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SOUTH MANCHESTER U3A University of the 3rd Age
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JUNKMAIL CHRISTMAS CARDS Danielle Lowy - Rubbish Revamped
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BOOK REVIEWS From Didsbury Village Bookshop
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COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD Regular feature
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HAPPY ‘INDIE’ CHRISTMAS Shop local with Tagpassiton
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DECEMBER IN YOUR GARDEN Katherine Watson
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FOOD & DRINK INDEX Regular Feature
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LOVE INDIAN & SOUTH ASIAN FOOD? Win a meal for two
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(GIVING UP) MEAT IS MURDER? By Leon Horton
PUBLISHER Community Index
EDITOR/ADVERTISING Lesley Swann
SUB-EDITOR Sam Paechter
LISTINGS Rebecca Ronald
CONTRIBUTIONS Katherine Watson, Christine Rance, Carol Thompson, Danielle Lowy, Adil Alam, Didsbury Village Bookshop, Leon Horton
COVER PHOTOGRAPH Lesley Swann
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South Manchester U3A Human beings are social animals with great natural curiosity which, properly nurtured, will last a lifetime. It is this concept which forms the basis of the U3A. Membership is open to anybody who has retired from full time employment. Fundamental to the U3A is the sharing of knowledge and experience. Research suggests that older people learn best when they are in control of their own learning. At this stage of life most people are not looking to gain qualifications but to enjoy the challenge and satisfaction gained from sharing and extending their knowledge with like minded people. 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the U3A in the U.K. In 1981 Eric Midwinter, a Manchester man, was interviewed on the B.B.C. 'You
and Yours' programme in his capacity as director for the Centre for Policy on Ageing. He was discussing the idea of U3A, which had started in France in 1972 where they did not have the benefit of organisations equivalent to our Open University or WEA. The response to the interview was overwhelming and led to the setting up of the University of the Third Age, U3A, this side of the channel. From these early days the movement has grown rapidly and there are now over 800 U3As in the UK and over 250,000 members. Each U3A is autonomous and develops to meet the interests of its own members. They operate under the umbrella of the Third Age Trust, a registered charity. The South Manchester U3A started in Burnage in 2003, expanded to include Didsbury, then took the name 'South Manchester U3A' in 2008. This U3A has over 160 members who are able to attend the monthly general meeting held at 2.00pm on the first tuesday of each month at Emmanuel Church, Didsbury. Within this U3A there are over twenty different subject groups which members can select from and join. The groups include art, science, computers, poetry, philosophy, bridge, gardens, French, Pak/Indo cookery, walking, lunch club, heritage, book club, play reading, scrabble, photography, theatre, music appreciation, creative writing. New subjects are
regularly added. The groups are member led and most meet monthly. Usually the only charge for group attendance is to cover accommodation costs. The annual U3A membership fee, currently ÂŁ10, is to cover costs and a capitation fee to the Third Age Trust which, as well as giving backup support, publishes a quarterly magazine. As a member of U3A one also has access to regional and national residential courses which take place from time to time on diverse subjects. Next Easter the NW Region of U3As will run a three day residential school at Myerscough, near Preston, where Egyptology, archaeology, geology, golf, philosophy, science and creative writing are all offered for study. If you are interested in joining us do come along as a visitor to one of our monthly general meetings. Further information will then be available. Otherwise you could telephone the Chair, Edna on 0161 434 2509 or the Groups Coordinator, Peter, on 0161 224 8527
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South Manchester U3A University of the Third Age The University of the Third Age is a unique and exciting self help educational movement for people no longer in full time employment. It is a learning cooperative of older people which enables members to share many educational, creative and leisure group activities and to form new friendships. We meet at Emmanuel Church Didsbury on the first Tuesday of each month at 2pm
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We are open on Christmas Day. Why not treat yourself and join us for Christmas dinner
Alexander Technique individual sessions and groups
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Danielle Lowy from Rubbish Revamped shares low-cost Christmas card ideas What you’ll need: • A4 card (eg from used office file dividers) • Paper from magazines, leaflets or junkmail • Embellishments like glitter and little buttons • Scissors • PVA glue • Kebab stick • Sweet wrappers •Stick of glue 1 Fold the card in half. 2 Select your paper for the tree shape.
Cut 5 rectangles about 7 x 10cm (that’s 1/4 of Community Index page!)
3 Roll the paper lengthwise on the kebab stick.
Glue about 1cm along the length and hold the paper down whilst it sticks.
4 Slide the roll of paper off the stick. 5 Make four more rolls. 6 Cut a roll about 7cm wide for the bottom of the tree. Make about 10 more rolls, each one about 0.5 cm shorter than the roll below it.
7 Glue the roll on with PVA glue.
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Make a trunk, pot and star from sweet wrappers (or cut them out from spare paper). Glue them on.
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Embellish!
Here’s some we made before ... You’ll need to munch through a few chocolates to make this one - it’s a tough life...
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Book Reviews from Didsbury Village Bookshop
Dandylion and Little Croc’s Purse Lizzie Finlay, Published by Red Fox
grandfather (Why do we always assume older people are necessarily wiser?) who tells him he is a special person, he decides to return to school.
It is always a boost to the area when a local young lady achieves national acclaim for her diligent work and artistic ability.
In the meantime, the class have missed his enthusiasm and exuberance and decide to emulate his dress and welcome his return. Instead of being different, he has now become ‘special’ and fully accepted.
It is thus a considerable pleasure to write brief reviews in celebration of the work of Lizzie Finlay, a children’s book author and illustrator. Her first two books have both been recognised for their intrinsic merit, charm and insights. Dandylion is a gentle celebration of difference. When a young boy joins a class, his looks, outfit and behaviour represent the diversity of the external world, and, despite this, the children all enthusiastically embrace this difference. Lizzie thus gently inverts the popular notion that those displaying differences are excluded, and despite Dandylion’s clumsiness and often awkward behaviour, the children are all accepting. Even when he invents a game of ‘Scarechase’ and roars in the playground, he provokes both fun and anxiety, until the teacher intervenes. Dandylion, not unexpectedly, and as a bright, yellow coloured lion, creates havoc in school. The children and one assumes teachers too, grow a little tired of his antics and, tell him so calling him a weed and cease to play with him. In rather human adult fashion Dandylion reflects on his behaviour and its impact on school, decides to be less boisterous, with the advice of his
In Little Croc’s Purse Lizzie again takes up a universal theme, that of honesty versus dishonesty. The story now centres on a crocodile, charmingly drawn with just enough mixture of friendliness and aversion associated with the creature. Croc finds a purse and is faced with that reoccurring human dilemma, whether to keep the contents and benefit from its windfall (finders keepers) or to trace its owner and resolve the moral dilemma between honesty and deceit. Children will love the illustrations and find the story appealing, even exciting as a range of seedy characters, each true to life, attempt to benefit from Croc’s unexpected fortune. In both stories, Lizzie finds a simple way of conveying to children, in a non-preaching form, some of the choices, moral and social dilemmas they are likely to face as adults. It is then not surprising that Dandylion won the Dundee Picture Book Award 2010 and was short listed for NASEN Inclusive Children’s Book Award 2009. I am eagerly waiting her third book ‘Who’s Afraid of the Chocolate Wolf?’ due out next summer.
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Clubs, Societies & Groups Acting For Fun Central Didsbury 431 4794 Didsbury Amateur Dramatics www.celestaplayers.co.uk Didsbury Cricket Club www.didsburyccsports. co.uk Didsbury Good Neighbours Marie Greenhalgh 07749 504298 www.didsburygood neighbours.com Friends of Didsbury Park www.friendsofdidsbury park.co.uk Friends of Fletcher Moss Park Alan Hill 445 1535 Friends of Marie Louise Gardens www.marielouisegardens. org.uk South Manchester Camera Club www.smcc.org.uk Didsbury Over 50s Group 247 2323 South Manchester U3A Meet on the 1st Tuesday of the month at 2pm, Emmanuel Church. Contact Edna 434 2509 South Manchester Dance School 107 Clyde Road West Didsbury, 445 5308
Health and Fitness Didsbury Sports Centre Manchester Metropolitan University, 247 2323 mmu.ac.uk/sport/ didsbury.php
Parrs Wood Entertainment Centre Parrs Wood, Wilmslow Road, 438 2918 www. parrswoodmanchester.co.uk
The Waterside Hotel & Galleon Leisure Club Wilmslow Road, 445 0225, www.watersidehotel. co.uk
Arts & Crafts The Classroom on School Lane Learn new a new craft or skill. 24 School Lane www.classroomschool lane.com, info@classroom schoollane.com The Magic Cupboard 212 Burton Road West Didsbury Manchester 445 8752 www.themagic cupboard.co.uk, email wendyahatton@ntlworld. com Manchester Mosaics creative and art historical workshops 07528 526798 www.gallery.me.com/ amandamccrann amandamccrann @mac.com Wendy Levy Art Gallery 17 Warburton Street Didsbury, 446 4880
Music & Entertainment Cineworld Cinema Parrswood Entertainment Centre Parrswood Road Didsbury, 434 0909 Didsbury Comedy Club 7pm Show 7:45pm Admission £6/£5 Didsbury Cricket Club, Wilmslow Rd, East Didsbury, M20 2ZY
Pub Quiz Dog and Partridge Every Monday 9.30 Cash Jackpot 667 Wilmslow Road Tel: 0871 951 1000
National Rail Enquiries nationalrail.co.uk 08457 48 49 50
Stax of Soul Wednesdays 9.30PM—12 Thursdays DJ PIP ROLFE Eclectic mix of music, Upbeat funk & soul beats with resident djs lennon, colin & rolfe 5pm—1am One Lounge Bar 1 Lapwing lane qww.Oneloungebar.co.uk 448 0101
Manchester City Council 234 5000 www.manchester.gov.uk
Therapy at Sanctuary Bar Thursday night DJ 7–midnight every week. 653 Wilmslow Road
East Didsbury Councillors
Social & Support Groups Didsbury Village East Residents Association www.dvera.co.uk Didsbury Village Women’s Institute www.didsburyvillagewi. co.uk Didsbury Social Group didsburysocial@live.co.uk www.didsburysocial.jigsy. com West Didsbury Residents Association Pam Siddons 445 5406 www.westdidsbury.org.uk
Useful Numbers Didsbury Library 227 3755 Environment on Call 954 9000 Gas Emergency 0800 111 999 Mersey Valley Countryside Warden Service 905 1100
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NHS Direct 0845 46 47 nhsdirect.nhs.uk
Police – non emergency 872 5050 Samaritans 236 8000 samaritans.org TFGM 0870 6082 608
Andrew Simcock cllr.a.simcock@ manchester.gov.uk Andrew Taylor cllr.a.taylor@manchester. gov.uk David Sandiford cllr.d.sandiford@ manchester.gov.uk
West Didsbury Councillors Mark Clayton cllr.m.clayton@ manchester.gov.uk Graham Shaw cllr.g.shaw@manchester. gov.uk David Ellison cllr.d.ellison@manchester. gov.uk
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Happy ‘Indie Christmas
TAG! (pass it on) rewards you for shopping TAG! (Pass it on) is part of a growing ‘Shop Local’ movement within the UK which helps support local shops and services; a movement which is, in large part, rooted in a person’s attachment to where they live and their desire to see their area flourish. In 2010 in the UK, £76 billion was spend on groceries; 80% of this was spent in supermarkets. Supermarket ‘local’ shops are springing up everywhere as the major chains fight for an ever higher share of our spending in the current difficult circumstances of higher grocery inflation and reduced disposable incomes. The result is an independent sector under siege. Neither government legislation nor local issues such as increasing rents and parking price-hikes are doing anything to alter this situation. If we wish to save this vital part of our communities it’s up to us to make the necessary difference. Independents are one-of-a kind, distinctive businesses; they’ve got character. It’s this character which helps attract other new businesses, residents, visitors and investment to the area. Walk into a local Didsbury business and more often than not you are greeted and served by the owner, someone with a unique passion and knowledge of the products they are selling and the community they are serving. When local community projects need support, our independents often come together to offer it and get things done. They provide inspiration to our young people, showing they too can also succeed on their own terms. They are part of the very fabric of Didsbury and have a personal stake in its well being, guaranteeing that they act in the interests of the wider community. On top of that, they bring disproportionate benefits to the local economy and job-creation. Simply put, money spent locally stays local: it will be used to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers, local professionals and suppliers. If we are to have any hope of creating a resilient, green economy – a ‘network of local sustainable economies, providing social contact and inclusion
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TAG! (Pass it on) TAG! (Pass it on) is a not-for-profit CIC (Community Interest Company) which aims to encourage us to change our spending habits. For all of the reasons given above we created the TAG! card; for £5 you are rewarded with a huge range of deals and discounts when you shop with independents. The variety and quality of the 60 (and counting) local independents in our scheme – as well as the 300 or so to be found in other areas of South Manchester - is amazing and the savings on offer from using your card and supporting them are HUGE; from essentials such as groceries, eyecare and cakes to fine dining, fashion, furniture, party items, flowers, toys, plumbing and even (clay pigeon) shooting. Didsbury’s charities and community groups can make use of the Tagpassiton scheme to sell cards to raise money for their own causes. It’s a fantastic hyperlocal and community-focused way of raising money. Groups such as the Didsbury Arts Festival and Cavendish Primary keep 50% of the proceeds when they actively promote shopping locally and independently to their supporters. For more details about what we do, how we help and what you get please visit the TAG! website at www.tagpassiton.com. New TAG! cards can be bought online or locally at Rumpus Toys, Alpine Tea Rooms, Pixie, Harriet & Dee, Inmans and most other scheme members. If you register a new card before the end of the year you’ll be entered into our prize draw to win a 3 month membership to Social Circle (value £60). We hope you will want to join in, save money and show your support for all the local shops with your TAG! card. And since we’re entering the festive season let’s try and make this an Independent Christmas!
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December in your Garden
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by Katherine Watson The winter garden is often viewed through closed windows and doors, as a bare, uninteresting place to be largely ignored until the spring. Many of us arrange our gardens around two or possibly three seasons – spring, summer and maybe autumn, imagining that the months of December (the ‘phoney winter’ in Christopher Lloyds view), January and February are too brutal and too static for anything to grow or bloom. There are, however, lots of shrubs that come into their own in December providing both a visual treat as well as in some cases an olfactory one - i.e. they smell nice too. In her book The Curious Gardener Anna Pavord states that like a hologram, with a
small tilt the December garden reveals stalwart, interesting winter shrubs that when tilted the summer way might be inconspicuous. The Viburnum group of shrubs are worth having a look at - particularly tinus and bodnantense for winter interest. V. tinus is a very hardy evergreen with white clusters of flowers and V. bodnantense, deciduous but with delicate pink flowers through the winter. A slightly less hardy but very interesting shrub is Garrya elliptica, with its icicle-like tassles providing a wintry show. “James Roof” is the standard variety and grown against a sheltered wall it can, if tied in, have the same effect as a climber. Fairly standard shrubs such as Cotoneaster horizontalis and Skimmia
japonica provide some lovely red-berry interest in winter and the impressive winter shrubs, Hamamelis mollis (witch hazel) and Chimonanthus praecox (winter sweet) can be stand-alone features in a bigger garden. There are lots of varieties of Hamamelis, with a wide-range of colour from red to bright yellow held in spindly flowers up and down the branches. For olfactory satisfaction, the Christmas Box (Sarcococca confusa) is always good and just for the name alone the ‘Snowbells’ Clematis is worth a try offering creamy white bell shaped flowers from December to March. Katherine Watson, Fat Grass Garden Designs
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Food & Drink Index Cafe Life The Art of Tea 47 Barlow Moor Road Didsbury, 448 9323 The Bursting Butty 839 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 445 6264 Crazy Cow Cafe 837 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 215 0325
Bistro West 156 156 Burton Road West Didsbury, 445 1921
The Gurkha Grill 198 Burton Road West Didsbury, 445 5444
Piccolino 6 Lapwing Lane West Didsbury, 434 7524
Cachumba 220 Burton Road West Didsbury
GUSTO 765 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 445 8209 www.gustorestaurants. uk.com
Pinchjo’s 192 Burton Rd West Didsbury, 434 2020 www.pinchjos.co.uk info@pinchjos.co.uk
The Hogshead 653 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 445 5389
Pomegranate 202 Burton Road West Didsbury, 445 7171
The Jade Garden 743 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 448 2342 www.jadegarden didsbury.co.uk
The Railway 3 Lapwing Lane West Didsbury, 445 9839
Cafe Rouge 651-3 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 438 0444
Alpine Tea Rooms Fletcher Moss Park
Chiquito Mexican Grill Unit 4 Parrswood Entertainment Centre Didsbury, 446 4130
Folk Cafe Bar 169-171 Burton Road West Didsbury, 445 2912 www.folkcafebar.co.uk
The Didsbury 852 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 445 5389 www.thedidsbury.co.uk
Airy Fairy Cake Boutique School Lane, M20 6RG
The Dog and Partridge 667 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 445 5322
Specialist Didsbury Farmshop 737 Wilmslow Rd, Didsbury, M20 6WF The Cheese Hamlet 706 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 434 4781 Latin Kitchen 434 5685 Love2Eat 190 Burton Road West Didsbury, 434 7077 www.love-2eat.com Thyme Out Delicatessen 147 Nell Lane West Didsbury, 434 8686 www.thymeoutdeli.co.uk
Restaurant/Bar Azzurro Restaurant 242 Burton Road West Didsbury, 448 0099 www.azzurro restaurant.com The Bell House Parrswood Entertainment Centre Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 445 6990
The Famous Crown 770 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 434 7085 Felicini Locanda 751 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 445 2055 www.felicini.co.uk The Four in Hand 108 Palatine Road Didsbury, 448 9397 Frankies Fish Bar 178 Burton Road West Didsbury, 445 3300 www.frankiesfishbar.co.uk alex@frankiesfishbar. co.uk The Great Kathmandu 140 Burton Road West Didsbury, 445 2145 www.great kathmandu.co.uk Green Tea Restaurant 222 Burton Road West Didsbury, 445 5395 www. greenteadidsbury.com Greens 43 Lapwing Lane West Didsbury, 434 4259
Jem&i 1c School Lane Didsbury, 445 3996
The Royal Oak 729 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 445 3152 www.royaloakpub manchester.co.uk
The Laughing Buddha 782 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 434 7688 www.thelaughingbuddha didsbury.co.uk
Rhubarb Restaurant 167 Burton Road West Didsbury, 448 8887 www.rhubarb restaurant.co.uk
The Lime Tree 8 Lapwing Lane West Didsbury, 445 1217 www.thelimetree restaurant.co.uk
The Rose Garden 218 Burton Road West Didsbury, 478 0747 www.therosegarden didsbury.com
The Metropolitan 2 Lapwing Lane West Didsbury, 438 2332 www. the-metropolitan.co.uk
Saints and Scholars 694 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 448 2457
O’Neills 665-667 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 448 7941 The Original Third Eye 661 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 446 2300 The Nelson Inn 3 Barlow Moor Road Didsbury, 434 5118 One Lounge Bar 1 Lapwing Lane West Didsbury, 448 0101 The Parrswood Hotel 356 Parrswood Road Didsbury, 445 1783
The Sanctuary 653 Wilmlsow Road Didsbury, 445 9130 La Tasca 10/12 Warburton Street West Didsbury, 438 0044 The Woodstock 139 Barlow Moor Road West Didsbury, 448 7951 www.thewoodstockarms didsbury.co.uk
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(giving up) Meat...is Murder? by Leon Horton
Here’s a recipe for your delectation: take one confirmed (well - ish) meateater, deprive him of his staple food, and simmer over a low heat for a month to see what cooks. When the editor (I know where you live, Lesley) challenged me to go ‘veggie’ for a month, I thought: how hard can that be? Big bag of lentils, bit of fresh veg, a cook-book from the library… doddle! But then, as the day of commencement approached, something resembling panic set in. What, no cottage pie? No fish? No bacon? In November? I should explain my position. As the son of an erstwhile gamekeeper, I was taught how to kill and prepare my own meat - was brought up to believe that vegetarians were some kind of pallid, undernourished creatures who stalked those too green to
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know any better. But no - that’s vampires. And they all live in Whitby. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not exactly new to this. In my teens, I was a vegetarian for three years; though, if I’m being honest, that was more out of teenage rebellion than any health concerns or interest in animal welfare. It’s been an interesting month. Full of motivation at the beginning, making my own pasties and pies (with my own pastry, I might add) and scouring the recipe books for new and interesting dishes, I discovered two things almost immediately. Firstly, you don’t have to give up cottage pie. There’s an excellent recipe for such, using lentils instead of beef, on Unicorn’s website (I know, I know, sounds wrong, but believe me: it’s delicious.) Secondly, I just can’t get with the mung bean. Try, as I did, to use them in casseroles and curries, this ‘versatile’ (why are they always versatile?) little bean gave me nothing but stomach ache and… well, we won’t go into what else. But there’s more to this game than lentils and beans. As the weeks passed, and my initial enthusiasm waned
somewhat, I realised I needed to broaden my horizons on the recipe front if I had any hope of completing the challenge. There’s a wealth of cook books out there; and whilst you can, if you so wish, simply substitute meat for meat-free alternatives like soya or Quorn, there really is no need to emulate a carnivorous diet. So, what have I garnered from the experience? Well, apart from an intense craving for fish, I was surprised how little I missed meat. True, on occasion I reneged on my mission to avoid meat substitutes, but even vegetarians are allowed lazy days. I also noticed an improvement in my pocket. I’ve heard people argue that a vegetarian diet is prohibitively expensive. Well, yes, it can be if you live on processed vegetarian ‘fast foods’. But with a bit more effort and a little invention in the kitchen, I found it much cheaper. As for the health argument… well, I can’t honestly say I noticed a difference. I think it was Linda McCartney who suggested we all have one meat-free day a week. I’m not here to argue the implications - moral or otherwise - of a vegetarian diet, but I’d say try a week or even a month without meat. You might surprise yourself. Just stay clear of those mung beans. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to make myself a bacon sandwich (Hey, I never claimed to be a convert).
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