Low-carb diets support thread

sweetserendipity · 3 October 2009 at 7:32PM

newcook wrote: »

is it just me or does does this flaxbread really get things moving?!?!?!?!?!

Funny you should say that - I've had 'indigestion' feelings for the last 2 or 3 days but have now realised it's actually constipation Don't usually suffer in that department.
Anyway, I was wondering what recipe you used for your flaxbread?? Is it the one in the recipe list, page 1?? I was having a look earlier & really fancy making that quick one but I still don't have a microwave :rolleyes: Got reading old posts & found the post from Sazzy (where did she disappear to??) about compressed hamster bedding crackers!! Got me really fancying some crackers & cheese (I was pretty hungry by this time) so hubby very kindly went to Holland & Barrett & bought me some of the crackers & I have to say they are really nice!! Not like hamster bedding at all!! And very high fibre so should help with 'congestion' as someone on this thread calls it!! :rotfl:

Mercy wrote: »

It's now time to sort out some tasty lc food for cooler times :rotfl:

Completely agree!! Tis bloomin' chilly here tonight after all that (outside) wind!! :rolleyes:
Love the sound of your stew/soup thingy - you need to give it a name
Love the sound of your fluffy slippers as well!! I need some new slippers as my current ones seem to have grown & I drag them along the floor when I'm walking in them!! This is a pet hate of mine, I'm always telling my kids to pick their feet up & stop dragging them so I'm really gonna have to get some new ones. I can see a trip to B&M in the near future!!

Changed my menu today because of 'congestion' issues so this is what I have had today

B - 3 chipolata sausages & fried egg
L - garlic sausage, cheese pod, Activia yoghurt (to aid digestion transit or something like that:rotfl:)
D - aberdeen angus burger, cauli mash & cheesy garlicky leeks/mushrooms

Snack - 2 crackers with vitalite (really couldn't wait for the butter to soften) & cheese - yum!!
Will be having wine & peanuts tonight whilst watching The Bourne Supremacy - good action film for a Saturday night!!

My carbs will be higher today because of the yoghurt (10.2g carbs) but I don't care - TMI alert - I think things are happening after the yoghurt & crackers, getting some very strange noises from my belly!!

Have a good evening everyone, see you tomorrow :wave:

Mercy · 3 October 2009 at 7:52PM

Hey sweets, I'm putting this recipe up for you.

Beef Mince Curry

1 large leek chopped up fine ish.
1 Medium onion, finely chopped
500g (forgotten and forlorn) Beef mince
20g tomato puree or some fresh tomatoes
1 beef oxo cube
4 thin 2.5 - 3inch chillies
50 - 80g mixed pumkin seeds and sesame seeds
2 quite heaped tablespoons Madras curry paste
Black Pepper

Put tomato puree, beef oxo cube, chillies, black pepper and curry paste into large frying pan or similar
Add boiling water and begin to simmer, stirring
Add onion and leek, simmer 5 mins
Add beef, break up and turn to cook. Break up beef as you will and keep turning til half done.
If necessary, soak up beef fat with kitchen towel. Do this until you are happy with the oiliness.
Add sesame and pumpkin seeds and stir well in.
Simmer for 10 mins or so.

Serve on a bed of mashed cauli and enjoy!

Works well when frozen (with bed of cauli or without)

The seeds add a few carbs but lots of nice nutty moments. They're quite soft when cooked.

Hope you like it

MXXX

Mercy · 3 October 2009 at 8:02PM

Hiya

sweets - I've called the broth 'tasty spicey broth' Not the most original but quite descriptive

Don't forget that chillies have an effect on 'congestion' for you so there are lots of recipes out there to help.

See the newly revealed 'beef mince curry' Its not got lots of sauce but you don't have a lot of rice to stir it into

All to the good :rotfl:

MXXX

mazzers · 3 October 2009 at 9:26PM

Good evening, fell asleep on the sofa after work

Was good all day then ended up eating chocs toward the end of the day as we all had a stressful day in work and a colleague went to get peanut m&m's to cheer us up :rolleyes:
Got flippin heartburn again now.

Newcook, flaxbread does speed things up a bit

Sweet, i love those crackers, but they are a bit dry (and expensive) get thyself a microwave and make the flax crackers (is good for defrosting sausages too

)

Mercy, where's B&M and what's it stand for, i love those fluffy boot slippers, i only discovered them last year but they are a fiver in Tesco and £8 in Asda.

mazzers · 3 October 2009 at 9:28PM

:wave: to marrow.

Mercy · 3 October 2009 at 10:23PM

B&M - don't know what it stands for but they do 80% stuff you'd pay more for elsewhere. Bargain Shop. Mines in Bolton Centre. Not sure where all the others are.

MXXX

Mercy · 3 October 2009 at 10:35PM

For tea. forgot I had it - Roasted chicken with mayo, baby plum toms and lettuce.

Made the Broth, though. Tastes lovely and will b a good add to the lunchtime stock of food.

V happy with today. Nothing was asked of it and it's not given owt nasty back.

MXXX

Am feeling much better now - but I am a bit pis$ed due to the brandy.

Dobie · 4 October 2009 at 9:18AM

sweetserendipity wrote: »

Changed my menu today because of 'congestion' issues so this is what I have had today
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Hi Sweet
Before I fell off the low carb wagon I often had 'congestion' issues too. It hasn't happened this time & the only change to my diet has been more spinach.

My breakfast is usually an omelette & last time I would have cheese & mushroom as often as not. This time I'm having spinach & mushroom instead, sometimes with a little grated cheese as well.

All I do is chop the mushrooms & fry in butter then when they're done add some chopped baby spinach to the pan until it wilts. Put the mixture on a plate whilst I make the omelette. When it's just about cooked I fill it with the spinach & mushroom mixture (add a little cheese if I fancy it) fold it & heat it through.

It's really tasty, I love the fact that I'm getting a head start on my 5 a day :A & it keeps me full 'til lunchtime.

newcook · 4 October 2009 at 11:31AM

mercy - those recipes sound lush!!!!!

sweet - it was the recipe from page one ( I think!!)·

2 cups flax seed meal
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1-2 Tablespoons sweetening power from artificial sweetener
5 beaten eggs
1/2 cup water
1/3 cup oil

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 175c. Prepare pan (a 10X15 pan with sides works best) with oiled parchment paper or a silicone mat.

1) Mix dry ingredients well.

2) Add wet to dry, and combine well. Make sure there aren't obvious strings of egg white hanging out in the batter.

3) Let batter set for 2 to 3 minutes to thicken up some (leave it too long and it gets past the point where it's easy to spread.)

4) Pour batter onto pan. Because it's going to tend to mound in the middle, you'll get a more even thickness if you spread it away from the center somewhat, in roughly a rectangle an inch or two from the sides of the pan (you can go all the way to the edge, but it will be thinner).

5) Bake for about 20 minutes, until it springs back when you touch the top and/or is visibly browning even more than flax already is.

6) Cool and cut into whatever size slices you want.
Nutritional Information: Each of 12 servings has less than a gram of effective carbohydrate (.7 grams to be exact) plus 5 grams fiber, 6 grams protein, and 185 calories.

I just used a normal non stick pan (and I forget to grease it) and it came out great!

sweetserendipity · 4 October 2009 at 11:40AM

Mercy wrote: »

Hey sweets, I'm putting this recipe up for you.

Aww, thank you Mercy :kisses3:
It looks lovely, I bet it's really tasty, will try it asap (have to make hubby a chicken curry first :rolleyes:) Btw, I got rogan josh curry paste t'other day so hoping I can use that instead of madras (although I love madras so might have to buy a jar of that as well)

Mercy wrote: »

Don't forget that chillies have an effect on 'congestion' for you so there are lots of recipes out there to help.

Lol, I had noted that your beef mince curry had chillies in But I'm like you, I have a good supply of loo rolls in the house!! :rotfl:

mazzers wrote: »

Sweet, i love those crackers, but they are a bit dry (and expensive) get thyself a microwave and make the flax crackers (is good for defrosting sausages too )

I put plenty of vitalite & cheese on mine so didn't taste dry to me!!
I know I sound like a sad case, but when hubby came in with those crackers I could have done cartwheels (if I wasn't so fat :rolleyes:) I was so hungry!! They really hit the spot & I think they might have helped with that other issue!!
Yeah, I really want a microwave, I know I could shift things around in the utility & stick it in there but just haven't got round to it ... Btw, the sausages were only skinny (unlike me) so didn't take long to defrost naturally!!

Dobie, thanks for the spinach omelette idea, it sounds lovely

Full of iron as well isn't it, so good to eat at totm?? Do you buy it fresh or frozen??

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