What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Annb]

@MrsA2, I was shocked to find out that a cup of tea supplies about 0.5g carbs (versus a cup of brewed real coffee, which seems to be carb-free) so it appears to me that just as something reaches my gut from the tea, the same applies from those cloves. But very little?

I'm shocked too but is that tea with milk in it or black tea? And how about fruit teas. Most of the fluids I drink are tea based but I almost never drink coffee. 8 cups of tea a day would equal only 4 grams though, so it's not much. Still, it all contributes to the carbs in the diet.

 

[Annb]

2 extra units of Tresiba this morning and then my usual 60u of Humalog before breakfast which was half a slice of wholemeal bread (made by Neil for me) with Dairylea cheese. Surprisingly B G dropped.
2nd meal: 2 patties of bubble & squeak.
3rd meal: will be some unidentifiable patties that I found in the freezer. I think they are mackerel based and have some vegetables in them, but I'm not sure. Might be able to identify them later.
BG has been up and down all day - but almost all the readings were well within range.

Edited to add: the patties were meat based - still unidentified and actually inedible. They're in the compost bin and I had the remaining bubble & squeak. BG 7.2 - just outside of range.

 

[Alexandra100]

I'm shocked too but is that tea with milk in it or black tea?

@Annb, sorry to say, black tea. However it's possible that different teas vary. They mostly don't declare their carb content. Some packets / sites give 0.5gc, some 0.4. Peppermint tea 0.5. My favourite Chai 1.4 ! Adding milk would bump up the carbs a lot. 2T milk = 2gc.

 

[Alexandra100]

how about fruit teas

https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/food/tea/carbohydrate

 

[Alexandra100]

If you bake the egg shells, then crush them into powder, you can sprinkle some on your yogurt.

@RosemaryJackson At my age, life is too short to bake eggshells.

 

[Rachox]

Forgot to post yesterday but it went something like this:
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 DGF chocolate fudge cake.
Dinner Chinese take away: crispy duck, 3 small pancakes, a smidge of sauce and veggies followed by SF jelly and cream.

Then today:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a mint carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Atkins bar.
Dinner: (ILs have covid so no Jaffa cake for me this Sunday ) Low Carb Food Co pork pie with leafy salad and coleslaw followed by DGF gingerbread and cream.

 

[shelley262]

Brunch one each of slice of bacon, egg and Hilo lc bread toasted
Dinner another variation of lasagne - no pasta version. I made a passatta with med veg and one tin of tomatoes and used grass fed British venison mince slow cooked all day in slow cooker. Layers were bolognese then field mushrooms fried in butter followed by more bolognese then sealed top by using slices of Parma ham and topped with grated vintage cheddar served with salad and glass of red wine. Would recommend Parma ham versus pasta it’s fairly impermeable so works well and tastes yum. Pudding a few raspberries with yoghurt.

 

[Alexandra100]

used grass fed British venison mince

@shelley262 Please, where did you buy this? (I'm assuming you did buy it, rather than shooting, skinning and mincing it yourself.)

 

[shelley262]

@shelley262 Please, where did you buy this? (I'm assuming you did buy it, rather than shooting, skinning and mincing it yourself.)

I got from a local community farm that does a lot of grass fed stuff for locals - they don’t sell online but think there are grass fed game sellers out there- internet search?
However Waitrose does lots of grass fed game including venison - mince, meatballs, diced and steaks, pheasant and partridge breasts and sometimes mixed game. A lot of game is grass fed and UK sourced you just need to check would imagine you could get other places?think I’ve seen U.K. venison mince in M and S?
Just check label.
We love game at ours and of course much is in season at the moment.
Edit just searched online for game meat suppliers U.K. and lots out there
Fieldandflower.co.uk
Farmison.com
Wildgamemeat.co.uk
Www.wildmeat.co.uk
Etc

 

[Tori71]

breakfast; low carb granola, a toasted slice of carbzone bread and butter
mocha
lunch; l/c crispbread, cream cheese, ham, protein bar
dinner; chicken rogan josh with a low carb wrap, spoonful of pilau rice, salad. raspberries and cream.
a packet of salted popcorn
90% lindt

No walk today, the rain was horizontal!

 

[EllieM]

Hello everyone, just a quick reminder that this is the "what did you eat today thread" and if you want to chat about other stuff there is a parallel chat thread in the general chat forum
"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat | Page 88 | Diabetes Forum • The Global Diabetes Community

And to keep in the spirit of things, yesterday I had
scrambled egg and bacon with a (small) slice toast for lunch
For a (birthday) dinner we went out to a local restaurant and I had
salmon bite (salmon mixed with cucumber and avo)
baked clams (shared with husband)
whole baked flounder with salad.

The main dishes all seemed carb free (we could have ordered side dishes with carbs) so was able to have some carbs for dessert to use up some insulin but in deference to the low carb nature of this thread I'll leave that out...

 

[Pipp]

Feeling more like eating today, so
Brunch: egg, bacon, pork sausage, mushrooms black coffee
Dinner: braised steak, onions, purple broccoli, two baby carrots, gravy, two glasses of red wine.
Love Sunday menu.

 

[Antje77]

Hello everyone, just a quick reminder that this is the "what did you eat today thread" and if you want to chat about other stuff there is a parallel chat thread in the general chat forum

Thanks for the reminder, I'm afraid I'm one of the worst on this thread when it comes to derailing, and I'll try to keep it to food and some chat in the future instead of the other way around.

Had the other pork belly from the package today, fried in pieces with a large onion. Added snow peas for the last minutes, quick and tasty meal!

 

[DJC3]

Didnt manage to post yesterday and I can’t actually remember most of what I ate anyway. Nothing carby but did score an 8.3 on the meter after DGF Christmas pud - v Disappointing as I loved it.
Today brunch was- croque monsieur made with fried 90 second mug bread and slice of cheddar
Dinner- slow roast (7hr) leg of lamb with garlic cauliflower purée, and green beans with pine nuts. Followed by a large cheeseboard- all local cheeses, with M&S seedy crackers.
@Pipp I’ve seen frozen avocado but presumed it’d be all mushy, is it ok?
Panicked this evening as I couldn’t find any chocolate in the house and ended up spending around £40 on Montezumas. I definitely need to curb my on line spending.

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

Steak, egg and cheese omelette, button mushrooms for breakfast.
Two cold hard boiled eggs, lemon cordial / osmolax mis for smoko.
Corned silverside, veggies, pineapple jelly for lunch.
Prawns and salad in low carb wraps for supper at six.

Pepper crackers with blue cheese, watching "Reacher" on Prime Video, highly recommended series if you have Prime.

 

[Annb]

So, a mug of tea with milk would be about 2g carbs. I have that 8 times a day usually so that's 16g carbs I wasn't allowing for.

 

[RosemaryJackson]

Hello. 7.3 on rising, no idea why. For bf just a slice of cheese because I wasn't hungry. Had dinner at lunchtime which was 3 better naked sausages, cabbage,cauli, fried mushrooms, half a dozen carrot slices, one very small roastie and gravy. Tonight I've had 2 fried eggs and 1 lc roll. 6.9 reading tonight.

 

[MrsA2]

B : ff greek with seeds and a small pear
Walk, only an hour
L: 6 97% chipolatas
D: slow cooked beef (10 hours in slow cooker in beer) 1 small Yorkshire, carrots, broccoli, roast cauliflower and roast peppers. Berry cheesecake with cream (I used a recipe for 4 but made it into 6 ramekins, no one else noticed) Cheeses. Red wine.
Perhaps not as low carb as usual but it was shared with neighbours and much enjoyed

 

[Goonergal]

Didn’t post here yesterday, although a pic of my main meal is in Carnivore Corner, so no surprise that it was meat heavy - a large, bone-in rib reverse seared. Eaten as brunch as I was hungry early in the day. Delicious.

I picked the rest of the day - combination of 0% Fage, cream (found both clotted cream and double cream in the yellow sticker section), raspberries (also yellow stickered) and Lindt 90%.

 

[Alexandra100]

So, a mug of tea with milk would be about 2g carbs. I have that 8 times a day usually so that's 16g carbs I wasn't allowing for.

@Annb Maybe you are about to start a new life of real coffee with double cream (1T double cream = 0.3gc). NB instant coffee = 0.5gc per cup black, so no better than tea. 8 cups of real coffee would of course be OTT for caffeine (though tea does contain some), but decaff? 8T double cream = only 2.4gc. So, switching to real coffee + cream would save 13.6gc - more than half my daily carb ration !!! Only saying!