To Thine Own Self Beetroot - 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 by following the link at the very bottom of the page

apple pear grapes...

pooooo talcy - you eat too much fruit!

lol

Morning all- I won't give mine squash but we have diluted fruit juice and I don't buy sweets, but then I wouldn't say they couldn't eat them if they get them in a party bag. They do like chocolate though, maya gold and the dark one with cherries is DD's favourite Also eat quite a lot of biscuits/cakes but not bad fat ones and not every day. There is a balance I think, although it depends what your children consider to be a treat I suppose.
Mine get just as excited about shepherds pie.

So far today, three strawberries, but I expect it will improve.

Talcy- are you still farting?

yes mrscarrot, pardon me!
lol@ 3 strawberries!....

just had cheese n onion square crisp sandwich [wholemeal bread]
foxes classic bar and can coke...
been excused from exercise...so slobbing it on sofa.......

LOL at crisp sandwich, Franny will have to come back and crack her whip I think.

franny...

Thanks for all your replies re the sweets'n'squash. Thing is, I really don't want them to have them. BUT dd1 is 10 and has a chance to join a group where she will be socially accepted and I don't want her to stand out (she has hellish exclusion trouble in school). And the boys are 8 and 5. Ds1 would, I think, lose any respect he has for the way I feed them if I were to deny him this. Ds2 would just feel deprived. I think making them go without would do bad things to them psychologically. Especially when all the other children would be having them. I think I will have to grit my teeth over this one, but may talk to the dcs and see if they would at least forego the squash in favour of water. They don't actually like squash anyway...
And research wholesale prices for less shitey sweets.

I am making a borshch-like soup.

loads of fruit yada, yada, but am still craving chocolate...

my boys are old enough now to have pocket money and old enough to go to shop by themselves, and though they both love sweets they are surprisingly restrained...

Once they start school it is almost impossible to defend them from the horrors of sweets. (i don't do squash, though they like proper fruit juice lots)

Shoulkd I bother with my opinions on eye make-up? (I'm an ugly old hag who has no eyes in RL. I draw them on each morning to prevent small children from screaming in horror. I also have rimmel jungle green )

I have my own wellies (in a very fine pirate style) and all my own teeth - despite the choccy addiction...

And I'm too far north to probably meet any of you
(though I do come to cornwall every year)

tooticky - we often make sweets for a treat (do you want some recipes for toffee, tofee popcorn, fudge etc?)

I am awkwardly dairy free fmv, would your recipes still work?
And can you crystallise without the egg?

Oh you reckon meet ups can't go wrong do you NQC? Interesting view point.... I think you can miss a lot in the dark, is all I am saying

I am snatching 5 mins on the pc while dp is out. Our car is going to cost hundreds of pounds to fix. Adding to the impressive total it costs to keep it sitting on our driveway each week. However we have 2 weekends away coming up and several days out. Each one probably costing in the region of £100 in car costs the way we are going.

Not feeling quite so perky as I was yesterday. Will go and have lunch and eat fruit in a sombre way.

oh and TooT in the situation you mention I think the benefits of going and eating the shite would outweigh the disadvantages, which is about all we can aim for as parents half the time I think

Ooooh Franny, what sort of a thing might a person miss in the dark? A fight? Kissing? Whaaat?

Sorry to hear about your car. Bummer. Kick it.

I can't it is at the garage

I will gloss over the whole meet up thing once again, but I just wanted to say that whenever I have met up with people who I have got to know well on here, I have thoroughly enjoyed it and they have been just as fab as I expected

is anyone eating fruit? at all?

I have had

melon, peaches (3 ), nectarine, grapes, raisins, kiwi, apple, cucumber

me.....loads of berries for breakfast & apricots

I knew it. They've all taken a vow of secrecy. Whatever horrors occured on that fateful night, they all signed a document saying 'we will never speak of this night again'. Mark my words.

The bastards. They're all in denial about it. Half of them don't think anything really happened, and those that know it did, the ones who didn't MINGLE for instance, aren't talking.

Boco, I fully expect you to report back to me in lurid detail about what happens when you all meet at that Aldeburgh tea shop and the napkins fly.

I've had 2 apples, 1 orange, green beans, tomatoes and lettuce so far. (4 cups of coffee - I know this isn't interesting to anyone else, but I like to keep a tally.)

I have eaten a nectarine and 3 bowlfuls of my miracle soup (beetroot, onion, potato, carrot, celery, caraway seeds, fresh dill). Miracle soup because dd2 woke up from a very clingy nap feeling hot and miserable and after she had eaten the soup she was absolutely fine

I have had some peas. And some scones with dried fruit in.

pea eating freak

I cannot abide a pea, unless it is split or a sugar snap, but it is pathological.

Toot- that soup sounds gorgeous, Duchy do a beetroot and dill but I've stopped eating it as it's got milk in, I hadnt thought of making it, I used to just do a plain one with carrot, I hardly ever see dill though, do you grow it?

Better here today, after 3 strawbs for breakfast, lunch was coriander and chilli prawns, rocket, cos, tomato, red onion, cue, artichoke, green lentil and caper houmous, avocado. Cherries, dried apricots and 2 nectarines.

The plot thickens with the dodgy nightclub meet...