lowcarblogger for life!

Living with T2 diabetes. This blog serves as reminders to myself about lowcarb food ideas/recipes with the occasional Filipino twist (because that's where my family is from) or French twist (because that's where my husband is from.) I hope it helps others too!

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Ho-leee sheet this is sooo good!

Burratta

Butternut Pumpkin soup (with coconut milk)

Almond flakes

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My husband got us an airfryer for Christmas and made me apple crisps! Now I have a crunchy snack solution. Proper kale chips here we come! :D

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Crab and asparagus soup attempt number kabillion and I think I finally got it right!!

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When you don't really have much options for snack on a low carb diet so you make yourself 2 teas...

Tea 1: matcha with pea milk

Tea 2: Eton Mess flavoured tea from bird and blend tea co.

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Burrata! My diet friendly dessert... When my dinner doesn't have enough fat in it so I need a little extra to curb my hunger.

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Hey! I'm on Metformin (500mgs -> 1000mgs next week) and astorvastatin (10mg) now. New neighbourhood, new doctor who insisted. Anyway, I'm making pork soup tonight and sleeping way too much these days. I think I'm lacking vitamin D. Mixed feelings, largely frustration, exhaustion and resignation.

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Sour fish soup! (Sinigang)

I normally use pork but we had so much fish in the freezer I had to do something about it... I knew you could use fish in sinigang but wasn't sure this would work out.

This was a big hit with my husband! I think moving forward we'll do seafood sinigang--it's less fatty than pork but still extremely filling!

I'm also so pleased how much keto veggies I get to use. Normally sinigang has root veggies in it but I do without.

Ingredients

Fry 2 mins:

Cooking oil (1 tbsp)

Garlic (3 cloves)

Red Onion (1/3)

Add and fry 5 mins:

Green beans (1 pack)

Aubergine (1 small)

Sinigang flavouring (1/2 sachet)

Add and fry 1 min

Cod Cheeks (a handful)

Skate fin (1 piece)

Add water to cover the level of ingredients (not too much)

Flavour with salt

Add more Sinigang flavouring to taste

Cook for 10 mins

Add tomato (x2)

Separate out some water into a small pot and boil

Samphire (100 gms)

For 2-3 mins

Serve in a bowl, top off with some of the samphire.

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My local fishmongers introduced me to samphire. I've been missing out on so much! I could snack on it all day... (Although I probably shouldn't... Haha)

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Keto blueberry cheesecake by Romeo's Sugar Free Cafe in Islington.

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Another successful soup!

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Making wrap-less wonton soup!

I realise that makes it just meatball soup? Lol.

Enokitake mushrooms is my personal modification of this recipe... They kinda become surrogate noodles for low-carbers!

Meatballs are made of: minced pork, prawns, black fungus, salt, pepper, garlic granules.

Add these to water with Vege or chicken stock.

Add enokitake mushrooms and bok choy after 10 mins... Then turn off heat after 2 more mins!

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Wow!! My steak lunch came with a block of bone marrow! This was at The Albion in Islington. I was being real good today and asked to have my fries swapped with salad. I pouted as I ordered but I guess my insulin-resistant cells are happy.

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I've been ordering burrata from an Italian restaurant as my dessert but they recently removed my usual main meal from their menu so we stopped ordering from them.

I found burrata in my local Italian grocer. I don't know if I'm doing it right... But hey! Diet adhering snack! :D

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I've mastered the art of retaining coffee foam from a coffee press. Mahahaha... It's a bit of a hack though...

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Sorry, long time no post again... Been cooking the same stuff really... Here's my curry chicken in progress...

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Hardcore keto for dinner tonight... Chicken stuffed with goats cheese and wrapped in bacon. Avocado on the side. Meal by my husband.

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Aghhh noooo I haven't posted here in so long!

Here's a couple of my recent cookings.