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Oddest food combinations to have made their way on to your plate...

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Superheavy

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I was just getting dinner ready tonight, and looking at what I had in the ice box and in the cupboards...and didn't really fancy a salad, as I eat plenty of it. However, nothing really seemed to go together, so I ended up with:

1 Fishcake
1 Chicken Fillet
Small Handful of Cheese
Olives
Tomatoes
Mixed Pickle

What's the oddest combination you've ended up with on your plate when you're trying to keep the carbs in the meal down?
 
I once (actually probably more than once 😱) took what I thought was curry out of the freezer and ended up having rice bolognese - really di not feel right at all 😱 Although not low carb, just weird combination.
 
I've done that loads, Northie. Always forget to label things i freeze. Once thought I was taking out 2 curries & ended up with one curry & one chilli. Mixed them both together for an interesting flavour.🙂
 
Whilst at uni, one of my combinations (before diabetes) was fish fingers, tomato, banana and cheese on toast!! No excuse that I did to know what it was.
 
My hubby once defrosted what he thought was a portion of chilli, only to discover that it was actually red cabbage. Then he found what actually was chilli and defrosted that, and in order not to waste the cabbage he ate them both together! I now label everything in the freezer...
I think hubby also once ate up the remains of a Chinese takeaway with the remains of some red cabbage. 10/10 to him for not wasting anything, I wouldn't be so good!

My dad puts black pepper In Marmite sandwiches (deliberately! I don't even like Marmite in the first place so that's double yuck to me)
 
Due to needing to clear out the freezer recently, we have had a variety of random meals, such as: (between 2) - 3 mini yorkshire puddings, 1 serving of ratatouille, 1 serving of beef stew, 2 fish fingers and 1 serving of broccoli. All spread between 2 plates. OH was intrigued, to say the least...
As for odd meals, when I was at Uni, I used to eat rainbow spaghetti. (sorry for anyone eating at the moment). 1 onion, a couple of pieces of bacon fried up. Added to a portion of spaghetti. Mixed up, then to this (so far so edible) add a handful of hundreds and thousands. Mix well, eat. I'm not at all sure why I did this (got the idea from a book I read once, no idea what book.) It was a regular meal for a while...
 
I'm always mixing weird things, it's called freezer tapas in this house. My most vibrant combination was tuna burgers, home made baked beans and almond scones with beetroot chutney. Quite delightful :D
 
When keeping carbs down? Steak with sausages instead of chips, and in a REALLY bad day, spam instead of chips.

I've also had chicken 'breaded' in ground-up pork scratchings before too which is quite tasty but probably a very bad idea for those on a low sodium diet.

I can also recommend doing scrambled eggs (or omelettes) with a few dashes of soy sauce and fish sauce - it sounds terrible, but it's actually what you'd do to cook a foo yung and is great at breakfast. I tend to find eggs a little too 'eggy' in quantity (can't describe why but for some reason it makes the bridge of my nose twinge!), but the fish sauce in particular seems to neutralise the eggyness without affecting the flavour. Although you do have to be careful not to put too much in though, otherwise you do literally get fishy eggs :confused:

The best combo I've found (although not if you're keeping carbs down) is a burger topped with cheese, bacon and, erm, peanut butter. All I'm going to say is try it before you comment. You might be a bit surprised.

I hear Nutella-coated bacon is also delicious.
 
Don't know about low carb, but here are 2 of my faves pre-diabetes: cold baked beans mixed with mayo and chopped cucumber / sandwhich filled with mayo and dried onion pieces. Yum!
 
Before diabetes I would quite happily munch peanut butter and cucumber sandwiches!
 
Stitch147 said:
Before diabetes I would quite happily munch peanut butter and cucumber sandwiches!
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Perhaps in a Lidl high protein roll we can still have this.
Sounds good.
 
Annette Anderson said:
As for odd meals, when I was at Uni, I used to eat rainbow spaghetti. (sorry for anyone eating at the moment). 1 onion, a couple of pieces of bacon fried up. Added to a portion of spaghetti. Mixed up, then to this (so far so edible) add a handful of hundreds and thousands. Mix well, eat. I'm not at all sure why I did this (got the idea from a book I read once, no idea what book.) It was a regular meal for a while...
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The book in question was "Superpig" by Willie Rushton (a sort-of-response to a similar book which I think was called "Superwoman"). It was all about his experiences as a single parent, and "psychedelic spaghetti" was invented by accident (he thought the hundreds and thousands were Parmesan, or something like that). 🙂
 
SB2015 said:
Perhaps in a Lidl high protein roll we can still have this.
Sounds good.
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Why not just make 'bread' from the slices of cucumber with a peanut butter filling? The bread's just a delivery mechanism.
 
Well bearing in mind that if cucumber makes you burp like it does a fair few folk, if you remove the seeds, it doesn't - therefore chop the beastie into length, split the lengths lengthways, halve lengthways, scrape out the seeds into the bin with a teaspoon and fill the trough with whatever, peanut butter, tuna mayo is one of our faves (in daintier lengths that's a good stodge-free buffet delicacy) or of course cream cheese.
 
robert@fm said:
The book in question was "Superpig" by Willie Rushton (a sort-of-response to a similar book which I think was called "Superwoman"). It was all about his experiences as a single parent, and "psychedelic spaghetti" was invented by accident (he thought the hundreds and thousands were Parmesan, or something like that). 🙂
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Thats the one!
 
trophywench said:
Well bearing in mind that if cucumber makes you burp like it does a fair few folk, if you remove the seeds, it doesn't - therefore chop the beastie into length, split the lengths lengthways, halve lengthways, scrape out the seeds into the bin with a teaspoon and fill the trough with whatever, peanut butter, tuna mayo is one of our faves (in daintier lengths that's a good stodge-free buffet delicacy) or of course cream cheese.
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There is a cucumber called 'Burpless'. I have no idea if it lives up to its name, however...
 
LOL Annette - I'm not about to invest in a cold frame, grow some and find out, either!
 
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