What did you eat yesterday?

[Vonny]

This thread is fabulous...I've got some great ideas for livening up my diet thanks!

Today I had mushroom 2 egg omelette for breakfast
Lunch was Lo-Dough* pizza with passata, mushrooms and mozerella (it's a bit like eating mushrooms and cheese on air!)
Snack: handful of almonds and walnuts
Dinner will be moroccan lamb with no rice but I'll pinch a small corner of my partner's flatbread! Plus a nice glass of red wine.

*Toucan, your pizza dough sounds much tastier and healthier, will give that a go next time. x

 

[karloc]

@Ditto No veggies is normal for me anyway - always hated them. My super extreame diet is only temporary just to drop my BG levels super low to try and shift some more weight. I have found that if I keep my BG in the 'normal' range I just cant loose weight, but keeping it closer to 4.0 I can shift some weight.

 

[Toucan]

Breakfast: Fried egg, turkey rasher, tomato
Lunch: left over low-carb pizza and green salad
Snack; Mini melba toast with peanut butter.
Supper: Salmon fillet, cauli-rice and a sauce made with cream cheese, yoghurt, basil oil and herbs. AND glass of white wine
Lots of tea and coffee, but not enough water - find it so difficult to remember to drink lots of water.

 

[Eddy Edson]

I change my daily eating plan about once in a blue moon, and not by much. Here's where I am now most days:

B: Bowl with 5 strawberries, 10 walnut halves, half a slice of pumpernickel broken up, with juice of half a lemon. Big soy flat white with 30g chia seeds.

L: Maybe 40g of unsalted peanuts with lemon juice. Or maybe some salmon sashimi.

Afternoon: Medium soy flat white with 30g chia seeds.

D: Bowl with 50g edamame, 50g leaves, avocado, 10 snowpea pods, third of a pear, 25g pomegranate arils, couple of dates, lots of lemon juice.

Grazing: Almonds, trying not to eat too many; and some carrot.

Gives more than the rec daily intake for fibre, essential fatty acids, essential amino acids, vitamins & minerals, except for Vit B12 and zinc, so I also take a multivitamin.

 

[Vonny]

Today I made soup from onion, broccoli, kale, spinach, watercress, rocket and celery. It looks slightly disgusting but tastes quite nice with a judicious quantity of black pepper. This will be my lunch for the next 7 days...if I can stand it 😉

 

[rebrascora]

Today I made soup from onion, broccoli, kale, spinach, watercress, rocket and celery. It looks slightly disgusting but tastes quite nice with a judicious quantity of black pepper. This will be my lunch for the next 7 days...if I can stand it 😉

You might find the flavour improves and it is more filling with the addition of a generous dollop of Crème Fraiche, cream cheese or double cream mixed into it.

 

[Vonny]

You might find the flavour improves and it is more filling with the addition of a generous dollop of Crème Fraiche, cream cheese or double cream mixed into it.

Thanks Barbara, I keep forgetting I am allowed cream!

 

[rebrascora]

@Vonny
If you are significantly reducing your carb intake then including fats in the form of full fat dairy, nuts, olive oil, avocado etc will help to keep you feeling fuller for longer... You could also crack an egg into the soup and poach it to increase the sustenance of your soup by increasing the protein and fat content that way.

 

[Toucan]

So yesterday....
Breakfast: Poached egg on toast ( Toast = LivLife bread 4g/slice)
Lunch: Cheese salad with mayo
Snack: A few olives and glass of red wine
Supper: 'spaghetti' bolognaise ( 'spaghetti = Finely shredded cabbage + butter cooked in microwave for a few mins and surprisingly tasty.)
This did result in a morning reading just back in the 5's (5.9) which was good to see as I am struggling to keep in the 5's at present.

 

[Toucan]

Toucan, your pizza dough sounds much tastier and healthier, will give that a go next time. x

Hi Vonny
This did turn out much better than I expected!
There are already lots of good pizza recipes in the Recipe section at the top of this section - but this one was a bit of a variation so I have now included the recipe at the end of the Pizza thread. If you make it, I hope it turns out well.

 

[rebrascora]

Yesterday I had :-

B. glass of water with a dash of balsamic (just because I am out of ACV) and a cup of coffee with cream.
35g jumbo oats made into porridge with sweetener, half a dozen each of rasps and blueberries, some mixed seeds and crème fraiche

No lunch but snacks throughout the day of a bag of pork scratchings and some mixed nuts. Glasses of water with a dash of bitter lemon.

D. Beef goulash made with butternut squash instead of potatoes and served on Swiss chard leaves (used like wraps) with cheese coleslaw.... I was just using up leftovers from the fridge but this was really tasty and low carb.

It's the first year I have grown (or eaten for that matter) Swiss chard. I wasn't sure I liked it the first couple of times but I think maybe it works best with strong flavoured foods, so the goulash was ideal. I grew them because I saw it suggested that you can use the stalks to dip in soft boiled eggs instead of toast soldiers.... but it is not mature enough to try that yet so I am just harvesting a few leaves for salads etc.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Yesterday I had leftover tortillas with leftover bolognese sauce for brunch and roast chicken pieces with lettuce and cucumber and spring onion and tomato for evening meal.

I had mayo under the bolognese sauce and full fat greek yoghurt on top.

recipe -
1 cup almond flour
3 tablespoons coconut flour
2 teaspoons xanthan gum
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
1 egg
3 tablespoons water

Mix into a stiff dough and then smoosh together by hand until it is elastic.
Roll into 8/9 rounds on a silicon mat with a silicon rolling pin.
Fry on non stick pan - I used ghee - I'm avoiding seed oils as much as possible.

Recipe from Cristy Davis - on keto judgement free zone group on facebook she's - The Keto Village on Youtube.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Yesterday was a 'bad' day for food

I've been struggling to fill in my PIP application form and the extension on my extension runs out on Friday so I forced myself to focus yesterday on finishing it and that meant everything else went out of the window.

So yesterday I had grilled lamb chops (awful ones from Tesco - they were frozen and there was only one in the pack that looked like a chop and the others were just small bones with a strip of fat and even less meat along one side) for brunch and a lettuce leaf and some microwaved cauliflower for brunch.

Then at around eight in the evening I had a can of Tesco chicken curry and a pack of konjac rice.

Not surprisingly my blood sugar went up to 8.6 after the curry because it was 12g of carbs

 

[Toucan]

Yesterday was a 'bad' day for food

Yes - I had a day like that as well on Wednesday
Just one of those days when I craved sugary carbs all day and none of my usual techniques of distraction, drinking lots of water etc worked! Ended up eating a large piece of coffee sponge just before bed time.
(We keep sliced pieces of cake in the freezer for my husband who is self disciplined enough to just eat a slice occasionally. - I even ate the slice whilst it was still frozen, as couldn't wait for it to defrost!)

So - Thursday morning.... Been here before, 2 options now a) Negative self talk about being hopeless, can't ever stick to anything etc etc, blown it now so may as well just stuff myself with more bad carbs - and there have been many times when I've taken that route.
or b) Remember what I have achieved and how much better I feel and all the positive things that controlling my Diabetes means for me etc etc. and that I'm not going to let one silly piece of cake start to undo that.

Fortunately b) won the argument this time and I ate much as I normally do and hopefully back on track this time.

Yesterdays food:
Breakfast: Greek yoghurt, blueberries, seeds
Lunch: Prawns, cottage cheese, green salad
Snack: Melba toast biscuit with peanut butter
Supper: 'No rice' risotto, - made with cauli-rice, prawns, chicken. onions etc, herbs and spices.

 

[SkinnyLiz]

I start Exante today. I've just realised that I'd better have it made with semi-skimmed milk otherwise I'll be on 600 cals not 800! I wouldn't want to waste away...

Tum 50 and Weight just under 15stones. We'll see...

Yesterday's menu is too shameful to record here but included birthday cake (yuck but still ate it), trifle, and an Indian with boiled eggs and buttery soldiers for supper, good grief.

My menu was pretty bad too, overall. Borrowing your format: Included: chocolate ice cream with peanut butter and cream. Too much wine. Couple of glasses is more than enough now. Several real coffee with cream.
As well as avocado,.mozzerella and cherry tomato salad(,Lunch) only three tomatoes was still being good at that point.
Dinner: Sausages with frozen mix veg,and cauliflower rice All went to pot in the evening.
FBG 6.4 this morning

 

[Kaylz]

Today
B - oats made with almond milk and a dollop of peanut butter, cup of coffee
D - wholemeal Milano salami sandwich and a 2 finger dark chocolate kit kat, pint of water
T - 2 egg king prawn, mozzarella and chilli flake omelette, steamed broccoli, baby potatoes and a 25g bar Moser Roth 85%, pint of water
Cup of coffee
feeling a tad peckish so hoping I'm low enough that I'll need a biscuit at bedtime
xx

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Yesterday

Breakfast - I had a home made very low carb chia seed bread sandwich with leftover cooked chicken mixed with greek yoghurt and spring onion.

Lunch - more chia seed bread and more chicken

Supper - chia seed bread lettuce sandwich with strawberries and yoghurt

Had coffee, sparkling water and decaff tea to drink

Today

Breakfast - 2 fried eggs on the last of the chia seed bread made into toast. Decaff coffee to drink.

Lunch - some tomahawk steak with cucumber and tomato and mayo and spring onion and horseradish sauce.

Supper - Some more of the steak with three tiny new potatoes from the garden, 2 strawberries and yoghurt and a very small glass of whole milk to see if I still like it because I haven't drunk milk for years - I do.

Drank sparkling water, decaff tea and decaff coffee

Blood sugars at 6.7 2 hours after eating.

Pictured the tomahawk steak. My husband and I shared half of it for lunch and then a quarter of it for supper and we'll finish it tomorrow. It was 1.37kg!!! It was a special treat but our butcher does them for £15.00 so given we will have got six very nice meals out of it I think it isn't too terrible once in a while. Certainly better value than a take away and much better for me.

 

[Toucan]

I'm back on the shakes for dinner after being ill all day. I feel so bad I don't even want to eat so that's okay. All self-inflicted and undeserving of pity, I'm a daft numpty and really am digging my grave with my spoon. I wish I could be like Mum, she never overeats! Her only vice was the drink but that stopped once she was on Warfarin years ago. They should have Warfarin for food and put me off.

Ahh - please try not to be so hard on yourself @Ditto. There are many reasons why we do things, and often they are beyond reason to control. What's done is done, and just try to remember all the good and positive things you are doing to help yourself, and well done on getting back on to drinking your shakes. Onwards and forwards!

I hope you have enjoyed the sunshine today.
I have just come back from a lovely weekend staying on our narrowboat, and cooking facilities are a bit limited, but the advantage is there is no additional food around to be tempted by.

So yesterday was:
Breakfast: Bacon, egg and mushrooms
Lunch: Smoked salmon and soft cheese rolls with lettuce. Glass of white wine
Snack: Melba toast with soft cheese
Supper: Pork chipolatas and tomatoes. Another glass of white wine!

 

[SB2015]

Just had black bean pasta, spiralised beetroot and onion, kale cooked with garlic topped with roasted chicken thigh. Mmmmmm 20g carbs in total.

Should have posted this tomorrow but too yummy to wait till then.

 

[grovesy]

I am so jealous of that chop and the narrowboat.

Rubbish eating day today, I'm doolallytap. Why can't I be normal like you lot?

You are honest don't beat your self up.