Yesterday: Brunch of lumpy soup. Small Greek yoghurt. Dinner roast beef with cabbage, cauliflower and a few late runner beans. 1 glass of red wine.
Breakfast: cheese slices, butter, fresh tomatoes (was too lazy for anything else) and unsweetened almond milk cappuccino
Decaf coconut milk cappuccino in .... Lounge (small spike)
Lunch: Grilled lamb steak and salad
Snack: Low carb plum crumble cake made with 1/3 of the erythritol in the recipe
Dinner: Chicken leg with small amount of spring beans
I am pregnant, so I am having more snacks and treats than before View attachment 62854
We don’t have one near us either but we have a few days in Liverpool planed so I’ll check to see if there’s one near where we’re going to be staying. I’m looking forward to trying them@Grace04 I love Nando’s we used to live quite near one but we live in Cornwall now and there isn’t a branch in the whole county. It’s a very good restaurant for us low carbers!
Em’s birthday cake sounds wonderful @Annb I’m sure she’ll love it.
Looks like super crispy skin on your sea bass again @maglil55 - time I had another go.
Todays food
B- feta and spinach omelette with chilli sauerkraut.
L- packet of Cheesies and some Montezuma’s absolute black chocolate.
D- mixed grill: air fried pork chop ( rind cut off at the end and given an extra zap in the hot airfryer, thanks for the tip @AndBreathe )and chipolatas, Fried hogget liver and onions. Wilted spinach. 2 glasses red. More 100% choc with clotted cream.
I bought 1/2 a hogget from this organic Welsh hill farm: https://www.dolwenlambandbeef.co.uk this week and was happy to see they’d given me the organ meat too. I don’t fancy the heart much though so it’s been chopped up for dog treats - they love it. View attachment 62830
I did the ‘starch resistant’ experiment with rice but it didn’t work for me My BG still spiked over 4 mmol/l after 2 and 3 hour testing and then started very slowly coming down, can’t remember the exact figures. I didn’t try it with pasta or potatoes as I’m thinking it would be the same result for those too! Hope it works for you, good luckTonight I am starting an experiment. I know that oats makes my BG spike, so I avoid it but Alistair read that if porridge is cooked and left in the fridge overnight, much of the starch is converted to cellulose and so it is much less harmful to BG levels. So I'm going to try it. I have made a small bowl of porridge and it is in the fridge. In the morning I will test BG, take insulin, have porridge and test again over the next 3 or 4 hours. I will report back around lunch time tomorrow.
My brother tells me that he has read that bread is the same and I know from experience that frozen potatoes do not adversely affect BG. Interesting, although I doubt it would be a good thing to rely on that and eat those starches willy nilly.
The tagine was all ready to go for my 2nd meal today and it would have been no effort at all to heat it, but when it came to it, I just wasn't ready to face food, so it's still in the fridge. Suppose I'd better have it tomorrow.
Tonight I am starting an experiment. I know that oats makes my BG spike, so I avoid it but Alistair read that if porridge is cooked and left in the fridge overnight, much of the starch is converted to cellulose and so it is much less harmful to BG levels. So I'm going to try it. I have made a small bowl of porridge and it is in the fridge. In the morning I will test BG, take insulin, have porridge and test again over the next 3 or 4 hours. I will report back around lunch time tomorrow.
My brother tells me that he has read that bread is the same and I know from experience that frozen potatoes do not adversely affect BG. Interesting, although I doubt it would be a good thing to rely on that and eat those starches willy nilly.
The tagine was all ready to go for my 2nd meal today and it would have been no effort at all to heat it, but when it came to it, I just wasn't ready to face food, so it's still in the fridge. Suppose I'd better have it tomorrow.
Lumpy soup? Sounds intriguingYesterday: Brunch of lumpy soup. Small Greek yoghurt. Dinner roast beef with cabbage, cauliflower and a few late runner beans. 1 glass of red wine.
Sorry @DJC3 and @PenguinMum, I don't have a camera any more since my old one broke (it was a very early digital one and not really much good in modern terms, but it did take pics. Not any more though - even Neil couldn't get it to work).I’ll be interested to see the results of your porridge experiment. I’d assumed the carby food had to be frozen after cooking to turn it into resistant starch, but I hope that’s not the case and you can enjoy a bowl of porridge again as the weather turns cooler.
I hope Em is delighted with her birthday cake. Like @PenguinMum I’d love to see a photo if poss.
https://staupitopia-zuckerfrei.de/low-carb-pflaumenkuchen-mit-streusel-rezept/ Does this link make sense with Google translate or so? Feel free to ask. It's a childhood-memory type German Plaumenkuchen I wanted to make.Your plum crumble cake looks delicious. Please could you post the recipe? I always use a lot less erythritol too, I find I need very little sweetness these days ( plus I don’t like the taste of erythritol)