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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Forgot to post yesterday but my usual Sunday food was eaten, finished off with a Jaffa cake!
Today:
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: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: keralan chicken and mushroom with cauli rice followed by SF strawberry jelly and cream.
 
AndBreathe said:
Perhaps slightly less in the IP, then a couple of minutes in the AF for the crispy bits? What do you think @maglil55 ?
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Sound like experimentation time. The creme brulee is a 9 min job so poured over the buttered not cross buns you could probably reduce the time under pressure. Air Fryer could do the trick. I'm still inclined towards the oven as you can watch it. I'll experiment if I can stop eating them! I did consider using SLC bread but then the issue is the raisins/sultanas which would need a lower carb substitute.
 
I absolutely love all this talk of bread and butter pudding and the different ways to make the creme brulee or custard and how to get the bits crispy!
I also have no idea what bread and butter pudding is (no idea what not cross buns are either), I don't think it's a thing in the Netherlands, but I really hope both @maglil55 and @DJC3 will find the perfect way to make it!

I had the same as yesterday (MrB's World Famous Cheese and Onion Pie and an endive salad), only with slices of the pie reheated in the frying pan and the egg for my salad cut prettier. :)

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B 1030hrs 2 fried eggs, 2 bacon
L 1400hrs hm veg soup
D 1800hrs chicken breasts in a tomato ,pepper and onion sause recipe from a keto Web site with steamed veg
3 x coffees , 1 x Green tea
2x squares dark chocolate
 
Forgot to post yesterday as well, nothing flash to report anyways.

Bacon, couple of lambs kidneys, two eggs, two slices vegimite on toast.
Heat and eat buffalo chicken wings, low sugar lemon jelly and lemon / lime sorbet for lunch.
Curried egg and lettuce sandwiches for supper at six.

Small glass of single malt before bed time.
 
So back to yesterday. Usual brekkie of slice LC toast and copious tea.
Same today and every day! Lunch yesterday was cold plate of ham, chopped salad, 2 Higgidy mini fritatas, spoon coleslaw topped with bits of Shropshire Blue cheese and a couple of pickled silverskin onions. Made some muffins using ground almonds and flavoured with orange oil and juice and zest of a small clementine. They wouldnt win a beauty contest but the one I had with my lunchtime cup of tea was delicious. Always useful to have some in the freezer for outings where I will struggle to find anything. Supper yesterday was two Green Cuisine plant burgers topped with two Portobello mushrooms.
@maglil55 no I wasn’t aware that LoDough had stopped trading. I still have two left with a good date. But I do need to find a replacement for pizza so can anyone suggest an alternative. I am not interested in making Fat Head as I like a really thin crispy base. TIA.
Lunch today will be a mug of soup followed by a cup of tea and an orange muffin (they work out about 5g carbs). Supper will be chicken, chorizo, red pepper stirfry with smoked paprika and rice/cauli rice. Mr PM now likes his stirred through the rice so I have to remove my share add his rice to the pan and then repeat with cauli rice for me.
 
Em was here again this morning before school and, as yesterday, didn't finish her bacon and egg - so I did. That was my breakfast.

Later, sometime, I will have the black pudding etc from yesterday.

I've had a sore throat and a tight chest for the last few days, similar to Neil's bug of the last week and I thought I was getting off light. However, this morning my chest is worse and my throat is fogging up, and I have a tickley cough, so it looks as though it's going to get worse. We'll see how it goes and if I'm OK for my appointment next Monday at the "Move More" session. Neil is clearly much better now, although his voice is still very croaky and he still gets pretty breathless and tired.
 
Morning all. Here's hoping it soon feels better @Annb. Lunch yesterday was lovely but from a diabetic's point of view, not so. Fish and chips with mushy peas and cheesecake for afters. Had a piece of cheese for tea. Today I'm going to eat the rest of my hm tomato soup with a hm lc roll and try to keep it at that. If I get hungry, I have some slices of roast beef to nibble on. It's a lovely day here, hope it is where you all are.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Morning all. Here's hoping it soon feels better @Annb. Lunch yesterday was lovely but from a diabetic's point of view, not so. Fish and chips with mushy peas and cheesecake for afters. Had a piece of cheese for tea. Today I'm going to eat the rest of my hm tomato soup with a hm lc roll and try to keep it at that. If I get hungry, I have some slices of roast beef to nibble on. It's a lovely day here, hope it is where you all are.
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Yum!
 
maglil55 said:
Did you know that Seriously Low Carb are now doing a low carb sweet pickle? Tastes like Branston but not as chunky. Now, cheese & pickle sandwich.
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I’ll wait to see what you think of the Branston-like pickle. I bought a trio of pickles from keto fitness club last Christmas. They included piccalilli, a spicy one and a tomato one but I didn’t like any of them and ended up throwing them out.
These days I tend to use this superkraut https://goodnudefood.co.uk/ anywhere I might have used pickle, and a lot more. All 3 flavours are great, it’s probably more like kimchi as it uses all sorts of veg and spices.
 
PenguinMum said:
So back to yesterday. Usual brekkie of slice LC toast and copious tea.
Same today and every day! Lunch yesterday was cold plate of ham, chopped salad, 2 Higgidy mini fritatas, spoon coleslaw topped with bits of Shropshire Blue cheese and a couple of pickled silverskin onions. Made some muffins using ground almonds and flavoured with orange oil and juice and zest of a small clementine. They wouldnt win a beauty contest but the one I had with my lunchtime cup of tea was delicious. Always useful to have some in the freezer for outings where I will struggle to find anything. Supper yesterday was two Green Cuisine plant burgers topped with two Portobello mushrooms.
@maglil55 no I wasn’t aware that LoDough had stopped trading. I still have two left with a good date. But I do need to find a replacement for pizza so can anyone suggest an alternative. I am not interested in making Fat Head as I like a really thin crispy base. TIA.
Lunch today will be a mug of soup followed by a cup of tea and an orange muffin (they work out about 5g carbs). Supper will be chicken, chorizo, red pepper stirfry with smoked paprika and rice/cauli rice. Mr PM now likes his stirred through the rice so I have to remove my share add his rice to the pan and then repeat with cauli rice for me.
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I like the Seriously Low Carb pizza bases. They do make topped pizzas but they are pricey plus I prefer to top them myself. You can freeze them so you can get a stock of the bases when they go on offer. Just remember to separate the bases with greaseproof as they are nigh on impossible to separate when frozen.
 
Annb said:
Em was here again this morning before school and, as yesterday, didn't finish her bacon and egg - so I did. That was my breakfast.

Later, sometime, I will have the black pudding etc from yesterday.

I've had a sore throat and a tight chest for the last few days, similar to Neil's bug of the last week and I thought I was getting off light. However, this morning my chest is worse and my throat is fogging up, and I have a tickley cough, so it looks as though it's going to get worse. We'll see how it goes and if I'm OK for my appointment next Monday at the "Move More" session. Neil is clearly much better now, although his voice is still very croaky and he still gets pretty breathless and tired.
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Hope you feel better soon @Annb (and Neil). There's a few nasties on the go as I well know.
 
Antje77 said:
I absolutely love all this talk of bread and butter pudding and the different ways to make the creme brulee or custard and how to get the bits crispy!
I also have no idea what bread and butter pudding is (no idea what not cross buns are either), I don't think it's a thing in the Netherlands, but I really hope both @maglil55 and @DJC3 will find the perfect way to make it!

I had the same as yesterday (MrB's World Famous Cheese and Onion Pie and an endive salad), only with slices of the pie reheated in the frying pan and the egg for my salad cut prettier. :)

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Bread and butter pudding was traditionally made with bread that was going stale (not mouldy - just stale) which you cut into triangles, buttered and layered in a greased dish with vanilla custard and a mix of sultanas, currants, mixed peel. Oven baked to set the custard and Granny would put a good sprinkling of demerara sugar on top to assist production of the crispy bits. It was a very cheap and comforting dessert and it ensured no waste which was strictly observed when I was growing up A really delicious dessert served with more custard or back in the day, the cream of the top of the milk delivered daily by the milkman.
The headache for diabetics is the mix of currants, sultanas etc and I was blowed if I could think if a way to make that bit low carb. Everything else was easy.
Then, along came Seriously Low Carb's Not Cross Buns. They originally only sold them in the run up to Easter as Hot Cross Buns but they were so popular they continued to sell the all year around as Not Cross Buns ie a Hot Cross Bun minus the Cross on top. Low carb and ideal for bread and butter pudding.

There's seems to be a lot of Barnsley Chops about too.
 
I seem to struggling with a head cold again. 6 days since the last one.

Small breakfast of yog seeds and berries
1st dance class of the day
L: beef curry on cabbage.
Busy day ahead
2nd dance class then 2 back to back events both of which threaten wine and nibbles
Tried to manage by filling up ahead. We'll see.
 
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