They're Changing Chard At Butternut Palace, Crispy Rocket Went Down With Radish - 10/10 Club

[TooTicky]

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

He must have confused us with a hen party.

I ate vegetables. Did anyone else?

How peculiar about Roberto.

I mean I doubt they had been turning people away that would have spent more than us, or that we had made a horrendous mess that they would have to spend hours cleaning up.

Ah well, we all get a bit tired and emotional sometimes, it was obviously a moment.

I do want to be honest with DS about death, and I don;t believe in an afterlife either. DH does, I think, so we might come to grief over that one.

The problem really was that he didn;t actually ask what happens, he already had this idea that people could be resurrected with a watering can, and I felt heartless saying "actually no, that's not possible".

At his nursery when the guinea pigs died I think they said they went to heaven but because we had just come back from Devon he thought they had gone there

Crikey perhaps I'll just leave it until he mentions it again

I have eaten veg soup, a big fruit salad, and veg & lentil bake today.

Have had fruit (satsuma mountain reduced to a hillock), veg to follow shortly.

Good luck FK. My dcs know that different people believe different things and tend to make up their own minds. Ds1, when he was about 4, announced that when he died, he would be a bird. Who knows, he may be!

Well done 3, that is wonderful. Reward yourself with extra cake fruit

Franny, you are a darling. You have beautiful hair and a lovely smile. Is that better?

I have had a ridiculous day. I didn't have breakfast until nearly half past 2. I am making chocolate cake.

Breakfast at 2.30 TooT?

That sounds like a bad day, what happened?

I think I would like to believe that I might go to Devon when I die

I was just wondering, could we have a 10/10 recipe thread?

I love it when people post recipes for wholesome cake veg dishes but then can;t remember which thread it was on and have forgotten to write it down and so on. I'd quite like to post things too sometimes if anyone is interested. Some of my Nigella-goes-gluten-free things are a triumph.

If we had one, could we link to it in the first post blurb so we could always find it?

That's a good idea FK. Are you necessarily gluten-free? I imagine it would be very hard.

There just wasn't time for breakfast. It was non-stop.

I met the most amazing woman today. I couldn't believe it when she told me she was nearly 93 - she looks sixty-something at the most.

Hello TooT (although you may well not be here any more ).

DH's granny is rather like that. She is 96 I think and seriously looks like she is in her 60s (or at a push in her 70s). Given that her elder son is 70 I think, I suppose she has to be a bit older . She is physically active, mentally active and an amazing person. She plays lots of scrabble and does lots of long walks.

I am hoping she will live for ever, although I know this is unlikely. At least, I'd like DS and DD to remember her.

Not necessarily TooT - although I have two cousins and an uncle who are coeliac (different sides of the family, too).

It was suggested at one point that I might be but I was not symptomatic, it just came up in tests for other things, and wasn;t pursued.

I jsut find a life without copious quantities of wheat serves me better, health-wise, so I use gluten-free flour at home.

Hope you are resting now and enjoying the fruits of your chocolate cake labour!

I need to do birthday preparations for tomorrow. DS has said he intends to wake up early, that there will be balloons and some presents in his room and that he will play with them .

Idris, I am wondering how one 'does' birthdays and Christmas. We never had them as children. I presume a cake, and? a party? I sound mad but truly, I'm a bit non-plussed about how one makes a fuss. I want to do it right. How old is your DS?

Possum how come you didn't do birthdays or Christmas? I have a friend who didn't and has had to learn, she's got the hang though and her parties are great.

Avi, tis true and I've unconsciously fallen into that model with DS. When Habbibu posted her lovely picture of her DD's 1st b'day cake and others talked about what they were doing for their one year olds I felt a rush of panic. DS had no cake, no presents as he has sufficient toys at the mo', no party. It just didn't cross my mind. I sound nuts but, well, it wasn't in my mental landscape. He was one and that was that.

Boco, I had an erm, different sort of childhood

It is a struggle to behave like most people take for granted. I didn't go to school until I was 11 and that social isolation was hell. I am still a social incompetant.

DS will be 4 tomorrow . He seemed to understand a bit last year but definitely understands this year. He and I are going into London on a train and then to the Transport Museum. On Saturday he is having a party in the village hall, with a craft table and toys and a bouncy castle. It is a repeat of last year's party (with a few different people, now he has some friends at pre-school as well).

I am very miuch wanting Christmas to be magical. Mine always were when I was little and I want to make sure they are for DS and DD as well .

TooT, I have replied to your email and possibly confused you by using a different email address. It is still me though.

I keep sitting here. DH shoudl be back by 9 and I need to spread things around the living room in a busy and purposeful manner. And cook vegetables. And yet I am still sitting here....

Yes, please do a thread for recipes.

It will inspire me.

I have tried t read all of hti sthread and it is so long, again, I can't catch up.

But the meetup sounds like a wonderful time, and i am ratjer envious.

My very good friend who lives in Suffolk visited me today. She was training n weston and came here on her way home. It wa sos lovely to see her, we haven't visited since ast spring.
We ate vegetabel lasagne and salad.

I felt all shiny form seeing her!!!

Sorry Possum, i didn't mean to be rude then and pry .

I think at age one that birthdays are more for the parent than the child anyway. It was for me, i wanted everyone to applaud me for growing a whole person and keeping it going for a whole long year with all the food and milk and the no sleep and stuff. In fact I think that at age one it should be the mother getting all the presents.

Idis, you can be busy and purposeful in a minute. First, tell me what made your childhood Christmases magical. I NEED to know. Ta muchly.

definitely, that's why there is normally wine and trifle at first birthdays, it is a celebration of survival.