Had too many fancy-pants dinners lately? Sick of rich desserts? Over overindulging on the eating and drinking front at holiday parties?
If I'm in Australia this time of year I start to O.D. on nibbles like taramosalata dip, champers, and triple-cream Brie. In California, it's enough with the holiday cookies already.
So, quick question: During this season of excess consumption, what foods do you seek out to bring back balance in your diet?
For me, it's porridge or granola, fruit, & yogurt for breakfast. Manchego cheese, rice crackers, & fuji apple for lunch. A big green salad or roasted root veggies for dinner.
What foods help you stay on track during the holidays? Do tell.
Honestly? I've been eating like a hog for the past 6 days and can't wait to get back to my new favorite comfort food obsession: red quinoa I bought from Rancho Gordo. I cook up a big batch & keep it in the fridge. Then I use Heidi Swanson's recipe on 101 Cookbooks as a guide and warm up a bowl of the stuff in the a.m. with milk, cinnamon, pecans and brown sugar. Fills me right up... comforting and healthy.
BalasHapusI have one more day of eating like a madwoman, then I swear, it's back to the quinoa. Seriously, I swear.
For me it's fresh fruit. This time of year I love citrus, especially blood oranges.
BalasHapusLove the sound of that red quinoa recipe for brekkie, Cheryl. Maybe now the chocolate-covered ginger cookies are all gone...
BalasHapusYes, MP, blood oranges are a great, good-for-you winter treat.
BalasHapusOh man, I'm with Cheryl. Typically I try to eat a plant-based diet, but this time of year, all hell's breaking loose. Last night, for example, with out-of-town guests, licorice (which Cheryl hates) allsorts and chocolate during a movie, capped off by a glass of St. Germain liqueur.
BalasHapusI'm trying to add in lots of fruit and salad to balance it out. Not winning the war, and must be seen in a bathing suit in front of food bloggers shortly.
Sounds wonderfully decadent, Dianne. As for being bathing-suit clad with food bloggers soon...no sympathy here, half your luck!
BalasHapusHave also over-indulged horribly, and really understand that old phrase 'feeling liverish'.
BalasHapusFeel peevish and slow, although I kept very active right throughout with lots of walking, swimming and even horse-riding ... This morning, we ate fresh passionfruit, ruby-red grapefruit, red cherries and papaya for breakfast and I felt instantly better.
Raw fruit and vegetables - there is nothing else that makes you feel so well after days of making unwise seasonal food choices! And as you may have guessed from the fruit selection - we're in the southern hemisphere and I must appear in a bathing suit on a boat in an hour's time. It's too late for me; save yourselves :-) Happy New Year!
Hmmm...seems a swim suit theme is emerging here regarding overdoing it during the holidays -- and choosing fruit as a way to cleanse after excess.
BalasHapusSalad, salad, salad.
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