What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Dinner: low carb cauliflower cheese with roasted Mediterranean veggies.

 

[Speedbird]

This recipe uses wheat flour so wouldn’t be low carb enough for me. I wonder if almond flour can be substituted weight for weight.

Correct, it does that’s why I mentioned almond flour as a substitute.
I may experiment and see what happens.

 

[Antje77]

Is this the same plum cake? using almond flour and erythritol

Sugar Free Plum Cake Recipe Inspired by the German Classic

Treat yourself to a slice of heaven with our Sugar Free Plum Cake Recipe, a German classic with a buttery cinnamon-streusel topping.

www.cathyscakesalon.com

This recipe uses wheat flour so wouldn’t be low carb enough for me. I wonder if almond flour can be substituted weight for weight.

I ran the original German recipe through Google Translate for you, works pretty decent, l only had to change a few minor things lost in translation, and it saved me translating myself.

Here it is:

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.

For the base:
80 g erythritol* ground into powder
50 g ground almonds*
20 g coconut flour*
60 g cold butter, cut into pieces
3 eggs
vanilla extract to taste*

For the crumble:
50 g ground almonds*
10 g coconut flour*
30 g cold butter, cut into pieces
25 g erythritol* ground into powder
Vanilla extract* to taste
And
500 g plums, pitted and halved

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees top and bottom heat.
Mix all the ingredients for the base into a dough and then spread it into a springform pan (approx. 24 cm) lined with baking paper.
Scatter the plums in a circle over the dough.
For the crumbles, it is best to first mash or mix all the ingredients with a fork and then “rework” them briefly by hand. Don't knead for too long here, otherwise the crumbles will become too sticky.
Spread the crumble evenly over the plums and bake the cake in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes. After about 20 minutes, it should be covered with aluminum foil so that the crumbles don't turn too brown.
Allow the plum cake to cool in the pan for at least 30 minutes before slicing.

 

[Antje77]

Today should have been the third and last day of a very cheesy cauliflower dish with tomatoes and Turkish sausage. But I wasn't sure about the sucuk in the first place, it had spend quite some time in my fridge already. Yesterday the dogs had a substantial leftover portion and this morning I had the dirty job of washing out the fur on the backside of one of the dogs. Not the ideal way of waking up
No idea if the two were connected but I decided not to take chances and went with two chipolata sausages, olives, bell pepper, and a slice of low carb bread, half with paté and half with filet américain (don't think it's a thing in the UK) and onion.
Tasty and much safer!

 

[DJC3]

I ran the original German recipe through Google Translate for you, works pretty decent, l only had to change a few minor things lost in translation, and it saved me translating myself.

Here it is:

For the base:
80 g erythritol* ground into powder
50 g ground almonds*
20 g coconut flour*
60 g cold butter, cut into pieces
3 eggs
vanilla extract to taste*

For the crumble:
50 g ground almonds*
10 g coconut flour*
30 g cold butter, cut into pieces
25 g erythritol* ground into powder
Vanilla extract* to taste
And
500 g plums, pitted and halved

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees top and bottom heat.
Mix all the ingredients for the base into a dough and then spread it into a springform pan (approx. 24 cm) lined with baking paper.
Scatter the plums in a circle over the dough.
For the crumbles, it is best to first mash or mix all the ingredients with a fork and then “rework” them briefly by hand. Don't knead for too long here, otherwise the crumbles will become too sticky.
Spread the crumble evenly over the plums and bake the cake in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes. After about 20 minutes, it should be covered with aluminum foil so that the crumbles don't turn too brown.
Allow the plum cake to cool in the pan for at least 30 minutes before slicing.

Thank you very much for this.

 

[Annb]

Shan't be trying the porridge experiment again. I was hungry all day, had my 2nd meal early because I was so hungry. BG stayed lowish all day (had to go out to a "Counter weight" class and guess what, the diet offered was very, very heavy on carbs) and by the time I got home (7.30 pm) I was very hungry and my BG was piling on. 10.9 when we got home. Took insulin and had a ham sandwich - too shattered to try to do anything else. BG kept on rising and was 14.9 by the time I went to bed. Took some more insulin and just hoped it wouldn't drop too low. It didn't. Still 10.9 this morning. I think this was the oats causing all this - no other reason I an think of.

I'm still very hungry so some time soon I will make myself a cheese omelette and hope it settles me down for today.

Still have some of the tagine to finish for my 2nd meal.

 

[JenniferM55]

Got a young red delicious apple tree in the garden, this is the first year we've allowed it to fruit. There're about a doz lovely red apples on the tree and they've been nagging me to try one. If you're a 'recovering carbaholic' as I am, those thoughts can be a bit scary. On 1st September I will have completed 3 whole months where my daily carb intake has been below 20g, mostly my menu is around 15g a day. I think it's now about time to experiment with relaxing my strict regime. So yesterday I plucked an apple, it was a small one, and after discarding the core there was only a 90g of apple flesh and skin which came in under 10g carbs. I hadn't eaten anything since 6.30pm the previous day so with my BG being 5.4, I ate the apple at 10.05am:

10.30am - BG 5.9
10.45am - BG 6.3
12 noon - BG 5.5

All results via finger prick. I think it's acceptably safe for me to have an apple every now and again. Can't help being paranoid about food, and I know I need to relax.

Dinner at 4pm.

Dinner: smoked salmon wrapped around prawns and cream cheese with a Marie-Rose sauce. Coleslaw on the side.

Carbs for the day 18g.

 

[Munkki]

Is this the same plum cake? using almond flour and erythritol

Sugar Free Plum Cake Recipe Inspired by the German Classic

Treat yourself to a slice of heaven with our Sugar Free Plum Cake Recipe, a German classic with a buttery cinnamon-streusel topping.

www.cathyscakesalon.com

It looks like the same type of cake, but slightly different ingredients. Mine translated are:

INGREDIENTS

For the base
80 g erythritol* ground into powder (I used 25g)
50 g ground almonds*
20 g coconut flour*
60 g cold butter, cut into pieces
3 eggs
n.e. vanilla extract*
For the crumble
50 g ground almonds*
10 g coconut flour*
30 g cold butter, cut into pieces
25 g erythritol* ground into powder ( I used 5g)
Vanilla extract* to taste
And
500 g plums, pitted and halved

PREPARATION

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees top and bottom heat.
Mix all the ingredients for the base into a dough and then spread it into a springform pan (approx. 24 cm - I used 22 cm) lined with baking paper.
Scatter the plums in a circle over the dough. (My 3-year old helped me, so we scattered and pushed them in randomly)
For the crumbles, it is best to first mash or mix all the ingredients with a fork and then “rework” them briefly by hand. Don't knead for too long here, otherwise the crumbles will become too sticky.
Spread the crumble evenly over the plums and bake the cake in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes. After about 20 minutes, it should be covered with aluminum foil so that the crumbles don't turn too brown.
Allow the plum cake to cool in the pan for at least 30 minutes before slicing.

It's lovely a bit warm still and I found it didn't need cream or so. Typical in Germany would be cake topped with whipped cream.

 

[Munkki]

I ran the original German recipe through Google Translate for you, works pretty decent, l only had to change a few minor things lost in translation, and it saved me translating myself.

Here it is:

For the base:
80 g erythritol* ground into powder
50 g ground almonds*
20 g coconut flour*
60 g cold butter, cut into pieces
3 eggs
vanilla extract to taste*

For the crumble:
50 g ground almonds*
10 g coconut flour*
30 g cold butter, cut into pieces
25 g erythritol* ground into powder
Vanilla extract* to taste
And
500 g plums, pitted and halved

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees top and bottom heat.
Mix all the ingredients for the base into a dough and then spread it into a springform pan (approx. 24 cm) lined with baking paper.
Scatter the plums in a circle over the dough.
For the crumbles, it is best to first mash or mix all the ingredients with a fork and then “rework” them briefly by hand. Don't knead for too long here, otherwise the crumbles will become too sticky.
Spread the crumble evenly over the plums and bake the cake in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes. After about 20 minutes, it should be covered with aluminum foil so that the crumbles don't turn too brown.
Allow the plum cake to cool in the pan for at least 30 minutes before slicing.

Oh thank you. I saw this too late

 

[Annb]

I've finished eating for today so I checked my calorie count for the day (a fairly typical day) so that I can get an idea of what the nurse running the "Counterweight" class wants. They recommend 1300 cal daily. Today I will have eaten 634 plus cups of tea. And even that amount made me feel a bit nauseous. Of course, if I ate the carbs they want me to eat, the count would be a lot higher.

I've made a pork and tomato stew for tomorrow which should work out around the 390 calorie mark - carbs might be a bit on the high side though - around 30. That's if I'm working it out properly.

 

[filly]

Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Tea through the day! Run out of cream
Feta and green pepper.
Peanut butter
Steak, butter and shallot

 

[maglil55]

I've finished eating for today so I checked my calorie count for the day (a fairly typical day) so that I can get an idea of what the nurse running the "Counterweight" class wants. They recommend 1300 cal daily. Today I will have eaten 634 plus cups of tea. And even that amount made me feel a bit nauseous. Of course, if I ate the carbs they want me to eat, the count would be a lot higher.

I've made a pork and tomato stew for tomorrow which should work out around the 390 calorie mark - carbs might be a bit on the high side though - around 30. That's if I'm working it out properly.

I read that as saying you'd had in excess of 634 cups of tea!! I seem to have a thing with tea having read @PenguinMum 's as Octopus Tea!!

 

[Speedbird]

It looks like the same type of cake, but slightly different ingredients. Mine translated are:

INGREDIENTS

For the base
80 g erythritol* ground into powder (I used 25g)
50 g ground almonds*
20 g coconut flour*
60 g cold butter, cut into pieces
3 eggs
n.e. vanilla extract*
For the crumble
50 g ground almonds*
10 g coconut flour*
30 g cold butter, cut into pieces
25 g erythritol* ground into powder ( I used 5g)
Vanilla extract* to taste
And
500 g plums, pitted and halved

PREPARATION

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees top and bottom heat.
Mix all the ingredients for the base into a dough and then spread it into a springform pan (approx. 24 cm - I used 22 cm) lined with baking paper.
Scatter the plums in a circle over the dough. (My 3-year old helped me, so we scattered and pushed them in randomly)
For the crumbles, it is best to first mash or mix all the ingredients with a fork and then “rework” them briefly by hand. Don't knead for too long here, otherwise the crumbles will become too sticky.
Spread the crumble evenly over the plums and bake the cake in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes. After about 20 minutes, it should be covered with aluminum foil so that the crumbles don't turn too brown.
Allow the plum cake to cool in the pan for at least 30 minutes before slicing.

It's lovely a bit warm still and I found it didn't need cream or so. Typical in Germany would be cake topped with whipped cream.

Thank you.

 

[Annb]

I read that as saying you'd had in excess of 634 cups of tea!! I seem to have a thing with tea having read @PenguinMum 's as Octopus Tea!!

Something wrong with the way I expressed that, so it was unclear. Can't for the moment think how else to say it. Feeling a bit dumb today.

 

[DJC3]

B- 2 boiled eggs and 1/2 a buttered toasted SRSLy roll ( I burnt the other half)
L- fairly unsatisfactory rushed meal 1 H/b egg. Slice of cheddar, stick of celery stuffed with cream cheese. Pudding was sort of lazy rhubarb fool: stewed rhubarb mixed with cream cheese and cream.
D- leftover stroganoff with buttered cabbage. DGF cookie and decaf coffee with cream.
@JenniferM55 great result with the apple experiment, how lovely to be able to enjoy them from your garden tree now. I really missed apples when I started this woe, now I might have one occasionally if a lovely neighbour gives me one from their garden. I think the imported commercially grown fruit is definitely sweeter than a delicious sharp garden apple.

 

[maglil55]

Something wrong with the way I expressed that, so it was unclear. Can't for the moment think how else to say it. Feeling a bit dumb today.

I think you were saying 634 calories plus cups of tea (which will be zero unless there was milk in them). If so, that isn't a lot of calories, but there again, I only bother about carbs. I've never heard of Counterweight. What are they trying to achieve?

 

[maglil55]

@Emma Gill, the only thing I couldn't eat in there was porridge, much as I loved it. Porridge is one of these things some people can eat, other can't without a massive spike.

Tuesday 29 August - bed 5.4 FBG 5.9. Once again, BGs did not drift upwards following an early rise. It's been a pretty stable day. Hardly had a moment to myself today. The eldest had free periods, so I was back and forward with him, DIL needed a lift, and I had shopping to do!

B. TAG and LC granola with blackberries and sugar-free coconut milk.Benecol dairy free.

L. 2 slices of SRSLY toast with cheese triangles.

D. Chilli beef kebabs and veggie kebabs with alioli. Hubby popped a couple of bits of his chicken kebab on my plate. CC little chocolate pot and raspberries.

Back to the Doctor tomorrow morning to see if any more treatment needed.

 

[LivingLightly]

Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs topped with butter, slices of avocado, seasoned with black pepper and a wedge of Gorwydd Caerphilly.
Water to swallow tablets
Espresso.

L: Salmon fillets baked with broccoli, mushrooms, cream and lemon verbena
Steamed asparagus spears topped with a generous knob of butter.
Salad made with sweet cicely, chicory, celery, green peppers, salad onions and flat leaf parsley, dressed with olive oil, garlic and a touch of lemon juice, topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Skipped pud.
Water to drink.

D Seafood salad using king prawns, mussels, lettuce, cherry toms, chervil, Romano peppers, Kalamata olives and Welsh onions, dressed with an olive oil, balsamic and garlic vinaigrette, topped with toasted pine nuts.
Water to swallow tablets.

 

[Annb]

Thank you, I will test tomorrow after porridge. Your food looks very colourful and interesting. Good luck at doctors tomorrow.

If you noticed it, a few posts back, I relayed the result of my experiment with porridge. By making it overnight, cooling in the fridge and reheating it next morning, some of the starch seems to have turned to cellulose, which isn't digested and reduces the spike (for me anyway). However I am blaming that porridge for an 8 whole points rise by the end of the day which I was unable to control adequately. So it isn't, in my case, just an immediate effect. It took much of the day to have an adverse effect. That is also worth bearing in mind when you test.

Having said that, it's great that you now have a BG monitor to help you see what food does to you immediately.

 

[Annb]

@Emma Gill, the only thing I couldn't eat in there was porridge, much as I loved it. Porridge is one of these things some people can eat, other can't without a massive spike.

Tuesday 29 August - bed 5.4 FBG 5.9. Once again, BGs did not drift upwards following an early rise. It's been a pretty stable day. Hardly had a moment to myself today. The eldest had free periods, so I was back and forward with him, DIL needed a lift, and I had shopping to do!

B. TAG and LC granola with blackberries and sugar-free coconut milk.Benecol dairy free.

L. 2 slices of SRSLY toast with cheese triangles.

D. Chilli beef kebabs and veggie kebabs with alioli. Hubby popped a couple of bits of his chicken kebab on my plate. CC little chocolate pot and raspberries.

Back to the Doctor tomorrow morning to see if any more treatment needed. View attachment 62898

Hope all goes well at the doctor's tomorrow.