What is your staple food?

Being a competitive wrestler/coach for many years and now running junkie I use the following to fill me up and not rack up huge calories:

Oatmeal w/veggie sausage and a little real maple syrup

Honey in my coffee not sugar

Egg whites w/one yolk with salsa and a small amount of cheese/hot sauce with wheat bread.

Fruit - Apples, Oranges, Bananas, grapes, blueberries (3-5 a day)

Veggies - Corn, broccoli, peppers, carrots (lunch and dinner)

Fish - 3-5 times a week

Beer - Heavy stouts and ales :)

chicken breast - once in while

Venison - any time I can get my hands on it

Fruit rollups/fruit snacks and real fruit instead of gu (It gives me rot gut)

I try to stick to natural sweeteners and food that actually has just a few ingredients not 400 ingredients on one box.

cereal. usually keep at least 6 boxes going

milk. 2 gallons a week

coffee, black, all day

bananas.

pork chops.

chicken breast sandwiches. I have been taking 4 a day with me to work.

Peanut butter and honey sandwiches and cereal. I usually go for the cocoa puffs mixed with Honey Bunches of Oats.

wait wrote:

UpperMidwestRunner wrote:

Sweet Potato

Yogurt

Banana

Elk

Red/Russet/Yellow Potato

Bison

Coconut oil

egg yolks (raw)

blackberries/blueberries

honey

elk?

I'm 75% convinced UpperMidwestRunner is a bear.

seriously.... wrote:

...assload of bison...

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Dude, I'm no expert, but I don't think "assloads" from a bison are healthy at all. Not only is fecal matter mostly devoid of nutrients (it's waste, after all), but it's also probably got some pretty gross bacteria in it. I mean, different strokes for different folks and all, but I suggest you stop eating your pet bison's poop, man. Maybe see a doctor to make sure things are okay, mentally and physically.

Also, Bad Wigins is officially a pu$$. He got called out and couldn't show up when it mattered.

at home it is Brown Organic Rice - Sprouded if I can find it

Out - Salads

RWAR RWAR RWAR

After eating real meat, I can't go back to the grocery store crap.

You can be grain/legume free (along the entire food chain) and still get endurance athlete-proportions of macronutrients. I end up with about 55% carb, 15% protein, and 30% fat but that's just a personal preference.

That provides more than enough carbs for my daily needs and to replace glycogen lost while running (4 g of carbs per lb lean bodyweight a day + 75% of all carbs burned running). If you're doing a high intensity training program, you might want to bump that 75% up to 80% or even 85%.

It' not a bunch of paleo pseudoscience BS. It's easier for most people's bodies to digest root vegetables, fruits, and animal proteins than it is to digest pasta, bread, rice and beans. Also, all your food has water in it, so you don't need to pound water 24/7. Try it for 6 weeks with whatever macronutrient ratios make you comfortable

The potato is so multipurpose. Eat it plain for quick recovery (105 glycemic index), or cook it with a fatty-acidic sauce and get a carb (27 glycemic index) that releases far slower than pastas and breads.

The omega-3/omega-6 ratio thing is pretty legit as well. Don't buy the paleo sat-fat thing? Cool. use olive oil instead of coconut oil/butter and eat fish 2x a week instead of 1x a week.

I worked as a cook for a few years between undergrad and grad.

Working on a running/eating blog and will have some recipes up. Anyone interested? Anything you think I should include?

I typically have a smoothie for breakfast after my AM run and a soup, salad, entree, and desert after my PM run.

Post shakeout run meals:

blackberry and dark-chocolate recovery smoothie

Raspberry-Espresso recovery smoothie

Appitizer

Baba Ganouj w/ carrots and cucumbers

Soups

Ginger-Beet Soup

Spinach-Tomato Soup

Butternut squash soup

Salads

Caesar salad with homemade dressing

Red-Cabbage Slaw

Spinach Salad with rasberry vinagrette

Arugala Salad

Elk & sweet potato with a bleu-cheese/white wine sauce and sun dried tomatoes

Garlic Sweet potato and beet greens

Roasted Root Vegetables with a balsamic glaze

Sweet Potato and Cilantro Salad

Potato Salad with Greek Yogurt sauce

Potato-Egg bake with yogurt pesto

Sweet Potato Fries

Russet Potato Crisps

Deserts

Yogurt Parfait with dark chocolate, pomegranates, and green apples

Ice Cream

And where I live elk is quite reasonable in price. $5-$6.50/lb for ground elk (grass fed and free range). Probalby less than bottom-dollar lean ground beef in most grocery stores.

I'm a bananatarian...so my answer is simple...bananas.

seriously.... wrote:

UpperMidwestRunner wrote:

Sweet Potato

Yogurt

Banana

Elk

Red/Russet/Yellow Potato

Bison

Coconut oil

egg yolks (raw)

blackberries/blueberries

honey

This is the only list that is healthy. Notice no grains, no pasta, nothing processed, no HFC. I eat both the egg white and yoke, no bananas, not so much elk but an assload of bison and filets and avocados.

How about organic grass fed beef, wild salmon, and grass fed butter?

WEJO ON WEEKDAYS

ROJO ON WEEKENDS

(i'm horrible, i know)

Those are all great as well, but where I live elk is so cheap that it's hard to pay 3x as much for salmon that I enjoy less.

I eat some beef, but I just feel stronger when I eat elk. Maybe it's in my head. But isn't elk manlier than beef?

Elk's also a richer flavor that I think you can do more with from a culinary standpoint, especially with the primal/rustic theme.

Meat consumption per week is probably

3.5 parts elk

1.5 part bison

1 part beef

1 part salmon

Grass fed butter pretty expensive. I use it in some of the above recipes, but for me it's a luxury item.

My miles/week is around 140 now and i weigh about 170 lbs, so I need to be pretty smart about cost-effective shopping.

Saigyo(UpperMidwestRunner) wrote:

And where I live elk is quite reasonable in price. $5-$6.50/lb for ground elk (grass fed and free range). Probalby less than bottom-dollar lean ground beef in most grocery stores.

Is your username a reference to the 12th-century Japanese poet?

How could I have known

that the moon I see far among the clouds

would come to rest upon my sleeve?

Saigyo(UpperMidwestRunner) wrote:

My miles/week is around 140 now and i weigh about 170 lbs, so I need to be pretty smart about cost-effective shopping.

170 w/ 140mpw? Unless you're considerably above average in height, that's pretty big for that level of mileage. Don't think I've ever known anyone at that weight other than MDRs whose mileage is usually half that. Do you have any challenges with injuries at that weight and mileage?

Nope. I run them pretty slow now. It's roughly comprable to Wejo's 170 mile weeks weighing 140, right?

Anyways, I'm about 25 lbs overweight now. Lost about 35 pounds since I started running January 2012 (following a shoulder surgery with a long injury/rehab issue).

I did long distance hiking before that. 12,000 miles over trails while carrying all the gear, food, and water you need to survive to walk from mexico to canada through the mountains builds up durability. It's not a competitive sport, but I was one of the faster guys out there (but not the fastest). 35-42 miles/day with 10-25 lbs on your back at 8,000 feet on technical trail is no joke.

Apparently the Japanese aren't stupid to start their marathon training with boatloads of walking miles with a backpack.

apples/bananas/bread lol

cut out banANas from your diet completely if you aren't going to consume them appropriately. Your high levels of potASSium are doing damage.