Week 7 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - Hurtling to the Finish Line!

[BIWI]

Morning everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend and that there wasn't too much cheating!

Here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

So we have four weeks left. Time to shed a good few more pounds if you stick to the rules

I go on holiday in less than three weeks, so it's nose to the grindstone for me from now on.

Crabby could you not state as the citation of the recipe a good friend found from a support network for this woe gave me this recipe thus accrediting the fact that this recipe is not your creation and allowing anonymity unless the person who created the recipe wants accreditation linked to a rl name in which case they could then it could be altered to "my friend, Kate/fred/Joe etc gave me this recipe..." Just a thought.

I am still suck in an eating eggs phase, but I have noticed that it is hard to want to eat when pain levels high, and anything that takes any effort to cook is too much effort to eat. Hoping as the pain levels are slowly starting to fall and i am finding a little more energy to diversify my eating into more veg. On a plus note I am not skipping meals even if i might start to look like an egg I have lost the scales and forgetting to find them so will just log a sts on the spread sheet. Tbh there has been a little bit of cheating so i suspect that i have either put on or sts any way.

Please could someone link me to Crabbys egg separating?
I do sometime struggle when making meringues for my family obviously

Middle - it's on this thread. Post by Crabby on Tuesday morning at 08.16.

Adding my meals:

Yesterday
B: yog with berries and piece cheese
L: last of the asparagus quiche with salad
D: tomato and basil soup with a slice of instant bread
S: handful of nuts

Today
B: yog with berries and a piece of cheese
L: not sure - bacon and egg I think
D: chilli with green beans - will be too carby as having visitors so added onion & carrots (they'd complain otherwise) so I'll only have a small portion but I'm not that hungry anyway
S: handful nuts

Newstart - what about when you are feeling ok, bulk cooking a couple of meals and freezing in portions to make a lowcarb "ready meal" or I get something quick & easy for everyone else and just do bacon and egg for me - I find I can cope better that way. I struggle when really tired as I find myself eating to keep myself awake - I need to get out of that habit......!

Got it, thanks. I do the 'swapping to each half' but not the 'let the white seep out of the crack'.
Off to experiment.

Does anyone know how carby broad beans are? I may have to eat some this evening as we have had our first harvest! It was a bit accidental - the plant fell over and broke bloody wind! So we are trying togey DS eating new veggies so me not eating them might be an excuse for him not to try iyswim? I really don't want to mess up though. Ugh.

hmm they look quite carby bullet as they're a legume - this suggests 11.7g per 100g. if i had grown them though i would want to try them, so maybe weigh them out and stick to less than 50g if you can?

i have written so many emails at work this morning that i nearly signed "best wishes, reallifename" at the end of that post!

Fingers crossed for your milestone Buda and I'm glad to have assisted your egg separation skills!

Miserable morning here in Surrey too. Usually I'd be sitting in a damp wood/my car in deepest darkest Hampshire, as DD has forest school on a Thurs morning (my role in life is mainly as her chauffeur). She had a sleepover with a friend last night and went with her this morning, so I've had a relaxed morning and can take my time getting over there to pick her up, timing my arrival for when they start toasting the halloumi over the fire on lethal weapons whittled sticks.

Ooh lots of posts that I hadn't seen!

Thanks New, yes I think that's what I'll do, according to whether the person wants to be namechecked on the blog or not. I second the idea for making larger quantities of food when you're feeling well and freezing some, or just knowing you've got leftovers the next day. I very often cook at least two days' worth of stews/curries/hunters' chicken etc. in the slow cooker. The flavours really develop overnight too, so things often taste better the next day.

I'm sure I got the idea for crispy shredded cabbage from here. Does that ring a bell with anyone?

I love tender young broad beans. I could give you a wonderful bastardised recipe of habas con jamon - broad beans with ham, but made with shallots and chorizo. It's sooooo good. Or just google habas con jamon!

Hi everyone

Food today will be :

Breakfast : 2 boiled eggs, mashed with butter

Lunch : tuna with mayo and spring onion, cheese and salad

Dinner : salmon and buttered veg

Lots of water, coffee and herbal tea

I'll do some weight reps and sit ups for exercise later. Hope you all have a good day

Oh, and it has loads of oil in, which would slow your absorption of the carbs.

Thanks Willie, I don't even like them very much, but its more about encouraging DS to be more adventurous with food. He's finally starting to try things and its making life soooo much easier, and healthier for him.
I made a beef stew in the slow cooker with some LC dumplings and he ate a good portion of that with some peas and sweetcorn - although he did pick the celery out of the stew!

Ooh that sounds lovely Crabby they are very young broad beans! I don't we should be harvesting for another couple of weeks really, these are about 2/3 as big as they should be so I'm hoping they are a bit nicer than fully grown ones! I think DP want a risotto for him and DS so I could make the habas con jamon, take my portion out and use the rest as a base for their risotto... What do you reckon?

Bullet - am a bit at your harvest! I love broad beans but my plants are about 12" high, with no signs of flowers or beans yet.
DO you peel them? Very young ones might not need it, but older ones - i pod, boil then slip off the grey skin to reveal a lovely bright green bean. Lovely tossed in garlic butter.
V v young beans you can boil/steam the pods too.

Lunch today was apsaragus soup - bunch of asparagus chopped, 1" leek, chopped and 1pint stock. Liquidised with a dash of cream!

Dinner will be smoked haddock with cream/chive sauce and mashed cauli.

I've never cooked them myself, I've only had them at restaurants or other people houses - they do generally seem to be peeled though. I will report back after dinner! :)

I wish I was more adventurous with my cooking, you all have some great ideas.

My food today:

Breakfast: bacon egg fried mushroom and tomato
Lunch: tuna crunch, lettuce with a few cherry tomatoes and a piece of cheese
Dinner will be plaice fried in butter with wilted spinach and roasted veg.

Last night at about 10 pm I had an additional snack of a few spoons of natural yoghurt with a sprinkle of cinnamon.

thebestpossibletaste i have become more adventurous on this WOE, particularly with veg - where before i would just have dumped boiled veg on the plate with the carbs and protein, now i often take the time to create a delicious veg side dish. not all the time, i do still boil/steam and dump (with butter!), but often the veg is more interesting than the meat component these days

oh, and more adventurous with meat too, using cheaper, fattier cuts of meat and looking up how to cook them to their best advantage and in a low carb way

Low carb dumplings?? What is this miracle of which you speak?

Habas con jamon / Broad beans with serrano ham or chorizo...

Chop a couple of shallots and a clove of garlic (I'd use loads but it's a bit carby isn't it). You could pop the beans out of their skins, but I think the skins add a little texture if they're young and tender.

Add a generous glug of olive oil to a pan and heat (not too hot). Add the shallots and garlic and cook very gently for a couple of minutes, then add the chorizo (sliced or chunked fairly small) or ham, turn the heat up just a little and cook for another couple of minutes. Then add the beans, with a splash of white wine if you've got any handy, otherwise just as is. Turn the heat right down and simmer until the beans are tender, stirring regularly to make sure they don't burn. If they are young then they shouldn't take more than 4 or 5 mins max.

Yum, wish I was having that tonight!

Crabby I made these, I made half that recipe and it made 9 small dumplings - I ate 2, DP and DS polished off the rest! I put them in the slow cooker with the beef stew half an hour before the end.
They were a bit dense but they tasted pretty dumpling-y! I might experiment with adding suet next time.
I'm gonna get DP to get some Serrano ham on his way home :)
Oh no, is garlic carby? I eat it by the bucket load

I need more than a whack with Biwis stick, I need a good old flogging :( Almost a stone on by eating crap

Have been shopping, all lovly LC food in the fridge so no excuse. I havent been cooking mush, and thats my downfall.

I popped to M&S and picked up a few lovely things, including the BBQ thin cut steaks with chimichrra(sp?) sauce. One for tea and one for lunch tomorrow. It's on 3 for £10 so I got other BBQ bits. I got belly pork for tomorrow and 97% pork sausages.

And taleggio, judge cause I heard its name here- no idea what to do with it