"Annabel Smyth" wrote in message
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Well, today I had a banana for breakfast, lunch was *not* what it should
have been so let's not go there.... and dinner will be baked trout, with
packet wine sauce and/or home-made roasted pepper sauce, boiled new
potatoes, steamed carrots and cauliflower, followed by home-made
blackberry/raspberry parfait (we have guests!). Probably olives for
nibbles to start with, I expect, if our guests like olives.
--
Annabel - "Mrs Redboots"
90/70/89 kg


If I ate a lone banana for lunch, I assure you lunch would be out of
control. Bananas are extremely high on the glycemic index causing a rapid
rise followed by a rapid fall in glucose. Hunger is inevetible for me. If
I choose to enjoy a banana, I have to combine it with a protien and/or fat
source. I generally choose fruits that don't rock the blood glucose as
much, though, such as an apple or canteloupe.

If all I have time for at breakfast is a banana then I would do much better
to skip it all together.

My food for today has been half of a low carb bun topped with a two percent
cheese slice and an egg. It is after three and I am not hungry as yet. I
have also walked four miles. Tonight, I will make tomato soup which will
likely keep me for a couple of hours until I can cook something really good.
Likely, it will be salad and lean chicken or steak and then a half a serving
of low carb mac and cheese. I frequently have a glass or two of wine with
my evening meal.

You dinner, pardon me for saying so, seems very high in calories. I have no
experience with a prepackaged wine sauce. I prefer to make my own as I
always have some left over wine I am unwilling to drink and it involves
making a roux, etc. I can see having steamed veggies or boiled potatoes but
not both at the same time. Also, I know olives are a special treat but
aren't they very high in calories? What do you make the parfait with? Will
wine be served? That's another couple of hundred calories. Is this typical
of dinner or just a special occasion?

I understand what Elly is saying about the nectarines! I have bought some
that were so sweet they were like candy and others are almost bitter.
Better to add a little sweetener than to throw out the whole lot.

Just my two cents worth.

j