Upper Fourth at Celery Towers - 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

MrsJC no we don't shout, usually. Unless you would like us to. Do join us, and welcome as well to ernest, and well done everybody else in the world (getting so many of us!)

Have eaten small fruit salad, apple, big sandwich with salad and hummus.

I am starving, there's nothing to eat in this bloody house

I have had a peanut butter and banana sandwich! It was yummy.

Franny the fairy workshop sounds lovely

Franny...I am soo naive when it concerns drugs...I just know Jack really, lol....!

had some yummy dates for snack...hmmmmm

We have those fairy days too, run by The fairyland Trust? Some of my friends run the crown workshops. It was too big last year, someone had irritatingly written about it in the Guardian and it was swamped, all the workshops booked and the queues were phenomenal. We waited for one, then bought a wand! Dc's are going this year for a friends birthday, the sessions are already booked and they're having a a picnic there I think. I won't be going as I have another friends hand fasting ceremony that day which is a shame.

I've had a peach, nectarine, banana, cherries, kiwi and dates. Beetroot, carrot and dill soup with quinoi bread.

Sports day was cancelled so no black eyes but they were so disappointed. The field was so sodden. Don't know why they couldn't do it indoors though. It is the fete tomorrow, I have to make butterfly buns shortly. Shame I can't eat one!

Fairy conservationists

Peanut butter and banana is soooooo delicious in a sandwich. When I was a nanny one of the girls had to make (in school) the favourite sandwich of someone special and she made mine (p.b. and banana on granary bread, no butter). She came home really disgruntles because all the other children had laughed at the sandwich and spent most of the day mocking her about it

Oh MrsC, we did wands and wings, not crowns, so I didn't see your friends. We thought they all looked v cool with their gothy / punk clothes and boots, and especially the pink haired fairy

oh they are based in Wells Next the Sea! Have totally lost track of where you are again, MrsC, is it near there?

Well I offerered dp one at lunchtime (peanut butter and banana sandwich that is) and he said, "I wouldn't have banana in a sandwich."

Bloody delicious if you ask me

Sports day was ok. Lots of walking, getting there and back (tube being broken etc etc didn't help ).

I'm home and ok.

Ate muesli, lots of cherries, and a quinoa salad (tomatoes, peppers, green onion, think that's it). Probably 6?

I was starting to wonder where the hell DS2 was - I dropped him at person A's house this morning, for her to take him to the co-op (with her daughter). Then person B was picking him up. I SMSed person B a bunch of times, but of course he is helping out at a school fete, so didn't hear the phone. I've heard from person B, and he is running DS2 back to me. Thankfully.

My mum called to let me know that my grandad has made a miraculous recovery. Obviously that's good.

But I was so excited! This time tomorrow i could have been in Brno, reading a book in a hotel room on my own! Sleeping all night long and waking up at a reasonable time!

I've made up for yesterdays bad food day. Had fruit for breakfast, beetroot and tomato and spinach for lunch with humus and wholemeal bread. About to eat veggie chilli with brown rice now. And cry bitter tears into it.

oh, I'm having chilli and brown rice too, shortly, then I have to make buns for the school fete.

Shame about the trip, but good that your Grandad's ok. Was looking forward to hearing about the food!

100x - where are you with your dinner reports? I need to hear of foams and sophistication...

Have had avocado, tomato, orange pepper, carrot, cucumber, lettuce and black-eyed bean salad

I am also awaiting 100x's foam report

Ooh, I like the look of the fairyland site.

Rhubarb for breakfast, apple, cucumber, tomato, remains of yesterday's veg and tofu pie, small amount of pineapple and orange. And lots of gooseberries.

Have delivered about half the papers. Dd2 dozed on my back, I muttered and cursed, it rained... I now have a thorough dislike for driveways, awkward gates, pointless little poncy steps and people who deliberately have the sort of gravel that gets into my sandals. I am baffled by the people who have no letterbox. Worse still, some of them appeared not to have doors

MrsC, I'm hoping to bump into you at some point to have a chat about wheat issues

Ah yes, well, rather shame-faced actually, because there was the menu with its squid and rocket spray, and whatsits on a bed of blah with foam to the side, but there right down the bottom was a Rib-Eye steak with great peppery chips and a tom and red onion salad, and well, I had it. AND Mrs C I asked for ketchup AND mayonnaise too, I LOL and thought of you. Apologies. Didn't have the foam, had nightmare delicious food instead.

Oh, and this uttterly divine rhubarb fool for pudding in a huge glass and swanky spoon. Sigh.

Poor Boco, I'm so sorry. It's very on/off this trip isn't it? Now its definitely off. Wish the wedding I'm going to on Saturday was off - you wanna go in my place? Is in Coventry.

TT lol at people with no doors

Evening all! Banana sandwiches are too squishy. But I suppose crunchy peanut butter and granary bread might redeem them. I'll have to try.
Today I have had raisins, mango, roasted veg (peppers, aubergine, mushrooms, onions, courgette) avocado, parsnips, carrots, peas, brocolli and orange juice.
Oh my goodness - more than 10! [proud emoticon]

Yes, it is the squishiness that bothers me, that and the memory of Mr Turberville stuffing his baguette with it on a wall near the Eiffle Tower in, oh, must have 1989 or so. It was a vision of horror, a legacy that has resulted in what may be a lifetime of banana sandwich revulsion.

I have only just eaten my chilli, so late, so many things to do.

100x - Steak and chips sound delicious. I rarely fancy it, though I did last week! But when I do I REALLY want it, with mustard, and mushrooms. Mmmm, I do not ever want mayonnaise on my chips though. There's something about mayonnaise and ketchup together that remind me of black and white pudding but I will say no more before I am permanently banned from the thread

Toot - What do you want to discuss about wheat, and when you say bumping into, do you mean posting at the same time? I made an experimental batch of wheat/dairy free buns while I made the others for the fete, not sure if I'll take them though, wonder if they'd sell? They taste quite nice.

Franny - Shame you didn't go to the crowns! I assume it must be the same people, if so, I lived with them as a teenager, some of (family of seven children) still babysit for me! Yes, Wells sounds about right for the base, that's around 20 miles from here. Tell me not to come on mnet for an evening and I'll get on with your ball. Sorry for the delay with it.

I have just had chips with mayonnaise- Dh made them in the oven with garlic, olive oil and rosemary. Oooooooooh yeah. But we did have half an avocado each with them, and I had made a fruit salad for afternoon snack with the dcs.
Thanks for the info, Franny. I shall make almond-coffee butter in my coffee grinder! Can't get rid of the smell.

Mashed banana and peanut butter go well on rice cakes (or cardboard, as my mum calls them), too.

I may well be able to tolerate a SLICED banana and peanut butter on rice cake experiment.

I had a huge salad tonight - rocket, lollo rosso, chard, grated beetroot, cucumber, red onions, mixed peppers, mushrooms...with a gorgeous flaked salmon thing I made in a mustardy creamy lemony peppery sauce

Also had at least 5 portions of F&V at lunchtime, and a pint of orange juice.

and mashed bananas are minging, they HAVE to be sliced. And honey as well as peanut butter.

It's lovely. I regularly consume a bowl of mashed banana and peanut butter- sod the bread!