In three weeks I will mark the 5th anniversary of a quirky tradition I’ve created for myself.

Every year I give up some type of food. It's not a cumulative giving up, whereby I'd slowly exhaust items permissible in my diet, never to return to them. I'm basically on an annual food rotation, cycling certain foods out during particular years.

I don't know exactly how this tradition started. That won't stop me from speculating a little later though. 

In 2011, I gave up beef for a year.