What I Ate for Winter Vacation

Happy New Year my fellow foodie followers! With the passing of another year, you may be breathing easy after your winter break. You might be bright with the possibilities of 2011. Or (if you are anything like me) you feel big, bulky and BLOATED from two straight weeks of eating.

After visits to Orlando, New Jersey, NYC and Boston, I inhaled enough food to rival the size of the Trash Heap from Fraggle Rock. But hey, it wouldn’t be Christmas without a little indulgence. And it wouldn’t be me unless there was a heaping amount of indulgence.

This week we’ll relive the ghosts of my food-filled Christmas past. Next week we’ll be back to fulfilling the pLAte prophecies of 2011’s future. As for the present, you can catch me taking a jog through Los Angeles…all week long.

The skinny jeans started getting snug even before we left with a roommate bruncheon featuring our contribution to the 12 Days of Christmas…

12 Ounce Bloody Mary’s, two Spicy Scrambles and a kick off to two weeks of Gluttony!

LAX > MCO and the beginning of the Disney World Dining Plan.

Here's how it breaks down:

One Sit Down Entree, Drink, Dessert

+ One Counter Service Entree, Drink, Dessert

+ One Snack

x 6 Days!!!

= The reason why people need to go on The Biggest Loser!

This is what happens when you request 12 pounds of salmon from the chef at the Hoop de Doo review...

This is what you feel like after eating 12 pounds of salmon...

And of course there were drinks...

...and more drinks...

No ounce of the Maui Wowee was left unturned

Even the stuffed animals were getting in on the action.

MCO > EWR

Commence New York City lunch launch sequence in 5, 4, 3....

I'd go on showing the food I devoured, but this is getting a little embarrassing...

Correction: This is now REALLY embarrassing.

I hope your holiday season was filled with as much festive foodie fun as mine. And I hope I can get away with wearing my relaxed fit jeans for at least a week.

We'll be back soon with another pLAte.

Now that I think about it, maybe I can stretch those relaxed fits for two weeks....