Darina Allen: Dealing with overindulgence

BEFORE the holidays every magazine, newspaper, food programme and TV ad was shamelessly luring us into temptation, encouraging us to overspend and overindulge in a myriad of different ways. 

It was hard to resist and of course many of us succumbed.

Now the day of reckoning has come. It’s all about lean, keen and frugal instead of tempting food supplements in newspapers, there are diet supplements, all promising miracles.