What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Antje77]

3 air fried chicken thighs coated in lemon pepper seasoning for lunch. Meant to have some sausages with them but got so absorbed in an online search I forgot to put them in the air fryer!

Forgetting about cooking due to the internet must be in the air today!
I first had a delightful two hour online workshop on diabetes, part of someones research posted on this forum, and then got absorbed by the forum itself until I realised I hadn't planned anything to eat and hadn't been for groceries either.

Good thing I have guinea pigs, and therefore always veggies in the house.
Cauliflower in this case, with a cheese sauce and fried sausage bits. Not really the kind of sausage usually used in cooking, being a Dutch dried sausage to be eaten cold, but the fried bits still worked well in my meal.

 

[Mrs T 123]

Backshift today:

Brunch - 2 sandwiches on slc bread filled with egg mayo. Mug of earl grey tea

Dinner/Snack - 1 slc roll filled with grated cheese & red onion. 1 packet of chicken tikka fridge raiders. 1 small phd white chocolate bar. Pepsi max & another mug of earl grey tea

 

[SlimLizzy]

08.09
Breakfast.
Coffee with semi skimmed milk.
Hard boiled egg on LC toast eaten quickly because it was a lovely sunny morning- the wasps and hornets will be up early and I need to remove the fallen apples. It was while doing this too late in the day I got stung.
Coffee with semi skimmed milk and one chocolate coated biscuit.
Lunch. Diabetics nightmare, sliced white bread left by the houseguests.
Am turning it into that traditional French snack Croque Monsier, and serving it with salad. We are eating this once a week until the bread is gone. Neither of us enjoys the sweetish taste of this bread. Cutting off the crusts reduced the carbs to about 32g. A just passable amount for me, but definitely not either nutritious or really enjoyable. We had water and then tea to drink.
More tea in the afternoon. MrSlim is hard at work repointing the end wall. The scaffold started at about 10m high, reducing as the work progresses. Today he took down the top layer, unfortunately somehow the satellite dish got knocked out of alignment and we then spent several hours resetting it.
"What's it like now?
"Still showing weak signal message"
How about now?
It's gone black !
Each communication involved running outside and shouting up the scaffold.
Both of us got a bit fed up with it but we managed to get it going just in time to hear about the queens health problems.
Sugar free lemonade and lime while I was cooking.
Dinner was pork chops, surprisingly well cooked despite the 30 second power cut. Our gas powered range cooker has eletric ignition. If the power fails gas supply is automatically shut off. So chops had cooked in residiual heat.
Roasted and panfried to finish celariac, carrots, new potatoes from the garden and runner beans the same. I have finally been able to freeze a portion.
I had a very naughty icecream, 31g carbs but felt I deserved it after catching up with chores for the week despite sting (hornet sting on wrist, friday, very painful, hand and arm very sore, hot and swollen for several days. Still not completely back to normal ) and stomach upset Tuesday.
One glass of wine. The Queen is dead. Long live the King. Isn't that what we are supposed to say?
Cup of lemon and ginger tea before bed.
Oh and 11,727 steps.

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

Two hard boiled eggs, two slices toast and vegimite for breakfast.
Grilled rib steak, mashed potatoe, gravy for lunch.
Bacon sandwiches for supper at six/

The Queen is dead. Long live the King.

RIP Ma'am, I hope King Charle III keeps his head trying to fill your shoes for a long time.

 

[Deltic man]

Will be a bowel of cheerios for breakfast nothing for lunch then a deep pan meaty pizza followed by one apple and 2 pints of craft stout.

 

[Deltic man]

All this talk of what people are eating is making me feel hungry and wish I could eat proper meals instead of the junk food I push down my throat. It's times like these that I wished my grandma was still here as she would make sure I was eating properly and giving me proper yorkshire puddings made with a drop of Guinness in them plus home cooked crusty bread and bread cakes made with Newcastle brown ale. Mmmmmmm so scrumptious

 

[MrsA2]

Perfect 3 minute dippy eggs with marmite soldiers.
The soldiers are home made low carb seedy soda bread, sliced when cooked then frozen. Defrost then toast. Whole thing 5 minutes start to plate. Yum

 

[Deltic man]

Oh lovely marmite that's one spread I do love I once tried it on cooked chicken thighs oh never again I must have gone through every village in Wales when I was in the loo and head tipped forward you can guess what happened?

 

[MrsA2]

giving me proper yorkshire puddings made with a drop of Guinness in them plus home cooked crusty bread and bread cakes made with Newcastle brown ale. Mmmmmmm so scrumptious

Tasty and memorable indeed, but sadly we now know all these carbs might well have been building up metabolic problems for us all. Better to concentrate on and celebrate the meat and veg elements instead.

 

[Annb]

All this talk of what people are eating is making me feel hungry and wish I could eat proper meals instead of the junk food I push down my throat. It's times like these that I wished my grandma was still here as she would make sure I was eating properly and giving me proper yorkshire puddings made with a drop of Guinness in them plus home cooked crusty bread and bread cakes made with Newcastle brown ale. Mmmmmmm so scrumptious

Sorry to read that you have to take injections to deal with cancer and do hope that those help you. Poor health can lead to lethargy so maybe you are not so much too laid back to care, but too exhausted. I often say I am lazy, but that's just because I don't want to admit that my body just won't let me do what I used to. But when I try to do more, it reminds me!

Junk food isn't good for anyone - even less good for someone with any health problem, never mind diabetes. But there again, not all of what we think of as "good" food is necessarily good for us either. Presumably your grandma (as wise as most grandmas) gave you meat and vegetables along with the Yorkshire pudding. My Dad used to offer us Yorkshire pudding with syrup. As kids we loved it and it filled up some space before we came to the proper meal, so we didn't need so much meat and vegetables. A little of what you fancy, of course, does you good but I have been forced to think how much good what I fancy does me. Result? Not a lot.

 

[Deltic man]

There is on thing that I miss and when I was working in the heavy forge on 12 hour nights was for supper loads of beef dripping toast sprinkled with salt and plenty of mugs of Yorkshire tea milk in first. I haven't seen proper beef dripping since living in Scotland but you could buy it anywhere in my home city of Yorkshire.

 

[Annb]

One meal today: 4 lamb chops. I'm hoping that will do me, but am not convinced (or rather my stomach already isn't).

I have some black sausage patties in the oven, baking sufficiently to put them in the freezer. I got the idea from a "Hairy Bikers" programme and made my own mix with pork mince, black pudding slices, a medium onion, 2 Pink Lady apples and a couple of chicken stock cubes. The mix was blitzed in the renovated food processor. made little patties to check the taste and it seemed fine, so am getting the rest ready to freeze. I need to cook them first because the pork was frozen and so I can't put them directly back into the freezer.

 

[Annb]

There is on thing that I miss and when I was working in the heavy forge on 12 hour nights was for supper loads of beef dripping toast sprinkled with salt and plenty of mugs of Yorkshire tea milk in first. I haven't seen proper beef dripping since living in Scotland but you could buy it anywhere in my home city of Yorkshire.

I imagine that when you were doing a 12 hour shift in a forge, you could burn off lots of the carbohydrate in the toast. I can't imagine that the beef dripping would have done you any harm at all. I used to love that too but haven't seen any proper dripping in shops, ever. Proper beef dripping being the fat and juices from a beef roast. That, and mutton dripping on toast, was another treat our Dad made for us. I don't often buy the expensive cuts of meat that would produce decent dripping but, once in a blue moon, I still save the dripping and use it for cooking some other dish - often some vegetable dish. I saw an episode of Jamie Oliver where he used dripping as part of a salad dressing. Seems like a good idea to me.

Edited to add:
Another "filler dish" we used to have was rice pudding (my Mum made delicious rice pudding) as a starter (not that we thought about starters, mains, etc as children) but again, it meant that we didn't have a lot of space left for the meat and veg part of the meal.

 

[Deltic man]

When I mention beef dripping to my neighbours they just look at me and say you live in Scotland now and we don't have that mucky stuff so stick to Scottish grub aye it will do the good but there is one thing I would eat every week if I could and that's Haggis oh boy do I love Haggis.

 

[Deltic man]

Wow black pudding slices with a good hearty breakfast mmmmm lovely. I once tried making wholemeal scones but they came out like rocks I dropped one of them and it broke my best steak plate so I don't bake now tried it once and gave up threw everything in the wheelie bin including food processor and grinding machine, liquidiser but I had to buy a new grinding machine as I love freshly ground coffee. I will say this but I have got the only wheelie bin in the whole street that as got ulcers through my cooking.

 

[Annb]

When I mention beef dripping to my neighbours they just look at me and say you live in Scotland now and we don't have that mucky stuff so stick to Scottish grub aye it will do the good but there is one thing I would eat every week if I could and that's Haggis oh boy do I love Haggis.

Me too, but sadly, it is one of the things I like but doesn't like me. It's the oatmeal that does it. Same, to a degree, with black pudding, but reducing the amount of carb by mixing with pork helps. I'll have to see how it goes when I eat the black sausage patties. The mixture I made gave me 10 good sized patties so that will be at least 5 meals - possibly even 10.

Your neighbours don't know what they are missing if they haven't ever had proper dripping. I do have a little lamb dripping in the pan from the chops that I can use for some other dish - the carb in toast would be too much for me, unfortunately.

 

[Deltic man]

What I need is a personal chef who can cook for me but with 2 failed marriages that will never happen again but I do miss my wife's cooking and I miss my best soul mate and best friend we may not have seen eye to eye at times but we were in separable she looked after me and made sure I was safe and OK. Sorry just a few tears then well quite a lot actually the one thing she doesn't know is that I have cancer and other mental problems. But she as got her life to get on with and I have mine it may not be a good life but I take one day at a time. I actually turned down a bar of Kendal Mint Cake yesterday tea time what my neighbour had brought back from Hawes as they had been out hiking he knows I love Kendal mint cake.

 

[Annb]

What I need is a personal chef who can cook for me but with 2 failed marriages that will never happen again but I do miss my wife's cooking and I miss my best soul mate and best friend we may not have seen eye to eye at times but we were in separable she looked after me and made sure I was safe and OK. Sorry just a few tears then well quite a lot actually the one thing she doesn't know is that I have cancer and other mental problems. But she as got her life to get on with and I have mine it may not be a good life but I take one day at a time. I actually turned down a bar of Kendal Mint Cake yesterday tea time what my neighbour had brought back from Hawes as they had been out hiking he knows I love Kendal mint cake.

Oh @Deltic man, I do feel for you. Life isn't treating you well at the moment. Are you talking to someone about your mental health issues? You seem very depressed, and it seems that you have every reason for feeling down, if not actually clinically depressed. Perhaps if you can find a way through your mental issues, you will be able to feel a bit better about yourself. And that could lead to all sorts of improvements for you.

If all else fails in terms of food, have you looked at ready made meals to see if there is anything that would suit you? Most of them are pretty heavy in carbs, but your diet seems to be carb heavy anyway, and they would make your life so much easier, as long as you chose good quality ones. Or just buy raw or cooked meat which should be easy enough to prepare (but might be expensive) and maybe some salad vegetables that require no cooking or frozen veg that need little cooking. Even some tinned meats and/or veg would be better than just "junk". Sausages, you'd have to cook, but frankfurters you can eat cold, or heat them through and they are available in packets or tins. Packets of ham, or tins, are a possibility. Tinned stews or mince might work too.

 

[Deltic man]

Oh @Deltic man, I do feel for you. Life isn't treating you well at the moment. Are you talking to someone about your mental health issues? You seem very depressed, and it seems that you have every reason for feeling down, if not actually clinically depressed. Perhaps if you can find a way through your mental issues, you will be able to feel a bit better about yourself. And that could lead to all sorts of improvements for you.

If all else fails in terms of food, have you looked at ready made meals to see if there is anything that would suit you? Most of them are pretty heavy in carbs, but your diet seems to be carb heavy anyway, and they would make your life so much easier, as long as you chose good quality ones. Or just buy raw or cooked meat which should be easy enough to prepare (but might be expensive) and maybe some salad vegetables that require no cooking or frozen veg that need little cooking. Even some tinned meats and/or veg would be better than just "junk". Sausages, you'd have to cook, but frankfurters you can eat cold, or heat them through and they are available in packets or tins. Packets of ham, or tins, are a possibility. Tinned stews or mince might work too.

Annb.I am being looked after with my health and mental issues and speaking to you and all the other forum members you make feel happy even though I don't look it. But deep down and I mean deep down I will get through this and will be able to look at all the kind words and help that I am getting from this forum on diabetes and feel very proud of all the help I keep getting from you and teveryone else. I am having a chill out day by listening to all my 50s,60s And 70s mp3. I don't know if you know but here in Scotland we can get white pudding just like black pudding I have never seen it because I don't get out much due to leg swelling.

 

[Annb]

Annb.I am being looked after with my health and mental issues and speaking to you and all the other forum members you make feel happy even though I don't look it. But deep down and I mean deep down I will get through this and will be able to look at all the kind words and help that I am getting from this forum on diabetes and feel very proud of all the help I keep getting from you and teveryone else. I am having a chill out day by listening to all my 50s,60s And 70s mp3. I don't know if you know but here in Scotland we can get white pudding just like black pudding I have never seen it because I don't get out much due to leg swelling.

I do know white pudding and, when I could eat it, I used to be very fond of it. Also fruit pudding and dumpling as well. All of these are absolutely off the menu these days, due to the oat content or wheat content. I lived in England for the first 19 years of my life and then married a Scot. The next 58 years I spent in Scotland - now living in the Hebrides. So these good Scots dishes are very familiar to me even if I can't have them. Of course, the Scottish diet was formed at a time when something substantial and warming was needed for tough living and hard physical work in cold, wet, windy weather.

Leg swelling? Ditto!