What a Fruitiful Day....nothing is impossible with my own powerful lime! 10/10 Club - all welcome.

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For anyone who wants a boost to their general health (and to talk bobbins with a load of fruity nutters). 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

AGGGH. I have just been judgey judged on a thread about trying to find a dvd player for ds' s room. I have PMT and they are all leaping to stupid conclusions about him having a tc in his room. It's not to watch tv, is just for dvds and just for when friends with kids come round in the evings (which is often as we don't have babysitters. )

I want to throw things!

DH and I barely watch tv, let alone the kids.

I think I need to go and drink wine meditate.....

starwberries, veg soup, apple, orange juice, omelette with tomatoes, onions, salad with avacado, lettuce, olives, red pepper, carrots and red cabbage.
But no-one is around to say ''well done''...

Well done Plucking

Eer.. do I know you?

Fruit salad with watermelon, blackberries, grapes and peaches (yes rather odd combo but quite tasty)

Apple

Salad twice which included avocado. Twice.

Yo-Ga

Had horrible bedtime with DS when I got very cross. Am feeling bad about it

Is it odd going to Uni when not a school leaver, OB? It must feel very odd. Aren't all those 18 year olds getting on your nerves?

Funny you should say that FK. Have come to hide in computer room as am feeling a bit despondent about general agedness and lack of friends.

Tis Freshers Fair and I was quite excited about signing up for netball as used to play that a lot. But they train at 8:30 - 10pm on a Thursday. Which would mean leaving here after lectures, driving back to Bristol, dealing with DD, driving back to Bath, finishing at 10 and then driving back to Bristol.

I'm not sure that is do-able.

I was told they trained on a Weds afternoon, which would be perfect. Have had all manner of leaflets thrust at me for cheap drinks in bars in Bath, cheap pole dancing lessons in Bath, LGBT, church group, samba club etc etc

I forgot that the reason Freshers was fun last time was cuz I could gleefully accept at the nasty coloured free shots and then stumble onto the bus back to halls.

I realise I'm moaning about basically getting my own way and doing the thing I want to do, just feeling a bit sad.

Could be because I was up all night with DH and DD's stomach bug which I thought I'd sidestepped. I am terrified of puking. Brings me out in a prickly rash and makes me cry.

On the plus side, I was feeling a tad guilty about the amount of cauliflower cheese consumed at dinner gross.

oh OB, it must be odd to say the least. would it console you to consider how young you are, compared to me? Ah well...

FK, Plucking was me, sorry. I forgot I had namechanged. Again.

I am full of raspberries and plums today

I'm going to go and have a beer at the bar. If that doesn't help then I'm going to go and sit in my car, eat my lunch and go home.

I know what time it is. Don't start.

Oh Boco, I am sorry about the shitty money situation. I empathise heartily.

OB, it must be odd, but you can carry it off. I'd go and skulk in the library with my crochet if it were me

Fmf, I didn't realise some things had to be in before Sept. Am absorbing your list of possibilities though.
How did the cake turn out? Have youi got pics?

I am also hoping to see Mou's bag.

I am eating quite a lot of apples. I love this time of year. The trees are being very kind.

Oh, I bouight some wet walnuts t'other day. Are they supposed to taste quite so odd? Sort of alcoholly/chemically?

Oh no LittleRach Do you think it is just tiredness wobbles? I think once the initial excitement wears off it all seems overwhelming. Dd1 is feeling a bit like this. Feed her lots.

oh TooT, the cake was a triumph! But we have no camera at the moment so am waiting for my mum and brother to email me their pix.

Can't wait to see it!!

Dd2 is definitely in a morbid phase. She has just said that one day she will eat a dead person. "Because dead people can't talk and they don't mind. Otherwise they just lie around on the road."
I think this is following on from the dead rat, and the fact that it has finally disappeared, and the talk we had about beetles and flies tidying things up.

Sounds like my dd Toot, who has been talking about death all week, probably because of her scare - today she said 'how many days before I'm dead? And will you keep me when I'm a dead girl? won't it be sad when my friends come to play but I can't play because I'm all dead!' etc etc. Eeeek

Money thing very depressing isn't it, am fed up with this last week of the month feeling. Dp is better than me at budgeting, I don't really live like we've got financial ishoos, not like I should. We had an argument because dp buys fish for tea but not enough for us all so we have a tiny bit each and i would rather not eat it at all than have a mouthful. Is always fights about food. I need to be better at healthy frugal meals.

DD been lent dvds today so having another sofa day, she's had a sleep this morning and doesn't want to be disturbed by me. Dvd broke yesterday too - but i seem to have fixed it by baning it repeatedly and swearing.

I didn't realise you were a technician Boco! Top skills.

I usually just stare at broken things until DH comes home. I know i used to be quite good at fixing / banging things before DH came along so why am I so feebly female now?

AM at home again.

house is a pit. Needs proper clean. Can't be arsed, want to watch 'Homes Under the Hammer' instead.

Still, best get on while DD is trapped in her cot.

Gorgeous day here, wasn't so good in Bath.

Oh Boco.

I bought crap cheap chicken legs and thighs on BOGOF, thinking in my perky 1950s wifely way that I should be able to prepare many frugal meals with them. After an hour of trimming off all fat and bone etc, I stir fried them. And both boys cried and refused to eat it. They have been spoiled by my breast-meat fetish and now, when I need to save lots and lots of money, I am fecked by our previous ponciness

This also coincides with ds1 having a major growth spurt. So one packet of 8 sauages used to feed 4 of us. Now ds can eat half a pack by himself...and he keeps growing out of shoes etc.!

Potatoes. Fill them up with potatoes. And bread. And dumplings. And Yorkshire pudding or something.

Dp has just had to borrow money from dd2 to get a bulb for the car. Driving without indicators is bad enough, having a brake light out too seemed unwise.

Oh Boco.

Dd2 keeps saying things like, "I won't see my dollies any more when I'm dead." in most tragic tones. Ds2 has come up with the best response so far - he said that her dollies would die with her and then they would be together. This comforted her more than anything I had said.

I am supposed to be tidying. We have a 1yo visiting tomorrow and there is lego and fluff everywhere.

Tigerfeet,sorry I missed your post. No, we don't have a date yet. Good luck with dd - I'd hate not being able to go! Is the op a definite thing at some point?

I made the casserole yesterday with chicken thighs and bulked it out with loads of mushrooms, potatoes and peas and a little bacon. It was delicious and quite cheap. I didn't think there was enough chicken as there were six small thighs for five hungry people but it was fine.

My best cheap meal is tuna rice - brown rice, tin tuna, tin tomatoes, all leftover veg, some harrisa, herbs (pref coriander) and lime/lemon. Very healthy too.

Also small amount of fish can go further in a kedgeree with eggs and peas and rice, parsley and lemon. Or fishcakes, or salmon and broccoli pie with tinned salmon in white sauce and puff pastry. Nicer than it sounds. Frozen prawns always on offer and they make loads of things more interesting, spaghetti with tomato sauce and with chilli for eg. Yum.

Herbs, lemon, and seasoning make everything better. Hope that doesn't sound patronising, I don't mean it to be. Also recommend online shopping for all bogof offers then you can get codes from websites to take more money off your shopping.

Hello fruit folk

We are coming to end of budget food week and I am straving full of interesting tips on healthy frugal meals. For example the last three meals I had were from 1 whole chicken.
Roast, then mushroom and flagelet bean rissotto (with leftover chicken and stock)
and chicken salad for lunch today.

I agree with potatoes and also bread and pasta and rice - big heavy filling carbs.

I think I'll do toad in the hole tonight with toms and mushrooms.

Budget is ok but what I miss is fruit that isn't apples or oranges. I want some grapes at least

Incidentally my dd has recently started going on and on about death too. Tres Bizarro. She says things like if we get out of the bath now we'll die. Or I'll count to ten then I'll come and tickle you and then we'll all die together. Her toys keep getting tied up and dying too.

Hunters chicken is yummy too and uses chicken legs and lots of veg

can someone mind DD for an hour? I need to sleep. Anyone got a webcam?

scrap that, I've just spotted a wondrously mawkish film on C5 about a recently bereaved girl who tries to send a message in a balloon to her dead family. [gets out the cooking sherry]

Just to join in on the death theme.

DD is having a 'phase' too. It involves kicking me constantly, screaming at everything, and refusing to eat anything I give her. Yes, she is nearly 2.

OB, bring her over here and I'll look after her while you go and meander by the canal/visit the pub/sleep
Not on a Thurs or Fri though.
Really

I think i must be due on. snivelling at your post TooT!