Christmas stuff

[Maca44]

I hope everyone's had a lovely day, unfestive as it seems this year. I had not 2 but 3 roast potatoes with my xmas dins. Nice, but not as good as I'd bigged them up to be in my head since I gave them up in April. Also snuck a honey 'n' mustard parsnip onto my plate, but thanks to the 2.5 mile walk afterwards managed to come in at 7.9 2 hours after eating, so not too bad.

I hope everyone else's blood sugar has behaved itself today! Merry Christmas x

Went OK for me it was 7 two hours after xmas dinner but I didn't go mad just lots of veg and turkey X2 pigs in blankets 3 roasts no pud.
I used to be obsessed with xmas food and get loads in but it's been nice and calm as I am not so interested now I just want to undo as much damage as I can.

 

[trophywench]

'Normal' chocolate is too sweet! - but milk choc is worse than plain choc generally. Used to love 'Black Magic' before they messed about with the fillings, one was enough at a time, honestly. Always got bought the smallest box of em (cos that was what I specified and other folk thought I was weird) and perfectly satisfied cos they lasted me ages anyway! Now you can stick em.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Lovely to read all these Christmas posts.
I had a much less stressful day today than usual. Decided not to make the full monty this year and we had bacon toasties for breakfast using my keto compatible bread and then we had a roast duck for our main meal. I made roasties for my husband and had roast celeriac for me and made giblet gravy with coconut flour to thicken. We were too full for afters so I left the keto Christmas cake slices in the freezer.

I had some keto testing strips for Christmas and I've been keeping track of my ketones as well as my blood sugars and I've stayed in ketosis for the last two days.

I've had 100% cocoa chocolate buttons for my treats and even if they do look like the doggie treats my childhood dog used to get and even if my husband keeps patting me on the head and saying "Good girl" before I have one - I rather like them.

I just did half an hour on my exercise bike and now I'm going to bed.

 

[Eddy Edson]

Man, I feel like I had more to eat & drink yesterday than any two days in the last three years. Scales say I put on a kilo, but that's just a measure of how much I'm still stuffed with 🙂

Fresh-caught kingfish sashimi made on the day, amazing edamame+asparagus salad, totally excellent Xmas pudding (I don't even like Xmas pudding normally, but this was in a class of its own), too many chocolate truffles,way too much wine.

Hardly any walking, but a fair bit of dancing.

 

[ColinUK]

So nice to read of others Christmas days!

I’ve not laughed quite so much in yonks as I did yesterday!

Really went a bit overboard on food as bubble mate had said he was really upset about not seeing family and wanted “as traditional a Christmas as possible”.

Smoked salmon mousse wrapped in salmon and topped with a little caviar. Served with Melba toast made from liv-life bread. Salmon was home smoked which was something I’d never done before!

Turkey crown (big enough to feed 10 as there was only two of us) brined, herb butter under the skin etc, roasties, whole roasted spiced baby cauliflower, swede and celeriac dauphinois, sprouts with chestnuts, and a cranberry relish plus gravy.
Christmas pud and a sweet mincemeat was meant to be ice cream but it set rock solid so called it a parfait instead.
Also made those sausage wrapped in fathead dough as nibbles.

I had one small roastie but we finished the Christmas pud between us over the coasts of the evening and had some of the parfait to go alongside out of course.

No booze, no additional chocolates or snacking (he says in an attempt to prevent himself looking like a glutton!)

The laughter came from the fact that he brought with him a games compendium like you play with kids and we spent hours playing Ludo and then Snakes & Ladders of all things! And you cannot imagine how badly two 50 somethings can be at basic things like counting the correct number of spaces or even remembering which way you’re meant to be going on the board!
Highlights included me sending pieces looping around the Ludo board because I’d forgotten to bring them “home” and neither of us noticing until I’d gone round twice and us both realising something has gone wrong with the snakes and ladders when we passed each other going in opposite directions in normal play.
To cap off a lovely day I made him sit down and watch Mariah Carey’s Christmas Special (AppleTV) which is cheesy, camp, hugely knowing and utterly brilliant!

Didn’t track my BG pre and post yesterday because I knew I wasn’t going to really moderate what I was eating but as if made it all I also knew that is made low carb dishes as much as possible.

Just tested and will past morning BG in the usual place 🙂

 

[nonethewiser]

Lovely relaxing day. Toast first thing put turkey in oven, lamb was still in slow cooker from night before. Presents opened shower then walk, had piece of stollen cake to keep bg levels up.

Back helped prepare dinner, prawn cocktail starter then full christmas dinner hour later, sat watched tv finished off bottle of red then cleaned up & made dessert, combination of christmas pudding Baileys chocolate yule log cheesecake Clotted ice cream for all, I had small portion of 4, delicious it was, specially Baileys.

Set off for 5 mile walk, dark cold but dry, back later cheese n crackers more wine, had couple of chocs then G&T bed at 11, tbr on pump had good nights sleep. Despite overindulging highest bg was 11.4, lowest 3.8 so pleased with results.

Going out soon for long walk, wet outside but fresh, footie on later so be watching that & chilling.

 

[eggyg]

We were up at 6.30 as our girls started messaging us! Big kids! Had a full English, well I only had half of a full English. Left the house at 9 to go to eldest daughters to exchange presents, other two daughters came about an hour later. Got totally spoiled by all of them, six books, all hardbacks, I never buy myself hardbacks as I’m too tight and wait for the paperback to come out! Loads of bath smellies, I love a bath, my two favourite perfumes, silky PJs, just for lounging, I might slide out of bed! Hotel Chocolat 85% bars and ganache filled chocolates. Oh and a wooden thingy that goes over the bath on which I can place my iPad/book, candle, glass of vino etc.
We had our dinner about 5.30, roast goose, sausage meat and leek stuffing, made from out homegrown leeks, pigs in blankets, roasts and mash, carrot and swede, mashed, broccoli and cauli cheese, Brussels par boiled and finished off in the frying pan with pancetta and chestnuts and roast parsnip just for Mr Eggy, I can’t stand them. No pud, I was stuffed. I went to bed at 9.30, I was exhausted as I’ve been up before six everyday this week.
Today is leftovers! But first, a nice hot bubbly bath.

 

[eggyg]

This just came up on my FB memories. I wrote it obviously before the global pandemic. I think most of the country will be in Camp B this year!



Ahh! Boxing Day. A day of two camps.

CAMP A.
You were up at the crack of the crack of dawn, all bright eyed and bushy tailed. (Perhaps because you hadn't imbibed two bottles of CoOp prosecco, three G&Ts and that glass of Baileys which tipped you over the edge!) Down to the sales where you get loads of tat.....er I mean "bargains" (you probably spent more on carrier bags!). Back home to put the finishing touches to your hot water crust festive pie, which you started last night during the adverts in Downton. Quick run around with the cordless Dyson before the neighbours pop round for a glass of (homemade) eggnog and a piece of pie. Two o'clock, out for a brisk walk in your new coat as recommended by Gok Wan.

CAMP B.
You have the longest lie in of the festive season. 8.11am, stagger into the bathroom, look in the mirror and see the love child of Oor Wullie* and Alice Cooper staring back at you! You could have sworn you got all your mascara off last night during the snotfest that is Downton. Wander down the stairs to put kettle on. Can't find aforementioned kettle as the dishes (it semed like a good idea yesterday "to leave them to steep") cover every surface. Give up and go into living room where you switch telly on and slump on the sofa where, to your delight you find an abandoned Chocolate Orange, well it is one of your five a day! You then spend three hours watching the Royal Institute's Christmas Lectures because you can't find the remote under the sea of wrapping paper! Other half eventually surfaces to find you in a sugar induced half coma muttering something about the periodic table! Dinner....dried up turkey (cos you forgot to cover it) and real chips in a real chip pan! Perfect day. 🙂
* a cartoon character in the Sunday Post a Scottish newspaper. Google him!

 

[grovesy]

This just came up on my FB memories. I wrote it obviously before the global pandemic. I think most of the country will be in Camp B this year!



Ahh! Boxing Day. A day of two camps.

CAMP A.
You were up at the crack of the crack of dawn, all bright eyed and bushy tailed. (Perhaps because you hadn't imbibed two bottles of CoOp prosecco, three G&Ts and that glass of Baileys which tipped you over the edge!) Down to the sales where you get loads of tat.....er I mean "bargains" (you probably spent more on carrier bags!). Back home to put the finishing touches to your hot water crust festive pie, which you started last night during the adverts in Downton. Quick run around with the cordless Dyson before the neighbours pop round for a glass of (homemade) eggnog and a piece of pie. Two o'clock, out for a brisk walk in your new coat as recommended by Gok Wan.

CAMP B.
You have the longest lie in of the festive season. 8.11am, stagger into the bathroom, look in the mirror and see the love child of Oor Wullie* and Alice Cooper staring back at you! You could have sworn you got all your mascara off last night during the snotfest that is Downton. Wander down the stairs to put kettle on. Can't find aforementioned kettle as the dishes (it semed like a good idea yesterday "to leave them to steep") cover every surface. Give up and go into living room where you switch telly on and slump on the sofa where, to your delight you find an abandoned Chocolate Orange, well it is one of your five a day! You then spend three hours watching the Royal Institute's Christmas Lectures because you can't find the remote under the sea of wrapping paper! Other half eventually surfaces to find you in a sugar induced half coma muttering something about the periodic table! Dinner....dried up turkey (cos you forgot to cover it) and real chips in a real chip pan! Perfect day. 🙂
* a cartoon character in the Sunday Post a Scottish newspaper. Google him!

Neither camp really for me for many yearsI would be working.
But remember Our Willie and also The Broons from the Sunday Post, as a child, even though Teesside was a fair way from Scotland!

 

[nonethewiser]

But remember Our Willie and also The Broons from the Sunday Post, as a child, even though Teesside was a fair way from Scotland!

Institution in our house growing up, Broons Oor Wullie xmas presents Post every sunday, happy memories.

 

[Robin]

Neither camp really for me for many yearsI would be working.
But remember Our Willie and also The Broons from the Sunday Post, as a child, even though Teesside was a fair way from Scotland!

Institution in our house growing up, Broons Oor Wullie xmas presents Post every sunday, happy memories.

When my daughter spent a year in Dundee, she commuted on the ‘Oor Wullie' bus, (or sometimes the Dennis the Menace one)

Dennis and Oor Wullie arrive to brighten up city bus journeys - The Courier

DC Thomson children's comic characters are appearing on Dundee buses thanks to the first stage of a tie-up between the publisher and National Express Dundee.

www.thecourier.co.uk

 

[eggyg]

Institution in our house growing up, Broons Oor Wullie xmas presents Post every sunday, happy memories.

Definitely an institution up in our part of the world. I received the Broons or Oor Wullie book every year and bought them for my kids too. They still make me laugh so help ma boab, I’m fair black afronted!

 

[Shells2909]

Had a lovely relaxing day just is four. Kids aged 11 and 13 didn't wake up until 8.30 (bonus) had a slice of tiger bread and sausage for breakfast (first 'proper' bread in three weeks) then the usual Christmas Dinner of turkey crown, stuffing, bread sauce, pigs in blankets, a few roast spuds and lots of red cabbage and sprouts followed by a slice of delicious yule log , also managed to squeeze in a couple of snowballs and a g&t for good measure. Checked levels last thing and 9.3 which is pretty good considering had been 11 and over last week still. Checked again this morning and 7.8 which is the lowest morning test I've had so far since diagnosis so pretty pleased all in all. Think the Leslie Sansone video definitely helped!!!!
Happy Christmas everyone xxx

 

[rebrascora]

Oh @ColinUK and @eggyg your posts did make me laugh and I wanted to double like them!
Thank you for brightening my day!

 

[nonethewiser]

Definitely an institution up in our part of the world. I received the Broons or Oor Wullie book every year and bought them for my kids too. They still make me laugh so help ma boab, I’m fair black afronted!

Books you can enjoy young or old eggyg,

Broons were funny, Hen being fav, always enjoyed it when they went on holiday to But n Ben.

Shame you dont see books much in shops now, was time every newsagent stocked them but very few around now with supermarkets taking centre stage.