WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Stanley]

One of the problems about cooking for yourself when you live alone is quantities.... Such is the pease pudding problem. Even though I froze three bowls I still had too much! Hence the concentration on pease pudding over the last couple of days! Yesterday I had two pease pudding butties for dinner and two for tea! I have it in a corner now, only one helping left in the pan. It's a good job I like it! Mind you, I cracked last night and got the munchies so I had two more oven bottoms with St Augur cheese on, naughty but nice.... I feel so guilty!

[Moh]

A little bit of what you fancy etc.......
Liver & onions tonight with beans and sliced potatoes.

[Stanley]

I think it does you good Moh, as long as it doesn't get to be a habit!
Steak pudding, last of the pease pudding in the pan and deep fried carrots for dinner. Pie and peas for tea with a St Augur butty for afters.

[Marilyn]

Red Salmon/Broccoli/Spinach Mornay, with Baby Peas tonight.

[Stanley]

Two small butties, Haslet and coleslaw for dinner. Steak pudding with pease pudding and chipped sweet potatoes for tea.

[Moh]

Roast lemon & garlic chicken tonight with roast potatoes & parsnips, cauli. & gravy.

[Wendyf]

last night I tried frying some strips of cod coated in dessicated coconut rather than breadcrumbs. It was quite tasty served with steamed broccoli, green beans, spinach and a few celeriac chips.

[Big Kev]

I made a low carb curry dinner today and suffered a bit of a low this afternoon, fortunately I had some chocolate in the cupboard which sorted me out pretty quickly. Glucose levels were up to 5.1mmol after the chocolate, that's the first time I've had a hypo since following a low carb diet plan. May need to tweak the medication if it happens again.

[Wendyf]

Sounds good Kev. Are you getting support from your doctor? I don't mean good that your sugar level went too low! Just good that you can think about reducing your meds.

[Stanley]

If I've ever had a hypo I haven't noticed it. I suspect my brush with Type 2 is a lot more benign than most. Good luck with it Kev.
I had meat pie and the second bowl of frozen pease pudding for dinner. Tea was not up to my usual standard. I had been given a pot of very expensive sweet and sour cook in sauce and did some sausage and cauliflower in it. I didn't like it at all and after eating half of it threw the other half away. Not a patch on my home made cook in sauce, thin and insubstantial.... I suspect there was a lot of MSG in it...

[Big Kev]

Sounds good Kev. Are you getting support from your doctor? I don't mean good that your sugar level went too low! Just good that you can think about reducing your meds.

I saw the diabetic nurse back in December and my hba1c was high, I made a decision to do something about it and reduced my carbohydrate intake. As yet neither my GP or the nurse are aware of the changes, I'm due a call back to the clinic in 4 months so I may wait until then unless I have another hypo of course

[Wendyf]

Stanley, you won't have a hypo taking Metformin. It is sulfonylureas, the other class of drugs given to stimulate the production of insulin, (or insulin injections) that can cause hypos in type 2 diabetics.
Col saw an NHS dietician last week who was very supportive of his low carb regime, she is arranging for him to see a specialist who is campaigning for a change in the NHS guidelines for diabetics.

[Big Kev]

If I've ever had a hypo I haven't noticed it. I suspect my brush with Type 2 is a lot more benign than most.

You'd know, trust me. With regard to type 2 Ithink you either have it or you don't, there is a condition they call "pre diabetes" which can be reversed with careful diet but once on medication it's ongoing. I take a selection of drugs on a daily basis, you've gotta love living through chemistry

[Wendyf]

Have you read Michael Mosley's book on the subject Kev? HERE
Col was taking 4 Gliclizide and 3 Metformin a day and still getting increasingly high readings, but since limiting his carbohydrate intake to under 75gms a day he is managing well on just 2 Gliclizide, one morning and one tea time. His fasting level in a morning is still slightly higher than he would like (it goes up overnight) but there are no peaks after meals so he is hoping to see a considerable improvement in his HbA1c level next time.

[Moh]

Cold chicken with carrots, cabbage, mash & gravy tonight.

[Big Kev]

Have you read Michael Mosley's book on the subject Kev? HERE
Col was taking 4 Gliclizide and 3 Metformin a day and still getting increasingly high readings, but since limiting his carbohydrate intake to under 75gms a day he is managing well on just 2 Gliclizide, one morning and one tea time. His fasting level in a morning is still slightly higher than he would like (it goes up overnight) but there are no peaks after meals so he is hoping to see a considerable improvement in his HbA1c level next time.

I'll have a read of that, thanks Wendy. I've been using the diabetes UK 10 week plan, not completely just as a prompt and it seems to be working. I had to have some bread this afternoon as I was 5.1 at 3pm. I would have been too low by teatime.

[Stanley]

Kev, they tell me I am classed as pre-diabetic now that I have lost weight. I've taken my own decision and cut the Metformin back to 3 a day and am watching the weight. So far, so good! It sounds as though I am lucky!
One and a half very small haslet and coleslaw butties for dinner. I built a mutton stew but it wasn't quite ready at teatime so I had two small oven bottoms with bacon and fried egg. The mutton will kick in today.....

[Moh]

Toad in the hole tonight.

[Tripps]

Tomorrow's tea.
I went to Newmarket today - first time for ages. Pleased to see that Tennants Butchers are still going.

That's what a real butcher's should look like. I got some Suffolk black bacon, dry cured with a black finish (treacle cure?). Some chuck steak, and some lamb neck chops. Those because MOH had them the other day, and it reminded me that I used to have them regularly a long time ago.

That's tea sorted for a week or so.

[Marilyn]

Shallow fried, Crumbed Whiting tonight with loads of Salad, and a hard boiled egg.
I got creative today and made a Potato/Cauliflower/Sweetcorn Salad...with a dressing made from a combination of Mayo, Salad Cream, Freshly squeezed Lemon, Parsley, Chives, Black Pepper and finely chopped Brown Onion. I must say it is rather delicious. Will go nicely with the fish and Garden Salad.

[Stanley]

The Mutton came to with added carrots, peas, the last of the Pease pudding and sweet potato. Had a bowl for dinner and froze three bowls. Felt like a change for tea so I had two oven bottoms with beetroot on them.

[Moh]

Some of the cheaper cuts are the tastiest, especially if cooked slowly.
Lamb chops, roast potatoes & parsnip, cabbage & gravy tonight.

[Tripps]

"Some of the cheaper cuts are the tastiest, especially if cooked slowly."

I was well into my twenties before I realised I'd only ever had the 'cheaper cuts'

[Stanley]

Same here David! I was reared on Scrag, neck end, skirt , oxtail, pork belly and mutton breast. Moh is right about flavour. Shin beef is far tastier than fillet steak!
I had the last of the mutton stew in the pan for dinner and washed it out. By the way, the meat in that was leg hock, neck end and a couple of mutton steaks. The hock was particularly good after long slow cooking.... I had to go to the Pioneer for milk and so treated myself to a C-op best pizza for tea. They are expensive, £4, but really good ingredients. I enjoy one occasion ally but with added grated cheddar cheese!

[Stanley]

Pilchard mashed with salad cream on two small butties for dinner. Boiled swede, steamed green cabbage and a bowl of the mutton stew out of the freezer for tea.