What did you eat yesterday?

[Gwynn]

Ohhh a prawn mayo sandwhich. I haven't had one of those in over a year. I just love them. Best one I ever had was in Oban.

Its not the carbs that gave me trouble (I think) but the bread. Over the years eating bread seems to have upset my tummy.

However I may experiment with a prawn sandwich from M&S in the near future to see what happens now that my BG seems to be under control.

 

[Ditto]

@rebrascora spot on I'd say. 🙂 Sounds very sensible. I need to take note. I have had my breakfast SlimFast at 7 and now I'm craving and miserable and wanting to eat eat eat.

@Gwynn I think bread is poison, it makes me very ill and I can't stop eating it. My heart beats almost out of my chest, yet I reach for more.

 

[Molly M]

I had lamb with cabbage and mashed veggies

 

[Eddy Edson]

Doing my infrequent check-in here, to record sod-all change in boring eating pattern 🙂

B'fast: Bowl with rockmelon (cantaloupe), strawberries, walnuts, crumbled piece of pumpernickel, lots of fresh lemon juice. Yum! Large soy flat white + 25g chia seeds.

Lunch: A carrot. Medium soy flat white + 25g chia seeds.

Dinner: Bowl with 100g edamame, one avocado, baby spinach, snap peas, third of a pear, raspberries, lots of lemon juice.

Grazing: Too many amonds, couple of ryvitas.

 

[goodybags]

Monday
B - 1 Slice of Toast Buttered with marmite & 1/2 Apple
L - Sandwhich Sandwich Cheese & Salad Mountain
(Thinly Sliced Mature Cheese, Buttered Bread, 1 Tomato Thinly Slice, Loads of Cucumbe, Chia Seeds, Several Lettuce Leaves & Mayo)
Snack Fruit-Nut Bar
1 Small pack of crinkly cheese & onion cheddars & 1/2 Apple
D - Lamb & Rice Grains (Rice was a mixture of Thai Brown Rice,Pearl Barley & Quinoa) ate half a portion so other will be for my dinner tonight.

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Sun 1/8
Breakfast 2 rounds of warburtons medium white sliced toast
Lunch batchelors oxtail cup a soup, sandwich, 1x 2 finger kit kat
Tea Morrisons Cottage Pie

Mon 2/8
Breakfast toast - must get some sausages!
Lunch sandwich, 1x 2 finger kit kat
Tea

 

[pearlzo436]

It can be helpful sometimes to know what sort of things people are eating, as it might give some ideas for a more varied diet. So, I'll start off with what I ate yesterday:

Breakfast - 1 slice buttered Burgen toast (my breakfast every day, I don't like to run with too much in my stomach)

Lunch - two soft-boiled eggs, two slices of buttered Burgen toast soldiers 🙂 Activia yoghurt

Evening meal - home-made spaghetti bolognese and a bounty bar.

I also nibbled on chilli-dusted peanuts through the evening.

 

[Leadinglights]

B: Greek yoghurt, blueberries, granola
L: cooked meat, cheese, ryvita, tomato, coleslaw, half apple
D: chicken, satay sauce, green beans, cabbage, half roll, apple and blackberry crumble and cream

 

[rebrascora]

B. Usual coffee with cream. Greek natural yoghurt with stewed homegrown apricots (just 2 dessert spoons) mixed seeds and a sprinkle of nutty granola.

L. Had a packet of pork scratchings at lunchtime and a half a square of 75% dark choc with a teaspoon of crunchy peanut butter

D. Chicken soup followed by Aberdeen Angus quarter pound burger with fried mushrooms served with a huge plate of salad and a big dollop of cheese coleslaw. Half a glass of port with a snall piece of Gruyere cheese.

 

[PattiEvans]

Sunday (skipped breakfast as usual)
Lunch: Bacon and avocado sandwich on 2 slices burgen
Dinner: Roast beef, 3 small roast potatoes and 2 roast parsnip bits, green beans & sugar snaps, gravy and a small home made Yorkshire pud.

Monday
Lunch: 2 soft boiled eggs with 2 slices of buttered toast (my last slice of Burgen + a slice of Nimble)
Dinner: Left over roast beef, freshly roasted potatoes & parsnips, peas, gravy, only enough batter for 1 Yorkshire pud, so we shared it.

Tuesday
Lunch: Corned beef sandwich with a dollop of fig chutney on 2 slices Nimble
Dinner: Lettuce and pea sprouts with home made blue cheese dressing 1 tbs cous cous, small helping home made potato salad with dill, cucumber, tomato, creamy coleslaw. Morrison's scotch beef burger with half a toasted burger bun. Fruit platter (raspberries, cherries, strawberries, blueberries and half a peach.)

Today
Breakfast: 1 tbspoon Greek yoghurt
Lunch: Tinned red salmon with similar salad to last night.
Dinner will be chicken breast stuffed with blue cheese and wrapped in parma ham with Mediterranean roast veggies with balsamic dressing.

Most evening meals include a glass of red or white wine.

Early on when I was diagnosed and put onto horrible mixed insulin I was sent to the dietitian who told me to base 60% of my meals on carbs!!!! I went from just over 8 stone to 11st5lbs. I'd never stuffed myself with carbs and I hated it! Got myself off mixed insulin and onto basal bolus, but it's taken a long time to lose the weight (19 years!). Whilst I wouldn't call my diet strict low carb, I do try to limit carbs a bit so (like @rebrascora ) I can keep insulin doses low.

 

[goodybags]

Friday
B - 2 Egg Omelette (Onion,Sweetcorn, Chopped Celery, & Cheddar Cheese) served with 2 sliced Baby Cherry Tomatoes, I could only eat about half of it and was full
L - Sandwich FORGOT THE HAM SO IT WAS JUST A SALAD SANDWICH 😱
Mountain of Salad (Beetroot Leaves, Thinly Sliced Gherkin, Finely Sliced Radishes & Baby Tomatoes Mayo’ & Chia Seeds) - 2 Slices of Allinson’s lower carb no sugar wholemeal bread
D - Ham & Wholegrain Mustard Sandwich, Apple
Home Made Bread 🙂 Recipe from Tom Kerridge Dopamine Diet Book)


My 1st attempt at baking the Tom Kerridge Almond Soda Bread Today (had time as off work on a few days holiday)
Sending a BIG THANK YOU to @adrian1der for suggesting I try it.
I’m tempted to use some and bake the Blueberry Bread & Butter Pudding (from the same book)

The bread I thought was quite good, ok not the same as “Normal Bread” overall was quite impressed with the result, but hey @ 2g carbs per slice much better than the Warburtons loaf I’ve been buying (9g carbs per slice)

was wondering does this bread Freeze well ?

 

[trophywench]

I need no reason to make bread & butter pudding - love it, and a good way of eating multiple eggs!

 

[PattiEvans]

I need no reason to make bread & butter pudding - love it, and a good way of eating multiple eggs!

Jenny, try making it with a brioche loaf (or buns) and lemon curd... throw a few blueberries in. Comes up like a souffle, light as a feather!

 

[Grldtnr]

For is tea , I had 3 slices of Pilchards on toast,wanged some coleslaw on the plate, and a few Salad leaves, maybe the bread was a bit much, but I hadn't had lunch.
Been awhile since I had Pilchards, a good shake of balsamic vinegar on top.
Delish! It was just a craving, so went for it.
Finished the tin of for brekkie, the fish, not the tin, I'm not Metal Mickey!

 

[trophywench]

Jenny, try making it with a brioche loaf (or buns) and lemon curd... throw a few blueberries in. Comes up like a souffle, light as a feather!

ROFLMAO Mrs E!

First discovered by someone or another you happen to know, whilst staying in her motorhome in France with instant access to half a Harry's Brioche Tranchee and 3 eggs they'd brought from home X weeks ago so needed using, using the remains of a jar of marmalade to glue the slices together.

Years before you could get even an unsliced brioche in a normal UK supermarket - let alone a ready sliced one!

 

[trophywench]

PS Anyone's brioche tranchee toasts fantastically fast and well and of course since it's sweet anyway, only needs literally half a teaspoon of jam, marmalade etc spread upon it to transport me into raptures!

 

[Leadinglights]

Leftover Panettone if there ever is any makes good B&B pudding.
I got approval from my OH 's Dad as I made a good Bread and Butter pudding. Apparently it was his forte for whenever my OH's Mum went in to have yet another baby.

 

[PattiEvans]

ROFLMAO Mrs E!

First discovered by someone or another you happen to know, whilst staying in her motorhome in France with instant access to half a Harry's Brioche Tranchee and 3 eggs they'd brought from home X weeks ago so needed using, using the remains of a jar of marmalade to glue the slices together.

Years before you could get even an unsliced brioche in a normal UK supermarket - let alone a ready sliced one!

Oh! Great minds think alike... you discovered it in France, I got it out of Delicious magazine (or Good Food - can't recall!)

 

[PattiEvans]

Leftover Panettone if there ever is any makes good B&B pudding.
I got approval from my OH 's Dad as I made a good Bread and Butter pudding. Apparently it was his forte for whenever my OH's Mum went in to have yet another baby.

Panettone and chilli chocolate B&B pud is divine, if not very BG friendly! I really only make puddings when we entertain, but when Morrison's sent me croissants instead of something else I'd ordered I made a lovely B&B pud out of them and some of my home made bitter marmalade.

Incidentally, how many babies did she have?

 

[Leadinglights]

Panettone and chilli chocolate B&B pud is divine, if not very BG friendly! I really only make puddings when we entertain, but when Morrison's sent me croissants instead of something else I'd ordered I made a lovely B&B pud out of them and some of my home made bitter marmalade.

Incidentally, how many babies did she have?

4 after my OH, 1 before. born in Rhodesia as was.