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What did you eat yesterday?

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Ditto said:
I don't know what to eat and that's a fact. Eat for my liver ie fruit, eat for my diabetes no fruit! Can't fill up any more on protein and fat, that's probably what did for me in the first place. I'm struggling big time. Constantly ravenous.
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is it fatty liver? Have you actually tested before and then again 2 hours after any fruit? You "should" be fine with the likes of raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, plums are only aroung 9g carbs per 100g, peaches around 8g carbs per 100g, plenty of veg is advised so there are LOADS of low carb options there available, also in the NHS information a balanced diet high in protein is recommended but low in fat and as omega 3 is also recommended there is the huge opportunity there to include fish in your diet with many tasty variants out there, also listed as causes of fatty liver disease is being overweight, having type 2 diabetes, having high blood pressure, high cholesterol amongst a few others but none related to what you think has caused it xx
 
Yesterday
B - jumbo oats done in almond milk with raspberries and a mug of coffee
mid-morning - mug of coffee
D - wholemeal salami and edam sandwich and a salted caramel nature valley protein bar, pint of water
afternoon - 2 cups posh coffee and 2 pints water
T - 2 minute steaks, roasted sprouts and large flat mushroom and salad potatoes, 1 square Lindt 90% and a pint of water
evening - 2 mugs of coffee

Today
Same until tea
T - 3 egg mushroom and corned beef omelette, steamed green beans and salad potatoes drizzled with Dijon mustard dressing and a bar moser roth 85%, pint of water
Evening - on 2nd mug of coffee now :D
xx
 
Hello, I'm l ooking for some new food ideas so thought it might be a good idea to follow this thread.

Yesterday I had a full fat Greek yoghurt (brooklea from Aldi is my favourite) mixed with keto granola

Cheese and mushroom omelette for lunch (2 eggs)

Chicken wrapped in bacon with green beans and broccoli for dinner followed by Oppo ices cream with 3 large strawberries and grated 85% choccie on top
 
Northerner said:
It can be helpful sometimes to know what sort of things people are eating, as it might give some ideas for a more varied diet.
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Breakfast: 2 slices buttered wholemeal toast and large coconut latte at Leon, I added my own cherry syrup to the latte.
Tea about an hour later
Handful of nuts mid-morning.
Lunch: Tesco simple salad with dressing, John West tuna with chilli and garlic dressing, sugarfree lemon jelly, Coke Zero. Under 10g carbs and filled me up till tea time.
Tea: Heinz tomato soup followed by 2 Tinned salmon butties on Burgen bread, vinegar in the salmon. No idea why I ate all that as I wasn't even v hungry, but didn't want leftovers and there was no-one around to share. Will do better tonight!
 
@Cisco Ventura 😱 that's more carbs than I'd ever eat, unless of course I was hypo xx
 
Kaylz said:
@Cisco Ventura 😱 that's more carbs than I'd ever eat, unless of course I was hypo xx
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It's not something I plan to do again for a long time - tonight's dinner has been lots of veg, about 50g minced beef and the last bit of mashed potato I had in the freezer. Am now working on clearing out most of my higher-GL foods so I have lots of low-Carb options but can still have an occasional treat.
 
When I returned to this forum after a long break, I was surprised to see this thread had drifted away, especially considering that most newcomers to the forum have questions about food. I know I certainly found this thread very useful, in the beginning. So, because of that and the fact that I am at the moment guilt tripping myself a little, I thought it might be useful to give this thread a prod, to see if it has any life in it still. Certainly it could still be useful to me, to make me reassess my carb intake again. 🙂

Today:
Breakfast: Two slices of Nimble bread with Mushroom pate; 50g of dry roasted nuts; packet of crisps and an apple.
Lunch: Four Ryvita Crackerbreads with peanut butter;
Tea: Tin of John West Kippers with about 360g of steamed Broccoli, followed by about 250g of Vegan Blueberry yoghurt.
Snacks at various times is another 50g of chilli nuts and three pieces of flavoured ice. I find the ice useful, because it is low carb content, but it curbs my appetite quite well.
To drink I had one cup of strong black coffee, only one because I want to be careful about my blood pressure and three plus litres of water, perhaps over four litres...
I work that out to be about 112 grammes of carbs, so not too bad, but it will get better because I was surprised at how many carbs were in the yoghurt, so when that gets eaten, I doubt I will get it again. I eat too much Broccoli I suspect and expect to end up looking like it before long! :D
 
I had
Breakfast
50g high fibre granola (25g carbs) with creamy yoghurt and raspberries... total 30g carbs. Cup of coffee with cream and glass of water. Bolussed 3 units of QA and then hypoed later due to exercise.... should have just used 2 units

Lunch
Pea and ham soup (doesn't count as regards carbs according to DAFNE) with 2 crisp breads (5.6g carbs each) a chunk of blue cheese and an Aldi Sea Salt Nut Bar (5.9g carbs)
Bolussed 2 units QA insulin
Unusually for me... another cup of coffee

Dinner
Cottage Pie with cauli mash, cabbage, brussel sprouts and swede followed by a Lidl Strawberry trifle (22g carbs) and 2 small glasses of red wine. Bolussed 2 units QA insulin
 
I'm going back to running a little calorie deficit to put the brakes on a weight creep. At the same time trying to up protein to ~100g from ~50g.

B'fast: Big bowl of melon & fruit; extra large soy flat white; 30g chia seeds

Lunch: Bowl with one avocado;125g raspberries; 4 strawberries; some walnuts; juice of one lemon.

Afternoon: Large soy flat white; 30g chia seeds.

Dinner: 8 pieces of salmon and tuna sashimi; 150g edamame.

Snacks: Almonds, walnuts, snowpeas.

~2,000 cal vs expenditure ~2,400 cal. 160g gross carbs, lowish for me. 67g fibre. 105g protein.

Not for everyone, but I like raw!
 
Breakfast an omelette with a wee bit of bacon
Lunch nothing
Dinner braised steak, mixed veg and broccoli with a small portion of mashed potatoes
 
Ok, lets go again then lol

B - jumbo oats made with almond milk, butter, raspberries and a cup of coffee
Mid-morning - cup of coffee
D - bacon and scrambled duck egg sandwich and nature valley peanut & chocolate protein bar, pint of water
Mid-afternoon - 2 cups cafetiere coffee and 2 pints water
T - mince with mushrooms and a duck egg, steamed sprouts, boiled potatoes and a square Lindt 90% chocolate, pint of water
Evening - 2 cups of coffee
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Good idea - I record daily on my app Forum. Lost 15 pounds since diagnosis 3 months ago. I'm following my diabetes dietician to never have fruit with meals.

B: 30gm porridge with unsweetened coconut milk, 15gm mixed chopped nuts, 3gm chia seeds, Truvia, Benecol drink (GP prescribed for cholesterol as I can't take statins
L: 2 small poached eggs, 2 grilled tomatoes, 5 small grilled chestnut mushrooms, 2 grilled bacon medallions
D: Baked lemon sole, steamed carrots, cauliflower, runner beans.
S: Might have 80gm of one defrosted frozen fruit.
4 pints water, 4 mugs de-caf tea with 170ml skimmed milk, 1 sachet Fybogel (GP prescribed for Diverticular Disease)
 
Ditto said:
Greymouser my Mum had to be careful of broccoli because it has a lot of iron in it. I eat a lot of it too.
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That shouldn't be a problem for me, in fact if that is the only side effect, it would be good for me because I have not eaten meat in about 30 years, so my diet is otherwise low iron. 🙂
Not yesterday, but today:

Breakfast: Usual, two slices of Nimble bread and mushroom pate; 50g of dry roasted nuts; packet of crisps and an apple. Cup of strong black coffee, of which I need to get some decent stuff, rather than instant. 🙄 ( I am getting too set in my ways! )
Lunch: Small apple.
Tea: Two pieces of ( small, ) Salmon; Madras curried mushroom with peas and onions. I might regret those peas, I will see when I test in a little while.

Three flavoured ices for snacks and a tiny pack of onion rings.
I guess about 100g of carbs, but didn't focus so much on counting them today, may well look again if my BG is high in a minute. If it is not then I might ruin my carb count anyway with a 35g bar of Vegan white chocolate. Which is 18.27g of carbs! :D

I have got to say too, that fruit is something that I really do miss, especially dried fruit, as I used to snack on that like mad. I now know dried fruit is in fact terrible for us, even if it seemed like it was being good!

Edit: I have just remembered I had two boiled eggs as well today, but think they are negligible carbs, so I will forget that!
 
No time for breakfast today had a scotch egg and costa latte 11:30 , burger no bread with 2 eggs 3:30pm then for dinner 1 large butchers pork chop, green cabbage , runner beans, string beans , roasted celeriac chunks and gravy , desert 3 strawberry's with a few raspberry's ,blackberry's with a desert spoon of double cream .
Not sure on the carb count as I have not worked out how to calculate them yet ?
 
Ditto said:
Gillian McKeith says have fruit separately but if you have to have it with a meal have it first as it is quicker than all the other food so if you have it after a meal it'll be fermenting and stuff. Ewwww!
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Too funny! She's obviously a quack.
 
Billy Bob said:
Not sure on the carb count as I have not worked out how to calculate them yet
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quite easy, but it does involve weighing everything you eat, essential to me seen as I need to work out how much insulin to take, you'd take the nutrition information from the pack for carbs per 100g, then weigh your portion, to get the carbs your having you'd then use carbs per 100g divide by 100 then multiply by the weight of your portion, you have to be extra vigilant though as some packs give by raw weight and others by a cooked weight xx
 
Doing this makes me realise why I stopped posting in this thread before - reminds me how boring I am!

Anyway ...

Breakfast: Big bowl of fruit+melon; extra-large soy flat white; 30g chia seeds

Lunch: 5 pieces of salmon sashimi. Bowl with avocado+125g rapberries+4 strawberries+walnuts+juice of one lemon.

Afternoon: Large soy flat white; 30g chia seeds.

Dinner: Not really; just snacking on walnuts+almonds+snow peas.
 
Aw, thanks, @Ditto. I always enjoy yr posts - a wry look at things & they make me laugh 🙂
 
Eddy Edson said:
Doing this makes me realise why I stopped posting in this thread before - reminds me how boring I am!
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100% agree with Ditto here Eddy. Yes it can be a chore, but it has two benefits. Firstly it helps focus our minds and two, it helps newcomers as it is nearly always a first question among newcomers: what food! By the way your food sounds interesting, I have always wanted to try sashimi etc, but always doubt the freshness of the fish, unless I have caught it myself! I will also have to look into snow peas, because they sound interesting, where do you get them?

Oh and Ditto, I know this is me being judgemental, 😉 but you really need to cut out those new potatoes, no matter how you are tempted...:D
 
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