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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Antje77 said:
I had never heard of tartiflette so I googled it.
And decided I'd use the raclette cheese on a dish with cauliflower and bacon, no matter that cauliflower isn't potato, and raclette isn't reblochon. :hungry:
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Tartiflette is real comfort food. If I find some reblochon, I was thinking of trying it with cauli too. Think I'd prefer that than with swede or turnip. Raclette though, is ideal with cauli & with bacon would be good. I have a tale of our first raclette with our neighbours when we moved to France, I'll tap that out on the other thread.

Your evening & night sounded wonderful, off the cuff & cosy, will have done you good. Don't forget to make your bed! ;)

Dinner tonight is a cheeseburger in an lc roll with some naughty well cooked down onion & Branayo.
 
I get lost with all the variations of this (and other threads sometimes) posted in the “wrong” one a few times but didn't notice as its the some of the same people posting, which utterly confuses my very small brain.

Also didn’t put down what I had yesterday, as had been running about and didn’t sleep well because partner had to rush up to A&E with something that couldn’t be managed in the community. She will be fine but it’s a lot after a long shift at work to have to go back to work to be on the other side of the fence so to speak.

Working backwards I had a simple salad with chicken last night and some berries and yoghurt in the morning.

Haven’t eaten today at all, I’m sure that will change in a while.
 
mojo37 said:
I've never seen one of those before (I've led a sheltered life lol ) looks very interesting.
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I hadn't either until I was given one as a gift just before all the lockdowns. It probably should have had more use throughout them, but its great for grilling bits when having people around, or having what we call "snacky dinners.", "picky nins" and "non specific tapas"

Gets quite hot so sometimes put it on top of the hob or on our glass table when using, it probably wouldn't damage the woodwork but hesitant on using it on the countertops, maybe unfounded but don't want to take the risk, I still use a trivet for anything hot on the sides here, which are probably in all honesty somewhat heat resistant for a short while (formica)
 
@jpscloud chatting to a friend today who I gave some of my many kefir grains to before the height of last summers heat when mine became far too lively and then starved while we were away - should have frozen them- and she is donating some of my grains back to me so I will be back in full production again hopefully by end of next week. we are away visiting Welsh family mid week so thought would restart on my return. I was looking for some new storage containers to keep the made kefir in the fridge as we never keep up with quantity produced and I was looking at milk like bottles with lids - but very expensive and small many about 200mls - when came across these which are cheaper than buying the empty bottles plus bigger at 500mls and with milk in that I can use for cultivating my yoghurt or kefir. I have bought and got their double cream and kept bottles but they are smaller cute though!

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Quite excited about meeting my old kefir grains offspring again!
Food today
Breakfast small kefir then one slice of bacon, one egg and a few small tomatoes cooked in olive oil
Lunch spoon of last of the hm cooked rhubarb and a few spoons of yoghurt.
Dinner salmon in Lemon butter and a spoon of peas plus glass of dry white wine followed by LC chocolate brownie.
Planning to bake more LC cakes tomorrow probably chocolate so plenty in freezer and can take some when go away mid week.
 
shelley262 said:
@jpscloud chatting to a friend today who I gave some of my many kefir grains to before the height of last summers heat when mine became far too lively and then starved while we were away - should have frozen them- and she is donating some of my grains back to me so I will be back in full production again hopefully by end of next week. we are away visiting Welsh family mid week so thought would restart on my return. I was looking for some new storage containers to keep the made kefir in the fridge as we never keep up with quantity produced and I was looking at milk like bottles with lids - but very expensive and small many about 200mls - when came across these which are cheaper than buying the empty bottles plus bigger at 500mls and with milk in that I can use for cultivating my yoghurt or kefir. I have bought and got their double cream and kept bottles but they are smaller cute though!

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Quite excited about meeting my old kefir grains offspring again!
Food today
Breakfast small kefir then one slice of bacon, one egg and a few small tomatoes cooked in olive oil
Lunch spoon of last of the hm cooked rhubarb and a few spoons of yoghurt.
Dinner salmon in Lemon butter and a spoon of peas plus glass of dry white wine followed by LC chocolate brownie.
Planning to bake more LC cakes tomorrow probably chocolate so plenty in freezer and can take some when go away mid week.
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Oh I love that! Kefir really is such an incredible thing! :) Those milk bottles look perfect and come with kefir food too - will definitely be buying some.
 
Antje77 said:
I had never heard of tartiflette so I googled it.
And decided I'd use the raclette cheese on a dish with cauliflower and bacon, no matter that cauliflower isn't potato, and raclette isn't reblochon. :hungry:

But like @Annb 's days, mine often don't go to plan either, although my surprising night was much nicer than not being able to use hob or microwave (if a tad confusing).
Before cooking, I thought to go have a beer with my neighbour-in-the-garden. There was more than one beer, and then there was a bottle of rum, and then there was lots of hugging and cuddling, and then it was 1 AM and I realised I really needed to eat something.

Back to my own house for a LC sandwich with raclette, raw chicory and hummus, and the last of the cashews. And off to bed, or so I thought.
Only to find out I'd forgotten to make the bed, a daunting enough task at the best of times, and close to impossible after all this rum.
So I called the dogs and went back to my neighbour, and spent the night very comfortably snuggled up to him and our three dogs. It's been many years since I've shared a bed with anyone but my dogs and cats, it was very nice! :happy:

Maybe you were right after all! :hilarious:

Hopefully today will be a bit more boring so I'll be able to report back on the not-tartiflette with not-reblochon tonight. And I'll make my bed! :bag:
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Love this definitely living in the moment I hate it when I forget to make the bed until bedtime but never thought of sharing with our neighbours!
 
Good evening everyone! I have made some high fibre bread. I know it's not a great idea but I have had one slice with peanut butter and will see what happens to my (very good so far today) numbers. I am struggling with bread cravings, and I thought it would be far better to make a loaf that I know contains no sugar (except the starch in the flour) and significant amounts of fibre. It's very dense, not fluffy and tastes very strong, because it's made of 100% spelt, ground flax, hyrdrated chia seed, ground pumpkin seeds, salt, yeast and MCT oil instead of the olive oil I used to use. It hasn't triggered a binge, so I'm hopeful that knowing there are slices of that in the freezer will stop me buying supermarket bread. The breadmaker made it, actually, not me, but I was in charge!

Today: Fasted until 1.30pm then:

Fine green beans, buttered to start
Choffles (thank you @DJC3 they are gorgeous and will be firmly on the menu now!) with 3 heck sausages and 2 softboiled eggs
Greek yogurt with chia seeds, kefir and 4 blackberries mushed up
Slice of HM bread with peanut butter
Avocado with full fat soft cheese and chopped tomato (should have put some onion on there, it would have been a deconstructed guac!
Diet coke (cardinal sin for me, as it tastes sweet - I am in need of a treat - will only have one very rarely

That's a little light on the veggies today :oops:
 
B: ff greek with seeds and frozen blackberries
90 minute walk
L: 1 cold chicken drumstick, 3 rashers bacon, 2 slices cold nut roast. Very filling.
Dinner time now but not hungry, and trying very hard to ignore hubby eating pizza in the other room.Going out to a meeting soon so might be able to stick to nothing more
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: coffee shop coconut cappuccino and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a phd bar.
Dinner: prawn cocktail on a LC roll with coleslaw.

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jpscloud said:
Evening everyone! Good day today for me, asparagus spears to start at 2.30pm then I had 3 heck sausages with two eggs (supposed to be soft boiled but turned out hardish) and some shredded, lightly boiled sweetheart cabbage. Lots of butter with the cabbage, and the heck sausages don't have enough fat so cooked them in lard. I remove the skins before frying, I hate sausage skins!! Then greek yogurt with kefir*, four frozen (by me) blackberries, chia seeds and a splash of double cream. Later I had some poppy seed crackers (only a few) with full fat soft cheese - I made a seasoning for the cheese with finely ground green peppercorns and pumpkin seeds. I think I'm low carb enough for the day even with the crackers, ketones are still above 0.5 and BG down to 6.3 (unheard of in recent years)

* I am pleased to announce that my kefir is behaving itself very well now and produced the first proper jar this morning! It is a little sour to my taste so for now I will have it with greek yogurt, but I am so happy that I don't have to buy it in plastic bottles and can be sure it's alive and well. It really does produce a lot of grains! Will have to see if anyone locally wants some.

@DJC3 I will have to make some chaffles now! Those look amazing!
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Evening @jpscloud. That's what I call a serious breakfast!

Perhaps your eggs turned out hardish because they were in transit a little longer than usual. I lean towards poached eggs at breakfast (not that I've anything against soft boiled eggs and sometimes add hard boiled ones to lunch and supper dishes), but I prefer our breakfast eggs soft with runny yolks and whites just set. Poaching means I can keep an eye on the degree of doneness.

If an egg is past its best, you know immediately when poaching because the white will be ragged and the yolks then firm up more quickly than a fresh egg
 
LivingLightly said:
Evening @jpscloud. That's what I call a serious breakfast!

Perhaps your eggs turned out hardish because they were in transit a little longer than usual. I lean towards poached eggs at breakfast (not that I've anything against soft boiled eggs and sometimes add hard boiled ones to lunch and supper dishes), but I prefer our breakfast eggs soft with runny yolks and whites just set. Poaching means I can keep an eye on the degree of doneness.

If an egg is past its best, you know immediately when poaching because the white will be ragged and the yolks then firm up more quickly than a fresh egg
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Ooh thanks for the egg info, I boil them in the shell and peel them, it is a bit hit and miss so will try poaching. I really prefer hard boiled anyway though, it's just nice to have a runny yolk with sausages.

Yes my breakfasts don't take any prisoners :happy:, it's really more like one meal a day, in as short a window as I can manage, aiming for around 16/8 fasting.
 
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Antje77 said:
But like @Annb 's days, mine often don't go to plan either, although my surprising night was much nicer than not being able to use hob or microwave (if a tad confusing).
Before cooking, I thought to go have a beer with my neighbour-in-the-garden. There was more than one beer, and then there was a bottle of rum, and then there was lots of hugging and cuddling, and then it was 1 AM and I realised I really needed to eat something.

Back to my own house for a LC sandwich with raclette, raw chicory and hummus, and the last of the cashews. And off to bed, or so I thought.
Only to find out I'd forgotten to make the bed, a daunting enough task at the best of times, and close to impossible after all this rum.
So I called the dogs and went back to my neighbour, and spent the night very comfortably snuggled up to him and our three dogs. It's been many years since I've shared a bed with anyone but my dogs and cats, it was very nice! :happy:

Maybe you were right after all! :hilarious:

Hopefully today will be a bit more boring so I'll be able to report back on the not-tartiflette with not-reblochon tonight. And I'll make my bed! :bag:
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Evening @ Antje77 and @Annb.

Boringly predictable, you mean. LoL. You may not be well organised, but you're very flexible!
 
shelley262 said:
Love this definitely living in the moment I hate it when I forget to make the bed until bedtime but never thought of sharing with our neighbours!
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I highly recommend crawling into the neighbours bed when forgetting to make your own, but a lot depends on the neighbours. Pick the wrong ones and things can become very awkward...

My first meal of the day (late afternoon, having a very lazy hangover day) was a slice of LC bread with 'herringfilets in sahne sauce' (herring in cream sauce, very tasty) I bought in Germany. Either the carb count on the tub was completely wrong, or I misread, being too lazy to get my reading glasses.
This led to a rather wild correction with insulin at 6:50 pm.
Followed by a text message from my friend down the road to ask if I was up for a full moon swim at 7:10, not ideal from a diabetes perspective, but she's had a rough week and could use the swim. A pre-swim winegum and some crossed fingers made me end up at 4.3 and dropping upon getting home again, not bad!

But also not the right moment to spend 20 minutes in the kitchen to cook, so I don't think a proper meal will happen today. Likely it will be a fried duck egg and cheese on low carb bread, all fine. :)
 
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Evening all,

In a previous life, before I was diagnosed with type 2, it was fun to live life in the moment. Afraid I'm boringly predictable these days, so thank you @Antje77 for your entertaining posts.

Today:

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

L: Packed lunch made with leftover walnut and mushroom nut roast.
Celery sticks and baby plum tomatoes with chicory boats for scooping and a dollop of home-made mayonnaise for dipping.
Prawns and brown shrimps.
Almonds, hazelnuts and pecans.
Water to drink.

Mid-afternoon:black filter coffee

D: Smoked salmon and cream cheese salad made with lettuce, celery, baby plum tomatoes, salad onions, Halkidiki olives and Romano peppers, dressed with olive oil, lemon verbena and a touch of lemon juice, topped with walnut halves.
Water to wash down tablets.
 
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Antje77 said:
I highly recommend crawling into the neighbours bed when forgetting to make your own, but a lot depends on the neighbours. Pick the wrong ones and things can become very awkward
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Our 97 year old prim and proper doyenne of our community and chair of various societies would definitely frown on such activities!!!
We are already in trouble with her for letting the fence fall into a mild state of disrepair. :p
 
Wasn't fussed with food all day.

Had to go full mental and eat a whole packet of beef mince with onions and tomato's and parsley and coriander and cumin and harissa and and and and

Should be full enough now not to think about eating anything else that's floating around.
 
shelley262 said:
@jpscloud chatting to a friend today who I gave some of my many kefir grains to before the height of last summers heat when mine became far too lively and then starved while we were away - should have frozen them- and she is donating some of my grains back to me so I will be back in full production again hopefully by end of next week. we are away visiting Welsh family mid week so thought would restart on my return. I was looking for some new storage containers to keep the made kefir in the fridge as we never keep up with quantity produced and I was looking at milk like bottles with lids - but very expensive and small many about 200mls - when came across these which are cheaper than buying the empty bottles plus bigger at 500mls and with milk in that I can use for cultivating my yoghurt or kefir. I have bought and got their double cream and kept bottles but they are smaller cute though!

Tom Parker Creamery Vitamin Enriched Whole Milk | Ocado

Buy Tom Parker from Ocado. Find your favourite groceries, household essentials, and value delivered at Ocado.
www.ocado.com www.ocado.com

Tom Parker Creamery Double Cream | Ocado

Buy Tom Parker from Ocado. Find your favourite groceries, household essentials, and value delivered at Ocado.
www.ocado.com www.ocado.com
Quite excited about meeting my old kefir grains offspring again!
Food today
Breakfast small kefir then one slice of bacon, one egg and a few small tomatoes cooked in olive oil
Lunch spoon of last of the hm cooked rhubarb and a few spoons of yoghurt.
Dinner salmon in Lemon butter and a spoon of peas plus glass of dry white wine followed by LC chocolate brownie.
Planning to bake more LC cakes tomorrow probably chocolate so plenty in freezer and can take some when go away mid week.
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If you have any Moo Juice farms nearby (unpasteurised milk, dispensed by coin/card op machine, at the farm gate), they usually sell 1ltr glass bottles with tops, which can be used again and again. If I recall, the bottles are about £1, but if using their wider services, can be taken back each time milk is bought.

Fabulous milk. :cat:
 
Morning all. A better bg result this morning so I'm sticking with just meat and veg again today. I have 3 guilt free sausages and fried eggs for lunch and a tin of pink salmon for tea with salad. My eyes are really sore and almost closed with the infection but I'm hoping the drops will at least take the itching away. It's driving me mad! Anyway, have a lovely weekend everyone. :)
 
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