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Annb said:
And you get a little protein at the same time. Do you use a ready-made mayo? I do sometimes, but I'm beginning to wonder at what might be in it. I think Hellman's uses rapeseed oil, which I don't want. Not sure about Heinz or any of the supermarket own ones. So, making my own is the answer and, yes, it is a bit of a faff, so I'm just as well making the standard dressing for salads. I usually use lemon juice instead of vinegar anyway.
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I do keep a jar of Hellmans in the fridge but I usually make my own - using the easy 30 second method ( whole egg in the bottom of a hand blender jar, add S&P, a tsp of mustard and vinegar. Pour on 250 ml light olive oil and put the stick blender down to cover the egg. Switch on and Very slowly bring it up through the olive oil. Hey presto! perfect mayo. This method has been a game changer for me)
However I’ve found olive oil has almost doubled in price in the last few weeks, so I only buy it on special offer, this week the ‘extra special extra virgin’ olive oil was on offer. It’s too strong for mayo I think so I’m hoping the light one will be on offer soon.
I like the extra virgin olive oil in a standard French dressing, so like you, I often just make that.
 
B-2egg spinach and feta omelette
L- started with more of the lettuce boats filled with lazy celeriac remoulade. (Photo for @Antje77 ) then SRSLY toast with pate and cheese. Last bit of DGF hazelnut chocolate. I’m so relieved it’s gone now, I’m amazed how quickly the cravings reappeared. I had another bit of cheese and a couple of nuts to take the taste and memory of it away.
D- from a recipe card I picked up in Waitrose last week: peanut butter chicken. It was disappointingly bland and boring though. Served with cauli rice and followed by rhubarb, yoghurt and seeds. IMG_2461.jpg
 
shelley262 said:
Breakfast kefir
Lunch ACV in water and salad with ham followed by Apple peel and some 100% chocolate
Dinner ACV in water and some hummus with crudites then hm chilli con carne with a few kidney beans and LC garlic bread - a quarter of a LC roll with garlic butter and glass of red followed by LC cake and decaffeinated coffee. Will check my bgs in a bit 're the double pulses chickpeas in hummus and kidney beans ! I'll edit and add! Hoping ACV will be up to the challenge!
Edit only a one point rise so looks like I can deal with a few kidney beans I only had a few I also added some olives to give extra texture as usually use olives as a LC alternative to beans.
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Great result re the beans! I often use your tip of black olives in chilli. It’s a good LC hack.
 
DJC3 said:
I do keep a jar of Hellmans in the fridge but I usually make my own - using the easy 30 second method ( whole egg in the bottom of a hand blender jar, add S&P, a tsp of mustard and vinegar. Pour on 250 ml light olive oil and put the stick blender down to cover the egg. Switch on and Very slowly bring it up through the olive oil. Hey presto! perfect mayo. This method has been a game changer for me)
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How long does this keep please? I'm the only mayo eater in our house and would be reluctant to waste ingredients. Is there any way of making a smaller amount?
 
B: a cold beef burger and a cold lamb kofta.
Gardening
L: chicken thigh, ff greek yog with stewed rhubarb.
Gardening
D: beef mince (sort of bolognaise style, had carrot and onion in). Had mine on lettuce, boys had grains.
A little later 2 cc chocolate pots, one with cream on top

Somewhere in the day I had 3 squares of the espresso 72% chocolate I brought back from the US last October. The rest will disappear slowly this weekend as I've been saving it for special occasion. I have a milestone birthday in that I finally reach State Pension Age, eek!
 
Tuesday 16 May bed 7.9 FBG 7.6. Catch up time again! I've had a busy few days(so what's new??)

B. TAG , Benecol dairy free, and 2 slices of SRSLY toast with ox tongue and whipped cheese.

L. 8 almonds.

D. For speed, I got a roast chicken dinner from Tesco. It was tasteless. Small chicken breast wrapped in a slice of bacon, one sausage, one small stuffing ball, and something loosely described as gravy. I did eat the asparagus and sprouts I'd steamed myself.

Hubby agreed with my findings.

Wednesday, 17 May bed & FBG, both 6.7. Today's the day I collect eldest a bit earlier for lunch, and they are both here for dinner.

B. TAG and a bit crustless quiche. Benecol dairy free.

L. 2 slices of SRSLY fruit loaf with Benecol spread.
8 almonds.

D. 3 GF chipolatas, fried egg, slice of GF Black pudding.
CC little chocolate pot and raspberries.
 
MrsA2 said:
B: 2 hard boiled eggs with mayo.
Dance class 1
L: 2 cold chicken thighs. 1 cc choclate pot with 2 teaspoond cream (don't try it @maglil55, too addictive!)
Dance class 2
Mid afternoon 2 dark chocolate balhsen biscuits. We have visitors and I felt I had to offer them something .
D: 2 sausages, 1 lamk kofta, half a beef burger. Roast asparagus, beans and radishes, cauliflower. Too much red wine, mostly with diet lemonade. A couple of gingerbread left from Christmas..again because I felt I should offer visitors something and couldn't resist myself.

Have also been out and bought bread, cereal and Crousaants for breakfast... I know I should be able to resist and have my own low carb food... and pigs might fly!
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I've taken to spooning the CC little chocolate pot over a few raspberries. Don't give me more ideas!
 
DJC3 said:
B- 2 eggs fried in butter with spinach and a 1/4 avocado.
L-starter of celeriac remoulade in lettuce boats. Then 1slice Livlife toast with pate, then rhubarb with seeds, h/m yoghurt and flaked almonds.
D- forgot the pre dinner ACV but I did put some in the remoulade.
2 high meat sausages, baked mushrooms and broccoli stalks. Steamed broccoli florets with butter.
Then rather too much DGF hazelnut milk chocolate. It’s delicious, so, sadly I can’t buy it again - it’s brought back the desire for sweet stuff I thought was behind me.
@shelley262 like you I miss pulses, the stew put my bg up 1.4 which I was pleased with, as it also contained carrots and onions. I used about 30g dry lentils and I probably had 1/3 of the stew, so say 10g dry weight. I’ve tried a small spoonful of homemade dhal with a curry and had no noticeable rise either. I’ll be interested to see if the kidney beans have an effect on your BG.
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I have to be very careful with pulses. I love lentil soup, but I can only have a very small portion. It's a lot easier to control lentils as a side. It's the same with the various beans. I use them in the Italian tripe dish I make. Too many, and my BGs shoot up, but descend just as rapidly.
 
DJC3 said:
Yes, agree, that’s why I use the ACV - keeps the celeriac from going brown and thins the mayo. I have made it properly in the past, but to me it’s not worth the faff and I like the taste of the lazy method just as much.
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There's a Mary Berry version that is easy too.

www.bbc.co.uk

Celeriac remoulade recipe

Celeriac remoulade is one of the simplest salads you will ever come across, perfect as a side dish or with some leaves for a healthy light lunch.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Thursday 18 May bed 7 3 FBG 7.4. Another chaotic day! I managed to get shopping, back to pick up Aqua gear, Aqua class, then get eldest for lunch. I was also back to son/DIL's for a few hours while they went to a book launch (a friend has been published).

B. TAG and 2 slices of SRSLY with ox tongue and coleslaw. Benecol dairy free.

L. Almonds and 2 slices of SRSLY fruit loaf with Benecol spread.

D. Very early as I had to get to son's, M&S prawn cocktail, lettuce, santini tomatoes, mozzarella pearls, 1/2 avocado. CC Little chocolate pot.

In dire need of a very large gin when I got back, but I didn't! Much too late.
 
MrsA2 said:
How long does this keep please? I'm the only mayo eater in our house and would be reluctant to waste ingredients. Is there any way of making a smaller amount?
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I think it’d be hard to make a smaller amount as the egg is the limiting factor. A very small egg would need less oil of course. I imagine that using less oil and a medium or large egg might just give a thicker consistency.
As for how long it lasts, I keep it in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. I’m sure there are some who would advise a shorter time but I’ve never had a problem.
The other thing to bear in mind, if you are anything like me, you’ll use a bigger dollop of h/m mayo because you know it’s all good stuff so can be generous with it!

The original recipe is on my CMT or here:
www.ditchthecarbs.com/magic-1-minute-homemade-mayonnaise-4-ways/
 
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maglil55 said:
There's a Mary Berry version that is easy too.

www.bbc.co.uk

Celeriac remoulade recipe

Celeriac remoulade is one of the simplest salads you will ever come across, perfect as a side dish or with some leaves for a healthy light lunch.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Thought it looked familiar. I have it in my CMT, it’s the original recipe I followed! ( no light mayo or sugar though obvs)
 
A very different day for me today - a year ago I was at the 2022 PHC conference with like-minded low carb friends - as I was in the years pre covid but chose for various reasons to attend virtually this year. It's on today and tomorrow in Sheffield.

PHC ANNUAL CONFERENCE – 19th & 20th MAY, 2023 – SHEFFIELD – Public Health Collaboration

phcuk.org phcuk.org
Benefit 're the virtual conference is that I could move around while listening via ear buds and checking any slides on a screen when walking by - I don't like staying still and always walk around when listening to podcasts in the evening. Downside is missing chatting with others in between lectures. Loved all the presentations today and particularly the info from American professor Dr Ben Bikman.interestingly he was asked his opinion on the Glucose Goddess hacks and he was very pro. So today, as well as my daily tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar, I ate:
Kefir first thing
Lunchtime fried some mushrooms and two eggs in olive oil served on a slice of LC toast followed by 100% chocolate and peel of one Apple
Dinner starter of veg crudites and hummus then salmon in lemon butter with roast asparagus and a couple of hm roast new potatoes with glass of red wine followed by LC cake and decaffeinated coffee.
 
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Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a Aldi protein bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a food dr bar.
Dinner: coronation chicken on a LC roll with coleslaw followed by DGF coronation cake.

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Black coffee until 11:30
Then 2 leftover ( cold) peanut butter chicken thighs. No better today so recipe will be binned.

Bit of low carb baking this aft for a change - oat biscuits. Still can’t decide if I like them but I’ve eaten 4! They are soft but with a little crunch due to gelatin powder in the mix.
Picked up granddaughter from school but her mum was delayed so I ended up staying with her at her house until around 7. Ravenous but they have no food I can eat, eventually found a jar of peanut butter and ate quite a bit.
Finally home, ACV in water then cold salmon filled and cold baked veg. Rhubarb, h/m yoghurt and seeds. 2 glasses dry white wine. IMG_2472.jpg
 
B: ff greek with chia seeds and berries. Cwc
L: 2 hard boiled eggs, brie, 6 olives, 8 almonds (packed lunch I took with me on a garden visit, good decision as nothing there I could eat, even the salads had pulses added)
D: i didnt fancy cooking and the boys fancied ready meal curries so I just added soem cold cooked chicken to the meaty sauce for the last 10 minutes of oven cooking then served it between the 3 of us. Broccoli for all, and rice just for them. Did have a small portion of ice cream after to which I added extra cream
 
Busy day today so

B: Skinny crunch light salted caramel bar for 10.4g carbs.

L: Starbucks egg bites which were surprisingly delicious, and a sugar-free vanilla caramel iced almond milk latte.

Still hungry mid-afternoon so made some chaffles with grated courgette in.

Forgot all about the Glucose Goddess hacks. Never mind.

D: Tried the almond flour pizza base from the Sugar-free Londoner blog and for me, it's a game-changer.

I followed the recipe exactly but decided to only bake half of the dough, and then I only ate half of the resulting pizza! So I have half a pizza in the fridge and enough dough to make another base which will be two servings of pizza. Well worth the effort.

I didn't think the dough would work because it was more like a paste once I'd rolled it out in-between two sheets of baking paper. The recipe calls for rolling up the edges to make a crust but there was no way it was possible with mine.

I baked it directly on the baking paper and some magic happened while it was in the oven. I really really really thought I had a failure on my hands!

Toppings went on separately, as per the usual for low-carb bases.

Look! It doesn't bend!

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Friday 19 May - bed 7 FBG 7.8. A quieter day. Son was taking the youngest to school, so I dropped eldest, then got to Tesco & M&S for shopping, picked up an order, and back home at 9 35!

B. TAG and a bit crustless quiche. Benecol dairy free.

L. 2 slices of SRSLY fruit loaf with Benecol spread.

D. GF sausages, GF Black pudding, fried egg, santini tomatoes. CC little chocolate pot and raspberries.
Later, Hubby had dark chocolate cherries. I nicked two!

I'm back on jujitsu run tomorrow, and I'll be doing maths revision with the eldest, too.
 
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