Wake Pea Up Before you Goji - 10/10 thread

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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

a tenuous link with a tv programme by th e look of it, fran

oh

can anyone who just wants to flog something ask for a webchat and get it, then? hmm

ah well here is my second judgy triumph of the day

Did you? LOL, I didn't notie that.

They paid to come on I think?

on that fish thing i would not be so worried about the toxins as the SEA LICE
i mean wtf
how can you eat things that have lice?

Well, that is the argument with farmed salmon, no-one wants to eat the lice, and anyway I think the fish wouldn't flourish because the lice attack their immune system. But the treatment is meant to be toxic therefore eating wild salmon is preferable.

Same argument with all intensive farming isn't it, the conditions are bad creating a need for treatments and medicines that may be harmful, but people still want and need cheap food.

My risotto was lovely with my tropical and probably toxic king prawns. I have overdosed on mint today though.

Who was asking about Pimms? I LOVE Pimms, but only a few glasses at this time of year. Then I get bored of it. It's quite sickly.

Pimms is lovely. LOvely!

but not as good as my homemade elderflower champers. (hic)

@sonly sposed to be 0.4 per cent proof but I think might be teeeny bit more. My friend has some sorta device which can tell and is going to test a bottle for me.
She found out the hard way after making ginger beer for her boys and wondering why they went crazy ape-shit banana before passing out

(it measured at 34 per cent )

Blimey 34%!

I had elderflower champagne at glastonbury once. A man was doing something to it on a bicycle, powering the bubbles maybe. Was nice but again quite sickly. I only want one or two.

Ok maybe the trampolining was a bit ambitious. DS went to sleep at 8.45. I'll be going in just a minute (I was just reading the fish and daisy threads! Contentious stuff!)

ahundred, I'm so sorry to hear about your pigeon trauma. I once had a sparrow in my bedroom It sequeazed through the gap inat work the window frame. I didn't know what to do so called then DH at work and said "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek." He said, "what? Are you ok?" and I tried to explain again and said, "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek" so he said, "I'm coming home" and he legged it home and I was standing in the hall shaking, pointing at the bedroom. He eventually caught said bird and released it in the garden. He suspected it had walked it through the back door that had been left wide open but I'm quite sure it didn't. Birds

Well done womble.

I liked the fish thread very much. Having worked a lot on fish in my zoology degree, I refused to eat them, even in my meat-eating days. Never ever eat fish. Revolting creatures. Not much better than birds, actually.

I am a bit worried about Daisy Goodwin, tomorrow.

lol and at the 34% ginger beer!

Moll - what do you put in your champers to make it fizz?

I thought having the Waitrose fish man for a web chat was a bit random, but it did bring with it some interesting talking points, albeit fish lice and toxins.

i'm sorry some of you don't like birds
i know they are a bit flappy and that, but they are so nice and interesting

i forgot to list, yesterday

peaches (2)
banana
raisins
mango (2 portions)
roasted veg
banana
raisins

cor that's crap
oh well 9

Lemur - the elderflowers themselves contain a small natural amount of yeast which ferments with the help of sugar and some white wine vinegar. Sometimes it just doesn't fizz. This stuff does, a lot
Hugh Fearlesslessly-eats-it-all uses a small amount of yeast in his rcipe but I didn't need to.

It is terribly refreshing in ice lollies, or in a tall glass with mucho ice.
and with a good splash of white wine. or vodka.

Oh molly I could just slurp a nice cold glass of your elderflower fizz, pref sitting on a that hill at Wimbledon watching the tennis. I might not eat strawberries though, having got through pounds and pounds of them last week I am kind of strawberried out.

Instead of sitting somewhere sunny watching other people exert themselves I am stuck in a stuffy office. Hey ho, day off tomorrow and dh is off too so we get to spend some time together ON OUR OWN whilst dd is at school

100x don't ever get a cat. Ours brought dd a feathery present a couple of days ago. DD was fascinated, dh tried to let her down gently that it had expired in case it upset her but she couldn't have cared less . I like birds, but I suppose that if you think about it logically, it makes more sense to have a phobia of something that could feasibly attack and peck you rather than a phobia of loofahs which might, well, crawl near you with their hairy muscly legs and their pointy pointy fangs or something

Off to read the Daisy Goodwin thread

Elderflower fizz sounds delicious.

The Daisy chat was a bit disappointing really.

Hello.

sympathy but over your pigeon incident a hundred.

I love birds but will take a VERY VERY wide berth around cotton wool .

Loved your songs molly, especislly 'is that all there is'. I love the original also.

I haven't read the thread but have skirted and skimmed.

SB..I am thinking of you LOADS.

I didn't read the DG thread.....those sort give me headaches as if every body is shouting and not really listening to what anyone else is saying.

I think it was Lemur that said to take the commission...so I walked out of the house and accepted it!
And then the bloke said he wanted the signs twice the size they are now.

We are moving DD to another school in the new academic year. Have lost all confidence in the one she is at.

Eating mostly good, too lazy to list.

Cheers for now...

Congrats on the commission Mits

It is hot hot hot here today

just trawled through it....disappointing

I know I shouldn't be on here atm but if I don't come on sometimes I will just drop off altogether and would miss you all.

Hello Toot

Mits, you didn't miss anything. MNers were failry polite and DG didn't say anything - she only posted about 8 times in the hour and skirted around the big questions a bit. Was a bit pointless imo.

And Toot, you absolutely SHOULD be here.

if it is ok for you to be reading people talking about food and exercise toot then it's ok to be here

pressed post too soon
if you think it;s a bad idea to be readibng about those atm then i understand - but you can always start another thread and link to it on here

it's okay I can read about it

banana
juice
apple x2
satsuma
olives
asparagus
green beans
brocolli

Baby Lemur has decided he's not going to sleep tonight. Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Hi everyone.

I'm afraid I cannot list tonight as I feel that I have been hit by a train and have no idea what I have eaten today because:

I HAVE SOLD MY HOUSE and bought a new one.

Seriously, I am actually feeling very spacaed out and overwhelmed. Anyone able to hand hold? I know I should e excited, by I just feel sick and dizzy with it all.