Trip to Italy: Day 1

I’m typing today’s post from my beautiful room at the Four Seasons hotel in Florence Italy. So glad we arrived safely after a hectic day of travel.

As I promised, here are some pictures of me eating my way through the trip with my fist meal being breakfast on my United flight followed by some amazing choices at Frankfurt airport! And also take a look at who I had the privilege to travel with.

Breakfast on flight – not much to write home about. I was hungry!

I made “all gone” with it – I was hungry!

Wonderful Bavarian Pretzel

Can you tell I like it?

This was tempting but didn’t choose this.

Beautiful German bread

I think think was yogurt and fruit

I shared this whole grain bread with my fellow travelers

I ate this wonderful field greens salad all by myself – yum!

Nelda Mercer & Dawn Jackson Blatner (Flexitarian Diet)

Dawn & Lisa Lillien “Hungry Girl”

Alison who works with “Hungry Girl”

Doug Jones (from Pharamvite) & Nelda

Doug and yours truly!

Hungry Girl and I having some coffee out of an automated dispenser

Keith Ayoob (Uncle Sam Diet), Dawn & Keri Gans (ADA Spokesperson)

Brian Wansink (Mindless Eating) and Keith (who is being ‘mindful’ not to bite Brian’s hand)

My foot compared to Lisa’s. Hard to fill her shoes, though 😉

Tomorrow I have a full day of sessions. I will be exploring the culinary trends and traditions of Florence, taking a peek into the forthcoming 2010 dietary guidelines and starting to think about what might change for revisions set for 2015, hearing about dietary supplements benefiting menopause and getting to hear Brian Wansink, PhD and Lisa Lillien talk about how one becomes “satisfied” with what they eat. Should be fun!

Stay tuned to tomorrow’s update and more great pictures!

Ciao and Chow,

Dave