Heaven Knows I'm Vegetable Now - 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 if you follow the link at the very bottom of the page

also avoiding acidic foods, orange, tomatoes, pineapple etc.

not too good with yeast either

Amazing I'm not losing weight really, perhaps I have too many delicious substitutes like coconut macaroons, dark orange choc list goes on...

No MrsC I was interested

I agree with you about doctors saying dairy does not get through but the reality being different, hadn't heard it for wheat though

I think you will be WILDLY healthy without milk and wheat

on that note my parents are coming to visit tomorrow. I think they are in the employ of the Milk Marketing Board and the World Wheat Council if there is such a thing, so I am expecting to have a cheesy, wheaty kind of day.

ah the weight loss thing

now that is exercise really, isn't it?

just wait until I have eaten another few million algae and then I will whip us all into shape

It is an unusually good thread title this time Franny, I must say

I was working on it all last evening after Cappucino's superb title coup yesterday

I even enlisted dp's help

could not come up with a ruddy thing then this morning - ping

even got an homage to Capp's thread in there as well

yes

walking to and from town or school is just not enough, I used to be much fitter.

I have a friend who wants to start running but I'm putting off starting!

wheaty cheesy day, yum! My mother only eats peas, they're the only vegetable I don't like! Wonder why

eggs chips and peas

egg fried rice with peas

corn beef hash with peas

peas with peas

I got a paper round when I was 11 and went straight out and bought houmous brown bread and orange juice!

MrsC, I was most impressed at your banana, lentil and pea bake until I realised that the banana was probably separate. Or was it?
Franny, interesting point about the bacteria. Do they think? And if so, would they mind being eaten as this allows them to carry on living and working? Don't know about the algae though.
Capp, sorry to hear you have thrush. I had it when I was pg and it used to drive me insane, especially at night.
MM, was it one of your dcs that had eczema? How are they?
GS, that is showing off. Incidentally, do your dcs eat as well as you do? I have this weird guilt thing about eating more healthily than the dcs, even if I know they wouldn't eat what I am having. (Not that I feed them junk - but they eat significantly less salads/pulses than I do).
Right, I have eaten avocado, tomato, masses of sag aloo stuff with chick peas and rice, and a few fragments of orange and mango while doing lunchboxes.

MrsC LOL at the paper round! When we are at my mum's house I have to send dp out to Tesco's to get raw veg as I just get silted up with cheese and pastry

typical day's food at my mum's: naff cereal eg weetabix (apols weetabix lovers) and milk

lunch: bread and cheese, or cheese quiche

evening: macaroni cheese, or cheese pizza

It's the vegetarian thing I suppose, and she is a good cook, so the food is always tasty. It's just so.....Cheesy. And Wheaty

TooT I don't know if that was a general question, but I have to limit ds's fruit and veg intake quite strictly as he would literally eat it all day with not much else in between. It's great, obviously, from a vitamins point of view but not from a calories and balanced diet kind of view. For instance now at breakfast he has eaten all the fruit and left most of the cereal. He is now eating malt loaf and a banana though so I guess it all evens out in the end.

I have eaten:

huge bowl of mango and strawberries ahhhhhhhh bliss, plus raisins

no algae yet but I am SO CURED I am a total convert to the whole business

Morning everyone, I have just had my weetabix but am planning to make my 10 regardless.

Ah lionheart you know what I mean

it tastes foul IMO

I am sure you will get your 10 with nobs on

I am just tetchy because of the impending invasion of the cheesy wheaters

I was kidding, Franny, I thought it was funny because it's not something I usually eat but this time, as soon as I did, I came on here and you were dissing the bix.

Much sympathy for the wheat 'n' dairy invasion.

I have had strawberries, strawberries, strawberries and strawberries. Oh and a banana. We all have what they call scarlet fever here, for the 4th flippin time in the last 2 months. I think it's a lesser variation. I shall jolly well be researching this wonder cure. And Greensleeves, your belches and farts are making me feel queasy.

LOL at dissing the bix

do they still have that thing where they advertise them as being like little skinheads? That was guaranteed to get us all eating them, really, I would choose to have small wheaty BNP members going down my throat any day

Sauerkraut I am sure algae will be utterly effective against scarlet fever

in fact I think we can eliminate most conventional Western medecine in favour of pond life

Well there's plenty on the pond at the moment, do you reckon that would do? Probably cheaper anyway.

yes just scoop a bit up

delicious

Skinhead might well taste better.

On a more serious note, I don't think you should be allowed to count each individual pond formation as one of your ten.

well sod you then

oh god I MUST go and do some cleaning, I have approx 1 h 15 before I go to collect ds

Just had late breakfast of perfectly ripe mango...mmmmmm...

Hello, can I join? I was just thinking last night that I needed to improve my fruit/veg intake - I've been stressed and run down lately so it can only help, right?

I usually manage about 3-4 a day, so won't be trying for the 10 just yet. I'll try for 6 a day for the rest of the week then go from there.

My main problem is that I just don't like fruit much. Well it's not that I don't like it, it's just so fiddly to chop up etc. Oh what a lame excuse!

Right am off to have an apple...

very lame indeed, plenty of fruit doesn't need chopping

Can I just add that as well as being banana free the lentil pea bake was split peas, not the round kind, it's only round ones I have a problem with,

which means it's pathological.

Fancy a cheese toastie for lunch, Franny, bit of pizza?

nectarine and cherries so far, beetroot, apple, carrot and onion salad with fresh cider vinegar for lunch, cherry smoothie moustache on a smug grin.

where are the exercisers, I need more inspiration, I LIKE fruit and veg, that bit's easy...

What do you do for exercise now?

Welcome queenofc . I recommend keeping some low-maintenance fruit around for easiness. My dd1 and ds1 cut oranges into quarters and then sort of peel out the fruity bit, which simplifies things. And you can just bite into kiwi fruits (best if they're organic though). The extra fibre is v. good for you.
Franny, it was really a general question about dcs but I thought about it first because GS seems to use such impressive quantities of beans and veg.
My dcs are fairly good eaters and certainly consume masses of fruit but each one has certain things they Will Not eat. Perhaps it just seems complicated because there are 4 of them and I try to make meals that will please everybody - can Not be doing with cooking different things for different people. Well, not more than I have to.
Dd2 and I have just had a rice, orange, lettuce, cucumber and raisin salad with coconut and sesame seeds - just right after a hot morning's work in the garden. Oh, and then we had - my new discovery - well, actually it was my mum's idea - be warned, it is addictive - but healthy - mini oatcakes dipped in fruit puree. Fabulous

Lionhart- Um, let me see, rack brains, think think think, ah yes, last week I walked to school very quickly...

I walk a lot, well, less than I used to but still a bit, um, do some sit-ups, um, run up the stairs?

not a lot, ashamed to say, no wonder the ticker on my palm tree scales won't sway below 12