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If it's apples again I'm leafing - 10 / 10 thread

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FrannyandZooey · 24/04/2009 08:34

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

OP posts:
pointydog · 26/04/2009 21:08

glad you enjoyed your weekend, warrior

ILikeToMoveItMoveIt · 26/04/2009 21:10

Was the place you went to in Easton per chance? It sounds great.

We had a bit of a boring weekend really, especially today as dh was working on the extension so I went out with Baby Lemur.

dried fruit
banana x2
salad leaves
strawberries
raspberries
OJ

pointydog · 26/04/2009 21:13

how strict are fruiters on ensuring that one of their listed items does count as a full portion. I mean, how often do people say

carrot
satsuma
peas

and they mean

half a carrot, chopped
one satsuma instead of 2
a dozen peas instead of 2 tabelspeeons

pointydog · 26/04/2009 21:15

sorry, that was a proper question, I just forgot the question marks

ILikeToMoveItMoveIt · 26/04/2009 21:15

My sister is friends with re-enacters and she has told my sister that it is a hotbed of sex and drinking. Who would have guessed?! Infact they are doing a re-enactment at the stately home in our village next month and we are going to watch, so I will report back on any surreptitious medievil shagging and drinking!

FrayedKnot · 26/04/2009 21:16
pointydog · 26/04/2009 21:17

The answer might cheer me, frayed.

Now that I haev read franny's link re waht counts and what doesn't, I am slightly nrevous I will be pulled up on my quantities and will be found lacking.

ILikeToMoveItMoveIt · 26/04/2009 21:18

I list when I have eaten one portion, but if I have had 2 half portions I will list them to bump up the total

pointydog · 26/04/2009 21:20

I found myself making a curry last night and looking at the packet of baby sweetcorn and sugarsnap peas and reading that the whole packet constituted 2 portions.

And then I thought, four or us will be eating this so I will only be eating just over half a portion here. But I listed it as if it were one. I might even have listed it as if it were two.

What is wrong with me

mollyroger · 26/04/2009 21:25
pointydog · 26/04/2009 21:29

forget I ever spoke. I understand. I'll post and shuddup

ILikeToMoveItMoveIt · 26/04/2009 21:30

Sorry Pointy, but I had to snigger at 'what is wrong with me'. Maybe you feel the need to please?!

FrayedKnot · 26/04/2009 21:33

Was it entirely veg curry or did it have meat in it, Pointy?

If I have an entirely veggie curry I would count it as 2, but if it had meat in, would count 1 (as long as plenty of veg in it too of course).

Original poster
FrannyandZooey · 26/04/2009 21:41

well if i had only had half a portion of something i might list it but i would declare my total at the end

eg:

lettuce
tomatoes
cucumber
banana

= 2

we are in danger of sounding REALLY anal even discussing this, you know

OP posts:
mollyroger · 26/04/2009 21:55

well, I am not anal so I don't measure. But I don't list, say, cucumber, if I have only had it in a garnish....only iof I have eaten huge amounts.

Pointy, pointy,we love you just the way you are.

SuperBunny · 27/04/2009 02:11

Mits, your day sounds lovely and I hope DS enjoyed his too.

I usually declare my portions like so:

banana (1/2)
strawberries (2) apple where 2 = 2 portions not 2 strawberries.

Medieal drinking and shagging

Cucmber

littlerach · 27/04/2009 08:39

Ooh, Lemur, I have been to the place in easton.
was it that one Fran?
I liked the diggers in the sand.

Pointy, I list all of my F&V as I ma so crap at doing it currently. Unless it was in a sandwich, like lettuce.

Where are Guad and TooT?

Original poster
FrannyandZooey · 27/04/2009 08:44

yy was easton
fab place imo - you could stay all day and still not shoot enough balls do everything

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Boco · 27/04/2009 09:53

Not Eason Farm Park?

ILikeToMoveItMoveIt · 27/04/2009 10:48

Yeah, I think so Boco.

I remember going there when I was a kid and adored it. It sounds like it has changed a lot since I was last there.

TigerFeet · 27/04/2009 12:06

I missed that zippi has a job - yay

Bugger I think pointy may have seen right through my list tactic

We have a farm park near us, dd's favourite bit is the sand pit with a digger. There are mini tractors to pedal too. She loves the animals but refuses to feed them in case they bite her.

DD. Looking at her eyes this morning, the right eye is still not straight . If it doesn't straighten as she recovers we will probably be advised to have the procedure done again

I have a lesion on my arm... waiting for an appt to have it removed and sent off for examination. I am not thinking about what it might be

My life feels like a frigging medical drama atm. Ever since the new year, one or the other of us needs some kind of medical intervention.

Still, it is raining. This should be bad, but in fact it is good, as the soil in our garden sets like concrete when it's dry so hopefully later this week I'll be able to get out there and do some weeding.

TooTicky · 27/04/2009 12:28

TF,have a hug{{{{{{{{{{{{}}}}}}}}}}}}
When is dd's follow-up appointment? Certainly don't worry yet. Eyes are such surprising and unpredictable things.
Lalala-ing sounds like an excellent plan for almost everything. I may join you.
Can you distracg yourself by writing it into a dramatic Take a break type article?
Throw in a sordid affair or two and bob's yer uncle.

Guadalupe · 27/04/2009 12:38

Hello - I was hungover yesterday but also my laptop is broken. I spilt my wine on it it and now it is leaking wine and not working and I have to sit here amongst dh's shit which is a nuisance.

Our dinner was lovely. The odd bit could have been better for the price, dh's pork was a bit dry and a couple of other niggles but in the main it was delicious. Portions are quite poky but I ate lots of the warm doughy homemade rolls, some had a fat olive in the middle, really nice.

We got canapes when we arrived, had champagne and then some weird shot of soup before the starter, leek with a foam on it. I gave mine to dh. Then I had that cauliflower and artichoke pickled starter with hazelnuts and the turbot came with a mini crab lasagna, the menu was slightly different from the website.

I didn't have pudding so I could fit in cheese but that was disappointing. The owner cuts off what you ask for off a trolley and frankly, what he cut wouldn't cover one of my crackers at home, very stingey, and you feel like you can only ask for a certain amount whereas I wanted a big plate of cheese. Never mind. There was a pre dessert of grapefruit posset and Lovely home made salted caramels with the coffee but again, you choose from a box so are torn between wanting the lot and trying to look refined, difficult after champagne, another bottle and some port tbh.

Then the taxi home was very surreal, the driver asked if we were local and launched into a soliloquy about how Shakespeare really obviously never existed. Dh tried to interject with the odd dart of how some thought Marlowe may have written some of them but he definitely existed, but NO, he was shouted down quickly, the driver knows he didn't exist because of something to do with baptism and when it started and when children stopped being baptised and anyway I lost interest at some point but the upshot of the 30 jouney that felt like 2 hours was that the driver Is On A Mission to spread the truth. Not sure why he asked if we were local. Actually, then there was a local quiz, that was why, but I was nearly asleep by that point. I heard dh talk about bridges and city walls or something.

All in all, lovely food, got way too drunk and have put on three lbs but had a fab time.

TigerFeet · 27/04/2009 12:54

Thanks for the hug TooT She has an appt with the optometrist next Tue and then a couple of weeks after that she'll see the surgeon again. We were told all might not look right straight away so I'm just hoping it all settles down over the next week.

Oh Guad, your taxi driver has made me smile Does he reserve his diatribes for local people do you think? Glad you enjoyed yourself, the 3lbs'll shift before you know it

TooTicky · 27/04/2009 12:55

You make me smile Guad
After my initial concern on misreading that you wilt your spine on your laptop...