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What did you eat yesterday?

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Wednesday - not a day to copy!
B - Belvita breakfast biscuits
L - Carvery: Prawns, watery, with a slice of wholemeal bread and butter. Turkey, one roastie, cauliflower cheese, brussels, a little stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy (very thick!), one bite of a yorkshire pudding. Profiteroles - brought up with toffee sauce which I turned away, so I was given plain profiteroles (filled with cream, of course) as they has no chocolate sauce, Belgian or otherwise.... :( One vodka and Pepsi max and I didn't even finish that!
D - Fried cabbage and leek with an egg, just to get some protein and fat.
Later - Packet of baked crisps. One piece of 80% chocolate.
I can't remember if there was anything else, too sleepy.
 
  • Breakfast: half a thin pork sausage, one mushroom and one egg both fried in butter, one strong brewed coffee with a dollop of full fat cream.
  • Lunch: One split buttered thins (8gm carb) sandwich with lots of ham, some cheddar and hot mustard with one low-carb beer.
  • Dinner: home-cooked meatloaf with salad, followed by a couple of glasses of wine during the evening.
  • Dessert a couple of hours after dinner: a modest scoop of full fat ice cream.
 
B'fast: Big soy flat white + 25g chia seeds. Bowl with rockmelon (cantaloupe to you), strawberries, walnuts, crumbled up slice of pumpernickel, a whole lot of lemon juice.

Lunch: medium soy flat white + 25g chia seeds. 2x Vietnamese cold chicken rolls (rice paper, noodles, marinated & grilled chicken breast, carrot, cucumber, coriander, ditch the peanut sauce).

Dinner: Bowl with rockmelon, raspberries, blackberries, lots of lemon juice.

Grazing: Too many almonds; a couple of carrots; a couple of Ryvitas.

Just enough calories, 75g fibre, 100g protein, <5% of energy from satfats, lots of unsaturated, micronutrients in general A-OK. Carbs: Don't care.
 
Friday - not the best of days with feeling poorly, but all within my limits bar the fats, they went a tad over, but care I not about that 🙂
B - Belvita breakfast biscuits
L - Hovis biscuits 3, some "cheddar and caramalised onion" truckle cheese, with a few green seedless grapes
D - kipper fillets with butter, 1 piece cathedral city mini light cheese and a few more grapes
Extras throughout the day - skinny crunch bar, tiny pack of skinny choc chip mini cookies, packet of baked crisps and 2 small rich tea biscuits. 1 tea, 2 coffees and a Pepsi cherry max
 
B: Half Kvarg desert with strawberries and blueberries, scattering All Bran
L: ham, cheese, 1 ryvita thin, 2 poppy seed crackers, pickled cucumber, tomato. Half apple
D: cauliflower, squash, red pepper and halloumi curry, pickles, salad, slice bread. cherries and cream
 
Breakfast: Coffee
Lunch: Home made vegetable and bean soup made with home made bone broth. Little Greek Yoghurt with a few mixed unsalted nuts (not peanuts).
Dinner: Sardines and cream cheese on slice of toast with butter. sugar free jelly made with water and kefir.
 
Saturday
B - Belvita 30% less sugar breakfast biscuits
L - Nimble toasted sandwich of ham and grated cheddar/mozzarella mix, and a few green grapes
D - House special chow mein (son's birthday request), did not eat it all, left mainly the noodles
Snacks - 2 fingers dark choc KitKat and a skinny crunch bar
 
Yesterday Sunday 19th November...BG Levels at 2300 hrs were 11.2 ...not bad ... I usually try and keep away from noodles but yesterday was a cheat day. As usual I had upto 3 cups of black coffee...snack was 2 bananas and a beer

Breakfast - the very so lovely and gratifying cheese croissant 20210622_181828.jpg

Lunch - Extremely Spicy Noodles
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Dinner - Steak and gravy
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drink was -
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B: scrambled egg and smoked salmon, piece toast
L: home made veg soup, ham, cheese, 1 poppy seed cracker, bit of a roll, half apple
D: disappointing tough sirloin steak, coleslaw. salad. bit of roll, jelly with redcurrants and raspberries and cream
 
Sunday
B - Belvita 30% less sugar breakfast biscuits
L - Cathedral City mini light cheddar stick
D - Roast beef, gravy, 3 small roast potatoes, small amount of boiled carrot, whole green beans, cauliflower cheese, small yorkshire pudding and some horseradish Some vanilla greek yoghurt with 2 large strawberries
Other - Skinny crunch bar and the teeniest slither of son's birthday cake - barely a taste
 
B: Home-made mushroom gravy with a slice of 10gm carb toast, brewed coffee with a dollop of full fat cream.
L: Ham and cheese in a thins sandwich with low carb beer.
D: Half a grilled pork chop (the other half was for SWMBO), steamed carrots, green beans, half a boiled spud. A glass of Shiraz.
Dessert an hour later: A small chocolate eclair, another glass of Shiraz.
 
Yet another meal out with another Christmas dinner
 

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Monday
L - 4 sesame Ryvita's with a little Primula cheesespread with prawn. One chocolate éclair (to make up for the disastrous profiteroles at the carvery last week)
D - Wholemeal and Rye bagel thin, a little butter, 2 pork caramelized onion sausages and a dab of English mustard. Harvest Morn peanut better popcorn bar
Snacks - baked crisps and a skinny crunch bar
 
B: Greek yoghurt, blueberries, scattering All Bran
L: mackerel pate, piece toast, cucumber, peppers, cheese, Half apple
D: lamb and aubergine tray bake, celeriac, salad. jelly and cream
 
Low fat turkey sausage, mushroom, tomato, smoked bacon, dry fried egg, and potato waffles for breakfast.
Skipped lunch
Homemade "leftover" curry for dinner, - the rest of the sausages, diced, swede, carrot, parsnip, potato, mushroom, peppers, onions, garlic, tomato puree, the usual spices and herbs, and fat free yoghurt, with a pint of Hobgoblin.
Cheese and crackers.
 
B. Fibre drink followed by coffee with cream.

L. Ratatouille with mozzarella and puy lentils and sausages. Cup of tea with milk.
Took a ridiculous 7.5 units of insulin to keep me in range through the afternoon due to the few puy lentils in the ratatouille. Normally that meal without the lentils would be 3-4 units. Very frustrating but tasted yum!

D. Ham hock and egg salad from Lidl. Another cup of coffee with cream.
 
B: One cup serve of slow-cooked Texas Chili.
L: Ham and cheese in a thins sandwich with low carb beer.
D: Fried home-made battered barramundi fingers and a small serve of mixed potato and sweet potato chips with peas. A glass of Shiraz.
Dessert an hour later: A small chocolate eclair, another glass of Shiraz.
 
B: cheese on toast with poached egg
L: mackerel pate, 2 ryvita thins, cheese, cucumber, tomato, half apple
D: chicken Masala (Pinch of Nom), broad beans, small corn cob, jelly and cream.
 
Breakfast, McDonalds breakfast roll, hash brown, coffee. (Motorway services)
Lunch, cheese and ham toastie. (Luton airport)
Snack, turkey sandwich, bag of cheese and onion crisps, and water. (WH Smith's airport meal deal taken on the plane as they were late and didn't replace the food, but that was bread and pot noodles anyway)
Two beers. (Budapest, after a really weird transfer involving punctures, taxis, and general mayhem)
Wine and a meat pizza. (Budapest apartment at midnight).

What's not to love about travelling.
 
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