Food! What should I eat when training?

[Deleted User]

Can anyone advise me as to the best foods to be eating to provide the fuel I need for training? I am a bit bored of Pasta! What about supplement drinks?

Hilly

There are lots of other carb alternatives such as cous cous, rice and jacket potatoes. And pasta is great hot or cold in a salad with lots of different types of breads-naan, italian, pitta etc. There really is a wide variety of foods you can eat to provide fuel.

My favourite sandwich at the moment is beetroot!!

[Deleted User]

have you considered roast potatoes?

[Deleted User]

Do they have to be roast roasties?

Pammie*

Hilly agree about beetroot but have you ever tried it with tomato (raw)

Hilly

Knightly-no they do not have to be roast potatoes, they're obviously 'roasties' favourite!

Pammie-I can't say I've tried it with raw tomato. I'm not too keen on tomatoes so I'll stick to plain beetroot:o)

[Deleted User]

Bread is OK then? I thought it was a no no due to it be 'heavy' and difficult for the body to break down? I feel like I've got a bowling ball in my stomach after I've eaten a sarnie...

Beetroot good for you or just tasty?

Pammie*

Think beetroot has iron

other peeps will tell meif i'm wrong.

[Deleted User]

A diet of beetroot it is then! :-)

[Deleted User]

Beetroot makes me puke!

Bread is very good.

[Deleted User]

After my race today I had fruit flapjacks, made with dried bananas, apricots, figs, dates, honey, muscovado sugar and syrup, and a couple of ham sandwiches. That beats beet into a cocked hat.

[Deleted User]

Any bread Johnny or just the brown seedy stuff?

Hilly

Beet also has quite high levels of carbs and is better than flapjacks IMO:o)

[Deleted User]

Flapjacks often contain hydrogenated vegatable oil (not good).