Low-carb diets support thread

Gray_Malkin

Evening folks :hello:

I find some parts of low carbing are cheaper than others, and it depends on our menu how much we spend each week. Fresh seasonal veg, the cheaper cuts of meat and stuff like cheese, salad and cream can turn into some really tasty, easy and economical meals. It's the extras that I find can hike the budget up - like the bread I made this afternoon. Very tasty, but at £5 for the flax seed meal, 5 eggs, olive oil and seasoning, it was quite an expensive loaf! It's all gone in one meal too. It's OK for an occasional treat, but I don't think I'll be making it every day.

Hope you've all had a good day.

bossymoo

Evening All,

Not had chance to read through all, hugs to everyone who needs them.

Been quite busy with the tots today. DD has been horrible and the lady in the shoe shop suggested she might be coming down with something, felt guilty then. Sent her to bed tonight with a good dose of medicine and a dummy. Hoping it will make her a bit more comfortable...

We all shared smoked salmon and scrambled egg this morning, I cheated a bit and treated them to fish and chips at lunch, I just had fish and didn't eat the batter, so not much of a cheat. To be honest, they barely ate half a bag of chips between them, both much more interested in the fish. Have had chicken in a sundries tomato and onion sauce tonight, with some plain oaken yoghurt and a bit of sf jelly crystals sprinkled over.

Need to have my oatbran, might take it up to bed with me.

So my weight has been creeping back downwards since I went back to Dukan. Was that Sunday? Or Monday? Anyway, am 2.5 to 3 pounds down. If I wittier on about getting bored with it will you all just tell me to shut up and stick at it please? Because I won't learn my lesson...

Anyway, gonna say night night those kiddies have exhausted me, and it's a double bank holiday, groan!

jm2926

Can I have the link to your blog please Edwardia?

I use Evernote too, it's really handy and syncs across my laptop and phone

Edwardia

Have PM'd you the link. I've changed the name of the blog now and made it more private so I hope that bots can't copy it in future x fingers. I'm going to give the URL to my GP so he can keep track of me hehe.

I lurve Evernote, I was introduced to it by a guy who is now a hedge funder/entrepreneur in Switzerland whom I first came across when he was in his first year at Cambridge must be four or five years ago now. It's really indispensable.

D - Organic salmon fillets from ASDA 2 for £4 - tasteless compared to the wild ones, I have to say (wild are same price) with buttered leeks and green beans.

Have rummaged in freezer, now got veal mince (500g £4 or 3 for £10 Waitrose) defrosting for curry tomorrow night, duck legs ( 6 legs for £10 Waitrose) for Saturday and some wild North Atlantic prawns for my lunch tomorrow Wild North Atlantic shell-on prawns make Edwardia a happy bunny especially at only £5 per kilo. Found a wild rabbit in there so have to look for a recipe. Have vague idea of doing fricassee du lapin avec sauce moutarde for OH on Monday.

Night all xx

daska

Me too for your blog link please Edwardia Am lurking but busy and knackered and feeling apprehensive about my looming houseful on Saturday.

DS2's room is nearly done. This afternoon we fitted the fixings for the roller blind and the chandelier. I'm really pleased with the blind, a photographer friend kindly took a photo of a porthole mirror and added a holiday snap of a 'dragon island' as the view. We had this printed on canvas and then used it to replace the fabric of a roller blind I picked up in a sale. The chandelier is his birthday present from another friend, it's a small ship's wheel to which she's attached battery tealights wrapped in red acetate and hanging chains. Absolutely fabulous. She's coming back on Sunday to wallpaper the bottom half of one wall with a (really naff) fish wallpaper. The wall has a built in shelf about half way up so the paper will fit nicely below giving an underwater/fish tank feel complete with coral reef and rays. Above the shelf we're going for pale blue paint and a pirate ship decal. I've done 3/4 of the curtains for the bed so I really need to get the last set finished tomorrow before the guests arrive and then we can 'dress' the room next week on his birthday. Such fun!

Now it's just the challenge of 10 days of low carb dishes that are also suitable for vegetarians Dad may have reverted to being an omnivore but DS1 is bringing his veggie friend to stay again and he has very conservative tastes - last time he came he had to be dared to eat a piece of cheese and a grape together, how he'll cope with curry for breakfast I have no idea LOL.

mazzers

Gray_Malkin wrote: »

Evening folks :hello:

I find some parts of low carbing are cheaper than others, and it depends on our menu how much we spend each week. Fresh seasonal veg, the cheaper cuts of meat and stuff like cheese, salad and cream can turn into some really tasty, easy and economical meals. It's the extras that I find can hike the budget up - like the bread I made this afternoon. Very tasty, but at £5 for the flax seed meal, 5 eggs, olive oil and seasoning, it was quite an expensive loaf! It's all gone in one meal too. It's OK for an occasional treat, but I don't think I'll be making it every day.

Hope you've all had a good day.

I'm on a budget but i tend to bulk buy, it's one way of making sure i stick to it, it's also better value with p&p.. got a huuge 5kilo bag of golden linseeds (flax) for bread making from here

http://www.ecogreenstore.co.uk/linseed-golden-organic-5kg-p-2167.html?zenid=0e5add16b02fcedcf99f6a64620e42cd

Tesco often has huge bags of almonds on offer, i grind them into meal in my magic bullet and Aldi have good prices on everything else i use.

Edwardia

daska - the bedroom sounds wonderful ! Will PM you the URL. There are more than 200 recipes on the blog and you can search for things using labels eg Vegetarian or just the whole blog by putting in a word. Veggies are usually pretty adventurous ( was one for 15 yrs). Strange guy.

I was tidying up Evernote before going to bed and found buried in the depths of my files an email dated January 2010 from Dr Robert Lustig MD, yes the same doctor (well professor actually) who gave the famous Sugar: The Bitter Truth lecture that has had nearly 2.5 million hits on YouTube.

Spur of the moment, I dashed him off a thank you, updating him on my progress and I must have caught him at lunch or something with BlackBerry because San Francisco is way behind us and not five minutes later I got a short reply.

I asked Dr Lustig when his book is due out and he told me that I could pre-order it from Amazon so I have.

The book is called Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity and Disease, and retails at $17.13 USD from amazon.com (US) and is published 27 December.

I read Gary Taubes article ' What If It's All A Big Fat Lie' on New York Times website and then found Sugar: The Bitter Truth videod lecture byDr Lustig who's an endocrinologist.

I tracked Dr Lustig's email down and was stunned when he replied in 2010 and answered my questions. That convinced me to low carb. I'm even more stunned that he replied to me now and that he was pleased that I've done so well.

Impressive or what ?

SHEILA54

daska - I hope that your mammoth mealathon goes well and is easier than you think

mazzers - good to see you posting

devildog - have you slept any better and how is your dog doing?

confused76 - well done with the weight loss!

Edwardia (((Edwardia)))

bossymoo - glad that the weight is coming off again

sistercas - stop this nonsense and eat sensibly!! Lecture over but I get a bad stomach as soon as I divert from the plan and it isn't worth it

Mercy - you are quiet at the moment, is everything ok?

I find low carbing expensive but I am doing it on my own and trying to eat healthily without processed food. Just have to cut back elsewhere but get ground almonds, nuts and veg from Aldi when I can to save money.

Have a good day everyone:)

Angelfeathers

Heh, sorry, Edwardia, I work the beginning of the week so I tend to catch up with this and other threads towards the end of the week/weekend. J But it's nice to be missed! I know I don't tend to post a lot, but I do read everything! Aaaand now here's a long catching-up post! *g*

Marbett, coconut flour does taste a bit coconutty, but not overly so. I never even liked coconut before I started low-carbing, but now I love coconut oil, milk, flour and have even started on dessicated!

Thanks for all the lasagne/moussaka ideas, everyone!

My Achilles heel is pastries and cream cakes. Ordinary cakes I can still make using coconut or almond flour and while they're still carby from whatever I use to sweeten them, at least they're high protein too. But I haven't found a low carb alternative to pastries yet! At least pastries and cream cakes are some of the lower carb options in the cake range, so I guess I'm not sinning *too* badly by eating the odd !clair etc.!

Oh, and chocolate, but at least at 85% and only a square at most at a time that's not too big a problem!

Does anyone else miss being hungry? I love food and used to use being hungry (every 2-3 hours) as an excuse to eat. Now I'm not hungry between meals, I have no excuse, but I still crave that little something! Especially at work, because I sit at a desk all day and am used to breaking the day up with little snacks.

Gloomendoom, that's terrible! Who has a wedding evening reception without a buffet!!! (Mind you, I guess you've learned now: always take a little something with you just in case!)

Hugs to Devildog. That's very sad. :-(

Re. the cost of low-carbing – I budget everything very strictly (have a spreadsheet onto which goes *everything* I spend, with all the different budgets for things neatly separated out) and I can say categorically that my grocery bill has gone up by almost half as much again since I started low-carbing – that's mostly just for me as DH and DS still have bread, cereal, pasta, rice etc. to fill them up cheaply. I'll admit that some of that increase is due to me being more careful about the quality of meat and eggs that I buy, which obviously is for all of us, but some of the increase is definitely due to buying *more* eggs and meat. Especially eggs: I've probably quadrupled the amount of eggs I buy, as well as aiming for organic or at least good quality free range! I am constantly shopping around and taking advantage of offers etc., but I am really failing to get my grocery budget down to anywhere near what it used to be.

Though I have LOADS of veggies growing in the garden and am hoping that will help a little over the summer.

murphydog999

Edwardia, you are being very proactive, well done with your contact with the big-wigs. Can't you put your blog address on here, you aren't selling or advertising anything, or do you not want to?