Stout: Is it really full of iron and good for getting back iron levels after blood loss?

[suzywong]

or is that a crock of shite?
Am on iron tablets already but feel the need for more of a boost and a little drinky into the bargain.

Oh I would just take that as a given

Mmmm, stout.
You know it ought to be Spatone or Floradix really, but I'd go for the stout every time.
You OK suzy?

I mean you could eat spinach................

With orange (nice salad) and a glass of stout

They used to dish it out in maternity hospitals - a bottle of Mackeson a day? (In the good old days when you stayed in for 2 weeks and then got out of bed )

Blood loss, sooz?

yes it has to be mackeson

best thing suzy is oily fish and dark chocolate

my mother reckons mackeson was good for breastmilk and she then wonders why I drink so much

So get cracking on that pilchard and Green & Blacks sandwich

But the babies got their own beverage in gripe water Fio - what a tragedy when that was outlawed, hic

dried apricots - with a pint of guiness to wash down.

Crusty bread with lashings of pate, topped with spinach, watercress and rocket, washed down with a glass of orange with Spatone in

yes, am OK,

TMI WARNING
just woke up with a jar of Hartley's Blackcurrant Jam in my pants this morning. Ah, that'll be me off games this week.

I think I may go for stout with a pilchard in the bottle neck, like you do with lime wedges and Corona.

Cheers

And a nice boiled egg.

Eeek you poor thing. I think we all need a spot of stout after that piece of news! I hate it when that happens.

Pickled egg surely wendy

Ahem, I 'll have you know that I consider eggery in all it's forms to be the Work Of The Devil.

That sort of start to the day almost makes the menopause something to look forward too, doesn't it?

sosrry for heinous grammatical error, am simultaneously reading a puzzle book to ds2

I cannot help having a flashback to Vyvyan finding the golfball in the bog in The Young Ones and pronouncing, "I don't remember eating that". Sorry suze - I had my innards lasered last year because of a few blackcurrant jam moments, I do know how ghastly it is

So, am back from shops with two bottles of Tasmanian Stout and a Jumbo pack of Kotex triple strength. Cheers

Worked a treat
google endometrial ablation, once you've had some stout
Now a recommended alternative to the old gynae chestnut "now you've finished having kiddies dear we'll just whip the whole lot out for you"

In Dublin, one of the city's main hospitals is next to the Guinness brewery.. in bygone days, they used to give the patients Guinness for medicinal purposes so can't see any harm in you giving it a go!!