Samphire's Gotten Hold of My Chard - 10 / 10 club

[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

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oh, did I miss 100x dh? .
My dh has been on MN without me knowing! He had an amusing name and everything. he found the men's room and went on the Pron thread and everything!

Of course, I didn't search his username when he fessed up. That would be wrong as I would hate it if he had done a search on mine (given he knows my names)

WOW Zippi, cool spider!

Oh heck, sorry Franny! You can now all talk about old gas boilers and fat dusty electric wires and fuseboxes while I writhe.

Hello

That picture on your profile is amazing Zippi - and scary. So i guess we're not doing a 10/10 trip to the tate after lunch? We could have crack if it helps? gosh there are so many uses of the word crack aren't there. If we were discussing how much crack we took instead of f&v there would be so much thread pun potential.

I like it when the menfolk visit, it's fun. Mr100 is so much like Mrs100 in the way he writes, you two must have so much fun!

My dp would be a little bit gruff and verbose and cod would finish him with one farking nora.

Just been back to dr to get all the chests checked, and they're both coughing and streaming but clear so hurrah.

Ugh, half term with no car. Someone come and get me?

Goodness Wombling, toothache is hell isn't it? Last time I was suffering, my homeopath sorted it in less than 5 minutes. You are very brave to go to the dentist.

if we were talking about crack i might do a bit better lol a we should take recreational drugs thread and i would probably succumb in a nano second

yes i do recommend the tate modern at the mo, i think louise bourgeois is quite accessible if you are into art which looks at the psyche..i saw some of her new stuff which features maternity ibteresting.but also that big sculpture is very wow....quite beautiful..i think children love it too very tactile material

links, please, to Mr100x visit - I always miss the fun!

I was watching Marie Antoinette which was crap but worth it for the cakes and shoes. Also, Tom Hardy whom I loved as Dudley in Elizabeth only made the briefest of cameos. Sigh.

I had a very gamey weekend, lots of pheasant and (morally sourced) duck but I have piles and piles of fruit and veg. I have FOUR different kinds of apples in my fruit bowl. Yum.

I love half term.

Hello. I have had some fruit salad. No crack.

I am at work. It is OK I think at the moment. I am still energised by the course last week, which is also good.

Hello!

Sorry for pain and whiskey induced ramblings and typos last night - v poor.

Thanks for kind wishes, the thing that gets me is that how can the cure (the root canal filling) be about 50 times more painful than the problem (large hole in tooth and therefore toothache) - how does that work?

After 4 days on whiskey, juice and soup, today i have had porridge with spelt and barley and homemade plum compote.

Boco - loving your work on the Mr100x thread, and am v that I missed your new haircaut pic - could you do it again for me?

TooT - am booking to see the London homeopath you emaailed me about in Nov, but for me, not DS, who is thriving. My exzema has flared up again, with the stress and sleeplessness, and despite my F&V best efforts, I keep sucumbing to loads of colds etc, which is not like me. Thanks for the recommendation. Are you still in need of clothes - I am a shortass, who has got v fat for all her size 10 clothes, interested?

Wombling I am a regular visitor at the dentist at the moment and one of my teeth needs root canalling (either that or taking out which I don't want). I keep getting shooting pains through it which I know are nerve related. Just hopign they stay away for a while.

love the title by the way - am singing it in my head .

Wombling - your poor teeth, all my wisdoms are out now but it was Not Very Nice.

That is fabulous Wombling. It will change your life. Really.
Oh, and a whopping yes please to the clothes - actually, I have some short arse size 12 clothes - do you want to swap?

Boco was very, very funny on dh's thread I thought too. One thing I will say for him is that he makes me laugh every day, and it is for this reason alone I am prepared to put up with him, generally speaking. It is quite possible too that we have merged into one - this is disturbing in many ways though.

Right what about Nigella's recipe for beef and anchovy stew, with baked pots and sour cream, and Nigella has a very nice homemade horseradish/fromage frais thing to go with. Lots of bread/morphine for soaking up the juices. Then do I do a green salad on the side? Do people eat salad with a stew? They'd need an extra plate wouldn't they?

Stew is the way forward I think. I might even be able to make before we go away and could then be frozen, re-heated etc?

lol at bread/morphine

lettuce is an opiate too isn't it or a narcotic or something...laudanum

I've never had much of a narcotic experience from lettuce. Maybe all that chewing can be wearying and therefore tire you out?

Stew sounds great, definitely the way to go. Yes. I love stews and casseroles, it's practically the only good thing about winter.

It was funny when you'd wandered off and mr100 was saying that you'd been perched on his shoulder saying 'write faster' and 'tell them the ostrich was called Glenn' and things like that - it was so like you, but not you, i can see you must have a great time.

i haven't either..maybe home grown lettuce is better

I think I laugh AT him a lot, because terrible things happen to him and it is extremely amusing.

He wrote a series for BBC1 for a couple of years, and he put all his best jokes in and then before the third episode or something the continuity announcer said 'Right, now laughs now it's time for XXXX'. He fell off his chair. I am still falling off my chair about it, it was very, very funny.

Right I'm going to the butcher. When I come back could somebody please tell me whether it's okay to have salad with a stew or whether that is gross because lettuce isn't nice covered in gravy and if it is okay, whether they need a separate plate for it. Thank you.

Oh fgs the continuity announcer said 'Right NO laughs now. . .'

I wouldnt have salad with stew but I know people that do and they have a seperate salad bowl/plate.

not on the same plate..i wouldn't actually think of having it with stew

tho i suppose you have it with pasta and meat sauce..do you..puzzled now

dumpings you have with stew...or spring greens..kale which i love

100x, that IS funny

Now, while you're all pondering 100x's dinner party, can you spare any ideas for me?
Ds2's party tomorrow. One kind person doing 2 trays of pizza, another doing chocolate crispy cakes. Given that I am going to have to beg use of an oven (twice - once for party cake and once for birthday cake) WHAT else can I do for the party that is oven-free?
Crisps obviously (decent ones) and carrot sticks and things and.....

fairy cakes made in the petits four cases

except they need an oven lol

Cooked how Zippi? I have no oven.