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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

B- 2 boiled eggs with l/c cracker
L- Greek salad
D- Anniversary dinner out: Starter was scallops and mussels in a spicy Asian sauce. We shared a tomahawk steak for main dish, I had chimichurri with it and a side of fresh and edemame
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beans in lemon and herb dressing. 2 glasses of Malbec and a coffee and brandy to follow
 
Breakfast kefir with seeds, nuts and a few garden berries
Lunch spoon of home made organic hummus, a few olives, organic celery, a few garden tomatoes, a few nuts, low carb seeded cracker and some Comte cheese all served on my new - to me - autumnal looking plate ( vintage one I spotted and bought in a charity shop!)
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Also had the peel from a local apple after my lunch
Dinner had slow cooked beef casserole served on buttered cabbage and glass of red wine followed by a low carb brownie.
 
Coffee and cream
coffee and unsweetened almond milk
Herring and 2 small baby beets
Smoked salmon
Cottage cheese tomato
 
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: bolognese with LC pasta, a sprinkle of grated cheddar cheese and a few spots of low sugar ketchup.

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Somehow I thought I still had a leftover meal, when in fact I'd eaten the last of the veggies and most of the meat yesterday, so I felt pretty stupid when I opened the fridge and it wasn't there. :hilarious:

Good thing I bought a cauliflower for the guinea pigs, and someone gifted me a very large and very good piece of cheese last week.

Cauliflower cheese with the leftover pork belly and some thin rashers of bacon, not bad at all for an impromptu meal! :hungry:

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DJC3 said:
B- 2 boiled eggs with l/c cracker
L- Greek salad
D- Anniversary dinner out: Starter was scallops and mussels in a spicy Asian sauce. We shared a tomahawk steak for main dish, I had chimichurri with it and a side of fresh and edemame
b61b94cf3f58e52b84968b847d212422.jpg

beans in lemon and herb dressing. 2 glasses of Malbec and a coffee and brandy to follow
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Your anniversary dinner sounds fit for a princess @DJC3, especially that starter. How I love scallops.
Who says low-carb food is unexciting?
 
Antje77 said:
Somehow I thought I still had a leftover meal, when in fact I'd eaten the last of the veggies and most of the meat yesterday, so I felt pretty stupid when I opened the fridge and it wasn't there. :hilarious:

Good thing I bought a cauliflower for the guinea pigs, and someone gifted me a very large and very good piece of cheese last week.

Cauliflower cheese with the leftover pork belly and some thin rashers of bacon, not bad at all for an impromptu meal! :hungry:

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May I ask the name of your very good piece of cheese? @Antje77. I'm dying to know.
 
LivingLightly said:
May I ask the name of your very good piece of cheese? @Antje77. I'm dying to know.
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It's some 'extra belegen' (mature cheese, possibly a Gouda or similar) of sorts, but it was bought by friends at a market, and apparently a very good market too. Very strong flavour but also very creamy and a remarkable soft texture for such a mature cheese, I suspect raw milk. But the cut is such that you can't read what it says on the crust. :hilarious:

I wouldn't usually use such a nice cheese for a cheese sauce, but the piece is so large that I'll have to work hard to finish it before it goes mouldy. And it did make an absolutely wonderful cheese sauce!
 
Evening all

Still humid here in London.

Today:

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

L: Ceviche made first thing using lemon sole fillets cured with lemon juice, zest and Welsh onions, then combined with tomatoes, Padron chillies, cucumber, Kalamata and Halkidiki olives, chopped coriander and olive oil.
Salad made with watercress, vine tomatoes, radishes, Romano peppers and Welsh onions, dressed with an olive oil, basil, garlic and balsamic vinaigrette and topped with toasted almonds.
Water to drink.

D: Seafood salad made with king prawns, mussels, lettuce, sweet cicely, garden tomatoes, celery and salad onions dressed with home-made mayonnaise, using egg, avocado oil, white wine vinegar, flat-leaf parsley, garlic
and seasonings, scattered with toasted pistachios.
Water to wash down tablets.
 
Antje77 said:
It's some 'extra belegen' (mature cheese, possibly a Gouda or similar) of sorts, but it was bought by friends at a market, and apparently a very good market too. Very strong flavour but also very creamy and a remarkable soft texture for such a mature cheese, I suspect raw milk. But the cut is such that you can't read what it says on the crust. :hilarious:

I wouldn't usually use such a nice cheese for a cheese sauce, but the piece is so large that I'll have to work hard to finish it before it goes mouldy. And it did make an absolutely wonderful cheese sauce!
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That Gouda-type cheese sounds extra special @Antje77 and I've learnt a new Dutch word.
'Belegen' should come in handy.
 
Breakfast kefir with seeds, nuts and a few garden berries
Lunch hm hummus, some comte cheese, a few nuts, olives, organic UK celery and garden tomatoes plus two low carb seeded crackers followed by the peel of a local Worcester apple.
Dinner wild salmon with organic garden peas and glass of dry white wine followed by some garden berries and splash of cream.
 
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: salmon and cream cheese on a LC roll with coleslaw.

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shelley262 said:
Lunch hm hummus, some comte cheese, a few nuts, olives, organic UK celery and garden tomatoes plus two low carb seeded crackers followed by the peel of a local Worcester apple.
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Worcester Pearmain was one of my late Mil's favourite English apple varieties @shelley262. Like you, I use the peel for apple flavouring. Luckily, my husband is happy to polish off the rest.
 
Evening all

Today:

B: Two poached eggs with a knob of butter and avocado seasoned with a good grinding of black pepper,
A wedge of Gorwydd Caerphilly.
Water to swallow tablet.
Double espresso.

L: Packed lunch made with leftover ceviche.
Lettuce cups, Romano peppers, celery sticks and tomatoes with a dollop of home-made mayonnaise for dipping.
Almonds, hazelnuts and pecans.
Water to drink.
Wild blackberries picked on the hoof to round off lunch.

D: Smoked salmon and cream cheese salad made with sweet cicely, vine tomatoes, lemon verbena, Kalamata olives and mustard cress, dressed with olive oil and a touch of lemon juice, topped with toasted pine nuts.
Water to wash down tablets.
 
Breakfast today was h/m yoghurt with blackberries picked on my morning walk.
Lunch:
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chicken and avocado salad.
Dinner was delicious grass fed picanha steak with chimichurri ( herbs from my garden - I don’t have green fingers so I’m ridiculously pleased by this) and roast veg.
 
My eating was exactly the same as yesterday, I think my meal plans must seem boring to others but I know what controls my weight and blood sugars and I’m a creature of habit so it suits me!
pic of todays dinner:

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shelley262 said:
today's food
Breakfast Spoon of M and S low carb no grains granola with kefir and a few garden berries
Lunch two boiled eggs and low carb roll
Dinner steak with onions and mushrooms and glass of red wine
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Just had a few garden berries with spoon of yoghurt.
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What is the low carb granola? From M&S??
 
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