[Fiend]

What sort of food types / portions / timings are best (for maintaining energy to climb without pigging out) during a normal day out climbing (usually trad day with a bit of walking and being on routes for a while)??

I tend to have a breakfast of cereal, granary toast or eggs and a small coffee. During the day I'll eat small portions of: egg or tuna sandwich (not ideal I know but egg sandwich in particular gives a moral boost), fruit and nut mix, apples, carrots, bananas, or cereal bars. Generally I don't eat much but I try to eat the small portions fairly regularly and just before a belay stint to give them time to digest. It feels fine to me but I'd be interested in any general concepts.

[slackline]

Just pick up a few happy meals on the way to the crag....

[SA Chris]

choc chip cookies - packet of - nom. Tastier than cereal bars. Wine gums (or sports mix if you think you are an athlete) for a power up. Cheesy oatcakes are good too (the Scottish kind, not the pancake things).

[webbo]

Given you are always complaining about being a fat bastard, maybe you try eating less.

[Jaspersharpe]

Filet o fish.

[masonwoods101]

Coop meal deal ( ploughman sandwich)

[psychomansam]

Malt loaf. Bananas. Whatever. Stay hydrated.

Or just fill a Sigg with 50/50 champagne and caviar (the Sloper option  )

[moose]

Or just fill a Sigg with 50/50 champagne and caviar (the Sloper option  )

I thought Sloper had a specially adapted jetboil for jugged hare?

[lagerstarfish]

you bunch of cunts

 

What sort of food types / portions / timings are best (for maintaining energy to climb without pigging out)

unfortunately, I have no experience of this

[Fiend]

choc chip cookies - packet of - nom. Tastier than cereal bars. Wine gums (or sports mix if you think you are an athlete) for a power up. Cheesy oatcakes are good too (the Scottish kind, not the pancake things).

Chris, aren't those slightly less healthy versions of the carb / sugar / protein items I'm having anyway?

Webbo, yes brilliant thanks. As I said I eat small portions and I don't eat much during the climbing day - less than all my peers anyway. That's why I'm asking for advice, however if that advice is "with a decent breakfast your body will function optimally on the bare minimum of food so stick with the type of food but eat even less and just climbing hungry" then obviously I'm prepared to take that on board.

Malt loaf - any particular benefits? Hydrated, yes I do so, however I could probably do even more.

[Sloper]

Or just fill a Sigg with 50/50 champagne and caviar (the Sloper option  )

I thought Sloper had a specially adapted jetboil for jugged hare?

Jugged hare requires slow cooking as any fule kno.

My tip would be some psuedoephredine or similar, caffeine and the odd cigar, plus of course what ever you can scrounge from fellow climbers to actually eat or drink.

As for caviar, never been a fan, oysters however do go well with a nicely chilled fizz.

[moose]

My tip would be some psuedoephredine or similar, caffeine and the odd cigar, plus of course what ever you can scrounge from fellow climbers to actually eat or drink.

The sporting editors Sloper had also given me $300 in cash, most of which was already spent on extremely dangerous drugs. The trunk of the car   cragsac looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip a day at Stanage, but once you get locked into a serious drug-collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

[nik at work]

I remember once going climbing with Sloper and he managed to forget to bring any equipment that would traditionally be associated with climbing. However from his perspective he day was a complete success because he managed to find his long lost cigar cutter in one of his numerous pockets.

The answer to the question is obviously starbars.

[webbo]

choc chip cookies - packet of - nom. Tastier than cereal bars. Wine gums (or sports mix if you think you are an athlete) for a power up. Cheesy oatcakes are good too (the Scottish kind, not the pancake things).

Chris, aren't those slightly less healthy versions of the carb / sugar / protein items I'm having anyway?

Webbo, yes brilliant thanks. As I said I eat small portions and I don't eat much during the climbing day - less than all my peers anyway. That's why I'm asking for advice, however if that advice is "with a decent breakfast your body will function optimally on the bare minimum of food so stick with the type of food but eat even less and just climbing hungry" then obviously I'm prepared to take that on board.

Malt loaf - any particular benefits? Hydrated, yes I do so, however I could probably do even more.

Do you feel you are running out of gas when climbing. Yes eat more. No stick with what you are doing. It's all rocket science you know.

[psychomansam]

The answer to the question is obviously starbars.

Fuck off. Boosts were only called 'Boost' after extensive scientific testing in extreme environments proved them to provide a measurable boost to athletes. I believe it was ~6 hour reduction in Himalayan ascent times, 1-2 hours in alpine times, and gives boulderers the ability to flash anything within their viable grade range. Fucking starbars eh.

[Muenchener]

I remember once going climbing with Sloper and he managed to forget to bring any equipment that would traditionally be associated with climbing. However from his perspective he day was a complete success because he managed to find his long lost cigar cutter in one of his numerous pockets.

I found my little Xikar* pocket knife in the back of a drawer the other day. Thought I'd lost it; was well chuffed.

* cigar cutter manufacturer

[lagerstarfish]

I don't do climbing "days" anymore, but scottish style oatcakes get me through the day at work and prevent Greggs relapse

the problem with the cheese ones is that they are too tasty and I pig on them

I'd have some concerns about oatcakes turning to rubble in a climbing sack - malt loaf doesn't crumble

for alpine stuff I used to fill my pockets with biscuits - typically from those big bags of broken malt type biscuits that Payot Pertin used to sell for not much money

[SA Chris]

choc chip cookies - packet of - nom. Tastier than cereal bars. Wine gums (or sports mix if you think you are an athlete) for a power up. Cheesy oatcakes are good too (the Scottish kind, not the pancake things).

Chris, aren't those slightly less healthy versions of the carb / sugar / protein items I'm having anyway?

What part do you think is less healthy? Bit of fats - good, bit of sugars - good, bit of carbs - good. They are tastier and cheaper options. Everything in moderation. Also consider GI of the foods, some will release sugars into blood faster than others.

[moose]

for alpine stuff I used to fill my pockets with biscuits - typically from those big bags of broken malt type biscuits that Payot Pertin used to sell for not much money

"A pocket full of broken biscuits" would be a great name for one of those misery-memoirs that clog up the best-seller lists.  I can see it now: a distressed, childhood in a Glasgow tenement, rats nibbling upon bags of uncollected refuse, ignored by his family our hero subsists on broken biscuits given by a kindly neighbour, who loans him a book about the Alps.  Years later, after escaping the bullying and squalor, our hero makes a string of mighty Alpine-style ascents fueled by those same broken biscuits. The kindly but now very aged neighbour, lives just long enough to see our protagonist collect his MBE for Services to Mountaineering, smiles and shuffles off his mortal coil.

[Falling Down]

  You're on fire Moose..

[sidewinder]

I don't do climbing "days" anymore, but scottish style oatcakes get me through the day at work and prevent Greggs relapse

Have to restrain myself over the nairns dark choc chip oatcakes, I tell myself they are not as bad as a normal biscuit so eat them all.

[lagerstarfish]

copy and paste that into an email to Vertibrate, Moose

[Muenchener]

Already been done shirley?

[SA Chris]

those big bags of broken malt type biscuits that we used to lift from Payot Pertin used to sell for not much money

Be honest now.

[SA Chris]

Already been done shirley?

Psychohorizontal - By Moose.