Broccoli and kohlrabi, when they are both full grown.....10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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

Toot - does that mean if you drink enough coffee you fall asleep?

I did overdose on lavender once and went whooshing off around purple fields in my head, though to be fair I was a bit delirious after a few days of hardly any sleep.

We got our tree today. It's too big. We drove thirty miles to an estate, paid a silly price though it was fun that big dogs take them bacl to the car on a sleigh, and now it's home it is too tall and wide. I have chopped the top off but the sides are still too wide for the space. It looks daft. I am cross with myself.

It is also extremely wet. I started to dry it with the hairdryer but dh put his foot down. He doesn't do that often.

"big dogs take them bacl to the car on a sleigh"

noooo
that's fab
we never have a real tree

Don't bother. They're too big and it stinks and it's wet like a big old dog.

The dogs are huge, those massive shaggy black wolf-like ones, what are they called? They work on the lifeboats most of the year. It's the RNLI doing it, you give a donation. The woman in front of us dropped her tree on the dog's head.

and there were elves making everyone do sill naming dances round their tree but that was just annoying.

well it sounds v cool

ds1 just said "i like the naff kind of food better mummy"
that's a visit to tesco's for you

Lol, I'm with ds some days. We have quiche for dinner.

what do the dogs do on the lifeboats? i don't really like dogs but i have a sneaking fondness for working dogs and huskies and guide dogs and things
ds had a book about one that used a cashpoint
it was a real story

They leap off and save people apparently, their paws are like big paddles.

he's got one of those naffeola cheese salads in a bowl
the layered sort with iceberg lettuce and plastic cheese in
mind you i have got ready meal macaroni cheese and ready meal red cabbage but THAT is ruddy nice

lol at big paddles

ds drew multicultural faces on a bus he made and i felt inordinately proud
can this please cancel out my homophobic dp?

Is he homophobic? I am surprised. I need plastic cheese, and fake bread. Maybe some bright lights and a formica chair and some no nonsense banter. Hey, lets go to Subway.

ruddy hell i hope not
but he made a stupid joke to Alex from work last night

i can't possibly go in subway, it smells really funny even just when you walk past

i sometimes want to eat naff food but it is so rare it is NICE that's the problem
eg sliced white bread always a big disappointment
hula hoops usually v good though
and frozen potato products

Oo, I don't like the smell of Subway either and there are millions of them.

Are the dogs Newfoundlands? Tree day sounds nice.

Ding Dong Broccoli on High!

Am going out for curry and abba silliness in a minute
I am having a lentilly and pineapply one.

Frozen potato products, yes. In a pitta bread with hummous and cucumber.

Guad, coffee is actually a sedative and only keeps you awake because your body fights it.

Franny, if you take a homeopathic remedy repeatedly it will "prove itself" which means it will cause the problem you are trying to cure. Which it will already have done. Because the right remedy is the one which, in a healthy person, would cause the symptoms you have. Now do you see?

Ds2 uncovered and opened his eye for a bit

Somebody very kind has secret santa-ed me and I am now the proud owner of £50 Ethical Superstore vouchers and some utterly gorgeous cards

ds now roaming around foraging for his nutcracker which is lost
"daddy help me find my nutcracker. You know you want to have a nut daddy, come on, you know you like them"

like some kind of nut pimp

TooT how fab
what are you going to buy?

Oh yes, I like the Ding Dong broccoli one. And the three pips. Do you think if we talk hard enough we can fit in both?

have fun fmf
abba silliness sounds good
oh unless you mean mamma mia [cynic]

at abba silliness. I too am going out for a curry but later. I want mattar paneer but my friend won't eat peas.

Hooray for open eye, Toot and double hooray for lovely secret santa. What a lovely gift.

I have eaten 4 pieces of toast

oh TooT how fantastic!

lol @ nut pimp

f+v:
apple pear banana raisins
baked beans - scads of them
red cabbage, sprouts
2 satsumas