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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Wasn't sure how the lemon cake I had put in the fridge would be too dry to use, although my friend insisted that it should be fine. So I tried it. It was a bit dry, to my mind, but salvageable. I soaked some lemon syrup into it, to make sure and then topped it with my mincemeat and a cream frosting. The only bit that I had was the trial, dryish, edge. But figured that that had better be counted as breakfast.

Rushing around, getting ready to go out for the arranged parents/children's event and then, crashing, thinking I wouldn't be able to go anyway, then deciding that I could if I pushed myself. Ended up going out with nothing else to eat or drink.

Got home about 6.15 pm so grabbed one of the "trial" packs delivered in the Tesco order - a pack with parma ham, salami, cheese and mini breadsticks. Ate it, but I shouldn't have bothered. It wasn't very nice. The ham was fine, but the salami was thick, tough and tasteless. The breadsticks were just cardboard. What a waste of carbs and calories! That's it for today.

The Tesco order was missing about half of the items I'd ordered. Not sure how this week will go in terms of meals. We'll see as the days go on.
 
Riva_Roxaban said:
Good for you.

I am not woke, and I am not politically correct either.

As for the Karen's (and male equivalents) that are getting more prolific, I love winding them up.



Good for you too.

Happy belated birthday as well.
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I like to be polite, but definitely not politically correct. Most of the things which we are urged to accept as politically correct are common-sensibly incorrect and not to be accepted under any circumstances.
 
Cheese on low carb toast, two boiled eggs for breakfast.
Tub of greek yoghurt, lemon cordial with a scoop of Osmalax for smoko.
Lamb shoulder chops, green veggies, gravy for lunch.
Tin of pea and soup, that has been annoying me in the cupboard for a couple of weeks, rwo slices of toast for supper at six.

Thinking of the Sunday "god squads" that used to come around the area BC 2020,.

Now most of the restrictions have been lifted here in Australia they might gearing up for the xmas chit chats.
 
This morning's yoga class was cancelled so had a lovely long lie in reading instead.
11:00 2 dippy eggs with lc soda bread and a coffee with cream
13:00 An avocado, a bit of Blacksticks blue and a cherry tomato, all with a drizzle of vinaigrette dressing
18:00 Out at an Indian with friends. 1 meat samosa then a tandoori mixed grill. Did try tiny tastes of some of the others. 1glass red wine.
Later there might have been a proper Baileys
 
Three meals today - wild weather day out so ended up mainly indoors except for brief forays into garden to rescue garden furniture that tried to take off! Definitely time for us to put furniture away for the winter.
Breakfast bacon,egg and half a hm lc roll
Lunch other half of roll with some pate followed by lc brownie and yoghurt
Mid pm three squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner chicken curry with Corriander and glass of soda water with gin followed by lc raspberry bakewell.
 
Just had "breakfast". It was to have been bacon and egg but ended up being bacon and charcoal. When will I learn not to leave a pan on the stove and get distracted by something else? I haven't managed to learn that in the last 76 years, so I guess I'm just a hopeless case.

Later, I will make a fish pie topped with some kind of vegetable pasta (courgetti maybe) or perhaps with a vegetable mash - more my kind of thing - easy enough to forget the vegetables until they are almost a mash anyway. Not the best way to eat veggies, but that's about my current standard. I'll try not to do that, especially since veggies are in short supply due to things missing from my order. I did get enough cabbage to make some kind of wrap. Maybe that's an idea: fish in sauce in a cabbage leaf. Not sure that the cabbage flavour would work with the creamy fish sauce. Have to think about that.

In my mind, I have some kind of cobbler but I don't have a scone recipe that is low carb (nobody came up with one, did they Antje?) Must try to muster the energy to experiment.

The air is clearing after the carbonised bacon, so I'd better get the windows shut to keep the cold out.
 
Tori71 said:
I've made this one @Annb , the recipe says carbs are 6.7g. It's from Sugar Free Londoner site - the link is below.

https://sugarfreelondoner.com/grain-free-english-scones/#recipe

Hope this helps!
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Thanks for that Tori. Since I have no bread in the house now, I'll have a go at that later today. Have to replace the almond flour with some other nut flour (today is not the day to experiment with my inability to use almonds but I must try sometime and see if I have got over it).
 
No rush. Been feeling worse and worse all day. Done nothing. Going back to bed now and hope I can stay there long enough to feel better. It's not my BG dropping too low. That's 11.8 just now.
 
Annb said:
Just had "breakfast". It was to have been bacon and egg but ended up being bacon and charcoal. When will I learn not to leave a pan on the stove and get distracted by something else? I haven't managed to learn that in the last 76 years, so I guess I'm just a hopeless case.

Later, I will make a fish pie topped with some kind of vegetable pasta (courgetti maybe) or perhaps with a vegetable mash - more my kind of thing - easy enough to forget the vegetables until they are almost a mash anyway. Not the best way to eat veggies, but that's about my current standard. I'll try not to do that, especially since veggies are in short supply due to things missing from my order. I did get enough cabbage to make some kind of wrap. Maybe that's an idea: fish in sauce in a cabbage leaf. Not sure that the cabbage flavour would work with the creamy fish sauce. Have to think about that.

In my mind, I have some kind of cobbler but I don't have a scone recipe that is low carb (nobody came up with one, did they Antje?) Must try to muster the energy to experiment.

The air is clearing after the carbonised bacon, so I'd better get the windows shut to keep the cold out.
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I’ve made a cobbler using a cheese scone recipe that @PenguinMum posted a while ago. It’s on my ‘copy me that’ if you have that? or otherwise hopefully she’ll see this and repost the recipe.
I’ve also used this topping which was lovely and gave a very cobbler type topping. I used half the quantities and didn’t bother with xanthan gum. I still had plenty leftover to make breakfast biscuits which were great.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/kristies-keto-chicken-pot-pie
 
Late breakfast of scrambled eggs, 1 rasher bacon and lc toast.
Lunch/dinner: https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/kristies-chicken-philly-cheesesteak-casserole a family favourite.
Pud was DD Christmas pudding, microwaved, and with a dollop of cream. I absolutely loved it - so nutty and fruity. It was loads better than I expected which was a relief as it’s over 4g carbs - quite a lot for their products. ( worth it in my opinion)
 
Antje77 said:
I know there has been talk of scones in the past. @MrsA2 did lc lemon scones last year, and @shelley262 , @Pipp and @PenguinMum have recipes for sweet and savoury cheese scones.
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Yikes! I think it could have been a recipe with almond flour, and walnuts. I haven’t done any baking for a while. Home devoid of visitors, since start of pandemic, and if I bake, I will eat. Low carb is fine, but easy to be greedy, too. I will try to remember which recipe I have mentioned. I could be gone some time.
 
Pipp said:
Yikes! I think it could have been a recipe with almond flour, and walnuts. I haven’t done any baking for a while. Home devoid of visitors, since start of pandemic, and if I bake, I will eat. Low carb is fine, but easy to be greedy, too. I will try to remember which recipe I have mentioned. I could be gone some time.
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Ok, could have been this??? It is from Trudi Deakin Eat Fat book, I think.
250g ground almonds
2 teaspoons baking powder
100g walnut small pieces
50g butter
50g mascarpone
50g xilatol or erythritol
Pinch of salt

mix together dry ingredients
Stir in melted butter
Mix all together and divide into 10 portions
Flatten portions and place on baking sheet
Bake at 180 deg c approx 20 mins

I have used it as basic recipe and adapted by taking out sweetener, and adding strong grated cheese, and small amount of mustard. Can’t be specific about amount, as recipes are very hit and miss in our house. Never able to fully replicate any recipe. :hilarious:

Edit to add the recipe in the book states 3g carbs and 252 cals per scone.
 
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Breakfast; eat natural low sugar granola, two slices hi lo with butter
snack: mocha
lunch: chicken soup with a buttered SLC hot dog bun, perkier peanut bar.
dinner: raspberries an cream, six montezuma buttons

Strange eating day. Lots of snow and ice by us as we're quite rural but managed to drive to farm shop for supplies in case shop doesn't turn up tomorrow. Got some nice sausages, shin beef for a goulash and some pork schnitzel (which is breaded lightly but hey ho). Husband got a scone...hmph. 15 minutes later when we emerged it was snowing heavily, so a quick dash back home.
 
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