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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs and scallops with parsley, asparagus spears smothered with butter, all seasoned with a good grinding of black pepper.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.

L: Aperitif: dry white wine
Tuna steaks rolled in finely chopped celery and thyme, baked with red peppers and mushrooms, moistened with double cream and topped with extra mature Cheddar cheese.
Steamed French beans with a knob of butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.
Four squares, Montezuma's Absolute Black 100% cocoa chocolate.

D: Planning to have seafood salad made with king prawns and brown shrimps, avocado, baby plum tomatoes, mint, salad onions and Kalamata olives with home-made aioli for dipping and topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
Evening everyone :)

Seeing that my husband has been tagged as non-diabetic this week, I'm finding meal planning surprisingly so much easier. While he was under suspicion of being diabetic, he'd been joining me in my low carb effort, but it was such a pain trying to balance what he likes (his appetite has waned somewhat, probably because can't smell much these days - it's important to tempt him to eat) and what I Iike to eat. An example is tonight's dinner, he had his favourite which was bangers and mash with gravy and buttered cabbage, while I had one of my favourites (which I've not had for a while) smoked salmon with cream cheese. I know two different yet simple menus had to be prepared, but it was so much easier having both us content.

The ghost of sourdough just won't go away. But the enjoyment isn't always in the eating, I just love making it, prepping the starter and fussing over the dough, then there's the added excitement of seeing how 'perfect' the loaf appears to be after baking (it's never ever perfect). I made some yesterday as a request from John, it was left overnight in the fridge to prove for baking this morning. As many sunflower seeds as I dared were added to the dough to hopefully lighten the carb load as I knew I'd have to have a taste. Anyway, taste it I did - for breakfast, about 100g worth over 2 slices, smothered with butter. Blood glucose went as high as 8.8 (as far as I know) after several finger prick tests. The human body never fails to amaze, while my BG was elevated my eyes became blurred for a minute or so, this isn't the first time my body's 'warned' me this way. I guess this is just how my body reacts to sugar.

Also eaten and drank today; a couple of mugs of cocoa and cream, a G&T, and a handful of pecans.

Carb count for the day was around 80g, which is higher than I'm normally used to, BG looks to end the day back to normal.
 
Good evening everyone, I hope.
Tea and 2 Advent calendar cheese pieces for tablets
CWC with s/f caramel syrup and Ceylon cinnamon. Slice of KC Lemon drizzle cake
KC MS Roll and butter with Sashimi Tuna and leafy salad. Adonis 3C bar, tea and water
Gourmet burger kitchen burger, mushrooms, baby plum tomatoes, cheese coleslaw, 2 large eggs, half a butcher's faggot, MS roll, water. Very odd evening meal which doesn't look great but as I don't feel hungry is a real bonus - Mr Blobby's table cloth is a different matter.

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Breakfast kefir then two boiled eggs and LC buttered roll
Lunchtime a few berries and yoghurt and two squares of 90% chocolate
Dinner hm chicken curry and LC roti with a gin and soda water followed by LC Blondie
Spent a lot of today Christmas food planning I never enjoy doing it but really like when it's done. I tend to plan well ahead for all the Christmas meals to make sure I'm not tempted by the extra goodies around the house for family and visitors. This will be my sixth low carb Christmas but still needs planning!
 
B- small glass of goat milk kefir then tried the leftover ham&broccoli thing from yesterday but it was no better today.
L- the other half of the KC pizza which was still nice. Montezuma’s Absolute black chocolate.
D- pasture fed rump steak with salad and a glass of red. Now having some Camembert, a few walnuts and another glass of red while waiting for Strictly. IMG_3806.jpg
 
Woke before dawn so 7am breakfast of ff greek with seeds and blackberries.
Then yoga which took me from 6 to 8.5 and stayed there until 12 noon. We'd gone for social breakfast after, I had scrambled eggs and smoked salmon and coffee with cream but bg stayed level...just at 8. :banghead:
A stressful afternoon kept me hovering around 8 .
Dropped to 6 only at dinner time where porkloin wrapped in bacon, green beans and carrots/swede mash and a protein chocolate dessert settled me at 7.2.

This stressful situation certainly seems to be adding a good 2 points to my bg most of the time
 
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 Aldi protein bar.
Dinner: salmon, cream cheese and red onion frittata with a leafy salad.

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shelley262 said:
Spent a lot of today Christmas food planning I never enjoy doing it but really like when it's done. I tend to plan well ahead for all the Christmas meals
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Mine's all planned and some even done and frozen. It falls in birthday week for us.
Just got to buy the turkey, make the nut roast, do the lc pudding, make 2 birthday cakes.
Have a plan to feed the carb eaters cake and alcohol on repeat
 
Yesterday usual brekkie of slice LC toast, butter, copious tea.
Lunch was egg mayo on slice ham. Tea.
Suppervwas t/a cauli Bhajee, Tandoori King Prawns, 1 popadom.
Today same brekkie.
Lunch will be scrambled eggs with grated Parmesan.
Supper will be h/c cispy Peking duck with a teasp sauce wrapped in a Sainsburys Be Free high protein wrap (4g).
 
Early post as off to MK for a family meal and to collect Old Winchester sausages (I'm not a sausage fan but these are special). A group of restaurants called Cau closed so we are trying Miller and Carter. I'll have tea and babybel here, Avo and prawn starter then JKP and I will share the insert with a salad, sauteed veggie s and garlic mushrooms - Halloumi fries at 14 gms carb are a no no. I may also need the cheese board. Nutritional analysis here. Apparently Christmas jumpers must be worn - so me:D Small etiquette question - is it very naff to photograph food in an eaterie as that image doesn't look great? I'm hoping the reral thing is much better but the social event is the thing.

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ianpspurs said:
Early post as off to MK for a family meal and to collect Old Winchester sausages (I'm not a sausage fan but these are special). A group of restaurants called Cau closed so we are trying Miller and Carter. I'll have tea and babybel here, Avo and prawn starter then JKP and I will share the insert with a salad, sauteed veggie s and garlic mushrooms - Halloumi fries at 14 gms carb are a no no. I may also need the cheese board. Nutritional analysis here. Apparently Christmas jumpers must be worn - so me:D Small etiquette question - is it very naff to photograph food in an eaterie as that image doesn't look great? I'm hoping the reral thing is much better but the social event is the thing.

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Our local M&C gets mixed reviews, but having seen that menu, I think we need to experience it for ourselves.

I Googled the sausages and they sound wonderful. Given the name, I was hopeful fhey would be made in my neck of the woods, but apparently not. Please can you tell me where you buy them, and if they're available by mail order?
 
I'll be celebrating a belated Sinterklaas with my friend tonight. :)
I'll go for a quick cold swim on my way there, so now I'm debating if I should give a small correction for my current 6.8 or not, as it will be at peak action right when I'm swimming, which drops me.

With this friend, it's always fun to work out what to eat when together: she doesn't eat meat, I eat low carb, and we both like finding things that suit us both.
This time I'll bring fresh mussels and dipping sauces, she'll provide small festive bites. :hungry:
Will report back to you tonight or tomorrow.

Presents at Sinterklaas come with poems and 'surprises', and I wouldn't mind people crossing fingers I'll get my surprise there unscathed, I'll have to drive very slow, it's jiggly!
It's us, swimming and sailing in a river made from jelly, with a muddy bottom made of dirt from my garden and peanut butter. Which is where the presents are hiding... :hilarious:

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Odd sort of breakfast - just to use up a very tasty spicy sauce from the chicken os the last 2 days. Heated it through and allowed it to thicken a bit then spread the 2 remaining tablespoons of it onto 2 RyVita and a slice of ham on top of each. Very tasty.

2nd meal will be shoulder of lamb, cooked slowly with vegetables in the pan with the meat, plus some Brussels sprouts cooked separately. I should have had the lamb yesterday, but needed to finish off the chicken, so had that instead. I might have a little of the apple and pear pickle that I made yesterday with the lamb. Just a little won't push BG up too much.

I don't seem to be losing any weight these days, but I am losing girth - my clothes are fitting better than they used to, so I must be.
 
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I'd have done that for 2, but no mash for me, and sausages with high 90% pork content. Extra buttered cabbage for me, and only a bit of gravy
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Easting is so unique, I could eat sausages with mash very easily (but I wont), though I'd find it hard to eat sausages with just cabbage. I've been caught out many times over the carb content of sausages, think those Walls sausages are the worse, their carb content is way too much. Heck 97% pork ones are nice, but I'm not overly keen. I do love Tesco's Finest Pork Chipolatas, 2 chipolatas weigh 44g and contain 1.1g carbs. I've stocked up on them while they were on offer. I'll be turning them into pigs in blankets to keep me out of any possible trouble over Christmas. (By way of comparison, 44g of Walls pork sausage have 5.3g of carbs).

Late breakfast was 2 back bacon rashers, one XL egg fried, 3 Tesco's Finest Pork Chipolatas, 4 medium mushrooms sauteed in dripping, an a 25g piece of sourdough toast cut off from hubby's thick slice.

Dinner was rotisserie chicken, French green beans, broccoli, and a smidgeon of gravy.

2 G&Ts, a mug of coffee with a tablespoon of thick cream frothed.

Total carbs = 23.2g. Was the 25g of sourdough toast at 12.4g of carbs worth it? Answer: not really!
 
@Antje77 your Sinterklaas celebrations are hilarious. Was it this time last year you had your friend or cleaner crawling round a maze in your loft blindfolded?
@MrsA2 hugs for the high BGs strong emotions and poor sleep can have such a dramatic effect, I hope it’ll come back to normal soon.
Today’s food started with a small glass of goat milk kefir.
B- scrambled egg, ham and avocado.
D- slow roast shoulder of hogget with broc&cauli cheese, green beans with garlic butter and flaked almonds, and sprouts sauteed with bacon. There should have been puréed swede too but I found it afterwards in the microwave where I’d put it to warm up.
Non alcoholic sparkling wine to drink and a decaf coffee&cream afterwards. IMG_1702228493.512662.jpg
 
When I took the lamb shoulder out of the fridge this morning I found that some of the other packaged things in their were out of date today (Neil bought them on Thursday for me - this is the problem with only shopping once or twice a week) so I had to cook them as well and use them over the next day or so. There was a pack of salmon fillets which I have now baked off with some lemon and celery and some pork belly slices which I put underneath the lamb with some veg and roasted the whole lot. The lamb I had with 2/3 carrot and about 8 Brussels sprouts, So over the next few days I have some salmon, some pork belly and a lot of left-over lamb plus a fair amount of vegetables to use up. Have to think about that tomorrow morning.
 
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