New low-carb thread for post lockdown.

Just doing a dish from my current favourite cookbook Zaitoun by Yasmin Khan.
Minced (leftover) lamb cooked with spices and pomegranate molasses. Scrape out flesh from courgettes, bake the shells and also the flesh separately in a small dish. Mash the cooked flesh with tahini, garlic and lemon juice. Put the mince mixture in the hollow courgette and the tahini mixture on top.

Haha Riverwalk. It’s called willpower. I use it because my husband likes a sandwich for lunch. I can’t remember the last time I ate a sandwich. ?

Lidl do a low GI loaf but no bread is better ???

Rosalyn the problem with bread of any sort is that it's just so handy and eatable. You can't in a moment of weakness eat a potato or pasta - you have to cook them, but with bread you just toast it, thicken with lovely butter and away you go!

I keep a sliced Hovis or similar in the freezer for when I have a carb craving - which I've had a few times during Lockdown, if I had a lovely sourdough loaf I'd scoff the lot.

There are some good low carb breads around.

Tonight we are having Mustard Bangers with buttered courgettes. It is a Jonno Proudfoot low carb recipe. I have his book which is full of unusual, tasty recipes. I think lunch might be a low carb ploughman’s. ie. no roll

For lunch I had lamb & aubergine stew, from the freezer, with minted yoghurt and salad.

I have courgettes coming tomorrow in my Ocado order, along with a spiralizer.

Dinner will be feta & gammon salad.

We are having home made shepherd’s pie with cauliflower topping , this evening. My courgettes are secretly growing whenever I go indoors. So Spag Bol with courgetti sometime soon.

I did a lunch yesterday of thinly sliced courgette baked in the oven with an egg, a dollop of crème fraîche and grated cheese mixed together and poured over, then more cheese on top. It was delicious. We had salmon with spinach last night and tonight is roast lamb with courgettes in a parcel.

This morning I trotted off to newly-opened Peter Jones to buy a spiralizer but the queue was around the block, in 31 degrees.

I wasn't that desperate for courgetti!

I (and DH) have lost a stone and a half since Feb by following the 8 week blood sugar diet by Michael Mosley. It's not been easy, but we have managed to change our eating habits for the better.
I find it easier to eat healthily in the summer months. Don't know how we will do in the winter.

Yes our courgette crop is calling for the spiralizer. ?
Today is an eggy sort of day. Lunch was avocado with hard-boiled egg mashed in mayo and dinner is salade niçoise.

Must get out my spiralyser.......

Thanks for mentioning Greek salad Mamie - I have some feta which is looking for a home.

Yesterday I had a ragu sauce from the freezer, made with dry-aged rib of beef instead of mince, and it was a challenge not to have it with pasta! I roasted a load of peppers, courgettes, red onion, aubergines etc. and had some of that - a novel combination. Today I'll have some of the same mix with roast chicken.

I'm about to have breakfast of a large omelette aux fines herbes!

My husband reversed his type 2 diabetes with the low carb method. Tom Kerridge has an excellent low carb cookbook with generous portions.

Thanks Riverwalk that is helpful. (Much more so than bah oui ???).

Mamie Type 2 diabetes like high BP can often be controlled and managed by diet, weight loss & exercise but the underlying condition is still there, if you see what I mean. So your DH still has diabetes but no symptoms because of his lifestyle. I think that's what your doctor means!

Lunch will be smoked salmon salad, and I'm about to root around in the freezer for something for dinner.

I had berries and yoghurt for breakfast, lunch is a ham salad with a couple of pieces of fruit and dinner will be barbecued veal chops and Greek salad. Should be pretty low carb.
It is interesting what your doctor said about diabetes BBB. DH had pre-diabetes levels, went low-carb, lost 30kg, has kept weight off and results in normal range for over five years, but is still recorded as having diabetes by the doctor. I am not sure why. (Have tried asking but she just says "bah oui"....

I can't do without my two slices of toast and marmalade every morning, but always have homemade soup for lunch even in hot weather. DH actually likes cottage cheese!We are both trying to lose weight, DH has managed 8 pounds and I've lost about 5. We try to have 2 days a week of only soup for lunch and dinner. We only eat potatoes once or twice a week, last night we had pasta, but only an ounce each.

Furret try the Diet Doctor. Loads of recipes on there.
We are having salmon with lime, chilli and ginger this evening.Plus a salad. Then I always have berries and Greek yoghurt for pudding.

There are many many low carb (Keto) diet recipes on Pinterest.

I second what BBevan says. Since losing just over three stone since January on the fast800 diet with 16.8 thrown in I have found that by adopting the 4.3 way of eating to be a good way of maintaining the loss. Simply restraint/calorie counting during the week with a bit of a splurge over the weekend. Until it all goes t..s up again of course.

Well done BB

My problem is I react badly to tomatoes and they are in so many tasty recipes. Can anyone share a favourite tomato-free recipe?

Even one recipe would be appreciated as it would add to my meagre stock. Thanks.

I'm feeling keen and motivated this morning! Been up since 05.00

Breakfast was fried eggs, mushrooms & previously slow-roasted tomatoes, and coffee.

I make a big batch of the tomatoes and keep them in the fridge - they're very useful and tasty and can be added to many meals. In a roasting tin with halved tomatoes, facing upwards, dash of olive oil and balsamic, salt & pepper and a few sprigs of thyme, or dried thyme - about 2 hours at 150c.

I'm soon off out for a 90-minute walk before it gets too hot!

Hello everyone. Still maintaining my weight loss of 2015, with low carb eating. My GP says my diabetes has been resolved. Blood sugar has been in normal range since 2015. I use fasting ( 16:8 ) and apart from the odd treat, stick to low carb