Chick chick chick chick chickpea, lay a little egg for me - 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

I had a cookery lecturn. Dh's mother gave it to me and I have only recently been able to hide it in a bag destined for the charity shop. Vile thing.

Tinned salmon is very good. My lot like it mixed with broccoli and white sauce and a puff pastry lid. Good for fishcakes too.

No lecturn her e

TT is okay according to vet (£22 to tell me that )
He may be allergic to sawdust.
Or just a snuffly rabbit.
But no abs yet
Apparently they don't get hayfever though.

TT doesn't like the car at all (or possibly just dh's driving).

Banana

I want one of those horrible lectern things you speak of!

Hello. I have nearly finished all this semesters work! Whoop!

lime
edamame beans
sugar snap peas

not impressive.

I have done 3 hours digging though. Possibly as a way to avoid my liver cirrhosis essay. Nasty.

No cookbook lecterns 'ere, guv. Although I may have a WW keyring hidden away somehwere

Pointy I'm sorry I think I sounded a little curt last night and now everyone else has been lovely and inclusive and positive, which of course I should have been as well

TF so pleased the op went well. I am sure it was the right thing, she probably won;t remember much about the op in the future but will probably be glad you made the decision you have.

I have hurt my back doing yoga

That's not supposed to happen.

I would expect Pink to have a perspex cookery lectern from Lakeland, guad would have a tin one from a salvage yard, Franny would have one with erm...hieroglyphics on.

fark me, Franzo, that raw food website is like a cult, innit??

Hugs to all who need then,.

tinned peaches,
banana
sunflower seeds and linseed
Lentils,
onions
carrots

tomatoes
sweetcorn
chickpeas
red onions

My Mum has a cookery lectern

I covet it

But dh can't bear clutter and we don't have a huge amount of worktop space.

Hello OsBa

Not eating much again today, but danced around in dd's stead at her singing group today so she could sit on the edge and laugh at me . I wasn't sure whether to take her, but she mithered and mithered so I gave in. My back and pelvic floor really aren't up to it

that wasn't me with the hieroglyphics in the egyptian bathroom! it was the previous owners
that's not fair, avi and guad have told you about my egyptian bathroom i bet and LAUGHED at it and NOT told you it was not ME

Yes, Lemur - when I worked on the farm, we fed molasses to the cattle. I am eating cow food.

I'm afraid I just slather DS in sunscreen. I hate smearing chemicals all over him and I fear for his eczema but it is preferable, I think to sunburn and skin cancer. It's too hot and sunny here to avoid it.

Am glad little tigerfeet is ok.

I have always wanted a cookery book stand. Always.

FOCUS:
Grapefruit (2)
Leaves
ORange
Cranberries
Grapes

7 and it's only 12:30. Will def have 10 today, hurrah!

anyway

well done pointy you can have new girl of the week sticker

oh but NUTS and SEEDS do not count
when we occasionally mention them it is to wind me up as they DO NOT COUNT
you may of course have known that and have mentioned them to wind me up of course

tigerfeet that is good to hear dd is doing ok
glad it is all over

hmm i think i will postpone listing until i have, erm, eaten some fruit and veg
dinner was delicious but it was embarrassingly light on veg and featured white bread rolls toasted, with mayonnaise, melted cheese, salad and a Southern style quorn burger

i think i ate scrote food

so these stands
they stand on the floor you mean? don't they get in the way when you are going to the fridge and the bin and the sink and all that? or do you just have immense kitchens?

Oh, I met 2 friends this morning. One looked at me and said, "Wow, you look amazing. What happened?" and I sort of mumbled, "I dunno, nothing? Washed my hair?" and the other friend said, "Oh, it's amazing" I obviously normally look quite appalling. I had done nothing really different today.

What's scrote food?

A salvage one yes, but not tin, some lovely old restored cookery stand with an eagles hand hand-carved round the base or something. Like from an old pulpit and spotted by her with her eagle eye, and the salvage man said 'oh you can have that, I'll chuck it in with the victorian toilet lid.' It'd be the coolest and nicest cookery stand. I'm thinking of getting Guad to come decorate my house actually.

Fra - cough up on the stand please. YOU told us you had egyptian hierowhatsits and little pyramids and the taps like the Sphinx. It was you. And we know you installed it too.

Nobody has admitted to a stand yet.

I am going out to cinema tonight. Excited.

HOW DO YOU FIT THEM IN THE KITCHEN? hmm?

other than that they sound like a good idea
i end up wedging my recipe book in between the cutlery thing and the breadmaker and there isn't really space for it. once i set one partially alight on the gas ring

sb oh dear
i'm going to gloss over the scrote thing

They just go on the work top Franny, they're not free standing.

'An obnoxious half-wit who resembles many of the qualities of the unwashed male scrotal sack. i.e. smells, rather funny looking, leathery appearance with random tufts of hair sprouting forth.'

'Literally short for scrotum. When a person, usually a male, is so useless and insignificant that they do not deserve the tiny effort it takes to spit out a second offensive syllable; less than a scrotum'

here's a recipe stand. I will have one when I have my kitchen and when I'm a proper grown up.

pmsl @ scrote. That is one of dh's favourite sayings

That Shazzie lady lives near me. I expect she resides in either a commune or a big complex that houses all of the cult followers

blueberries
banana x2
dried fruit
oj
cucumber x2
carrots
bakes beans
plums

Blimey, I've done better than I thought today.

re lectern - no, I don't have one. Like tiger's dh, I do not like unnecessary clutter and surface space is at a premium in teh kitchen (I could get rid of a pile of bills, coupons and school newsletters to make room but I know this pile to be indestructible)

frayed - I didn't think you were curt at all, I thought you were being funny. If you ever are curt, just tell me you were being funny - I always believe that.

re nuts - no I did not know nuts and seeds don't count. That's me shafted for today:

home made muesli
banana
tomato pasta sauce with red onion
few currants (in a shortcake dairy free biscuit - a nod to boco)
will have orange later
will raid the fridge to see if I can make my list seem half way respectable

How's the dairy-free going, pointy? I feel like, apart from Monday night, I have done pretty well. DS tried my Green & Blacks dark chocolate and said, "I think this must be grown up chocolate. I don't like it"

I am feeling all snotty today.

pointy
have you read any of the links in the OP? hmm? HMMM? i might have to take your new girl's badge away

oh well if they just go on the work surface i would like one
you have me bang to rights 100
however my work surfaces are all covered in plastic dinosaurs, saucers with old candles in, those bendy straws that have gone manky but can't be thrown out, jars for recycling, photos from 2006, 50 tapes not in their plastic cases, and a big fuck off bowl of fruit
so i can't have one