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I've got a luverly bunch of coconuts (have a banana) - 10 / 10 club - all welcome

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FrannyandZooey · 26/03/2007 08:25

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

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Overrun · 28/03/2007 09:36

Morning campers. Big drum roll, I have ordered some pears
I like the sound of your recipe Franny, and I could do with scoring more portions at breakfast time, or at least having a healthier one, but I really don't like cocunut (sp) so would it work as well without it?
Lionheart - thanks for asking why your italics are not working, I didn't realise that you had to do asterisks after every word. What a pita
Hiya Strangetown

OH and one last thing, I had raw oats for breakfast today.

StrangeTown · 28/03/2007 10:38

Hello Overrun!

Sky and BT man here at moment, fed up of smiling and looking busy.
Bananas and Satsumas for snacks, avocado with lunch, lots of veg for tea. That's the plan, let's see how much of that smugness actually happens.

lionheart · 28/03/2007 12:04

Franny--is he worried about his mummy's mummy's carbon footprint?

What I want to know is if this granola mix counts as a point?

ST: we ought to have a smugometer, perhaps?

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FrannyandZooey · 28/03/2007 13:38

Overrun I think the coconut is partly for sweetness, but it comes out pretty sweet so I think it would be fine without it

It doesn't count as a portion, no, but it is nice to add fruit to, full of healthy stuff and not expensive and processed

Let's start the Smugometer rolling:

RAW oats for breakfast - 50 points

3 year old who knows that fruit out of season is WRONG - 500 points

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zippitippitoes · 28/03/2007 14:29

I am afraid franny thinks i am a disruptive influence on this thread..

so I shall keep quiet aboiut melon and jordans granola..which does have raw cane sugar in..as i never buy stuff with sugar in except chocolate occasionally I'm not sure how I did that any way when both bags are gone I shall give it up again

I have been to the gym..I have nearly finished my cheap tickets for it

now a moral dilemma..when I finish a book of the cheap tickets of which you are only allowed 3 books you swap it for a new one

I am at the end of my third book, do you think they will notice if I try and swap it for a 4th one? O rdo I just pay the full amount like everyone else?

lionheart · 28/03/2007 16:23

Is the gym expensive?

lionheart · 28/03/2007 16:25

Surely, the 500 points go to your DS and not you, Franny?

My DS made himself a strawberry sandwich today. Any points?

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FrannyandZooey · 28/03/2007 17:59

OOh no I am definitely taking the credit for the poncey in season thing

zippi you are a most lovely and entertaining bad influence on this thread and I hope you continue to disrupt us for many months to come

I feel it would not be correct of me to encourage you to be less than strictly honest at the gym (DO IT! DO IT!)

Strawberry sandwich pretty good IMO

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lionheart · 28/03/2007 20:09

Okay, you get the five hundred. It is rather impressive of him to have acquired such good eco-sense ...

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FrannyandZooey · 28/03/2007 21:19

He doesn't know it is an eco thing, in defence against brain washing allegations

I have told him that fruit tastes better in season, and the raspberries my mum bought were rather sharp, so he drew his own conclusions...

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lionheart · 28/03/2007 21:23

You still get the five hundred (no brainwashing allegations, honestly).

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FrannyandZooey · 28/03/2007 21:32

ooh no I didn't mean you lionheart

hypothetical allegations

so how are you finding the week? Any change to your mood and wellbeing? Any problems adjusting?

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lionheart · 28/03/2007 21:50

Well, it's day three and the numbers read 10:10: 8 so far.

I thought I'd feel hungry and depleted TBH (rather like you do when you go on a Diet with a capital D), but I don't--which is excellent.

Having trouble (seriously) with the volume of fruit and veg required but that's as much to do with the fact that I haven't properly figured

out how best to introduce new (smaller) things into the diet.

I am feeling really rather wholesome, actually.

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FrannyandZooey · 28/03/2007 21:52

Oh you have done brilliantly

Whatever strategies you are employing are working

I can't be arsed to get stern about exercise but we all must do some soon

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zippitippitoes · 28/03/2007 21:59

you are allowed food as well as fruit and veg aren't you

or am i misunderstanding

just saw the words diet and adjusting there?

lionheart · 28/03/2007 22:01

It was diet with a lower-case d, though, wasn't it?

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FrannyandZooey · 28/03/2007 22:05

Oh ZIPPI have you been eating FOOD as well you naughty girl

yes of course, eat what you like

just eat your 10 portions and whatever else you fancy

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FrannyandZooey · 28/03/2007 22:06

when I said adjusting I meant

in the digestive department

or sometimes I get a lot of headaches (detoxy) when I start eating very healthily

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suzycreamcheese · 28/03/2007 22:21

unzipped a banana, lots of juicy clemintines, red grapes never normally hot on the fruit...loads of salad lunch ....chili beans tonight brown rice...
where's me jesus sandals gone...?

no swimming two weeks in row ...now nearly easter no chance...the lord of the pre school works against me as have lost coffee morning virginity.....like a milestone it felt..ha ha....

thinking of getting an allotment....

lionheart · 28/03/2007 22:22

Adjusting is a eumphemism for ... things I couldn't possibly talk about on MN?

Got a head-ache now. So blimmen suggestible.

Overrun · 29/03/2007 09:54

Hiya, I am eating an apple as I type, hurray. I am even managing to walk for 10 minutes reasonably briskly. Had museli for breakfast. So I am all fired up and ready to go

Tatties · 29/03/2007 11:47

Morning!

So far I have had kiwi, blackberries, grapes, apple juice, dates and raisins. Will probably have some raw veg at lunch and I haven't a clue what to do for dinner...

Woke up with a sore throat and it is raining so ds and I are going to have a very lazy day...

Overrun · 29/03/2007 13:51

sorry to hear that you have a sore throat Tatties
I had some more of my swiss chard and butter bean concotion for lunch. Very yummy. Seem to munching apples compulsively today, don't know why.
I must think of something wholesome and veg laden for dinner. Not in a cooking mood though, but I am sure inspiration will come

Tatties · 29/03/2007 14:15

Oh I'm not too bad. But ds wants me to read stories all day which is not what I feel like doing...

I often have no inspiration for dinner when I look in the cupboard early on in the day, but I think my brain starts working on it without me realising and usually by tea time I've come up with something. I think I'll probably bung all the veg we have lurking around in an omelette tonight.

Overrun · 29/03/2007 17:01

I know where you are coming from on the story front, it gets a bit taxing on the old voice box doesn't it
I think I have been subconsciously been workign out what I was going to cook, as I have just started the meal off, without thinking really.
I am roasting some beetroot (haven't decided how I am going to serve them yet, but I have time to make my mind up. I have cut up cauliflower and have peeled and chopped some potatoes, but again, I will decide on their fate later in the day. I know that am going to use up the last of the ham I cooked on Sunday though. Its funny how we cook