Week 6 - Christmas Low Carb Bootcamp

[BIWI]

Evening all!

Starting next week's thread now as I"m off to bed shortly.

Here's the SoF

Last week's thread - after the trolling - ended up a little quiet, so I hope people weren't scared off. It's always good advice to ignore the trolls! But also, if you have been lurking, please come out from the shadows and tell us how you're getting on!

This week is the last where we're doing a hybrid (you are, aren't you?), so Bootcamp during the week and Bootcamp Light, if you want, at the weekend.

I realise that as we get nearer to Christmas, and there is more and more stuff in the media about Christmas cooking, that it is more challenging. But hold fast, and you will only benefit!

Good luck to us all

Morning all. It’s quiet on here, how is everyone ?

Six veg with scallops sounds lovely @Moanranger.

Presumably all that hair would not be a concern if it had been in small quantities each day @prettybird ? Surely it’s just the backlog not properly shed while you were poorly. Hope you are feeling better.

Welcome @SilverOtter

Lovely meal @missfliss

Today is busy wfh but also prepping for two days out of home early starts, clients sandwich lunches long train journeys. I plan to swerve the sandwich lunch. Take my own salad box keep my water up. I also need to try on some workwear to see what fits as probably can’t go in jeans and slippers. Going to be in the office for two days next week. I’m actually quite looking forward to there being some point to dressing nicely. I haven’t been to the office since March 2020.

Today’s food
L green soup, big salad and French cheese
D Boursin, mushroom and leek with cabbage tagliatelle

Water, water water

Off to get on with work. Have a lovely day everyone.

Morning everyone, hope you’re both feeling better @prettybird @Pleaseandthankyou.

Yesterday was an amazing food day eating at the pig. I have to share how LC friendly it was.
Hot smoked salmon with shredded creamy celeriac and soft boiled egg
Pheasant breast with creamy cabbage and mushroom with a side of crushed celeriac.

They still had the pork crackling but I fancied the salmon. Loads more LC veg dishes grown/reared there or within 25 miles of the venue.

It’s one of my favourite places.
Was a really joyous occasion to eat food that mostly by default was LC and I didn’t have to go off menu. Happy days

Morning all, I’ve stayed the same this week, but have not been as good and as we all know this is a very unforgiving way to eat.

I forgot and left my shoggled sprouts in the microwave last night, so my plate looked rather empty….. planning to be more focused today.

It wasn't shedding per se @Jollyholibobs - that was all the birds nest knots being pulled out - chunks of hair at a time. Fortunately I have a lot of hair - but very fine, hence its propensity to knot easily

Definitely now feeling much better but easing myself back into exercise gradually

@Pleaseandthankyou hope you feel better soon.

Hi @SilverOtter I'm definitely eating less volume of food on this WOE, hope it all goes well for you.

Morning everyone. Hope it's a lovely day

It's carb central here today for DD's birthday. Massive chocolate fudge cake made last night without any finger or bowl licking and croissants for breakfast but I had yogurt. She's had a really shitty 18 months with post viral fatigue and crippling anxiety so it's just lovely to see her happy (she is on the mend but it's been a long road). Butter chicken for tea, they'll all have rice and I'll have extra butter in my shoogled cauliflower which I actually prefer!

@Dellabob123 that menu sounds lovely! TBH I've found that increasingly more top-end restaurants tend to have many more low carb options, especially as cauliflower and celeriac are very much 'on trend'.

... actually here's a good example. I'm meeting a friend for lunch in Oxford today, and here's a sample menu from their website. Not a potato or any pasta/rice in sight!

215 menu

It is, though, only a sample - so let's hope they haven't decided to do a pizza day today

That menu also looks gorgeous @BIWI. It really is a delight at the minute. Enjoy!

We walked around there walled garden and saw all the veg growing, it was heavenly. Celeriac is an ugly growing thing though

Ooh envious @Dellabob123 this is the first year we've not had a night in a Pig since 2016, missing out! They've been so booked up with everyone holidaying in the UK. Have always eaten lots of great meat and veg there- tomahawk pork steak stands out as a memory. Love the gardens.

DS was sick on Tuesday so two days out of nursery has me mostly WFH minimal working TBH Bit light on FLGV yesterday but was impressed how much veg I ate without even trying: courgette in my omelette, leftover pumpkin and pork at lunch, and leeks in an experimental fish pie with a cauli/pumpkin mash top for dinner.

I even did some autumnal themed painting with him yesterdaythat's what I pay nursery for

It’s gone very quiet on this thread!

I’ve just had halloumi and spinach for lunch. Planning on making that paneer recipe that was posted on here but can’t for the life of me remember where... was it week 5?

Just looking at the sample menu for the place I've arranged for my group of Pilates friends to go to for our Christmas lunch 2 weeks from today: it will be the first time we've seen each other since March 2020 - even though we've had "coffee" every week over Zoom.

Even though the menu will be different on the day, it looks like I'll be able to choose low(ish) carb options - which is what I remembered from when we went there 2 years ago.

https://www.brianmaule.com/menus/pre-theatre-and-lunch/

Hi @Dellabob123

I posted this paneer recipe www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/spiced-paneer

Thanks @Jollyholibobs - could not remember!

Roast ham and cauli cheese here. Had broccoli and Stilton soup for lunch.
Bit bemused as phoned the carpet shop this morning to see where my carpet (ordered in August) was. It’s been here for ages was the reply, we’ve been waiting for you to call. WTF?
Did they think I might have changed my mind or something?

Okay, HELP!! My dad has just decided it would be fun to have a Thanksgiving dinner (we are in the UK, absolutely no American heritage anywhere in the family). We’re doing it on Saturday instead of Thursday because of work, small children etc. Have been looking up traditional Thanksgiving dishes online and it’s even more of a carbfest than Christmas! Apart from the turkey obviously all the foods that grow in America are potatoes, sweet potatoes, sweetcorn, pumpkins... There doesn’t seem to be anything green!

Luckily it’s impossible to get hold of pumpkins here after the end of October so pumpkin pie is out. But please give me low-carb Thanksgiving recipes someone!

My dad is also low-carbing - or rather, my mum is trying to keep my dad off the carbs so they will be happy to forgo roast potatoes and the like. Just want to know what to serve them!

BestIsWest how annoying, ridiculous to have it taking up store space when it could be being fitted, not really the way a business should be run! At least you can have it done before Christmas.

Menopause bit crap at the moment, won’t bore you. Period related. I do think it should improve for me soon.

Looking forward to dinner, wild salmon, brussel sprouts, leeks and remainder of celeriac gratin with anchovy cream. Might add steamed leafy greens thinking about it.

Learningtofeminist I spent 31 formative years in the US and I have no answers. Sorry.

Thanksgiving is very much like Christmas dinner, with possibly more root veg and fewer sweets. Essentially, it’s a North American harvest meal.

Plus, there’s only an amount of turkey one family can eat these days, which is why we celebrated Thanksgiving with traditional turkey and celebrated Christmas with a seafood extravaganza (my mother was French and in her part of France—west coast)—shellfish was at its best in December). Never mind that we lived in the Rocky Mountain region, where fish and shellfish were somewhat hard to come by.

The point is that yo should use local, seasonal side dishes to give thanks for the bounty you’ve received, from a Northern hemisphere crop.

So kale and swedes and whatever is in season, now, in Britain will be your best side dishes.

Enjoy all the turkey. Drink all the WATER!

Bit bemused as phoned the carpet shop this morning to see where my carpet (ordered in August) was. It’s been here for ages was the reply.

I find this shocking (from a business point of view), BestisWest. Is there really no one who could have called in the past three months to inform you if your carpet order?!

Really hope it gets sorted soon.

Welcome to newbie (whose name I can’t remember, very sorry, on phone, catching up with threads)—ooh ooh it’s...feck, it’s gone out of head again.

I shall send a warmer welcome later. Tough few weeks for me and doesn’t look like any let up soon. Such is life.

WATER WATER WATER!!!

@Learningtofeminist creamed spinach is good for Thanksgiving. Green beans (maybe a wee bit carby?) with garlic is tasty too.

I bypassed the sweet potatoes etc in favour of pigs in blankets (not very Thanksgive-y but delicious!).

Got it! I remembered. Huge welcome to SilverOtter.

What is a gastrectomy, please?

I hope you find this way of eating as good as many of us do.

Welcome SilverOtter, cool name.

@ShagMeRiggins

Got it! I remembered. Huge welcome to SilverOtter.

What is a gastrectomy, please?

I hope you find this way of eating as good as many of us do.

I had part of my stomach removed to make it smaller. It hopefully should help me lose weight!

@TrueGrit54

Welcome SilverOtter, cool name.

Thank you🥰

@ShagMeRiggins

Learningtofeminist I spent 31 formative years in the US and I have no answers. Sorry.

Thanksgiving is very much like Christmas dinner, with possibly more root veg and fewer sweets. Essentially, it’s a North American harvest meal.

Plus, there’s only an amount of turkey one family can eat these days, which is why we celebrated Thanksgiving with traditional turkey and celebrated Christmas with a seafood extravaganza (my mother was French and in her part of France—west coast)—shellfish was at its best in December). Never mind that we lived in the Rocky Mountain region, where fish and shellfish were somewhat hard to come by.

The point is that yo should use local, seasonal side dishes to give thanks for the bounty you’ve received, from a Northern hemisphere crop.

So kale and swedes and whatever is in season, now, in Britain will be your best side dishes.

Enjoy all the turkey. Drink all the WATER!

@ShagMeRiggins that is actually so helpful! I was already thinking towards the harvest-theme idea... but making it local to here instead of the US is a really good idea, thank you (annoyingly I did actually grow a heap of sweetcorn, potatoes and beans on the allotment but they were harvested months ago - it's full of cavolo nero and sprouts right now though).

Have just looked up Thanksgiving stuffing recipes and discovered that the American idea of stuffing is basically bread croutons cooked in a separate dish with various flavourings... I did discover some keto Thanksgiving recipes online though

A late post. Rather annoyed with Seriously LC ATM. I ordered bread, etc which was supposed to arrive today, so I meal planned accordingly. No show. They make a big deal about using Amazon ( who in my experience are very harassed but pleasant Eastern Europeans driving clapped out Ford Fiestas). I then got an email informing me (today) my order will arrive Weds 25th of November. I now ask all bootcampers to open their diaries & identify the flaw in that statement.
I will feedback to SLC -Don’t use Amazon! I avoid using it unless I am absolutely desperate.
Back to LC today - 1rasher bacon & cheddar & avocado omelette; dinner -naked burger on salad with coleslaw, also made celeriac oven fries, nicer than sweet potato fries I think,. Much fizzy water.