I coped through the pandemic with a diet of junk food. Now I'm regretting it | Emma Brockes

My doctor says my cholesterol levels are insane and I have to eat healthily. My supermarket shop has changed overnight

Looking back, I believe it was the key lime pie that did it. In the first flush of the first lockdown I decided it was my right - no, my duty - to lift my spirits by eating as much junk food as I possibly could. Cakes, muffins; oh my god, so much sausage.

I'd throw an entire kielbasa into the frying pan, smother it in baked beans and round it off with a pound of cheddar. But it was the pies, I'm convinced, that pushed me over the edge. I put the key lime on automatic reorder at Whole Foods and polished one off, single-handedly, every two weeks.