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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

MrsA2 said:
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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Sure, just send it to me, sounds amazing!
If it was expensive already, the international postage won't make much of a difference. :angelic:

The distinct flavour of emmental goes very well on any bolognese type things in my opinion, so grate over anything containing minced meat and tomato sauce alongside whatever other ingredients. Could do well in an onion soup too.
 
Rachox said:
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and another carb killa bar.
Dinner: chilli con carne with cauliflower rice.

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I could have done without reading your previous post before this one! But that looks lovely. Cauliflower rice is so versatile.
 
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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Evening @IanBish. It was thoughts along those lines that persuaded us to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle; a way of eating I maintained for more than 30 years.

Unfortunately, following my type 2 diagnosis in 2003, I found it impossible to control my blood glucose levels without introducing more protein. Since we didn't want to revert to eating meat, my solution was to introduce fish and seafood, much of which is farmed.
 
LivingLightly said:
Evening @IanBish. It was thoughts along those lines that persuaded us to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle; a way of eating I maintained for more than 30 years.

Unfortunately, following my type 2 diagnosis in 2003, I found it impossible to control my blood glucose levels without introducing more protein. Since we didn't want to revert to eating meat, my solution was to introduce fish and seafood, much of which is farmed.
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Evening @LivingLightly. I'm the same with chicken: I try to buy happy ones; those that have been running around in the fresh air with their friends. I've always eaten salmon (I love tinned red salmon) but I eat more beef than I used to. I try to get grass-fed beef, but am not always successful. But things like that are always at the back of my mind.
 
jpscloud said:
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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I expect it was the exceptionally warm, wet weather that encouraged the blight @jpscloud.

I'm fascinated by garden birds, insects and spiders, so never use pesticides. Many so-called pests and weeds are the gardener's friends and help to keep pest numbers down.

Have thousands of slugs and snails though. I sometimes think we're feeding some of our neighbours' molluscs, as well as our own!
 
Evening all

Today:

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

L: Clams and tiger prawns in white wine sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, garlic, leeks, double cream, rosemary, butter and parmesan cheese.
Steamed French beans and mangetout smothered with butter.
Garlic chestnut mushrooms.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

D: Seafood salad made with brown shrimps, mussels, shredded red cabbage, apple peel, celery, white cup mushrooms and baby plum tomatoes with a dollop of aioli for dipping, topped with toasted pistachios.
Water to swallow tablets.
 
Antje77 said:
Well, tht went downhill (or rather uphill) pretty fast.
Went from 4.8 to 8.0 (fingerprick) in less than 40 minutes, straight arrow up on my Libre.
Straight arrows up aren't good for my mood, and nor is seeing an 8 when I know I'm still rising. (Unless on special occasions. A cheap schnitzel is definitely not a special occasion, even though it tasted really good.)

I added a rage bolus of 5 units (don't try this at home, definitely not recommended to add more insulin this soon after your last dose!), and I'll see if my neighbour wants to eat a schnitzel tomorrow.

Back to normal tomorrow, this dosing for higher carb foods clearly isn't my thing. Still, nothing wrong with giving it a try every once in a while! :joyful:
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Neighbour wasn't home, and I hadn't really planned anything else, so I tried my luck with that pesky schnitzel after all.
This time I scraped off a little more of the breading and added the leftover crushed pork scratchings I used at some point last week. I had no idea I didn't throw them away, but no reason not to use it now I accidentally found it.
I also used a very daring prebolus of an hour and 20 minutes, and a larger dose of insulin than yesterday. (Again, don't try this at home folks!)

Symptoms say I must have dipped just below 4 for a very short while right after eating, a fingerprick just now told me I'm safely at 4.5, half an hour after eating.
I'm optimistic!

I mixed the mushroom sauce with the bok choy for easier reheating.

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Antje77 said:
Neighbour wasn't home, and I hadn't really planned anything else, so I tried my luck with that pesky schnitzel after all.
This time I scraped off a little more of the breading and added the leftover crushed pork scratchings I used at some point last week. I had no idea I didn't throw them away, but no reason not to use it now I accidentally found it.
I also used a very daring prebolus of an hour and 20 minutes, and a larger dose of insulin than yesterday. (Again, don't try this at home folks!)

Symptoms say I must have dipped just below 4 for a very short while right after eating, a fingerprick just now told me I'm safely at 4.5, half an hour after eating.
I'm optimistic!
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It worked!
Steady 5's and 6's since.

Still, I'm not up to playing the prebolus timing gambling game on a regular base, it's too complicated and has a high risk of going hypo right when the food is in front of you or halfway through cooking. So back to normal tomorrow, I just checked the supermarket offers and they have all the things I like on offer this week. :joyful:
 
5 Raspberries and a few spoons of greek yog, with a tiny bit of vanilla mixed in.

Diabetes is weird, can never work it out.

Low Carb + Metformin for me = really decreased appetite.

So I thought I'd see if I could kick my appetite back into gear, and had about 10 Jacobs crackers, with some cheese - at 5.4g carbs a piece, not really a low carb meal, or a meal at all, I could have eaten a lot more food for 54g isn't it.

Anyway, really not fussed about going mad or throwing in the towel so to speak, neither did it spark the appetite back up, or make me want to eat copious amounts of carbs or rubbish, in fact, they were okaay but nothing special, not worth being ill over.

Tested BG before and after, and a further 2 hours after that in case the cheese offset any rises, expecting some kind of carnage, and I went from 4.8 to 5.3 and then back down to 5.

So I got thinking, maybe I don't need to try that after all, and maybe having no appetite is a good thing, maybe I'm eating out of conditioning and habit. So wondering what's the panic in my head about that, it was starting to bother me I hadn't ate, but didn't feel the need to eat. I suppose I've got enough stored energy around my body I could probably not eat for months (if I had to.) :D

I think probably need to take some sodium and a multivitamin though if not eating, I think that's my main thought, that I'll end up deficient in some fashion.
 
Last full day in our winter home. Will be sad to leave, it has been lovely but it will also be good to get back to real life.
Breakfast was a real treat, BLT Benedict from a beach restaurent. In this case the L stands for lobster. Had mine without what they call “ English muffin.”
Lunch didn’t really happen after the late BLT. Then played pickleball for a couple of hours.
Dinner slow cooked pork ribs ( from grocery store), tomato, cheese and pork rinds.
The last few days of eating the remnants of the fridge doesn’t sound very nutritious. Will need to get back on sensible planned meals when we get home.
Most of tomorrow will be in airports and on flights followed by a hotel night before continuing on to home on Wednesday so I have some hard boiled eggs, zucchini bread and low carb protein bars to carry with me for the airports.
 
Wishing you a speedy, safe journey home, @MommaE.

@Rachox, I got two the same, but instead of sauces, I had 50 points for spending £3 on avocados.

I sleep really badly anyway, but I've had two nights of no sleep at all, fatigue caught up with me, so ended up nearly a couple of hours soundo this afternoon. Luckily, I had planned & made a simple dinner of egg mayo to go in lettuce wraps, so was ready when I got up. Had some nuts & cheese this evening, as started getting peckish.
 
jessj said:
Wishing you a speedy, safe journey home, @MommaE.

@Rachox, I got two the same, but instead of sauces, I had 50 points for spending £3 on avocados.

I sleep really badly anyway, but I've had two nights of no sleep at all, fatigue caught up with me, so ended up nearly a couple of hours soundo this afternoon. Luckily, I had planned & made a simple dinner of egg mayo to go in lettuce wraps, so was ready when I got up. Had some nuts & cheese this evening, as started getting peckish.
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Thank you, @jessj
 
Antje77 said:
It worked!
Steady 5's and 6's since.

Still, I'm not up to playing the prebolus timing gambling game on a regular base, it's too complicated and has a high risk of going hypo right when the food is in front of you or halfway through cooking. So back to normal tomorrow, I just checked the supermarket offers and they have all the things I like on offer this week. :joyful:
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That's what I did yesterday. It wasn't planned - I just got diverted before I managed to have the spiced chicken and pease pudding. Pease pudding does contain carbs, but not too many I thought but took a slightly larger dose of insulin to make sure. Then I didn't eat for another hour. Had to eat when BG dropped into the 3's but after another date to stop the drop. Then, of course, after eating BG shot up to 10.4. I left it to sort itself out. Still a bit high this morning (0400) but not alarmingly so (for me).

Trying not to do the same thing today. Had breakfast at 0700 of bacon and eggs. BG 7.1 just now.

There will be a 2nd meal today - more of the spiced chicken and pease pudding.

Checking the meat products in the fridge that Neil bought for me on Thursday, pork belly slices were out of date yesterday so I've put together a stew loosely based on Polish Bigos. There's some duck breast which is out of date today. Have to think what to do with that to make a dish that can be reheated. Something kind of Chinese, I imagine.
 
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MommaE said:
Last full day in our winter home. Will be sad to leave, it has been lovely but it will also be good to get back to real life.
Breakfast was a real treat, BLT Benedict from a beach restaurent. In this case the L stands for lobster. Had mine without what they call “ English muffin.”
Lunch didn’t really happen after the late BLT. Then played pickleball for a couple of hours.
Dinner slow cooked pork ribs ( from grocery store), tomato, cheese and pork rinds.
The last few days of eating the remnants of the fridge doesn’t sound very nutritious. Will need to get back on sensible planned meals when we get home.
Most of tomorrow will be in airports and on flights followed by a hotel night before continuing on to home on Wednesday so I have some hard boiled eggs, zucchini bread and low carb protein bars to carry with me for the airports.
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Safe journey home sounds like some good planning of travelling food - much needed though for airports.
 
ravensmitten said:
So I got thinking, maybe I don't need to try that after all, and maybe having no appetite is a good thing, maybe I'm eating out of conditioning and habit. So wondering what's the panic in my head about that, it was starting to bother me I hadn't ate, but didn't feel the need to eat. I suppose I've got enough stored energy around my body I could probably not eat for months (if I had to.)
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Listening to your body is generally a good thing. Not that I'd advocate it, but there was this bloke who fasted for over a year and lived (and lost a lot of weight). Plus think of the money you'd save! :cool:
 
IanBish said:
Listening to your body is generally a good thing. Not that I'd advocate it, but there was this bloke who fasted for over a year and lived (and lost a lot of weight). Plus think of the money you'd save! :cool:
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Yeah, would save a fair bit! but probably not a great idea overall. I’ve heard a few stories like that, funnily I was never much an eater when I was younger, and bought and made stuff as and when I was hungry, naturally listening to my body far more than I have done in the last few years, so I think you are spot on there.

2 cold sausages for breakfast.
 
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