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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Two slices toast and vegimite for breakfast, mug of black coffee with half a scoop of osmolax in it for breakfast
Small sausage roll, lemon cordial with a large scoop of osmolax for smoko.
Reheated spag bol and pasta for lunch.
Tin of hearty beef soup, two slices of toast, mug of black tea with another half scoop of the osmolax.

Glass of single malt and one oxcodone and a early night.

Thanks for the hugs everyone,

I phoned my palliative care GP for an appointment for Friday, she is going to call in at home today Thursday to save me the trip
 
So I think I'll just have a sandwich, or maybe a lot of strawberries
Reminder to self: If you eat 300 grams of strawberries in 10 minutes, you do have to take insulin for it, even if it's 'just' strawberries.
Still, they were very tasty, and I caught the rise at 7 which reminded me to inject so no regrets! :D
 
Yesterday 4th
Breakfast was 2 boiled eggs, chia seed pudding with nuts, strawberries and some greek yogart
Lunch, 2 small homemade pizza pockets the other half found the recipe online Bases made with almond flour
Dinner, chicken and chorizo with steamed Corgette, asparagus and red peppers
 
@Antje77, @Yaya10_10 Thanks a lot! I know quite a few recipes for low-carb dishes, but if it is tasty than it is too difficult or too expensive. When I have a lot of free time, I cook something with chicken or fish, but after a working day I'm so lazy to do something that I just cook pasta with sausages. I usually cook eggs when I don't feel like cooking and need something low-carb, but I'm already tired of eggs.
 
but if it is tasty than it is too difficult or too expensive.
Staples in my kitchen are onions and cabbage, both cheap and easy to prepare.
I'm pretty sure fried onions with cabbage and sausages will make a cheap and tasty meal, especially if you add tomato puree as well. And chopping onions is just a very little bit more work than cooking spaghetti, so things like that may work for lazy cooking days.

Onions and cabbage are also great as a cheap way of making more of about any dish with more expensive ingredients! :)
(Still more expensive than spaghetti of course, but choosing cheaper ingredients really makes a lot of difference.)

I often cook for multiple days too, even when I don't work I'm too lazy to cook every day. Less work, and less expensive because less leftovers and I can buy bigger packages of things.
I often do my shopping without a real plan, just buying things that are on offer and only deciding what I'll do with them during the week.
Hope this helps!
 
@Zhnyaka, as Antje says, cabbage - any kind - and onion make a great base for other ingredients. Even better if you can add a squeeze of lemon juice either while cooking or at the end. The kind of sausage you can get depends on where you live - in UK sausages are usually fairly high carb and if you hunt around and get lower carb ones, they tend to be more expensive. Continental sausage is generally lower carb because it's normal not to add a starch to them like we do in UK. But you don't need much sausage to make the cabbage and onions tasty.

Streaky bacon is pretty inexpensive and it makes for a very tasty dish as well. If you shred the cabbage and onions (maybe in a food processor) and cook them gently in butter, they cook down to a very tasty base. You could make this as a base and add whatever ingredients you want to it - bacon, sausage, grated cheese, cream cheese, tomatoes (cheap ones chopped in tins will do fine), tomato puree, even some minced or chunks of meat that you enjoy. As long as you season it to your own taste, it will make a good meal.

You can buy low carb pasta, but they tend to be expensive and if you are like me, you can't eat them anyway (they contain fibres from plants I can't tolerate) but other people can.

Then again, you could try making large quantities of something you enjoy and keep it in the fridge to use over the next 2 or 3 days, or in the freezer to take out when you want it.

You could make a fairly plain soup (like the one Antje made a day or so back) and add things to it on subsequent days (bits of sausage, bacon and so on or chunks/slices of vegetables).

There again, you could just have a stock of cold meat and/or cheese/ smoked, cooked or tinned fish that you can snack on with some lettuce leaves to wrap it in. Soft cheese and chopped ham mixed together and wrapped in lettuce, is pretty good and takes no time at all to put together.

Spinach leaves take no time at all to cook and are great as a base of some fish or mixed with soft cheese and used to fill a lettuce leaf.

Maybe you could find a few different bases you like - like the cabbage or the soup - and use them over a period so that you don't get bored and have bits and pieces to add to them as required.

To be honest, there are lots of days when I am too tired (lazy?) to do any food prep and I often don't feel like eating anyway so on those days, it's good to have something in the freezer that can be pulled out and shoved in the microwave if I do feel the need of some sustenance.
 
Went to buy local free range chicken for weekend but there was one very very reduced bird with short date of today so got tempted (free range birds are costly - although worth it for welfare and taste) and hence had to cook my planned Sunday roast dinner today. Also had short date lamb which had planned for today originally but stuck this in freezer.
Out early today so took opportunity to extend my daily fast from usual 16 hours to 19 hours
Late lunch - two boiled eggs with one slice of lc buttered toast followed by two small strawberries with hm yoghurts and two squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner roast chicken dinner with cauliflower mash, a few organic carrot batons and local asparagus with small glass dry white wine followed by lc blondie.
Now off to prepare my next batch of hm yoghurt it’s one that I ferment for 37 hours so needs to be planned ahead - I’m addicted to my hm yoghurts so wouldn't like to run out!
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a Food Dr bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a DGF millionaires shortbread.
Dinner: cauliflower and broccoli cheese with Brussels a couple of baby carrots followed by SF strawberry jelly and cream.
 
@Antje77, @Yaya10_10 Thanks a lot! I know quite a few recipes for low-carb dishes, but if it is tasty than it is too difficult or too expensive. When I have a lot of free time, I cook something with chicken or fish, but after a working day I'm so lazy to do something that I just cook pasta with sausages. I usually cook eggs when I don't feel like cooking and need something low-carb, but I'm already tired of eggs.

I know it is hard,

you can try to cook more of what you need then put in the fridge to eat in a different day.

For example make chicken breasts in the oven and freeze them to just eat them another day.
We also make tomato sauce for our food and put them in plastic bags and to the fridge.

Some food is more expensive than other go for what is heathy and suit your budget.

Expensive food does always mean it is better and healthier.

good luck
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a Food Dr bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a DGF millionaires shortbread.
Dinner: cauliflower and broccoli cheese with Brussels a couple of baby carrots followed by SF strawberry jelly and cream.
Hi, that is very nice.

about the porridge

do you make like this

https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/keto-coconut-porridge

and does it taste good?
 
Two slices of middle bacon, two egg and cheese omelette, small portion baked beans, slice of toast for breakfast.
Nothing for smoko, lemon cordial with osmolax.
Red Rooster chicken and vegies, gravy for lunch.
Left over chicken sandwiches for supper at six.

My GP called in with a nurse from the Palliative Care unit this morning from the base hospital, had a good Q&A from both of them.

I ended up getting a script for Tranexamic acid to stop any bleeding when it occurs, and told not to be frightened to take the oxycodone when I have pains in the bowels as that is what they're there for. :)

I have not received the bill for a home GP visit yet, the nurse is a freebie, but it's around $200.00 for the GP I believe.
 
That's wonderful, and well worth the money, I'd say.
And I'm completely with them when it comes to pain medication.
My former GP was a tight wad on pain relieving medication, and only write scripts for stronger 650 mg paracetamol which you could get cheaper than over the counter prices.
 
Yes that’s the recipe I use, I like it, I have it for breakfast everyday.
I tried it today for breakfast and it is a great'.

but the thing is I took too much insulin :(
I might try to sort the carb right.

thanks again
 
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