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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

It's a bit early yet so have only had tea so far - 1 cup at 0230 and another at 0715. When I get to that point, breakfast will be the last of the fish pie.

2nd meal will be a mixture of cabbage and minced beef - cooked the beef with onions and garlic yesterday afternoon and will braise some shredded cabbage with butter and mix some of the mince with it.

There will be a fair amount of mince left - enough for another 2 meals, I reckon so will spice some of it and make a some kind of curry and make a Bolognese sauce with the rest. We'll see if Neil feels up to shopping today and then see what he can get to go with the mince dishes.
 
JenniferM55 said:
Major preparations going in our household, brother, sister-in-Law, niece, nieces' husband and their 18 month old little one are coming for an overnight visit on Wednesday. Seeing that we won't be seeing each other over Christmas, I thought it would be great to have a pretend 'Christmas Day' on Wednesday. My brother has lost a whopping 15kg doing low carb, so I'm afraid we'll all will be low carbing ;) .

I've made some mincemeat for mince pies, using a few chopped dates, dried apricots and dried cranberries, sweetened with demerara alternative sweetener and flavoured with the usual Christmas spices, cinnamon, and all spice. Presently ingredients are soaking up brandy. A chopped pear or two will most probably be added to the mixture to bulk it out, provide a bit of moisture, and maybe reduce the carbs a bit. Obviously will be making low carb shortcrust pastry. It's no where near low carb, but I think this may have a little less carb impact than the normal fayre. Hoping for some mincemeat left to make more pies over the Christmas period. Main dinner is easy, cooking a turkey crown, with chipolatas, sausage meet stuffing, sprouts with bacon, cauli cheese, pigs in blankets, and roast potatoes and parsnips for those who're not watching their carbs. Pudding will be a Christmassey cheese cake. and a cheese board. Think the menu is all about damage limitation. Life does have to go on, so think a bit of indulgence won't hurt too much. That's my excuse anyway!

Didn't eat anything till 3pm when we had hm chicken soup, made from a carcass, onion, carrot, mushrooms and celery, served with double cream.

Gin and tonic

Dinner was 3 mozzarella chaffles without butter (Keto Twins recipe).
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Thank you for the idea re mincemeat, mince pies are my downfall at Christmas so I’m going to do this with almond pastry. I’ve got a waffle maker stored away, I must get it out, I love the keto twins :D
 
JenniferM55 said:
Major preparations going in our household, brother, sister-in-Law, niece, nieces' husband and their 18 month old little one are coming for an overnight visit on Wednesday. Seeing that we won't be seeing each other over Christmas, I thought it would be great to have a pretend 'Christmas Day' on Wednesday. My brother has lost a whopping 15kg doing low carb, so I'm afraid we'll all will be low carbing ;) .

I've made some mincemeat for mince pies, using a few chopped dates, dried apricots and dried cranberries, sweetened with demerara alternative sweetener and flavoured with the usual Christmas spices, cinnamon, and all spice. Presently ingredients are soaking up brandy. A chopped pear or two will most probably be added to the mixture to bulk it out, provide a bit of moisture, and maybe reduce the carbs a bit. Obviously will be making low carb shortcrust pastry. It's no where near low carb, but I think this may have a little less carb impact than the normal fayre. Hoping for some mincemeat left to make more pies over the Christmas period. Main dinner is easy, cooking a turkey crown, with chipolatas, sausage meet stuffing, sprouts with bacon, cauli cheese, pigs in blankets, and roast potatoes and parsnips for those who're not watching their carbs. Pudding will be a Christmassey cheese cake. and a cheese board. Think the menu is all about damage limitation. Life does have to go on, so think a bit of indulgence won't hurt too much. That's my excuse anyway!

Didn't eat anything till 3pm when we had hm chicken soup, made from a carcass, onion, carrot, mushrooms and celery, served with double cream.

Gin and tonic

Dinner was 3 mozzarella chaffles without butter (Keto Twins recipe).
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Every year I make mincemeat without any sweetener. I use dates, apricots, raisins, cranberries or dried cherries, chopped nuts, apple, lemon, fresh ginger, ground ginger, cardamom, butter and apple juice, chop the fruits and then heat them in the apple juice, spices and butter and then leave them to soak for a few hours. Alistair uses it to make mince pies for the family. I mix it with some whipped double cream and use it that way but I don't have much of it. Still too high in carbs really.
 
Here are some lc mince pie/ mincemeat recipes I ran past the Food Fairy. May help some folks and many will know these already. We have keto chefs ultra low carb pastry in the freezer but may make some.
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Version 2 mincemeat recipe
Version 3
How is brandy optional in mince pies? The Panettone recipe linked somewhere in there is a definite goer. I usually have one decent slice of the normal one - absolutely not the chocolate abomination - which initially sends bg almost vertical but comes back down to starting point within 60 mins then stays as normal.
Edited: I can spell Panettone
 
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Annb said:
Every year I make mincemeat without any sweetener. I use dates, apricots, raisins, cranberries or dried cherries, chopped nuts, apple, lemon, fresh ginger, ground ginger, cardamom, butter and apple juice, chop the fruits and then heat them in the apple juice, spices and butter and then leave them to soak for a few hours. Alistair uses it to make mince pies for the family. I mix it with some whipped double cream and use it that way but I don't have much of it. Still too high in carbs really.
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Sounds delicious to me. Do you store this for a while or do you need to refrigerate and use immediately?
 
MommaE said:
Sounds delicious to me. Do you store this for a while or do you need to refrigerate and use immediately?
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I refrigerate and it keeps for a few weeks (maybe a month), but not like a mincemeat that has spirit in it. In any case, by that time, what isn't used, nobody wants. I have used it in a sponge pudding to use up the last, in the past. Not that I eat sponge puds these days, but Alistair's gang do.
 
Annb said:
Every year I make mincemeat without any sweetener. I use dates, apricots, raisins, cranberries or dried cherries, chopped nuts, apple, lemon, fresh ginger, ground ginger, cardamom, butter and apple juice, chop the fruits and then heat them in the apple juice, spices and butter and then leave them to soak for a few hours. Alistair uses it to make mince pies for the family. I mix it with some whipped double cream and use it that way but I don't have much of it. Still too high in carbs really.
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I might tweak this, thanks. Maybe cut out the apple juice as that’s full of sugar. Have you tested your BG before and after eating it?
 
Annb said:
Every year I make mincemeat without any sweetener. I use dates, apricots, raisins, cranberries or dried cherries, chopped nuts, apple, lemon, fresh ginger, ground ginger, cardamom, butter and apple juice, chop the fruits and then heat them in the apple juice, spices and butter and then leave them to soak for a few hours. Alistair uses it to make mince pies for the family. I mix it with some whipped double cream and use it that way but I don't have much of it. Still too high in carbs really.
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Just reading this is making my BG go up :)
One day I hope I will be able to eat delicious things like this again.
 
MissMuffett said:
I might tweak this, thanks. Maybe cut out the apple juice as that’s full of sugar. Have you tested your BG before and after eating it?
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The only way I ever eat it is a teaspoon mixed with whipped double cream. It doesn't seem to have any adverse effect on BG at that level, but I wouldn't have any more or eat mince pies. I just make them, and the mincemeat, for other people to eat. Same with cakes and biscuits. I've always baked and given the results away and very rarely eat them myself - even before I knew I was diabetic.
 
B kefir then two boiled eggs and a buttered keto roll
l sauerkraut and some cheese with four lc seeded crackers
D two Welsh lamb loin chops and cauliflower cheese followed by DGF low carb coffee and walnut cake and coffee with cream.
@JenniferM55 your family Christmas get together on Wednesday sounds like lots of fun. I love celebrating with family, my favourite times. Enjoy - you've been very creative with your low carb ideas, sounds like a real feast.
@ianpspurs thanks for your LC mincemeat links.
@Annb I admire your ability to make full carb goodies for all your family and friends and to manage just a taste Im not convinced I could do that I tend to restrict full carb cooking for others to things Im not so keen on but they like!
 
shelley262 said:
B kefir then two boiled eggs and a buttered keto roll
l sauerkraut and some cheese with four lc seeded crackers
D two Welsh lamb loin chops and cauliflower cheese followed by DGF low carb coffee and walnut cake and coffee with cream.
@JenniferM55 your family Christmas get together on Wednesday sounds like lots of fun. I love celebrating with family, my favourite times. Enjoy - you've been very creative with your low carb ideas, sounds like a real feast.
@ianpspurs thanks for your LC mincemeat links.
@Annb I admire your ability to make full carb goodies for all your family and friends and to manage just a taste Im not convinced I could do that I tend to restrict full carb cooking for others to things Im not so keen on but they like!
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You're welcome to the recipes. I think we thought 3 was best but not sure now, Oddly I had never eaten a whole mince pie until Christmas end of term 1 at Uni and rarely ate one after that but suddenly thought I might like one. Here's a Christmas cake recipe - something else I didn't ever eat. I can't stand marzipan or icing and I wouldn't have the nuts on top even though I eat nuts.
Food today:
Three mugs of tea, a babybel, some peanut butter and a Dr Almond speculoos from 7.00 am to 11.30
Mug of tea with #1 son who dropped off Squirrels uniform and a cuddly toy for his daughter tomorrow
Soup from yesterday and a KC roll -- the round ones - around 2.20
CWC with cinnamon
Turkey mince with passata and herbs plus NLCK orzo 5.30 ish - Only 2 grandchildren here today as Cambs 2 were off so no two car two counties school runs.
 
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B: kefir
L: 1 slice each (in the interests of science) Low Carb Food Co. Seeded Bread (last loaf in my freezer), Multi-seed Rustic sliced bread and Sliced Los Carb sandwich bread, both from Keto Chef, with marmite, 2 x BabyBels
S: 1/4 freebie Adonis keto bar. Very nervous about that because I have eschewed sweet things for 8 weeks now.
D: prawns and mushrooms fried in butter, lime juice and Philadelphia, 200ml plain yoghurt.

I haven’t worked out my carbs but I am pretty sure they will be more than 20 ;)
 
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas round here!
Your early Christmas feast sounds lovely @JenniferM55 and it’s great to hear your brother has done so well on lc.
I’m expecting a batch of DGF Crimbo Crumble tomorrow which will be my only foray into the spicy sweet Christmas flavours I think. I love these and just one every now and then is enough to keep me on track.
Brunch today was a leftover portion of yesterdays fish pie
Dinner was h/m rose veal cheese burgers with swede chips, avo and tomato salad and a spoonful of h/m fermented beetroot&ginger. Glass of red.
@Antje77 I’m so glad you got the neoprene shoes and the float. I have one too with a whistle attached. Does yours have a waterproof pocket you can put your phone in? Very handy and sometimes people here go for full moon swims and put their phone torches on inside the float. It looks fantastic to see all these orange lights bobbing around in the dark.
@shelley262 I agree about the Montezuma’s mint, a real shame. I love the Lindt too but the big cocoa hit the Absolute Black gives is enough to stop me going too mad with it. IMG_3664.jpg
 
Not really breakfast: a few walnuts and a tablespoon ff greek
Early lunch at cafe: a most decidedly not low carb cheese scone with cream cheese and chilli jam. Was billed as a Savory cream tea. The cream cheese was very generous.
Chose it because the 2 nearest to low carb options were omelette or gammon egg and chips, and am drowning in our own eggs at the moment.
Bg was 7.5 2 hours after but no idea what it was before.

D: lamb steak with buttered courgettes and last of the sauerkraut. Yog, strawberries and 2 sqs 85% chocolate . 1 glass red wine
 
Evening all

Today

B: Two poached eggs with a knob of butter plus avocado, seasoned with black pepper and a wedge of ewe's milk Beenleigh Blue.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.

L: Salmon fillets baked en papillote with mushrooms, spinach, Kalamata olives, lemon zest, sprigs of thyme, sage leaves and butter
Steamed asparagus and mangetout smothered with butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

S: Confronted with a cold buffet. Obviously, some folk had worked hard to produce this spread. Alas, the foods on offer would have been very bad indeed for diabetics and I ended up with slices of tomato and rainbow chard with a large mug of black filter coffee.
Still, we went along for the good company and convivial conversation, not the grub!

D: Seafood salad using king prawns, brown shrimps, lettuce, baby plum tomatoes, chicory, Romano peppers, Halkidiki olives, mint and salad onions, dressed with an olive oil, balsamic and garlic vinaigrette, topped with toasted pumpkin seeds.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
DJC3 said:
@Antje77 I’m so glad you got the neoprene shoes and the float. I have one too with a whistle attached. Does yours have a waterproof pocket you can put your phone in?
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And my gloves have just come in just now as well, right in time for tomorrow's swim!
No waterproof pocket, I didn't think it would be of use because I need to take my phone out to scan (or try to coax it into picking up the bluetooth signal) anyway.
So once it gets warm enough to use my sensor again in the water I'll take my phone with me in a waterproof bag, tied to the buoy.
I did buy a bottle of sugary squash in a very trendy flavour, ginger and lemon I think, never had that. Possibly the ginger flavour makes it less yuck if drunk undiluted. :hilarious: I also bought a small water bottle to put the squash in, but I think I want an even smaller bottle so I might have to buy one of those mini bottles of booze to use.
I'll take it with me in the water tomorrow and see if it makes me feel safer! :joyful:

Tonight was the same slightly burnt 'fish fillet a la bordelaise' (yesterday's half was the less burnt part), reheated in the microwave and with yesterdays salad with some extra tomato added.

I also stole another single fishfinger from the pack my neighbour forgot to take out of my freezer. I haven't confessed to my theft yet, but at this rate I won't have to, in a couple of weeks they'll all have disappeared one by one and no-one will be the wiser.
Much easier to have just one or two fishfingers instead of 6 if you steal them and plan to give the rest of the box back to the owner. :hilarious: And I can dose for just one or two.

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