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What did you eat yesterday?

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rebrascora said:
@Kaylz

Fly cemetery surely has to be what we would call "sly cake". Basically a dried fruit pie. Never heard it called fly cemetery but totally makes sense.
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basically yeah its like a fruit slice lol
grovesy said:
No I have never heard of them either.
They look abit like a Type of Dainsh Pastry to me.
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I'll have to remember to google things when I'm mentioning things and use a language we all know what it is lol
xx
 
Kaylz said:
basically yeah its like a fruit slice lol

I'll have to remember to google things when I'm mentioning things and use a language we all know what it is lol
xx
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Noooo, don't do that! Far more fun/interesting learning new words/names for things. Sly cake will now forever be Fly Cemetery. Can't wait to tell my partner that one! I was thrown by the pigs ears/lugs... the only thing I could think of was the triangular shape of an apple turnover but that just didn't seem right. Good to learn something new each day.
 
Pig's Ears! It makes perfect sense when you see the photo. Never heard them called that. Used to luv them with cream in and apple turnovers too. 🙂
 
rebrascora said:
Noooo, don't do that! Far more fun/interesting learning new words/names for things. Sly cake will now forever be Fly Cemetery. Can't wait to tell my partner that one! I was thrown by the pigs ears/lugs... the only thing I could think of was the triangular shape of an apple turnover but that just didn't seem right. Good to learn something new each day.
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Sly cake?
 
grovesy said:
Sly cake?
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A dried fruit pie made in a baking tray and served as a square. It is the same as Fly Cemetery.... if you google either term you will get photos which hopefully will explain it better than a verbal description.
 
rebrascora said:
A dried fruit pie made in a baking tray and served as a square. It is the same as Fly Cemetery.... if you google either term you will get photos which hopefully will explain it better than a verbal description.
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Not heard of that either.
Looks like a sweet mincemeat pie to me.
 
grovesy said:
Not heard of that either.
Looks like a sweet mincemeat pie to me.
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Yes, that is pretty much what it is although the filling is not as bound together as mincemeat. It really is more like dried currant pie and you get it all year round, whereas mince pies are usually just at Christmas. It is really tasty though.
 
Todays menu seen as I know what's for tea in an hour lol
B - same as every other day
D - Wholemeal salami sandwich and a 2 finger dark chocolate kit kat
T - mince bulked with mushrooms in oxo, sprouts and potatoes with an egg dropped in the mince for the last 5 minutes to cook and a generous knob of butter on the side of my plate to accompany the potatoes and then a square Lindt 90%
Have had 2 mugs of coffee, 2 pints of water and 2 cups cafetiere coffee, will have 1 more pint of water and 1 more mug of coffee before the day is out
Have decided to get some Coop peanut butter tomorrow to start having with breakfast instead of the raspberries, hopefully iti goes well but wont be till the end of the week at least as I've got 200g of raspberries in the fridge to get through after tomorrows serving lol
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Well I had a slight change of breakfast yesterday as I am getting low on my low carb granola and trying to eke things out and empty the cupboards before I have to shop again and found a few very sad and slightly less crisp than I would have liked, supermarket equivalent Shreddies in the back of the cupboard. I had 33g of those with my yoghurt, raspberries and seeds and cup of coffee with cream. Gave myself 6 units of Fiasp (2 for DP, 3 for the Shreddies and one for luck/correction and it worked out pretty well.

Had a square of 70% chocolate with a spoonful of peanut butter at lunchtime

Dinner was some lamb bolognaise leftovers with courgetti followed by a dark chocolate ginger biscuit left over from Christmas. The packet says that they are 9.something grams of carbs per biscuit but every time I have one at bedtime which is a very rare treat, with appropriate insulin, I am high the next morning, so I jabbed myself the 1 unit for the biscuit, dunked it in cream to slow it down and also increased my basal by one and hey presto I was on the money this morning with a 5.4.... I hardly ever manage to get 5s so very happy with that.
 
Ditto said:
I've been trying to do low carb after listening to that book The Diabetic Code. I'm still pigging out! :( Why am I so greedy? Huge amounts of everything.

Tum: 50 Weight: 14stones 11.2pounds
B: 7.8 @ 6.35 am - Pint water with fibre - 2 Eggs scrambled in olive oil with mushrooms, garlics, red onion, tomato and 2 rashers bacon - Pint Water with meds.
L: Pt water - Kipper with cooked tomatoes.
D: Pt water - Lots of baked rashers bacon with nearly a whole steamed sweetheart cabbage - more water...
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Just a tip. When I eat things like tomatoes (which are quite sweet) I end up eating more than I meant to do. Something about sweet foods seems to send my ability to eat sensible amounts right out of the window.

If I eat more fat and stuff like the microwave bread made with almond flour and psyllium husk my appetite settles down and I feel fuller.
I would suggest to begin with to add a chunk of mature cheddar to your breakfast choices and cut out the tomatoes and onion. Maybe scramble the eggs and add the cheese and if you have them a sprinkle of chopped peppers and if you can get them spring onions and only eat one snipped up into stuff.

Again the kipper with tomatoes doesn't seem filling enough, but if you ate enough kipper (try without the tomato) and just had kipper I bet you'd feel more satisfied because partly you'd be more bored with it by the time you'd finished and the sweet tomatoes wouldn't be derailing your moving into using fat for fuel. Here having some microwave almond bread would make a big difference to how full you feel.

Cabbage is also quite high carb if you eat a lot of it. You would do better eating more eggs with your bacon - boiled or fried. If you stick to protein and fat (and almond flour creations fit in that category) as your main bulk of your meal and think of things like cabbage and onion as garnish rather than a main part you will start to find your appetite settle because fat and fibre is very filling and you will come to a point where you just don't feel like eating too much.

Give yourself treats that feel like being naughty but aren't naughty on keto. One of my favourites is a teaspoon of coconut oil mixed with some sweetener and powdered chocolate and desiccated coconut. I think the official name for something like this is a fat bomb. Tastes wonderful and doesn't flick the 'eat more and more and more' switch at all.

It is weird but at first with keto you need to forget all about calories and learn to love fat while remembering that eating carbs with fat is bad for you - but eating fat without carbs isn't. xxx
 
Yesterday

Skipped breakfast.

Late Lunch
Shin of beef casserole made with shin of beef, oxtail, tinned tomatoes, onion, parsnip, carrots, white wine

All day drank decaf black coffee and water.

Skipped evening meal as still full from lunch.


Today.

Breakfast

Leftover shin of beef casserole with chia seeds.

Lunch
Large chunk of cucumber with a lot of mayonnaise and a small sliced tomato.

Snack
Pack of pork cracklings.
a very small chunk of mature cheese
three slices of wafer thin ham
two small silverskin pickled onions - won't be eating them again as I found them disgustingly sweet.
 
fasting from 9pm till 10am
- 10am Tumeric pill on empty stomach followed by 1 liter of water
- 10.30 am coffee with stevia
- 11.00 am to 1.00 pm home workout and cycling
- first meal at 1.00 pm chicken or beef or salmon all marinated in (white vinegar, soy sauce, salt, pepper, spices, squeeze of lime) baked with garlic and onion with a side of baked veggies
- 3.00pm small snack, i back cookie and cakes using almond flour & stevia (chocolate cakes, pistachio cookies, almond cookies...)
- 7.00 pm, home happy hour with either 2 gin tonics or 2 wine glasses with raw vegetables
- 8.00 pm dinner same lunch method, sometimes i do pizza with almond flour
- 9.00pm fasting starts
i drink around 5 liters of water per day
 
Yesterday
2 glucose chews
B - jumbo oats done in almond milk with raspberries and a mug of coffee
D - wholemeal corned beef sandwich and a dark chocolate kit kat, pint of water
T - mince and mushrooms in oxo, egg dropped in for last 5 minutes, potatoes, sprouts, healthy dollop of butter for my tatties, square Lindt 90% and a pint of water
Also had 2 other mugs of coffee, 2 cups cafetiere coffee and a pint of water
Bedtime - digestive biscuit to stop me waking hypo again this morning
Today
same up until tea time including coffee's and waters
T - corned beef omelette, potatoes, fine beans and bar moser roth 85%
xx
 
Today
B - jumbo oats done in almond milk with peanut butter 😛 mug of coffee
D - wholemeal sandwich with a tin of john west chilli & garlic tuna infusions, was delish! and a dark chocolate kit kat, pint of water
T - gammon steak, roasted brussels boiled potatoes and onion gravy, square lindt 90% and a pint of water
2 other mugs of coffee, 2 cups cafetiere coffee and another pint of water
xx
 
Today
B - same as yesterday
D - wholemeal salami sandwich and a dark chocolate mint kit kat, pint of water
T - corned beef omelette, fine beans, potatoes and a bar Moser Roth 85%, pint of water
coffee's and waters throughout the day
 
seems I'm the only one still taking part here
B - jumbo oats in almond milk with peanut butter and a mug of coffee
D - wholemeal corned beef sandwich and a dark chocolate mint kit kat with a pint of water
T - mince done in oxo bulked with mushrooms with an egg dropped in, boiled potatoes, huge pile of steamed broccoli seen as Lidl can't source brussels all year round like Tesco and a square Lindt 90% with a pint of water
2 other mugs of coffee, 2 cups cafetiere coffee and 1 other pint of water
xx
 
@Kaylz.... you have spurred me into action....

BG 4.3. Took 1.5 units of Fiasp to cover DP
Breakfast... Glass of water and a cup of coffee with cream
2 boiled eggs with some braised red cabbage
2nd cup of coffee with cream.... naughty!

No QA insulin prebolused as BG was 4.3
Lunch....... Glass of water.
2 Roasted pork chops.
Stewed rhubarb with a little sweetener and some creamy Greek yoghurt and a few mixed seeds.
Used 1 unit of Fiasp an hour after eating to deal with carbs from protein breakdown as BG 5.6 and rising.

BG 6.4 2 units of Fiasp
Dinner....... Glass of water followed by a small glass of rose wine with my food
Haggis with carrot and swede mash, leeks and braised red cabbage
Small chunk of cheese at bedtime

Remained beautifully in range all day apart from 1.5 hrs after dinner when I went up to a disappointing 9.8. Think the Fiasp took a bit longer than usual to get going and the carbs in the carrot and swede mash and oats in the haggis got gobbled up by my digestive system in smart style
 
Since I’ve been home on furlough I feel like all I’ve eaten is rubbish. I hope by writing what I eat on here everyday I’ll shame myself into being good again. So here goes.....

Breakfast: eat natural granola with a few blueberries and yogurt
Lunch: tuna salad and homemade celeriac crisps
Snack: 3 small pieces of Easter egg and 2 mini eggs (had to be eaten so I could throw the packet away!)
Dinner: Donna kebab and chips. Ate half of the pitta and more chips than I should have. Bg was 7.3 3 hours after and I’m gutted it’s the highest number I’ve seen in a while
Plenty of tea drunk during the day and 3 pints of water.
 
Yesterday started so well!
Breakfast: eat natural granola and yogurt
Lunch: salad and a packet of skips
2 cookies
Dinner: Home made lasagne and veg
Snack: handful if cashews

Plenty of tea and water throughout the day and a can of coke
 
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