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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and Phd smart bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and chocolate chia pudding.
Dinner: deconstructed burger, two beef burgers, bacon, cheese and a low carb roll followed by SF blackcurrant jelly, cream and LC nutty granola.
 
B: 2 eggs scrambled
Exercise class
L: one cold duck leg, the good 1/4 of an avocado, one square lc brownie with cream. Coffee with cream
D: cabbage cooked in duck fat with a few bits of roasted peppers (boys had fried potatoes and chorizo with theirs too), a couple of cherry tomatoes, 30g of 90% chocolate
 
Two egg and cheese omelette, slice of middle bacon, tomatoes, slice of low carb toast and vegimite for braekfast.
Tub of chobani 15% protein greek yoghurt, glass of the usual cordial and go powder, for smoko.
T bone steak, salad stuff with some kimchi mixed in for a bit of bite, cold boiled egg for lunch.
Picked on some cheese, cherry tomatoes and green olives for supper at six.

Three or four pieces of salty liquorice watching tv later on.
 
Yesterday, I said to Em that she should remind me never to eat a chocolate brownie again and she left a note, writ large, on a sheet of A4 paper which says:

No brownies!
you areent
Alowed!

So - I'm told.

It's early so no food so far - some Co-codamol and some tea and some hot water. It's very cold here today and I had to try to get warm to put the bins out for collection. Still sitting here with my winter jacket on to try to warm up. I can feel the heat from the radiator by my desk, but it isn't doing anything for me right now. BG is already high and rising so I'll have to do something about breakfast and enough insulin to knock it down again. I start my new basal insulin today, so it will be at a low introductory dose - that will probably keep BG high all day. I also have an appointment with the dietician this afternoon. Not sure why I'm bothering - she won't agree to anything I'm trying to do, but she is new to me, so we'll not judge her too soon.

I'm about to make my bacon and egg breakfast and later will have lamb chops and the rest of the cauliflower in a spicy sauce.
 
Had a rare, but very enjoyable, late night snack last night of manchego cheese and lemon olives. It had become obvious that my veg only dinner was not sustaining enough.

Today, skipped breakfast but had a coffee with cream and 2 bites of hubbies toast in a cafe about 11am.
Lunch was homemade soup using the duck stock, some cabbage, cauliflower stalk and onion. Much tastier than it sounds :joyful:.
Piece of rhubarb cake from the freezer.

D: will be heck 97% sausages with cauliflower cheese
 
As I thought. New, she might be, but the mantra is still the same. Eat 3 meals a day, eat carbs (whole grain) for energy, eat less fat and follow the image of the plateful of food regarding ratio of carb:veg:protein.

Can't have the anticipated lamb - no meat available in the supermarket and I have none out of the freezer. Not actually feeling hungry anyway, so I might not bother with anything other than a yoghurty snack (no berries either in the shops and the only ones of those I have are also in the freezer and won't thaw out in time). This is one of the problems living here - "fresh" anything means it has been on the road for days to get here so "just in time" becomes a way of shopping so that things don't go off too quickly. Then supplies are interrupted (possibly this time due to insufficient lorry drivers to bring goods to the ferry).
 
Annb said:
As I thought. New, she might be, but the mantra is still the same. Eat 3 meals a day, eat carbs (whole grain) for energy, eat less fat and follow the image of the plateful of food regarding ratio of carb:veg:protein.

Can't have the anticipated lamb - no meat available in the supermarket and I have none out of the freezer. Not actually feeling hungry anyway, so I might not bother with anything other than a yoghurty snack (no berries either in the shops and the only ones of those I have are also in the freezer and won't thaw out in time). This is one of the problems living here - "fresh" anything means it has been on the road for days to get here so "just in time" becomes a way of shopping so that things don't go off too quickly. Then supplies are interrupted (possibly this time due to insufficient lorry drivers to bring goods to the ferry).
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Idea re frozen berries I often use them from frozen - just warm them up to defrost them and then chill in fridge for a few mins if don’t fancy them warm - I love raspberries warmed with a LC brownie. I sometimes make a sort of jam using frozen berries and lemon juice and then keep in fridge which can be used for example to cheer up some yoghurt.
 
Hugs for the availability issues @Annb . Good tips re frozen berries too @shelley262 I must try the warmed raspberries on a brownie.
My food today started with ham, a h/b egg and spoon of cottage cheese - high protein to prepare me for my Hiit exercise session. It’s held in the park and today it poured with rain throughout.
Home to shower and change. Rain stopped so took dog out and of course it tipped down again.
Lunch was sliced Turkey, cambazola cheese, turmeric and ginger sauerkraut, olives and salad leaves. Salted caramel brownie to follow.
Dinner was Heck 97% sausages ( snap @MrsA2 ) with buttered broccoli. 0% Fage yoghurt with frozen berries and seeds.
Got the woodburner blazing now so Dennis and I are finally warm and dry.
 
Annb said:
As I thought. New, she might be, but the mantra is still the same. Eat 3 meals a day, eat carbs (whole grain) for energy, eat less fat and follow the image of the plateful of food regarding ratio of carb:veg:protein.

Can't have the anticipated lamb - no meat available in the supermarket and I have none out of the freezer. Not actually feeling hungry anyway, so I might not bother with anything other than a yoghurty snack (no berries either in the shops and the only ones of those I have are also in the freezer and won't thaw out in time). This is one of the problems living here - "fresh" anything means it has been on the road for days to get here so "just in time" becomes a way of shopping so that things don't go off too quickly. Then supplies are interrupted (possibly this time due to insufficient lorry drivers to bring goods to the ferry).
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Em came in at that point - she had walked to the village shop after school (half a mile further away from home) but, having arrived there, she found that she had forgotten her mask, so she wouldn't go in. She got back to our house, by which time she was decidedly wet and came in to ask for a lift the rest of the way home.

Now it's time for another Zoom meeting which will last until 8 pm. Just a drink of milk, I think (full cream!) and maybe some yoghurt later (also full cream).
 
@DJC3 your food today sounds amazing and I’ve got a lovely warming image of you guys warming up by your wood burning stove. I’ve resorted to putting on a jumper today and had planned a walk but ended up walking indoors observing the downpours whilst listening to an interesting podcast from Spotify (which I subscribe to)where guest was Adele Hite she seems to have a very balanced approach to low carb eating. Listened on Spotify but if you search on Adele hite and paleo canteen you’ll find other free ways to listen I hope. Interesting stuff too about importance of protein.
Breakfast coffee
Lunch three eggs scrambled with butter served with hm lc bread followed by yoghurt and a few raspberries from garden
Mid pm one square of 90% I’ve only got a few squares remaining and deliberately not buying more so I’m rationing it!
Dinner pork ribs with salads and glass of dry white wine with soda water followed by DGF ginger cake and yoghurt.
 
Another IF day.
Morning. Black tea, black coffees
12pm. Eggs scrambled with chopped tomatoes and chilli on lc toast.
3pm. Treat! Prawn mayo on oatmeal sandwich. 42g carbohydrate.
Snack. Peanuts, small serving of watermelon.
7.30pm. Thai green prawn curry with yellow peppers, pak choi and tenderstem broccoli. Rhubarb with stem ginger and Greek yoghurt.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd smart bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and coffee chia pudding.
Dinner: Balti chicken curry with cauli rice followed by SF raspberry jelly, cream and LC nutty granola.
 
Two egg and cheese omelette, small piece of steak, tomatoes for breakfast.
Tub of chobaani 15% protein yoghurt, usual cordial mix for smoko.
Spicy seafood marinara in a spag bol type sauce, small portion of re-heated green fettuccine for lunch.
Leftover marinara in low carb wrap for supper at six.

Got a phone call from the admission dept around 7:00 pm asking if I want to get one bag of blood transfused today (it's Wednesday here) at 10:00 am. Yes please.

A question on your petrol shortages, watching the world news on SBS, it showed a clip of a fight out side a Tesco servo, petrol was priced at £1.32 ($2.50 Au) I could not see if this was a litre or a gallon, do you use gallons still? If it's a litre it is dearer than ours as we pay $1.60 a litre here in Bundaberg.
 
28.09
Breakfast: nut granola, splash of milk, tea with the same semi skimmed milk.

Lunch: 2 crispbreads ( not trying to lose weight, but easy to count the carbs and plenty of rooom for toppings)
Pâté, 2 cherry toms, from the garden.
Cucumber and radish. Another cup of tea.
Finished off the pâté.
More tea
Dinner: ready made salmon dish, (parmentier de salmon)one tiny roast potato, savoy cabbage, carrots, a clementine ( trying to increase vitC intake) glass of wine
Later coffee with cream
Then bedtime snack of cheese. Lemon tea.
 
@Riva_Roxaban petrol in the UK is sold by the litre so £1.32 was the price per litre. That was then where I live iit is now £1.45 per litre. (Wed)
To keep on track with the thread I have just had my breakfast of a mug of decaf with a little cream.
 
Breakfast: bacon and egg - despite what dietician said yesterday. It was streaky bacon as well - she'd be throwing up her hands in horror. Quite hungry today so, I guess it will be a 3 meal day, or 2 meals and a snack.

Next meal will be some suspicious looking white fish that Neil found in the supermarket yesterday. Not sure what it is, but it will need to be used - prepacked fish never has a long sell-by date. There are also some broad beans to be used - they were bought last Thursday. He'll be going back to the shops on Thursday after going for a hospital appointment of his own, so here's hoping there is more stock in the shops then.

Edit: petrol and diesel here are both 139.9 per litre. No shortages, as far as I know. There may be advantages in receiving our fuel by sea rather than by tanker lorry. Unlike other supplies - they come by lorry on the ferry.
 
Not such a good day
B. Black tea, black coffee, trout pate and cucumber on lc toast.
10,000 steps, more black coffee.
L. 3 Higgedy mini cheese and spinach muffins, baby tomatoes then a complete bender on small crackers, butter and cheese. Not pleased with myself.
Snack. Mixed nuts
D. Quorn Spanish casserole.
 
30.09
Breakfast 150ish g confit chicken livers with one rösti potato cake. Cant remember what i used to have with the confit livers, definitely needs something to sop up the fat. Cup of tea with semi skimmed milk. Only drank half of it.
Grazed on grated emmental all morning,
Lunch: one crispbread, butter, slice of ham. Clementine and cup of coffee with cream as missed Mid morning coffee.
Dinner: salmon parmentier, Savoy cabbage and carrots. Glass of rosé, then MrSlim opened a bottle of cremant, it's on special offer in the supermarket so we have to try it. Both of us have been cooking tonight, converting my bargain buys from yesterday into frozen dinners: pork and Apple casserole, 4 portions, boeuf bourguignon 8 portions. too much cheese grazed in the evening.
Errant (my cat) is uninterested in dinner, which is really worrying... He didn't finish his breakfast either..he has had a strangely squeaky voice for a few days but this is the first sign that he is proper poorly.
Am going to contact the vet in the morning, also pressurising MrSlim to accompany us to the rendez-vous.
 
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Woke feeling grotty with a sore throat. Mood wasn't improved by traffic gridlock due to fuel situation so my planned day was cancelled as I couldn't get to where I wanted to be.
Sat down with a coffee with cream and woke up 3 hours later!

Did mean it was easy to fast until about 1!

1 slice of the courgette bread toasted with a little cheese. Some ff greek with 2 teaspoons stewed plums

About 3pm popped into garden for todays haul of courgettes but also managed to eat about 20 small raspberries. Then found the grapes are ready too, so about 10 of them too. That produced fructose guilt so ate a nut bar to try to even the carbs out

6 pm. Dinner of a small steak with fried egg and courgettes cooked in the lastofthe duck fat. More plum with ff greek and 3 squares Montezuma cherry pie choc that dear hubby had bought to cheer me up. Nice gesture but too many carbs overall today.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd smart bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and chocolate chia pudding.
Dinner: ribs with Brussels, broccoli and a couple of carrot batons followed by SF cherry jelly, cream and LC nutty granola.
 
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