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For me, the new year always brings a vow to eat healthier, so I was excited to hear about the Healthy Treats challenge, which is being run by Rennie (the makers of tablets that help with heartburn and indigestion). After being in dire need of some Rennie tablets pretty much constantly for the last couple of weeks after eating my weight in chocolate and cheese, I thought the challenge was a good opportunity to make something a bit healthier! No unhealthy ingredients in sight. And eating well leads to feeling good (I don’t know why I only remember this every January…).
To me, a healthy meal is one that contains plenty of protein. As a vegetarian, it’s all too easy to ignore my protein intake (pasta pesto for every meal? No…
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