Welcome to the Hotel Cauli-fornia...you can chickpea any time you want but you can NEVER leaf. (10/10 club all welcome)

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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.

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Hello lovely ladies

Hurrah for Pink & MamaG's blue bumps

We have 11+ here too - exceptionally good school or particularly crap on await but dd has just started reception so am refusing to worry about it just yet [lies]

MN is very odd atm. Not at all keen I have to say. Hence sporadicness of posting. I am lurking a lot though. Not that I'm addicted, nooooo, oooh noooo not at all. What we need is Yurtnet.

LArge salad
Carrots
Cabbage

[shocking]

OsBa I periodically reopen my ear pearcings and then when I can't sleep I let them close up again. Rinse and repeat every six months or so.

It is suspiciously quiet in here. Are you all hiding in corners and eating cake?

We went to the woods today - gloriously autumnal - I LOVE mosses and ferns and fungi and trees and dapply sunshine

And my children love mud.
Possibly inspired by last week's swamp walk, ds1, ds2 and dd2 glopped through, sat down, and even lay in it.
The boys had to travel home naked. In the car, I hasten to add.
It was comical to see ds1 running from car to house with a small leaf held strategicall and modestly He is good at comedy.

TF, for a moment I thought you were talking about 11+ f&v portions!!

Ahhhh TooT C has had a letter Please pass on her thanks. She will be in touch soon

lol at ds1 and leaf

FMF, I am curious about the SWMNBN support group.

IKWYM TF, about MN. Am beginning to feel it is not really 'one' MN any more.

11+ f&v very unlikely atm sadly - I am utterly rubbish.

Full moon = period = ice cream & chocolate

I went to a pumpkin festival on Friday evening. THere was a parade - we missed the point though, we thought there might be floats or similar but the idea was that you are supposed to dress up halloween stylee and carve a pumpkin and then march behind the band to form the parade. We have made notes in readiness for next year. There was pumpkin soup for sale, tombolas, fairground rides, fireworks etc and it was fab. DD had a whale of a time.

Oooh TF I like the idea of the pumpkin parade

Sounds like a good day TooT. The weather was glorious wasn't it?

Nasty things going on in the wilderness out there I hear.

Perhaps we should find a home for Yurtnet (tm)

Sorry that sounded like nasty things going on in TooT's woods.

I meant in the wide world of MN.

it was a
group to discuss things which could not be mentioned on here at that time, is all.

Have eaten at least 10 today, purely at sunday dinner!
TooT- my (4!!!) boys have spent all afternoon rolling down hills

oh yes, let's have Yurtnet®

FMF but of course you WILL e-mail all relevant info from said support group will you not?

It is actaully quite difficult I think when a forum gets as big as MN is now. Have been a member of and then left a different forum in the past, and when I went back for a visit, I was horrified.

Started off with a core of lovely people many of whom I met, including the site founders, and then just went craaaaazy. I couldn;t find people or keep up

It's potatoes, not cake, Toot! I would love some cake though.

I want to get my nose pierced. Please tell me why it is a bad idea.

Um bananas, juice

Pumpkin festy sounds fab. I might take DS back to the orchard tomorrow for donuts to pick apples and pumpkins.

Hope everyone is ok. Has mamag had her baby yet?

Can I be in Yurtnet too?

SB

Because it will hurt

That would be enought to put me off anyway

Hello FK!

I think the pain thing is part of the appeal Besides, it's just temporary, then you get a tiny sparkly thing to look at.

Got my nose pierced SB and I love it, had my belly button done as well!

Cheery good morning wave to all. I love monday mornings, (sighs contentedly and wipes latte froth off end of nose!).

Going out on my bike later, brilliant weekend for exercise, but still mostly on fluids and juices as I have still got sicky feeling(?). (abs. not pregnant).

Ds and Dd did the classic thing of playing with boxes for hours. Had a big telly box at end of drive and kept jumping out at passers by!, and then Ds got in and walked in the box behind people, it was so funny. when they turned round he'd stop and there would just be a cardboard box on the pavement behind them!

Well, things to do...lovely day to all.

I usually like mondays but I have to work today
And run a book group on a book which no-one has had time to read...

Morning all!

Congratulations on boyish bumps! Fab news. Little boys are brilliant.

I don't have any piercings, unusual or otherwise. [dull] Ob self piercing sounds difficult!

Dh bought that exercise bike, despite my reservations. Anyway it turns out to be quite good, so I have been moderately more active in the evenings than before.

As for f&v I am doing pretty well on 'f' front but crapola on 'v'.

rofl at box thing.

The level of pain depends on how mobile your face is really SB. I pull a lot of faces so they were quite painful as every time I flared my nostrils or summat they would pull. Didn't hurt for long though, maybe a week. Just make like a Botox victim and remain expressionless for a week or so.

I am a piercing addict. And tattoos. . doesn't really go with the Mummy thing though.

DH doesn't like 'em, had to take all of the face ones out.

fumf??

say it out loud. tis obviously me!

I had nose pierced when ds1 was born to celebrate. As soon as the little darling hit around 4 months, he kept grabbing and grabbing the purty shiny thing in mummy's nose and I got a narsty infection. So I had to eventually give up and let it heal up

yes, I'm hoping DD is out of the grabby phase!

I know it's you, just wandering what it means!

Right - how's this for a title....

'Disuss the role of supermarkets in the food system and their effect on the consumer' or ...'and whether they are good for the consumer'

need to crack on.

I don't recall my nose piercing hurting at all - the hurtiest one was the top of my ear. Belly button one long gone, sadly, along with the flat stomach it adorned

Get it done SB - I love mine although I rarely wear it now as it isn't allowed at work (because of no-jewellery-in-food-factory rules, not company wankerage)

OOhhh OsBa I work for a company that supplies supermarkets, as does dh, if you ever need the thoughts of a pair of disillusioned food industry workers then CAT me