What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

Tidying up post. Thanks for the art @dunelm and @gennepher. @dunelm hug for Mr Pickle but if you play sport any loss should be mourned long and hard. Winning isn't everything but losing isn't anything. Maybe not the whole Shanklyesque - this is not life and death, it is much more serious - mantra. Loving your artwork @gennepher, hope Popeye recovers his appetite and you enjoy "me time" with the film. @alf_Josiah I hope the away time is a success at whatever it is meant to do. Now, "way back when" I (well, The Food Fairy did the practical) discovered, via Tom Kerridge, how to make caramel from Inulin - huge success. Upshot was I made some Elsie/Keto CCBs - chocolate caramel bars - instead of buying high carb gopping commercial ones lacking fibre. Forumites liked the idea but in trying to make the caramel, burnt saucepans, smooked (NFN) out their kitchens etc. Herewith is another version which also makes well in muffin trays. I had one yesterday - liked it even though it absolutely destroys just about everything I believe about diet - except fibre.

High fibre chocolate flaxseed bars base recipe
Per bar made in soap bar sized silicone mould (currently lost in a box here)
1.5 ounces or 42.5 gms milled flaxseeds although whole work better for fibre
⅙ ounce (4.5 gms) inulin
4 squares = 1 row of chcologic belgian chocolate or 20 gms darkest choc we have (needs sweetener for me; I avoid eryth at all costs) chocolgic ramps up fibre massively; analysis uses Waitrose 1 posh dark choc
½ ounce or 14 gms butter
1 ounce or 28 gms cream
Cronomter's anlysis below as an image.

Krystyna23040 said:

I haven't tried mixing boiled eggs with anchovies but will try it. The avocado with fetta or mozzarella sounds really good.

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If you enjoy tomatoes add a few to the avocado and cheese, need not be many, I find two tiny plum tomatoes cut into quarters is enough, adds a burst of freshness, enhances the whole.

Oh, I forgot. Inulin makes a great crème brûlée (easy to make CB Elsie) topping when you use the blow torch we all have hiding after watching masterchef back in the day. CB is something I had avoided like the plague for 60+ years until Elsie made me keen to gnaw my own limbs. A dessert recipe, outside of my foodie beliefs. Don't judge me. Oh wait, masterchef reference? awkward.

ianpspurs said:

Took me a while to think of the title but I think this would be you. For anyone interested here's a link. Can youtube be subtitled, Genn?

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Ugh. Bad Dereks, I thought they were harder to find than young Dereks.
Must try watching.

gennepher said:

Have fun @alf_Josiah wherever you will be!

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Thanks, will do, I shall be in the fully supervised location with Mrs J monitoring very move…

I found this interesting so just sharing.

ianpspurs said:

that .5 was the lowest fbg I've seen here and everything is better with avocado. Basic food f

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@ianpspurs - that was a typo thank goodness. It should have been 5.5.
I agree that everything is better with avocado.

ianpspurs said:

Think about it young lady. Which one has the best coffee and sausage rolls? I expect better of you with your predicted grades and you a House Captain

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We had a lovely walk around Sheringham Park. Their coffee machine has been repaired now and the coffee is good again. I didn't like the filter coffee they were using while the coffee machine was out of action.

So sausage rolls and coffee are equally as good at both venues - so hard to choose between the two. although Archie and Poppy would vote for Oxburgh Hall because they do doggy ice creams..

SlimLizzy said:

If you enjoy tomatoes add a few to the avocado and cheese, need not be many, I find two tiny plum tomatoes cut into quarters is enough, adds a burst of freshness, enhances the whole.

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Yes, will definitely add tomatoes. We like the tiny plum tomatoes also.

@gennepher I do hope that Popeye has got his appetite back.

I am really pleased that upping my salt intake has stopped the horrible cramps. I was a little concerned about blood pressure with my higher salt intake but have just checked it on Mr K 's blood pressure monitor and it was 118/63 which isn't too bad.

Krystyna23040 said:

@gennepher I do hope that Popeye has got his appetite back.

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He is eating a little now and drinking water again @Krystyna23040
Maybe not as much as I would like, but I am monitoring him very closely...
Thanks for asking.

Good morning everyone on a wonderfully quite start to the day here in the dark an dangerous north
The wonder wheel of Swedish meatballs with that sauce that you can buy at a well know Swedish outlet came in at 6.4 today - oops! Never do that again (until the next time).

Apple sauce making yesterday. No sugar, just a squeeze of lemon juice and some cinnamon - I usually freeze it but this time I put it into jars. Jars in the oven first to sterilise and lids boiled alive as a warning to other lids. A couple of parcels ready for posting; a book called ‘When God Was a Rabbit” for my brother in Bristol and a rear rack off a no longer owned Triumph for a biking pall. The Goonies on the box yesterday - ‘Hey you guys’ - watched it with Mr Pickle before he went home - his team did better than in the Junior Premier League match the day before by winning 5-1 and with him scoring a goal off a defender - much joy to him.
Art bit - after the artist Lin Fengmian, pioneer of modern Chinese painting. Hope you had a fun day yesterday as it’s just another manic Monday today - pass the koffy and chop more apples.

5.6 for me have a good day everyone

Good morning everyone. Cool enough for the tracksuit bottoms, heavier polo shirts and lightweight hoodie here but still no socks and good for shorts later. No idea where Oval Office Bill came across the aphorism but today is KISS day here (keep it simple stupid). Swipey he say 5.8 today. Traditionally that has always been >5.4 so I spy danger. Cloak and Dissemble.co.uk ,who currently manage UK Plc for some offshore hedge fund or other, would tell us it is all part of the (world leading) plan you silly little people. No need to worry your pretty little head. We are on our way to glory. @dunelm great news for Mr Pickle. Great art. Were there any spare screws from the sauce and meatballs, is it compulsory to sing an Abba song and why is everything called Billy? @karen8967 you too sweetheart, you too. The rest of y'all - its the variables, its always the variables - catch 'em up on iplayer if you miss 'em.

Fbg 6.6

Creative work - a tatty old shorthand pad, fartnarkled in Snapseed into...

Metaphysical thought of the existentialism of a Shorthand Pad, which now goes under the title of 'Reporter's Notebook'. And while I write this there is a tiny baby snail sliding on the other side of my glass door underlining my 'Believe' sign with a silver trail. Perhaps that is the 'Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything', and not the number 42.

Today, my job is the creation of a couple of different feeders for the medium sized birds, who are just a bit bigger than sparrows...

4.9 this morning. Relaxing and reading at the moment before I am off to Norwich for classes. Feeling a bit lazy but one more cup of coffee should get me going.

dunelm said:

Good morning everyone on a wonderfully quite start to the day here in the dark an dangerous north
The wonder wheel of Swedish meatballs with that sauce that you can buy at a well know Swedish outlet came in at 6.4 today - oops! Never do that again (until the next time).

Apple sauce making yesterday. No sugar, just a squeeze of lemon juice and some cinnamon - I usually freeze it but this time I put it into jars. Jars in the oven first to sterilise and lids boiled alive as a warning to other lids. A couple of parcels ready for posting; a book called ‘When God Was a Rabbit” for my brother in Bristol and a rear rack off a no longer owned Triumph for a biking pall. The Goonies on the box yesterday - ‘Hey you guys’ - watched it with Mr Pickle before he went home - his team did better than in the Junior Premier League match the day before by winning 5-1 and with him scoring a goal off a defender - much joy to him.
Art bit - after the artist Lin Fengmian, pioneer of modern Chinese painting. Hope you had a fun day yesterday as it’s just another manic Monday today - pass the koffy and chop more apples.

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I love this colourful painting after Lin Fengmian @dunelm

Monday today?
It is a brand new week...

Krystyna23040 said:

4.9 this morning. Relaxing and reading at the moment before I am off to Norwich for classes. Feeling a bit lazy but one more cup of coffee should get me going.

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Sheringham was obviously the right choice. Take it easy Ma'am.

I watched Mrs Caldicott's Cabbage War @ianpspurs
With the aid of my LiveTranscribe on my Pixel phone.

It is so close to reality (my experiences in something) in the first part for me.
Déjà Vu.....

I enjoyed it.