Cauliflower Steaming On Such A Winter's Day - 10 / 10 thread

[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

Porningland Playbarn.

Sorry, just wanted to say/write that out loud. Most satisfying.

The apple on my list is one from the National Trust Thievery Thread. They can be virtual fruit and veg can't they?

Hello. Am being brave and posting on the dauntingly popular 10/10 thread.

I thought that someone here might be able to recommend a simple, useful book about nutrition and the benefits of eating healthily. I am trying to advise my brother (have posted about him here) but feel he might benefit from a book or a plan. He's particularly fuddled by the idea of eating 5-a-day.

It needs to be a small, simple book. Something with a lighthearted take, perhaps. Hope no one minds me crashing and asking here - it seemed sort of relevant to the theme of the thread.

Hello! How lovely.

Come in.

Unfortunately I seem to be the only person around and am erm, can't advise on healthy recipe books.

The others will be back soon, and they will be able to help you.

Your name is very 10/10. I expect Franny has had her eye on you for some time.

Oh good there are people here again.

hello Broccoli Spears. I am a moderately lapsed F&Ver who is trying to rejoin .

hi sorry can't advise on any healthy fand v matters, or in fact any health matters whatso ever

How oddly reassuring that you don't all seem to have humourless doctorates in Eating Raw Things. My name does match the wallpaper, doesn't it.

Broccoli, I don't know about books, but starting the day with some fruit is good. The more you eat early in the day, the easier it is. Chopped fruit on cereal is good. Then pitta for lunch - nice and easy to stuff with veg. And healthy eating is addictive - once you get used to it, your body complains if you don't keep it up.

Idris glad you're back.

Zippi, if you're happy, I'm happy. I just got excited at the thought of another 10/10 baby.

I don't think I've ever been an honourable exception before.

well i expect i would have found it quite exciting too in a kind of unfolding horror drama sort of way

but luckily we don't need to pursue that idea

not of course that it could ever have been a possibility

can comcentrate on alomost any other less complex scenario for the rest of my life lol

zippi you have confused me and made me think of Trevor Horn. Can you not just stay as ruddy ZIPPI for a while, it is a perfectly nice name

Brocooli oh dear I don't think I know a book like that. I think the best selling healthy eating book at the moment is probably Gillian Mc Twisty, but I don't think we would recommend her, would we? Can you not just get him to join us here? Well, maybe not...erm someone must know a book.

I love emos, and I know a couple of them, so sometimes when I walk past one of their gathering places a small part of their gaggle breaks off and comes to hug me and peep at me from under their hair. They are so charming and, well, innocent

Gillian McDoodah complicates things by telling you what you can and can't eat together/before/afterwards.

I have made a big stew and it has onions, mushrooms, cauliflower, swede, kidney beans and carrots in. I am going to make herby dumplings - TooT was it you that said about the hydrogenated doodah in the suet? It just says oils but are they evilly keeping quiet about it?

well sod her then

we must be able to think of a book

how about that optimum nutrition woman, I like her

I don't know if they are allowed to keep quiet about it but I avoid hardened fats anyway. Decent margarine works just as well (Suma/Biona/Pure organiuc ones all good. Vitaquell smells peculiar.)

I was thinking of Lucy Burney but she doesn't seem to write books for adults

Do you suppose we were both typing the word doodah at the same time?

Lucy Burney has good ideas but then suddenly recommends liver or venison and puts me right off.

yes I make dumplings about once every 2 years so I am finding it hard to sort out a healthy version

oh well

yes I do

we were spiritually joined in vagueness for a minute there

DH has been to the shops. We're having the cod with baby corn, mange tout & griddled courgettes.
Hope it's nice now!

Re the fats, there are some vege sausages which I used to buy and then stopped buying because of hydrogenated fats, then they removed them and I bought them again but they leave a sort of fat that solidifies in the pan/grill which makes me uneasy. So now I am not buying them again.

why not just some vegetarian cook book

Franny when you said that Lucy Burney doesn't write books for adults I thought you meant that she wrote books about nutrition that were for children to read. I went trotting off to Amazon thinking that sounded ideal for my (24-year-old) brother. Oops. Good job he's not a mumsnetter.

I found another box scheme that seems good. Lots of local stuff and they are not huge and owned by Riverford or whatever