"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

erm... they were from Sainsbury's actually, but fgs don't tell anyone. Had to do emergency shopping after coming back from holiday.

I usually go to the greengrocers for veg. I do actually, is all local and lovely and they sell proper seasonal things. Is a bit expensive but tastes good.

I might get a riverford box, what do you think BBee shall we?

JV - by my reckoning you've done brilliantly, but you need Franny to stamp your book. I am far from qualified.

I did do the riverford box a while back but ended up with excess chicory and chard which went straight in the compost bin. then I got all het up and sent them an email saying something along the lines of "you must never send me chicory again it is horrible and not really a vegetable to eat" and they sent me a kind of 'calm down dear' email and then I had to cancel my veg box but as they were so nice I pretended I had to go and work abroad for a while so I didn't hurt their feelings.

".....htat means you have to go in a tent with franny or something for a special award"

Ah! So its that kind of club, so this fruit and veg tosh is a front?

Hinteresting............

but could do the other one - abel and cole.

I went to sainsburys today - I bought loads of plums.

yes jeremy - and you can never leave the club. and we meet up and do that mask thing like in eyes wide shut.

lol @ having to leave the country.

Hmm. There are a few round here. We had a box a while ago too - but it came in a BAG - and there just wasn't enough somehow. I need masses. DS2 eats fruit all day long.

is boco here?

I have a plan where next year I pick up her camping stuff and she gets the train and I meet her at the other end and she camps with me and our children all play and we stay up all night eating vegetables and she does a painting of me.

Is she here?

Will that scare her?

I worry for her lack of holiday.

No JV, this ain;t no picnic, it's a goddam ten course f&v banquet every day, or else.

Bl**dy hard work, all that peeling.

And then you have to exercise as well

Last week we had Boot camp

I wish I'd read more about AP before I had DS.

Spidermama's kittne thread got me thinking. When we first got our cat, and she was teeny tiny, she spent all the time I was home sitting on my lap, or I would carry her about with me.

Eventually she started to want to play and spent less time with me. Now she just surfaces every now & again for the occasional cuddle.

I never read any books on cat parenting or fretted about how much she was sitting on my lap!

Why the hell didn;t I follow the same instinctive behaviour with DS?!!! and

BBBee is it too late to bagsy the maisy snakes and ladders? Dd1 loves snakes and ladders.

I had to give up the veg box as we had so much cabbage, and cabbage like things - it was overwhelming.

I love that you didn't want to hurt their feelings. I went to a cafe in the village today that's fairly new and always feel i should go there to support them and give them custom and make them feel valued, and they were really pissed off as we arrived at closing time and spent all afternoon reading the sunday papers on their sun terrace, feeling happy about showing our support, - and then realising they wished we'd piss off.

anyway. I had a lovely vegetably tea made my lovely visitor - aubergine stuffed with tomato and red and green pepper and red onion - and a salad of green beans and rocket and lettuce and tomato and stuff for lunch. Oh i can't count it all now, but there were vegetables - fine and plenty.

I often wish I had had the confidence to follow my instincts with ds hen he was born but kept worrying about doing it wrong.

Have followed my instincts with our cat though and he has spent most of the evening torturing a baby mouse to death in the kitchen so maybe my instincts are a bit shit.

Oh god - am developing wide ranging and varied crushes on large number of the male population - must be the heat.

Oh BBBee i just saw your idea - i love that idea! I want to do it right now [does that scare you?]

YES! the maisy snakes and ladders is yours. does she want so fairy dressing up stuff too? email me your postal address.

I cna remember crying when HV came round because DS wouldn;t settle in his crib and only with me

FFS he was only about 10 days old

I thought I was doing it wrong

Crushes? Please elaborate BBBee

Brilliant thanks - can i swap it for something? Hmm, what do i have....ummm - i'll think about it.

ooh you are rude I never molest people in tents

ooh not for years anyway

JV you have done v well. Especially the football.

I have spent months training up my latest veg box deliverers. You have to choose a small local one, not a big national one, and then lovingly mould them into what you want them to be IME. Apart from the 22 lemons debacle when we had words, it is going very well so far.

100x I have only swum in freshwater twice and it was very lovely. Once in very very clean river in France - fantastic - once in manky old pond in Uk - was told I would get Weill's disease. But best not to mention rats and mice perhaps...

Possum I am glad the bulk cooking wasn't just total bollocks. I have emailed it to lots of people as requested and had complete silence back. I was about to get my figurative bulk cooking coat

I've jsut noticed I swear more after 11pm.

Sorry folks.

I really must go to bed. My post-bikeathon muscles have seized up and I will have to sleep in a cycling position.

Night everyone!

no you can;t swap am afraid as my children are older and my son kicks footballs at people's heads.

I am building up my karma.

Cannot elaborate on crushes as they scare even me - (but I have googled actors I saw in edinburgh.)

don't worry frayedknot - I think I said fuck on here at 9am - there is no curfew here my friend.

Yes I chose just to ignore the weills disease thing, but will cover up the dcs midge bites with a plaster I think.

I so love it. I like lakes best, but rivers are good. It's quite odd because I'm not that into the countryside, but I find I like it when in a lake or a river. Probably because I'm doing something.

Anyway am most excited. I joined a river swimming club last year but never went. Fool.

I worry about how useless so many mothers feel. I felt useless with ds1, I thought there was some sort of rule book I hadn't read.

I felt exactly like that about the rule book thing - I wonder why he is not more fucked up with me spending years hopping around behind him being all indecisive - one night controoled cyin next night co-sleeping.

Poor boy.

Send me to bed. I am on another thread actually seriously contemplating having a fourth child.

Enough. Tomorrow I will only talk about f&v.

Let's all go to bed. Together. Go on, it will take our mind off stuff.

Okay. Can we discuss The Document before we turn the light out? And will you wear that t-shirt I like?

hey 100 - what coffee are you having in the morning?

I am having an espresso made with italien blend and a dash of milk (unconventional I know)