What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

[Rachox]

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and a Phd bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and an Aldi protein bar.
Dinner out: full English of bacon, fried egg, sausage, peas (instead of baked beans), half a tomato, mushrooms and one small hash brown.

 

[Antje77]

Dinner out: full English of bacon, fried egg, sausage, peas (instead of baked beans), half a tomato, mushrooms and one small hash brown.

No wonder I'm still completely confused by English meals, even after all those years!
Breakfast and lunch I get, but after that it becomes an incomprehensible mess of dinner, supper, tea, which sometimes means the same thing but not always (and that's leaving out the odd elevenses or smoko's), and now it turns out you even eat breakfast for dinner!
Although I must admit I've always been amazed by the English eating a full dinner for breakfast so far...

 

[MrsA2]

B: plain yoghurt with seeds. Hams and cheese slices
A walk through a Dutch town, they celebrated Kings day early and well according to the huge amounts of plastic glasses strewn every where from last night. Was interesting seeing all the families strolling the streets today at Street and flea markets.
L: caulfower soup, fish and veg 1 scoop icecream. Bg shot up to 10 and stayed there. Later found the caulifower soup was in fact potato based.
D: salad, pork, cheese, wine and 1 brandy.

Does anyone have any idea why a potato based soup should spike me, when a very few chips or 1 roasted doesn’t?

 

[Antje77]

A walk through a Dutch town, they celebrated Kings day early and well according to the huge amounts of plastic glasses strewn every where from last night.

Ah, you were early enough to see the remains of Kings night! Night is for getting drunk in the streets, day is for selling all the stuff you don't need anymore plus getting drunk again. Clad in orange of course!

Does anyone have any idea why a potato based soup should spike me, when a very few chips or 1 roasted doesn’t?

A few possibilies come to mind:
1. there was a lot more potato in it than a few chips or 1 roasted.
2. mashed anything hits quicker than the whole thing.
3. it was mashed potato powder.

 

[Riva_Roxaban]

Breakfast and lunch I get, but after that it becomes an incomprehensible mess of dinner, supper, tea, which sometimes means the same thing but not always (and that's leaving out the odd elevenses or smoko's), and now it turns out you even eat breakfast for dinner!

I have always eaten a big breakfast, as I could not work on a empty stomach. Small or no breakfasts maye be ok for office workers that do not do manual labour.

Smoko's are what the name suggest, you have a sandwich, pie etc, cup of coffee and smoke a cigarette in 15 minures.
Lunch is around midday, another smoko in the arvo.
Dinner is the evening meal, although some people call it tea, I do not know why.
At the moment my evening meal is called supper at six, where I have something light and easy to cook and eat.

Since eating meals this way my bgl has come down in to the 4's on my fasting test, my weekly bgl average is 5.6 mmol/L

 

[MommaE]

No wonder I'm still completely confused by English meals, even after all those years!
Breakfast and lunch I get, but after that it becomes an incomprehensible mess of dinner, supper, tea, which sometimes means the same thing but not always (and that's leaving out the odd elevenses or smoko's), and now it turns out you even eat breakfast for dinner!
Although I must admit I've always been amazed by the English eating a full dinner for breakfast so far...

And there’s always brunch and high tea. I too had to Google smoko but now I just like saying it!

 

[jape]

Yip, some of these terms are quite confusing. When I first saw the term "TEA", I could only interpret it as alternative term for the evening meal from the context, but I never heard it during the years that lived in London, in southern England. My guess is that it is a term used in Northern England. Please correct me if I am wrong.

My understanding of "HIGH TEA" is that it is a late afternoon snack consisting of dainty sandwiches with tea. That is what I experienced when I traveled on British Airways from London to the US and Canada.

Something that I still cannot get used to even after having lived for 30 years in Canada is that main meal in North America on a Sunday is the dinner (evening) meal, whereas in South Africa the main meal on a Sunday is at lunch time (midday). I always chuckle when Canadian tourists to South Africa complain that they could not find any restaurant open on a Sunday evening! I kind of remember that in the UK it is also at lunch time, but my memory might not be up to date!

 

[Goonergal]

Does anyone have any idea why a potato based soup should spike me

Probably cooked for longer, which seems to cause a bigger glucose hit. May well have had other ‘nasties’ in it too. Any liquidised carbs will reduce/remove fibre and be absorbed quicker likely cause a bigger spike.

 

[Goonergal]

always chuckle when Canadian tourists to South Africa complain that they could not find any restaurant open on a Sunday evening!

The worst is Spain where no restaurants open before my bedtime in the evening!

I kind of remember that in the UK it is also at lunch time, but my memory might not be up to date!

Yup!

I can report that a 250g bag of walnut pieces is 1/2 empty now ( opened lunchtime today)

I’d call that restrained

Guess I’d better stay vaguely on topic. Have been away a lot the past couple of weeks and am again in my favourite room in my favourite hotel in Brum. Eating therefore a bit erratic. Currently deciding whether a lazy morning playing on my iPad in bed or a cooked breakfast will win out.

Yesterday was a mid-morning meal of cold lamb shoulder, using up the last of what was in the fridge before travelling. Lunch was a sprawling affair starting at Euston and continuing on the train - tub of tzatziki with smoked crispy bacon strips for dippers. Followed by some half price 80% pralines from Hotel Chocolat and 3 85% batons.

Wasn’t really any need for dinner but had Fage 0%, raspberries and cream from Morrisons.

 

[Annb]

No wonder I'm still completely confused by English meals, even after all those years!
Breakfast and lunch I get, but after that it becomes an incomprehensible mess of dinner, supper, tea, which sometimes means the same thing but not always (and that's leaving out the odd elevenses or smoko's), and now it turns out you even eat breakfast for dinner!
Although I must admit I've always been amazed by the English eating a full dinner for breakfast so far...

When men were able to get home for their mid-day meal (usually working class men) and if their wives/mothers were stay-at-home mothers, then that meal was the main one of the day and called "dinner". Middle class people would have a lighter meal and call it "lunch" - very often the breadwinner would not go home for that meal.

Breakfast was always a meal that could keep a person going for hours but the "full-English" or "full Ulster" was not available to folk with less money available, or with less access to food. Otherwise that meal would be something like porridge - that meal needed to have plenty of energy for a working man to keep going on.

When the breadwinner came home for a main meal after work, then IT was called dinner. In the houses that had dinner after a day's work, supper would be something light before bed. In higher class homes the meal was eaten later in the evening so those houses would have TEA (a cup of tea with something very light - scone, cake, biscuit) to keep them going until "supper" which was the main meal for them and so, a large meal. Tea as a meal was invented by some aristocratic lady who felt hungry during the afternoon but had to wait until evening for her main meal. "High tea" was a meal, but not a heavy one and so would include things like sandwiches, cakes and maybe something cooked, but not a huge stew or roast. I think, but am not sure, that this was originally a meal for children to share with their mother, or possibly both parents before being put to bed early in the evening - once the meal had gone down a bit.

Elevenses/smoko was a break for workers during the morning (around 11 am, obviously) for visits to the loo, then a cup of something to stoke up the energy and often to have a cigarette before going back to the grind. It all makes sense but why should we stick to those traditions? Why not a dish of sausage, bacon, egg, beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, hash browns (or potato cakes/scones) and so on for an evening meal? I couldn't be bothered with putting that together for myself, but if someone else would put it together for me ....

 

[Annb]

B: plain yoghurt with seeds. Hams and cheese slices
A walk through a Dutch town, they celebrated Kings day early and well according to the huge amounts of plastic glasses strewn every where from last night. Was interesting seeing all the families strolling the streets today at Street and flea markets.
L: caulfower soup, fish and veg 1 scoop icecream. Bg shot up to 10 and stayed there. Later found the caulifower soup was in fact potato based.
D: salad, pork, cheese, wine and 1 brandy.

Does anyone have any idea why a potato based soup should spike me, when a very few chips or 1 roasted doesn’t?

There is always the strange phenomenon of frozen potato not putting BG up - if the chips or roasted potatoes have been previously frozen, that might account for it. Even mashed potato, if it is from frozen mash, doesn't have the same detrimental effect on BG.

 

[Annb]

I am going to have a slice of toast with some scrambled eggs in a while for my breakfast and later will have some baked fish with some peppers for a second meal.

 

[RosemaryJackson]

I have always eaten a big breakfast, as I could not work on a empty stomach. Small or no breakfasts maye be ok for office workers that do not do manual labour.

Smoko's are what the name suggest, you have a sandwich, pie etc, cup of coffee and smoke a cigarette in 15 minures.
Lunch is around midday, another smoko in the arvo.
Dinner is the evening meal, although some people call it tea, I do not know why.
At the moment my evening meal is called supper at six, where I have something light and easy to cook and eat.

Since eating meals this way my bgl has come down in to the 4's on my fasting test, my weekly bgl average is 5.6 mmol/L

LOL, I was just going to explain it when I saw Annb had beaten me to it!!

 

[RosemaryJackson]

Morning all. Well, I'm going to have 2 cooked chicken thighs for my bf! They were left over from my 'tea' last night. Today I'm having airfried belly pork slices for dinner with green veg and probably scrambled or boiled eggs for tea with buttered Ryvitas. Any snack with be my 70% chocolate. Have a good day everyone

 

[Annb]

LOL, I was just going to explain it when I saw Annb had beaten me to it!!

But did I get it right? You might have a different memory of how it used to work. It was never very clear cut and now it is just a total mess with people just making up their own minds about what to call a meal - and why not? The only name I consistently use these days is breakfast because that is what you do in the morning - break your overnight fast. Sometimes I use "brunch" even though it is breaking a fast because it seems too late in the day to be eating breakfast. I usually have breakfast and a 2nd meal (the meal with no name).

Em's here and that might delay my 2nd meal, but it is still planned to be baked fish with some peppers and some lemon and maybe some other pickled veggies as well.

 

[PenguinMum]

Hello All well its (Chunky Fish Finger Firsday here which I look forward to like a little kid! Green beans & broccoli on the side. Lunch today was 6 mini chicken satays in a little box from Waitrose with a small peanut dip and side salad. Was busy didnt check how carbs or otherwise the snack was. Brekkie was a slice of LivLife toast (defo more cardboardy than HiLo but its all I have in atm.
Bought rosemary & garlic salmon fillets from the Waitrose fish counter for our suppee tomorrow. I know what tomo’s breakfast will be lol but only know lunch will be a small plate of protein & salad. Had some cold boiled eggs earlier in the week did them for the same time as ready to eat boiled eggs and they were nice mashed with a bit of mayo, not as dry as hardboiled.

 

[Yaya10_10]

That looks very tasty!

Happy Kings day from the Netherlands everyone!
Turned out I completely accidentally went along with the orange craziness going over my country on this day.
Made a very tasty bell pepper soup. I only had yellow and orange bell peppers, and I added some freshly grated turmeric as well, so the result is very fitting for Koningsdag.

that looks tasty.

how did you make it please

 

[Antje77]

that looks tasty.

how did you make it please

I put 5 bell peppers and half a bulb of garlic in the oven without preparation. Took out the garlic after 20 minutes, left the bell pepper for 45. Peeled both after cooling.
Fried onion, added a stalk of celery after a while, and freshly grated ginger and turmeric. Added tomato paste.
Added water, two stock cubes (herbs, not meat) and some dried green herbs, no idea which ones, I just used the first pot I saw.
Let it simmer until everything was soft, added 2/3 of the bell pepper and all of the garlic and used the stick blender.
Added the rest of the pepper cut in small pieces.
Added the leftover cream, not creamy enough so I added some cream cheese as well.
When dinner time came I garnished with parmesan and smoked paprika before putting the bowl of soup in the microwave.

I think today I'll throw in some fried bacon cubes as well. I think halloumi cubes would work well too, if you prefer vegetarian, but I don't have halloumi and I do have bacon.

 

[DJC3]

tub of tzatziki with smoked crispy bacon strips for dippers. .

I really like the sound of that - a great idea.

 

[DJC3]

I put 5 bell peppers and half a bulb of garlic in the oven without preparation. Took out the garlic after 20 minutes, left the bell pepper for 45. Peeled both after cooling.
Fried onion, added a stalk of celery after a while, and freshly grated ginger and turmeric. Added tomato paste.
Added water, two stock cubes (herbs, not meat) and some dried green herbs, no idea which ones, I just used the first pot I saw.
Let it simmer until everything was soft, added 2/3 of the bell pepper and all of the garlic and used the stick blender.
Added the rest of the pepper cut in small pieces.
Added the leftover cream, not creamy enough so I added some cream cheese as well.
When dinner time came I garnished with parmesan and smoked paprika before putting the bowl of soup in the microwave.

I think today I'll throw in some fried bacon cubes as well. I think halloumi cubes would work well too, if you prefer vegetarian, but I don't have halloumi and I do have bacon.

Your soup looks and sounds wonderful, I bet the bacon was a really good addition today.