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Yesterday 23/10/21
B
Melted extra mature cheddar cheese on 2x rounds of warburtons medium white sliced toast - 36g of carbs
L
Tuna & cucumber sandwich on 2x rounds of warburtons medium white sliced 1x 2 finger milk chocolate (because I don't like dark chocolate) kit kat - 50g of carbs
T
Rump steak, tesco mash potato, tesco cauliflower cheese, tesco apple crumble - 89g of carbs
The vegan slow cooker chilli is ready and cooling. Ingredients onion, garlic, chopped tomato, carrot, butternut squash (only as it was reduced), mixed peppers, grated courgette, lentils, kidney beans, meatless farm mince (also very reduced!) and chilli seasoning.
Friday:
Brunch: Bowl of home-made carrot and ginger soup + a coulple of slices of sourdough part baked bread and butter.
Dinner: Outdoor bred pork sausage, mash (half and half potato and cauli), purple sprouted broccoli, sugar snap peas, sauteed courgette batons.
Saturday:
Brunch: 2 poached eggs on 2 slices of nimble (hate the nimble but need to use it up as it's taking space in the freezer)
Supper: Felt very tired and not hungry. Hubby felt the same so we had a selection of cold meats including 2 different salamis and some parma ham. Cheeseboard with some extremely ripe Camembert, Stilton, cheddar and something or other creamy and covered in herbs. About 4 slices of sourdough part baked baton.
Today:
Brunch: Bacon and Egg sandwich on Allinsons's Scandalously seeded bread.
Dinner tonight: Ham hock, ham gravy, carrots roasted with cumin seeds, braised baby leeks and gratin Dauphinoise made with cream and Gruyere.
That dinner sounds good Patti, hope you enjoyed it.
Next on my batch cooking for today was sausage casserole. I had one portion for tea with sweet potato mash and the other five portions will go in the freezer for weekdays. Ingredients were onion, garlic, stock, chopped tomatoes, peppers, parsnip, carrot, butternut squash, 9 sausages, small amount of lentils, tin of cannellini beans.
Had a bit of cheese on top as I was grating the cheese to keep in fridge ready for on the chilli, and you can’t grate cheese without eating some!
This week's menus: Saturday Steak Diane (Pinch of Nom Quick and Easy) Yesterday Roast Beef, Savoy cabbage, runner beans and Yorkshire Puddings for the family Today Turkey Ragu (Loose Weight for Good) Tomorrow Salt and Pepper Ribs (Pinch of Nom Web Site) Wednesday Creamy Garlic Chicken (Pinch of Nom) Thursday Donor Kebabs (Pinch of Nom) Friday Chicken Casserole (Loose Weight for Good)
OK so it's today but I didn't have anything interesting yesterday..... anyway just threw together a meal off the cuff and really enjoyed it....
Fried an onion with some yellow pepper and mushrooms, diced marrow (skin, flesh and seeds) and 4 cherry tomatoes quartered, added some garlic powder, dried herbs and a splash of white wine vinegar, salt and pepper, fried it until veg softened and then added some drained chick peas and stirred them in to warm through and then served that as a bed for a dollop of lamb bolognaise that I had made a few days ago to make moussaka and then used the aubergines for ratatouille instead, so it was sitting in the fridge waiting to be used. They worked surprisingly well together. Still waiting to see the BG impact. I tend to get more carbs out of chick peas than I should but I only used about a third of the can so we will see.... Will definitely be experimenting with this food combination again as really enjoyable.
B
Melted cheddar cheese on 2x rounds of warburtons medium white sliced toast
--- cheese 0g of carbs
--- toast 38g of carbs
L
Roast chicken sandwich on 2x rounds of warburtons medium white sliced bread
--- chicken 0g of carbs
--- bread 38g of carbs
T
McDonald's filet-o-fish, McDonald's fries
--- filet-o-fish 36g of carbs
--- fries medium 42g of carbs
Yesterday I had ;
Breakfast low sugar granola with alpro plain
Lunch Cheese and tomato toastie ( 2 slices of brown wholemeal ) done in a sandwich toaster.
Dinner 100% beef burger in wholemeal roll, coleslaw and a couple of onion rings pinched from my wife's plate.
Washed down with a couple of glasses of red wine.
Brunch - wilted baby spinach and a medium poached egg on one slice Nimble toast
Dinner - Keto Roast Pork with a fake BBQ flavour (meant to be a slow cooker recipe, but cooked in slow oven as forgot to put it on in morning), tiny amount of mash, plus mixed veggies (carrots, broccoli and cauliflower).
A small amount of Wall's soft scoop ice-cream with 3 chopped strawberries.
Yesterday I had:
B: Poached egg on wholemeal muffin
L: HM Chicken and sweetcorn soup
D: Cold ham, frozen mixed veggies, 2 new potatoes
S: Soda with a dash of lime
E: 55 mins Aquafit
It was a bit high on the carbs (muffin, sweetcorn, potatoes) and low on veggies, so I cut down today and had more veggies.
Today's delights were:
B: Poached egg, grilled bacon and mushrooms
L: Mackerel salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrot, red pepper)
D: Roast lamb, cauliflower mash, Brussels, carrots, mint gravy
S: Soda with a dash of lime
E: 45 mins Aquafit
Yesterday was hard diet wise because I walked to the hospital (2Hrs) and the appointment, getting home, etc messed up all of my normal routine timings and meals, BUT my wife offered me fish and chips when we got to the hospital which turned out to be very good and very appreciated.
Reworked my diet for the day in my App when I got home and all was good. AND my weight dropped a little by this morning. So everything worked out ok.
I think I may be cooking egg noodles, mushrooms and chicken this evening. Hmm a bit high in carbs at 47g all in, but that is ok and with the rest of the days meals which come out at 134g carbs, no problem. A bit higher carbs than I normally aim for.
Yesterday
B - 3 Nairn cheese oatcakes as we was going out
L - 3 lightly battered fishfingers, two chips and a little mayo
D - Hmm - cooked it but barely touched it - minted lamb steak, mashed mooli, mangetout, so ended up with one slice toasted Nimble with meridian almond butter and a little no-added-sugar strawberry jam, a pomegranate plus a mint & chocolate skinny crunch bar.
Monday
Brunch: roast beef and coleslaw sandwich on 2 slices Scandalously seeded bread.
Dinner: pork loin chop with 4 griddled apple slices, was a bit short of veg, so braised leek and courgette in Butter and chicken stock, with leftover dauphinoise potatoes from Sunday.
Tuesday
Brunch: 2 slices scandalous seeded, topped with melted cheddar mixed with worcestershire sauce.
Dinner: “sticky sausages”. Chipolatas roasted with chunks of Fennel, Aubergine, Courgette, red peppers and Padron peppers, then just before they were ready added some cherry tomatoes and slices of Chevre goat’s cheese. Topped off with a tbs of balsamic and a tbs of pomegranate molasses. Scrummy!
B: scrambled egg and smoke salmon on 1 slice toast
L: home made soup, 2 ryvita thins, cheese, cooked meat, half apple
D: sausages, mashed squash, broccoli with cheese sauce. berries and cream
B. Fibre drink in water with ACV and Balsamic. Coffee with milk (since I have sadly been out of cream the last 4 days)... really missed my little morning luxury!
Natural set yoghurt with berries, seeds, cinnamon and a sprinkle of nutty granola. approx.30g carbs
L. Lidl Spicy chicken and Mango salad approx. 10g carbs