What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Tori71]

Inulin - how/what do people use it for? Having had to come into city centre to sort out my late mums finances I came across a wholefood shop so I stocked up on desiccated and toasted coconut and nuts - and also bought a small bag of inulin. Now, what do I do with it

I bought some a while back for a cheesecake recipe and it worked brilliantly as it was a powder and not granulated, so mixed into the cream cheese beautifully

 

[dunelm]

View attachment 30719 Thanks everyone for admiring my cakes, I have to say they taste lovely too! The actual cakes are the basic cake mix which I screen shot from @Boo1979 thanks Boo and here’s my icing recipe too!

Thank you for the recipe

 

[DJC3]

Allow me to add my compliments @Rachox those cakes look wonderful.
This thread moves on so fast its difficult to keep up, so I’m just going to post and catch up later at leisure.
B: 2 grilled rashers, fried egg and 1/2 avocado. Coffee&cream
L: 5 M&S rollitos and a couple of spoonfuls each M&S seared artichokes and Honduras king prawns. Lazy mousse afterwards
D: DD TexMex platter - homemade burger, rocket, avocado, sour cream, jalapenos and mexican cheese

 

[BibaBee]

Evening folks. Not much to report, worked from home and it's freezing!

Breakfast: Choc orange chia pudding (again). Coffee with cream.
Lunch: Cold chipolatas, a little cambozola cheese, prosciutto, avocado, cucumber, cherry toms, small portion of homemade coleslaw, a few salted almonds
Dinner: A tweaked version of Headbanger Kitchen's Keto Butter Chicken with cauliflower 'pilau' rice. The curry was amazing and pretty easy. I reckon the recipe would convert well to a slow cooker version (or possibly IP? I don't have one......yet!).

Edited by Mod

 

[BibaBee]

View attachment 30712 I’ve just baked my (low carb) contribution to go with coffee at PPG meeting later today. I made too much icing, do you more experienced low carb bakers think it’ll keep ok in the freezer. Ingredients are high % chocolate, double cream, unsalted butter, cocoa powder and vanilla Stevia drops, I made it up from a combination of recipes and ingredients I had in the cupboard!

They look amazing! Did you make the frosting by melting all the ingredients together? If you did, I reckon it would freeze...I've frozen ganache before and this is very similar. If it goes a bit weird when you thaw it, you can probably save it by warming it through and possibly adding a tad more cream.

 

[BibaBee]

Allow me to add my compliments @Rachox those cakes look wonderful.
This thread moves on so fast its difficult to keep up, so I’m just going to post and catch up later at leisure.
B: 2 grilled rashers, fried egg and 1/2 avocado. Coffee&cream
L: 5 M&S rollitos and a couple of spoonfuls each M&S seared artichokes and Honduras king prawns. Lazy mousse afterwards
D: DD TexMex platter - homemade burger, rocket, avocado, sour cream, jalapenos and mexican cheese

Yum....TexMex platter sounds delicious!

 

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: left over tuna melt and Mediterranean veggies followed by Greek yoghurt and raspberries.
Mid afternoon: one of my LC mini muffins with LC chocolate icing and black coffee.
Dinner: extra mature cheddar omelette with cauliflower and brocolli followed by SF jelly, raspberry chia pudding and LC chocolate granola.

 

[Rachox]

They look amazing! Did you make the frosting by melting all the ingredients together? If you did, I reckon it would freeze...I've frozen ganache before and this is very similar. If it goes a bit weird when you thaw it, you can probably save it by warming it through and possibly adding a tad more cream.

I just melted the chocolate then mixed in everything else. I have put it in the freezer as it would have been wasted anyway! Thanks for your comments.

 

[SlimLizzy]

17-01-19

Breakfast, XBX, shower

Muesli , semi skimmed milk, Cals 225 Carbs 28
Prunes Cals 48 carbs 10 - not much less carb, just different type - fructose not glucose
Milk for day Cals 131, carbs 13
Tea

Think there was a spike here, got really hot about hour after breakfast, ran upstairs several times then snack, not sure snack was right way to deal with it

Almonds 30g Cals 184 carbs 2

Now had afternoon snack in the morning, need to plan better

Lunch pasta 30g precooked cooled and reheated 50 Cals, carbs 10
Olive pesto Cals 60, carb 1
Black olives Cal 68, carb 0
Sardines in oil drained, Cal 200, carbs 0
Satsuma Cal 22, Carb 5

Walk to town and back

Dinner cauliflower cheese, Use the lower fat cheese (20%) Cals 303 carb 18
Kale and peas for me, potato for OH Cals 55 carb 5
Yoghurt 100ml, Cals 120, carbs 6
Honey 5ml, Cals 17 Carbs 5

Elderflower flavour tonic Cals 4 card 0

Totals for day Cals 1487 carbs 103

think I need to find a different breakfast, one with enough calories and fewer carbs

 

[zauberflote]

Oh aaaarrgghh @ianpspurs ! So sorry you’re hurting like that. I’d hoped you’d wake up all painfree... and... you are free to vote my lc bread down as early and often as you like but I stand firm that by George I’ve got something here that I really like! (George having been my dad...)
@Tori71 ooo where are you going? Easy snax are great; my bro is a pilot and has a hard time keeping to his own needs while airporting and hoteling. Anything that would pack well for a 3-4 day away trip and not take too much space...
ok @shelley262 will do but caveat I’ve got a high ability to find a useful food delicious.
@maglil55 oddly I found some better cream today in a local natural foods store. Different dairy, only ingredient “cream”. My creamery heavy cream has milk of unspecified fatness in it. So I really like this even thicker stuff but cannot go around putting out $6+ bottle deposit on a pint of cream on a regular basis and I have always whipped cream with an old style hand operAted egg beater, cos my mommy taught me that was the best way not to overbeat it! Also it kept us out of her hair.....
Bfast avocado egg decaf/soy/cream
Fix lunch as would be out at noon after dr appt: greens, cherry toms, almond butter on a La Tortilla Factory lc tortilla
Visited Mom, she read Thomas Merton to me while I did some sewing. Then we sang Row row row your boat, keeping time by rowing a Theraband between us. The silly things we amuse ourselves with, I swear. Dementia does not always (or yet anyway) take your loved one away. She is most definitely there! Next changing out all 4 litterboxes (40 lbs litter out, 40 more in, that’s my weight lifting for the day lol) and a walk before it rains.
Supper to be: greens, ? veg, my bread, and a protein but haven’t really made up my mind how they all go together. Had sardines yesterday. Maybe swiss cheese. Maybe nuked egg whites. Or hey, both!
I had an interesting food moment a bit ago- had just gotten home from Mom’s, wanted a snack. Had that super pint of heavvvvy cream, maybe a square of chocolate? A nibble, a melt, naahhhh that doesn’t actually taste good right now. I must REALLY have OD’d on it yesterday! What astounded me was watching myself Put Chocolate Back In Wrapper BY CHOICE and No Regrets!!!! 6 months ago I would no more have done that than I would have smoked a cigarette! I would have kept munching, hoping for that elusive goodness I wanted. Wow. Changes in the brain!
Edit for typo

 

[BibaBee]

I just melted the chocolate then mixed in everything else. I have put it in the freezer as it would have been wasted anyway! Thanks for your comments.

I'm sure it will be fine.

 

[DCUKMod]

Evening folks. Not much to report, worked from home and it's freezing!

Breakfast: Choc orange chia pudding (again). Coffee with cream.
Lunch: Cold chipolatas, a little cambozola cheese, prosciutto, avocado, cucumber, cherry toms, small portion of homemade coleslaw, a few salted almonds
Dinner: A tweaked version of Headbanger Kitchen's Keto Butter Chicken with cauliflower 'pilau' rice. The curry was amazing and pretty easy. I reckon the recipe would convert well to a slow cooker version (or possibly IP? I don't have one......yet!).

Edited by Mod

This Butter Chicken is absolutely delicious. OK, it is originally an IP recipe, but I'm positive it culd be done in a slow cooker or oven. The leftover sauce is excellent for "lifting"leftovers. Our leftover turkey was helped on it's way by this recipe.

https://twosleevers.com/instant-pot-butter-chicken/#wprm-recipe-container-5002

Twosleevers is a fab food blogger whose lifestyle is LC focused, but notall of her rcipes arre LC.

 

[BibaBee]

Elderflower flavour tonic Cals 4 card 0

Could I ask what make the elderflower tonic is? Is it sugar free?

How about chia pudding for breakfast? A few of us do variations of it on here. It's packed full of fibre too.

 

[BibaBee]

This Butter Chicken is absolutely delicious. OK, it is originally an IP recipe, but I'm positive it culd be done in a slow cooker or oven. The leftover sauce is excellent for "lifting"leftovers. Our leftover turkey was helped on it's way by this recipe.

https://twosleevers.com/instant-pot-butter-chicken/#wprm-recipe-container-5002

Twosleevers is a fab food blogger whose lifestyle is LC focused, but notall of her rcipes arre LC.

Thanks, I'll give it a go!

 

[DJC3]

Yum....TexMex platter sounds delicious!

It was, and like most of the Diet Doctor recipes it was really quick and simple to prepare.

 

[Boo1979]

Breakfast - homemade grainfree granola with some lactofree cream
Lunch - 3 rashers nitrite free bacon, 2 eggs, mushrooms
Dinner - 1 pkt organic cooked prawns with garlic mayonnaise & 1 tsp chilli ketchup followed by homemade chocolate & granola bar
Snacks
- 12 smoked almonds, 10g 90% dark chocolate
Drinks - 2 x tea with lactofree milk
An irritaing kind of day -I had an urdent review appointment with a physiotherapist who’d referred me to group to supposedly help a foot tendon injury, but which had managed instead to reactivate a painful back injury that had been healed for 6 years - I ended up making a formaal complaint about it

 

[zauberflote]

@BibaBee and @DCUKMod this time I clicked through to the recipe, and find that now I absolutely must have an IP for my bday in a few weeks! And an immersion blender!
@Boo1979 oh how awful, I hope you got a black mark put on somebody’s record for that one. Physios do not always know best. So how is your back by now, and your foot?

 

[ianpspurs]

Oh aaaarrgghh @ianpspurs ! So sorry you’re hurting like that. I’d hoped you’d wake up all painfree... and... you are free to vote my lc bread down as early and often as you like but I stand firm that by George I’ve got something here that I really like! (George having been my dad...)
@Tori71 ooo where are you going? Easy snax are great; my bro is a pilot and has a hard time keeping to his own needs while airporting and hoteling. Anything that would pack well for a 3-4 day away trip and not take too much space...
ok @shelley262 will do but caveat I’ve got a high ability to find a useful food delicious.
@maglil55 oddly I found some better cream today in a local natural foods store. Different dairy, only ingredient “cream”. My creamery heavy cream has milk of unspecified fatness in it. So I really like this even thicker stuff but cannot go around putting out $6+ bottle deposit on a pint of cream on a regular basis and I have always whipped cream with an old style hand operAted egg beater, cos my mommy taught me that was the best way not to overbeat it! Also it kept us out of her hair.....
Bfast avocado egg decaf/soy/cream
Fix lunch as would be out at noon after dr appt: greens, cherry toms, almond butter on a La Tortilla Factory lc tortilla
Visited Mom, she read Thomas Merton to me while I did some sewing. Then we sang Row row row your boat, keeping time by rowing a Theraband between us. The silly things we amuse ourselves with, I swear. Dementia does not always (or yet anyway) take your loved one away. She is most definitely there! Next changing out all 4 litterboxes (40 lbs litter out, 40 more in, that’s my weight lifting for the day lol) and a walk before it rains.
Supper to be: greens, ? veg, my bread, and a protein but haven’t really made up my mind how they all go together. Had sardines yesterday. Maybe swiss cheese. Maybe nuked egg whites. Or hey, both!
I had an interesting food moment a bit ago- had just gotten home from Mom’s, wanted a snack. Had that super pint of heavvvvy cream, maybe a square of chocolate? A nibble, a melt, naahhhh that doesn’t actually taste good right now. I must REALLY have OD’d on it yesterday! What astounded me was watching myself Put Chocolate Back In Wrapper BY CHOICE and No Regrets!!!! 6 months ago I would no more have done that than I would have smoked a cigarette! I would have kept munching, hoping for that elusive goodness I wanted. Wow. Changes in the brain!
Edit for typo

Thanks for your concern. Today, Friday UK - day 3 much better but still not right so care needed. Your Mom must be pretty on the ball to read Thomas Merton but excellent choice. Take care.

 

[dunelm]

Traveling. Box of mixed nuts and a few baby bell’s just in case.
Just breakfasted on a M&S chargrilled chicken and edamame protein pot. Only 1.7g carbs according to the label.

 

[Tori71]

@Tori71 ooo where are you going? Easy snax are great; my bro is a pilot and has a hard time keeping to his own needs while airporting and hoteling. Anything that would pack well for a 3-4 day away trip and not take too much space...

We are going to Lanzarote for a much needed break after a bit of a rubbish year (Bit of a delayed honeymoon too, by three years)!!!! This is my excuse and so that I don't feel guilty for booking a really nice hotel

You put the chocolate back in the wrapper by choice!! You are a stronger person than me