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

Hello

I'm planning anotehr afternoon on the sofa, although cold mostly gone, possibly thanks to much Sambucol and manuka honey

I have gymed this morning and cooked sausage and mash with grilled tomatoes and brocolli, marrow and cauliflower in cheese sauce

The things I am finding to do with that marrow!

Maybe I'll never get to the stuffing point.

It's a great marrow, not soggy but nice and firm.

Guad what have you cut out? Sweet things generally?

Oh yuck for hangovers and colds.

Tomatoes. grapes.

rubbish really.

that quite a cunning way to disguise it FK. I hadn't thought of bunging it in a cauli cheese.

hangover now gone, pains back though.

have made the most enormous veggie lasagne. with layers of roasted peppers and courgettes instead of pasta. wonder who'll notice.

Wooo-hooo!!! If you never do anythung else odd, do make a pledge to do a swamp walk. It was exhiliaratingly cold and just amazing. Especially the waist-deep thick and gloopy bit where it was quite an effort to heave one's legs up.
And the shelter-building and the fire and the sleeping under drippy bits - exactly the kind of thing kids should be doing. And adults. Well, maybe without the drips.
Poor dd1 got utterly soaked overnight.

I want to go and live in the woods.

I now have to get the children clean - hahahaha - possibly without hot water. We'd be better off in the woods.

Bero, I am very glad you have bought yourself boots. Comfy feet are very important.

Papillon, stop trying to make us cool-climate gardeners jealous

OB, you fool.

FK, have a hot water bottle filled with honey and lemon.

Hello Slur

Hello Pink

Oh Fmv, the place we went was Escot - isn't that where Beautiful Days is held?

for which reason am i a fool?

for not thinking of putting marrow in cauli cheese?

for drinking too much?

for thinking you might be a frozen mudling?

or for sneaking vegetables into lasagne.

so many reasons I suspect the last one is it.

hello fruities!

i want to know more about what guad is doing and swamop walk and student life and afternoons on sofas.

evening lovelies. Have been on my boat with HumphreyCushion and her family and we have had a lovely day! Eaten rather too many pork products to be healthy.

TooT - I am so glad you enjoyed it, it rained so much last night here and was freezing. Yy escot is where beautful days is held.
OB, Paps is one of our more ethereal fruit-loopers, who lives in NZ, and is an uber-lentil-muncher and utterly gorgeous human bean, Even though I have never actually met her

BBBBeeee!! x

Sorry for hangovers and colds.

evening

oh TooT, glad it was lovely.

All your cooking sounds yummy. I made us roasted vegetables with home-grown herbs, baked potatoes and creme fraiche for lunch. Have just taken some banana and sultana flapjacka out of the oven.

Kindergarten family are lovely and have a mahoosive atmospheric flat and are just nice. We all had a lovely time, but ds1 especially. Their children took ds2 continually crawling over their train set and puzzles etc. very philosophically.

Work tomorrow I have had such a lovely long weekend (Fri was public holiday here, I roamed round botanic garden with the boys and then we had a friend and his dd here in the afternoon) that I am absolutely not in the frame of mind to switch over to work mode.

F+V: cucumber. pear. Aforementioned roasted veg (sweet potato, carrot, red and yellow pepper, courgette), 2 good helpings. Er, raisins in, er, stollen. (, but more for the eating stollen in October than for the stodge factor).

Evening all

OsBa I saw Valentine thingy on telly too and was inspired to make pumpkin soup. I couldn't be arsed to put it back in the pumpkin though. Instead I caramelised some onions and chucked them in with the pumpkin, whizzed it all up, et voila, a soup that no-one in the family turned their nose up at Every last bit gone . It is very rare for neither dh nor dd to go "Ewwww, what's this?" and push their plate away.

Toot sounds like you had a fantastic time.

It's farking freezing.

Bero there is stollen in Aldi now, alongside the Christmas cakes and mince pies . I have resisted thus far, but it only a matter of time [slurp]

My defence is that Lovely Kindergarten Family made me do it.

mmm stollen.,
I have eaten some fried mushrooms, tomatoes, baked beans and a carrot stick.

lol at 'and a carrot stick'

but the rest all count too! Well, I count fried stuff

Hello Bbbee n Bero!

Answer the question TooT.

Studenting is quite good, still at frustratingly slow pace but i will doubtless live to regret those words! Have interesting 'global food resources' module which is way cool man.

Also a friend of mine works for Frank water and does a lot of research / reading about current issues around food and has loads of info on GM crops in Africa which I am doing a rather enormous piece of coursework on so am quite excited about having a 'source' who i can talk to about such things rather than just reading. Yay!

am watching Jamies ministry thingy on 4OD. depressing. Anyone from Rotherham? I genuinely thought unhealthy people with poor diets had just made a decision to be so. I couldn't believe that in this day and age people still don't know what constitutes 'healthy' and what doesn't. But I am wrong. Very sad.

your soup sounds far less irritating than my 3 hour effort TF. will scale down the operaion next time.

Did you see his onion tart? I want to make that too but suspect it may involve at least 250g of butter.

I love onions.

oh that tart looked amazing...but I would want to add goats cheese on top.

Oh yes the onion tart [drool] and those filo pastry parcels with an onion inside [slaver]

Am rather partial to an onion myself. They have the advantage of not making me reek quite so badly as I do if I indulge my garlic passion.

Soup was piece of piss

cube pumpkin, simmer in chicken stock, add sage, a splash of worcestershire sauce and a smidge of pepper and chilli
meanwhile soften finely chopped onions in butter and add some sugar & balsamic vinegar cook until brown and caramelised
bung together, blend
yum

on reflection, probably inspired by a mix of Valentine's onion tart and his pumpkin soup

sounds good.

lol at goats cheese - i have an image of you furtively sneaking into my kitchen and chucking some goats cheese about willynilly! it would be welcome of course.

i am knackered. i need a shower but can't really be bothered.

OB, it was the deliberate drunkenness and the hangover. I think I had all my days of excess early, in a lump as it were, and am now quite sensible. I also really hate feeling like shit and will go to lengths to avoid it.

Sensible = walking through freezing mud in cut-off jeans and then sleeping in the woods whilst on controlled dehydration regime

Aldi stollen is weird - too much dextrosey stuff on the top and leaves the mouth a little slimy.
I made vegan stollen last Christmas - am making more this year

tsk. i know. it turned out not to be all hangover anyway.

So that's alright.

I need to investigate soups. Ds1 is not normally a soup person but he has to have 8 teeth taken out and has been planning ahead.

Have you showered yet?

I have bathed but my toenails are still edged with mud.