Burning calabrese I think I'm burning calabrese I really think so - 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

surely wholemeal pitta can't be very bad? It's not exactly satisfying. Have been having wholemeal pitta with hummus, tomato, baby spinach, beetroot, cucumber. Is so tasty. I refuse to believe it's leading me astray.

I'm SO hungry all the time atm though, for bad things, for white bread sandwiches with lots of butter and mayonnaise. If I didn't know otherwise I'd think I was pregnant because that's the only other time I've had this kind of ravenousness where you prowl and fling open all cupboards and then go and buy a basketful of junk and eat it standing up with your coat on the floor.

I got some rocket hummous today

It is reduced-fat
It tastes like wallkpaper paste with no rockety taste at all. Except that ever so slightly rubbery aftertaste you get with rocket.
Very disappointing, but I ate it all anyway

Reduced fat hummous is always a bit thin and bitter tasting somehow.

oh Boco, me too!

I would say, quick fifteen minute turn on the trampoline at 5.45 or so but only if he's eaten his dinner. A sensible amount like you think he might eat if he wasn't itching to get off and jump.

I'm sure wholemeal pitta is fine and healthy and everything, but personally, if I ate it at lunch I would want more bready, sugary things sooner rather than later. Same with breakfast. Bread leads to more bread with it's seedy little ways. It's like crack innit. I'm sure we've been here before.

Sometimes you have to give in to the cupboard raiding though. You probably need something.

I need a hot chocolate.

Hmm, dd1 has The Talk at school on Thursday so we borrowed the dvd tp watch.
It is well done actually.
She has shown absolutley no intereste when I have tried ot chat to her - maybe she'll listen ot her eacher

And i have an Itchy Head

And dd1 has read all of the books in the house I htink

What can she read now?
She is 8.
Have read Enid Blyton, Little hOuse, Heidei, Railway Children kind of things, PippI, Ramona, hunderds of rubbish stuff too.

Please??

LR, Milly molly mandy? Ballet shoes? Will think.

Franny, I agree with the others. Food then trampoline. Proper food not a few bites. Can you set a time - like, stay at the table for 15 minutes or until everybody has finished, whichever is first (and you take along time to eat your own food) THEN trampoline- that way he knows he's not going out til X time and will be stuck at the table so may as well eat? I don't mean it in a 'sit at the table until you've eaten every last scrap' type thing, just a nice realxing leisurely supper.

The Magic Treehouse series are very popular here. And those fairy books but I can't remember what they are called.

Roald Dahl
Chronicles of Narnia
Swallows and Amazons
Treasure Island
Swiss Family Robinson
Those Animal Ark books
Moomin stories

re trampoline. I'd say that he is not allowed on the trampoline between 5.45 and 6.15 (ie the time you are eating your meal). A Tramp-Free Time

sultanas
orange
houmus
grapes
beany salad with carrot
red pepper

Avi

Tales from End Cottage

Tottie (Rumer Godden, I think)

Mrs Pepperpot series

I bloody loved Milly Molly Mandy and the Mrs Pepperpot books. I feel all nostalgic

I can't think what I read, and I read A LOT when I was a little girl. I was Enid Blyton's biggest fan.

Went to see Coraline. Good film. A few bits in the plot I'm unsure about but good film. Beautiful and horrible imagery.

Jack up the fish, jack it up, now the sea is pumpin

or something

Did we ever have that pumpkin up the jam thread title btw?

Franny I had a similar situation with DS recently, where he wasn;t allowed to go out to play after school because of his behaviour earlier that day.

It did make him stop and consider the possible consequences, I think. Although not sure it was the ideal solution, and I'm not sure what I would do anotehr time.

I usually go by the maxim of each meal being roughly 1/2 veg (or fruit for breakfast), 1/4 protein and 1/4 carbs.

Cake doesn;t count though.

Franny, can you organise with next-door for him to go and play on the trampoline earlier? Then let him have a certain amount of time before dinner?

Avi, doesn't ds eat any veg? Is he generally fussy or just veg?

What about famous 5 LR?

I had this Franny, only inevitably with the TV rather than a trampoline I'd said no screens until homework done, and after supper. Which meant the homework got done, but then everyone ate half a carrot and fell off their chairs in a desperate desire to go watch tv or go on the computer. I didn't want to make the eating the focal point of the tension - so did pretty much what Pointy said, and made it about the times, rather than the meal or the TV. So if it was screens allowed on at 7.00 with homework done, then I made sure we ate at 6.00. Does that make sense?

Can he trampoline before you eat? Say from 5.30-6.00, come in and eat. Have down time with dp, go to bed?

I've given this some thought as you can see.

Books - The Borrowers, Lemony Snickett series (bit gothic, depends on child), Jacqueline Wilson - the early books?, Rumer Godden The Doll House, Family from One End Street.

oo, some modern authors slipping into the book list . I do find that mnetters go on a lot about olden-day authors

I have a veg refuser here too.

LR um.. what's not been said?

Rumor Godden - Miss Happiness & Miss Flower / Little Peach?
The Children of Green Knowe
The Little White Horse
The Secret Garden
Monica Dickens - The House at Worlds End etc?

Those were just for you, Pointy

my bad timing, frayed

Clarice Bean books has she read those? They are fab and v. popular here.

Also those books about that Hamster that lives in the school. Humphrey or something? Harry Potter?

oooh I had tip top modern timing