"We demand the finest vegetables available to humanity. We want them here, and we want them 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 by following the link at the very bottom of the page

oBoco. I'm sorry for your friend. But I am smirking at your ham roll dilemma. Worry not, a cream tea is never a bad idea.

I have a (very unscientific) theory that if you eat too puritanically healthily, your body will panic if you ever consume a crumb of biscuit and go into toxic shock or something or you will explode with fatness. So it's extremely important to have modest amounts of cake or chocolate every now and again.

Filthy will you write a book along those lines please, and i'll buy it, and follow it to the letter.

We bought friend a mug with a pig on it that makes pig noises when you pick it up. She texted from the train saying she's crying, and the pig mug won't stop snorting loudly in her bag.

And now I am snorting too . Poor poor lass. But

We went to Rand Farm
DD loved the animals! She also went on the swing. I always feel like a bad mother bacause we swing her really high and all the other babies are just swinging gently but she loves it!! We're now at PIL's having a bbq so have to get off t'internet! Will check in again later but my sis is coming to stay till Thurs so might be a bit scarce this week. Will try and convert her to 10 a day though!

I had apples, to make up for the cream tea for lunch, i committed to all that extra chewing involved with apples, and i think my vegetable karma is restored. [phew]

oh ogd please do not read anything in to the meet up thread I started - I was jus thinking about it earlier becasue we had been talking about it - am not scared of you.

Bococococococo - you are divine.

Avi - are there you are. Coffee - the decaff thing is good as you are right a lot of it is the process but it is hard to conivnce myslef of this. I have to pretend it is not decaff as I really want some coffee but in actual fact I just want to go downstairs and unscrew my coffee thing and empty it into the compost bin. Still cannot bring myself to purchase decaff outside the house - if I am paying two pounds I want a hit for my money so maybe that is where I fall down. So you see my dilemma - I need to not know it is decaff and I will be fine. See I am giving DP decaff and not telling him and so he thinks it's caff and gets the full deluded effect - I don't - part of me still knows it is not right.

I need to live with someone as wonderful as me I guess. But then if I lived with someone like me I would hate their guts - in the same way as i could never be friends with someone like me.

Franny - tell more about meeting your DP - was it in a role play online game?

you know whilst I was choping vegetables I was thinking there are quite a few things about me that aren't quite 10/10 - not that you have a prescrpitive set of rules fran - but somehtings I do keep a littel quite about on here as I think I am oh-so-slighty ashamed.

BBBee i don't think you should talk about your crack habit and the gambling and men and lude ways and the illegal arms trading and the whole fiasco with the slavery stuff - this is predominantly a vegetable thread.

ahh yes when you put it like that it makes the fact that i have bought a second car, am contemplating tumble drier, shop at big bastard supermarkets aple into insignificance.

I wan thte bulk cooking thing too.

Boc - need your address for maisy snakes and laddres. Ho w did you meet your partner? was it when you were at uni?

We swam. It was sooooo cold. We have blue lips. Ds1 jumped in and out off this board thing about 8 times. Next time we will take wet suits. It was bliss though, very thick and green and still. The river, I mean. (Also a Perfect Family were there in wetsuits and they had an inflatable dingy with oars. Was . They even had swimming shoes).

Boco - am sad for the friend with the pig cup. I wonder why she thought handling piglets would help her overcome her heart break? Did she explain this?

BB - Yay, Superfoods R Us. Though I have a funny feeling that we're going to jump up and down shouting 'Spinula' and everyone else is going to sigh and smile kindly, and say 'yes, we have that most weeks.' Let's see what Franny says.

PSW - come back. Do you like your PIL?

I ate red peppers, pine nuts, humous, cucumber and green beans in a salad for lunch.

BBee - also have posted on your meet-up thread. I have suggested perhaps it might all go wrong, like internet dating. Nobody is biting. Everybody loves them, loves each other.

I met boco and she was lovley nad we haven't changed oh no. So boco don;t come along and et all upset because this is not referring to you because what we have is different - what we have is special.

I am intrigued because loads of people have made loads of really goood friends - like you fran (or did you know them all before) but I wonder if it would shatter the whole mumsnet refuge for me. What I like is that i am striaght up who I am here and say anything but face to face there is more social nicety and placating involveed. Oh god this is all going wriong and have offended everyone.

Like when I met boco I found a hair in my sandwich and I got all embarrassed and hid it back in my bag - on here I would have said about how I met someone and had a hair in my sandwich and it was all embarasing but face to face is different.

No - just dug it deeper I think.

Oh well will post anyway - don;t hate me.

I think I exploded into fatness during last pregnancy.

raspberries, grapes,banana, pear. tomaoes, cucumber, oj, so far!

I am totally not a pure lentil weaver either and do shameful things too but I am definitely a hippy at heart and do not want this tendancy to be lost in the mire of consumer middle class - ism.

o yes, went to an open farm today and had a picnic. Twas a grat success. A goat tried to eat my mum's hair!! lol

oh thank god - whomping - back on track with the purpose of the thread!

6 plums
1 apple
vegetable curry tonight

thought I had done better than that but have not eaten loads of other crap just not eaten much at all.

the river swimming sounds great. the uber family sound a bit over prepared TBH. They probably have cleaning rota and schedules ad bedroom inspections.

now that might trick me enough - but I did scoff when nescafe bought out that half caff thing!

Do you taste the difference with decaff or just notice oyu are less 'jangly'?

100x my PIL are fab! I'm very lucky I tell her about the dreadful MIL stories I read on MN! My family are flung around the country so when dh was in the Navy I used to do and stay there all the time. We had a BBQ at their house this afternoon with SIL and her dh as well, who are also wonderful (although SIL told me dd looked too big to be bf at 7 months and 'couldn't you put it in a bottle?' )

Good Lord you lot were up late last night! I can't do it at the minute - I need sleep.
This thread is really long already!

Today I ate mushrooms (in bacon sandwich), raisins, juice, little bit of salad with sandwich in cafe (ooh more sandwiches - lots of bread) salady bits with lots of barbequed meat (probably 1 portion). I have now realised that I have had waaaaay to much meat today, with every meal. That's made me feel quite peculiar! Will try to have none this week and will sort out the fruit and veg as of tomorrow but I have had a good week for F&V up to now.

Hmm, didn't miss me much today I see

I have had, erm, corn on the cob, some lentil and rice and squash thing (a ready meal ) and some creamy mash and root veg thing. Crap really but it did contain vegetables. My total is v poor but

a) I have only had 2 meals today
b) we have not got very good fruit atm

and

c) I did go to the gym for an hour so I demand that be taken into consideration.

HC is coming to visit tomorrow, yay

FMF I always look smug

BBB LOL no it wasn't - we met on a messaging service called ICQ. It's similar to MSN I think. It had a feature where you could just message random people and I scrolled through lots of odd looking types before dp's profile popped up. We started chatting and oh dear the rest is history. We 'met' online in Nov, had virtually bankrupted ourselves with phone calls and PAYG internet by January, he came to stay for a weekend in February and came back and moved in, in April It was such a shock at first making the transition from online to RL. He is a dreadful communicator, very shy, and emotionally private, things that really don't come across online when you can feel very comfortable and intimate from the beginning. Just like you with the hair in your sandwich, BBB. Anyway. Here we still are, 7 or is it 8? years later

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Right, superfoods

do we want a new thread for this? This one is not going to last the week at this rate, so might as well I suppose.

I made a list of superfoods a while back when I was concentrating on ds's eating. I have:

beans, blueberries, broccoli, oats, oranges, pumpkin, soya, spinach, tomatoes, walnuts, yogurt, apples, kiwis, avocado, dark chocolate, bananas, cabbage, carrots, flax seeds, garlic, onions, sweet potatoes, olives and olive oil, pomegranates and nuts and seeds in general.

Anyone add to / alter that list? Sod goji berries and all that, let's have proper foods we can actually eat.

Trust you to come up with this when I have planned the next 3 days' food meticulously....Never mind, you can all rout me at superfoods