We eat fruit, go for a walk and then talk about it - 10 / 10 club - all welcome

[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 you can download more detailed information here (follow the link at the very bottom of the page)

I have been waiting to use cod's quote (see title) for when I could not think of anything else. Suggestions for next week always welcome...

I have eaten apple, pear, kiwi, raisins and melon so far

Hope everyone is well, please all sign in and we shall try to rev one another up for the week

A couple of good things happened to us at the weekend - spotted in the market some yellow baby plum tomatoes - £1 for a huge bowlful which we have been eating like sweeties!

And yesterday made a lovely vegan curry for dinner with fresh garlic, ginger and chillies and onions, carrots, mushrooms, peppers and birds eye soya beans using canned coconut milk for the sauce base. And I always make too much so I am having it again today.

Ooh that sounds good anorak. I love coconut curries - I use a block of creamed coconut melted into the sauce and add ground almonds and raisins for extra sweetness

I have some in the freezer, I'll get some out for tonight I think

i wa htinkign of you lot last ngiht
dh is away a LOT

my fave tea is a lgass of wine
and a tuna steak or a slmon steak bbq ed ( soy and ginger) wiht a MOUND of puprle srouting and asparagus

2 hours housework for today's excercise! (ye Gods, I have a floor!)

Fruit and porridge for brekkie, have made spinach and letil soup for lunch, It looks really primevil and swamp like....but I'm sure it will taste yummy . Homegrown spinach in it

Greeny - do you have a polytunnel? How the heck have you got mange toute already?

Dinner will prob be rest of yesterday's chicken with huge salad and baked spuds, home made coleslaw which I am counting as a portion due to high concentration of red and white cabbage and carrot and red onion and raisins in.

Of course your coleslaw counts as a portion!

Mmmm purple sprouting - yum! Is that you cod? (typing!)

Yay, I think the title lured cod in (it was her description of the 10 / 10 thread)

we all love psb here, you should join us cod

Oh FMF thank you for the reminder, I have half a red cabbage here begging to be made into coleslaw (gorgeous and definitely counts as one of your 10)

spinach and lentil sounds extremely saintly

hello

have been a bit rubbish ately, but have been preaching the 10/10 ethos to all who'll listen (mostlypeople i emply, i grant you, so im sure they feel they have to listen )
have not even tried to count - i have been stressed to the eyblls - even been to samaritns website; in the words of the wonderpets; this is serious!
things hopefully on mend now... but life just waaaaaaaaay to busy and demanding to give this my all right now.

good to see you lot anyway!

NG please let us know if we can help. I am sorry things have been so tough for you

please whizz past whenever you like, you don't need to have done your homework first

Does anyone have a good recipe for carrot soup without corriander (dh thinks it tastes like soap)? I figured this was the best place to ask. I made parsnip today which dd adored. I am having a bit of a soup a day week this week I think - all vegetable of course.

Hi FMV how are your boys? My ds has unexpectedly turned all co operative and lovely this spring without any intervention on my part. Long may it last .

Lor I loathe coriander too

I just bung carrots in with other stuff, onions, celery, usually another root veg or squash, and red lentils

very nice

I think that would happen to me too, Frannyandzooey, the sprouts in their packets often go off before I eat them as well!

yesterday was QUITE good, porridge with 'rude health' muesli (quinoi and linseeds) mixed in. Boiled eggs with rye toast, no salad and then roast pork for tea. Loads of veg with it, green beans, swede, savoy with fennel seeds and carrots, BUT, ahem, a whole ton of crackling and gravy and Perry (pear cider)

So far today, pineapple chew bar with banana. Two nectarines and apple mid morning and lunch.. still deciding whether to have oatcakes with ham/mustard and egg/salad or veg soup. Waitrose do a really nice morrocan one which is dairy free (nearly all shop ones have milk in)
and it's lovely.

I quite often put ginger in carrot soup, or beetroot, as although I love coriander I don't like it in carrot soup much.

i love coriander leaves in salad. it isa coriander im thinking of..maybe..

francoise, thank you my dear. will yell if theres owt you can do . really is a much brighter day today, so no need to worry

LOVE tuna steaks with coriander and lime though..

MrsC that all sounds rather wonderful. Perry LOL! Haven't seen that for a long time

We had avocado sandwiches for lunch with beetroot, carrot, and red pepper. Am off out in the rain to music group on the bike and I am NOT feeling energetic

yuk to your sarnies franny
really
surely they a ll ended up brown?

what because of the beetroot etc? That bit was separate. It does sound a bizarre mixture otherwise I admit.

Helloo. Dd2 is sleeping companionably in my lap and I'm very hungry. Don't want to disturb her though and we're out of one-handed fruit. May have to eat unsuitable foods.

ooh goody are you all back

you all went quiet for a while there and I lost you

right the brake went on the bike so had to turn back half way

arse

am back home again, wet, tired and nothing to entertain us the rest of this long wet afternoon

sorry Capp I dropped the ball

TooT no-one could blame you...(LOL at one handed fruit)

Yes, they had it on Great British Dinners or whatever it's called the other day and DH said he fancied some with the pork. We had loads of pear cider at glastonbury a couple of years ago
but I didn't know it was called perry. It was very strong though

I had such a rubbish weekend food wise. However, porridge, melon and kiwi for breakfast, homemade veggie soup for lunch and planning on a watercress, tomato, beetroot (I love beetroot), avocado salad with a jacket potato for dinner. Braved the crowds at the supermarket, went for a walk and chased dd round the house on all fours for about 20 mins.

Not that I am feeling smug. I have an awful lot to make up for after a completely appalling weekend. How is your cold Franny?

And tooticky, I'd forgotten how sweet it is when they sleep on your lap. DD doesn't do that anymore and I do miss it.

Twofalls I think smugness is justified

Cold is better thanks but I still feel in a real low with regards to energy

must do something, exercise more or whatever