despite e-mail from SLC a week ago saying it had been dispatched. Not sure the product is worth the hassle really but turkey/beef rolls seemed like a plan over Christmas and New Year.
 
Sugarlisa said:
Diabetes team ringing me later for first appointment so why am I nervous lol
Breakfast was yogurt and blackberries and raspberries with green tea
Tea tonight turkey chilli of the diet doctor
Lunch with be a ham salad
Slow cooker is cooking away stew for tomorrow night tea x
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Good sounding menu. Best wishes for the appointment. They must be impressed by the weight loss and change in diet - we all are.
 
Streaky bacon - 2 rashers - and 2 fried eggs for breakfast.
Avocado with tortilla chips for lunch (not as ripe as I would have liked, so chunks of avocado rather than a dip, as I had hoped).
Pork chop with a bit of butter fried apple, Brussels sprouts and some braised carrot spears will be dinner.
BGs higher again today, so insulin higher as well. Seemed a bit much going from 2 Furosimide plus all the other pills to 4 Furosimide, in one jump, so chickened out and only took 3. Fierce result so hoping for less swollen legs by this evening.
 
This wellbeing malarkey is a team game, no? Individual hundred, my batting average or what the team needs? Bg control, weight <74 kgs, spiffing lipid profile or overall wellbeing - too much to ask for any WOE? Things to ponder in the dark, quiet early mornings. Meanwhile this was today’s team effort: B= Assam TWAMIS: Dockey CWCSFCS; L: 3 cold sprouts, 10 gms? cold roast Kale, 2 oompa loompa pkts cheesies & tea; 4.15 - CWCSFHS* EM: Mackerel and avocado salad +Vits. Red wine and maybe a small whisky later. Comfortable with the food but compromises sometimes a little scratchy until worn in.
*Cocoa with cream and sugar free hazelnut syrup
 
Went right through to lunch time as was miffed that after 3 days of nice low fasting figures today was back in mid 6s. No idea why.
L: 2 cold chicken thighs. 6 olives. Good dollop of ff greek with seeds and blueberries
But was so hungry that had dinner at 4:45
D: smoked salmon and broccoli crustless quiche (boys was cooked in a pastry case) 1 chicken thigh and 1 small mince pie with lots of double cream (hubby has been cooking again, must teach him something else)
 
ianpspurs said:
Good luck with SLC order. 2nd order now had to be resent by them. Post Office can't trace ever receiving the package despite e-mail from SLC a week ago saying it had been dispatched. Not sure the product is worth the hassle really but turkey/beef rolls seemed like a plan over Christmas and New Year.
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Thanks for the good luck wishes I think I might need them. Like you,I’m living in hope of hot roast beef sandwiches on Christmas Eve and Turkey and stuffing rolls the rest of the days. I’ve had the email saying they’ve been sent so it’s a waiting game now.
The post here has been remarkably good throughout. ( famous last words!) I guess the problems arise at the sorting offices rather than the companies themselves
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee
Lunch: pork scratchings followed by Greek yoghurt, strawberries and LC raspberry granola (I’ve been skipping lunch for a while now but I’m at Mum’s for a couple of days and she thinks it’s weird not having lunch!)
Mid afternoon at coffee shop: cappuccino and birthday cake carb killa bar.
Dinner: gammon with cheese and pineapple with roasted Mediterranean veggies followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.
 
@Sugarlisa congrats on your review and very pleased your diabetes team are supporting you - onwards and upwards, go girl!
Breakfast one slice of bacon and egg and one mushroom with slice lc toast
Lunch - too busy but very hungry and a bit stressed mid pm so had an Aldi nut bar with coffee.
Dinner pork ribs, salads and four very small new potato chips ( in total about one small new potato) plus much needed glass dry white wine followed by DGF salted caramel brownie with extra thick cream.
Will be missing recording for a few days as heading to yorks to help mum and bring her back into our support bubble. It’s her 90th birthday too a few days after Christmas so hoping we can have some good times together celebrating. No news yet re vax for her. We have been limiting our own contacts more than usual and not even been swimming this week - despite very low risk of swimming in pool with chlorine ( a mild bleach) - to ensure no risk to mum. Complex times but we can only do what we feel is sensible and we are comfortable with. Autistic son hasn’t been out hardly at all from his supported accommodation since March - we’ve managed to get him to ours only for two brief visits to ours since then so he will be safe if we can get him over for an hour on Christmas Day to see his Nan, crossing fingers. Youngest son is working from home and he and his OH are currently isolating so that they can go back to their respective families for a day or so over Christmas. Just hoping that all our plans will work out - there seems to be some uncertainty at moment to Christmas guidelines....
Back to recording when things less hectic!
 
shelley262 said:
@Sugarlisa congrats on your review and very pleased your diabetes team are supporting you - onwards and upwards, go girl!
Breakfast one slice of bacon and egg and one mushroom with slice lc toast
Lunch - too busy but very hungry and a bit stressed mid pm so had an Aldi nut bar with coffee.
Dinner pork ribs, salads and four very small new potato chips ( in total about one small new potato) plus much needed glass dry white wine followed by DGF salted caramel brownie with extra thick cream.
Will be missing recording for a few days as heading to yorks to help mum and bring her back into our support bubble. It’s her 90th birthday too a few days after Christmas so hoping we can have some good times together celebrating. No news yet re vax for her. We have been limiting our own contacts more than usual and not even been swimming this week - despite very low risk of swimming in pool with chlorine ( a mild bleach) - to ensure no risk to mum. Complex times but we can only do what we feel is sensible and we are comfortable with. Autistic son hasn’t been out hardly at all from his supported accommodation since March - we’ve managed to get him to ours only for two brief visits to ours since then so he will be safe if we can get him over for an hour on Christmas Day to see his Nan, crossing fingers. Youngest son is working from home and he and his OH are currently isolating so that they can go back to their respective families for a day or so over Christmas. Just hoping that all our plans will work out - there seems to be some uncertainty at moment to Christmas guidelines....
Back to recording when things less hectic!
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I’ll get there if it takes baby steps and time,
 
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