What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[DJC3]

I liked the look of the wraps, but they are pretty expensive. I have a recipe for wraps made with coconut flour which I intend to try but the recipe does seem to be very eggy, so I may not like the finished product:

Basic Coconut Flour Tortilla Ingredients:​

• 1/2 cup Wholesome Yum Coconut Flour
• 6 large Eggs (up to 7-8, see notes)
• 1 1/4 cups Milk of choice (up to 1 1/2 cups, see notes; I recommend either almond milk or coconut milk beverage here)
• 3/4 tsp Sea salt

A lot of the recipes for h/m bread type goods are very eggy aren’t they? The DGF ones aren’t at all, which is another reason I like them. I guess they are expensive, but then lc baking ingredients are a lot costlier than flour and sugar. I’ll be interested to see how they turn out if you decide to make them.

 

[DJC3]

All this talk of coconut flour - ugh! A small amount (i.e. so you can barely taste it) in sweet items is ok, but in savoury food - no thanks!

Two meals today and so stuffed I doubt there’ll be anything else.

First thing was 2 poached eggs and some air fried Halloumi - almost as good as Nando’s @DJC3
Lunch was at Five Guys. Bunless bacon cheeseburger with grilled onions.

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Halloumi looks good. I’m missing five guys and Nando’s already!

 

[DJC3]

It’s been really cold here. The boiler’s conked out ( again) and our old stone cottage, having been empty for a week, is graveyard cold. I just haven’t been able to get warm in spite of wearing several layers plus a hat and scarf indoors. That’s my excuse for eating such a lot today - trying to warm up.
Breakfast started with schneiderbrot and cream cheese while ignoring my boiled eggs a la @AndBreathe ‘s method ( worked well) then nuts, then the eggs.
I can’t remember when breakfast morphed into lunch but there were more nuts, snacking salami, more eggs and I think more schneiderbrot.
Dinner will be beef shawarma from the freezer with cabbage noodles. It’s quite spicy so hopefully will warm me up at last.

 

[Antje77]

I just haven’t been able to get warm in spite of wearing several layers plus a hat and scarf indoors.

Fill an empty bottle (any plastic water bottle or glass booze bottle will do) with hot water and put it in your shirt!

 

[shelley262]

@DJC3 I'm with you on the cold today I felt it too when out on hike had proper shivers but at least warm back home - I do feel for you with boiler problems hope your spicy supper warms you up.
Breakfast one slice of bacon and egg on one slice of LC toast plus put slow cooker on for day with hm curry
Then black coffee only until
5ish when warmed up a LC wrap - as I was jealous of @Rachox s garlic and herb one I made some garlic and corriander butter then spread on my plain wrap and heated wrapped in foil in air fryer to serve with my hm chicken curry had with glass of red wine. Pudding LC blondie heated and served with spoon of yoghurt.

 

[DJC3]

Fill an empty bottle (any plastic water bottle or glass booze bottle will do) with hot water and put it in your shirt!

Good idea thanks. (Sounds like the voice of experience?) I had a hot water bottle but took it round to a daughter today - she’d hurt her back lifting without care. Never occurred to me to use any old bottle.

 

[DJC3]

garlic and corriander butter then spread on my plain wrap and heated wrapped in foil in air fryer.[/QUOTE]

Great idea! I shall try that.

 

[filly]

That’s what I should do. I buy in bulk to save costs but then I eat them in bulk too! Where do you get your 4x1oz bags from?

KP Nut Tastic multipack. x4..... Just looked and they also do big packs!!!!! (100g) I get them from Ocado.

 

[Antje77]

Good idea thanks. (Sounds like the voice of experience?)

Yup.
Have spend a lot of time in unheated and unisolated steel boats and ships with high humidity, very hard to keep warm.

My elbow is improving and my mood follows suit.
Had my last painkiller halfway through the night and as long as I'm very careful in my movements it doesn't hurt!

Called my best friend and told her to tell me what groceries to buy, considering my sore arm, lack of inspiration and indicisiveness, and she promptly replied with "Shawarma meat, ready chopped onions, low carb wraps, something green and a jar of chopped garlic for garlic sauce. Big package of shawarma to last you for at least 3 days. And a tub of tuna-mayo or egg-mayo or such. And tell your cleaner to grate lots of the good hard cheese when she comes next monday."
It's so wonderful to have a friend like this!

The above was on thursday and I bought everything my friend said to put on my list except the ready chopped onions.
I'm not going to buy the equivalent of one single onion for the same price I pay for 2 kilos of unpeeled onions!

So yesterday I had my wrap (shawarma, bell pepper, arugola and garlic mayo) without the onion, today I managed to chop an onion very carefully.
You have absolutely no idea how much happiness a simple onion can bring!
The wraps are small but expensive so I didn't want to eat two at the same meal. A bit of filling on the side worked just as well.

I also bought tuna mayo and egg mayo (not something I usually indulge in when I can make it myself), which made for some very happy dogs and cats yesterday.
Managing dark stairs, door at top of stairs, kittens trying to escape through that door, plate of low carb bread with a shameless amount of egg and tuna mayo, dogs accompanying me on the stairs, and a dysfunctional arm all at the same time proved too much for my multitasking skills, so I ended up having to catch kittens downstairs and making new sandwiches.
Five seconds rule definitely doesn't apply to my floor, especially not with sticky stuff like mayo.
Still, no reason to let good food go to waste so I cut the resulting mess in small pieces after scraping it off the floor and had the dogs and cats have their feast.

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee
Late morning: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a food dr bar.
Dinner Chinese take away: crispy duck, 3 small pancakes, 3 prawn crackers, a smidge of sauce and veggies followed by SF jelly and cream.

 

[MrsA2]

No breakfast as Saturday is yoga day.
Hall was cold so when I stopped at the supermarket on the way home I did have a coffee - with milk as they can't serve cream, even though there's shelves of it only meters away
Did get a bargain of 15 hard boiled eggs for just a £1, and sliced mushrooms and sliced peppers for just pence.
Lunch was 4 eggs, with mayo.
Rest have been mixed with mayo and may get as far as the freezer, or may just end up being meals tomorrow as neither of my boys like them cold, lucky me!
Dinner was a couple of hm lc kofta balls (lamb) on a little lettuce with fried peppers and mushrooms and a yoghurt and cucumber dressing.

Then, one of the neighbours we'd hosted last week, dropped in 16 proper French macarons she'd had her family who live in France buy especially for us as a thank you! I have had one bite of a few, just for the taste. I could eat the whole box! Came beautifully wrapped and in a posh carrier bag.
Interesting that there's no ingredients or nutritional label. Apparently all the French know what's in a macaron. Like their style

 

[ravensmitten]

2 eggs and a handful of broccoli
2 pepperami (of all things, was on the run) cucumber, tomato and a bit of cheddar
spinach, 2 slices of roast beef, 2 slices of turkey, a finger of feta and a spring onion

 

[MommaE]

No breakfast as Saturday is yoga day.
Hall was cold so when I stopped at the supermarket on the way home I did have a coffee - with milk as they can't serve cream, even though there's shelves of it only meters away
Did get a bargain of 15 hard boiled eggs for just a £1, and sliced mushrooms and sliced peppers for just pence.
Lunch was 4 eggs, with mayo.
Rest have been mixed with mayo and may get as far as the freezer, or may just end up being meals tomorrow as neither of my boys like them cold, lucky me!
Dinner was a couple of hm lc kofta balls (lamb) on a little lettuce with fried peppers and mushrooms and a yoghurt and cucumber dressing.

Then, one of the neighbours we'd hosted last week, dropped in 16 proper French macarons she'd had her family who live in France buy especially for us as a thank you! I have had one bite of a few, just for the taste. I could eat the whole box! Came beautifully wrapped and in a posh carrier bag.
Interesting that there's no ingredients or nutritional label. Apparently all the French know what's in a macaron. Like their style

What a special treat.

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

Bacon and egg sandwich for breakfast.
Shepherds pie with pumpkin on my portion, I only ate half as the "not hungry anymore switch" tripped, for lunch.
Ate the the remnants of lunch for supper at six.

Glass and a half of single malt whisky before a early night.

 

[AndBreathe]

It’s been really cold here. The boiler’s conked out ( again) and our old stone cottage, having been empty for a week, is graveyard cold. I just haven’t been able to get warm in spite of wearing several layers plus a hat and scarf indoors. That’s my excuse for eating such a lot today - trying to warm up.
Breakfast started with schneiderbrot and cream cheese while ignoring my boiled eggs a la @AndBreathe ‘s method ( worked well) then nuts, then the eggs.
I can’t remember when breakfast morphed into lunch but there were more nuts, snacking salami, more eggs and I think more schneiderbrot.
Dinner will be beef shawarma from the freezer with cabbage noodles. It’s quite spicy so hopefully will warm me up at last.

You need one of these @DJC3 - just think how many layers you could get underneath, and the ridiculously large kangaroo pocket lends itself to a hot water bottle!

 

[AndBreathe]

Yesterday (for me, here anyway), we had quite a lazy day. I watched clouds in the morning - there were none, and in the afternoon, we went to the Thai equivalent of B&Q for, of all things, additional "bits" for our plumbed in garden irrigation system at home. Apparently, it's having a bit of a remodel this year, even though past year was supposed to be "it".

We also picked up a set of bathroom scales as I felt I've been losing weight, and MrB likes to keep a close eye on his too.

The on for Linner (we had our usual respective breakfasts).

MrB had a grilled prok salad with line and chilli. It seemed rather more insipid than promised, until he dabbled in the dressing. Boy! That'd clear your sinuses. He had a portion of fine rice noodles, and I had a few of those.

My linner was stir fried chicken, with chilli and garlic - very nice. A few of MrB's rice noodles to enjoy some of the sauce.
I'm generally impressed by the amount of meats we are finding in each portion when we go to eat. If we are promised pork, chicken, beef or whatever, there's a lot of it.

This morning the bathroom scales show me at 46.2kg, which is a couple down on my usual fighting weight. MrB thought he'd been putting weight on, but these new scales show him to have lost a couple of kilos too. Could be the scales, or could be more gluttony is required.
We'll see what the next few days brings.

 

[plantae]

Breakfast: nothing (i was on bariatric fluids only at that point. They did give me jelly but I don't like jelly so didn't eat it)
Lunch: 1 sandwich (4 triangles. One was ham and cheese, the other egg, the third tomato and the fourth I can't remember hahah) and apple juice
Dinner: My menu says it will be pickled pork (never had that!) and vegies

 

[Goonergal]

Yesterday (for me, here anyway), we had quite a lazy day. I watched clouds in the morning - there were none, and in the afternoon, we went to the Thai equivalent of B&Q for, of all things, additional "bits" for our plumbed in garden irrigation system at home. Apparently, it's having a bit of a remodel this year, even though past year was supposed to be "it".

We also picked up a set of bathroom scales as I felt I've been losing weight, and MrB likes to keep a close eye on his too.

The on for Linner (we had our usual respective breakfasts).

MrB had a grilled prok salad with line and chilli. It seemed rather more insipid than promised, until he dabbled in the dressing. Boy! That'd clear your sinuses. He had a portion of fine rice noodles, and I had a few of those.

My linner was stir fried chicken, with chilli and garlic - very nice. A few of MrB's rice noodles to enjoy some of the sauce.
I'm generally impressed by the amount of meats we are finding in each portion when we go to eat. If we are promised pork, chicken, beef or whatever, there's a lot of it.

This morning the bathroom scales show me at 46.2kg, which is a couple down on my usual fighting weight. MrB thought he'd been putting weight on, but these new scales show him to have lost a couple of kilos too. Could be the scales, or could be more gluttony is required.
We'll see what the next few days brings.

Sounds like a decent excuse for more of that crackling!

 

[plantae]

2 minutes until my pickled pork arrives. Why is dinner at 5PM? Anyway, excited

 

[AndBreathe]

Sounds like a decent excuse for more of that crackling!

None needed for that, but my crackling dealer on the local market seems to have gone AWOL.

If he’s not there tomorrow, I’ll have to jump ship, and fine someone else to service my habit.