What have you eaten today?

Two and a half years ago, when I was basically living on green smoothies for brekkie and lunch, (then eating whatever I felt like all evening, which kind of sabotaged things a tad) I used to add

• Powdered spirulina
• MSM
• Powdered barley or wheatgrass
• Hemp oil or cocobutter
• Raw cacao nibs

It was a very interesting experiment.
Even though I didn't know I was doing an experiment.

I started with the green smoothies.
Felt great.
Felt so fantastic in fact that I felt justified in easing off the low carbing and started eating 'normal low GI foods' every evening.
Lost a tiny bit of weight (cos It was still too many carbs for me, in the evening)
Still felt great.
Kept it up for (about 15 months)
Eventually stopped with the green smoothies when the autumn arrived, and I fell in love with hot breakfasts again.
Kept up with the low GI, 3x a day
Within 6 weeks I had a terrible cough which turned into my first ever chest infection. Lost weight. Felt like death. Eventually had a humungous course of antibiotics and took weeks to recover.

I think I slipped into diabetes during the smoothie/'normal food' era, but had no problems, because to smoothies kept me steady, fuelled and well. Even though the 'low GI' foods must have been spiking me hugely, each evening. But the D effects hit as within weeks of stopping the smoothies => chest infection.

Unfortunately, I didn't have a meter at the time. Wish I had. Might have saved me from some painful lessons! It's been low carbing ever since.

Does that make sense?

Yesterday's food

Breakfast two boiled eggs slice spelt bread
Lunch 3 97 % Sausages bacon mushrooms
Snack soy latte some dark chocolate
Out at do so buffet dinner - peanuts , cheese, sausages, green salad, onion bajhia , pate pickled onions

DeejayR said:

B: Cheese & mushroom 2-egg omelette with extra butter
L: Leftover butternut squash & beef mince bake
D: Cauliflower cheese with bacon, broccoli & cabbage (white sauce made with buckwheat flour)
The last one spiked me from 5.8 to 7.5 in two hours, drat it. Too much skim milk in the sauce I guess.

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I make cheese sauce without milk or flour and love it. Scared to give you the recipe link though as I don't know what LCFF stands for *scratching my head at the first F* lol

KLS said:

Hopefully today looks better:
Greek yogurt, handful of blueberries
Sausage, bacon (2), poached egg, tomato (eating out so went for the all day breakfast - hold the beans and toast and only 1 sausage please)
8 almond, 8 cashews (cinema snack)
Steak, pepper, tender stem broccoli, mushroom, mangetout
Water, water, water
One cup of tea, and sampled rooibus tea

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Yum!

Avocado Sevenfold said:

I make cheese sauce without milk or flour and love it. Scared to give you the recipe link though as I don't know what LCFF stands for *scratching my head at the first F* lol

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Fat Free? Full Fat? Oh go on, share the link, I'm curious now! :laugh:

pavlovsdog said:

Thanks so much for those recipes @Rose28 I'll definitely be giving them ago! The pancakes sound yummy!

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My pleasure

You're right they're so yummy, I had 1 for lunch and dinner yesterday and put the leftover batter in the fridge overnight and made another one for breakfast, which I fried in coconut oil

Love to hear your feedback once you've tried them and if any changes need to be made to the recipe.

pavlovsdog said:

Fat Free? Full Fat? Oh go on, share the link, I'm curious now! :laugh:

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OK lol here goes. I base the cheese sauce on this recipe

http://divaliciousrecipes.com/2013/05/22/cauliflower-cheese-with-stilton-and-walnuts/#more-5777

No need to grill it or add nuts, just make the cheese sauce in a wide pan and beat it all together with a balloon whisk. Easy peasy.

For posh sauce, I use Wensleydale and Dijon mustard.

For less posh, I use cheddar, English mustard and a splash of malt vinegar.

Avocado Sevenfold said:

I make cheese sauce without milk or flour and love it. Scared to give you the recipe link though as I don't know what LCFF stands for *scratching my head at the first F* lol

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Hi new to this site but can't believe how these threads have helped me. Was getting very upset this morning about what I can and cannot eat, driving my husband to distraction. Blood glucose levels up and down like a lift in a skyscraper at the moment and trying to work out what's doing it!!! Really interested and grateful for the ideas on the site. Please share the recipe for the white sauce. Thanks to all for the calming effect these ideas have had and I don't feel so abandoned, flailing around in the dark. Looking forward to doing the shopping now ha ha

Suzuka said:

Hi new to this site but can't believe how these threads have helped me. Was getting very upset this morning about what I can and cannot eat, driving my husband to distraction. Blood glucose levels up and down like a lift in a skyscraper at the moment and trying to work out what's doing it!!! Really interested and grateful for the ideas on the site. Please share the recipe for the white sauce. Thanks to all for the calming effect these ideas have had and I don't feel so abandoned, flailing around in the dark. Looking forward to doing the shopping now ha ha

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Hi Suzuka and welcome to the forum Are you new to diabetes? It can be a bit overwhelming, but the good news is that the food is terrific!

The link to the cheese sauce recipe is posted above your post. It can also be used for making lasagne. Substitute the pasta for ribbons of courgettes. Mine always falls apart when I try to serve it, but the taste is all there. Really comforting in this cold weather.

Please stick around and shout out if you are looking for any food ideas

Avocado Sevenfold said:

Hi Suzuka and welcome to the forum Are you new to diabetes? It can be a bit overwhelming, but the good news is that the food is terrific!

The link to the cheese sauce recipe is posted above your post. It can also be used for making lasagne. Substitute the pasta for ribbons of courgettes. Mine always falls apart when I try to serve it, but the taste is all there. Really comforting in this cold weather.

Please stick around and shout out if you are looking for any food ideas

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Thanks so much for your reply and support. I will be a constant mitherer!! for ideas from you and others on the site.

Suzuka said:

Thanks so much for your reply and support. I will be a constant mitherer!! for ideas from you and others on the site.

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Mither away!

I can't quite make out your profile pic. Do you own a bear? That is a massive beastie!

Avocado Sevenfold said:

OK lol here goes. I base the cheese sauce on this recipe

http://divaliciousrecipes.com/2013/05/22/cauliflower-cheese-with-stilton-and-walnuts/#more-5777

No need to grill it or add nuts, just make the cheese sauce in a wide pan and beat it all together with a balloon whisk. Easy peasy.

For posh sauce, I use Wensleydale and Dijon mustard.

For less posh, I use cheddar, English mustard and a splash of malt vinegar.

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I make this sauce quite often as my whole family are vegetarian and it goes down a treat. I use extra strong chedder and mustard.

Im curious as to why "a splash of malt vinegar?" I've never used vinegar in a sauce before, what am I missing?

Vinegar makes the cheese more cheesy

kimbo1962 said:

Ooh....hadn't thought of that! Definitely going to try them later, need to go get some parmasen first! Saturday night treat I'm thinking. ....

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Well.....I must be doing something wrong, tried twice and can't get them right! Either stay soggy or burn at the edge!! Think I may try on a rack instead of a baking tray? !

Clivethedrive said:

Yum another good one for the file, nice thanks a lot,

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Need to try these now too!!

Yesterday:
B bacon and scrambled egg
L cheese and pickled onions (still my fad!)
D black farmers sausage mushrooms and coleslaw
Strawberries and cream
2 squares 70% dark with raspberry
Had two instead of one seeing as my intended courgette crisps failed!!

KLS said:

Hi
I haven't had any advice yet and not on any meds, having a wait of a month for my first appointment at the surgery. The Pesto is 4.5% carbs of which 2.6 is sugars, I had a large teaspoon. Crisps were a bit of an error! But a small packet. The apple was probably medium sized.
I have taken it upon myself to purchase a meter and start testing, I was 13.6 in the morning (fasting - which is the same as my fasting test with the GP a week ago), it was 12.8 before bed and this morning 13.8?? Why did it go up over night?
Nosey is fine, if it helps me!! I have now lost half a stone since I saw the GP 12 days ago - down to all the things I haven't eaten - bread, cakes, biscuits, pasta, potatoes, chocolate, cookies. And I don't normally eat crisps, I don't actually enjoy them.

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Well done on your weight-loss.. Isn't it funny that you don't really like crisps!

kimbo1962 said:

Yesterday:
B bacon and scrambled egg
L cheese and pickled onions (still my fad!)
D black farmers sausage mushrooms and coleslaw
Strawberries and cream
2 squares 70% dark with raspberry
Had two instead of one seeing as my intended courgette crisps failed!!

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Oh no! I was banking on them being a huge success.... Still in Qatar so no chance to try them till I get back to Bahrain and my oven...

Rose28 said:

I'll start off with these yummy pancakes, I eat these all the time

Chickpea flour pancakes (also known as gram flour )

These are delicious and filling, can be eaten hot or cold and for breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack. I like mine with salad and cottage cheese. Any leftovers make a great lunch next day.

Makes about 8 pancakes

1 1/2 cups chickpea flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup cold water
1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
Pepper
1 teaspoon garam masala or any spices you fancy
Juice of 1/2 lemon (optional)
1/4 cup yogurt ( optional)

Add all the ingredients into a large bowl and whisk to make a pancake batter consistency. If it feels too thick, add a little more cold water.

This is optional but I like to add veg to the above batter...
Eg, finely chopped pepper, onion, spinach and grated cauliflower.

Heat 1 teaspoon of oil in a frying pan, keeping heat low - med.
Add 1 ladle of pancake mixture, fry on both sides until golden brown.

Enjoy

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That sounds amazing... Are we allowed gram flour then? Cool...