What did you eat yesterday?

[Philomena]

Will give the almond flour fries a try next time then! Had some coconut flour sitting in the cupboard for ages and didn’t know what to do with it...
I love ‘Heavenly Fan’! Even though I’m not vegan and I do low carb and not Keto now she always comes up with some great creations.

 

[Minky]

Felt I needed a sweet taste. Made a loaf on Tuesday when ran out of bread. Tempted by thoughts of jam sandwich. Nibbled a carrot instead.

 

[ConfusedCraig]

My 200g portion was 24g carb according to the nutrition info, so surely not enough to spike me that much? Ah, but I had the two end slices from a Hovis Lower Carb loaf with it so add in another 19.8g and it's up into the 40s. That'll teach me, then.

I am lucky. Ate a 52g carb dinner last night, salad, quorn fillets, chick peas and regular peas, all boiled in heavily spiced water so they soaked up the flavour. 4.7 1hr before, 7.8 1 hour after, 4.6 2 hours after .

 

[Kaylz]

Mac&Cheese.

Oh your brave, that's a lot of carbs xx

 

[Kaylz]

It is? Heck. I did check the label but thought well as it's the only meal apart from two hard boiled eggs it would be okay? Agh, do I have to do yet another rethink? I should have measured then, but it's such a chore trying to get any blood out.

which brand was it? If you must eat higher carb then I wouldn't eat them all in one meal and especially pasta, not many can tolerate it xx

 

[Kaylz]

It was a Chef's Classics, cheap as chips and I was quite pleased because I'm on a strict budget at the minute after overspending this year. Darn it. Another good idea up the swanee no doubt. 🙄 I'm sure I read it was 39carbs but maybe not.

Plus I wasn't tempted to eat Mum's as I was full up. Gave it to the birds.

just had a quick google and their website states its 55g carb per pack, I wouldn't eat pasta at all but then again I stick to around 30g carbs for tea even as a Type 1 xx

 

[ConfusedCraig]

Housemate was going to get a chippy dinner yesterday as he really likes the chippy. I decided I'd get a chips meal as a really high carb thing to see what it does to my blood sugar. I ordered a "regular" portion of chips, 3 sausages (I thought the regular portion was going to be small) and a cup of curry. Regular portion was 600 grams of chips!!

Ate all of it anyway as it's an experiment. ~2000 calories and ~200-300 carbs in that one meal. 1 hour prior BG was 4.5, one hour post 9.4, two hours post 9.0, three hours post 5.5.

I was expecting ~300 carbs to hit harder than that. That being said don't think I'll ever eat a portion again. Too many calories for what it is.

 

[Toucan]

Hi Craig
Yes, it can be hard to resist what we used to enjoy, particularly if someone else around is eating it! Good to hear that you are thinking of it as just a 'once-off' though. The 80/20 rule - i.e. if we stick to something for 80% of the time it will be good. It's the getting back to your 'normal' again quickly that is important, and you sound well in control of that.

'Fish and chips Friday' has been a regular for me for years, and it still is. BUT the fish is now cooked without any batter, and the chips are made from celeriac, and the peas aren't mushy any more.
Still very tasty and on the menu for tonight

 

[ConfusedCraig]

Yes, it can be hard to resist what we used to enjoy,

Not about resistance really just an experiment. Never much liked chippy chips (or chips in general), curry makes them edible but I'd pass. McDonalds fries though I could eat by the bucket load which I don't really understand since I don't like chips. I assume they're full of sugar or something.

 

[Kaylz]

Not about resistance really just an experiment. Never much liked chippy chips (or chips in general), curry makes them edible but I'd pass. McDonalds fries though I could eat by the bucket load which I don't really understand since I don't like chips. I assume they're full of sugar or something.

At the beginning of the tatty season they do add dextrose to their fries but a medium only contains 1g sugars so no different to the amount as when they don't require dextrose adding xx

 

[ConfusedCraig]

At the beginning of the tatty season they do add dextrose to their fries but a medium only contains 1g sugars so no different to the amount as when they don't require dextrose adding xx

I wonder why they taste so nice then. I have never had fries that taste as nice as McDonalds fries. Even other fast food places fries aren't quite as nice.

Maybe it is just all in my head...

 

[Kaylz]

Nah, there'll be something in them.

There isn't bar the small amount of dextrose used at the beginning of the potato season, I did the research myself

Celeriac chips! Good grief if it ain't the real thing I'd rather go without.

Most of us try to avoid spikes and don't tolerate them well so would quite happily find a substitute, and me for one certainly tries to avoid spikes after having really strict control and already having 2 eye complications xx

 

[Kaylz]

@Ditto I have no option, with 2 eye complications already I can't risk straying with my levels, I want to be around to start a family and have a life with Bruce, the only way to achieve that is limit my exposure to swinging BG levels, I never used to be this way, before I was diagnosed I'd come home (often after not eating the whole day even though I'd been working) have my tea then pig on utter crap and drink booze but living like that wasn't going to achieve anything, I wish I could comfort eat as I'm also struggling to make it through each day and don't want to get up in the mornings as there's nothing to look forward to, just another day of stress, anxiety and cleaning things and washing my hands but I can't as its not worth the damage it could do xx

 

[ConfusedCraig]

I think I'd rather just give things up, like not having any biscuits if I can't have the whole packet. That is my trouble, greedy and want the lot.

That's the problem I have too. Yes or No are easy, but moderation is the difficult part because I end up having a little bit more than I should, then a little bit more after that and a little bit more after that until I am eating too much.

I am actually finding keeping an (as much as is possible) calorie accurate food diary helps with this. I have some habanero chilli peanuts as a snack stockpile that I would love to eat whole packs of for example but knowing that I will have to put it in the diary and it won't just be forgotten is helping me ration it out (eating a third of a pack a day at most).

But it's an individual thing. I have gained and then lost a load of weight 3 times in my life and I find that when you lose the weight it's not really something you force yourself to do just a switch kind of flicks in your head and then you're fine eating far less. The problem for me is that I am very nervous and habitually comfort eat. Once I lose the weight I end up giving in to a bit of comfort eating when I am feeling down (as what's the harm?) but then that little bit of comfort eating becomes 10+ inches on the waistband overnight :?

 

[grovesy]

I need to get sensible like y'all. I will tomorrow. Always tomorrow. Maybe from teatime today then... good grief, I'm pathetic. I'm watching wall to wall fat programmes in an effort to be motivated, it works a bit. They just had somebody on whose parents died horrific deaths due to diabetes, he said his Dad basically ended up a torso. I watch stuff like this and carry on regardless. 🙄

Kaylz I think you do great and you're an inspiration. Craig I hope you were joking about ten inches on overnight heh!

I keep on telling you we are not all what you call sensible, as you say. I fall off the wagon at times.
We don't all do ultra low carb.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

More chips experiments. Coconut flour ones this time.
My first plate full of fish and chips for over a year!
This whole plate is about 15g of carbs and my blood sugar before was 6.1 and after was 6.1 and an hour later 6.4


My non diabetic husband had the same and he agrees with me that these 'chips' are nicer than potato ones.
This really is easy Ditto.
You just mix (for one person) 25g of coconut flour with one and a half teaspoons of xanthan gum and then four or five tablespoons of warm water and then smoosh it together until it comes together in a ball. Then let it sit for ten minutes and then oil a rolling pin (or bottle if you haven't a pin or you could just flatten it with your hands) and then roll it out very thin (like you would a pastry for a pie) on a piece of non-stick something or an oiled glass surface then cut it into strips (oil a knife or use a plastic pastry thingy and just press it out) you can either shallow fry in olive oil or oven cook them like oven chips.

The portion you see there is just under the amount you'd get for 25g of coconut flour. I made double that and shared with my husband. But even if you ate the full 50g yield - it would only be 28g carbs which is still low carb if you have it with a couple of fried eggs or fish wrapped in bacon.

I just wrapped the frozen chunk of fish with a single rasher of streaky bacon and cooked it at 175C in the oven for around 30 minutes.

 

[rebrascora]

@NotWorriedAtAll You are such an absolute inspiration!
I am frightened of cooking fish because it is not something I have ever done much of. I will pan fry salmon or very occasionally sea bass in butter but I have such a mental block about it, I really find it hard to motivate myself every time. Maybe I should commit to having fish every other day for a fortnight and practice will make me more confident to keep doing it. Would never have thought to wrap frozen fish in bacon and oven bake. I might pluck up the courage to try this.
Pleased you posted a recipe using coconut flour instead of almond (as you may know I have reservations about almond farming) Is it possible to buy xanthan gum in the supermarket or will I have to source it online?

 

[Kaylz]

I'll do yesterday's and todays seen as I know what's to come later so

Yesterday
B - oats made with unsweetened almond milk and crunchy peanut butter, mug of coffee
D - wholemeal spicy chorizo sandwich, chunky peanut butter kit kat and a pint of water
T - mince in oxo with mushrooms and an egg cooked in, baby potatoes, steamed broccoli and a knob of butter on the plate, 1 square Lidl 95% chocolate and a pint of blueberry & blackberry diluting
mug of coffee
1 and a half digestives and about a quarter of a hobnob that was left in the tub

Today
B - oats made with unsweetened almond milk and limited edition gingerbread flavour almond butter, mug of coffee
D - samw sandwich but a raspberry cake bar instead of the kit kat, pint of water
T will be - smoked basa fillet, baby potatoes, steamed cauliflower and then a bar of Moser Roth 85%, pint of blueberry & blackberry diluting
mug of coffee
hopefully (fingers crossed) some biscuits

Got a whole heap of cold meats to get through, currently have german salami, german peppered salami, danish salami, spicy chorizo and some tikka chicken slices, half came in the Morrison's order yesterday so will get Bruce to bring them up on Wednesday xx

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

@NotWorriedAtAll You are such an absolute inspiration!
I am frightened of cooking fish because it is not something I have ever done much of. I will pan fry salmon or very occasionally sea bass in butter but I have such a mental block about it, I really find it hard to motivate myself every time. Maybe I should commit to having fish every other day for a fortnight and practice will make me more confident to keep doing it. Would never have thought to wrap frozen fish in bacon and oven bake. I might pluck up the courage to try this.
Pleased you posted a recipe using coconut flour instead of almond (as you may know I have reservations about almond farming) Is it possible to buy xanthan gum in the supermarket or will I have to source it online?

I get xanthan gum off Amazon.

Special Ingredients Xanthan Gum 250g Premium Quality Extra Fine Vegan Friendly Gluten Free : Amazon.co.uk: Grocery

Special Ingredients Xanthan Gum 250g Premium Quality Extra Fine Vegan Friendly Gluten Free : Amazon.co.uk: Grocery

www.amazon.co.uk

This is the one I bought in May and I still have about 1/4 tub left and I've been using it a lot. It goes a long way. I think it is good value at around seven quid for 500g.
I buy organic vegan Spanish almond flour from Amazon as well as Spanish methods of production are kind to bees and use less water compared with the US methods.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

I made keto ginger cake for my birthday cake tomorrow and it smelled so wonderful and I haven't had ginger cake for years so we had a chunk each today!! No will power.

I've caved in and started buying Skinny Syrup and Skinny Sauces. I used the Skinny Syrup - Maple syrup instead of molasses in this recipe, swapped 'normal' flour out and swapped almond flour in, swapped demerara sugar out and swapped NKDLiving Brown erythritol sugar in, everything else I kept in the triple gingerbread recipe except I doubled the ground ginger amount and didn't use candied ginger - just the ground and grated fresh ginger root.
Four eggs, 50g of butter, 140g almond flour, 10g psyllium husk, 1/3cup maple skinny syrup, 2/3 cup brown erythritol, a splash of ginger wine (that was instead of water in the recipe) and Bob's your uncle.

It made a big cake. 😛 Smelled amazing.

I had four small frankfurters for breakfast with half a tomato and an egg and a king oyster mushroom. Tea to drink.

A packet of salami for lunch - 170g and a cup of coffee.

Chunk of ginger cake with extra thick cream and a squirt of Maple syrup (Skinny Syrup). The Skinny syrup has negligible carbs and tastes exactly like the Maple syrup I remember having as a kid with pancakes and ice cream at a local American Diner. So I'm in bliss. Had orange spice tea to drink.

Blood sugar 6.8 a couple of hours afterwards - I sneaked a spoonful of my husband's tinned chicken curry - which was only 3.8 carbs per 100. I hadn't realised that before - he's been having his tins because I thought they were high carb!! I shall sneak some of them from now on - it was yummy.