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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

breakfast; eat natural low sugar granola, two slices of hi lo with butter
snack; starbucks mocha (sachet)
lunch: turukey salad in low carb wrap with mayo and a pickled shallot! Liked this better than traditional pickled onions. homemade low carb cookie.
tea; Sausage, egg, tomatoes and mushrooms, raspberries and a spoon of baileys double cream.
snack; six montezuma 70% buttons

DGF mince pies arriving today, bought 12 for the festive season - straight into the freezer I think!
 
Lunch eggs scrambled in butter with half a lc hm roll followed by yoghurt and three squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner partridge wrapped in Parma ham with asparagus and mushroom cream sauce - just mushrooms cooked in butter and meat juices and a big pour of double cream heated up to bubbling point. First partridge I’ve tried and loved it - Im into game at the moment as it’s seasonal and partridge tasted something like a well hung turkey or pork a bit less gamey in taste compared to venison and pheasant. Pudding DGF brownie warmed and then served with spoon of yoghurt.
 
Woke at 4 am, couldn’t get back to sleep and I’ve spent most of the day cold and hungry.
B 1 h/b egg and a handful of nuts before dashing out into the cold to make community larder food deliveries. Straight on to retinopathy eye check then out to Truro Christmas market.
Quick dash into M&S - no seedy crackers but bought rollitos and Honduras prawns to eat on the way home.
D- air fried duck breast with green beans and mushrooms ( burnt another pan - put them on to sauté gently and got distracted until the house filled with smoke) DGF forest fruits crumble warmed with cream. Really liked this one, I can see why it’s so popular.

Oh I also popped into Hotel Chocolat and got a packet of the 85% batons for £3 as the ribbon was broken. Result.
 
Missed posting yesterday so two days of food in this post!

Thursday:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a Phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a Carb Killa bar
Dinner: kedgeree made with cauli rice followed by SF orange jelly and cream.

Today:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Atkins bar
Dinner: crispy cheese omelette with mushrooms and a couple of baby tomatoes followed by DGF brownie/cookie thing and cream.
 
Had a lc hot choclate before bed last night on advice of a migraine site. They had suggested milky drink and salt. This is easing me in my way. Spoils my intermittent fasting.
yet fbg was 5.6 whereas I've been all 6s and events couple of 7s lately.
libres are on order for more detailed testing. And no sign of migraine today!

Yoga
L: seedy crackers with cream cheese and some Blacksticks blue cheese on top. 2 cherry tomatoes and bit of cucumber . 1 bite of pear (hubby had the rest)

1st dinner at 5pm. 5 97% pork chipolatas
Dancing
2nd dinner at 7 :30 seedy crackers with Blacksticks blue
 
MrsA2 said:
seedy crackers with Blacksticks blue
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Looks like a nice blue cheese to try.

We used to get a imported Danish blue cheese at Woolies but it has been unavailable since 2020 BC* it beat some of the local blue cheeses for taste and texture.

*Before Covid not Before Jesus.
 
Two slices middle bacon, two eggs, mushrooms and tomatoes for breakfast.
Tub of greek yoghurt, lemon cordial with osmolax for smoko.
Belly pork slices marinated in a mild Nandos Peri Peri marinade, green veggies. for lunch
Two low carb toasted cheese and onion sandwiches, pineapple jelly for supper at six.

Had a food item substituted with our online grocery order, they swapped out 1.5 kgs chicken legs for 2 kgs of chicken necks. The necks are no good to us as we have no space to boil them down for soups and stuff.

We got a refund, and get to keep the necks which will find a good home at a friends place for his dogs dinners.
 
Mrs T 123 said:
When they arrive there is usually a best before date on the bottom of the box (at least a week away) and there is a note sometimes in with them which recommends keeping them in the fridge and using within the week (you have to keep them in the fridge or they will go off quickly). I find that usually after a couple of days they don't look as fresh so after the couple of days I put what is left in the freezer and just take them out as I want them (they take around an hour to defrost or 30 secs in microwave) but more recently there is some I have just put straight in to the freezer if I know I am not going to eat them within a day or two - but that is just me I am a bit of a freshness freak I think - they keep for a couple of months in the freezer.
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You can eat the cookies straight from the freezer. They are even crisper. @DJC3 wishes I'd never told her that!
 
Having made a list of the ingredients in DGFs mincemeat pies, I spotted the requirement for candied orange and lemon peel. To be honest, this could be useful for any number of recipes. Anyway, I've added the candied orange peel recipe to my CMT but here's the link to it for non CMT users.

https://www.bylena.com/recipe/482/Candied-Orange-Peel-With-Sugar-or-Low-Carb/

The low carb version just substitutes your preferred sweetener (which for me is Monk Fruit Classic). Although the recipe is for orange, the same applies to any citrus fruit you want to candy.

Obviously, you won't want to eat the flesh of 6 oranges so, unless you have grandchildren to feed them to, my alternative is to freeze the individual segments for use in alcoholic beverages!
 
breakfast; eat natural low sugar granola, one slice of hi lo with butter
snack; starbucks mocha (sachet)
lunch: chicken and veg soup, half a carbzone wrap
tea; tiny bannisters half cheesy baked potato with added cheese by me, two slice of bacon and mushrooms, raspberries and home made lemon possett. Potato was 9g of carbs so still well within my allowance. Don't seem to be enjoying food at the moment and don't want to lose any weight, so needed something tasty!
snack; six montezuma 70% buttons
 
They sold this at Lidl today.
I have no idea what it tastes like or how you use it (apart from on scones, that's in the picture) as this is not something usually available here.
I bought it anyway, knowing there's a whole forum of friendly people who know everything about clotted cream! :happy:

So tell me all about it please!

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I'm English and the main use I have ever known for clotted cream is as the picture showed - with jam on a scone. Have used it to make a very sinful creamy rice pudding, when that was allowed. Never thought of using it for anything savoury but who knows? Someone might have a use for it that way. Should go well with some fruits or fruit compote, but it's not something I would normally buy.
 
Just had my first food today (2.30 pm): smoked salmon pieces mixed with chopped up iceberg lettuce and some mayonnaise with 2 crackers. Dietician would be looking askance.

Later: will probably be egg of some sort. It's easy and not too filling for an evening meal.

No idea how many calories that represents and to be honest, I can't be bothered to work it out. But it can't be much. In terms of carbs, that would be about 20 g I'd guess.
 
Annb said:
I'm English and the main use I have ever known for clotted cream is as the picture showed
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Oh well, if no-one else has experience with diabetic friendly uses of clotted cream I'll just open the pot and taste it so I can invent a use for it!
Should be much easier for someone like me, not hindered by knowing what it should be used like, as I've never had a scone either. :)

And in the worst case scenario I'll just have very happy dogs and cats! :happy:
 
Not had much today so far as feeling icky however, I had a cold piece of ham a lettuce this morning :grumpy:
 
maglil55 said:
You can eat the cookies straight from the freezer. They are even crisper. @DJC3 wishes I'd never told her that!
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Yes Thats true lol!
My only saving grace is that I ask my husband to put them in the garage freezer - I never go in there, it’s way too spidery. If I kept the cakes in the little kitchen fridge-freezer they wouldn’t last a couple of days.
 
Antje77 said:
They sold this at Lidl today.
I have no idea what it tastes like or how you use it (apart from on scones, that's in the picture) as this is not something usually available here.
I bought it anyway, knowing there's a whole forum of friendly people who know everything about clotted cream! :happy:

So tell me all about it please!

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Interesting! Looks like it’s in a sealed jam jar? I’ve never seen it like that - we usually get it fresh in tubs. It’s very high fat, somewhere between butter and double cream you can’t whip it, just dollop it out. It’s absolute heaven on a scone, fruit crumble or other sort of pud or just on top of berries.
I would be thrown out of my adopted county (Cornwall) if I didn’t tell you the proper way to eat it on a scone is …. jam first then a large blob of cream. ( anyone from Devon who tells you to put cream on first is just wrong!) there are plenty of lc recipes for scones around and of course chia jam is excellent should you want to recreate a typical Cornish cream tea. Enjoy!
 
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