Riders on the Corn - 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

OB poor you.

Sorry gossip issue has gone horrid and grim, Boco.

hello zippi

Apple, peach. Leftover lentil & mush roast from yesterday. (TooT, the sauce is just chop courgette, chop a small onion or shallot, fry in lots of olive oil without letting liquid from courgette steam off, add a little water if necess and herbs to taste (a splash of white wine works well too), whizz with blender stick, simmer for a few mins). Baked red pepper and rice with tomatoes. Apricot. Er... I'd say 8.

Franny, tell me you still love me or I will lie down on the floor and kick and cry.

tell your dp to text back and say 'when are you going to read Proust?'

(What do you call those blender sticks? The German name translates as 'puree wand' )

hand blender

Nice one Guad

Thank you Bero, will try the sauce
We struggle a bit with pasta sauces what with some of us being dairy free and the boys being tomato-phobic.

FFS at SIL's text, Franny. Are silly-moo-ish comments her speciality?

We're having Lentil roast tonight. Bero

Thanks for the 'recipe', FMV - will add to List.

Evening all

For dinner we had leftovers from the minestrone I made yeaterday. It was lovely, I put in garlic, onions, celery, leek, courgette, potato, carrots, cannellini beans, tomatoes... yum... first proper batch-cooking I've done for a while

Ooh. I'm going to start calling mine puree wand. I like it!

Ah MrsC. That sounds a reasonable name. Puree wand indeed.

Hand blender sounds painful. I say stick blender. The wand sounds fun though.

x posts pink Sorry. Think I am just a little fed up of Germanisms - as one would be, living here.

German has some brilliant words doesn't it

LOL x-posts bero!

It's the huge one-word multi-concept compound nouns I'm still not used to. It's actually another way of thinking about things.

(in German 'one-word multi-concept compound noun' would almost certainly be, well, one word. I shall attempt it: er... Einwortmehrfachkonzeptsubstantivzusammensetzung.

What in the name of all that is holy is a 'one-word multi-concept compound noun'? [lost]

TooT I love you

I am really sorry if you thought I was cross, I thought I said I wasn't and why would I have been anyway?
I am just dropping in here to moan like a hit and run person tbh so if I don't answer anyone it is because I am dwelling on poor poor poor planet sized little old me

ooh no SIL not silly cow at all or given to daft remarks
I think actually she was misquoted - dp did not understand the rage this would, erm induce

Germans pack lots of nouns into one big long one-word noun. see here Most are not that extreme.

Sorry, I am being high maintenance
I just wanted to make sure you weren't upset.

oh dear no not high maintenance, I have probably been being jolly rude, but it was entirely unintentional
if anyone else has noticed me being jolly rude to TooT please come on and kick me a bit

hello to bero and all the others

so do you feel like this baby is about to appear do you have a planet bouncing on your blkadder