Food and Drink
Review: Fine foods & healthy eating
It’s at the start of the new year, that I, like most people, are forced to confront and overhaul my eating habits that have suffered the inexorable slide culminating in Christmas and New Year.
A little focused effort is required, to reorient my priorities, and try and reverse the spread of the preceding few months, and re-up my commitment to eating better.
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