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Anne of Green Gages - 10 / 10 thread, all welcome

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FrannyandZooey · 09/09/2007 00:36

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

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SauerKraut · 09/09/2007 18:33

ernest, I think were quite lucky with our coop (I don't get fruit and veg in Migros much) it has a very good normal range and an ok organic one, and I make a point of getting one or two things, especially veg, each time, that I wouldn't normally get, and if we don't like it we chuck it in soup. I get extra loads of whatever's in season, which has always come from the local farms, to get round the imported thing. We are also lucky to have Manor- tnat always has seasonal stuff from round here too.
In the village we have a farm shop with freshly picked veg according to season, and a lady also sells Demeter veg which I get once a week.

TooTicky · 09/09/2007 18:33

That's right 100x, you make BBB feel better

SauerKraut · 09/09/2007 18:35

Ha, TT, there is a lot I didn't tell you!!
Only once a week for each child at the moment. And, in an idyllic kind of way, we only live 2 mins from the school, so I can hoick them out of bed at 7, dress and forcefeed them breakfast, and shove them out the door!

SauerKraut · 09/09/2007 18:38

I have friends who use an organic veg box scheme, I can ask them about it if you like, and you can also find out what farms sell stuff on site locally- a lot do.

TooTicky · 09/09/2007 18:38

Okay, since you're disillusioning me, I expect you're now going to tell me that you live on a main road in a greyish town. Or do your dcs simply skip down the mountainside to school as I imagined?

ernest · 09/09/2007 18:40

I was vegan purely for ethical (animal welfare) reasons. I miss those days. I used to sneer at people who said stuff like 'vegan, what do you eat?????'. Now I'm one of them I cannot remember, I have lost all creativity but gained 3 fussy arsed moany eaters.

I'd love to be an experiment. please do a make over on me. I need yo.

And yes, I am also in ch, for now at least. but there are some disadvantages. Organic box schemes? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

(whispers there isn't, is ther sk?

SauerKraut · 09/09/2007 18:41

Well, ernest scores over me there, as hers skip through a vineyard. Mine mince delicately round a pond, across a very minor road with a view of the forest on the hillside, how's that?

SauerKraut · 09/09/2007 18:42

I assure you, there is, ernest! Although only the ponciest people use it here- would you like join the ponces?

ernest · 09/09/2007 18:44

preen preen, my boys walk along a lane with vinyards to the left and the rhine to the right and trees and trees and trees (there are mountains on the horizon on a clear day)

Our local farm only sells eggs & spuds. We have a stall in the corner of the next field that has seasonal stuff, but recently it was just berries and now it's just pumkins

TooTicky · 09/09/2007 18:44

EnvyEnvyEnvyEnvyEnvy

ernest · 09/09/2007 18:45

you beat me to it with the vinyards, sk
I most certainly am no ponce.
Ha ha, the tought of it.

Just carp

SauerKraut · 09/09/2007 18:48

I aint no ponce neither and anyway I bet the veg boxes are full of pumpkins too. We are trying to grow one but slugs keep attacking it. Does anyone know what to do with an obviously unwell hedgehog?

lionheart · 09/09/2007 18:59

SK It does not make me feel better. Just grouchier.

I have had Apple Strudel so I am inhabiting the mountains and streams of Alpine climes in my head.

And I have lost the thread of this thread already.

SauerKraut · 09/09/2007 19:02

Doh. I always imagined detoxing would make one feel all kind of washed out inside and full of energy!

ahundredtimes · 09/09/2007 19:02

I'm loving the Alpine Air here today.

lionheart · 09/09/2007 19:03

I have also moved Anne to Europe and renamed her Heidi.

SauerKraut · 09/09/2007 19:06

Pity to change Gorgeous Gilgert into Peter the goatherd, though- you'll have to move her back later.

SauerKraut · 09/09/2007 19:06

Gilbert, I mean!

lionheart · 09/09/2007 19:15

Very true.

BBBee · 09/09/2007 19:24

hello ernest.

We could have been "anne of greengages with ernest" if we had known you were coming.

Oh TT I too am shamed. First I am saying bock-oh wrong and now all this.

I have eaten about six tea cakes (the chocolate kind) from marks and spencer.

I had a lot of salad though.

I want a hot water bottle and someoen to stroke my hair.

pinkspottywellies · 09/09/2007 19:28

I thought you'd all run off without me There were loads of messages after the new thread link. But I've found you!!
Had a great time at the 80's night on Friday. Danced the night away to cheesy music Then we went to a wedding yesterday so I didn't get on here. Two late nights (or early mornings!) in a row have destroyed me!
Not done too badly for f and v yesterday and today considering but I'll be back on a mission tomorrow. I really want to lose a stone and get fit now so I need to get motivated.
Haven't caught up on the threads so please update me if there's anything important I need to know!

BBBee · 09/09/2007 19:32

what did you wear PSW?

pinkspottywellies · 09/09/2007 19:50

BB I take it you mean for the 80's night?! I wore a short, royal blue, slightly batwinged, t-shirt dress (shorter than I'd usually go out in public in!) with black patterned tights, black legwarmers, leopard print high heels and a wide bronze belt. Oh and more hairspray than I've ever used before! There were about 15 of us and I felt like such a wally walking through town with 1 friend to meet the others! In fact I felt ridiculous all night - I didn't drink, so everyone else forgot how daft we looked but I didn't!!
For the wedding I wore a dress that I got in the monsoon sale for £22.50. Very pleased with it. For some reason the hotel thought the right place for a family room, with a baby, was directly above the disco. Poor dd took an hour and a half longer than normal to get to sleep and was really restless until the disco finished after midnight I complained though and got a discount off the room

Dior · 09/09/2007 19:59

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TollockyBoss · 09/09/2007 20:05

Blardy hell...I know you lot and still this thread is like a secret code...

Been out all day for a party by the river. Bit squiffy.
Just wanted to check in to a thread where relative sanity reigns xx