Support and ideas for those on low-carb diet

Well that was a nice lunch - a simple green salad with baby tomatoes and a slab of duck paté. That particular market stall has duck bits, paté and duck sausages, all delicious. On the fish stall was the bluest lobster I have ever seen, really bright marine blue. We bought red mullet though, to have with preserved lemon and coriander with a spelt and feta salad. The summer vegetables are really getting going now but the fruit from the south of France is late this year, I think they have had some heavy rain and strong winds for long periods of time.

No - but it looks lovely. I do love their food.

I made mini meat loafs, with masses of chopped veg and a mixture of pork and beef mince, with some strong cheddar as well. I just had one for lunch with salad and coleslaw, it was really nice. Sadly I didn't write down how I made it, which is always the case. I daresay I could roughly duplicate it.

Talking about oat biscuits, I made some last night. They were really nice too, not made for me but for DBH as he will be at home all next week and refuses to eat anything with much sugar in it. I got around that by putting some stevia in the mix. Again, I have no idea how I made them, or even how long they were cooking for as a friend turned up halfway through the baking. They were by way of an experiment.

They are good. We took them on our epic three day drive to southern Spain in January and they were really useful especially given the bizarre nature of Spanish eating hours.
For lunch we have had a salad of peppered, smoked mackerel, beetroot and avocado in horseradish dressing. Tonight I am inventing a casserole of wild boar (shot by our neighbour), baby turnip, carrot and cabbage with lots of middle eastern spices and some dried apricots.
My DD says she thinks the Anatolia cookbook looks really good. Has anyone seen it?

I think GS3 is a natural low carb eater. Ever since he could ask for a 'bacon butty' or a ham sandwich, he has eaten the contents and discarded the bread.

I do voluntary work and yesterday I had a phone call saying one of the other guides had phoned in sick, so could I fill in. I hadn't had breakfast, so grabbed two Nairn Oat and Stem Ginger biscuits that I'd bought a while ago. Only 1.7g of sugar each and gluten free too. To compare, a 2 finger Kit-Kat is 11g of sugar.

Not to be eaten too often, but very tasty and made a great emergency breakfast; I didn't feel hungry all morning

It must have been popular, janer because I had the last one!

We steered clear of desserts but I did spot a gluten free chocolate cake in the fridge cabinet. Oooooh the temptation!

I can't remember if I ever said, but I wrote to them and had a lovely email back. They said they would always have a GF free option, and to ask if people couldn't see anything, they would make something up. I asked if they could perhaps mark their menu board clearly, but maybe that was a step too far! I'm going there with friends in a couple of weeks, so it's good to know about the greek salad.

We went to RHS Hyde Hall today and lunch was no problem because I had a Greek Salad and DH had sausages with a small amount of mash and courgettes.

Walked it all off afterwards!!

Well done GrannyA (but best to lay off cake icing!)

That is brilliant news GA!
The thing I love is the fact that I can eat my favourite things - our stir fry was delicious (leftover duck, ginger, garlic, chilli, peas, asparagus, courgetti, mushrooms and spring onions) and because we were still a bit hungry at the end we had a piece of gorgonzola each.

I have never been on a diet before that has so suited me: I'm never hungry, never have snack cravings, my blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose levels are amazingly low - and the icing on the cake is that I'm wearing size 14!

That sounds Very Lurvly Indeed Bags

To Die For

Sorry! (I'm dieting too)

TDF? too damned fat?

Cranks' (ISBN 0-586-06090-1) Cream of Watercress Soup with added v thick cream and bacon bits is lurvly.

Not that I'm on a low carb diet but I think the above version is better than with thick buttered toast which I had yesterday.

Just a cheese salad for me today as DH is out. I made far too much beef casserole on Sunday so we're having it again tonight with some red wine added to the gravy. I'll steam some cabbage and beans to go with it.

Sounds delicious! We had duck Waldorf salad for lunch and will have duck stir fry for dinner.

Lunch

Asparagus (home grown) wrapped in Parma ham, topped with poached egg yolks (home laid) and a small grating of Parmesan.

TDF

I need to pull my finger out and get on with it

Got the spiraliser, cook books etc so running out of excuses!

Think we might do a stir fry and use up a bit more asparagus...

Satay!

Duck satsay?

How about duck wraps, but using steamed cabbage leaves or (better still) nice crispy Cos or Iceberg lettuce leaves? A little hoisin sauce, spring onion and maybe cucumber...

Inspiration needed! We bought a duck in the market on Saturday (comes out of cold box kept under the counter, complete with head!). We roasted it yesterday and are having cold duck with ratatouille tonight. There is loads left which is too much for just salad lunches. What can I make tomorrow? It is beautiful, tasty, tender meat so a curry would be a bit of a shame. I am wondering about a pearl barley risotto.....

We've only planted one bed of potatoes this year, and half of those are first and second earlies, so we'll just have the odd one and givr mist away.

I've found a Weekly Planner (Mary Berry Collection) that I bought ages ago and I've set out all my lunches and dinner for the week... how sad is that?