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1. Mireille Guiliano's advice boils down to "get used to smaller portions and a treat can be one bit of chocolate, not half the box", and also home-made yoghurt. I have never particularly liked yoghurt, but her advice was such that I in all seriousness looked up the cost of aquiring a yoghurt maker. I never did, but I have since gotten an instant cooker with a yoghurt setting, and I absolutely see her point. I'm consuming something like two litres milk worth of "greek" yoghurt weekly now, which is rather less in volume because "greek" essentially just means "strained".

2. I essentially never eat jam on bread, which makes my fondness of harvesting wild berries a bit of a conundrum. An Episode with my freezing cabinet over Christmas meant that all the food there spoiled except for two small containers of lingonberry jam, which means that just as I was getting ready to start eating all my hoarded jam, I lost it.

3. Luckily for me, if not necessarily the planet, we like to do things that The Americans do on TV, apparently also including cranberry sauce for Christmas even if I'm pretty sure that's just the US version of lingonberry jam and none of our traditional Christmas staples are eaten with lingonberry jam in the first place. Clearly a local supermarket had over-estimated the demand, because they've been selling whole cranberries for almost nothing and tl;dr that's how I ended up with a whole lot of spiced cranberry jam for diet-changing purposes

even if I'm not sure I ever ate much sweets that I'm substituting this with in the first place.