The Lychee Lads - 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

Nutjob, no they wouldn't be v nice without spices IMO

It's just started snowing properly again.

PollyAnna, not sure.
I use chilli flakes. Could add basil insteda of oregano?? Extra onion? Black pepper?

I have done some work

Off school due ot snow, so have to work from home or not get paid. So wrk it is. Actually, much easier than going in I htink.

Attila, dh will be in Derby on Mon and Tues, but not me!! Is the forecsat ok for then? He was supose dot go Tuesday but weather ghastly.

BellyButtons

ick.

We have loads of snow.
Really loads.

dds are playing maps and binmen

Banana
dried apricots

I had a dream that I gave birth to twins, they were about the size of guinea pigs and one was wearing thick glasses. I called them both Marne. I just had to google Marne in case there was some strange message - but it's just an area in France, and there was a battle there. So rather disappointingly lacking in symbolism.

Does anyone want my delicious recipe for jamaican beans?

Got lots of veg in

Actually Bee's profound point was good. I think that's where I'm going wrong. I don't get enough of the stuff in. I am taking advantage of our day of school to make lists, using my new Leon cookbook. I need to make sure there's lunch for me and dh, healthy vegetable lunches, and there's fruit at breakfast - also I want to know if people are hiding their fruit. Like Boco has blueberries sometimes - if I bought some blueberries they'd just go in 2 hours, I'd eat a few, dcs would wolf the lot. Do you buy lots of blueberries, or perhaps your dcs don't actually raid your fridge?

I like this focus. It's helpful.

Franny - please may I have your baked muesli recipe?

Problem is all this cooking and stuff in a proper way, it calls for creativity doesn't it, and I haven't got much going spare. But I am going to try. I am going to health food shop for muesli things and green grocers. Shall I get a bread maker? Shall I wear an apron? Also we do internet shopping because it's time efficient, but it makes things unimaginative in the long run.

Shall I get a box? Will it all get eaten in two days? I have many more questions, now I'm focussing.

It's sleeting here, is freezing.

Like Franny and Guad - how often do you shop? Do you shop every day? Do you get a box for the week?

I do everything. We have internet shops now and then. I have a fruit and veg box once a week and I also go to the shops pretty much everyday but I am trying to curtail this.

Did you know some people have spreadsheets of their incomings and outgoings? I need that kind of organisation.

100 - did you find the film depressing or just crap?

oh, and now I have the cooperative! This will hopefull help reduce some of the other things.

I have to hide exotic fruit in our house 100 and 'ration' it.

I am pissed off. The little local festival we have been going to for 5 years is not happening htis year and instead there is a bigger one with £80 each tickets [shock!] and we have to pay for a camper van ticket too.

Am dithering as the boys are sorely ditressed at not going to Solfest or Beautiful Days.

I keep meaning to do a finaces spreadshett. But I know it will be depressing to actually see that we have not enough incomings...

I want to go to latitude this year.

DD canes all of the apples. She is like a locust.

I woke up with energy...and thought I was going to have two fair days on the run,

but it has just gone. completely.

not drained away as I do stuff. it is like somebody has simply switched me off.

I have had,

banana,
2 pears,
juice
tomatoes.
A large handful of nuts.
Not being difficult franny, but why? That should be enough to sustain me.

I only get blueberries when they're two punnets for the price of one at Tesco or Co-op, and then I keep them on the top shelf of the fridge where the girl's cant' reach, and I ration. They have a bowl to share after school, of blueberry apple and banana. One punnet lasts a day, i have half and they have half between them.

I do one weekly shop, with meal plan so i know exactly what we're having every week. Had to do that as tight budget and try to keep to £60 a week, but find this increasingly impossible atm. I top up apples / bananas / bread and milk during the week. Dp making bread to try and save, but his bread can be challenging. This mornings wholemeal is a bit like tough carpet.

Veg box didn't work for us as it was always full of turnip and there wasn't much variety, and it was expensive, and we had to go and buy all the usual things anyway so it was a bit of a waste.

I'm quite good at the financial stuff [tight fisted] but in order to be as efficient as possible, and to save precious time, I do a meal plan and an internet shop. But all the fruit goes in two days. And it's all a bit prosaic, and I've got very food-for-energy-to-survive. I used to be more creative about cooking, but I don't have it anymore. Ditto gardening. I regret it a bit. Am going to try and do better. I can't go to greengrocers and butchers every day - but I might try going once mid-week or something. I need a better balance. Maybe I'll look into a box too.

No I didn't mind that it was depressing - I quite like depressing things if they are good - just that it wasn't all that good. You had no idea really of who they were, of why the amateur dramatics were so important etc, it suffered for that. I find this often with adaptations though - broad brush strokes. My favourite films this year were film films not adaptations, I've decided they make better films. I had high hopes for The Reader too, because I loved The Hours, but that wasn't good either.

Who's nutjob??

No, no baby. Just a busy day. Sleeping. Then a friend came and picked me up and took me to her house for dinner cause I'm scared of driving in the snow [lame]

Can't catch up. Any goss?

Apple juice.

we suffer from lack of market so F&V tends me to be mundane (local greengrocer) or expensive (speciality greengrocer) or supermakret. I do a big weekly shop which, no matter how hard I try, is always around £100. This does include packed lunches for us all and lots of baking stuff. We make bread around 5 days a week but is hard as one loaf only really covers breakfast and lunch. And they always want to it it hot!

In summer, I grow a lot of fruit and veg, but this is hit and miss. It's all feast or famine. for example, I was averaging around 6 raspberries a day which is riduuclous.

Franny is nutjob.

No, I take that back. Lots of adaptations do make good films - I just found both The Reader and RR not great films probably, especially when compared to the complexity of the books.

Honey, did you start taking supplements? I asked my mum and her tongue healed in about 3-4 days. Also, get Spatone!! I am a convert for run-downness

Thanks Molly, this is useful. We probably spend about £150 a week at the minute. Three children, three adults - not dcs lunches though, but 3 adult lunches. And there is no food left to throw away, which is good, but also there isn't extra like blueberries or fruit for breakfast, or even vegetables for a sudden casserole. There must be a way to do this, without spending loads. There is a market here on Saturdays, perhaps I could get in the habit of going there. Greengrocer is lovely, but expensive too.

I shall look into bread making. I want this to be cost-effective, time efficient and nutritious.

God, I do love a focus.

I'm going to start using phrases such as 'fruit forward' soon.

I know Franny's a nutjob - who's namechanged to pollyannanutjob ?

Yes, pink...I forgot about that...I will look at some today. My mind doesn'thold on to things well at th moment. Will look into spatone also.

Nice to 'see' you

We had a box delivered but the quality was apalling. Stuff past its best by the time we got it.

We struggle....very limited options and expensive for nice alternatives,

And I can't stock up....DC's helped themselves to £8 of soft fruits while I was in the bath.

Also - focus, focus - boys are ALWAYS hungry at the minute. They'd eat a loaf, honestly, when they come in from school if they could, and then sit down and eat supper. Does anyone have good after-school FILLING ideas for boys please? That don't involve me baking muffins - or if I do have to do that, can I bake on a Sunday night for the week?

Ok. I'll stop asking questions now.