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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apple
3 satsuma
tomatoes
pepper
mushroom
onion
lettuce
sweetcorn
pineapple

hullo tats - have not collided with you for AGES!

PSW - go and do your protection stuff - we will all still be here in a couple of hours.

am a bit [oh dear] at christmas cake thing. am i meant to be doing that about now??

Hello Bee

hope all is going well for you - is it still exciting?

Exciting probably isn't the word I'd use now... It seems like we are living in such uncertain times so everything is a bit scary! I will just be relieved when it's all sorted

That was toooo easy, arf arf to BBBee and Slur from the baby veggers' page

Tatties How the heck are you? x

Oh, it is lovely and warm in here, (sidles into yurt and sinks into a cushion)...much better.

Toot...baked apple and rice pudding!!drooling here, any going spare?

So sorry Boco, fingers crossed for you and your DD.

Apples, apple juice, tomato juice, broccoli, cauliflower, banana, raisons.

Stayed in twice for visitors but neither turned up..?not the kind of people to let me down so curious as to why, but can't get in touch with either..mmmmmm. Perhaps find out tomorrow.

Am still planning big run, and I am curiously excited. Feel like a little girl waiting for a party to start!

My DD keeps telling me that I work too hard and when I went to put her to bed she had done it herself and was looking at a book under the covers with a torch. DS was hopping around his room in his underpants playing with himself. I love my children!!

DONE IIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello

I have let the side down on the amateurs thread

You hAve all done splendidly.

I am very premenstrual and have eaten cake. With no fruit content.

Boco hope the new treatment helps DD2. Sorry they weren;t very informative though. It must have been frustrating. How was driving? Was it today?

Hello BBBee, Tatties & Franny

Fumf I ma most impressed. What did you make the mini cakes in?

Ah mou, they sound lovely! What is this big run of which you speak?

DD was looking at a book today and I asked if she could find a picture of a pretty lady. She said 'No. Mummy's pretty.' Then hugged me hard about the head and didn't let go for ages

See FK, you say no fruit content but really flour comes from a plant in a processed kind of way, ditto sugar, so if we can include cooked foods surely flour and sugar are counted in (pre-menstrual) portion counts

Helloooooooo folks!

7
Grapes
Apple
Courgettes
Sweet potato
Tomatoes
Avocado
Spinach

Oooh and some of that was in delish Jamie Oliver courgette carbonara with salad, yum.

Anyhooo, Pink your dd is a sweetheart!

Courgette carbonara? Courgettes instead of bacon [mistrustful]

Hello Tatties Have missed you. I am glad things seem to be progressing.

TooT! TooT!! TooT!!! A small parcel has arrived it came while we were out and I got hold of it this evening. Thank you

Am having risotto with tomatoes, courgettes, parsnips In German parsnips are called Pastinaken. This was a real revelation to me - for a long time at the beginning I didn't think they existed over here, as only lentil-weavers seem to eat them - and I just love the word. Our veg-box suppliers grow their own Pastinaken

Aaaaaah at lovely children. Mine are pretty adorable too

Pink, I am going to try and run the distance of a half marathon.... I might be too tired to type tomorrow..

[impressed] go for it mou!

Bero I was at the parsnip bashing too. We have them steamed, roasted, as soup. Love 'em. My dad was horrified when I went shopping when he was here and only bought about 3 (for the meal we were having that night). He never buys less than a huge bag full

Oh Boco - hope the asthma stuff works. How worrying for you all.

mou - your DS sounds like mine. Boys, eh?!

fmf, details on the mini xmas cakes. I am going to make mine this weekend I think.

My mum is coming next week and she tends to be rather suspicious of my veg ways. She only eats cheese and chocolate. And wine.

Banana cake, apples, kiwis (4 so I think that counts as 2), juice and big veg soup for supper

Hope everyone is ok

Off to allotment now

Thank you all you lovely lovely people, it is so good to know you are there. Thank you for bearing with me, and sorry. I shall not snivel over the thread again in such a duplicitous* way. I was just desperate for kind words. Right, onwards and upwards.

Lostatsea, thank you for your sympathy/empathy.

*I think this is the wrong word but I can't think of a better one.

I am not going to mention apples ... I have eaten
Banana
Strawberries (mushed in a smoothie thingy)
Butternut squash
carrot
carrot cake
courgettes (though sadly not with pancetta or Jamie Oliver)
and Orange Juice

So that is 6 plus 1 for about 15 apples

love amateur veggers - although as a beginner I perhaps cannot laugh too much!

Mou, good luck tomorrow - we will be here plumping up yurt cushions for you

Boco hope DS is feeling better soon

and I am always a bit fearful of parsnips. Only manage to roast them....

P&B love DC children stories and well done for getting work done, I am just starting mine!

My DS has decided he wants his own hair dryer "Mummy, DS wants own little one"

(((hugs))) to CD and LostasSea however you may lurk

and I'm totally intimidated by small christmas cakes

but I have ordered advent calendars
but I suppose I ought to be crotcheting them or something in a truly lentilly-sort of way

Where is mamag? Has she had her baby?

Hi, SB! hope you are well.

I am a bit of an early bird this morning...the house is quiet.

Impressed with the christmas cake making..I usually start my cards around now, must give myself a kick....

Time for a large coffee smoothie methinks.

this is the recipe I used, very easy and yummy and not as scarily dense with currents ans other xmas cake

I only half filled the tins (fullsized baked bean tins!) as I couldn't work out whether they meant those mini-cans or normal sized cans IYSWIM. but they are gorgeous and I can't wait to decorate them.

day off today thank goodness. But I do need about 5 more hours in a day please!

hello

4 hours' sleep. worrying about what if dh doesn't get his funding extended. I don't want to have to go and work in that job ft although work would bite my hand off, (un)fortunately. We're still trying to sort child carer situation so he is losing lots of work time and it worries me, although he tries to make it up on evenings and weekends. No, he WILL get it extended - apparently the extension is practically guaranteed to parents and we have had another child since he got the funding. Will sit him down and thrash out his thesis and time plan with him this weekend. He really needs a 'supervisor' - very unlike me, I'm very self-motivated - is difficult not to get impatient.

Dr this morning with ds2 to talk about not giving MMR. New paed was so cool with it how we want to manage the singles and took me seriously. Wow He has to have a check-up cardiac scan to check his forumen ovale has closed, which it should have done by now.

Dropped a cup of coffee all over floor and desk incl. papers and things this morning and late taking ds1 to kindergarten and bad-tempered and managed to upset him

grapefruit, apple, banana, pear