[Houdini]

 

[milksnake]

what the fuck are you smoking?

[Eddies]

lol, that there is the food of champions my friend... I applaud you.

Have you ever tried deep frying one of those mothers!?

[magpie]

That pizza burger is so wrong it's right

[SA Chris]

Over my breakfast of yoghurt, fruit and coffee, I quite fancy a slice of that.

[Jaspersharpe]

Awesome.

[Fiend]

Gotta hand it to you Houdini, that is the best thing ever.

[Fiend]

Okay, quick serious question.

Generally I am not too fussed about diet, and generally I eat okay apart from a slight penchant for processed pork produce. I kinda understand the basics of meat, fish, cheese, veg, fruit, fat, protein, vitamins etc.

I just want to know a teeny bit about carbs. They are fuel, right? Eat them in various forms and they give you energy to do stuff, eat too many and your body stores them as fat (mmm, fat).

Given an averagely active climber's lifestyle (wall twice a week, trad two days a week, gentle run once/twice a week, swim once/twice a week), what sort of carb intake is good?? And what sort of carbs are best, and when??

Pasta / rice / cereals / bread / etc etc??

Keep it simple for me please

Ta.

[magpie]

Simplistic explanation of Good Carbs. 

The links down the right hand side of that page have some basic, easy to understand stuff too.

[Fiend]

So basically brown/green good, white bad. K. Can do that.

[SA Chris]

And tatties, which are brown / white depending on you point of view.

I love a good Venn Diagram

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fruitnveg.png

[slackline]

I love a good Venn Diagram

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fruitnveg.png

  Thats hilarious...

You say tomato, I say tomato!

[magpie]

So basically brown/green good, white bad. K. Can do that.

In simple terms, yes.

The easiest thing is to just swap to wholemeal / brown stuff rather than regular / white in the case of pasta, bread, cereal and don't eat sugary or fatty carbs, like cake and muffins and crisps, all the good shit basically.

[Houdini]

what the fuck are you smoking?

Sorry to burst your bubble Squire, but I don't smoke anything, not even kippers.   

[tommytwotone]

So basically brown/green good, white bad. K. Can do that.

Word - low GI good (slow burn of energy), high GI bad (ride the crazy pancreatic insulin / blood sugar rollercoaster)

Anyway, back OT (and apologies for the LOOK AT ME-ness of this), last night I made a vert tasty veggie curry with...

Red onion
Red pepper
Handful of mushrooms, chopped
Can of chopped toms
Carton of passata
Some rogan josh paste (careful to avoid the oily shit in the jar)
Cubed sweet potato
Can of lentils
Can of borlotti beans

Shazam - very tasty, dead healthy and as a bonus I think the net cost was about £3 and was enough for me, wor lass and some leftover for tea tonight.

[SA Chris]

The easiest thing is to just swap to wholemeal / brown stuff rather than regular / white in the case of pasta, bread, cereal and don't eat sugary or fatty carbs, like cake and muffins and crisps, all the good shit basically.

So id the 230g slab of brown cadburys fruit and nut choccy I have consumed today OK then?

[magpie]

Totally; it's from the brown group rather than white.  It has nuts for protein and stuff and fruit, one of your 5 a day.*











*This may not be actual SCIENCE

[SA Chris]

Sweet (literally).