Support and ideas for those on low-carb diet

normal chips.

Off to fry my cod and chips now.

Broad bean pod chips???!!!!

Who dreamt that one up?

No! It's because your diets involve so many high falutin' recipes.

Wtf is escalivada?

I think some people just cannot get their head around the fact that low carb does not mean high fat.

It's the easiest diet in the world.

Right, home and back into routine.
Marinated, barbecued pork chops and escalivada (aubergine, courgette, pepper, onion, garlic), glass of Prosecco, glass of red, followed by large lump of gorgonzola.
BTW have you noticed that when we talk about the weight loss / health benefits of low-carb on other threads, that nobody joins in? Why would you not?
Genuinely interested in understanding.

I plant nasturtiums not only for the seeds, but also for their blackfly-magnet properties, to keep them off everything else. This year however I was late planting them out, as their raised bed wasn't ready, so I am hoping that now they are getting bigger the blackflies will transfer their affections to them. Usually it works really well and the broadbeans are entirely free of any fly, it has shown me that the nasturtiums are well worth growing for that alone.

Tonight we shall be having broad bean pod 'chips' with our meal. You dip slices of pod in milk, then flour, then fry until crispy and brown, and season. Not the healthiest of foods but delicious, and I do try to convince myself that they are far healthier than normal chips!

I (understood)!

Never plant broad beans as they are a magnet for black fly.

We had salad planted in amongst the broad beans and washing of the blackfly was horrendous. OH insists on the water going into a bucket for recycling so it takes forever. The broad beans were done before I left though. Still very hot over there so back to the watering. If this is climate change then I think we will have to find someone to repair the well (previous owners pulled down the ancient wellhead and chucked it down).

At least you're going in the right direction and hopefully shouldn't have any extra baggage!

I picked 10lbs of spinach yesterday, for freezing. It took forever to wash, I had to have several trugs of water laid in a row, because every single flaming leaf was smothered in blackfly. I kept telling my family - extra protein, along with the little white and yellow insect eggs and very small pale brown caterpillars. The downside of being organic, I suppose. This is the worst year for blackfly I have ever had, I think.

The previous day was broad bean main harvest. Ironically, harvesting all the veg means less time to prepare meals, so I find myself eating a sandwich more often.

I can read underneath your crossings out....you can't fool us like that

Will be interested to hear how it works Anya.
Have been in the UK for a week where I have established that I am definitely a size 10 and spent a lot of money in the sales refurbishing my wardrobe. Food has been good as DD low carbs too but I have eaten too many pork pies.
Should be an interesting trip back across the channel tomorrow.....

My kale is under attack from white fly

Just made a pungent infusion of spring onion and garlic and sprayed the noxious mixture over the back of the leaves.

Hope it works 'cos the house stinks (made it in the kitchen)

Better than glass under the circumstances

I've been lapsing quite a lot somewhat this last couple of weeks, so I'm taking myself back in hand and am going to stick religiously to my original plan. I've an event coming up in 10 days which requires me to be fighting fit, bright eyed and bushy tailed.

Just off for a refreshing glass of water

It was actually one of the corrugated plastic ones and the panels we had taped stayed put - the rest are scattered round the neighbour's orchard!

Sorry to hear about your greenhouse Mamie I bet that's left a terrible mess to clear up - unless it just completely blew away like Dorothy's house in the Wizard of Oz!

Frozen grapes are nice too.

Oh dear! Although at least one of our greenhouses loses a side every year. Never a whole one yet, though but it's all so messy. We are forever finding broken glass in our garden.

No way am I anywhere near a size ten yet! Last time I weighed 9 stone was 9 years ago. I really liked being ten stone, I felt comfortable there. I wonder how long it will take me.

I can't drink beer because of the malt, so that is another saving grace, I can't filch any of DBH's nice cold little bottles. I have an ice lolly instead.

Well done JR! I have been clothes shopping and find I am a size 10. Last time I was a size 10 I weighed 8 stone and now I am 9 stone, but still.
DD cooked me piri piri chicken and waldorf salad last night which was delicious after a long hot journey and tonight is stir fry.
Feeling guilty about not being around to support OH at home (though the leccie is back) and mourning the loss of our greenhouse in the tornado this morning.....

Yes, well done Jane

This drove me to a nice, cold shandy too

Well done, janer. I've broken a couple of rules today. Had an ice cream for breakfast!

Just about to crack open a small lager as I've been slogging away doing the housework so I need a sin treat.

I'm in a pair of jeans I couldn't get into two months ago! Well, not actually right now, it's too hot, but I found them last night when I was looking for some shorts. I couldn't even do the button up before, let alone the zip so it was a lovely surprise. I flung them in with my shorts to remind me to have another go when it was finally summer.

I have far more energy. It doesn't happen overnight, obviously, but I have only just sat down. This evening I had had a bonfire, had a bath, cooked dinner, done two loads of washing, made lemon polenta cakes for a coffee morning and all the resulting washing-up and done the online Tesco shop.

Optometrist? Opthalmist? That is pretty amazing - and then I look at my fingernails, which were splitting only a couple of months ago. They are getting so long now, they are starting to look dreadful. They are so much stronger. Normally they start to break as soon as I start gardening, but the coeliac thing made them very weak and brittle.

Feed it back jingl if you do. It might go well with a marmalade sandwich!

A friend with Type 2 Diabetes has been following this régime. She injects insulin, so we are were talking serious out-of-control diabetes here. She has diabetic retinopathy and is was in danger of losing her sight. Then 6 weeks ago she took her eating habits in hand and made a serious attempt to change.

Today, after 6 weeks on this rëgime, she had a hospital appointment with her consultant optimologist (is that the right term?) anyway, you know who I mean, the specialist eye person.

She fed back that he was very pleased with her. Her eyesight has not deteriorated any further and indeed some readings were improved. He said that if she continued like this there was no reason for her eyesight to deteriorate further over the next 5-10 years.

She was so delighted and relieved she rang me and was on the phone for nearly an hour.
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