We eat fruit. It is nice. 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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Agree MrsC, ready brek isn't very 10/10 is it? Perhaps a nice bowl of porridge with seeds and fruit added would give a lovely forest green aura instead of that in-yer-face orange one

ah diet coke. drink of the gods. Tastes like malted battery acid but is so good

I eat a lot of F&V but if you work it out as a percentage of all the other shite i eat throughout the day I fear it would work out alarmingly low.

yes, I can't stand ready brek, reminds me of school dinner slop with blobs of jelly jam sauce stuff in the middle. Also, it puffs everywhere, you feel as if you are inhaling it like asbestos.

It wasn't really a suggestion that they ate readybrek, more that they had a glow.

That was my understanding.

Don't get me in trouble with Franny. She'll make me sit in the corner with 3 kilos of roasted aubergine and not let me go till I've eaten it all.

[wretching] emoticon

Even though I am descended from a pirate, Avi? [innocent]

I can do drivings from Bristol airport Avi if that helps.

What about.... I know... Bristol!!!

pirates? Eh?

What about Chew/Blagdon area? Oh, there is the Wessex Water place. Havent been but it is supposed to be nice.

Oh yes, it was the glow not the foodstuff I was referring to - ready brek is bleugh, grim, vile [backpedals violently]

I only ever eat whole grains. None of yer mashed up stripped off crap. Oh yes indeedy do.

I know, OB, but I couldn't help pointing it out as a breakfast they'd be least likely to eat, except maybe a full english.

Also when I think of the ready brek glow I think of aftershots and lucozade, more nuclear than nature.

Actually I am talking shit, ignore me, maybe it is because I haven't eaten any fruit yet as it is all rock hard and like a punishment.

MrsC, don't serpose you'd be up for a meet up? You do go to Bristol sometimes, don't you?

Also, I am tired, have had a very long conversation with lady who used to be a gynae cancer specialist at the Marsdon and she was reassuring me how necessary it was for me to have a hysterectomy, which, while reassuring, was quite intense as you can imagine. I wasn't aware quite how bad it can be in young people, worse in young people in fact, very fast moving indeed. She says it's nasty nasty type.

Hey ho.

I need to purchase friendlier fruit, I might go after the school run posse have dispersed. Can't quite face the how are you chats in the grocers yet.

Tatties, I think I love you I haven't met anyone who is as irritated by those things as I am.

Hmm, Bero mentioned Twiglets which must mean there is already so sort of spray on marmite albeit an industrial one. Or do the dunk them? Or drizzle, perhaps? Do you have the link for the OCD test? I'm curious. I bet I could google actually. You're right though, it is something that is taken very lightly. I think unless you suffer from it (which I do not), you don't understand quite how debilitating it can be. Well done for managing it so well.

MrsC, I am glad the talk was reassuring - sounds like it could have been far worse. I am sorry you had to go through any of it though. I imagine talking/thinking about it can be quite exhausting.

It's May 20th and we will be having stew and dumplings for lunch - it is so bloody cold Lots of veg in it though.

The lake thingy you refer to (I assume) is not open to kids under 16. That's the only wter relted thing I know of near Bristol that might be good. If I've missed summat klet me know!

Yes UR, it was Twiglets that brought about the whole spray on twiglet revelation apparently. He even explained this in his email to unilever. He was saying last night 'people either love it or hate it, but there's a market for people who hate it, but could sort of love it too, like me, I hate it, but I love it on twigletts, and THERE is the market!' And I did He's already practicing his pitch for Dragon's Den.

Have had pita with humous, beetroot, carrot, rocket, tomato, cucumber and an apple.

i am wondering whether to go to wales this weekedn noext week

i could do a meet up

i did send my application and it got there they have sent me a thank you

it was very crap tho and rather unfinished seeming just a sort of splurge of stuff

so i will just sound weird and get a rejection

spray on marmite sounds quite yucky really would it be like an olive oil pump thing

i haver been gardening this am...i was desperaste for the loo but the son was ther presumably with some people because there were 5 cars on the drive so i couldnt go in my pot in the coach house thing

osmosis if i goto wales i shant be a million miles from you hope the weather is nice

i am vaguely wondering whether to go to a festival at cheltenham for my birthday next wek but i do find the idea of going on my own a bit tough

otherwise i might go to wales on my own and stay there for my birthday

dd2 passed her driving test this am ds has his about now so fingers croassed rather unpoptimisticaly for him too

did you have one pitta or two, Boco? I only ask as I always find one is not enough but two is too much yet somehow I squeeze it in. How lonng is a piece of string I suppose, depends on the size of the pitta.

am I allowed to know what the food thing was by the way? It is intriguing though I am sorry it has caused Franny stress..

Just one MrsC, but a large one. Made lunch for six so by the time i'd done it I wasn't really that hungry and was picking bits of pita out of toy box etc.

Glad your dd passed Zippi. I'm unpoptomistic about my driving too atm.

thank you

sorry the treat went a bit pear hsaped franny and mrs c

when you do pita with one t I think you are saying pain in the arse though I know you're not

congrats to your dd, zippi