What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Rachox]

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: low carb fish pie with Brussels and carrots.

 

[DJC3]

B- cheesy scrambled eggs
l-airfried chicken wings
d- slow cooker diced pork in white wine, mustard and herb sauce. Strawberries and cream to follow.
I normally use the DCUK app but it seems to have given up the ghost, it’s been creaky for ages. Can anyone tell me how to post a photo on my phone when using the website. I’m getting a message saying the image is too big. Tbh it wasn’t a very photogenic meal anyway.

 

[IanBish]

Dinner: low carb fish pie with Brussels and carrots.

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Those sprouts look lovely!

 

[shelley262]

B- cheesy scrambled eggs
l-airfried chicken wings
d- slow cooker diced pork in white wine, mustard and herb sauce. Strawberries and cream to follow.
I normally use the DCUK app but it seems to have given up the ghost, it’s been creaky for ages. Can anyone tell me how to post a photo on my phone when using the website. I’m getting a message saying the image is too big. Tbh it wasn’t a very photogenic meal anyway.

I post mine using website and only way I can get them to right size for posting is to email them to my email and save from there and use that image. I'd love to hear what others do to post images on website maybe easier than my method.

 

[Rachox]

Those sprouts look lovely!

Baby peeled sprouts, much nicer than big tougher ones!

 

[Antje77]

I normally use the DCUK app but it seems to have given up the ghost, it’s been creaky for ages. Can anyone tell me how to post a photo on my phone when using the website. I’m getting a message saying the image is too big. Tbh it wasn’t a very photogenic meal anyway.

On a phone using android, likely almost the same on iPhone: I go to gallery and tap the pencil icon after choosing a picture.
On the bottom right this gives me 3 dots, tapping this gives me the option to change format. Changing it to 40% does the trick and the picture will post without issue.

I prefer using my pc for the forum, so lazy as I am I usully post my pic on Facebook and then copy and paste from there. Fb shrinks the picture enough, as long as I don't copy a full screen pic.
Good luck with getting used to the forum through your browser!

Evening meal was a second day of 'andijviestamppot, califlower mash instead of potatoes, mixed with raw endive and melted cheese cubes. Four very thin rashers of bacon to go with it,

 

[LivingLightly]

I had a kidney stone a couple of years ago and it was found to be a calcium oxalate stone. I was advised to eat low oxalate to prevent a recurrence, so along with low carb it gets complicated. Today when I was checking something else I noticed that dark chocolate is high oxalate
I guess I’ll have to stick to DGF white and milk chocolate!

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Gosh that sounds like a tricky balancing act @Rachox. I suppose that means limiting your intake of leafy green vegetables like spinach, which are so diabetic-friendly.

 

[LivingLightly]

Breakfast no grains granola with kefir and a few garden berries
Lunch hm hummus with nuts, celery and a few garden tomatoes
My garden produce is sadly coming to an end but a fair few tomatoes harvested today so roasted them with some celery, garlic cloves, onion and a few herbs drizzled with cold pressed oil
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I then used a blender when veggies cooked and cooled to make a sauce to which I added venison mince and mushrooms. Towards end of cooking took half out of casserole to make a chilli tomorrow and added a small portion of well soaked low carb pasta to the remaining portion so that pasta took on flavour of sauce during rest of cooking time.
Dinner had a portion of the low carb pasta casserole sprinkled with some parmesan shavings.
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Yes, it's always a wrench when garden produce comes to an end for another year @shelley262.
That home-made sauce sounds tasty though. I bet that knocks spots off anything you could buy ready made!

 

[LivingLightly]

Baby peeled sprouts, much nicer than big tougher ones!

Do baby Brussels sprouts have a lower oxalate concentration? @Rachox

 

[Gezzabelle]

Steak 'n' mushrooms. Lovely!

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Omg that looks delicious!!

 

[Gezzabelle]

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: similar to yesterday just used a LC roll with my sausages, a smidge of low sugar ketchup and coleslaw today.

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Do you buy or make the low carb rolls? I have been looking at some on Amazon as I will miss bread so much but they are so expensive

 

[LivingLightly]

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 Époisses.
Water to swallow tablet.
Espresso.

L: Salmon fillets baked with calabrese, chestnut mushrooms, double cream and lemon verbena.
Steamed carrot batons and runner beans smothered with butter.
Water to drink.
Skipped pud.

D Seafood salad using tiger prawns, brown shrimps, lettuce, vine tomatoes, celery, Romano peppers, Kalamata olives and salad onions, dressed with an olive oil, balsamic and garlic vinaigrette, topped with roasted macadamia nuts.
Water to washdown tablets.

 

[Rachox]

Do you buy or make the low carb rolls? I have been looking at some on Amazon as I will miss bread so much but they are so expensive

I buy rolls, sliced bread and pizza bases from the Low Carb Food Company.

 

[Gezzabelle]

I buy rolls, sliced bread and pizza bases from the Low Carb Food Company.

Thank you so much!! I will have a good look around the site a bit later. The seeded rolls look so yummy.

 

[Gezzabelle]

Breakfast :- Half a slice of toast with butter and coffee. (A compromise .. I love my toast but a full slice sent my numbers up to 10.1 and took hours to come down so tried half a slice and after 2 hours 5.7 !!! Yippee
Better food being delivered tomorrow so meanwhile ....

Lunch :- 2 slices of bacon & 2 very small eggs ... 5.4 after 2 hours

Dinner :- 3 egg cheese omelette

Snacks :- A few pork scratchings or cashew nuts

 

[filly]

Coffee and cream
Egg Bacon and sausage
Tomato Mushroom
Beef
Smoked salmon

 

[Rachox]

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: coffee shop cappuccino and another carb killa bar.
Dinner: cheese and mushroom omelette.

 

[DJC3]

Thanks for the photo tips @shelley262 and @Antje77 I still haven’t managed it ( iPhone doesn’t have the pencil icon that I could find and I didn’t get round to emailing photo to myself. I’ve found the Tapatalk app so hope it works from here. I’m very untechy.)
Today I had cheese on L/c toast for breakfast.
Tin of mackerel in olive oil with salad for lunch. H/m yoghurt and strawberries for pud.
Dinner was M&S rose veal meatballs in a quick version of a Swedish style meatball sauce ( beef broth added to cooking juices with lea&Perrins

and a glug of cream). Airfried veg to serve ( broccoli got a bit burnt- house stinks now). Glass of red wine.

 

[shelley262]

@Gezzabelle good to see you here it's a great thread to both get ideas and to keep an eye on what you're eating to help manage your health.
Breakfast had kefir then fried some garden tomatoes in olive oil and served on one slice of low carb bread ( I'm currently using seeded livlife from Waitrose ) with two eggs
Lunch hm hummus with celery, nuts, a bit of stilton cheese and two low carb seeded Olinas crackers plus the rind of a local apple
Dinner Sea bream with a few garden peas.

 

[Gezzabelle]

@Gezzabelle good to see you here it's a great thread to both get ideas and to keep an eye on what you're eating to help manage your health.
Breakfast had kefir then fried some garden tomatoes in olive oil and served on one slice of low carb bread ( I'm currently using seeded livlife from Waitrose ) with two eggs
Lunch hm hummus with celery, nuts, a bit of stilton cheese and two low carb seeded Olinas crackers plus the rind of a local apple
Dinner Sea bream with a few garden peas.

It's so good to be back here and it was the first place I thought to come for help and advice after it helped me so much way back in 2015 when I was first told I was pre diabetic. You all eat amazing food that is for sure! I have yet to discover some more exciting stuff to eat and am finding my way around it slowly. Sadly I can't get to Waitrose for Livlife bread and can't justify a delivery but hopefully I will get some low carb bread tomorrow