What did you eat yesterday?

[Kaylz]

high carb?

Which brand was it Jan and was it just plain? I had a quick look on Morrison's and the highest I saw was 3.3g carbs per 100g product so I wouldn't exactly class it as high carb! xx

 

[Lucyr]

Yesterday I had
B: milky coffee
L: ham salad roll with hula hoop puft (39 carb)
S: tea and homemade biscuit (23 carb)
D: sausage and sweet potato traybake (onion, peppers, sweet potato, sausages, garlic, 49 carb)
S: yoghurt, homemade biscuit.

bgs were on the high side before breakfast and lunch at 9.5 and 8.0, I like skipping breakfast if I don’t wake up that hungry as it’s my least hungry time of day. But corrections don’t really work as well if I don’t eat.

 

[Leadinglights]

B: Greek yoghurt with blueberries scattering lizzi's low sugar granola
L: homemade Chicken and courgette soup, ryvita thin, ham, brie, celery, 2 cherry toms, half pear.
D: chicken and veg stir fry with faijita spices, potato salad, Kvarg quark white choc desert (150g pot is 5g carb)
Drinks: same old, same old.

 

[DenverM]

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[Kaylz]

Yesterday
B - same as always
D - wholemeal spicy chorizo sandwich, cadbury's raspberry mini roll and a pint of water
mug of cafetiere coffee
T - smoked basa, baby potatoes, steamed broccoli and 2 squares Lidl's 95% chocolate, pint of water
mug of coffee
bedtime - 4 oaties and half a pint of water

Today
3 Lift's
B - same as always
D - wholemeal German salami sandwich with some chilli cheese sauce (would not recommend, the stuff is watery as and can't taste even a hint of cheese! ) PB chunky kit kat and a pint of water
mug of cafetiere coffee
T - mozzarella and spring onion stuffed chicken breast wrapped in prosciutto, baby potatoes, roasted sprouts and 1 square Lidl's 95% chocolate, pint of water
mug of coffee
Will i need biscuits? How many?
xx

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

I've been having some extraordinarily yummy "Naughty" meals lately

I've also accidentally been intermittent fasting due to sleeping late and forgetting to have breakfast.

Brunch:
Two poached eggs with butter croutons made with my keto white bread crusts.
Leerdammer cheese puffs made by blitzing squares of Leerdammer slices in my halogen until they puffed up and went crunchy.

Evening meal:
Keto Buffalo Wings with a cream cheese & mayo dip.

Keto crisps with a hot sauce dip.

Very simple to make and pretty inexpensive too.
Buffalo wings were made with frozen chicken wings from Tesco. I used six of them for my splurge.
I thawed them in the fridge overnight and then ignored all the internet recipes that told me to rub baking powder into them to make them crisp up because it sounded awful and it involved waiting and patting it with paper towels and I have no patience for fiddling about or wasting paper towels. Thawing out is as much waiting about I am prepared to do for a simple recipe.
I then bunged them into my halogen oven for 20 minutes at 200C in the air fryer basket I got over Christmas until they were crispy.
Meanwhile I melted a tablespoon of butter in my microwave together with a tablespoon of Franks Buffalo Wings Hot Sauce.
Then I rolled the cooked buffalo wings in the sauce and put them back in the halogen until the crisped up again.
I made the dip by mixing a tablespoon of cream cheese with a tablespoon of mayonnaise (Hellmans Organic Mayonnaise) and a chopped gherkin and some dried dill and a puff of garlic powder.
Done.
The crisps are just a made by peeling very thin transparent strips off a celeriac with a sharp peeler. Then shallow fried in extra virgin olive oil until they go like autumn leaves. Served with a dip of Franks hot sauce. I discovered Franks hot sauce this week and I am hooked!

I've done an hour of exercise so far and I am about to do a little bit more. But just some gentle table tennis so I don't get over stimulated before bedtime.

 

[Ditto]

Which brand was it Jan and was it just plain? I had a quick look on Morrison's and the highest I saw was 3.3g carbs per 100g product so I wouldn't exactly class it as high carb! xx

Well shoot! I meant to buy a pot today @Kaylz so I could get the name and then forgot as I was busy shopping for family and stuff. I eat it all the time but can't remember, I have no memory now, so annoying. Will buy one tomorrow. 🙂 Good excuse to pig on the whole tub one last time because if it's high carb I'll have to give it up.

I've just discovered the quote feature is a 'toggle' switch so if you make a mistake you just click it back off. Very handy. You learn something everyday. Very satisfying. 🙂

Luv the foodie photos @NotWorriedAtAll I wish I could cook. I watched a bit of the Doctors today and one guy told this other guy that he didn't cook he said "You zap." Heh! Really tickled me, that's what I do. I zap stuff just to make it edible. My pancakes were a disaster and not worth the bg rise.

Weight 14 9.2 Tum 49 1/2
Not long after getting up - 7.7 @ 8.57 / pint water / Nescafe
Brunch @ 12: 3 hard boiled eggs / pint water with meds / 7.1 @ 15.38
Dinner @ 4: large can tuna with mayo and a bag of Brussels sprouts (boiled) / pint water / 6.1 @ 23.13

This is what I consider a 'good' day. I will never be able to get over the thinking of bad / good food and bad / good eating. It's just one of those things. I will just try not to inflict myself on other people. I made my mother take me to the doc when I was about 12 to get diet pills and he said if she could just not eat for a week...

I never did that diet neither, or took the pills, the only thing in my life where I've been consistent is failure. I never fail at that. I'm gonna do it this year though, how hard can it be to lose two pounds a week. Agh I'm failing already. Good grief.

 

[Newbie777]

B- usual
L- grilled salmon with salad
T - cauliflower curry with salad
No more supper; morning reads are over 6.0

Snacks- Walnuts, full fat greek yogurt with 10 blueberries.
Lidl Wensleydale cheese, less than 1g per 100g, fantastic!

 

[Kaylz]

Well shoot! I meant to buy a pot today @Kaylz so I could get the name and then forgot as I was busy shopping for family and stuff. I eat it all the time but can't remember, I have no memory now, so annoying. Will buy one tomorrow. 🙂 Good excuse to pig on the whole tub one last time because if it's high carb I'll have to give it up.

I won't buy anything unless I check the carbs and find it "suitable" for me lol, I don't think it's anything to do with the carbs though, I googled Atkins and it said something about avoiding most dairy apart from blah, blah, blah, sorry I'm not being rude with the blah parts just I can't remember exactly what they were and as I'm not following it it clearly just didn't stick in my head lol xx

 

[Kaylz]

@Newbie777 sorry to be rude here but you may want to go canny on the cheese consumption, you mentioned that you didn't want many eggs due to it aiding constipation, cheese can have exactly the same effect unfortunately xx

 

[Leadinglights]

B: toasted cheese on skinny toast with poached egg
L: ryvita thin, ham, pate, bit cheese, celery, pickled red cabbage, half an apple
D: lamb chop tray bake with courgette, mushrooms, onion, broccolli, mixed berries and cream
Drinks as usual

 

[Inka]

B - my usual granola, bran flakes and milk

L - cheese and tomato sandwich with a few crisps and a large pear

Snack - cereal bar

Evening - sardines, baked potato, broccoli, carrots, then one pancake with half of it spread with golden syrup, half Nutella

Yummy! And due to careful bolus juggling my blood sugar stayed in range 🙂

 

[Kaylz]

@Inka what granola do you use if you don't mind me asking? Looking to change from porridge and I used to use Dorset's Honey one but it's really out of my price range now xx

 

[Inka]

I swap round a bit @Kaylz but I’m really fond of my current one and so have had only that for a few months now. It’s Jordan’s Super Berry Granola:

https://jordanscereals.co.uk/products/super-berry-granola

Full price it’s something like £3.90 but is often on offer at Tesco, etc, for £2.50-£3. I’ve found cheap granolas aren’t worth it because they’re short on fruit and just yucky. This one has plenty of added berries of a proper size and is really tasty IMO.

 

[Inka]

If you’re on a budget, maybe you could have it with some other cereal like I do? That would ‘dilute the cost’.

 

[Kaylz]

@Inka sounds lovely but sadly only have a Lidl available at the moment, due to unforeseen circumstances budget will be little or nothing so Morrison's orders are going to have to stop and MIL is off her feet just now so can't get her to get anything, thanks though! 🙂 xx

 

[Ditto]

@Kaylz the cottage cheese is Longley Farm, I have the entire carton. There is an info panel on the side but I can never make head nor tail of anything like that. I hope to goodness I'm too old to get type 1, I'd never be able to do what y'all do, in fact I dunno how you do it! Admirable.

Weight 14 9.8 Tum 50
Not long after getting up - 7.2 @ 5.35 / pint water / Nescafe
Brunch: pkt mushrooms, 2 rashers bacon, 2 fried eggs, 2 large tomatoes / pint water with meds / Nescafe
Dinner @ 4: 2 Aunt Bessie's pancakes with honey and lemon / pint water / 9.7 on going to bed

 

[silentsquirrel]

@Inka sounds lovely but sadly only have a Lidl available at the moment, due to unforeseen circumstances budget will be little or nothing so Morrison's orders are going to have to stop and MIL is off her feet just now so can't get her to get anything, thanks though! 🙂 xx

I quite like Lidl's Deluxe Super Nutty, though not had it for a while. I think they also do a Super Berry one but I have not tried that.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

@Kaylz the cottage cheese is Longley Farm, I have the entire carton. There is an info panel on the side but I can never make head nor tail of anything like that.

If you have the natural cottage cheese it is 5.5g carbs for the whole tub. If it is the low fat it is just under 10g carbs for the whole tub - assuming you have the 250g tubs.

Although the low fat tub is lower calories it is likely to not fill you up as well as the lower carb higher fat one plus it has almost twice as many carbs. If I were you I'd stick with having the natural Longley farm one and not worry about eating the whole tub but factor it in to your day's 'allowance' and then you can enjoy it without worrying. xx

 

[Ditto]

I never have low fat anything, absolutely vile especially the cottage cheese. I bought it once by mistake. I went ill after today's cottage cheese with chives, dunno if it was a coincidence, I'm still not that good now, all shaky and stuff like I get if I eat bread. I felt that bad I did my bg, it was 9.3 an hour after eating. Dunno if that's good or bad really. It's supposed to rise by 2 isn't it? I don't have a days' allowance, I can't count. I just hope for the best.