What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[maglil55]

Know it’s another week to go to Halloween but got tempted today when out shopping by this small edible pumpkin and used some of its flesh for dinner!
Breakfast one each of sausage bacon egg and mushroom
Gave lunch a miss as pumpkin feast planned for dinner!
Dinner roast brisket of beef with roast pumpkin and glass of red wine followed by DGF pumpkin brownie and yoghurt. Really enjoyed my pumpkin themed dinner and haven’t carved a pumpkin in years -great fun.
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My DIL & son are "extreme" carvers!

 

[PenguinMum]

Hi All
Yesterday had my usual brekkie of slice HiLo toast, utter and lots of tea.
Lunch was scrambled eggs followed by tea and 2 squares Lindt 90.
Supper was chicken pie without the lid inspired by @Riva_Roxaban and spoon of leftover Med veg. It was trial while wearing a Libre. My BS shot up 4 points to 9 straight away but very quickly shot down again to base, not seen that before but can’t call it a prolonged spike. I’m not sure if or when I would repeat.
Today same brekkie.
Lunch was rollitos and spoon cheesey coleslaw, cup of tea.
Supper will be roasted chicken breast with a dash of Nandos Lemon & Herb sauce, cauli & broccoli.

 

[PenguinMum]

My DIL & son are "extreme" carvers!View attachment 51784View attachment 51785View attachment 51786

Wow..seriously spooky!!

 

[Debmcgee]

I’ve just tried cucumber cream cheese ‘boats’ with everything but the bagel seasoning - next level snack discovery!!!

 

[shelley262]

Breakfast just coffee as still sticking at two meals but will be going back to three small meals soon - I do like to keep my body guessing!
Lunch scrambled eggs with one slice of lc bread followed by Greek yoghurt
Dinner Chinese spiced chicken and salads with glass of soda water with dash of dry white followed by LC blondie.

 

[Annb]

Thanks so much for all your good wishes. Back from Inverness a short time ago and there's nothing to worry about - just a large fatty lump to add to all the other fatty bits and pieces I'm carrying around. Apparently it showed up on a chest X-ray I had done when they were looking to see if covid had done any damage to my lungs, but nobody thought to mention it. It has grown a lot in the interim, but isn't dangerous, so that's fine.

I got up at 4 am to make sure I was ready to go out of the door at 6.45, having had a breakfast to set me up for the day. However, the best laid plans ... I fell asleep sitting down for a cup of tea. I woke up and looked at the clock - 6.30! And I wasn't washed or dressed and hadn't finished putting all the necessary stuff in a bag (insulin etc). Never got washed, dressed and packed up ready so quickly in my life (3 minutes to spare). But I had to forgo the idea of breakfast. BG was up at 17.2 by the time we got to Inverness so I took a large correction dose, which brought my BG down to 4.3 after 3 hours. Eventually got a chance for breakfast at 2 pm - back at the airport. The service was brilliant and the plates of food, massive. Nothing low carb, of course so I struggled with the desire for a plate of fish and chips - and failed. Chips weren't worth breaking the carb injunction for, although there were lots of them. The fish was haddock and, I confess, I ate some of the batter as well as all the fish, but I left the chips after a first taste. That, and a large mug of tea was my breakfast. I was starving. And I'm feeling hungry again now so I'll have to have a think about what to have for my 2nd meal today.

 

[Goonergal]

Evening all. No pics today, but yet another OMAD. Again not planned - suspected I’d end up eating an early lunch as I worked out of an office with colleagues I hadn’t seen in almost 2 years today. In the end we just went for coffee and I didn’t eat until about 2.30 hen I got home. Ordered a gym box from German Doner Kebab. Hit the spot and am still stuffed.

 

[Antje77]

Back from Inverness a short time ago and there's nothing to worry about

Wonderful news!
The 'winner' rating is for winning the gold medal in the getting ready to get out for the day race!
Hope you've had a lovely second meal by now!

 

[DJC3]

Great news @Annb and another star from me for your speedy getting ready. I’m sure you’ll sleep well tonight.

@Vidar I don’t expect the raw liver would be a safety issue if it’s frozen quickly and from a responsible source. Well done for getting back on the wagon. I think most of us struggle at times.

Today I had 3 pretty substantial meals but still kept below 20g carbs so all good.
B- smoked salmon, scrambled egg and avocado
L- Mortadella, Brie, turmeric&ginger sauerkraut, 2 cherry toms, radishes and leaves with vinaigrette.
D- https://twosleevers.com/instant-pot-low-carb-chicken-bratwurst-with-cabbage/ an odd sort of dish but used up a few things from the fridge that needed using up. It was nice, I’ve never had a bad one from twosleevers
DGF ginger cake to follow.

 

[Rachox]

Had a friend visiting today so ate lunch out, I don’t regularly eat lunch these days but really enjoyed it
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Lunch: sausage, bacon, fried eggs and mushrooms with a Diet Coke.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and chocolate chia pudding with LC nutty granola
Dinner: chilli con carne with cauli rice followed by SF strawberry jelly, cream and LC nutty granola.

 

[MrsA2]

Skipped breakfast.
Double long puppy walk as thought I'd dropped my phone halfway round, but it was on the table at home all the time.
Early pub lunch. Shared whitebait starter with hubby then double cheese burger with salad. Left the bun.
Mid afternoon, another puppy walk..when do they learn to go straight? He's all over the place
D: 4 bacon rashers , Small bit of manchego, half a pear. Small icecream.
Back home tomorrow and back to a better way of eating. So difficult when you don't know how things have been cooked when eating out.

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

Bacon and a two egg cheese omelette, bacon, button mushrooms for breakfast.
Tub of yoghurt, lemon / lime cordial with the usual Osmolax scoop for smoko.
Roast of the day at the Brothers sports club, beef and veggies (no spuds), gravy for lunch.
Couple of ANZAC biscuits watching Netflix.

The RBH in Brisbane sent me a appointment time for the vascular specialist clinic on the 23.11.2021. I do not really want to go as it is approx. a ten hour round train trip over the two days as one my main concerns.

The Nurse Navigator from the base hospital is coming around today for a discussion whether Yay or Nay on going.

 

[Mrs T 123]

Great News @Annb

Brunch - cheese omlette washed down with a mug of earl grey tea

Dinner -prawn cocktail & salmon salad. White chocolate raspberry dgf cake with mug of earl grey tea

 

[Debmcgee]

Question - is anyone on here taking metformin and skipping breakfast? Have you had any side effects by not eating but taking the pill? Thanks

I forced down a toasted Chaffle with scrambled egg. Was nice but I wasn’t hungry…

 

[Annb]

I had decided that to say "I don't like crab" when what I don't like is the idea of crab, having never eaten it, was ridiculous (crab resembling a spider too much for my liking) so I asked Neil to add some crab to the shopping list last time he went to town. He couldn't find fresh, so he bought tinned crabmeat. That's what I had for my evening meal yesterday, with some salad.

It wasn't particularly offensive, but it wasn't worth the bother. Still had half of it left, so I mixed it with some "light mayo" (half mayo, half yoghurt) and had a sandwich of that and wholemeal bread (around 30 carbs) for my breakfast.

Later, I will have some lamb chops with either cauliflower or cabbage.

I've said the same thing about prawns and lobster - never having had lobster or prawns. My mother used to buy shrimps, or on days at the seaside we would have cockles and we loved them as children but that was before I imagined crustacea to be insect-like and so wouldn't eat them. I suppose I really ought to try at least prawns (lobster is far too expensive to experiment with).

 

[maglil55]

Question - is anyone on here taking metformin and skipping breakfast? Have you had any side effects by not eating but taking the pill? Thanks

I forced down a toasted Chaffle with scrambled egg. Was nice but I wasn’t hungry…

I take one metformin in the morning but I usually have breakfast. My current addiction is SLC toast with something on it. Occasionally I skip breakfast but it doesn't bother me.

 

[maglil55]

Hi All
Yesterday had my usual brekkie of slice HiLo toast, utter and lots of tea.
Lunch was scrambled eggs followed by tea and 2 squares Lindt 90.
Supper was chicken pie without the lid inspired by @Riva_Roxaban and spoon of leftover Med veg. It was trial while wearing a Libre. My BS shot up 4 points to 9 straight away but very quickly shot down again to base, not seen that before but can’t call it a prolonged spike. I’m not sure if or when I would repeat.
Today same brekkie.
Lunch was rollitos and spoon cheesey coleslaw, cup of tea.
Supper will be roasted chicken breast with a dash of Nandos Lemon & Herb sauce, cauli & broccoli.

May have been a rogue reading. I had one earlier this week. I had to get Hubby to bring me test strips up as the Libre had shot up to 16.7! 30 seconds later it was 19.3 and still going up! It was actually 7.4. It hit 24 before it nosedived. It had settled down by the next day.

 

[DJC3]

I don’t know why I am getting so ridiculously hungry at the moment. Went out to do my normal Thursday morning volunteering on just black coffee as usual but by the time I got home just before 11am my stomach was actually hurting with hunger.
2 small leftover chicken meatballs to stop the ‘hangriness’
Later SLC open sandwich - slices of Turkey breast, avocado and rurmeric&ginger sauerkraut. 25 gm mixed seeds and Montezuma’s buttons afterwards.
Dinner was chicken pot pie. @PenguinMum I know you were missing chicken pie ( you made me fancy it too) I’d thoroughly recommend this, (I didn’t use green beans though) https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/kristies-keto-chicken-pot-pie Havent checked bg yet but might have a DGF cake if it’s not too bad.

 

[shelley262]

Three meals today but ate similar amount to the recent two meals days but split over three smaller meals.
Breakfast two boiled eggs with one slice of lc bread
Lunch a few berries with yoghurt and coffee with one square of 90% choc and two walnuts.
Dinner venison wrapped in Parma ham and pan fried served with cauliflower cheese and small glass of red wine followed by lc crumble.
Think three small meals suits me best re my own sugar levels and stress management but I don’t like eating before about 10.00am - I’m never hungry early - so if need to rush out prefer to delay till lunchtime - I enjoy a little bit of extra time drinking weak black tea in bed and waking slowly whenever I can!

 

[Debmcgee]

Very excited about my latest find! Aldi black bean spaghetti- not cheap but a little goes a long way and it’s the best low carb option I’ve tasted so far for pasta. Had that with meatballs