It’s the Season of Eating 🍬

Today begins the Season of Eating:

🎃 Halloween
🦃 Thanksgiving
🎄 Christmas
🍾 New Year’s Eve
🥳 New Year’s Day
🏈 Super Bowl
🩷 Valentine’s Day

For 106 days, activities revolve around food and drink. In late October, we stuff ourselves with bite size snickers and starbursts. November brings turkey, dressing and pumpkin pie. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we graciously accept goodies like breads and cookies from neighbors. Kids bring home school treats, and we attend office and corporate holiday parties, overflowing with festive eats and holiday spirits.

The week between Christmas and New Year’s is a free for all food buffet of the best home cooked food: turkey, ham and mashed potatoes, savory rolls, pies, candies and baked goods. Some studies show the average American gains between 2-5 pounds during this time. Others claim it’s more like 1-2 pounds.

On New Year’s we drink our calories and spend the early days of January eating all the leftovers.

While most of January is quiet, February arrives with Super Bowl’s 7 layer dips, wings, pizza, chips and beer. We finish the Season of Eating strong on Valentine’s Day… the ultimate chocolate holiday.

There is no other time during the American calendar with this many food-related holidays condensed into a three-month period. Stay strong, friends. Take walks. Move your body. Be mindful of your choices. Control yourself… on most days. 😆