What did you eat yesterday?

[adrian1der]

Made a Malaysian Chicken Curry last night - very good it was too. I was a bit concerned about the coconut milk but seemed to be OK with my BG

 

[Kaylz]

Made a Malaysian Chicken Curry last night - very good it was too. I was a bit concerned about the coconut milk but seemed to be OK with my BG

Less carbs in tinned coconut milk than there is regular cows milk and also a lot more fat in it so I shouldn't have thought there would be that much of an issue anyway xx

 

[freesia]

Hey @Kaylz, i found this in Aldi today. Only 85p for a small jar

 

[Kaylz]

Hey @Kaylz, i found this in Aldi today. Only 85p for a small jar

Thanks, sounds lovely but I don't have an Aldi xx

 

[adrian1der]

Less carbs in tinned coconut milk than there is regular cows milk and also a lot more fat in it so I shouldn't have thought there would be that much of an issue anyway xx

Thanks - only be doing this a short while so still getting to know this stuff. I did check the carbs on the tin and was pleasantly surprised.

On a different note did Sloppy Joes tonight but with the mince mixture baked in halved peppers rather than bread rolls. Realy good and very filling. Not really missing carbs at all

 

[freesia]

On a different note did Sloppy Joes tonight but with the mince mixture baked in halved peppers rather than bread rolls. Realy good and very filling.

Sounds nice. Whats the recipe?

 

[grovesy]

What are Sloppy Joes?

 

[Kaylz]

@Ditto I think a serving of peanut butter is actually stated on jars as 15g, I just use 35g as I love it and it makes my carbs in my breakfast up to my total, I weigh mine in to small square tubs so it's ready to just plop into my porridge after I've heated it, quite easy to weigh if its a good quality thicker peanut butter, just dig a spoon into the jar and use a knife to push it off onto whatever your weighing it in, of course you could use your fingers to shove it off the spoon but my OCD doesn't allow for that lol, I could quite happily sit and eat a jar of it but bolusing for it would be tricky with the fat content, plus 700g peanut butter wouldn't do me much good and that's the size of the jars I have in at the moment haha xx

 

[Kaylz]

I have got to try that breakfast! Sounds yummy. How do you make your porridge, with what measurements? Or do you use those instant sachets? My mouth is watering...

I use 45g porridge oats (just Morrison's savers one at the moment), 180ml unsweetened Alpro almond milk, 5g Tesco cocoa powder bung it in the microwave for 1 minute 50 seconds in the morning and then plop my peanut butter in and spoon some of the hot porridge on top of it to melt it, instant sachets aren't the best as they are highly processed so would be likely to cause a more drastic spike in BG xx

 

[grovesy]

LOL

I was going to ask that @grovesy - what are Sloppy Joes?

I had a 'good' day yesterday imho. I have given up on all daft dieting fads and liquid shakes and general messing about. I am just trying to be 'normal.' Good luck with that I hear you say. I don't know what normal is! Anyways nowt in today, so my idea of normal for today is a coffee with dash whole milk and 2 rounds toast. I must be more organised. I don't know how I'm even still trying for today as I feel sick with stress, but it's like Dr Now says, the stress will always be there so suck it up!

In the future I am going to copy some of the menus on here I think, as they sound so scrummy. How much is a normal portion of peanut butter. I luvs the stuff but normally just eat the entire jar in one go. That is so not normal, even I know that. Is it 35g then? How do you measure it, how do you get it off the spoon!!?

Yesterday Sat 26th: Weight: 14stones 12.2pounds Tum: 50> for interest sake, I've given up trying to lose weight!
9.2 @ 5.26am not bad after an extremely piggy day before.
B: Pt Water with fibre / 2 Sausages, 3 slices Bacon, 2 Fried Eggs / Pt Water with meds inc. daily Aspirin
L: Pt Water / 2 Fried Eggs, 2 slices Bacon (it's all we had in!)
D: 1 Egg scrambled in Anchor butter, 4 Sausages, 2 small wholemeal Warburtons toasts with a ton of charred Garlics (our cooker has blown up and I'm using this one ring contraption and had the setting too high, but turned out all the charred stuff was rather delicious anyways). / Pt Water.

Glad you are feeling a bit better,take each day as it comes. Take care.

 

[Kaylz]

Today
B - porridge with cocoa powder and crunchy peanut butter, mug of coffee
D - wholemeal sandwich with a tin of John West chilli & garlic tuna, caramel cake bar and a pint of water
T - mince with mushrooms and an egg, baby potatoes, broccoli, 1 square Lidl 95% chocolate and a pint of blueberry & blackberry diluting
mug of coffee
xx

 

[adrian1der]

Sounds nice. Whats the recipe?

Preheat oven to 200 (180 fan). Fry off one diced onion and 500g of 5% fat mince until nearly brown. Add two crushed cloves of garlic and continue to fry until the mince is sealed. Add in 1 tsp of English mustard powder, 4 tbs Worcestershire sauce and 2 tbsp of red wine vinegar together with a tin of chopped tomatoes. Simmer for 20 minutes or so until the sauce is slightly reduced and thickened. Meanwhile cut 6 peppers in half lengthways. Try and split the green stem as they look better but it doesn't matter if the stem falls out. Remove the white pith and the seeds. Fill the peppers with the meat mixture, arrange on a baking tray and cover with reduced fat cheddar (or a cheese of your choice). Put in the oven and bake for 10-15 minutes. The cheese wants to be bubbling and starting to brown while the peppers should be slightly softened but still have a bit of bite. Serve. I find two halves pretty filling. It is nice with a salad - try a fresh tomato, basil and mozzarella salad dressed with balsamic vinegar and extra-virgin olive oil.

 

[adrian1der]

Preheat oven to 200 (180 fan). Fry off one diced onion and 500g of 5% fat mince until nearly brown. Add two crushed cloves of garlic and continue to fry until the mince is sealed. Add in 1 tsp of English mustard powder, 4 tbs Worcestershire sauce and 2 tbsp of red wine vinegar together with a tin of chopped tomatoes. Simmer for 20 minutes or so until the sauce is slightly reduced and thickened. Meanwhile cut 6 peppers in half lengthways. Try and split the green stem as they look better but it doesn't matter if the stem falls out. Remove the white pith and the seeds. Fill the peppers with the meat mixture, arrange on a baking tray and cover with reduced fat cheddar (or a cheese of your choice). Put in the oven and bake for 10-15 minutes. The cheese wants to be bubbling and starting to brown while the peppers should be slightly softened but still have a bit of bite. Serve. I find two halves pretty filling. It is nice with a salad - try a fresh tomato, basil and mozzarella salad dressed with balsamic vinegar and extra-virgin olive oil.

By the way, the mixture was original served in a hamburger bun. If you want to tray it that way, replace the tinned tomato with tomato puree. The recipe is based on one from a Pinch of Nom

 

[freesia]

Preheat oven to 200 (180 fan). Fry off one diced onion and 500g of 5% fat mince until nearly brown. Add two crushed cloves of garlic and continue to fry until the mince is sealed. Add in 1 tsp of English mustard powder, 4 tbs Worcestershire sauce and 2 tbsp of red wine vinegar together with a tin of chopped tomatoes. Simmer for 20 minutes or so until the sauce is slightly reduced and thickened. Meanwhile cut 6 peppers in half lengthways. Try and split the green stem as they look better but it doesn't matter if the stem falls out. Remove the white pith and the seeds. Fill the peppers with the meat mixture, arrange on a baking tray and cover with reduced fat cheddar (or a cheese of your choice). Put in the oven and bake for 10-15 minutes. The cheese wants to be bubbling and starting to brown while the peppers should be slightly softened but still have a bit of bite. Serve. I find two halves pretty filling. It is nice with a salad - try a fresh tomato, basil and mozzarella salad dressed with balsamic vinegar and extra-virgin olive oil.

Will be trying that. I do like the Pinch of Nom recipes

 

[pm133]

For breakfast most days I have 50g bran flakes with about 45 to 50g of either grapes or strawberries. Add 150ml semi skimmed milk. (50g carbs total)

For lunch most days I have a sandwich with 2 slices of bread, 2 slices of ham, 3 baby plum tomatoes which I half in two and a bit of mayo on either side of bread. Then I have a mugshot or 50g of pasta with a little sauce. 150ml of fresh orange juice with bits in. Finally, I have 50g of mixed nuts or salted/roasted nuts. (100g carbs total).

For dinner, I had a chicken en-croute from Aldi with 50g pasta and sauce and 100g of frozen veg. Then I have about 100g of strawberries or grapes with about 100ml of fresh double cream. (about 60g carbs total)

At around 10pm I will also have a 2-egg cheese omelette. Sometimes I'll have two of these during the day. I may also add another 50g of nuts or a couple of hard boiled rhubarb and custard sweets. (no more than another 10g carbs total)

On top of that I probably chug the thick end of three 500ml bottles of water and about 5 or 6 mugs of tea and/or coffee with a splash of milk (1/4 teaspoon of sugar in coffee).

So I'm probably looking at about 200g to 250g carbs on an average day with about 27-32 units of bolus to cover it and 22 basal overnight.

Once I get some weight back on (ideally another half stone) I'll cut back on the nuts.

This would be a typical day for me.

 

[adrian1der]

Will be trying that. I do like the Pinch of Nom recipes

Yes - I use Tom Kerridge (Loose Weight for Good and Fresh Start) and Pinch of Nom and Pinch of Nom Everyday Lights for most of my inspiration.

 

[grovesy]

Def gonna try that, I'll measure to see what it does to my bg. Will see what Mum thinks of it too sans peanut butter as she can't stand the smell. 🙂

Yesterday Sun 27th: Weight: 14stones 11.4pounds Tum: 49 1/2
7.0 @ 6.15am pleased with this. 🙂
B: Pt Water with fibre / 2 small Warburtons Wholemeal Toasts with Anchor, Nescafe with dash milk (nowt in!) / Pt Water with meds inc. daily Aspirin
L: Pt Water / Slices Processed Cheese, Pkt Processed Chicken on the hoof just to fill the void, was ravenous...
D: Nescafe with dash milk, Roast Pork dinner with all the trimmings good grief we use oval plates! 😳 / Pt Water.

That dinner was divine, but like a Christmas dinner. My last I think... forget all the cakes and sweeties, it's roast dinners that I miss. I suppose this was a terrible day but I'm calling it good. It was three meals and not one long mindless binge, I thought about it all before eating!

Is that the original Nescafe ? I drink Alta Rica Nescafe, was horrified to discover it Jacob Rhys-Moggs's favourite coffee last week! Never in this world did I think I had anything in common with him.

 

[Kaylz]

@Ditto Nescafe Original is our preferred coffee, mum got 2 jars at £4.50 each from the local shop and I bought 2 from Morrison's for £5 each so we're stocked for a while lol

Today
B - oats made with unsweetened almond milk, crunchy peanut butter and a mug of coffee (alternating what days I'll have cocoa powder I think)
D - wholemeal german peppered salami and garlic mayo sandwich, orange club biscuit (OMG YUM!) and a pint of water
T - mince and mushrooms with an egg, baby potatoes, steamed broccoli, 1 square Lidl 95% chocolate and a pint of blueberry & blackberry diluting
Just had another coffee
xx

 

[grovesy]

Back later, too ill to be bothered posting, mouth a balloon of infection, also got chest infection all scraped and a cough, plus my usual nasty liver ailments. Kill me now. Have a good day all.

Hope you feel better soon.

 

[Kaylz]

Yesterday
B - porridge made with unsweetened almond milk and peanut butter, mug of coffee
D - wholemeal german peppered salami and garlic mayo sandwich, mint club and a pint of water
T - 2 egg but 3 yolk (oh yes Aldi made me happy dealing another double yolker lol) king prawn, mozzarella and spring onion omelette, steamed broccoli and baby potatoes, bar Moser Roth 85% and a pint of blackberry & blueberry diluting
mug of coffee
3/4 of a digestive biscuit

Today
B - same as yesterday
D - same as yesterday but plain german salami and an orange club
T - smoked gammon steak, poached egg, baby potatoes, roasted broccoli, cauliflower and kale, wee drop of gravy then 1 square Lidl 95% chocolate and a pint of blackberry & blueberry diluting
Just away to settle down with another mug of coffee
xx