Nutrition on the road - What, How and Why?

The base recipe I use is white short grain (arborio is great) rice, water, coconut milk, apple juice, salt and brown/cane sugar. Then you can add whatever you like.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RG7bWKK9G7E

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gnu3RM-pX64

Ah sounds like stuff from the feedzones portables book.
@ioreka if you can drag yourself down to PS one night I'll lend you it :)
(or coffee some other time!) (also, totally didn't notice you'd changed your name)

cheers baes. yes @branwen that'd be lovely ta! (yeah i didn't like having my real name on it haha)

My festive 500 was fuelled by risotto rice cakes (not vegan because chicken stock and bone marrow but can be made without either) inspired by that book. Made starchy cheesy risotto spread on baking tray topped with breadcrumbs and baked in oven till crumbs are golden. Was trying to achieve arancini effect but for jersey pockets. 10/10 would eat again.

Fuck gels.
Fats > carbs
4lyf

Has anyone any tips for aiding broken bone recovery?

I've read up a bit and most places encourage upping your calcium, zinc and protein intake. Normally I would try and get all my nutrition through food rather than supplements but in this case
I'm thinking zinc and calcium supplements wouldn't do any harm.

I've also read you can use up to 6,000 calories mending a broken bone so I wondering should I be upping my daily calories? As I'm not training I'm a little wary of this.

Get your hands on some Lithothamnium Calcareum. Small dose per day. Great source of digestible calcium and other (trace) minerals. I use it as a base for my toothpaste, but it is widely used as food supplement.

It seems you can also cleanse areas of your body from unwanted metals with bentonite clay or french green clay. It should be very good for your bones. I have no experience with this and dont know if it actually works.

Any actual science on that?

All these low carb offerings seem quite carb-filled. Just eat nuts.

Was trying to achieve arancini effect but for jersey pockets

overheard at waitrose thread >>>>>>>

On my phone so cba to look it up and I figured birofunk would wanna look it up for himself anyway before taking my word for it.

As for the clay-I have not seen any science on this whatsoever.

Csrbscarbscarbscarbscarbs for me

Fat>>>>

Clif bars and bananas.

Clif bars are the only nice tasting pre-made bar available from my experience. some SIS bars are OK, but some are feckin vile.

I go with them and a variety of homemade stuff - rice cakes, brownies, flapjacks, my own rip offs of bounce balls etc

I find Clif a bit dry/cakey. Torq ftw

Have you tried Naked bars? Pretty sure they are all vegan, low carbs and they taste good. Very convenient too (although some of the recipes posted sound delicious).

I find dates great on the bike, don't take up much space, really easy to eat and full of carbs

Thanks I'll check them out

Fatty liver.

Got some Naked Bakewell Tart flavour bars today = lish

Maple syrup in a High 5 gel bottle for a less gloopy sugar hit than honey.

+1 for dates and figs. I find you need a lot of them though compared to say, one energy bar or rice cake.

@hippy had a few torq bars, were pretty nice actually, but not as potent as a clif!

With onions? Could be a bit messy in the Jersey pocket.

euph?

Calcium definitely makes sense and is proven. Don't forget vitamin D. It's not completely uncontested but there is now a lot of evidence which suggests it is beneficial for your bones, possibly because it helps the body process calcium.

At this time of year in Britain it's easy to have an vitamin D deficiency, and it's important for your immune system anyway, so you might as well take it anyway.

Get the capsules with the vitamin D inside, not the white tablets. I don't generally believe in food supplements but my GP diagnosed me with a vitamin D deficiency.

Personally, I wouldn't up your calorie intake. You'll be doing less exercise so surely if you do that you'll just gain weight. I gained more than I wanted to when I broke my elbow without increasing the amount of calories I was eating.

I find dates great on the bike

Can't you just go to a bar like normal people?

Bloody cyclists.

Cheers Fox, its my elbow that's broken too so good to hear from someone with the same injury.

Yea upping my calorie intake really doesn't make sense, so i'm trying to eat normally and as sensibly as possible.

I've started taking Calcium + Vit D supplements they're white tablets though, not capsules. 2 a day. Should I switch to capsules? I didn't notice any when i was buying the tablets. Also taking a Zinc supplement

I find dates great on the bike
Can't you just go to a bar like normal people?

Did I mention they're cheap too?