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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Riva_Roxaban said:
Never go to Christmas Island then when the red crabs are migrating, they will turn up every in your home including the toilet.

https://www.christmas.net.au/experiences/red-crab-migration/
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Better than a Huntsman lurking under the toilet seat! We went to a fabulous seafood place in WoyWoy. All very fresh fish & shellfish. Very rustic, all seated on benches on the deck where the pelicans massed to be fed at certain times. Their toilet was also rustic! Yes, I know Huntsmen are not dangerous but boy do they give you a scare!
 
@DJC3 Just had a look at Week 2 of the DD New me reset. I'll need one or two amendments/swaps. I loath blue cheese. I've tried it a few times but nothing can convince me to like it. I don't like the look of the fish casserole and, turkey/apple burgers? I know I'd like them but not for breakfast!
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Hello everybody. Like Coby, I was a bit hesitant of joining in. You all seem to be a group of friends who know each other well and I didn't want to intrude.
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There's more than enough room here for everyone, please keep posting!

I bought my piece of pork belly with skin yesterday so today I'll try @Goonergal 's recipe. :)
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today.75781/page-2399#post-2478246

My piece is thinner than hers so I hope it works out well. It's currently sitting on a plate in my fridge to have the skin as dry as possible, very excited!
They sold me a 750 gram piece, which I cut in half, so the other half is in the freezer.
 
Welcome @RosemaryJackson

@Riva_Roxaban those red crabs are pretty cute. Love some of the pictures. I’d love to visit during that time.

Getting back on topic, I’ve been up since 5.30, it’s now 13.20 and I’ve just eaten the first item of the day - 25g of Montezuma’s Fitzroy chocolate found at Kew Gardens,

Luckily there’s far more appropriate beef short ribs waiting at home in the Instant Pot.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Hello everybody. Like Coby, I was a bit hesitant of joining in. You all seem to be a group of friends who know each other well and I didn't want to intrude. My name is Rosemary, I am 83 and was diagnosed in 2009. I didn't believe I was diabetic and ignored it. I didn't realise that an A1c of 88 was bad. Now I have seen the light! I have been reading your comments for quite a while and got a good few ideas on what was best for me. So thank you all for that. So today I have had 2 Bratwurst sausages and a fried egg. Lunch will be the remains of the chicken and veg soup I made yesterday and tea will be 2 Ryvitas with soft cheese and slices of strawberries on top.
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Hello Rosemary. On the whole we only know each other through this forum but everyone is, as you can see, very friendly. Don't hesitate. Join in.

Compared to you and Alexandra100 I'm just a spring chicken (76) but I have been diagnosed as T2 for about 13 years by which time I was pretty far gone with various diabetic type problems (probably of 50+ years standing). Low carbing doesn't, for me, sort out my weight issues, or indeed my blood glucose issues but, along with pretty high doses of insulin, it does keep my BG within reasonable limits most of the time. Not just now, I have to say but there are other issues involved which keep BG pretty high at present. I am trying, at the moment, to keep both carbs and calories low by only having one meal a day (OMAD). This has only happened because recently I haven't had much of an appetite, although I have tried to do it in the past, without a great deal of success (too hungry). Since I am not really hungry these days, it seems like a good opportunity to try again.

This evening, I will have slow roast pork - not the cut I wanted which would have been belly pork but the only one my son could get when he did my shopping. Could possibly (sensibly) have some cabbage with it but would probably prefer it on its own. Other than that, it will be lots of cups of tea.

Do keep posting here - I'm sure we would all be happy to get to know you and to have you join our happy band of friends.
 
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@RosemaryJackson welcome to the thread look forward to hearing about your menus.
My food today :
Lunchtime three eggs scrambled in butter followed by yoghurt with a few raspberries
Mid pm some m and s seeded crackers with some of my hm pate
Dinner my usual Saturday night treat of chicken curry - though instead of using my usual frozen bag of cauliflower rice I used up some fresh cauliflower- chopping into small pieces, adding small amount of oil and cooking on an oven tray for 20mins. Enjoyed it more than prepared frozen cauliflower rice and not that difficult. Also had gin with soda water followed by lc blondie and cream.
 
I had my OMAD at 6 pm. The cabbage that I thought I had in the fridge turned out to be cauliflower so I cooked some of that together with some tomatoes. The pork was luscious - had no skin on it but a little fat. It weighed 800g raw and I had about 1/3 of it. Couldn't have eaten any more than that - I'd had the fatty bit and was feeling pretty sick. Better after a cup of tea though. 2/3 of the joint left over for cold meat and quite a lot of cauliflower to use up. Might just make some mustard pickle with that tomorrow.
 
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and an Atkins bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and a DGF chocolate brownie.
Dinner: similar to last night I enjoyed it so much! low Carb roll filled with Brie and a tiny amount of cranberry with a leafy salad, spring onions, baby toms and coleslaw followed by SF blackcurrant jelly and cream.

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Mrs T 123 said:
Brunch - 2 slices slc toasted and buttered and filled with corned beef & a little tomato. Mug of earl grey. 2 squares 90% Lindtt

Dinner - Large mushroom & onion omlette with side salad
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I've run out of SLC bread but my freezer is rather full at the moment with the DD New me reset. I buy all the food in an end up with loads in the freezer plus extra portions!
 
Antje77 said:
I bought my piece of pork belly with skin yesterday so today I'll try @Goonergal 's recipe. :)
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today.75781/page-2399#post-2478246

My piece is thinner than hers so I hope it works out well. It's currently sitting on a plate in my fridge to have the skin as dry as possible, very excited!
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I must have done something wrong, not sure what though. The meat was dry, apart from the real fatty bits.
Too bad, can't have perfect meals every day, and it still filled me up! :)
 
RosemaryJackson said:
Hello everybody. Like Coby, I was a bit hesitant of joining in. You all seem to be a group of friends who know each other well and I didn't want to intrude. My name is Rosemary, I am 83 and was diagnosed in 2009. I didn't believe I was diabetic and ignored it. I didn't realise that an A1c of 88 was bad. Now I have seen the light! I have been reading your comments for quite a while and got a good few ideas on what was best for me. So thank you all for that. So today I have had 2 Bratwurst sausages and a fried egg. Lunch will be the remains of the chicken and veg soup I made yesterday and tea will be 2 Ryvitas with soft cheese and slices of strawberries on top.
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Welcome! We all started at some point. As others have said we're a friendly bunch and it's an ocean of information as well.
 
Today I have had....
Breakfast - Two boiled eggs
Dinner - Two freshly made burgers, bacon on top with cheese slice, lettuce slice of tomato.
Evening snack - Cottage cheese with sunflower seeds
Seem to be okay with the cheese slice but time will tell, BG before dinner 6. Will not have anything else as the cottage cheese was at 7pm
 
No breakfast as out early for yoga in a very cold hall, then straight to the shops for a few bits.
Got tempted to buy 3 choc bars for £1... so did, but at least I only ate one and brought the other too home for the boys. Did enjoy most of it and meter went from 6 to 9. Could have been a lot worse.
L: baked portobello mushrooms stuffed with garlic butter butter cheese, 2 rashers good bacon
D: hm burgers, large salad. 1 scoop ice cream, 3 glasses sloe gin with lots of soda
 
maglil55 said:
I've run out of SLC bread but my freezer is rather full at the moment with the DD New me reset. I buy all the food in an end up with loads in the freezer plus extra portions!
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I have just replenished my supplies again - they had withdrew the next day delivery service so I had to ration until I got my order about a week later! but I think they should be back to next day delivery again
 
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