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Those who know me well, or at least know me in 'RL', know that I love to eat, yes, but I also love to exercise. I truly believe that it is this combination that is single handedly saving me from a life more ...'larger' shall we say.

That being said, I have been home, in London, all of three days and I have already made my way through chips, several chocolate bars, a packet of jam sandwich creams and lashings of salad cream (we just don't get this in the states)..and it's only day three! Hmm..either I have to scale back immensely or find a gym that will let me participate on a 'per class' basis.

Either way, it always strikes me as strange how things taste different in every country - take for example this morning, I had some raw almonds and they were nowhere near as 'sweet' as the ones I get at Trader Joes, and I trust that Traders almonds are 'au naturel'. What gives? Different areas of harvesting, different proccessing maybe? I always thought a nut, was a nut, was a nut. But evidently not. And less sweet, is rather tasty..

I also find it chuckleworthy how 'small' the containers, bottles and what not of food and drink are - a stark difference of the 'bigger is better' mentality. In a few moments I'm heading off, to "Marks's' as I like to call it, that's <a href="http://www.marksandspencer.com/Food-Wine/b/199646031?ie=UTF8&amp;intid=gnav_food-wine&amp;pf_rd_r=19WQV3RF7F8Y5CJ9TCY9&amp;pf_rd_m=A2BO0OYVBKIQJM&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_i=42966030&amp;pf_rd_p=473397573&amp;pf_rd_s=global-top-8">Marks and Spencer</a> to the rest of you, hoping to get some inspiration for dinner - something veggie perhaps...and definitely something small..

Check out <a href="http://www.marksandspencer.com/Our-Sourcing-About-our-Food-Our-Food-Food-Wine/b/56423031?n=215821031">this little blurby </a>about where Marks's source their food...

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