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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Yesterday had an invite to SinL's yesterday for lunch, was a bit apprehensive about what was to be served, but I didn't need to be.

I skipped breakfast, and we didn't sit down to eat until 1.30pm.

Lunch was roast chicken, mashed swede, green beans, and cauliflower cheese, I passed on the roast potatoes and only had a tablespoon or so of gravy. Afters was strawberries and cream.

Back home it was pickings from the fridge, a cold sausage, two Dairylee triangles, and a fridge pot tuna with mayo.

2 squares of 90% Lindt chocolate.
 
Thursday 21 September - bed 6.7 FBG 6.8. A very eventful day as you'll discover. I'll put the bulk of it on our "chatty" thread. Niece gave us a lift to the station, so we were able to get settled on the train in plenty of time. 10 am. train, and they were serving the lunch menu on board! I have no idea what the issue was.

B. There was nothing on the lunch menu I could eat. Thankfully, I'd brought cheese triangles, cherries, and fulfil bars with me. Breakfast consisted of 2 cheese triangles, still water, black coffee with a dash of oat milk, and 5 king cherries .

L. Late afternoon, a soya cappuccino, 2 cheese triangles, and yet more cherries.

D. We had a lovely dinner at The Ivy (finally had dinner in the Ivy) with the 4 other friends who had arrived in advance of our main group. I had a starter of squid (which they kindly did without the tempura batter) served with lime, chilli, and alioil. Main course, sea bass with mini scallops, shrimp, ginger, pepper, samphire, spinach, in a fish sauce of some description. It was excellent. 2 white wine spritzers with soda, lots of water, and coffee with cream.

It was a lovely evening, leisurely stroll back to the hotel with friends until Hubby took a heavy tumble due to uneven pavements, and we ended up in A&E in York! I'll continue the story on the other thread, but I can't thank the staff at York hospital enough. They were first class.
 
Haven't posted for a couple of days. BGs have been see-sawing between 3.4 and 15.9. That's because I've been doing some experimental baking for the weekend. Can't experiment without trying out before offering the results to guests. Most of this week's experiments have been unsuccessful - very tasty, but not fit to be offered, especially the most recent which was delicious but not edible if I wanted people to keep their teeth or their fillings in their heads. Alistair just took them away when he came with the post. He can't offer them to the dogs because they have raisins in them (I never knew raisins could be toxic to dogs) but he thinks they are a bit chewy but quite acceptable. One more experiment to go today and I'll call a halt and go back to ordinary baking for guests tomorrow.

I don't think I've had any proper meals in the last day or so - just bits and pieces but I think I may have had some egg mayonnaise yesterday morning some time but it's been mostly cups of tea (and taste-tests).

Nothing so far today except insulin to try to get BG to come down a bit - it has, from 15.9 to 11.7. I have some steak which I will have for my one meal some time this afternoon. Just steak, I think - no veg. I'll try to get back to normal tomorrow. Not much chance of that, I don't suppose, with guests coming for "afternoon tea". There will be things available for me to eat as well though so I'll have a breakfast and then a snack with my guests and that should do me. It might take a day or so to get BGs down though.
 
Coffee and cream x 2
Coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Red salmon and balsamic vinegar with cucumber
Beef and butter
Half a green pepper
 
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1:30 creamy scrambled eggs and Gouda ‘crackers’
Spent most of the afternoon at no 1 daughter’s where they were welcoming 4 rescue chickens into their menagerie. One has already laid an egg which I was given for my breakfast tomorrow.
6:00 M&S Scottish Loch trout with lemon butter which I burnt ( I do know not to take my eyes off the butter while it’s cooking, but I still did!) Didn’t fill me up but happily I found the remaining 1/2 pork steak in the fridge that I’d left from yesterdays dinner. Pork for pudding is a bit odd but I’m contentedly full now.
@maglil55 I haven’t read the rest of your story on the parallel thread yet, but goodness what an up and down adventure! I hope your hubby is ok and recovering well.
 
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Coffee with cream
Almond milk and purition milkshake
Celeriac soup
Celeriac topped Shepard's pie
Jarlsberg cheese
Greek salad
Hummus and a slice of low carb bread
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Oh yum yum
 
@maglil55 thinking of you and hoping you'll be home safe soon to recover and catch up with sleep.
@DJC3 welcome to your new family chickens - hope you enjoy your egg.
Breakfast fried garden tomatoes with one slice of bacon and fried egg
Lunch some cheese - smoked, Shropshire blue and brie with some kimchi and LC fruit loaf then four ! Squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner salmon in Lemon butter, roast asparagus and a couple of hm new potato chips and a glass of dry white wine followed by LC ginger cake and decaffeinated coffee

Away for a couple of days from tomorrow - meeting up with long term friends from the North west. They are lowish carbs so we are going to cook at our accommodation. Planned curries one night and steak the second night. Will catch up when back home in a few days.
 
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Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs and scallops with chopped, flat-leaf parsley, asparagus spears with a generous knob of butter, all seasoned with black pepper.
Water to swallow tablets.
Espresso.

L: Aperitif: dry white wine
Tuna steaks rolled in finely chopped celery and oregano, baked with sweet red peppers and aubergines, moistened with cream and topped with grated, extra mature Cheddar cheese.
Steamed runner beans smothered with butter.
Salad using lettuce, Romano peppers, vine tomatoes, Welsh onions, mint and Kalamata olives, dressed with an olive oil, garlic and balsamic vinaigrette and topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.
Four squares, Montezuma's Absolute Black 100% chocolate.

S: Coffee with dash of milk.

D: Seafood salad made with tiger prawns and mussels, rocket, avocado, cucumber, salad burnet, baby plum tomatoes, salad onions and Halkidiki olives with home-made aioli for dipping and topped with toasted almonds.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
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: salmon and cream cheese on a LC roll again but with leafy salad and two baby tomatoes today.

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Awake at dawn, hungry
B: ff greek with 6 raspberries. A nut bar (supposedly only 12g carbs per bar, but raises my bg a tad too much.)
Yoga
3 hours gardening meant lunch at 3pm : 2 scrambled eggs, 1 sq hm lc brownie

5pm snack of pork crunchies,but they were very nearly sell by date and they were too hard so only ate half.

Out at quiz night so no main meal until 20:30. Expected a beige buffet, instead splendid buffet, loads of options. Cold beef and ham and eggs, radishes, olives, mayo. Then at least 5 cheeses, luckily only small cubes.
Drank fizzy water with lemon. 1 2 finger dark chocolate mint flavour kit kat. 12g carbs. Seemed to have similar effect to the nut bar. Cheaper as well but don't think I could trust myself to have a multi pack at home.
 
MrsA2 said:
Awake at dawn, hungry
B: ff greek with 6 raspberries. A nut bar (supposedly only 12g carbs per bar, but raises my bg a tad too much.)
Yoga
3 hours gardening meant lunch at 3pm : 2 scrambled eggs, 1 sq hm lc brownie

5pm snack of pork crunchies,but they were very nearly sell by date and they were too hard so only ate half.

Out at quiz night so no main meal until 20:30. Expected a beige buffet, instead splendid buffet, loads of options. Cold beef and ham and eggs, radishes, olives, mayo. Then at least 5 cheeses, luckily only small cubes.
Drank fizzy water with lemon. 1 2 finger dark chocolate mint flavour kit kat. 12g carbs. Seemed to have similar effect to the nut bar. Cheaper as well but don't think I could trust myself to have a multi pack at home.
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I get Neil to buy me multi packs of ordinary 2 finger KitKats for visiting childen. I do manage to keep my greedy hands off of them somehow but they are a temptation. A worse temptation to me used to be the packets of crisps I also used to buy for the same reason but I realised only a day or so ago, when I saw the unopened 12 pack, that I not only no longer crave them, I really don't fancy them at all. I must be growing up at last!

Will have a breakfast soon of bacon and eggs. It's going to be a heavy day today and that breakfast should keep me going. 2nd meal will just be bits and pieces from the "afternoon tea" that I am preparing for my guests today. I have the choice of salady things, home made ham, Russian eggs, smoked salmon - should be able to have a substantial snack from that. They have the additional crackers and cakes.

Have to start being very careful again about what I am eating - BG at 3.15 this morning was 17.2! And even a correction dose of insulin didn't bring it down for long - came down to 10.5 but then up again to 11.4 and rising. Have to up the insulin before breakfast and see how that goes.
 
Hi All
Seem to be constantly MIA so back to yesterday.
Brekkie slice LC toast, copious tea = 2 large mugs!
Lunch my new usual which I am still not tired of was two runny yolk boiled eggs in egg cups followed by ramekin of strawberries. Cup size mug of tea!
Supper was T/a of Lamb Shaslik and cauli bhajee.
Today same brekkie and lunch.
Supper will be Thai chicken stir fry from the farm shop with multi coloured pepper shards added by me, medium noodles for Mr P and I may or not have a spoonful.
We eat meat 3 maybe 4 times a week and I now buy it all from the farm shop where it is all well reared and traceable, often local. I am lucky I know to be able to afford it but discovered it really is worth tweaking other expenses. When I buy minced steak it is only 50p for two of us more than the supermarket. I think it was the mince blocks that Sainsburys introduced that sent me over the edge. The trouble is their cheese counter where I can easily spend a lot so have had to limit myself to 2 farmhouse cheeses each week topped up with mature Cornish cheddar from Sainsburys. Another plus point for the farm shop is they wrap cheese and meat on the spot iin waxed paper.
 
Friday 22 September - bed (at 5 am) 7.8 FBG if you can call it that! 6.7. BGs had been on the high side during the early hours in A&E, but I put that down to stress. After very little sleep, time for a shower as the hospital wanted Hubby back for the second CT scan. We'd missed breakfast but had time to wander out to get something.

B. Or was it brunch? Found this lovely Polish cafe about 2 mins from the hotel called Nice to See You. I had a Polish breakfast - fried egg, frankfurter sausages 2, sliced tomato, cucumber, and gherkin, Polish ham, and Polish cheese. Excellent coffee with soya milk. Hubby only had coffee.

L. Err... nothing. Back at the hospital. They did offer food, but I wasn't hungry, plus there was nothing I could eat. Hubby was still not eating.

D. After we were finally released from hospital, we had to head straight to the restaurant. Italian this time. Hubby finally ate a little and drank water. I had a starter of buratta, with lovely cherry tomatoes, dressed in balsamic and olive oil. I gave the balsamic sourdough a swerve.

Main, a lamb dish. A pulled lamb plus a bit fillet. Lovely gravy, served with spinach,asparagus, and myshrooms. We headed back to the hotel after that as we were exhausted.

Saturday 23 September - bed 7.8 FBG 7.2 We slept 10 hours! Another shower, down to breakfast.

B. A small piece of Polish ham and cheese, with the thinnest sliver of watermelon ever. 2 GF sausages,fried egg, crispy back bacon, mushrooms, a slice of GF toast, and coffee with soya. Hubby finally ate too.

L. Nothing. I got a 48hr ticket for the Hop on/off bus,which minimised the walking Hubby had to do, and lessened the odds of another tumble.

D. Out again. Rustique, we've eaten there more than once, and it didn't disappoint. Hubby had French onion soup, then mussels in white wine with chips (although he gave most of them away). I had a starter of scallops, GF Black pudding, and celeriac puree. Main was rack of lamb, mushrooms, and green beans. We both had a sugar-free, brandy coffee. I also had a few glasses of dry white wine.

It was good fun and hubby much improved.
 
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