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• 🧠 Trivia Challenge: Spotlight Hook
• 🍽️ Discover Cary: Rey's Restaurant Reviews
• 💪 Wellness Tip: The Key to Better Energy and Balanced Hormones
• ⚠️ Health Alert: Six Popular Foods Recalled Nationwide
• 😄 Meme of the Day – Just for laughs
• 🏪 Support Cary Spotlight: If you enjoyed this newsletter
• 📅 Events: Upcoming Events (Top Picks) 

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(A correction to yesterday’s incomplete answer!)

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Rey's Restaurant Reviews

Rey's Restaurant is one of the local food places nominated by Cary Spotlight’s readers for our Discover Cary project. If you had a chance to sample their food, feel free to share your opinion below.

Rey's Restaurant offers fine dining with a French Quarter flair, serving prime steaks, chops, and seafood in an elegant setting. Technically Raleigh, but practically Cary—Rey's is so close to the border, your GPS won't even notice… but your taste buds definitely will!

Check out their menu on their website: Rey's Restaurant

Address: 1130 Buck Jones Rd, Raleigh, NC 27606 | Get Directions

Reader Poll Results

Rey's Restaurant (20 Votes)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Love this place! (14)
🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 😊😊😊 I have never been there but I might give it a try (6)

Cary Spotlight Reader’s Feedback:
“All food choices are excellent. I loved their calamari and the Bananas Foster is an experience to remember!”

“Excellent service, great food - highly recommend”

“The food and service is always stellar, as is the restaurant's host, Rey.”

“Best GO TO place for any special occasion Excellent menu Wonderful staff”

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The Key to Better Energy and Balanced Hormones

Many adults overlook fiber, focusing more on protein, yet fiber is a cornerstone of midlife wellness. Consuming 25 to 30 grams daily helps the body eliminate excess estrogen, reduce inflammation, and keep blood sugar levels stable. These benefits support hormonal balance, consistent energy, and improved mood.

Adding fiber to meals does not require major changes. It’s the unsung hero of midlife wellness and most of us aren’t getting nearly enough.

Here are 5 simple ways to add more fiber to your day:

1. Sprinkle chia or flax seeds on smoothies, yogurt, or oats

2. Add berries or a pear to your snack

3. Swap white rice for quinoa or farro

4. Toss beans or lentils into soups or salads

5. Munch on raw veggies with hummus or guacamole. Fiber is a powerhouse when it comes to gut and hormone health.

Just curious…

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Dr. Estelle Tsalik, a highly skilled wellness consultant and the founder of Living Well with Estelle, is here to empower you on your journey to optimal health. She is committed to simplifying the process and guiding you towards simple, sustainable, and sanity-saving solutions. Start your journey by taking her Living Well Blueprint Quiz today.

Six Popular Foods Recalled Nationwide

A series of nationwide recalls is affecting several popular grocery items this month. Products impacted include chicken sausage, single-serve coffee pods, ice cream bars, Ritz crackers, store-brand tuna salad and YoCrunch yogurt. The recalls were issued for reasons ranging from Listeria risk to plastic contamination and labeling errors.

Kayem Foods recalled its Al Fresco Sweet Apple Chicken Sausage after consumers reported finding pieces of white plastic in the links. New Mexico Piñon Coffee Company recalled select Dark Piñon single-serve pods due to potential ink contamination from the printed lids. Meanwhile, Rich’s Ice Cream recalled more than 100,000 bars over Listeria concerns, although no illnesses have been reported.

Other recalls include Ritz Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches that were mislabeled as cheese, store-brand tuna salad products that may contain Listeria, and YoCrunch yogurt with sharp plastic fragments in its topping domes. Consumers are advised to check their kitchens, dispose of any affected products and request refunds from the manufacturers or stores.

While no injuries or illnesses have been linked to these recalls so far, officials warn that Listeria can pose serious risks to young children, pregnant individuals, older adults and those with compromised immune systems. Read full story

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🎟️ Upcoming Events (Top Picks)

Outdoor events may be changed due to weather, so click the links to see latest event information. Here are a few ideas for the week, so plan ahead:

• Today: Bookbinding Workshop with Molly Coleman 6:30PM-8:30PM
• Thursday: Trivia Night 6PM-8PM
• Thursday: Zumba 7PM-8PM
• Thursday: Square Dance (mainstream and plus level dancing) 7:30PM-9:30PM
• Friday: Bands, Bites, & Boats 6PM-8PM
• Friday: Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival 6PM-10PM

But wait! There’s more. To save space in your inbox, we’ve moved the full list of events online — now you can plan ahead: See Full 2-Week Calendar