Good training food

[Tom]

I've come to realise that for all the discussions we have about training, none of us really goes into much detail about food, which is arguably just as important.

Any got any advice on good foods for training? Or any recipes for stuff thats just good anyway?

My favourite "training food" is brown rice and ham, with a bit of soy sauce. Awesome.

[Dan]

Breakfast i go for fruit and fruit juice or sometimes fruit musslie (like hamster food) with skimmed milk (but milk hinders absolution's of vitamins so its not that great) also i take a multi vitamin in the morning (chewing it which is rough but helps absorption for those of us who don't by expensive vitamins).

I try and drink lots of water in the day (milk is good outside of meal times for protine and if its skimmed it has no fat and if your training hard ad protine mix, none of which i actually do at the moment tho)

for luch i like tuna mayo sandwich's with diced avocado and the juice of a lime (or lemmon) as it complements bot the fish and the avocado when mixed with the mayo (generally low fat) this lunch is a bit high fat but if im exercising i dont care plus it has nearly 40g of protine in it and good oils and vitamins from avocardo and lime. Also tuna salad or general salad is obviously good. A jacket potato makes a good base to add stuff (like my amazing tuna mayo) to. but obviously avoid anything unhealthy. cold past from the night before is also good.

Dinner for me is normally ramen (packets of instant noodle) with diced chillie, lemongrass, root ginger (fresh), seaweed (kelp dried - but absorbs water from the noodle soup) then 1 or 2 carrots uncooked just chopped up, and sometimes some mixed beans (drained from a can). For protine in this i either add fried (in olive oil) turkey (not coz its low fat - which it is - but coz its cheap) or fish sticks which are also cheap - this is good coz you can just throw anything in it (including uncooked diced mushrooms or cucumber skin etc).

Or i do Pasta with fried diced apple and onion and chille, and turkey (or any meat) in a tomato source ( from tins with tomato puree) with dried and fresh herbs - basil and oregano work best. then just mix in the cooked pasta.

another good pasta dishi is with chooped green olives and carrtos and meant in a tomato source with herbs and lots of black pepper anc chille.

then if you eat tons of fruit in the day you have a well good diet.

thats some of my food and recipes for yah (i wont mention the Macdonald's breakfast i have b4 stunt school on Saturdays)
Dan

[Tom]

One of my favourite meals to cook is home made burgers, which can actually be pretty healthy, depending on what you put in them.

Grab some lean beef mince (or pork mince, which is totally awesome), stick it in a mixing bowl, with an egg, some chopped onion, and whatever seasoning you fancy (I dig tikka), pound the crap out of it (good iron palm training ) until it's almost a paste, then make it into burgers (or other novelty shapes, like butterfly swords). Stick it in the oven on a high heat for about 25 minutes (or less if you prefer it a bit rare), then eat.

Another, fattier variant of this is to get some pork mince, and add all the same ingredients, but add some chopped chorizo sausage as well. Less healthy, but unbelievably tasty. Especially when you chop some new potatoes, add a little salt and pepper, some garlic, some rosemary and fry it in olive oil. Powerful.

[rosenrot]

Breakfast:
Usually porridge with sultanas at the moment. Otherwise its fruit muesli, but thats expensive. Porridge gives plenty of slow release carbs to curb an snacking urges. I use semi-skimmed milk as its got a relatively low level of fat, but doesn't taste like crap (i.e. fully skimmed), plus since the rest of my diet as few animal fats I don't think its a problem.

Lunch:
Varies. I like tins of mackerel or sardines on toast. These come with a range of tasty sauces or in oil and are relatively cheap and make for a very quick and healthy lunch. Fish gives loads of protein and vitamins. By the way, get pilchards instead of sardines as they are the same fish, but because sardines are 'trendier' they're more expensive. Also go well on jacket potatoes.

I also like simple ham sandwiches with loads of red pepper, spring onion and lettuce in. Again, healthy (although I limit myself to a small amount of ham/red meats per week) and simple.

Omlettes with ham,cheese and spring onions. With seasoning and herbs these are really good, especially with bread for carbs too. Research on eggs seems to change all the time with the last study I heard of suggesting they were really good for you, but even with that in mind I try not to go for more than 3 per week. This can be greater if you're trying to build up muscle obviously.

Poached eggs on toast. Probably the healthiest way to cook eggs along with boiling them.

I do have other things for lunch but these are the main ones.

Dinner:
Pasta, rice or jacket potato for carbs and a big bowl of salad for greens. Salads include two types of lettuce, spring onions, pepper, radishes and tomatoes. Sometimes a bit of grated cheese on top is nice too. Below are common dinners:

Grilled marinaded chicken/steak with jacket potato and salad. Also poached (in water and milk) smoked haddock/sea bass with the above is good too.

Diced fried (always use olive oil when I'm frying) chicken with onion. Boil rice then fry briefly with the chicken adding a blended egg. Works with beef too.

Cullen Skink. A soup made with potato, onion, garlic and smoked haddock plus seasoning etc. Eat with salad.

Basic chicken and pasta with tomato sauce. Always add an onion for extra veg.

General stuff:
If you've got time in the morning leave a steak and diced onion with seasoning in a large bowl and cover with red wine. By evening it'll be really soft and only need a brief fry before being SWEET.

Always add a stock cube along with other seasoning to pasta sauces and frying meat to add lots of flavour.

Most of my dishes are seasoning with a selection of the following: salt, pepper, paprika, chilli powder, dried mixed herbs, ginger, garlic, cumin, turmeric and cinnamon.

I try not to eat too much red meat, as its higher in fat than chicken or fish both of which make up the majority of protein in my diet (unless Sainsbury's have an offer on steak). Eat as much fish as you can, especially oily fish, as its got plenty of protein and vitamins.

I limit myself to a small block (150g-ish) of cheese every two weeks. Its got useful attributes and its really good for adding flavour to foods, but is high in fat.

As for mayo I'd avoid it as much as possible. Hellman's is 70% fat (I looked at a jar the other day and I'm fairly certain it was that ridiculous). I doubt the light version is much better as light salad cream is only 0.7g per 100g lower in fat than the ordinary stuff. That said salad cream has only 20g of fat per 100g as opposed to Hellman's 70g which makes it a better choice for tuna and salads etc.

[superfoot]

My staple cheap lunch meal!:

Sainsburys basic vegetable soup (14p a can)
add
Sainsburys basic cous cous (around 70p a kilo)
add
Sainsburys basic kidney beans (12p a can)


Can also get cheap tinned fruit for dessert:

Sainsburys basic fruit cocktail (22p a can)

or Sainsburys basics peach slices (12p a can!!!)


The food that makes up the majority of my diet; Sainsburys digestive biscuits (22p a pack)

[Tom]

Heres another one of my faves:

Steamed chicken breast, new potatoes and corn on the cob (for 45 minutes), and eat with salad. Simple, and requires literally no effort other than putting it in the steamer.

and:

Dice some peppers, carrots and onions into really, really small chunks. Add baby sweetcorn and cashew nuts, and fry in olive oil. Then add some rice and fry for a bit longer. Eat.

And for just being damn tasty (and because Phil's post reminded me of it):

Take a leg of lamb, score it deep with a sharp knife in a checked pattern, to the point where it looks like large chunks attached to the bone. Make a rub out of olive oil, rosemary, garlic and mint, and work it into the cuts. Use plenty of olive oil so it seps into the cuts. Stick it on a high sided baking tray, and pour red wine all over it. Cover in tin foil and leave overnight to soak. Stick it in the oven for about 90 minutes of a mediumish heat, or until cooked to your liking, then retrieve. Use the red wine and juices to make gravy out of. You'll never have better gravy.

[Dan]

Dans top tips for the day:

1) go to asda and buy asda 55% fruit musli - its acctually tasty and/because its mostly dried fruit. and it only costs£1 exactly bargin.

2) dont buy tinned fruit thats in surup buy tinned fruit thats in juice coz it wont cost much more and the juice is good for you where as surup aint.

3) asda smart price Bannanas are half the price of Del Monty but are acctually under ripe del monty bannanas (with little del monty stickers and all) so leave them a few days and then they will be top quality bannanas half the price

but yes even low fat or extra low fat mayo is still high in fat so use sparingly, if you get a tin to last about a month you are only adding about 5- 8g of fat to your dinner which is low fat in every otehr respect so its ok

[kizz0]

I limit myself to a small block (150g-ish) of cheese every two weeks. Its got useful attributes and its really good for adding flavour to foods, but is high in fat.

AH so it's the CHEESE thats getting me!!! i'll eat less cheese from now-on

[superfoot]

you're fat

[rosenrot]

Seconded.

[kizz0]

cry cry cry /cry
YO FUCK YO COUCH

[superfoot]

kizz0 meant "thirded"

[Dan]

has anyone seen Beverly hills ninja? Coz the guy reminds me of Kiz (if you have seen it kiz im only joking coz thats really harsh)

watch it!

[kizz0]

You can see dan shaking hands with some priests here: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/images/highres_30006045%20copy.jpg

[superfoot]

DAN LOVES TO BIU SAU LOL