What did you eat yesterday?

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I’m very recently diagnosed and so am keen to try to reverse the diagnosis as soon as I can. i have read a lot around the best way to do this and am on the 800 fast diet - for the first 2 weeks at least I am combining it with the 18/6 and am really surprised how easy I’m finding it. Any comments appreciated- I’m very new to this as I say!

yesterday I had
L - bacon, eggs, mushrooms and a few slices avocado
D - big bowl of green beans (buttered) with a salmon fillet, yoghurt with raspberries

today
L - 2 slices roast beef, more beans (they’re my favourite 🙂), yoghurt and raspberries
D - cold salmon with avocado and mayo. Few walnuts and a square of 70% chocolate

I'm drinking lots of fruit teas and water but just one mug of decaf coffee when I wake up

Does this sound as if I’m on the right track?
Thanks
 
B: Yoghurt, berries + coffee
L: Cauliflower fried rice with mushrooms, onions and egg.
D: Salmon with fennel, orange, onions and a large portion of cauliflower rice with garlic and tomatoes. Followed by a home made Banana muffin with Greek yoghurt.

Snack: 10g of Montezuma almond chocolate (100% cocoa). Plenty of almonds and some walnuts plus a cheeky bite of a cake.

Too much coffee!

Finger prick not been above 6 all day - with dinner, which was quite carb heavy, well over what I usually have, blood sugar didn't move before and two hours after after. Quite surprised by that. I have noticed in the afternoon/evenings it does seem to be lower, although I do drink a coffee in the morning and suspect this puts it up a little.
 
Sunday

L - Mini stick of cheddar mature and biscuits. Tea with 2 sugar free Marie biscuits
D - Roast beef, yorkshire pudding, 3 small roast potatoes, a little roast carrot, cauliflower cheese with cream and grated mixed cheese, lots of lovely spring greens with leek, gravy. Sugar free caramel coffee (decaf) with cream
Supper/Snacks - small bag of proper corn, skinny crunch bar, 2 breakfast biscuits.
Drinks - another s/f caramel coffee (decaf) with cream, water, a little more of the Pepsi max cherry (I like it flat)
 
Yesterday I had

Breakfast egg muffin

Lunch Chicken Kiev and small baked potato

Then the attempt to drown out illness in vitamins began

Dinner “Pizza stuffed chicken” with potato, carrot, sweet corn, broccoli and cabbage.
 
Mynxie said:
I’m very recently diagnosed and so am keen to try to reverse the diagnosis as soon as I can. i have read a lot around the best way to do this and am on the 800 fast diet - for the first 2 weeks at least I am combining it with the 18/6 and am really surprised how easy I’m finding it. Any comments appreciated- I’m very new to this as I say!

yesterday I had
L - bacon, eggs, mushrooms and a few slices avocado
D - big bowl of green beans (buttered) with a salmon fillet, yoghurt with raspberries

today
L - 2 slices roast beef, more beans (they’re my favourite 🙂), yoghurt and raspberries
D - cold salmon with avocado and mayo. Few walnuts and a square of 70% chocolate

I'm drinking lots of fruit teas and water but just one mug of decaf coffee when I wake up

Does this sound as if I’m on the right track?
Thanks
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looks okay to me. Good for you going into this straight away with determination. I did too when I had my diagnosis. I didn't count calories I just cut carbs and I reversed it pretty quickly and I've been under good control ever since.
 
B: piece toast with cheese and ham
L: scrambles egg on toast, half apple
D roast chicken, roast potatoes and parsnips, green beans, sugarfree jelly with berries and cream. glass red wine
 
Hi all,

I've not posted for ages but been popping in every now and then to see what's going on. I thought I'd post my tea yesterday because it was so yummy. I made shepherds pie with cheese topped cauli mash and green beans. The photo isn't the best but we both really enjoyed it. It was my first attempt at cauli mash and it was a success!
 

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Yesterday I cooked corned beef hash. Well technically corned beef brisket according to the recipe book but I think it’s just trying to be fancy. Wrote all the carbs on the book, 6 portions made at 15g carb per portion. I ate one and 5 went in the freezer for back to work lunches next week

I have a Covent Garden soups recipe book that I’ve never used before so I’m trying a few this week. Also on the list to try this week are leek & potato, and lentil & bacon
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b: greek yoghurt, blueberries, 10g granola
L: pate, ham, cheese, 3 oatcakes, gerkins, celery, half apple
D: roast chicken, creamed spinach, asparagus, slice bread. half Kvarg with seeds.
 
Lucyr said:
Yesterday I cooked corned beef hash. Well technically corned beef brisket according to the recipe book but I think it’s just trying to be fancy. Wrote all the carbs on the book, 6 portions made at 15g carb per portion. I ate one and 5 went in the freezer for back to work lunches next week

I have a Covent Garden soups recipe book that I’ve never used before so I’m trying a few this week. Also on the list to try this week are leek & potato, and lentil & bacon
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Corned beef hash to me is something fried in a frying pan, and dry.
 
grovesy said:
Corned beef hash to me is something fried in a frying pan, and dry.
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Interesting, I’ve only heard it to refer to a stew like consistency
 
Monday

B - one breakfast biscuit
L - 1 slice Schneider Brot protein bread with a squeeze of primula cheesespread with prawn, a few grapes and a packet of wotsits
D - Lamb steak pan fried in coconut oil with fresh rosemary, minced garlic and lemon slices, 2 baby potatoes boiled then fried, lots of spring greens, a little mint jelly. Strawberries with greek yogurt with honey and some chia seeds
Snacks/Supper - Applewood cheese mini, oat cakes and a Fibre one peanut butter popcorn bar.
Drinks - Water, decaf coffee (one with cream, one with "light" whitener), some Pepsi max cherry
 
grovesy said:
Corned beef hash to me is something fried in a frying pan, and dry.
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Hairy Bikers have a nice looking recipe with celeriac and carrots, not a potato in sight.
There seems to be a difference between corned beef hash which is dry and browned in a frying pan and corned beef hash stew which looks like Lucy's.
I like it with pickled red cabbage.
 
grovesy said:
Corned beef hash to me is something fried in a frying pan, and dry.
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When I make it for hubby, I just break up a packet of corned beef, add it to mashed potato and mix together - he eats it like that with piccalilli. I have a friend who uses canned corned beef to make corned beef pies - can't say either appeal to me.
 
b: Berries, Yoghurt and coffee
l: Peanut butter sandwich, gem lettuce with home made Dijon Mustard dressing, tomatoes, cucumber, small piece of cheese. PLUS a sneaky Nut bar from ALDI while doing my daily walk around Warwick Uni's country park.
d: Daal with Cauliflower rice + a banana muffin.
 
harbottle said:
b: Berries, Yoghurt and coffee
l: Peanut butter sandwich, gem lettuce with home made Dijon Mustard dressing, tomatoes, cucumber, small piece of cheese. PLUS a sneaky Nut bar from ALDI while doing my daily walk around Warwick Uni's country park.
d: Daal with Cauliflower rice + a banana muffin.
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Have you tried the walk along the Kenilworth Greenway, I think it links up with Warwick Uni Campus.
 
Leadinglights said:
Have you tried the walk along the Kenilworth Greenway, I think it links up with Warwick Uni Campus.
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Yes, I used to cycle up to Burton Green from Earlsdon, then onto the Greenway and then down into the top end of the University Campus. It's a bit too far for a lunchtime walk, so I usually just go round the country park and swing into Pret for a coffee. If I'm feeling adventurous I'll go through the woodland and come out near Cannon Park shopping centre.
 
grovesy said:
Corned beef hash to me is something fried in a frying pan, and dry.
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It was always on the breakfast menu in cafes in the USA, where I first ate it. For two I use half a can of corned beef, diced boiled potatoes, button mushrooms quartered and some sliced onions. Fried in a tiny drop of oil and served with a fried egg on top. The Americans use tinned corned beef for that, but if you ask for a corned beef sandwich in a deli then it is spiced air aged salt beef which looks more like rare roast beef.

For @rebrascora...yesterday's lunch:
Appetisers: Spicy red pepper hommous, celery and cucumber sticks, crisps, sour cream and chive dip.
Starter: "The Hungry Monk's" prawn pate - a combination of cream cheese, prawns fried in butter with diced onion, lemon juice and tarragon, then chilled to set. We served it with dark rye bread and butter.
Main: 7 Hour lamb - a leg of lamb marinated overnight in a combination of rosemary, capers, garlic, lemon juice and zest, 3 anchovy fillets and 4 tbs oil. Then roasted low and slow over a bed of red onions and lemon halves, with white wine and lamb stock in the bottom of the roasting tin. Served with gravy made from the juices, smoked garlic mashed potatoes, orange glazed chantenay carrots, fennel braised in butter and chicken stock topped with finely grated parmesan and buttered peas.
Dessert: Brioche chocolate and orange pudding with cream,
Cheese: Chaorce, potted stilton, brie and a truckle of somerset cheddar, served with Ciabatta and oat biscuits.
Coffee with Amaretti Morbidi and chocolates.

Didn't eat anything else later, though I'd had a small slice of toast early morning.

Tonight I've made a Shepherd's pie with the leftover lamb and mash.

Please note: for those low carbing, this was a lunch party for 6. I am the only diabetic. I spent the rest of the day in the stratosphere of BGs despite only tasting most of the courses and bolussing accordingly!
 
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Wonder if my next soup choice will raise as many questions / regional variations. Going to learn how to make leek and potato tomorrow, mainly chosen as it’s the first one in the book.
 
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