- Checking out this year’s Greenwich Wine & Food Festival. Photo courtesy of Elisa Gorman of the awesome New View PR.
Hello there our beloved OmNomivores! Oh how we’ve missed you!
We know, we know—it has been a while since we posted on the blog with the regularity you had come to love from us. So, it’s time to fess up why, share how we’d like to come back into all your awesome lives in the future, and get your opinion, because we do this for you, after all.
But first, you may be asking what prompted us to FINALLY write this post after all this time? Well, this year at our favorite event, The Greenwich Wine & Food Festival, we were greeted with the warm smiles and enthusiasm we always have been greeted with, but it was followed by a lot of, we miss you, please come back, omg we rely on you guys, and so on. It was SO NICE to hear all of that, but it also made us feel terrible . . . like we let our awesome food community and readers down, and, well, we just aren’t having it.
Ok, so why did we slow down with the blog? The simple answer? Food blogging requires a lot of eating, A lot of eating makes ya gain weight. Gaining weight isn’t healthy. You’ve seen us, we don’t know how to do this blogging thing in moderation. We love food. We love drink. We like to live for today. Go all in. Have a blast. So, we didn’t know how to do that and be healthy. Unfortunately, nether of us are those metabolically blessed assholes (we mean angels) that can eat whatever and be healthy and fit. So, we did what we thought we had to do. We stopped and focused our energy on fitness and healthy eating, and have both lost around 30 pounds each.
Since then, we’ve considered jumping back into the blog, but we were nervous. How could we do it in moderation so we don’t regress? How could we integrate healthier eating in a way that our readers wouldn’t be annoyed since they’ve come to love us for our indulgent ways? How could we let chefs and restaurants know that we can’t clean every plate of every dish they want us to try, but rather have small tastes? And how would we have the willpower to do so? So, we just sort of sat there like deer in headlights for the last year or so.
Ok, so now that you know why, we want to share how we’d like to get back into it. See, our new healthy way of eating typically means we enjoy one “treat day” a week on average. That treat day means we eat where we want, what we want. Because those days are so special to us, you best believe we try to pick only the best places and dishes that make all those amazing calories worth while.
We’d like to continue with our blog reviewing places we go on our treat days, and letting you know how worthy they were of our indulgences. They’d be the same restaurant reviews you’ve come to love, 2 to 4x a month.
In between that we would continue to use Facebook and Instagram to share random Fairfield County food news, photos, and info as it comes to us.
So, with this new approach, comes some questions we’d love your help with. We would LOVE if you could take a minute to give us your opinion on these questions below, either as comments to this post, or on our Facebook post when we share this.
We want to make our readers happy while maintaining our lifestyle and we can only do that with your voice! Thank you!
1) How much did you look to us for announcement of food and drink related event dates and info / calendar happenings?
- If a lot, how did you prefer to see/get this information? (e.g. in calendar, as full blog posts, on social media, etc.)
2) How much did you look to us for food & drink proveyor news (e.g.a new CT based food or drink company (like granola, or honey, or Seltzer, etc.) now available in stores, or farmers markets or for purchase online)?
- If a lot, how did you prefer to see/get this information? (e.g. as full blog posts, on social media, etc.)
3) How much did you look to us for CT craft beer scene news?
- If a lot, how did you prefer to see/get this information? (e.g. as full blog posts, on social media, etc.)
4) How much did you look to us for “other” food information, reviews, etc. not addressed above (e.g. Farmers Markets, Grocery Stores, Meal Delivery, Spirits Stores, etc.)
- If a lot, how did you prefer to see/get this information? (e.g. as full blog posts, on social media, etc.)
5) Would you ever want to read any healthy food related content from us? Like what we eat on our non treat-days, where we get healthy food options around here (both dining out and at home), what we do for fitness and where we go, etc.?
- If so, please elaborate on what you’d like to see.
Thanks again OmNomivores! We will follow up after we hear back from a bunch of you awesome peeps!