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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)
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Did you get this message in an email?
Personally, I've turned off all email notifications, I just click the flag at te top right on the forum to see anything happening in threads I follow.
Do you ever click on this flag? If not, perhaps that's the problem, only doing wild guesses here, but worth a try!
I'll alert the rest of the team to your post, I'm not the most tech savvy member of the team.
Pre- breakfast while waiting for Paul to wake up - the last little bit of Fage 0% yoghurt with a spoonful of clotted cream and about 6 blueberries.
Real breakfast- 3 grilled fresh sardines. They were boned and filleted but still too many annoying little bones.
Lunch - cheese and olives
Dinner-Heck sausages, 2 fried eggs, Halloumi, fried cherry toms and a handful of spinach thrown in the pan at the end to wilt. I didn’t think much of the Heck sausages, they were a bit too rubbery and ‘bouncy’. Red wine. 1HC 85% chocolate baton.
Real breakfast- 3 grilled fresh sardines. They were boned and filleted but still too many annoying little bones.
Lunch - cheese and olives
Dinner-Heck sausages, 2 fried eggs, Halloumi, fried cherry toms and a handful of spinach thrown in the pan at the end to wilt. I didn’t think much of the Heck sausages, they were a bit too rubbery and ‘bouncy’. Red wine. 1HC 85% chocolate baton.
The bread is lovely, freezes well and tastes just the same as the high carb versions
Riva_Roxaban
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I have never tried Monk Fruit, our local supermarket stocks it at present and it is made in the Czech republic.
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/108123/whole-earth-monk-fruit-sweetener-granules
Have a look for Aeroplane Jelly in your supermarket.
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/172715/aeroplane-jelly-lite-pineapple
Annb
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Thanks Antje. Yes, I did get the message as an e-mail and no, I don't tend to check that flag. I'm not at all tech savvy and most things connected to the internet are a mystery to me - there are just one or 2 functions that I use - probably not very well. I'll try that in future.
maglil55
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I was about to ask the same thing. I have a supply of the sugars just now but that's because family from USA brought it over tail end of last year. Originally, I'd put it down to Covid making supplies difficult but, after a bit of digging, it seems it is some kind of hangover from EU food regulations. Apparently, they haven't approved Monk Fruit yet although it had been rumoured it would be approved last year (I guess the last covid wave put the mockers on that). It is approved in numerous other countries including USA, Australia & NZ.
I've never used the drops. If that is pure Monk Fruit then it is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar hence why you'd only need a tiny amount. I use Monk Fruit classic or golden which looks like sugar and you treat like sugar. I know it's a mix but they don't tell you the proportions. All I can say is it doesn't have a nasty after taste and behaves like sugar.
I find the EU attitude of mulling over this for years incredible especially when they managed to approve aspartame.
I've never used the drops. If that is pure Monk Fruit then it is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar hence why you'd only need a tiny amount. I use Monk Fruit classic or golden which looks like sugar and you treat like sugar. I know it's a mix but they don't tell you the proportions. All I can say is it doesn't have a nasty after taste and behaves like sugar.
I find the EU attitude of mulling over this for years incredible especially when they managed to approve aspartame.
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Thanks Shelley. Looks really interesting - recipes too.
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Annb, I think it probably just means you might not have accessed the thread by clicking the links in the notification emails? I can't be sure of that and am not in a position to test it out, but that's my guess.
In your shoes, I'd go to notifications and click on one of them for this thread and see what happens. I have a feeling (and it is a feeling) that'll reset the notifications to keep coming to you.
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Hello. Today's food is Bf; FF gr Yoghurt with 3 drops of Stevia and strawberries. Lunch was 3 slices back bacon, 2 fried eggs, 2 cherry tomatoes and half a hm linseed roll. Tonight's tea will be egg mayo with cress, cherry tomatoes, iceberg lettuce and half a hm lc roll. This morning my bg was (drumroll please!!) 5.8!!! First time ever. I am so delighted. I wouldn't be in this position without you.
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Just about to start my OMAD off by starting my lamb tagine. It'll take a couple or so hours to be ready but I really need to do it today before the lamb goes out of date. So far lots of tea.
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And @Annb, I've had a look at the Monk Fruit extract and it is pretty much pure. Only addition seems to be some citrus. @shelley262 , it will be incredibly sweet so I would add it very gradually a drop at a time. The sugars I use are different. They are mixed with erythirtol but they don't give the quantity. I can only base it on it behaves like sugar so the erythirtol must be high. Having said that, it doesn't have a nasty aftertaste and works so well in baking.
Annb
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My tagine is finished. Haven't had it yet - just tasted the sauce and it's very tasty. Quite veggie full and not a great deal of meat, but it will do very well for my OMAD. Some carbs in all the vegetables but I don't know how many - there's onion, carrot, red and yellow peppers, courgette and some apricots in it. Still can't be all that much for having in one day.
If any more issues crop up, just let us know, for now I'm going to assume the problem is solved!
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breakfast; low carb granola, a toasted slice of carbzone bread and butter
mocha
lunch; low carb crispbread topped with cream cheese and cotto ham. left over chicken leg, olives
dinner; mushroom and ham omelette, berries and cream
two squares 90% lindt
mocha
lunch; low carb crispbread topped with cream cheese and cotto ham. left over chicken leg, olives
dinner; mushroom and ham omelette, berries and cream
two squares 90% lindt
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Will do.
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Monday bed 6 4 FBG 6.9. Wind whipping up again. I've now switched to the DD 10 week menus that I adapted last year. Then, best laid plans, I had to alter it as No 1 grandson wasn't well so I had to get him from school. He's fine today.
B. Following grandson collection, TAG and that LC granola with coconut milk.
L. Nothing.
D. A Mexican burger with lettuce, avocado, salsa, sour cream, santini tomatoesand Mexican cheese. I invested in a burger press which makes 3 sizes plus stuffed burgers (mainly because DD is fond of burgers). I have to say to really keeps the burger together.
Coconut milk.
B. Following grandson collection, TAG and that LC granola with coconut milk.
L. Nothing.
D. A Mexican burger with lettuce, avocado, salsa, sour cream, santini tomatoesand Mexican cheese. I invested in a burger press which makes 3 sizes plus stuffed burgers (mainly because DD is fond of burgers). I have to say to really keeps the burger together.
Coconut milk.
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@RosemaryJackson well done both on the changes you are making and your results - I found that seeing a direct impact like you are is very motivating.
@maglil55 thanks for advice - hoping that because monkfruit is so sweet and so little needed that it may be a game changer but will let you know - it’s due to arrive tomorrow so keen to experiment in a few days when Ive got time. First plan is the chocolate truffles experiment.
Lunch hm lc roll buttered and with hm chicken liver pate plus handful of macadamia nuts followed by yoghurt and a few raspberries and two squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner Chinese spiced chicken with salads followed by Lc ginger cake warmed with spoon of cream.
@maglil55 thanks for advice - hoping that because monkfruit is so sweet and so little needed that it may be a game changer but will let you know - it’s due to arrive tomorrow so keen to experiment in a few days when Ive got time. First plan is the chocolate truffles experiment.
Lunch hm lc roll buttered and with hm chicken liver pate plus handful of macadamia nuts followed by yoghurt and a few raspberries and two squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner Chinese spiced chicken with salads followed by Lc ginger cake warmed with spoon of cream.
