Suzanne Harrington: Mainstream diet culture hides under the umbrella of ‘wellness’

I try to imagine offering Almond Mum advice to my own daughter, and the response I would get. She’d pity me, as she reached for the jar of almond butter to slather all over her toast, and suggest that I get a life

Suzanne Harrington: There is more acceptance that not everyone wants to suck on an almond in order to conform to someone else’s idea of how we should all look

January is the Almond Mum of the year. The month that looks at you sadly, and asks if you’re really going to have that second bit of toast, or if you’ve done your 10K steps yet. That amends need to be made for all the festive force-feeding from Auntie December.

Thanks to TikTok, we know what an Almond Mum is. It is not when an almond gives birth to a baby almond, which, while whimsical, would be horticulturally far-fetched – instead, it comes from a Real Housewives conversation between Gigi Hadid, a model, and her mother, Yolanda Hadid, a former model.