Goooooooouuuurrrdddd Morning We-ate-yam!!! (Another classic 10/10 Club production. All welcome)

[filthymindedvixen]

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.

Oh dear. Are you co-sleeping? That was the only reason I survived I think.
Get someone to make you dried fruit compote - mixture of dried fruits (pref organic or at least unsulphured) soaked and cooked a bit with a hint of molassas. V. good for your iron levels. And nice too.
Sleep well, I hope!

he was in Spain....

NEW TITLES PLEASE!!!!

Yeah, what a busy thread....

First thanks for comments and suggestions re pain/cold. I might try and save for accupuncture. The NHS one is three bus journeys away and for an hours appointment takes a whole day, but I like the idea of self-hypnosis franny, it would fall in with the meditation that I am failing trying to do.....

Glad you have your DH back stuffit and the decisions aren't too trying too make.

Glad you got out Toot and hope you feel at least a little revitalised.

fmv, i noticed we needed a thread title but am completely out of ideas here.

Hi MamaG, hope things are going well with you and bubbaG.

Hello

Want to reply to Mou/ Smiles, then will read rest of thread.

Do you know of Jon Kabat-Zinn? He runs a mindfulness-based stress reduction clinic, they work with lots of people in pain and he's written / co-written some great books -

like Full Catastrophe Living
for people dealing with all kinds of physical conditions, and
this one about depression.

The program in both is pretty much the same, they're about using meditation to deal with physical/ mental/ emotional pain. And if you want support to meditate, there's this mn thread.

I've gone a bit link-happy, hope they all work.

Ok, seems like maybe people and littlepeople are mostly on the mend . Agree that ab's are only evil when used reflexively and badly. Otherwise they're kind of amazing, really. You did the right thing, Franny.

Stuffit - hello! Glad all are well and dh is back.

It's cold here too . No, it is, really. I've been driven to wearing socks with my flip flops. And until now I've been relying on lots of fruit for my 10 (well, my 7. If I'm lucky), but it's too cold for muesli for breakfast. I think I may have to start cooking . What are your best veggie-heavy recipes, involving not too many ingredients and no skill whatsoever? And no oven?

we need a christmassy title do you think?

what about

FIVE..... something something
four cunting mangoes
three french beans
two brussel sprouts
and a something in a pear tree

ok you get the drift
i have about 4 brain cells this am
off to work
forgot to report f+v yesterday

pineapple grapes raisins satsuma apple
hummus mange tout cucumber red pepper
2 satsumas 2 apples

Mama G!!!

Five clementines,

what franny wrote

and A vegger in a pear tree!

Thank-you mangolassi, we have a great bookshop nearby so I might take a look later. It is definately the direction I would prefer to go. Busy today, but home based so will try and not over do it(!?).

Hi, SB I was just wondering how you were? Has your sister gone home?

The house is peaceful and quiet....aaaaahhhhhh!

...have a good day to all

Take my tablets with a handful of nuts and have just swallowed a whole brazil nut and chewed the tablet!

Ouch! Don't choke.

No recipes for me?

ill mention fruit thing to dh, thanks

Soup mangolassi?
personally I can eat a nice bowl of home-made soup any time, with a hunk of nice buttered bread.

i have never made soup in my life Sure, soup sounds great, what do I need to do?

You need to catch a chicken and boil its bones for stock before tearing up roots with your own fair hands and bubble them all together with herbs.

Or you could fry an onion, whatever veg you have lying about and add water with a bit of bouillion or stock cube.

My favourite is the moment is clear leek and potato with chickpeas and tarragon. Dd calls it seaweed soup. We make a lot. I like miso in it too.

Honey nut shreddies.

I saw three pips.

Guad what's with the house thing?

I am wearing fingerless gloves and feeling very steptoe and son. It's snowing. I may burn some scrap and eat some dripping later.

Ah, see guad, I could get dp to catch a chicken and do stuff to it no probs. We are tres rural. It's the "whatever veg you have lying about" that's going to do me. There is none, I'll have to buy some special, like. So how much of everything and do I need to cook it for hours, or something?

boco - ? pips?

House? What house, Boco?

Lol at tres rural. I am afraid I don't use recipes for soup very often. I would always fry an onion to start then add say, two carrots and a sweet potato and a handful of lentils and tin of tomatoes. Or four beetroots and two carrots and some dill topped with creme fraiche. I do not like mixed vegetable blended together, that is my worst soup. Broccoli and stilton? Chicken noodle? Chrorizo and butterbean? Minestrone?

You can use dried if you haven't got any fresh, though that would make it less seaweedy.

Leek and potato soup is nice, with creme fraiche.

I saw three pips come sailing by etc, lame attempt at thread title, not fruity hallucination.

Oh, I'm sure I don't have tarragon in any state of hydration. Will see

Far too Asian & rural for creme fraiche - not even any cream, or unsweetened yoghurt.

Aah - I get it with the 'sailing by' part. Am soup-obssessed.

Pips very funny. I spent a few minutes trying to think what vegetable or fruit sounded like come sailing in but couldn't think of anything other than I saw three pips in the celery which of course doesn't have any pips so it doesn't work.

Yes, creme fraiche is very nice in leek and potato too. Maybe not with tarragon.

My mother only ever made soup that was carrot potato, onion and peas. Then it would be blended together until it was brown. I don't know what made it go brown, maybe the onions were a bit black, but it always reminds me iof what someone may have left on their plate after a roast dinner.

oh do hurry with the new thread! My ancient computer does struggle when we get past 500

I feel I must tell you all about my HV, you would all heartily approve of her

She's very pro F, not worried about weighing baby unless i want to. She's going to do 1-1 baby massage with me as DS2 hits 6 weeks just before Christmas so the classes won't be on. Her colleague (hv) is also a homeopath and she (mine) is VERY pro homeopathic stuff so I'm ringing her this afternoon to discuss what best to get for DS2

AND she wears strange knitted shawl things and fly shoes

You'd all blardly love her

I do blardy love her

well I feel a bit rude just barging in and starting the new thread now
fmf has done such a sterling job of doing thready things, and maybe the new title is not very exciting?

hmm