What did you eat yesterday?

[NotWorriedAtAll]

This is good to hear. I tend to have less than 50g carbs a day (nearly typed crabs then), avg is 38 with some days 20 or below (usually when I am not working). They were worried as I had high cholesterol at dx and even though it has gone down it is still high, so it my next thing to tackle. I haven't really looked into it but will probably be dropping carbs when we reach self-isolation stage anyway. I may not need as many and it will make my food go further! Do you eat cheese?


And as for your recipe! Yum! Can't wait to try it! Will let you know. 😉

Breakfast: Spinach, scrambled egg and sunflower seeds, 1 coffee.
Lunch: Mackerel and salad (mainly leaves) Water
Dinner: Soya bean spaghetti, 8 prawns (thought I'd be specific too - only know because I counted the rest into lunchbox for work tomorrow), pak choi, 50g of frozen stir fry veg and a splash of soy sauce. It was scrummy!

Do I eat cheese?
Like the cookie monster eats cookies

I love the stuff. I also have lactose intolerance.
But that works out okay with diabetes because the cheeses that are lowest in lactose (or don't have any at all) are the ones with low/no carbs because it is the lactose that is a sugar.

So very mature cheddar has virtually no carbs and Brie and Camembert are okay too.
The only trouble I have with cheese is it makes me gloop up unless I eat it with pineapple and I'm definitely not supposed to be eating pineapple. But I try and keep my cheese intake for early in the day so i don't get panicky about feeling a bit gloopy in the evening and night.

 

[Neens]

Thanks @NotWorriedAtAll - before I was dx I had curbed my cheese monster habit - when I had it I really had it but not that often unless it was Christmas. I think this harks back to days of low cal weight loss. Then since Dec. I have been trying to find the pleasures - such as being allowed nuts (again I am aware of the downside and so limit and don't have them everyday) and cheese, coffee in cream, dark chocolate, pork scratchings (I mean... on no diet, diet)!

So I know that we should have sensible portions of cheese (matchbox) and again I try to have some days where it stays in the fridge. I have gone for cambert/brie/ mozzerella and mature cheddar, but was aware I eating a lot more than before and wondered if this was having a negative impact on the cholesterol. I bought a pot of cottage cheese but it was a lot higher in carbs than I expected and turns out I don't really miss it much so will only use as an ingredient in the future.

 

[Tee G]

Pre 5.7 Breakfast : 1 Livelife toast, peanut butter, mug of tea
Lunch: 3 small crackers, cottage cheese, sliced boiled egg. slice ham, olives & coleslaw (mad assortment of things!)
Pre Dinner 5.2 : Slow cooked lamb steak in mushroom & gravy. 1 med new potato, curly Kale - 2 hr post 5.7
(Went for my usual 'brisk' after dinner walk 100 steps/min for 8 mins)

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Thanks @NotWorriedAtAll - before I was dx I had curbed my cheese monster habit - when I had it I really had it but not that often unless it was Christmas. I think this harks back to days of low cal weight loss. Then since Dec. I have been trying to find the pleasures - such as being allowed nuts (again I am aware of the downside and so limit and don't have them everyday) and cheese, coffee in cream, dark chocolate, pork scratchings (I mean... on no diet, diet)!

So I know that we should have sensible portions of cheese (matchbox) and again I try to have some days where it stays in the fridge. I have gone for cambert/brie/ mozzerella and mature cheddar, but was aware I eating a lot more than before and wondered if this was having a negative impact on the cholesterol. I bought a pot of cottage cheese but it was a lot higher in carbs than I expected and turns out I don't really miss it much so will only use as an ingredient in the future.

I eat cheese as a major protein and fat source and as I am trying for my main energy sources to be from fats I don’t restrict my nut nor cheese intake. I’d eat nuts every day if I wanted to. I don’t eat anything as a snack really any more though. If I eat a big chunk of cheese then I eat it and count it as a meal. Same for a pile of nuts. My cholesterol etc improved once I stopped using carbs and instead used fats as my main calorific intake.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Pre 5.7 Breakfast : 1 Livelife toast, peanut butter, mug of tea
Lunch: 3 small crackers, cottage cheese, sliced boiled egg. slice ham, olives & coleslaw (mad assortment of things!)
Pre Dinner 5.2 : Slow cooked lamb steak in mushroom & gravy. 1 med new potato, curly Kale - 2 hr post 5.7
(Went for my usual 'brisk' after dinner walk 100 steps/min for 8 mins)

My mouth started watering when I read your post.

 

[Tee G]

Pre 5.5 Breakfast: 4 tbsp porridge/almond milk, coffee
Lunch: Chicken slices, salad/spinach leaves, coleslaw, sp onion, cucumber. 1 raspberry 'jam' topped (cooked berries/chai seeds) chocolate muffin (almond/coconut flour, stevia)
Pre 5.5 Dinner : Konjac 'spaghetti' (like chewing elastic bands errgh, not keen) & Bolognaise (mince beef/tomato sauce/ tiny chopped assorted veg). 1/2 Glass red wine. 1 chocolate muffin (as lunchtime) 1 hour Post: 6.6
(no after dinner walk today, as i cleared the garden of leaves for an hour p.m.)

 

[Tee G]

Pre 6.6 (bit high!) 1 livelife toast, Smk salmon, mug tea
Lunch: Salad leaves, sliced chicken, coleslaw, sp onion. cucumber. Greek Yog / strawberries (1hr post 6.0)
Pre 5.5 Dinner: Aberdeen Angus Beef burger, slice cheddar, tomato, mayo. fried egg & 2 very small roast potatoes (1h 8.2 a bit high...2hr 7.6)
Went for usual 10 - 15 min brisk walk.

 

[Tee G]

Hi @Ditto - its from Waitrose (pretty good carb value) a normal wholemeal/wheat, even half a slice spikes me a bit too much. So im really glad I saw this mentioned on the site here. Its only tiny, like the size of your palm, but its dense and well seeded. Reminds me of a malt loaf. Very tasty and surprisingly filling - i top it well 😉

 

[Tee G]

Pre 6.1 Breakfast 1 Livelife toast/marmite, mug of tea
Lunch : Anti pasti, coleslaw, half avodaco, brie, olives, cucumber (1 hr post 5.4)
Pre 5.4 Dinner: Chicken & Mushroom Stoganoff (fried onion, chicken, mushroom, splash white wine, tarragon, parsley, chicken stock, season, 2 tspn flour to thicken), 2 new potatoes & curly Kale . (1.hr post 7.4)
Went for usual 10 min 'brisk' walk.

 

[rebrascora]

Yesterday for me was....

B. glass of water with a dash of balsamic vinegar. coffee with cream. 40g Eat Natural Low Carb Granola with 6 raspberries, 10 blueberries, a sprinkling of mixed seeds and 2 good dessert spoon dollops of creamy natural Greek yoghurt.

L. Bacon, egg, mushroom, spinach and tomato butty. This was the first time I had made some low carb bread with ground almonds, egg, psyllium husk and baking powder etc..... I was sceptical as to how it would turn out but I got 2 large thin slices from it and with the filling above it was extremely satisfying.... I actually struggled to eat it all and didn't have anything else for the rest of the day except....

D. a chunk of cheese and a glass of red wine at bedtime

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Yesterday for me was....

B. glass of water with a dash of balsamic vinegar. coffee with cream. 40g Eat Natural Low Carb Granola with 6 raspberries, 10 blueberries, a sprinkling of mixed seeds and 2 good dessert spoon dollops of creamy natural Greek yoghurt.

L. Bacon, egg, mushroom, spinach and tomato butty. This was the first time I had made some low carb bread with ground almonds, egg, psyllium husk and baking powder etc..... I was sceptical as to how it would turn out but I got 2 large thin slices from it and with the filling above it was extremely satisfying.... I actually struggled to eat it all and didn't have anything else for the rest of the day except....

D. a chunk of cheese and a glass of red wine at bedtime

Big smile for the keto/low carb bread. It is a real game changer in my opinion.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Cannot remember what I had yesterday.

Today I had two bacon slices and three eggs scrambled for breakfast.

Mid afternoon I had two halloumi burgers with 1 slice of bacon and half a small tomato fried and two tomato skins - my husband doesn't like the skin when its fried so I get all the skins and he gets half my tomato 🙂

This evening I made strawberry bubble tea with decaffeinated tea, some star anise, powdered freeze dried Strawberry, three frozen strawberries, a pinch of citric acid, a sprinkle of ground ginger, erythritol/stevia to taste, coconut cream - all in a blender and whooshed until it went frothy.

I'm still alittle bit peckish so I'll probably have a chunk of cheese before bed.

 

[Tee G]

(Pre 5.8) Breakfast : 3 tbsp porridge, soy milk, spoon blueberry 'jam' (chai seed made)
Lunch : Brie, pepperoni, celery, 2 small crackers, tomato, olives. (1hr post 6.8)
snack: Greek Yogurt & sugar free jelly
(pre 6.3) Dinner: 3 high meat sausages, cauliflower cheese, red cabbage. (1hr post 7.5)

Went for usual eve brisk walk....midnight muchies : small handful mixed nuts/seeds. - a good day.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs
2 slices bacon.
black cofee - decaff no sweetener

Lunch: Chicken Tserepa with Konjac noodles and a very few small oven chips.

Evening meal: sponge cake made with almond flour and psyllium husk and sweetener with whipped coconut cream flavoured with freeze dried strawberry powder and topped with one frozen strawberry.



Chicken Tserepa is a traditional recipe from the Ionian island of Ithaca - the place I fell in love with about fourteen years ago and next to the island of Kefalonia where I lived for three sunlit years.

This is my version which is much quicker (because I am an impatient soul) and can be made with frozen chicken pieces straight from the freezer if (like me) you have a friendly relationship with a pressure cooker.
Recipe.
Frozen chicken pieces.
An onion.
A tin of tomatoes.
Extra virgin olive oil.
A stick of cinnamon.
1 last clove of garlic I found at the bottom of my herb drawer when looking for
3 juniper berries.
A hefty sprinkling of cinnamon powder.
A splosh of Pinot Grigio wine.
A splish of Worcestershire sauce.
1 tablespoon of red wine vinegar.
The juice of a lemon I couldn't keep any longer and didn't have the spoons to slice and freeze.
Hot water I used to rinse the tinned tomato tin out with so as not to waste any of it.
1 dessert spoon of dried oregano.
A generous small handful of frozen green pepper I actually chopped up and froze on a day I was being productive.

Method.

Chuck all of it into a pressure cooker.
Get the cooker up to high pressure and when it makes the tooting sound move it to a lower heat/smaller ring and then leave it to do its thing for 30 minutes.

I depressurised it and served it with the very last of the crinkle cut chips I found in the freezer and a toasted wholemeal pita - for my husband and I had mine with Konjac noodles and the burnt chips.





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[Kaylz]

Yesterday
B - Jumbo oats done in almond milk with raspberries and butter, cup of coffee
D - wholemeal tuna mayo sandwich (Coop bread as cant get to Tesco, not as nice but have bagged a Hovis Tasty Wholemeal to try) and a digestive biscuit
T - Unsmoked gammon steak (would've preferred smoked but Lidl didn't have) it was absolutely delicious nonetheless as haven't had gammon in over 3 years! 😱 roasted bruseel sprouts, boiled potatoes and a wee drop of onion gravy

Also numerous pints of water and more coffee's
xx

 

[Tee G]

Your menu @Kaylz sounds delish! - I havent had gammon, like forever - and a boiled bacon hmmmm next time im allowed out by my hubby im heading for the bacon counter 😉

 

[Kaylz]

Your menu @Kaylz sounds delish! - I havent had gammon, like forever - and a boiled bacon hmmmm next time im allowed out by my hubby im heading for the bacon counter 😉

Well I'm being honest when I say I haven't had it since I was diagnosed and it was absolutely delicious! We usually have minute steaks on a Friday but can't (well aren't) going through to the next town and we use their butcher so thought right what can we get at Lidl and gammon was the first thought I had lol, think it will become a regular occurrence now though! xx

 

[rebrascora]

@Kaylz
Gammon with cauliflower cheese or leeks with cheese (or both) and broccoli or cabbage is one of my favourite low carb meals. Like you, smoked is my preference.

 

[Kaylz]

@Kaylz
Gammon with cauliflower cheese or leeks with cheese (or both) and broccoli or cabbage is one of my favourite low carb meals. Like you, smoked is my preference.

Might have to give those a bash actually my lovely, I'd have potatoes as well though as well you know lol, hopefully they'll have smoked this week as going to try and get everything for tea's on Monday and then Bruce is going to pop up middle of the week for a fresh loaf and raspberries for me xx

 

[Ditto]

I want to eat that screenshot! Yum. You certainly all do eat well. 🙂