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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Not too bad today, intermittent fasting 8pm to 2pm then started with a few buttered asparagus spears, followed by 2 buttered hard boiled eggs and (fell for an ancient grains loaf in the supermarket bakery, and I know I had no business being in the bakery in the first place but you know... human...) two slices of ancient grains bread. It had the least additives of all the breads there, providing they are being truthful! The rest of the loaf has been frozen and will only make an appearance on special occasions.

Numbers have been good considering the bread, I had four tiger prawns with asparagus for tea just now followed by some pumpkin seeds.

Strong black coffee and matcha green tea.

I know I eat a lot of expensive stuff at the moment but since I'm not buying chocolate, sweets, savoury snacks, bread, cakes and assorted junk foods, and also eating less as the good stuff makes me full quicker, my food shopping bill has gone down from being close to £100 per week to being £30 to £50 per week! Yep I really was eating that much ****.
 
Antje77 said:
Not crispy-crispy but crispyish. Likely having to do with spending time in one of those things to keep warm. I'm minded to reheat it in the oven tomorrow, skin side up, and see what happens. :)

How do you usually add recipes from the internet to your CMT?
I allowed the website to install the extension, which added an icon next to my Google search bar.
When I see a recipe I like, I click the icon, which transfers the recipe to my CMT but leaves out all the unnecessary chatter you usually see on recipe websites.

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I definitely need to try that pork.
Re CMT yes, I can do that from a website. It didn’t occur to me at the time that it would be different from an app ( I use the DCUK app) so I’ll log in to the full website and try again from there. Thanks
 
jpscloud said:
I know I eat a lot of expensive stuff at the moment but since I'm not buying chocolate, sweets, savoury snacks, bread, cakes and assorted junk foods, and also eating less as the good stuff makes me full quicker, my food shopping bill has gone down from being close to £100 per week to being £30 to £50 per week! Yep I really was eating that much ****.
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Evening @jpscloud

That was our experience when I switched to a LCHF way of eating. i sometimes meet diabetics who tell me they can't afford it, but if you stick to real food and take into account the money previously frittered away on items we wouldn't regard as food, you're actually spending no more and some of us find we spend a lot less!
 
jpscloud said:
Not too bad today, intermittent fasting 8pm to 2pm then started with a few buttered asparagus spears, followed by 2 buttered hard boiled eggs and (fell for an ancient grains loaf in the supermarket bakery, and I know I had no business being in the bakery in the first place but you know... human...) two slices of ancient grains bread. It had the least additives of all the breads there, providing they are being truthful! The rest of the loaf has been frozen and will only make an appearance on special occasions.

Numbers have been good considering the bread, I had four tiger prawns with asparagus for tea just now followed by some pumpkin seeds.

Strong black coffee and matcha green tea.

I know I eat a lot of expensive stuff at the moment but since I'm not buying chocolate, sweets, savoury snacks, bread, cakes and assorted junk foods, and also eating less as the good stuff makes me full quicker, my food shopping bill has gone down from being close to £100 per week to being £30 to £50 per week! Yep I really was eating that much ****.
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It’s surprising how much you can save when not buying the snacks sweet stuff and general carby rubbish isn’t it? I feel I eat luxuriously every day now, I love it.
 
Evening all

B: Two poached eggs topped with a knob of butter, avocado and four tiger prawns seasoned with a good grinding of black pepper.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.

L: Mushroom stroganoff made with chestnut mushrooms, dried porcini mushrooms, onions, vegetable stock, white miso paste, tomato purée, paprika, garlic, olive oil, butter, parsley and soured cream.
Cauliflower rice with toasted cashews and peas.
Braised cavolo nero with garlic and toasted almonds.
Skipped pud.
Water to drink.

D: Seafood salad made with brown shrimps and mussels, lettuce, Romano peppers, celery, baby plum tomatoes, Kalamata olives and salad onions, dressed with an olive oil, balsamic and garlic vinaigrette, topped with pistachios.
Water to wash dowm tablets.
 
Just back from wonderful day out went to an amazing afternoon classical concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall with friends it was exceptional and my two carefully chosen meals out were a success too.
Black coffee only as early lunch at Dishoom where I had mint tea and lamb shisk kebabsPXL_20240221_125029348-2.jpg
very spicy but lovely
dinner after concert was at a non chain Italian where I had chicken and some mushrooms in a wonderful cream and mustard sauce. They also brought a bottle of extra virgin olive oil to drizzle on my vegetables. Had glass of dry white wine too.
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Waiter sat down next to me when I was explaining no rice or potatoes etc and kept saying but we do lots of gluten free and rice is good for diabetics my dad is diabetic and he eats lots of plain rice! He also suggested that I chose the grilled plain chicken as the cream might not be good for me his dad avoided all the fat! I'm afraid he still looked confused after our discussion I often forget how odd it looks to eat the opposite of the healthy guidelines. But food delicious a real success and I discovered I like olive oil drizzled in my vegetables a change to butter!
 
LivingLightly said:
Evening @jpscloud

That was our experience when I switched to a LCHF way of eating. i sometimes meet diabetics who tell me they can't afford it, but if you stick to real food and take into account the money previously frittered away on items we wouldn't regard as food, you're actually spending no more and some of us find we spend a lot less!
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I do find it more expensive because I never did buy ready made food - other than bread, so I still buy everything I used to buy - except bread and cereal products but more meat, eggs and dairy. Difficult to quantify though because of the price hikes in the last couple of years.
 
A friend called in a short time ago and asked me if I like salmon. Of course I do (actually had some in the oven for the 2nd meal I didn't intend to have today) so she went back out to her car to bring some in. She took a big platter out to put it on and came back in to present me with 2 whole salmon, with the flesh taken off - just the bones and the little flesh that needs stripping off. She explained that a Bengali friend of hers, living in Stornoway, had asked her to try to get some fish heads for her (some Bengali dish). My friend had gone to the salmon factory and asked for salmon heads and been given the carcases of 2, quite large, salmon. The Bengali lady only wanted the heads. It was a bit of a surprise, but I can make fish stock with them so no problem. Preferred the salmon I had already cooked though. It was a large fillet baked with lemon and butter, then finished with double cream. Lovely. Didn't stop me feeling hungry though. Could have eaten the same again. :greedy:
 
DJC3 said:
It’s surprising how much you can save when not buying the snacks sweet stuff and general carby rubbish isn’t it? I feel I eat luxuriously every day now, I love it.
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Yes I was completely oblivious to how badly down the carb addict rabbithole I was! I've had a tough few years and had completely given in to my food addictions but I'm out the other side and asparagus is on the daily menu!! :) I think it was Chris Van Tulleken (the ultra processed food guy) who said the makers of those foods I was (am) addicted to are making us pay for the privilege of letting them kill us!!
 
Annb said:
A friend called in a short time ago and asked me if I like salmon.
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I'd be pretty ****** off if someone suggested they'd bring me salmon and it turned out they brought just the bones! Still, it made me laugh out loud. :hilarious:

Yesterday in Germany I bought something called raclette cheese.
I wasn't sure what you're supposed to do with it, but a tiny picture on the package resembled a frying pan, so that's what I did.
I shoved it on a slice of this German LC seedy bread, which was pretty good. :joyful:

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LivingLightly said:
Evening @jpscloud

That was our experience when I switched to a LCHF way of eating. i sometimes meet diabetics who tell me they can't afford it, but if you stick to real food and take into account the money previously frittered away on items we wouldn't regard as food, you're actually spending no more and some of us find we spend a lot less!
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Yes I can't control myself around all those junk foods so not only are they expensive in "normal" amounts, my ridiculous appetite for them meant I was buying so much more of it. I'm definitely spending less, by a long way, and being much less wasteful too.
 
B: yoghurt, seeds
Took a friend to her hospital appointment early, so
2nd breakfast, a nut bar while waiting 90 minutes for x Ray.
Not home until
13:30 2 scrambled eggs with small avocado and cheddar cheese. A Baileys hot chocolate

18:00 minced roast beef leftovers. An lc chocolate mug cake with coffee icecream, did share with hubby :angelic:
 
Antje77 said:
Yesterday in Germany I bought something called raclette cheese.
I wasn't sure what you're supposed to do with it, but a tiny picture on the package resembled a frying pan, so that's what I did.
I shoved it on a slice of this German LC seedy bread, which was pretty good. :joyful:

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If it's any guide @Antje77, we encountered this tasty melting cheese in a French-speaking canton in Switzerland. It was served on toast.
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Antje77 said:
I'd be pretty ****** off if someone suggested they'd bring me salmon and it turned out they brought just the bones! Still, it made me laugh out loud. :hilarious:

Yesterday in Germany I bought something called raclette cheese.
I wasn't sure what you're supposed to do with it, but a tiny picture on the package resembled a frying pan, so that's what I did.
I shoved it on a slice of this German LC seedy bread, which was pretty good. :joyful:

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Ooh, I have a Raclette grill sort of like this but with a stone on top you can change to the grill

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Often use it with different cheeses and veg and meats

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@Annb, I'm sorry, I laughed too. So pleased you already had back up salmon & it was tasty.

@ANTJE, as Ravensmitten has posted, that is a home raclette, I have one too. with a stone top to cook thin slices of meat or whatever on & under you have the grill to melt the raclette cheese, either over veg etc., in the tray or to have over your pick on a plate. If you go to a proper raclette, they have a 1/4 of a raclette wheel with an over burner & the unctuous melted cheese gets scraped onto your plate. Our Breton neighbours introduced us to it. There were also big village fundraisers that had several on the go, it was melted cheese heaven.

I'm losing the plot, as I've just had to properly think what I had for dinner...it was tuna & cheese nuggets/muffins with a mixed salad.
 
Note to self: Do not, I repeat NOT, absentmindedly eat unportioned cashews straight from the bag while playing a stupid match 3 computer game. Especially not if it's a large bag of cashews.

I suppose those cashews need some insulin but I have no idea how much, even if I knew how much I ate... :bag:

They tasted great though! :joyful:
 
shelley262 said:
Just back from wonderful day out went to an amazing afternoon classical concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall with friends it was exceptional and my two carefully chosen meals out were a success too.
Black coffee only as early lunch at Dishoom where I had mint tea and lamb shisk kebabsView attachment 66311
very spicy but lovely
dinner after concert was at a non chain Italian where I had chicken and some mushrooms in a wonderful cream and mustard sauce. They also brought a bottle of extra virgin olive oil to drizzle on my vegetables. Had glass of dry white wine too.
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Waiter sat down next to me when I was explaining no rice or potatoes etc and kept saying but we do lots of gluten free and rice is good for diabetics my dad is diabetic and he eats lots of plain rice! He also suggested that I chose the grilled plain chicken as the cream might not be good for me his dad avoided all the fat! I'm afraid he still looked confused after our discussion I often forget how odd it looks to eat the opposite of the healthy guidelines. But food delicious a real success and I discovered I like olive oil drizzled in my vegetables a change to butter!
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Is Dishoom the one on Broad Street? It is always busy when I'm striding back to the carpark.
 
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