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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

AndBreathe said:
Is Dishoom the one on Broad Street? It is always busy when I'm striding back to the carpark.
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It's where the old now demolished library was - in part of the New PwC office building complex near the art gallery in Chamberlain square.it's amazing but safer to book a table although they do do some walk ins. Lovely buzzy informal cafe style and we all agreed food delicious plus medium priced.
 
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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The "salmon" made me laugh as well. Fish soup in the offing.

Raclette cheese is great for melting and is the one used in the dish called tartiflette. I heard somewhere that the dish was invented to use that cheese because the producers needed a market. I love tartiflette but it doesn't work for me with celeriac to replace the potato, so I don't bother these days. Of course, I can't get raclette here but could get it from Amazon - if it wasn't so expensive. Of corse, it can be used in any kind of grilled cheese dish, as you have found.
 
Just had breakfast because I have to go to get my legs bandaged so will need something inside before I go. I still can't use the hob so it was left-over ragout with an egg popped in the middle and some cheese slices over the top, microwaved for 5 minutes.

Must make that fish soup, but not sure that's what I'll want to eat later. I do have a chicken which I could roast and some Brussels sprouts, so that might be a way to go, especially if Neil doesn't move the big, heavy Buffalo grill to let me access the hob.
 
Morning all. I had my 2 chicken legs and cauli and broccoli yesterday, then ruined it by eating a pack of marshmallow teacakes (my weakness). But my fbg had come down. Yet the day before I had eaten next to no carbs and it was in the 8's! I have a problem with my eye. It's very sore and itchy on the lid and this morning quite swollen. I can't get an appt at the surgery so will go to the pharmacist and see if they can help. Have a nice day all. :)
 
shelley262 said:
It's where the old now demolished library was - in part of the New PwC office building complex near the art gallery in Chamberlain square.it's amazing but safer to book a table although they do do some walk ins. Lovely buzzy informal cafe style and we all agreed food delicious plus medium priced.
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Ah. OK.

Sounds excellent, and always good to have a decent hostelry up the sleeve. :)
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Morning all. I had my 2 chicken legs and cauli and broccoli yesterday, then ruined it by eating a pack of marshmallow teacakes (my weakness). But my fbg had come down. Yet the day before I had eaten next to no carbs and it was in the 8's! I have a problem with my eye. It's very sore and itchy on the lid and this morning quite swollen. I can't get an appt at the surgery so will go to the pharmacist and see if they can help. Have a nice day all. :)
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Hope your eye is better soon! And I hope those were Tunnocks, as anything else is a crime... ;)
 
Annb said:
The "salmon" made me laugh as well. Fish soup in the offing.

Raclette cheese is great for melting and is the one used in the dish called tartiflette. I heard somewhere that the dish was invented to use that cheese because the producers needed a market. I love tartiflette but it doesn't work for me with celeriac to replace the potato, so I don't bother these days. Of course, I can't get raclette here but could get it from Amazon - if it wasn't so expensive. Of corse, it can be used in any kind of grilled cheese dish, as you have found.
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You could use raclette, but reblochon is the usual cheese for tartiflette, can you get that, Annb? That is my comfort food or was, delicious, hearty & warming.

Dinner will be a duck leg with cavolo then barolina occelli & cambozola to follow.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Morning all. I had my 2 chicken legs and cauli and broccoli yesterday, then ruined it by eating a pack of marshmallow teacakes (my weakness). But my fbg had come down. Yet the day before I had eaten next to no carbs and it was in the 8's! I have a problem with my eye. It's very sore and itchy on the lid and this morning quite swollen. I can't get an appt at the surgery so will go to the pharmacist and see if they can help. Have a nice day all. :)
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Hopefully just need some lubricants or something, pharmacists are pretty handy, we get sent to the opticians for any thing eye related, gp won’t see you for eyes here.

Optician I saw for a bout of blepharitis gave me a tip about boiling some water and using some salt and a small drop of Johnson and Johnson’s baby bath stuff, the yellow bottle no more tears thing in the water, and then to use the water once cooled to wipe over the eyelid with a cotton pad to stimulate the oil ducts. I was quite surprised?! You mean put that near the eye intentionally?!?! When it’s a thing we usually go out of the way to avoid. It’s also helped a few time with the child when it looks like her eye might come up, ten years old with grubby hands, rubs eyes a bit and it seems to get better in a day or two of doing that.

That said I’m not saying that’s what you have as I wouldn’t like to say and could make things worse. Pharmacist sounds like a good shot. Hope it’s better soon.
 
jessj said:
You could use raclette, but reblochon is the usual cheese for tartiflette, can you get that, Annb? That is my comfort food or was, delicious, hearty & warming.

Dinner will be a duck leg with cavolo then barolina occelli & cambozola to follow.
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You're quite right. I confused raclette with reblochon. Can't get either here. Unspecified goat's cheese and Wensleydale with cranberries is as exotic as we get. Other than that it's Cheddar - choice of red or white.
 
Annb said:
You're quite right. I confused raclette with reblochon. Can't get either here. Unspecified goat's cheese and Wensleydale with cranberries is as exotic as we get. Other than that it's Cheddar - choice of red or white.
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Easy to get them muddled, both begin with r & are melty. :) Shame they can't ship it over, but I suppose there has to be a cut off or you'd need more boats sailing across. Because it was mentioned, it got my tastebuds going & as I was going out & to Tesco, I had a look, no luck there either. If I find some, will have to send you up some, would have thought swede or maybe turnip could be a substitute...
 
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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The agree icon was for the amount of " junk " food and in my case takeaways also add to the cost . Therefore as you said it can balance out the cost of the expensive " healthy " food . :)
 
mojo37 said:
The agree icon was for the amount of " junk " food and in my case takeaways also add to the cost . Therefore as you said it can balance out the cost of the expensive " healthy " food . :)
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Oh goodness me yes - takeaways and supermarket versions of them were 90% of my diet. Very expensive! I have to say though that if I were still working I wouldn't have the motivation, time or energy to be doing what I am now - so my heart goes out to anyone who is in that position.
 
jpscloud said:
Oh goodness me yes - takeaways and supermarket versions of them were 90% of my diet. Very expensive! I have to say though that if I were still working I wouldn't have the motivation, time or energy to be doing what I am now - so my heart goes out to anyone who is in that position.
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Always have one or takeaways a month ...still have kids at home ( grown up ones ) so its a favourite . Not fussed on supermarket versions though .
 
FBG this morning was 11.1 so still stuck in the 11's .
Yesterday food was ...Breakfast 1 egg ( fried ) 2 rashers of bacon grilled , 2 wholemeal bread and butter . Cup of tea .
Lunch : was slow cooked ham/ gammon with an omelette and new potatoes.
Evening meal was meatballs in homemade sauce ( peppers onions tinned tomatoes herbs and loads of garlic . Grated some cheese ( strong cheddar ) into it .That was all well and good but then an hr later was craving chocolate and gave into the craving ! Had about 140 carbs in total for the day .
 
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