What did you eat yesterday?

[Toucan]

Breakfast: greek yoghurt, blueberries, pumpkin seeds, cinnamon
Lunch : chicken omelette and green salad
Snack: 2 Finncrisp with soft cream cheese and smear of honey
Supper: Fish pie with cauliflower topping
Hungry late evening so cup of Cadbury highlights hot choc - claims to be 4g carbs per serving. Not a great thing to have but stopped the sweet craving!

 

[DebbieC]

Liking the sound of this!

Hi heck 97% sausages, de skin and wrap 2 round hard boiled egg, roll in almond flour and flaxseed mixed instead of breadcrumbs and bake in oven for half an hour or so until cooked through! Enjoy

 

[DebbieC]

Care to share the recipe? Sounds delicious.

Basically chopped squash red pepper stock cube and water chuck in soup maker and it’s done!

 

[DebbieC]

It does depend how many other 80g portions of veg you add to make up your bowl of soup for sure and which veg used of course, one could assume that to recognise it as butternut squash soup you would have to have more butternut squash than other veg I think 🙂

Hi @Jodee oh err I thought this was a healthy lunch, half squash half red pepper plus stock, it’s a weightwatchers recipe and make for my son to have with the scotch egg?

 

[silentsquirrel]

Hi @Jodee oh err I thought this was a healthy lunch, half squash half red pepper plus stock, it’s a weightwatchers recipe and make for my son to have with the scotch egg?

I would guess not too bad at all, especially as the scotch egg is very low carb, but to be sure next time you make a batch you could weigh squash and pepper, work out and add up carbs from these and stock cube, and divide by number of portions.

 

[silentsquirrel]

Meant to add, scotch egg recipe looks good, I shall have to try this!

 

[DebbieC]

Meant to add, scotch egg recipe looks good, I shall have to try this!

Yes we are all converted now so much nicer than breadcrumbs and very quick to make, yummy lunch with salad and cheese coleslaw, 😉

 

[DebbieC]

I would guess not too bad at all, especially as the scotch egg is very low carb, but to be sure next time you make a batch you could weigh squash and pepper, work out and add up carbs from these and stock cube, and divide by number of portions.

I’m such an amateur at this and try to guesstimate carbs : try and keep to about 20g a meal and some lower than that, no pasta or rice, few new potato sometimes and low carb bread a few times a week.... but sometimes it’s hard to think of nice pack ups especially in winter xx

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Today was 'do the shopping for my elderly mother' day.
So I skipped breakfast except for a mug of decaff. tea - no milk.
Lunch - 2 small cheeseburgers(hubby ate the buns) from Burger King with 8 french fries and a bottle of water.
Evening meal.
3 small chicken thighs - grilled.
1 small avocado.
1 pumpkin seed Ryvita with a single individual portion of Boursin
2 tablespoons of double cream whipped with eight squares of Chocologic dark chocolate.
2 mugs of decaff. Earl Grey tea

I guesstimate my carbs based on the information on the packets and I work on what I call the 'real carbs' once the fibre has been counted against them. I'm guessing I stayed under my 20g a day target.
My blood sugars were around five most of the day when I tested and I had a peak of 6.3 a couple of hours after my evening meal.

 

[ColinUK]

Yesterday brunch out... scrambled eggs (I’d say three) two tiny postage stamp sized bits of smoked salmon and a portion of mushrooms. Black decaf coffee.
Dinner was a sort of Chinese dish - ginger, garlic, half a leek, Brussels, mushrooms, sesame oil, light soy, tiny bit of chilli bean sauce and a tsp of Sichuan peppercorns... add 250ml of stock and reduce... crack an egg in to thicken and sprinkle handful of sliced almonds right at the end.
Looked atrocious tbh but tasted delicious! One square of 90% dark chocolate.

 

[Eddy Edson]

B: Extra large soy flat white + 30g chia seeds
L: Bowl with avocado+mixed leaves+walnuts+fresh raspberries+pomegranate arils+juice of one lemon
Afternoon: Large soy flat white+chia seeds
D: Mixed leaves+snowpeas+peanuts+lemon juice. Large soy flat white+chia seeds

Grazing: Almonds

Vit B12 supplement

Walking ~11km. Calories in ~2300, out ~2400. Avg BG 5.0.

 

[Lucylemonpip]

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. So, I'll start off with what I ate yesterday:

Breakfast - 1 slice buttered Burgen toast (my breakfast every day, I don't like to run with too much in my stomach)

Lunch - two soft-boiled eggs, two slices of buttered Burgen toast soldiers 🙂 Activia yoghurt

Evening meal - home-made spaghetti bolognese and a bounty bar.

I also nibbled on chilli-dusted peanuts through the evening.

I had a breakfast of 2 x Linda McCartney vegetarian sausages at 2g carbs, and 1 and a half boiled eggs. I eat these cold, having pre-cooked 3 hard boiled eggs and 4 sausages, for two days breakfasts. I don’t mind eating cold food. Lol.

Lunch was a green leaf salad with 2 x baby plum tomatoes, couple of slices of cucumber, around 50g of Cathedral City, extra mature and a few slices of chicken breast.

Evening meal of mixed green leaf salad, with 2 x baby plum tomatoes, 2 x salmon fillets and half a dozen small cubes of feta cheese.

Then a pudding of 25g red grapes, 25g apple, 25g pear and 50g full fat Greek yoghurt.

I am currently doing a low carb diet of 30g max per day.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

breakfast

six thin slices of corned beef .

2 boursin individual portion.

6g of butter.

6g of coconut oil.

2 cups of decaff coffee.

1 ryvita - pumpkin seed.

A cup of caffeinated organic white tea.

Lunch.

1 mozarella ball.

1 medium tomato.

2 inches of cucumber.

a sprinkle of chia seeds.
1 boursin portion 16g

a squirt of hellman's mayo.
4 squares of chocologic dark chocolate.

Evening.
40g Cathedral City Extra Mature.

 

[Kaylz]

breakfast

six thin slices of corned beef .

2 boursin individual portion.

6g of butter.

6g of coconut oil.

2 cups of decaff coffee.

1 ryvita - pumpkin seed.

A cup of caffeinated organic white tea.

Lunch.

1 mozarella ball.

1 medium tomato.

2 inches of cucumber.

a sprinkle of chia seeds.
1 boursin portion 16g

a squirt of hellman's mayo.
4 squares of chocologic dark chocolate.

Evening.
40g Cathedral City Extra Mature.

Is there any reason your eating that chocolate rather than proper dark chocolate? I only ask as I'm pretty sure its polyols in it xx

 

[Eddy Edson]

B: Salmon sashimi+wasabi+shredded carrot. Extra large soy flat white+chia seeds.

L: Bowl with avocado+raspberries+blackberries+walnuts+snowpeas+mixed leaves+lemon juice.

Afternoon: Large soy flat white + chia seeds.

D: Mixed leaves+peanuts+snowpeas+lemon juice.

Grazing: Almonds.

Walking: 7.5km (lazy!). Calories in ~2,200, out ~2,000. Avg BG 5.3.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Is there any reason your eating that chocolate rather than proper dark chocolate? I only ask as I'm pretty sure its polyols in it xx

I eat it because I like it 🙂 and it doesn't have any effect on my blood sugar readings. I've checked - 1 hour after eating it, 2 hours after and 3 hours and no effect at all.
I like 100% dark chocolate too but I like to have a choice and for me the Chocolgic chocolate is like having milk chocolate (even though there is no milk in it) and the 100% is the dark choice.

 

[Kaylz]

I eat it because I like it 🙂 and it doesn't have any effect on my blood sugar readings. I've checked - 1 hour after eating it, 2 hours after and 3 hours and no effect at all.
I like 100% dark chocolate too but I like to have a choice and for me the Chocolgic chocolate is like having milk chocolate (even though there is no milk in it) and the 100% is the dark choice.

it may not have an effect on your BG but if you eat too much too often the polyols may have a laxative affect that's the only reason I brought it up xx

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

it may not have an effect on your BG but if you eat too much too often the polyols may have a laxative affect that's the only reason I brought it up xx

Polyols do not have that effect on me. Possibly because I do not overindulge. I am very controlled with my eating which is why my blood sugars have been in excellent control ranges ever since I was diagnosed in January. I relaxed a bit over Christmas but that involved eating a half roast potato on Christmas day and some carrot and making a low carb christmas cake and having a small slice.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

What I ate today.

Blood sugar on waking - 5.9

Breakfast

1 boursin portion 16g .5g carb

1 cup of Earl Grey tea

Total - .5g carbs

Blood sugar 6.2

Lunch

1 grilled pork chop - carbs - 0

8 oyster mushrooms - negligible

2 slices of leek - 1.7 g carbs

10g green pepper - 0.2

coconut oil and olive oil

125g bottled artichoke hearts - 3.75g carbs

four squares of chocologic chocolate 1.7g carbs

Total - 7.35g carbs


Blood sugar one hour afterwards 6.5
snack 3 slices of salami - .6g

Supper.

lettuce leaves - 1g carbs

some tuna - 0g carbs

small tomato - 2.4 g carb

mozarella ball - 2g carb

1 boursin - .5g carb

mayo - negligible

sprinkling of chia seeds

salami - 0.9g

Total - 7.4
Total carb for day - 14.15

Blood sugar two hours afterwards - 6.0

 

[Toucan]

Breakfast: turkey rashers and tomato
Lunch: Celeriac Soup followed by small clementine
Snack: Toasted Livilife low carb bread, smear of cream cheese, smear of honey ( REALLY hungry after exercise class, but this with a cup of tea helped)
Supper: Pork stir fry with cauli-rice.