Fruit Eaters of the World...Unite and Take Over - 10 / 10 club

[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.

Basic guidance on what constitutes a portion of fruit and veg here and more detailed information here

looney tune

I BEG your pardon??

loopy lentil-face

How about I bike to Central London to drop off now-clearly-fine DS1 instead. Grrr.

I didn't need the exercise! I wanted to lie still!

Have we got a bouncer on this thread? NQC, you've got the biggest muscles. Can you evict this...this....tinkly troublemaker

(sorry you are not well )

Erm, our veg box thing has a website so you can check each week what you are getting. This week it said there was no citrus, so I send dp out for huge anounts of clementines yesterday (we are all addicted). The box has now turned up and contains not only clementines but oranges. We currently have 65 pieces of citrus fruit in the house

Afternoon all

I work for a company that makes houmous and I can categorically state that the spelling is houmous and the pronunciation is hummus.

So there.

I wont attempt to catch up, but will just say that you won't be suprised to hear that I make my own hummus, and always used dried I use a Nigella trick which is to add 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda, and 1 tablespoon each of salt and flour all mixed up into a paste, then add to the cold water you have covered the chick peas with. If any one wants her superb recipe for hummus let me know, don't want to turn this into a cooking thread
Well I am plugging along really. Looking after my grandparents while my parents have been away and world book day costumes (not to mention St Davids day costumes) have taken up a lot of my time.
As usual exercise falls by the wayside, but think I am mananging to keep up my portions. So far today, I have had a banana chopped on my cereal, an apple, and beef stew for lunch (which had carrot, celery, leek and onion in) I also had some broccili with it.
Another apple this afternoon, and am just trying to think up a suitably veg packed dinner, to offset the sticky chocolate toffee pudding I have bought for dessert

I think my consumption today has been a bit cack, actually. Ironic as I now have the towering fruitbowl of Pisa.

Still I have BOOKED MYSELF IN AT THE GYM just in case anyone missed that bit. Yes AT THE GYM that is correct.

A tumultuous round of applause Franny, meant to say earlier, well done about the gym. I have now lengthened my name again, because, wait for it, more lemming behaviour here, you have I take it the joke is over then?
Had a very healthy and veg packed dinner, of pasta with swiss chard, mushrooms and garlic. It was deliscious

overrun - I'd be interested in recipe for hummous. I can still make myself feel sick remembering the taste of my last effort (too much tahini, need I say more...)

Hello everyone. Sorry some of you have not been feeling so good.
Been working away for 2 days, but have managed to get 7 or so portions in so am not feeling too bad.
DH away for a week now, so will be able to have lots of lovely light, veg oriented dinners, rather than indulging his meat addiction.

I love it when NQC says Gah and Grr

Vixen, your wish is my command
Soak chick peas for a good 24 hours, longer if you can manange it. Patience is the key to this recipe. See below for my paste that I add.
Drain and rinse off the paste, and then simmer for at least an hour and a half with a whole peeled onion, bay leaves and 3 unpeeled garlic cloves.Some people say they can take 4 hours, so ignore the 45 minutes on the packet (it aint long enough). Also don't take the lid off for at least an hour, as this can make them harden.
Anyway, once they are ready dunk a mug in and retain 350ml of cooking liquid. Then drain them. Discard garlic, onion and bay leaves.
In the food processor:
4 peeled garlic cloves, 100ml of cooking liquid, 3 tablespoons of olive oil, 9 tablespoons of tahini, a teaspoon of salt, juice of 1 lemon, pinch of cumin. And the chick peas. Blitz until pureed. Add more cooking liquid as you go, to slacken the mixture to your taste, add a grind of black pepper. Nigella adds 3 tablespoons of greek yoghurt, which although not authentic (does make it creamy).
Taste, it might need some more lemon juice or seasoning.
Keep in the fridge, but get it out an hour before you want to eat it.

Today ive had a banana, 2 madarins, 4 raw carrots! Ummm and thats all. Not very immpressive.

Find it harder to get the veg in than the fruit.

Had enough money for a few carrots.

You know, I have got a bit squidgy round the middle over Christmas and normally, eating like this would get me noticing the difference by now (we have been going 2 weeks, haven't we?), but my clothes still feel the same. I wonder if it is the breastfeeding? Wouldn't have thought that little slurp at bedtime would make much difference. Ah well perhaps it is the gym.

Am coaching again this morning, (only 1 session though - funnily enough no-one seems to want to get their 2 year old out of bed to sit ina draughty sports hall for 9 am on a Saturday morning ) and eating melon, apple, pear, raisins, soya milk.

fooey

a. notice you get us all to take on daft names then change yours back. OOOH nice

b. um...exercise...2 yos...

no can't get my head rounds it.

they don't STOP exercising do they? they never stand still

am most impressed you can get money from it. i mean that.

I know I know

it was not my idea, it is someone else's business but I agree

at the idea of coaching 2 year olds on how to be active

(I do mostly just play games etc with them but we CALL it sport )

Well, I had a banana with my weatabix again (getting to be a habbit), an apple and then thats it. Will chomp on a clementine or two after I have finished posting. I have been shopping and cooking all day, no time to eat
I thought I was a bit more streamlined, but now seem to have a very squidgy middle Good luck at the gym, I so wish I could afford to go to one
I will make up the portion deficit at dinner thougth. I have made an Anchoiade, which as well as having anchovvies in, also has olives, garlic, shallots, tomatoes,basil and oregano. Then we are having celeriac, potatoe and onion gratin, with summer peas (thats with lettuce and spring onions to all you phillistines , with baked shallots, and also roast peppers. We are also having summer fruits with cream and merringue for dessert. So I think I will meet my quota, but god, i don't want to think about the waist line

Absolutly no fruit or veg has been eaten today.
Might put some in with dinner, whatever i'm having!

am very of this, franny, really

first the "playing with normal household objects for ££££ an hour", then this

(seriously, its the kind of thing my two would love [smile)

Ah, Filly, it isn't ££££ an hour, that was my local Montessori. Mine is merely £ an hour and you get Duchy Original's biscuits.

Yes I agree it is really rather good though - I didn't completely fluke the job however - I looked after the owner's children for 7 years which counts for something I think

It is fun for me as I get to work with other adults, use lots of sprauncey equipment, and ds gets to go to the older kids session which he ADORES

Meanwhile the house is bursting with fruit and I ate virtually none yesterday, so I am going to try and remedy that.

No exercise yesterday. Lying still. Didn't even leave the house. I did eat tuna pasta (onion, garlic, tomato) and a very good citrus binge (well, just a giant pomelo and a grapefruit). I am still madly in love with pomelos.

I am feeling a bit better today but DS2 is very sweaty and weird, woke at 5:30am and would only settle by bf in my bed. I got up to go to the loo, and came back to find DH and DS2 happily asleep and didn't dare climbing back into bed, figuring none of us would get sleep if I did that.

I did try to sleep with DS1 when he woke up, but that worked about as well as you'd guess.

No idea what we're up to today. Tomorrow is insane, as I will be a) working a shift, with shadow b) going over to someone's house after the school run c) going out drinking.

Hope you feel better today

I think I am maybe on the mend. Will try to leave the house this week.

Ha ha ha at typo 'this week'. I meant, 'today'.

No choice about leaving the house next week. Or any week.

Wow DS2 is stinky. He sweated so much in our bed, he was wet this morning.