What have you eaten today?

[Tweetypie]

Breakfast: Green tea and lemon, decaf coffee with cream (coconut oil still hasn't arrived - surprisingly I am gaining weight without it) and a slice of Stracciatella cake.
Brunch: Smoked salmon and scrambled egg with toasted flax bread/sliced bun
Lunch/afternoon tea: Baked camembert and chorizo with crudite and stuffed olives shared with Mr TP. Slice of Stracciatella cake.
Valentines dinner: Fillet steak with roasted mushroom filled with blue brie and chorizo, roasted tomatos, rocket and a dijon sauce. Chocolate orange pots.
Drinks: 2 teas with semi skim milk, water glass of red wine and diet coke

Hope you all had an enjoyable valentines day of food x

Baked camembert

Steak

Chocolate orange pots

 

[pavlovsdog]

Yes, yes, I'm excited about my progress too!

Thank you for your comment about sweeteners pavlovsdog. While I know Stevia will be my go to sweetener, even though I've never tried it, I'm hesitant. I'm going to take this slow.

Well, it seems to be working well for you, keep it up!

 

[pavlovsdog]

Breakfast: Green tea and lemon, decaf coffee with cream (coconut oil still hasn't arrived - surprisingly I am gaining weight without it) and a slice of Stracciatella cake.
Brunch: Smoked salmon and scrambled egg with toasted flax bread/sliced bun
Lunch/afternoon tea: Baked camembert and chorizo with crudite and stuffed olives shared with Mr TP. Slice of Stracciatella cake.
Valentines dinner: Fillet steak with roasted mushroom filled with blue brie and chorizo, roasted tomatos, rocket and a dijon sauce. Chocolate orange pots.
Drinks: 2 teas with semi skim milk, water glass of red wine and diet coke

Hope you all had an enjoyable valentines day of food x

Baked camembertView attachment 11770

Steak
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Chocolate orange pots
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I loooove baked camembert! :drool:

 

[pavlovsdog]

B: coffee with cream x 2. Yoghurt berries etc
L: avocado
D: crayfish tails with rocket and baby leaf salad, with a dash of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Yoghurt berries and cream with flaxseed cocoa and berry variety

 

[cold ethyl]

Sounds good to me... especially the lick of ice-cream... he's very 'sharing', your Mr E...

He doesn't get much choice tbh.

 

[cold ethyl]

Breakfast: Green tea and lemon, decaf coffee with cream (coconut oil still hasn't arrived - surprisingly I am gaining weight without it) and a slice of Stracciatella cake.
Brunch: Smoked salmon and scrambled egg with toasted flax bread/sliced bun
Lunch/afternoon tea: Baked camembert and chorizo with crudite and stuffed olives shared with Mr TP. Slice of Stracciatella cake.
Valentines dinner: Fillet steak with roasted mushroom filled with blue brie and chorizo, roasted tomatos, rocket and a dijon sauce. Chocolate orange pots.
Drinks: 2 teas with semi skim milk, water glass of red wine and diet coke

Hope you all had an enjoyable valentines day of food x

Baked camembertView attachment 11770

Steak
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Chocolate orange pots
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Wish I hadn't looked at that. I'm starving now.

 

[Sable_Jan]

love my coffee.....gone from 1 to 3 cups per day..willing to cut to zero carbs but keep your hands off my coffee.....

I've been making big lattes lately - helps to keep me feeling full and minimal carbs cos its soya milk

 

[Sable_Jan]

These were my father's favorite pickles. I've eaten them for almost 50 years, and have often wondered myself. The ingredients are fresh cucumbers, sugar, water, vinegar, salt, dehydrated onion, spices, calcium chloride, turmeric, and yellow 5. It's a sweet and sour pickle, the name American.

From Wikipedia...

Bread-and-butter pickles are a marinated pickle produced with sliced cucumbers in a solution of vinegar, sugar and spices which may be either be processed by canning or simply chilled as refrigerator pickles. The origin of the name and the spread of their popularity in the United States is attributed to Omar and Cora Fanning, a pair of Illinois cucumber farmers who started selling sweet and sour pickles in the 1920s and filed for the trademark "Fanning's Bread and Butter Pickles" in 1923 (though the recipe and similar ones are probably much older).[10] The story attached to the name is that the Fannings survived rough years by making the pickles with their surplus of undersized cucumbers and bartering them with their grocer for staples such as bread and butter.[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled_cucumber

Thank you and again for going to the trouble of doing the Wikipedia for me. Sounds a little bit like piccalilli just no baby onions or cauliflower in it

 

[Sable_Jan]

I made these quickly this morning... very nice indeed... haven't tried toasting them yet but had half of one with salmon mousse:
3/4 cup (1,5 dl) of ground almond/flour (but what is dl anyone?)
1 tbsp of flax seed
I tbsp of sunflower seeds (I chopped walnuts instead)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 eggs
1/2 cup (1 dl?) of creme fraiche (didn't have so put a couple of tsp organic apple cider vinegar in cream)

Oven on 200 degrees
Mix dry ingredients
Mix olive oil, eggs and creme fraiche, add to dry mix and combine carefully
Let it sit for 5 minutes

Divide into 4 pieces, shape into balls and put in a (I assume muffin) pan on a baking tray. Bake approx. 15 mins (i left them for nearer 20)

Place a clean tea-towel over the buns for a couple of minutes...

They are really good - a bit like scones...

dl = decilitre

 

[Sable_Jan]

I made these quickly this morning... very nice indeed... haven't tried toasting them yet but had half of one with salmon mousse:
3/4 cup (1,5 dl) of ground almond/flour (but what is dl anyone?)
1 tbsp of flax seed
I tbsp of sunflower seeds (I chopped walnuts instead)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 eggs
1/2 cup (1 dl?) of creme fraiche (didn't have so put a couple of tsp organic apple cider vinegar in cream)

Oven on 200 degrees
Mix dry ingredients
Mix olive oil, eggs and creme fraiche, add to dry mix and combine carefully
Let it sit for 5 minutes

Divide into 4 pieces, shape into balls and put in a (I assume muffin) pan on a baking tray. Bake approx. 15 mins (i left them for nearer 20)

Place a clean tea-towel over the buns for a couple of minutes...

They are really good - a bit like scones...

Sounds nice. Might try it with coconut flour....... Sounds like you are like @Brunneria and I for doing it your own way......rather than exactly what recipe says

 

[Winnie53]

Thank you and again for going to the trouble of doing the Wikipedia for me. Sounds a little bit like piccalilli just no baby onions or cauliflower in it

Ah, so that's what piccalilli is. I remember as a child eating pickled vegetables out of a jar in the refrigerator too.

 

[vicjord]

I've been making big lattes lately - helps to keep me feeling full and minimal carbs cos its soya milk

Think I'll try that As I'm lactose intolerant i usualy hhave lacto free milk in tea just a splash. Can't stand any other milk. Tried them all. But I've had soya milk cappuccino at costa coffee before and it was nice.

 

[Sable_Jan]

Try this pizza base.

It's fab. But you have to cook it first on both sides before you load the toppings on.
So it's a bit of phaff, but I actually prefer it to a bread base. Doesn't cause bloating. No indigestion. Can be picked up in fingers and eaten properly.

Just bookmarked the recipe. Never had pizza much but it does sound nice esp the extra cheesy base - seem to have lost bookmark already. Mozzarella is the one with very little taste though isn't it? I guess its in there to give a nice crispy texture once cooked. Like crispy cheese

 

[Sable_Jan]

Breakfast: Green tea and lemon, decaf coffee with cream (coconut oil still hasn't arrived - surprisingly I am gaining weight without it) and a slice of Stracciatella cake.
Brunch: Smoked salmon and scrambled egg with toasted flax bread/sliced bun
Lunch/afternoon tea: Baked camembert and chorizo with crudite and stuffed olives shared with Mr TP. Slice of Stracciatella cake.
Valentines dinner: Fillet steak with roasted mushroom filled with blue brie and chorizo, roasted tomatos, rocket and a dijon sauce. Chocolate orange pots.
Drinks: 2 teas with semi skim milk, water glass of red wine and diet coke

Hope you all had an enjoyable valentines day of food x

Baked camembertView attachment 11770

Steak
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Chocolate orange pots
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You trying to make us all hungry? Ooh, snack, forgot I brought some cheese up to bed.....mmmmm

 

[Sable_Jan]

Think I'll try that As I'm lactose intolerant i usualy hhave lacto free milk in tea just a splash. Can't stand any other milk. Tried them all. But I've had soya milk cappuccino at costa coffee before and it was nice.

Soya milk needs a bigger splash for same colour tea but tho I could tell the difference at first I don't notice now...unsweetened of course ..... Watch branded ones like Alpro - they don't always say. Their "original" IS sweetened (or was that the original almond milk.....

 

[Sable_Jan]

breakfast - breakfast biscuits with 35g carbs - no test as was at vets, also reason for quickie brekky
Lunch - 3 sticks of celery, half tub of soft cheese, 5 slices chicken
tea - fritatta using pack of stir fry veg, loads of herbs, ground coriander, black pepper, 6 eggs and half block strong cheddar (half left for tomorrow - maybe breakfast) then few tbsp Greek yogurt
Lunch was "flat" and tea down by 0.1 from pre

Snacks - just the red Leicester I shared with Moo, the dog who was snoring on her bed when I picked cheese up......

 

[msmi1970]

I've been making big lattes lately - helps to keep me feeling full and minimal carbs cos its soya milk

good for you!! i prefer my coffee black.

 

[millysue]

At ten this evening I have had 2 slices of toast with marmite.
Why, well, will it stop my dp. Will try and test around 4 am and again later. I have these duff codfree strips

 

[Blessedarethecheesemakers]

Last time someone told me that abt coffee they were pregnant

Exactly - going right off coffee was my first pregnancy symptom!

 

[msmi1970]

tried the flaxseed muffin..provided my sugar does not spike too bad, could become a staple alongside my eggs..
so thank you all for that!!