It's STILL tough and not getting better - so how are we coping?

purpleheather2810

But it's 5 (or more) a day with the caveat that only 1 portion is juice and at least 3 are veg. For exactly the reason you've just said - fruit juice is very high in sugar and has little of the fibre gained from eating a whole piece of fruit or veg.

sammy_kaye18

crickett1234 wrote: »

I have just done some internet research on cash & carry's in our area. We have quite a number, but I notice that all of them are for companies and their employees, rather than for individuals. Is there a cash and carry for individuals out there at all? I mean they ask for all sorts of id and business letterhead and stuff. None of which I have of course.

Is there any other way of getting cash and carry cards, other than "bending" the rules?

Have you tried here??


no idea what postage is like etc though

Thats_Me_3

Absolutely? I know its 5 fruit AND veg but........ you then have people like my daughter (who is in fact a very sensible girl) who are paniced into the juice because little one does not like fruit and only likes potatoes as his veg. And I know she is not the only one. I really do wish that these health police quangos would keep out of things they know nothing about, like feeding the nation! And don't you think its strange that this advice did not come straight from doctors, rather via the quango?

taplady

Lambanana - sorry about the job x

Csarina - re the chicken, my Mum said to me to help myself to half a chicken in her fridge for my dogs:eek: she only got it the other day - a cooked one £3.99 from Morrisons and ate 1 breast and has had enough! the dogs might get a bit but DS has taken a lovely chicken roll to work with him and the men here will eat the rest(no meat for me) What a waste!

DS1 has text his dad saying he's got an oil leek in his car now - so am hoping that DH can fix it as DS is skint as usual.

I'm hoping for a nice letter from the tax man with a rebate;):D but somehow I think I'll be waiting forever:D

purpleheather2810

taplady wrote: »

my Mum said to me to help myself to half a chicken in her fridge for my dogs:eek: she only got it the other day - a cooked one £3.99 from Morrisons and ate 1 breast and has had enough! the dogs might get a bit but DS has taken a lovely chicken roll to work with him and the men here will eat the rest(no meat for me) What a waste!

:eek: Does Morrisons sell chicken portions on their hot chicken counter? Perhaps she could buy a portion instead of a whole chicken, if it's too much for her?

EstherH

The dentist told my son it was too many oranges and fruit that was causing his decay. Also went through a phase of smoothies every night and she said that wasn't good at the next visit. think it is suppose to be more veg than fruit actually. Think I saw that somewhere. I suppose that people had lots of veg in the war years as they grew their own and very little of anything else about. So probably got five a day like that. Think I heard it was nine a day in America but they didn't think they could get that over here so stuck at five.

jackieglasgow

It's 7 in Oz!!!

Thats_Me_3

Maybe the problem is that TPTB are of the mind *if a little bit is good, lots must be even better*?

northwest1965

alec_eiffel wrote: »

I think a lot of the time "use it up" is more about the things that have been lurking in the pantry/freezer/fridge for ages and you never quite get round to using it, rather than not having much in at all, if that makes sense.

That was more the rule of the Economy Gastronomy programe. Keep a stock cupboard but use up old stuff aswell.
If you are buying a chicken, get 3 meals from it. I always buy a whole chicken and joint it myself. Its so easy, there a few vids on you tube if you need help.

I never eat 5 a day, I'm not that keen on fruit unless its cooked and I can add it to yoghurt. There was a report on tv about this a week or so ago, saying that you do not need 5. Like someone said earlier, we managed when we were kids.

I was only talking to my Dad about suet puddings last week. I remember my grandmother doing plain ones and wrapping them in a white linen cloth and boiling them. You could have with gravy or jam. I can still smell them boiling now!:)

mama67

EstherH wrote: »

No child of mine was ever going to have a dummy, and I wasn't going to be one of those mums who said it and then changed her mind. Oh the arrogance lol. I lasted out nearly three weeks of torturous crying and continual breastfeeding before I gave in and went to the chemist on my way home from the babyclinic. With my second, I was trying to force one in her mouth the night she was born but she wouldn't take it.

Chocholate and sugar! I gave in on that one when I found DS with a big smile on his face, covered in Thorntons Continentals just after Christmas when he was ten months old.

And don't get me started on the temper tantrums.... Suffice to say, what I thought before I had children, changed once they were here and each one is different so that what works with one wont necessarily work with the next.

They have both grown up ok though despite having me as a mother.

Esther, that was me as well, after 2 weeks of DS1 bfeeding constantly and making himself sick by taking so much, I phoned the midwife, she said give him a dummy we never looked back. With DS2 he had a dummy to start until I couldn't get one with the identical shaped teat and he had a paddy fit at 6 months old and threw (literally) the dummy out the cot and after a week never had one again.