Breakfast for a demanding day ride?

[Jules59]

I dislike Greggs - they set up shop right next door to our local bakery - presuminably to try and put them out of business - not on my watch.


But for breakfast I have 2 boiled eggs and 1-2 slices of toast with my own honey ( my bees make it really)

[Cugel]

This week, I are been mostly eatin' a breakfast of ripe banana squashed all over a thick slice of bread made with rye, wheat and malt. This morning I swam the fastest mile since I began the regular swimming 9 months ago. (35:20). Obviously this is the grub that did it.

This fine diet is sure to have increased my hill-climbing capacity an' all. If I eat 15 slices of it, I could probably do a full Fleet Moss 200 Km audax! (Not that I'm going to test the theory, mind).

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I read an interesting article somewhere about an experimenter who spent many months easting nothing but what he foraged out of hedgerows and the like - over 60 different foodstuffs! He reported being very healthy and fit, supposing that this forager diet contained a far better nutrition that the 10 or 12 foodstuffs that make up a typical sloppermarket-bought diet (or the worserer 5 foodstuff junk-fud diet).

I bet it took him a while to find breakfast, lunch and dinner, mind.

[rareposter]

I read an interesting article somewhere about an experimenter who spent many months eating nothing but what he foraged out of hedgerows and the like...

Wonder how much of it was half-eaten fast food, chucked out the window of a car?!
I bet if he tried that next to most UK roads, he'd be on a fine diet of crisps and fast food remnants!

[Cugel]

I read an interesting article somewhere about an experimenter who spent many months eating nothing but what he foraged out of hedgerows and the like...

Wonder how much of it was half-eaten fast food, chucked out the window of a car?!
I bet if he tried that next to most UK roads, he'd be on a fine diet of crisps and fast food remnants!

How desperate (or despicable) would one have to be to forage down some sodden junkfud? Mind, I did know a cyclist who swore he once ate a squashed hedgehog when bonking out in the wilds of what used to be Westmorland. But he was something of an "imaginative creative", rather like the folk who write adverts, especially for junkfud and carbon bicycle wheels.

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This arternoon I have mostly been eating cake made of ground almond, white chocolate and fresh raspberries. I feel fine and ready for miles ..... but its going dark soon (and there's some cake left).

[mjr]

I've always liked Greggs custard doughnuts, I mean if you're going for junk food do it properly.

Local bakery does "vanilla slices". Totally addictive.

Gregg's is not a bakery any more. It's just another fast food chain.

Although the ultimate sugar blowout has to be a local ice cream "oyster" Basically a chocolate eclair but with vanilla ice cream filling.

Bonus if it's Gallone's ice cream!

But in general, animal fats are a bad idea. Can't outride a bad diet!

[mattheus]

But in general, animal fats are a bad idea. Can't outride a bad diet!

A bad idea compared to what? Spinach? Cocaine?
... and as what proportion of your diet?

[atoz]

To add my opinion for what it's worth.

It's perhaps best to bear in mind not everyone who posts here is vegetarian. And also the evidence basis for a claim that animal fats are bad for the health is disputed. Much of the evidence is derived from epidemiological survey data which is of rather variable quality. I'm not saying it's all rubbish, but as they say, association is not in itself proof of causation. The old scare stories about eggs spring to mind. Not to mention butter. I was brought up on margarine and vegetable fats such as trex, for cooking and baking. Given that transfats were common in such products until recently, not good.

I've had to re-evaluate my diet because of blood sugar levels. Had I known more about this subject years ago I would have taken action then. Hopefully I've not left it too long.

[Blondie]

Just a normal breakfast whatever that is for you. Then if you find yourself hungry / getting low on energy have another snack you like and repeat as required. What the breakfast is and what the snack is (and how often) will vary by person.

[atoz]

Just had the repeat hb1ac test, awaiting results now.

Good excuse to hit the scrambled egg this morning..

[Jdsk]

That's HbA1c, and here's why:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycated_ ... erminology

Jonathan

[atoz]

That's HbA1c, and here's why:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycated_ ... erminology

Jonathan

Yes I realised that after posting, thanks for pointing it out though to everyone- cheers for that.

[MelW]

As very low carb no sugar carnivore people we would have a cooked English breakfast scrambled eggs 4 large eggs each with butter, 3-4 rashers of back bacon additives and sugar free, sardines in brine. Maybe a lamb chop as well depending on how far and terrain we are riding. Carbs and sugar are poison.

[Vorpal]

Carbs and sugar are poison.

While there is evidence that too much sugar is bad, the statement "carbs and sugar are poison" is not substantiated.

Firstly, most people do best on a balanced diet with a mixture fruits, vegetables, grains, and proteins. In addition, the body needs fiber, which it cannot get from meat.

[Jdsk]

"Sola dosis facit venenum"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison

Jonathan

[Jdsk]

'Mixed" or "varied" are much better terms than "balanced"... unless anyone can explain what is being balanced and why.

Jonathan