Breakfast, lunch and dinner - what do you eat?

[Overseasmom100]

So I started yesterday...I dont really want to calorie count just low carb eating. Had fruit for breakfast chicken salad for lunch melon snack and salmon and veg.

What do you eat for;

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Any snacks inbetween?

Breakfast- yoghurt
Lunch- homemade cream of chicken and mushroom soup
Dinner- burger with portobello mushroom ‘bun’ and halloumi. Purple sprouting broccoli.
No snacks!

Fruit except berries are not low carb.

Ref fruit yep just read about fruit best to stick to berries. So @TowandaForever what do you ear for your 3 meals?

Eat!!! Nor ear

Breakfast, omelette with cheese and ham, soft boiled eggs, egg mayo, bulletproof coffee, low carb shake.

Lunch and dinner: loads of meat, steak, chicken, salad and low carb veg. Low carb slaw. Bolegnase with courgette pasta.

Recent fav is scallops and bacon

@Overseasmom100

Did that reply come over as rude op. Didn't mean it to!

I'm a vege low carber. I eat omelettes, homemade coleslaw ( don't bother with carrot anymore), swede brocolli green beans leeks Brussels all covered in low carb cheese sauce, courgette fritters etc

I have strawbs and rasps every day.

Nuts, vege hot dog sausages as snacks.

Low carb cheese sauce? Is there a recipe please?

Today I had:
A frittata type omelette made with smoked fish, 2 eggs, single cream, spring onion and petit pois, with a cucumber salad and a blob of coleslaw
Dinner was a ribeye steak and salad and mayo.
I've also had about a tbsp of hummus and 2 seed ryvita but that's because I ran 12km, plus a bit of cheese mid afternoon, again because of post run munchies.
Later on I might have some full fat yogurt, maybe no.

I try to get under 50g carbs a day, and around 20% carbs but I'm not always successful!

Ursula I make a cheese sauce by just melting cheese into milk, however you need to watch if you mix it with anything watery (eg in a veg dish or a fish pie) because it can curdle at high heat without flour to hold it together. I use soft cheese like Philadelphia for some recipes too, but again, it can split. Doesn't affect the taste of it splits,,but it loses the creaminess/sauciness unfortunately.

Just googled a recipe and it was cheese and heavy cream melted together! What is heavy cream? Is it double?

Some lovely ideas here.
Ah no @TowandaForever not rude, dont worry . What's in your slaw recipe?

Heavy cream is more like whipping cream. IME, America doesn't 'do' proper cream ...

Following this, really really interesting

B - nothing or full fat greek yoga
L - fajita bowl salad/tuna and avocado/chicken mayo salad/cheese omlette
D - steak and spinach/saag paneer/sausages and cauli mash.

@anotherBadAvatar can you please share your fajita bowl salad recipe?

@UrsulaPandress

Low carb cheese sauce is cream cheese, mustard, grated cheese and double cream.

@thenewaveragebear1983

Milk isn't low carb is it?

Also doesnt Philadelphia have more carbs than other cream cheeses?

Tow I suppose it depends what low carb plan you follow. It's fructose that I avoid, so the small amount of lactose in milk doesn't make a huge difference to me and I aim for less than 50g carbs a day which isn't Uber low and not ketogenic, Whereas I suppose if you're going very strictly low carb on all carbs aiming to get into keto, then maybe 5g lactose is too high? It works for me.

Thanks. I'm not sure total low carbing is for me. I've turned to the occasional crispbread.

Blood Sugar Diet and Fast800 thread 14 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/fasting_diet/3532374-blood-sugar-diet-and-fast800-thread-14

Ursula its all relative though, isn't it? you should come and check out our BSD thread. You can eat (occasional) high fibre crispbreads as part of a low carb Mediterranean style diet and still lose weight and get the benefits of the low carb lifestyle.

BSD? I’ll have a gander.

Oh. Blood sugar diet. Ta. I’ll check it out.

@Imfinehowareyou Fajita salad bowl (there are recipes out there, i just made mine up).

Fry chopped bell pepper with mince or chicken breast and add fajita seasoning. (I use Barts).

Let cool slightly while you make the salad -
I use combination of whatever I have in the fridge, so chopped cabbage, salad leaves, spinach etc.

Top with sour cream and grated cheddar cheese.

I make loads of the mince/chicken then freeze and just heat up when I want.

@anotherBadAvatar thank you!