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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

IanBish said:
I'm sorry my poussin was the source of your weird chicken-related dreams. I got the poussin from Tesco. To my knowledge, although it may have tried to escape its captors, I doubt very much that it had been in a hotel lift, and it were, it would have meant you no harm.

Today, however, I had a baby chicken. A bit more meat on it than the aforementioned poussin, but it wasn't great. I think I'll stick with the chicken legs in future. Don't have nightmares...

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Quite early on - about 0600, I had 2 RyVita with some Manchego sandwiched between them and then some raspberries with double cream. Not sure how long that will last me through the day.

I will make some spicy chicken using thigh meat and want to try to make pease pudding. Haven't made it before in the way I am going to try today. I will try to replicate the pease pudding we used to get as a vegetable in my Primary school days. It was quite dry, baked and could be cut into slices. I loved it. Everyone else hated it. Yellow split peas are only 3% carbs so a small portion should be alright. Might, or might not actually get around to eating it but at least it will be prepared.
 
IanBish said:
I thought it may have been. Apart from the taste and texture, I like to think that the fish I eat has been swimming in the sea and enjoying its life, rather than being crammed into an underwater cage with thousands of other fish. I have some frozen salmon which is supposedly wild caught, but I'm not sure I trust that. Is our food natural any more?
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I'm becoming more and more suspicious these days!
 
PenguinMum said:
Hi All
So back to Saturday.. brekkie usual slice LC toast cooled, good butter, copious tea. My fussiest meal of the day since I like my toast cooled before I spread a thick layer of butter and my tea very strong with dribble of milk, sort of mahogany colour. Just some useless info!
Lunch was avocado and prawn salad.
Supper was t/a of Tandoori King Prawns with cauli bhajee.
Yesterday same brekkie.
Lunch was big chunk of Red Storm with 3 Carrs water biscuits (2.5g each so not bad). Needed something quick and easy as was pottering in the garden in some very welcome sunshine.
Supper was half a small spatch**** chicken with broccoli preceded by gin & soda and 6 walnuts!
@DJC3 glad the dizziness is getting better, a week is a very long time. @maglil55 thanks for the advice about the specials at Antica. @Antje77 well done on handling your delicate conversation with your neighbour and glad it had a good result and you are still friends. @shelley262 I agree about homegrown tomatoes, the flavour and they are the perfect temperature if picked before eating. In 2020 I grew lots of stuff but broccoli defeated me. It was invaded and devoured by white flies. the following year we had tomato blight and it was in the whole village so I didn’t feel guilty just disappointed. Since then I have grown tumbling cherry toms in hanging baskets with great success after been told if they’re up high off the ground the blight won’t get them.
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I heard it was a really bad year for blight last year as well - hope we have better fortunes this year! I seem to be very lucky with birds and spiders in my garden, pests rarely get a hold (except those pesky snails and slugs grrrrrr). I think I may qualify for a national collection of spiders - good thing I like them!
 
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jpscloud said:
I heard it was a really bad year for blight last year - hope we have better fortunes this year! I seem to be very lucky with birds and spiders in my garden, pests rarely get a hold (except those pesky snails and slugs grrrrrr). I think I may qualify for a national collection of spiders - good thing I like them!
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:arghh::arghh::arghh::arghh::arghh:

Just as well someone does, I suppose. I know they serve a useful purpose, but something makes me frightened of even fairly small ones and can't look at video or even still footage of them - irrational I know, unless I was a fly in a past life!
 
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I guess my breakfast wasn't enough - or I misjudged the insulin dose again. I took my normal dose for 2 RyVitas and thought I'd got it right. Libre warned me that BG was getting low (3.8) just moments before I started getting too hot and shaking. Hypo symptoms, but at that level not a true hypo. Ate a date, which I have found to be effective in the past and, right enough, BG is now up to 4.5 but I'm still shaking. Mioght have to eat a lot sooner than I intended - better get the split peas and the chicken on.
 
Pease pudding is something neither my Mum nor my Gran ever made, even though my Mum was a school cook for a while. By her time, perhaps they were serving fresh vegetables and kids didn't want old-fashioned stuff like that. My Gran was a cook in a biggish house which was part of the Buckingham Palace set up (mews houses for the gentry who worked for the crown) so I guess they were too posh to eat pease pudding. I'm not posh and I've always loved it. The nobs didn't know what they were missing.

Everything in the oven now: the peas, the spiced chicken and another chicken dish just to get the ch thighs cooked. So I can have it whenever I feel like it. Maybe after my haircut. BG back up in the 7's now. It's a bit of a roller coaster ride.
 
Did my second day of one meal, easier because I was out keeping busy and it was sunny out earlier - which always lifts my mood and motivation. Planning two meals tomorrow though as was really hungry by mealtime
Through day just black coffee , water and black tea except for small hm kefir before going out.my hm kefir is doing really well growing fast and producing very fizzy almost sour kefir - so the bugs in the kefir grains must be working hard eating all the lactose in the milk and so lowering carb content.
Early dinner remainder of beef served with oven baked cauliflower mash - reheated with cheese on top of mash. ( one more portion of cauliflower mash remaining for tomorrow.) Pudding small piece of hm LC lemon cheesecake with a few spoons of hm yogurts. Also just had a few squares of 100% chocolate with a decaffeinated coffee.
 
Annb said:
Pease pudding is something neither my Mum nor my Gran ever made, even though my Mum was a school cook for a while. By her time, perhaps they were serving fresh vegetables and kids didn't want old-fashioned stuff like that. My Gran was a cook in a biggish house which was part of the Buckingham Palace set up (mews houses for the gentry who worked for the crown) so I guess they were too posh to eat pease pudding. I'm not posh and I've always loved it. The nobs didn't know what they were missing.

Everything in the oven now: the peas, the spiced chicken and another chicken dish just to get the ch thighs cooked. So I can have it whenever I feel like it. Maybe after my haircut. BG back up in the 7's now. It's a bit of a roller coaster ride.
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Had to Google pease pudding. Not at all what I imagined.
 
Strange day today, my cold seems to be lingering and I felt a bit unwell - also sugar cravings hit in a really big way out of the blue. I had a glass of kefir in the morning, then the other half of the pork mince with courgettes and cheese. Later I had a greek salad and suddenly had to eat the 4 fish fingers that were in the freezer. Not the worst slip up but felt like a step backwards.

I made a keto mug cake with coconut flour and no sweetener, it was horrible. I made up for it with a 2" x 1" piece of creamed coconut!

I wondered if it might be carb flu but my blood sugar numbers are still stuck on the higher side of good, ketones are quite low and I am sneezing a lot, so not sure. I think I need to do a more extended fast to get into ketosis, but waiting for a few of the important jobs currently on the slate to be sorted first.
 
Edited to change racketeering to raclette !

B: full fat greek with blackberries and chia seeds
Exercise class , followed by coffee (tea for me) with friends
L: 2 slices livlife toast with raclette cheese on. This was one of the 5 cheeses from Saturday. We ate it cold on Saturday where it was pleasant, but today it showed its a lovely melting cheese, really silky. Had taster bites of the other cheeses too.

Mid afternoon a packet of chicken crackling

D: bolognaise mince on cabbage and leeks for me, on spaghetti for him.
Hazelnut ice cream to follow

Any ideas how to use a very very mature piece of emmental cheese? It's a bit too strong for hubby and me and it was very expensive
 
MrsA2 said:
Edited to change racketeering to raclette !

B: full fat greek with blackberries and chia seeds
Exercise class , followed by coffee (tea for me) with friends
L: 2 slices livlife toast with raclette cheese on. This was one of the 5 cheeses from Saturday. We ate it cold on Saturday where it was pleasant, but today it showed its a lovely melting cheese, really silky. Had taster bites of the other cheeses too.

Mid afternoon a packet of chicken crackling

D: bolognaise mince on cabbage and leeks for me, on spaghetti for him.
Hazelnut ice cream to follow

Any ideas how to use a very very mature piece of emmental cheese? It's a bit too strong for hubby and me and it was very expensive
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Grated into a quiche?
 
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