Cycling Appetite

On a totally different note. I'm new to this, but what is the general feeling about SE Bikes and the SE Draft Lite 2009 Single Speed Road Bike from Evans in general - is it good for starters?

Search for OTP. You won't get advice about bikes in a thread about food. Have fun.

On a totally different note. I'm new to this, but what is the general feeling about SE Bikes and the SE Draft Lite 2009 Single Speed Road Bike from Evans in general - is it good for starters?

No thread hijacking with such a different (and previously-covered) topic!!

Steff, that's great, thanks! I like pasta e fagole, I'll have to try that. Do you guys eat it as a soup here, though? This looks to be slightly more of a pasta + sauce recipe.

Good day - 06:45 Museli

             09:00 Porridge + Fruit
             12:00 Soup + bread (large pieces)
             16:00 Fruit + Bagel
              20:00 relatively healthy dinner of some description

Man! This sounds like a horribly boring daily diet! Add in some fat, fat's good for your brain. I can't eat the same thing day in and day out without going bonkers and eating a crapload of something bad for me. But then, it's ok if you do that every now and again, too.

Aye, you can make it as a soup/stew too, but it's more time-consuming. The beauty of that ^^ is that it's piss easy to do when tired and uses nothing you need to go out and buy fresh.

Sorry

I did wonder if I ate too much until I went on this year's British Cycling Go-Ride conference.

A room full of cyclists and a self-service all you can eat buffet is not a pretty sight

For the benefit of anyone who hasn't already made this: extremely straightforward store cupboard pasta fagioli:

1 x tin of tomatoes
1 x tin of borlotti beans (softer and tastier than cannellini beans)
Olive oil
Oregano
Salt and pepper
optional dark molasses sugar
decent pasta

Heat olive oil in lidded saucepan until it's perceptibly thinner than at room temperature. Add tomatoes (lid on at this point or your kitchen will gain polka dots). Let toms bubble for a bit - they should sweeten in the heat. At this point, add a teaspoon of dark sugar which brings out the full flavour. Add beans (rinse the gloop off them first) and a little water. Leave simmering for a bit so the beans heat through and soften. Shortly before taking off the heat, add oregano (which is extremely easy to grow in a pot BTW) salt and pepper.

Put the whole lot on your pasta (de Cecco FTW). Excellent post-cycling scoff, hard to get wrong and dirt cheap.

Nice to see a pasta recipe that works for vegans, they usually involve cheese at least. I'm not a massive fan of sugar in Italian tomato sauces, but I guess without onions it might work...

The sugar is strictly optional, but it brings out the full flavour of the tomatoes nicely. Otherwise it can end up tasting a bit thin and acid-y. Onions and garlic are good too, but I like this version as you can do it entirely out of a store cupboard.

All excellent plans, but ones which require a level of planning and forethought beyond that of which I'm capable when I WANT FOOD NOW.

I dont even ride that much but a typical daily diet:

Breakfast
Porridge with real milk.
Toast & scrambled egg
Tea & a banana
*
Snack/lunch
*Heaving Peanut butter sandwich (sometimes skipping the bread)
Large Glass of Milk
*
Tea/big meal
*large portion of vegetables/greens
a plate of mutton/chicken/fish curry
a plate of daal
2 plates of white rice
Cup of tea

*snack
*some fruit & greek yoghurt
some mixed nuts
*
Evening
*a pizza or tuna pasta or some fish
cup of tea, some fruit.

Bed.

Im not a fatso by the way, just hungry.

You have worms.

Ah, how I loved commuting and the ridiculously subsidised office gym membership at my old job. 20 mins on the bike to and from work plus a half hour in the gym and I could literally eat fit to burst while still getting trimmer!

If we're sharing snacks, I found that ready mixed muesli (With nuts for protein if poss) plus yoghurt and honey was a good way to sustain me between returning from work and getting ramped up to cook something.

This stuff is the shizzle: http://www.discount-supplements.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=8240 I used to use 3 scoops (1.5 servings), but more normal size people would get away with one serving I reckon, if you want nitrous for cycling/endurance athletes, this stuff mixed with fast acting simple carbs is about as good as it gets :)

Perfect! I have been afer something which will do the trick for endurance. Commuting, gym and football each week is leaving me a bit knackered!

Thanks.

I clearly do not eat enough food judging by some of the stuff said on here.

You have worms.

Ive always eaten more or less the same, and had a belly but with skinny arms. But recently ive upped calories & protein by adding, eggs, nuts & drinking milk. Ive put on loads more muscle, dropped bodyfat and feel more energetic.

I follow the Elvis diet plan with a few extra pan fried squirrels as and when needed.

The Elvis Diet:

Breakfast (5 pm) - 5,000 calories

Six large eggs cooked in butter with extra salt, 1 lb of bacon, half a

pound of sausages, 12 buttermilk biscuits

Dinner (10 pm) - 84,000 calories

Two "Fool's Gold" sandwiches [a jar of peanut butter, a jar of

strawberry jam, one pound of crisp-fried bacon on a baguette x2]

Supper (4 am) - 5,000 calories

Five double-hamburgers and deep-fried peanut butter, mashed banana

sandwiches.

To make it healthier you could replace the baguettes with wholemeal.

thats still less than michael phelps 16000kcal diet in reality.

I sometimes eat half jars of peanut butter, couldnt finish a whole one unless I was actually hungry.

flapjacks. Cheap, easy, yummy and you can add whatever dried fruit you want.

I found flapjacks at the store. Not in ANY way shape or form what I would have expected. I really couldn't figure out why people were taking pancakes for rides! Yeah, I'm sure I can find a good recipe for what amounts to the same thing.

Flapjacks rule ! nice ones that is.... the hard dry cheap ones are 'orrible

Beer.

The proper stuff, not a wife-beating lager-shandy-top fizzy pop shite. The real deal nutritious gorgeous liquid deep joy. It is bread in a glass.

Tastier than locozade. Makes ye pissed. Win.

Now im hungry:P

We got some posh foods from the farmers market over the heath this morning. So dinner is about to be some Italian flatbread heated up in the oven, with oil on it. Just after it's hot, I'm adding slices of tomato and letting them cook, then breaking bits of goats cheese across the top which will cook til they start to brown a tiny bit.

The only problem is letting it cool before you start tucking in, cos otherwise the hot goats cheese takes the roof of your mouth off.

Christ on a single speed bike I am STARVING now. LOL

I burned my mouth. Again.