The World Is Just a Great Big Onion - All New 10 / 10 Club Week 2

[FrannyandZooey]

For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - if you don't usually eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES OF EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 minutes is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

There are no restrictions on what you eat so long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving our energy levels and hopefully our general mood and well-being. Sign up below and post here to tell us how you're getting on and how you are feeling.

Today I have had two oranges, an apple, a carrot, two bowls of muesli with apple juice, two large hunks of granary bread with houmous and two bowls of soup containing carrots, cabbage, pearl barley, potatoes and butter beans. I might have another apple in a bit.

Greeny you have been a swot today. Franny will be along soon with a gold star. I am jealous because I have only had a 5-7 day and not a 10 gold star one.

HI Greeny, have just posted on your beets thread.
NQC, sounds like you have it all sorted
Tatties, I swigged milk and prune juice by the gallon, god no wonder I felt so crap
I have heard of the dried apricots, as my iron levels were very depleted after the dts, and that was one of the things i was advised

Franny has gone again

Gone, as in gone to bed? Or gone, as in, gone off MN again?

I can now add apple to my little list!
Normally would of been bicuits and anything else i could find to snack on!

Proper gone or just gone for the night?

You might have to sub for her then what with your veg box and all

Gawd, what did I miss? I thought Franny just went to bed early, as dp rises early?

No, no, she just isn't here right now was all I meant!!!!

I really have got my foot firmly wedged into my mouth these days

PHEW. That got us all het up, any road, I'm up the wooden hill to the land of nod now (don't really know the rhyme)

greensleeves feel full up looking at your list did you just eat all day?
oh, er de lentils are good for iron as am sure chief lentil weaver would confirm
lol ..is she gone or just for the night....oh strangey dont panic...

shock horror
am getting the exercise offers..friend suggested gently early morning run and ...i agreed...that was what i was going to say...

veg good ...fruit

LOL and at everyone panicking when I have gone to bed

oh dear I do love you all

Greeny you are head swot and get to give out the clean exercise books, well done old girl

Ok, have done mad bike ride to town. Quads not very happy, between run yesterday (4.5 miles, it turns out) and ride today. Big walk this afternoon, while DS2 sleeps.

Muesli, nothing else yet.

Oh well done folks, she will be even more unbearable now

I am drinking rose and vanilla tea, does that count as a vegetable portion?

Am trying to muster the wherewithall to eat some muesli for breakfast, but have got septic craters in my throat AGAIN, and a cracked lip

If necessarily I will juice a pile of assorted vegetation and suck it in through a straw, I am not losing my 10/10 prefect's badge!

I've been eating so much fruit and veg that I appear to be getting my 10 mins exercise running back and forth to the loo all day... I'm feeling so much better already for it. (the f&v not the bog running )

lol @ the panic - Franny, you are not allowed to sleep. You must be on MN 24/7

Good lord NQC, I continue to be impressed, hope your quads (I thought you had two dss continue to improve)
Franny, we have only got over our last seperation so it was a bit of a worry
Greeny, you sound like me, always ill with something
Suzy, a gentle run in the morning sounds amazing to me. I always think about doing things like that, but never manage it
Have had a banana, some grapes and an orange juice.
Can any one recommend another way of doing Fennel other than with parmesan cheese in the oven?

I like fennel:

• raw, in salads
• sliced, in stir fry
• as a substitute for celery - in gazpacho, soup, whatever.

Can I ask a dim question here, Vegetable Ones?

If I have, say, a fruit salad, or a mixed salad, then how many portions of fruit/veg does that count as?

God I dont' know, but if you go to the start of the thread, there is a link with portion amounts on it
Thanks NQC. I will try something different with it tonight, as although I like it with parmesan cheese, I am trying to eat a little less calories atm

Thanks - that's helpful .

I did quite well yesterday (food wise) - had lots of fruit at breakfast time, an avo with lunch and a huge pork stir fry with pak choi, red peppers, leeks and bean sprouts yummm.

Went swimming this morning - didn't manage even half the amount of lengths as normal (ggrrr) but did, at the end, cough up a HUGE solid ball of phlegm and now my chest feels much better

Am making lamb curry tonight so will shove in some cabbage and flag beans and hopefully shove some more veg down my throat this lunch time as the kids have friends round so I'm making more of a vegetable effort than normal

Hope you are not getting the vile flu thing Greeny. Have you got some chloraseptic throat spray - tis great for nasty throat things.

greeny..you should be in isolation ward with septic crater on throat .....methinks!!

havent started run penciled in for thursdays...go swimming on tuesdays
dont know this girl!!!

fennel..great in soups, grated or chopped..in winter salad (red cabbage, carrot, spring onion, red pointydog peppers, grated up the fennnel that is...parsley / coriander nice in it too...
i roast it just w/oil for sarnies, paninis etc...

just been dancing round kitchen to loads of songs so more exercise at least ten minutes..

what a feeling
ashes to ashes
at least 1/2 portion of 10 minutes...

but banana slices after porridge and

...chocolate hob nobs

My word you are all busy today, what fab reports

Welcome Mrs PG, erm, about the portion sizes.... I didn't actually do the links this week one of them is a pdf file and it always arses up my pc every time I open it to link to it

will do them again next week I promise

meanwhile, a portion size for fruit is about as much as you could hold in your hand. I reckon (ie 1 apple, 2 small satsumas, 2 plums, 1 banana). So you could estimate portion size from that. Salad, however, I have no ruddy idea about, it always confuses me. Maybe someone else can tell us both?

LOl Suzy, I do dancing as a form of exercise. I enjoy that more than other forms. I am thinking that maybe Badmington or something ( I know it has a bit of a middle aged feel to it) but think that I need an exercise that is different every time, to off set the boredom I feel when doing these aerobics classes.
Thanks for all the fennel ideas I will try one of them out tonight.
For lunch I had a tomatoes in my cheese sandwhich and tons of grapes. The dts were scoffing along with me, but ds1 did his usual strop Really get so fed up with his poor eating.
On that subject, I am thinking of withholding any form of cake as a treat until he starts eating more healthily. I made a carrot cake yesterday before deciding this, and my thinking was (its one way of getting veg into him (little steps). I have just told him of the new rules, and he thought for a while and then said solemnly. "I do eat vegetables Mummy, I ate some carrot cake yesterday" Talk about hoisted by my own petard. So my question: Do I let him have some after dinner tonight, or not?
Hi Fox, glad your swim brought results