Support and ideas for those on low-carb diet

Good luck with the test!
With ME food you have to substitute extra vegetables for grains like couscous and bulghar, but we do use chickpeas and other legumes from time to time. The spices are wonderful (I love ras al hanout) and I also like the dried apricots and dates with the spicy sauces. Again not for strict low-carbing.
Tonight is cold roast veal and caponata.

Never tried Middle Eastern recipes, might have to make good that deficit.

I've booked a cholesterol test at my local Sainsbury's (don't ask ) on Wednesday, so will be very interested to see what that shows.

We also sleep well and wake at dawn, which is about 5am here at the moment.
I think not only curries but Middle Eastern food works well with the diet, though it does need the odd teaspoon of honey!
I have stabilised my weight during the last few months and hover between about 9 stone and 9 stone 3lbs, which seems a really good weight for me.
Off to an organic farming / food event today.

Glad I'm not the only one with splashed and splattered recipe books. The most colourful pages are the curry recipies. This diet is a curry lovers delight. My books are also annotated with comments like 'this works better with chicken thighs' or crossings out (usually flour or sugars) and substitutions like '1 tsp ground almonds' or 'reduce'.

One great side effect of this eating plan is I'm sleeping much better and waking refreshed. I often used to wake up tired oreviously. This morning I got up, made a cup of tea, let the chicks out, then noticed it was only 5.30am!

Haven't bothered weighing myself for a couple of weeks but another 1.5lbs gone

Thanks for the recipe ideas above.

We love tandoori chicken. Is it the Madhur Jaffrey recipe? It is my most splattered recipe book page!
We have it with salad too (and some home made chutney). Sometimes with spicy aubergine as well.
Enjoy the DGs.

That sounds lovely, Mamie The DGSs are coming for supper as DD is away on a course so they've requested Tandoori Chicken. That'll be twice in a week for us but it's an easy option as they can have Naan bread with it and we'll have salad.

Tagine: lamb shanks, fresh borlotti (from freezer), spices, dried apricots, garlic, onion, fresh ginger, tomatoes and tiny baby turnips.
Hearty and very much needed as it is really cold out there!

Well we were meant to be having bolognese sauce with celeriac spaghetti, but I couldn't get the celeriac through the spiraliser however hard I tried. It was too hard, I think (must be the end of the season). So we had a little bit of ordinary spaghetti and lunch tomorrow is celeriac soup.

I'm working my way through the freezer, we are having venison casserole with cauliflower rice, and salad.

I bet my grandsons would like that. That's their tea tomorrow sorted!

I saw that in the programme last week and it looked delicious.

Tonight we're having Mary Berry's sausage meat lasagne.

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2971901/Mary-Berry-Absolute-Favourites-II-Lasagne-express.html

I've left out the flour and the sugar and will use leek sheets instead of pasta. I think this recipe will also be nice as a shepherd's pie topped with sweet potato mash.

I have already cooked the pork and spinach in the slow cooker. Just need to stick it all together later.

It sounds delicious!
We had green leaves with the last of the duck paté and a smidgin of fig conserve.
Tonight we are having chicken in a paste of preserved lemons and harissa with aubergine and courgette batons cooked in oil and turmeric in the oven.

what wanted eating up that wanted eating up

Just created a lovely lunch from leftovers, which was so delicious and easy I had to tell someone.

I had leftover chicken in the fridge, some bacon what wanted using up, a couple of beetroot with droopy leaves and a slightly desiccated sweet potato.

I spiralised the beetroot and sweet potato, mixed them together and fried them in a little oil and black pepper. In a seperate pan I dry fried the bacon after cutting it up into small pieces. I grabbed a few spicy leaves from the garden, piled on the leftover chicken then tipped the bacon in with the vegetables for a couple of minutes.

Very tasty indeed, and all my leftovers used up

It's too hot to sit out in the garden so I'm eating it in what used to be our conservatory. It was almost unbearable in summer and pretty cold in winter so we've had it insulated and rechristened the morning room. There's posh!

Glad you enjoyed them Merlot we enjoy the crunchiness contrast. Try saying that after a

We had family round and DH made the Hairies Chicken Jalfrezi with cauliflower rice. Son and DiL (great curry fans) well impressed and demanded recipe. We leave out the sugar and add a teaspoon of Splenda and use ground almonds instead of flour to thicken.

The lettuce butties were great, thanks, Anya. I also marinated chicken thighs in a lemon and thyme dressing which only contained one teaspoon of brown sugar. The DGSs love pork ribs smothered in a sticky glaze so I avoided those.

I haven't had any cake since February and the slice of chocolate birthday cake was well worth waiting for. I haven't minded giving up cake at all but it was nice to have a treat.

And less waste?

Let me know how the lettuce butties go Merlot

Wishing you for your BBQ.

Thank heavens the veg garden is now in full swing, because DBH is home for the week and we are going to be living on stir-fries of baby veg and meats and fish that need using up from the freezers. He can have various noodles and pastas with his.

Desserts are going to be stewed fruits that need using up. Maybe stirred into greek yoghourt. Although I prefer that for breakfast.

My shape has changed. I have more waist.

Sorry, Anya not Ana

That's what we'll do, Ana Large Cos lettuce already in the fridge. I think it's a great combination.

I'm looking forward to trying Mary Berry's sausage meat lasagne as featured on her programme last Friday night. I'll use leek sheets instead of pasta.

Merlot re your BBQ tomorrow, have you tried wrapping a beef burger in a Cos or Iceburg lettuce leave instead of a bun? It really works.

Made watercress soup for lunch yesterday. Just made up the recipe as I went along using an onion, a stock pot, black pepper and watercress. Added some left over crème fraiche at the end and bunged it all in the smoothie maker.

It was Absolutely Delicious.

DBH had a dodgy tummy, so was on toast and a packet of crisps. I was left to do my own thing (he usually cooks on Saturday nights) so stirfried a whole bag of prawns in olive oil and chopped chilli, added spring onions and a big wodge of baby rocket leaves. Very quick and simple but very nice.

Tandoori Chicken and curried vegetables tonight. After a long day in the garden I fancied something hot and hearty!

We're doing a barbecue for DD's birthday on Monday so apart from the bread (which the DGSs will gromph) it will be a piece of cake.

A very small piece of birthday cake