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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Goonergal said:
Eaten a bit earlier today.

First course was a variation on my messy meal the other day. Fried up half a pack of 25% mince with some diced onions and courgette then added a beaten egg, some crumbled feta and a bit of grated mozzarella. Yum! Still plenty of all ingredients in the fridge so it’ll be featuring again. A lot quicker and simpler than attempting a roll.

Dessert is now in the fridge. As my ‘extra thick’ cream was runny yesterday, I mixed roughly equal quantities of that and cream cheese and whipped it together. Now in 2 ramekins with some 85% chocolate and a few raspberries and firming up in the fridge. Let’s see if I can manage to limit dessert to one portion. Who am I kidding?!

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To someone who doesn't "do" puddings, that looks good. On the rare times I do indulge if there's to be chocolate it is shaved and turned into the cream. It's been a while.

(HC 85% batons still intact. :angelic:)
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a food dr bar.
Tea at ILs: cold meat, cheese and salad buffet followed by one Jaffa cake!
 
I was thinking of chopping up the corned beef to make a better shaped chunk of meat, and more easily sliced but actually I think the fat content is too low and it won't hold together, so I've just started pressing it as is and hope it can be used as sliced beef later today. It's certainly very tasty and I have some really good gravy to use in something else.

Later on I'll have some bacon and eggs for breakfast and a slice of Lorne sausage.

2nd meal will be a casserole with pork sausages, onions and tomatoes - using some of the gravy.
 
Morning all. Don't think I posted yesterday so here goes. I cooked belly pork slices and sausages in the oven, enough for 2 days. I finely chopped broccoli, white cabbage, onion and sprouts and fried them slowly in butter. To my surprise, it tasted quite good! I think I've said before, when there were 5 of us, I was a good, inventive cook. But now there's only me and it doesn't seem worth the bother. Does anyone else feel that way? Have a good week everyone.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Morning all. Don't think I posted yesterday so here goes. I cooked belly pork slices and sausages in the oven, enough for 2 days. I finely chopped broccoli, white cabbage, onion and sprouts and fried them slowly in butter. To my surprise, it tasted quite good! I think I've said before, when there were 5 of us, I was a good, inventive cook. But now there's only me and it doesn't seem worth the bother. Does anyone else feel that way? Have a good week everyone.
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I always knew that once I lost my husband, I wouldn't bother to cook - and I didn't bother, even before he died because he was on a liquid feed, directly into his stomach for the last few months of his life. That's when I stopped even trying. I didn't have to make food for Neil either because his diet has, for many years, been so restricted that he just decided for himself what to eat and just made it for himself. I even virtually stopped eating for quite a while (just tea and the bare minimum of prep or cooking, once in a while).

After ending up in hospital I decided to take myself in hand. I still only cook properly when I feel the urge and just do the bare minimum most of the time. But I do try to think about what I'm eating and have a reasonable diet these days. Problem now is that I either feel too ill to eat, or too exhausted or in pain to stand and cook or prep food. I have a bad habit of making the food and then throwing it out because I can't eat.

Sometimes I force myself by buying a relatively expensive ingredient and then I just have to cook - like buying the brisket almost 2 weeks ago to make corned beef. An interesting experiment, to keep me interested and expensive enough not to let it go to waste. I brined it for 10 days and then cooked it yesterday. Now I just hav e to bother eating it.

Edit to add: Of course, I still bake fairly often these days, because it's one of the things Em likes to do when she comes here.
 
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I guess I'm going to be having a lot of mushroom soup. Thanks to @Annb planting it in my head, I got Hubby busy making chicken stock while I went to Aqua. He kindly diced my huge assortment of mushrooms too.
It's now blitzed and ready apart from adding some cream (that will be done as it is eaten as I suspect some may head to the freezer). Here's the recipe I gave him. The stock is excellent. I recall from learning to cook in restaurants that the base to any good savoury dish is a good stock.

sugarfreelondoner.com/keto-mushroom-soup/
 
Lainie71 said:
So far at 6am this morning a few slices of cold corned beef
Early lunch - omelette made with 2 eggs, unsweetened almond milk, chopped gammon, sliced mushrooms and a teaspoon of cream cheese
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Just having a piece of grilled chicken in a minute as I have been on the go most of the day and my bg is 6.4 but I am so hungry!
 
B: 1 cold chicken drumstick
Exercise class
Coffee (tea for me) with the girls
L: 3 cold chicken drumsticks. Soem hm lc yoghurt with rhubarb. So good there was a second bowl. Still hungry(!) so coffee with cream
Picked another tub of black berries this afternoon. Now frozen ready for winter as I refuse to buy berries out of season, so expensive!
D: frittata of roasted veg (peppers, radish, courgette) tried to make large one to last several days, but half has gone already. I glass white with loads of soda
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: meatballs in tomato and mascapone sauce with brussels, runner beans and brocolli followed by SF raspberry jelly and cream.

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maglil55 said:
I guess I'm going to be having a lot of mushroom soup. Thanks to @Annb planting it in my head, I got Hubby busy making chicken stock while I went to Aqua. He kindly diced my huge assortment of mushrooms too.
It's now blitzed and ready apart from adding some cream (that will be done as it is eaten as I suspect some may head to the freezer). Here's the recipe I gave him. The stock is excellent. I recall from learning to cook in restaurants that the base to any good savoury dish is a good stock.

sugarfreelondoner.com/keto-mushroom-soup/
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Similar to my recipe, except that I fry the onions, celery and garlic in butter and then the mushrooms in a very hot pan without oil or butter. That seems to increase the mushroom flavour so I don't bother with the porcinis. Just chuck them all in the pan, add stock and cook for a few minutes before blitzing and adding cream. However, this last time, I just fried the mushrooms in a hot, dry pan, added some very well flavoured stock and brought the whole lot to the boil, added butter and then blitzed it with the stick blender. When it cooled slightly, I added double cream. It worked very well so I might just make it that way in future.
 
Annb said:
I have a bad habit of making the food and then throwing it out because I can't eat.
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I made the sausage casserole and I also made a pot of stovies (because the Lorne sausage was at its use-by date), both using butternut squash instead of potato. But, as often happens, I didn't eat. So both are destined for the freezer, unless I have some of one or the other tomorrow. I did have a slice of Lorne sausage and some bacon for breakfast, so that will keep me going. That, along with cups of tea and a cold coffee milk shake. Probably another cup of tea before bed.
 
Pipp said:
Brunch : Fage yogurt and raspberries, black coffee x2
Mid afternoon : black iced coffee
Dinner: salmon , boiled egg, broccoli cooked in butter, beetroot juice, sugar free tonic water.
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That was reading so well until I got to "beetroot juice" . Not for me!:facepalm: :)
Did you mix it with the tonic water?
 
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