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Guiltless Gluttony {Good Living: Part II}

November 26, 2011 by Hillary 5 Comments

This post serves as an entry to win an 8-day trip to Greece, courtesy of Fage Total and the Foodbuzz Featured Publisher program. The team invited featured publishers to create blog posts illustrating the Greek concept of “good living”, combining good food and fine taste for a positive, healthy life.

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I’ve spent the last 10 days away from my humble college apartment treasuring time with family and friends laughing, walking, talking, running, and most of all — eating.

A lack of good food is never a concern with my foodie family.

tempura asparagus sushi. homemade honey wheat bread. raisin challah french toast. apple pie. pecan pie. Twisted sourdough breadsticks – homemade. gingersnap pumpkin pecan cheesecake. roasted squash + apple salad. portabella ravioli w/ vegetable ragu. pumpkin pie. sinful dark chocolate truffles. homemade cranberry orange bread. butternut squash soup. goat cheese + veggie pesto pizza. local ginger ice cream.

Gluttony

glut-ton-y [gluht-n-ee]; noun – excessive eating and drinking.

During my vacation, I was over-indulgent — a glutton. I didn’t stop at one piece of pie… or two. Clean eating was non-existent the later half of the week – as more gluten and sugar invaded my “diet” – while exercise didn’t appear until Wednesday due to a persistent head cold. Is it just a coincidence that gluten and glutton have the same prefix and sound oddly alike!?

Setting the table to nourish our bodies together is something I value {read: Good Living Part I}; yet, after 142 days fueling my body with simpler eats, my body isn’t handling the extra carbohydrates and calories all too well. To me, good living is a balance between clean eating and moderate gluttony.

I am grateful to have gobbled a plethora of gourmet eats during my Thanksgiving vacation, but now my body is more than ready to return to “normalcy”.

Good living is eating foods that not only deliver good taste, but good feeling. It is about following your food philosophy 90% of the time, and accepting the other 10% without guilt.

  

 

 

Good living has room for both greens and gluttony.

Here’s to many more balanced and delicious days this holiday season…

“Stinygiasou!” — to your health!

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As part of the Foodbuzz Featured Publisher program, I have been entered for the chance to win a trip to Greece courtesy of FAGE. You, too, can enter to win one of three trips to Greece by entering the FAGE Plain Extraordinary Greek Getaway here: http://www.fageusa.com/community/fage-greek-getaway.

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  1. Lauren says

    November 27, 2011 at 4:25 am

    Oh my! Everything you mentioned sounds amazing but as do the things you pictured. I love that line “good living has room for both gluttony and greens”. Haha story of my life.

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  2. Lauren @ What Lauren Likes says

    November 27, 2011 at 6:17 am

    Great post and pics! Love all the colours :)

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  3. Katelyn @ Chef Katelyn says

    November 27, 2011 at 4:43 pm

    Beautifulll

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  4. Allison says

    November 27, 2011 at 6:54 pm

    All of the pics have great colors!

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  5. Andrea says

    November 28, 2011 at 6:54 pm

    I also feel I’ve been a bit of a glutton the last week, and in the same situation of not being able to exercise due to a cold! Thank you for the reminder to enjoy a little bit of gluttony and to not ruin the occasion with guilt!

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