What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Mrs T 123]

Brunch - 2 slices slc bread topped with roasted cheese. 1 square lindtt 90% & mug of earl grey tea

Dinner - large mushroom & onion omlette with side salad. Large glass of irn bru xtra

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and my very small, ugly LC hot cross bun.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: Chinese takeaway. As regular readers of this thread will know I usually have crispy duck and don’t eat much of the carby stuff. Tonight I risked the house special curry as I wanted a change. I ate carefully not mopping up all of the sauce and blood sugar levels were 4.9 at first bite, 6.6 after an hour, then 4.7 after two hours, so happy with that

 

[Antje77]

Spent the day working on my leg/ankle, convincing hubby - No, I do not want to go to A&E

Uhm, he may have a point there.
But if you can't be convinced, please promise both him and me you'll get it looked at after the weekend if it doesn't improve, and I'm not counting it feeling just slightly better as an improvement here.

Shared dinner with mrs mitten

Finally!
I've wondered if it was ravens mitten or raven smitten and now I know.

But now I'm still wondering about the name, why did the ravens need a mitten?

 

[MrsA2]

B: yoghurt seeds and berries. A bit of cheese
Lovely sunny walk along the beach past all the beach huts. I was telling hubby they cost loads of money and he didn't believe me so Google when got home came out on my side - £130,000 for ordinary ones, upto £450,000 for ones you can sometimes sleep in!!! Mudeford in Dorset.
Had to fortify ourselves and join in the summery holiday feeling with half a pint of no alcohol lager halfway round our walk, and a single scoop of ginger icecream at the end.

4pm 4 seedy crackers , 2 with cheese and 2 with pate.

Evening stroll before dinner.
D: a cook yourself ready meal of pad Thai. Added extra chicken and made sure hubby got most of the noodles, from the reduced section in Waitrose . 1 white wine with soda. I cc chocolate pot.

 

[MommaE]

The mysterious 'snack lettuce' was on offer again at Aldi and I liked it last time so I bought it again.
Filled 3 leaves with German 'zwiebelmettwurst, a hard boiled turkey egg, raw onions and some spicy garlic sauce I found in the fridge, tasty!
Also had a slice of LC bread with celeriac mayo (grated raw celeriac, mayo, salt and pepper).

I'm perfectly happy with a cold meal once in a while, but while it was tasty it wasn't the best choice today.
Earlier this week when the weather was sunny I got a bit overoptimistic and turned off the heating for the summer. Then grey weather returned and it hasn't been over 12 degrees in my living room since. I can live with that but a warm meal would have been welcome.
The cold (or more likely covid, half the family has it) I developed after our family weekend last week doesn't help either, but thankfully diabetes keeps behaving pretty well.
Oh well, spring will come and until that happens I'll just call it spring on character and all is well!

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Not sure what I'll eat in the upcoming days but pretty sure that hard boiled eggs will feature heavily.
My cousin invited me to come paint and search for eggs tomorrow with a lot of family members so I decided to bring some cool eggs, the Indian runner ducks and turkeys keep providing more than we can eat.
But I forgot to tell my cousin so I'm adding 19 very large eggs to the likely too many they already bought.
19 because one of the turkey eggs cracked after boiling so I had that one with my meal today.

Tips on what to do with lots of hard boiled eggs welcome!
Any dishes you can freeze?

I already decided I'll hide some where my neighbour-in-the-garden will find them when doing his daily search for eggs, finding hard boiled and painted eggs on your sleepy morning rounds must be pretty funny.
I'll post a picture of the eggs after painting tomorrow.

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Store them, peeled, in a jar of vinegar.

 

[MommaE]

Saturday 8 April bed 8.1 (guessing it was the shock of the tumble) FBG 7.6. Ended up being waited on again. Tried to get up, and I couldn't put any weight on my left leg/foot. I've also bruised my left arm/shoulder and left hip. Paracetamol wasn't helping. I had to get Hubby to bring me a crutch upstairs, but it was still difficult. Getting downstairs required sliding down on my behind! Goodness knows how I'll get back upstairs.

B. Courtesy of my waiter. TAG and a bit crustless quiche.

L. Two slices of SRSLY fruit loaf with butter.

D. Cold cuts. Roast pork, ox tongue, ham, pork and egg, mini German sausage, coleslaw. CC Little chocolate pot.

Spent the day working on my leg/ankle, convincing hubby - No, I do not want to go to A&E and taking an age to get anywhere. Hubby is going out to get me an ankle support tomorrow as I doubt I'd make it to the car.

Hubby might be right re. A&E, might be wise to let him be right this time. Either way, hope you are soon back to normal and all of your running around with family.

 

[ravensmitten]

Uhm, he may have a point there.
But if you can't be convinced, please promise both him and me you'll get it looked at after the weekend if it doesn't improve, and I'm not counting it feeling just slightly better as an improvement here.

Finally!
I've wondered if it was ravens mitten or raven smitten and now I know.

But now I'm still wondering about the name, why did the ravens need a mitten?

hahah disappointing answer is that it means nothing in itself really, couldn't think of a username at the time (and I've been on different forums under other guises for decades). bizarrely enough I did find a picture online for the avatar though by googling those two words.

 

[plantae]

Breakfast: smoothie (almond milk, psyllium husk, sugar free drinking choc, scoop plant protein); added not-low-carb piece of toast because the smoothie is toooo low carb for me (1.4g net carbs) and my insulin
Lunch: 4 rye cruskits, 1/2 a tomato, pastrami, baby spinach and another smoothie same as breakfast but with chia seeds as well and more almond milk
Dinner: lamb shanks, brocolli & cauli cheese bake, brussels, 1/4 cup mashed potato*. 99.6% sugar free choc icecream
After dinner: 2 protein bars, 95% cocoa chocolate, strawberries, pistachios, pork crackling. Cup of milk (not low carb*) before sleep

* not everything I eat is low-carb, but taking the day as a whole it was pretty low-carb again

 

[Annb]

Hungry a bit earlier so I had a piece of cold chicken to keep me going. BG was in the 6's, so I reckoned it could take it.

Time to think about breakfast. I have the last of the pieces of steak marinaded and ready to go. So those with a couple of fried eggs will do the job.

2nd meal will be more of the chicken tagine that I made yesterday. I rather went overboard on the vegetables, so it is a big pot and will last today and at least one more day.

To go with the tagine I made celeriac "strings" and tried to kid myself on that they were potato strings. My taste buds are not so easily fooled! Edible though. I still have some of the celeriac left so will make celeriac boulangere to go with the tagine. Just have to see if I can find the mandolin, having put it somewhere when I sorted through the cupboards.

 

[Antje77]

hahah disappointing answer is that it means nothing in itself really, couldn't think of a username at the time (and I've been on different forums under other guises for decades). bizarrely enough I did find a picture online for the avatar though by googling those two words.

It's a good username because it has intrigued me for ages, and it's easy to remember so I love it!
Google is amazing when searching for odd pictures,

I just popped into the forum quickly to see if the mystery of your name had been resolved before going out to do things with eggs and family, not disappointed at all!

And on topic: I expect late breakfast to be painted eggs and an extra dark chocolate egg.

 

[PenguinMum]

Hi All
So back to Good Friday.
Brekkie usual slice LC toast, copious tea.
Lunch was large battered cod on the pier while Mr P had his with chips. I didnt test because after that we did a 5 mile walk but the batter was thin and I enjoyed it so much and no guilt.
Evening I had a couple of Marmite flatbreads (5g each) roken up and dipped in Moroccan humous that thankfully Mr P ploughed Through.
Yesterday same brekkie.
Lunch was a small avocado halved and topped with prawns and 2 teasp Seafood sauce drizzled over.
Supper was Indian t/a cauli bhajee, Tandoori King Prawns and 1 popadom.
today same brekkie.
When Mr P has his full English brunch soon I will have a couple of scrambled eggs.
evening Roast Lamb which I am very excited about Mr P less so, doing it for me once a year but polite warning once only no lamb curry or other versions to be snuck in to the next few days, or ever. So I will happily use the leftovers myself!
Happy Easter everyone.
@maglil55 that was a nasty fall which must have been a shock. I hope the stiffness and aches improve but if you cannot weight bear I think you should brave A&E sooner rather than later. Sending hugs.

 

[maglil55]

@Antje77 , @MommaE , @ravensmitten - thanks for the concern. Hubby has gone to get me an ankle support. Leg is improved but still not back to normal. At least I didn't have to bump downstairs today, having mastered the art of transferring weight to the RHS. I'm against going to A&E firstly because I don't think it's necessary, and secondly, because I have no desire to be left sitting 12 hours plus. I'm hoping I can get a GP appointment next week for a medicine review, so I'll mention my latest tumble then.
A fall/tumble is not unusual for me. Ever since my accident back in 2005, which crushed my spinal cord, my balance has been "off." Despite being careful, I'm still prone to a tumble, but I know how to fall. It's probably just as well

 

[Annb]

@Antje77 , @MommaE , @ravensmitten - thanks for the concern. Hubby has gone to get me an ankle support. Leg is improved but still not back to normal. At least I didn't have to bump downstairs today, having mastered the art of transferring weight to the RHS. I'm against going to A&E firstly because I don't think it's necessary, and secondly, because I have no desire to be left sitting 12 hours plus. I'm hoping I can get a GP appointment next week for a medicine review, so I'll mention my latest tumble then.
A fall/tumble is not unusual for me. Ever since my accident back in 2005, which crushed my spinal cord, my balance has been "off." Despite being careful, I'm still prone to a tumble, but I know how to fall. It's probably just as well

You may know how to fall to avoid serious injury, but it won't stop relatively minor injuries. You have had so many problems with your health recently, many of them associated with the injury to your leg, but other things as well. You seem to be very susceptible at the moment. Do take care Maglil.

 

[Annb]

Got my celeriac boulangere into the oven and was just about to make my breakfast - and the power went off. It was off long enough to lose all the heat in the oven and has come back on now, so we're back to square one. Neil has come along and is currently making his breakfast, so when he is done, I'll get around to making mine. I found the mandolin - it was at the back of one of the wire basket "shelves" in the cupboard and, as I pulled it out, the whole thing collapsed, so I had to empty everything, slide the basket back in and reload it - otherwise I would have had my breakfast by now.

 

[AndBreathe]

Monday 3 April - bed & FBG 7.2. A peaceful day catching up on washing.

B. TAG and a bit crustless quiche.

L. Nothing

D. Gammon steak, fried egg, and my mix of spinach, mushrooms, and tomatoes. CC little chocolate pot.

Tuesday 4 April - bed 6.6 FBG 7.2. I'm picking up eldest later as we're all off to the dentist this afternoon. Checkup time, and he wanted lunch here first.

B. TAG and a slice of SRSLY toast with melted cheese. I'm still smiling about the flying cheese in the Air Fryer. Was it @AndBreathe that told us about flying chicken skins??

L. A bit of crustless quiche. 6 almonds, then dentist.

D. Omelette with spinach, mushrooms, tomato, and grated Emmental. Peroni 00.

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That'd be me, but also flying chillis when using low temperature to dehydrate. Because we have an oven style AF, I just put a couple of shelves close together. That seems to prevent too much flying around!

 

[Lainie71]

B - A small naughty apple (but only as I knew I would walk it off)
L - Mushroom soup with Parma ham added and a chicken breast
D - Probably fish or some sort

 

[maglil55]

That'd be me, but also flying chillis when using low temperature to dehydrate. Because we have an oven style AF, I just put a couple of shelves close together. That seems to prevent too much flying around!

That's it. It was after that I started "sandwiching" lightweight things between 2 wire racks to avoid the contents taking flight!
DIL has just delivered my lamb from my son's sous vide for finishing. He very kindly did it for me. My injury does have some advantages.

 

[Antje77]

39 eggs painted, 55 eggs hidden (16 chocolate ones), 54 eggs found, not bad at all!

Late breakfast consisted of 4 eggs dipped in mayo, a single bite of a croissant, and two bites of a very good traditional Friesian dense black rye bread with butter and lots of Friesian clove cheese, plus some additional cheese.

Everyone dug into the eggs and everyone was very enhousiastic about trying my duck and turkey eggs, so no eggs to pickle after all, and if I want to have eggs for dinner I'll have to cook new ones!
I did bring 3 painted eggs and hid them for my neighbour to find when he does his daily rounds to find all the new eggs though.

 

[filly]

Coffee and cream x 2
Salmon, balsamic vinegar Tomato
Lamb in mint (Oh dear lamb sent my blood sugar up) Best look and see what the butcher marinated it in

 

[shelley262]

Catch up yesterday and today
Yesterday
Kefir and pomegranate powder
Fried some mushrooms and eggs and served with LC toast followed by peel of one Apple
HM curry with LC roti
Out evening glass of red wine then when back decaffeinated coffee and half a keto DGF Easter egg

Today
Two boiled eggs with some LC bread
Kefir with frozen raspberries to make quick frozen kefir - I sat in the sun and tried to imagine I was sat somewhere really special like Italy rather than my back garden and eating some wonderful gelato - well it almost worked then the sun went behind a cloud!
Roast chicken with some more local asparagus roasted in olive oil and one hm small roast potato with glass of dry white wine planning another half keto egg - my last one - with coffee in a bit, probably after second glass of wine. Well it is Easter Sunday after all....

Hope all my forum friends are having a good Easter and indulging in a few treats too.