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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

A.m. walk with a friend, finishing at the local farm shop to buy a chicken. 3 times the price of supermarket. Also priced some of their cheese, again 3 times the supermarket price. My favourite brie with truffle works out at £49.50 a kilo! It's £16 in Morrisons.

L: final bits of leftover fritatta, with added Blacksticks blue. One square of lc coffee cake with brandy cream

Grand prix watching then another quick walk .

D: roast chicken (nice but not 3x as nice as ordinary supermarket one) carrots, cabbage and homegrown chard. One glass white. 2 sqa 85%
2 hours later still hungry so 4 seedy crackers with blue cheese.
 
Wednesday 8 December - Bed 7.3 FBG 7.4.

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with whipped cheese.
L. Nothing
D. One of the Iceland shrimp things with chilli and tomato. Added cauliflower rice, spinach and mushrooms. Ate the last of the Oppo choc chip to clear a bit more of the freezer (that's my excuse!).

Thursday 9 December - Bed 7 FBG 7.4

B. TAG - no time for anything else. School run, DIL to work then straight to shops as boys here for dinner tonight.
L. 2 slices of SLC toast with coronation chicken.

D. Boys were on large plates of broth and crusty bread. I had poached salmon, prawns and Marie Rose, mozzarella, tomato and 1/2 avocado.
 
AndBreathe said:
Ooooh. The brandy cream sounds delish. Was it shop bought (if so, which), or was it a little something you pulled together yourself?

(I'm working my way through a batch of home made clotted cream - also addictive!)
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I've been getting brandy cream in Sainsburys but most of the supermarkets will have it in now for Christmas. Sainsburys have compounded the issue - I got an expresso martini cream this week
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Atkins bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a phd bar
Dinner: Half a LC Company margherita pizza with added seafood and mushrooms accompanied by leafy salad , tomato and cucumber followed by SF blackcurrant jelly and cream.

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When I took an onion out of the cupboard earlier, to go with my pork chop, I found a bunch of uncooked beetroot in the basket. I remember asking Neil to get them for a specific recipe I wanted to try but I can't remember what it was. I have absolutely no idea what to do with them. I've never liked beetroot so haven't bought it in years. Until this week.

I keep doing this sort of thing - I decide to make a recipe, ask Neil to get ingredients and then can't remember what I'd intended to make, so I just have to make something else. But with beetroot, it's not so easy.
 
Annb said:
I found a bunch of uncooked beetroot in the basket. I remember asking Neil to get them for a specific recipe I wanted to try but I can't remember what it was. I have absolutely no idea what to do with them.
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Make borscht with the beetroot, plenty of recipes on the net for it.

Cooking them whole as a veggie is good as well.
 
It's summer in NZ and our courgettes/zucchini are growing fantastically in the garden.

So for lunch I had the remnants of a green salad and some of an awesome courgette/walnut/tomato/chilli. yoghurt /lemon juice/garlic salad that my husband made 2 days ago and is still lasting (will probably finish it tomorrow.). For dinner we had the first courgetti spaghetti of the season (bolognaise with spiralised fried courgettes as pasta, topped with cheese). I'm not totally convinced by cauliflower rice but courgetti spaghetti is simply the best (better than all the rest :)).
 
Riva_Roxaban said:
Make borscht with the beetroot, plenty of recipes on the net for it.

Cooking them whole as a veggie is good as well.
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The trouble is, I just don't like beetroot - ever since, at the age of 4 I was forced to sit and eat it, along with undressed lettuce and Spam when I had to stay for school lunch one day when my brother was in hospital with polio. Couldn't swallow it then and never tried again. Buying these this time was for a recipe which I presumably thought would be an improvement on just beetroot, so it would be an experiment to see if I could eat it. I don't think borscht is going to be the way for me. Might cook them with some onion and lemon, and maybe some apple to disguise the taste a bit.

So far, I've had some more smoked salmon salad with the last of the Marie Rose sauce.

Later it will be fish again - I have some haddock which Neil bought for me and which I will need to use up, so I'll shallow fry that in butter and have some salad with that.
 
Antje77 said:
Then don't eat it and give it away, or feed to someones chickens/guinea pigs.
You have enough of a hard time eating as it is, choose foods you do like and forget about the beetroot!
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The thing is, I'm trying to grow up and face up to my phobias. Beetroot is one of them. Never having eaten it in the last 72 years, who knows? I might feel able to add it to my diet. It didn't work with the tinned crab, of course and I haven't managed to face the idea of prawns or lobster yet. There seem to be quite a few foods that I turn my nose up at without ever really having tried them, which does restrict me a bit.

I'll give the beetroot one try - just cook it and eat it and it will either be a no no or a yes yes.
 
MrsA2 said:
I believe, that in the Uk alcoholic drinks don't have to displays ingredients or nutrition information and many of them have huge amounts of added sugars, mulled wine being one of them.

On a slight tangent on Saturday kitchen yesterday they were making variations on hot chocolate one of which was a mulled wine hot chocolate. Turns out, when I found the recipe on line , there is 400g (weight) of sugar added to a bottle of wine with spices to make the mulled wine, then 500g (weight) of dark chocolate stirred into it. No wonder it was the tasters favourite!
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Thanks to you and @DJC3 for the replies. I watched Saturday Kitchen too but wow that is a LOT of sugar. Maybe a version with a little spice bag and some Diet Lemonade added to a mug of wine might be the way to go after all. Will report back after experiments.
 
Annb said:
I'll give the beetroot one try - just cook it and eat it and it will either be a no no or a yes yes.
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Cook just a little of it alongside something you know you like to give it a try! That way you won't be without food if you don't like it, and if you do like it you can use the rest for a real meal. :)
 
Lunch two boiled eggs and slice of hm lc bread followed by yoghurt, a few nuts and two squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner Cajun chicken with salads followed by my first DGF alternative lc mince pie - delicious tasted very festive I added a few drops of brandy though as love brandy flavour!spoon of cream also added to warmed ‘mince’ pie.
My Christmas will start officially on Thursday when - crossing fingers - I get my new front teeth. Oh no you’ll all be singing again! After paying for them mind you I may not be as pleased!
 
maglil55 said:
I've been getting brandy cream in Sainsburys but most of the supermarkets will have it in now for Christmas. Sainsburys have compounded the issue - I got an expresso martini cream this week
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I briefly looked the other day, but those I saw were significantly sweetened.

I think I'll try to do grown-up clotted cream. In fact, we have the feeding of the five thousand here at the weekend, so may have a dry run before that. :hungry:
 
Annb said:
The trouble is, I just don't like beetroot - ever since, at the age of 4 I was forced to sit and eat it, along with undressed lettuce and Spam when I had to stay for school lunch one day when my brother was in hospital with polio. Couldn't swallow it then and never tried again. Buying these this time was for a recipe which I presumably thought would be an improvement on just beetroot, so it would be an experiment to see if I could eat it. I don't think borscht is going to be the way for me. Might cook them with some onion and lemon, and maybe some apple to disguise the taste a bit.

So far, I've had some more smoked salmon salad with the last of the Marie Rose sauce.

Later it will be fish again - I have some haddock which Neil bought for me and which I will need to use up, so I'll shallow fry that in butter and have some salad with that.
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Coincidentally, on Saturday I had a Tartar de Remolacha. It was basically grated cooked beetroot and orange onion, pressed into a ring m
ould, with a slice of goat's cheese on top. Quite delicious!
 
AndBreathe said:
Coincidentally, on Saturday I had a Tartar de Remolacha. It was basically grated cooked beetroot and orange onion, pressed into a ring m
ould, with a slice of goat's cheese on top. Quite delicious!
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That actually sounds really good! Em's dad came in to pick her up and he says he likes just to roast it leaving the skins on. They peel easily once cooked. That's what I'm doing with them. He'll have the rest, if I really can't eat them. I am also roasting onions alongside.
 
I was going to suggest roosting the beetroot, or I like them grated raw, but just a little.

B: 2 scrambled eggs with a lot of ham
Exercise class, followed with a cup of ginger tea and a piece of lc coffee cake. Everyone else was on the mince pies.
L: a bit of cheese, a Kind nut bar and 2 squares 85% chocolate. Bg went to 9. Think it's the nut bar. Only 7,5 g carbs stated on the label but i do think it raises me too much. Can't see anything specific on the label but won't be buying them again when this box of 3 is finished.
Bit of a pain because they were easy to carry around

D: chicken ham and chard pie made with fat head dough. Boys had pasties from real pastry. Tried making cheese sticks from the leftover dough but wasn't very successful. And bg went to 9 again, but have had busy stressful day
 
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