The perfect athlete food (Page 2)

This all really depends, for cutting (i.e. losing weight) I have to go with Broccoli and chicken, for energy Pasta and chicken.  For raceday VANILLA GU.

x2 on Allergy.... Death if I eat one peanut or tree nut!

Favourite before morning exercise is Oatmeal.  Usually mixed with berries & yogurt.  Tasty & seems to give give lasting energy.  A favourable glycemic index

1 slice ww bread, almond butter, and 1/2 a banana . . .
-kory

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x2  on both the yogurt and the being allergic to nuts, But add Granola to the yogurt.

Quinoa - I cook it with Jasmine Rice, olive oil, and some mexican salsa paste w/jalopeno's.
I love this stuff and the nutritional value is awesome.

Chocolate milk ~ Recovery
Guinness Draught ~ Hydration
Salmon sashimi ~ Protein & good fat
Brownie Sundae ~ Reward for hard work

Nutela ,nutela with crepes, nutela on toast, nutela on card board box......nutela by spoon only, when you get to see the bottom of the jar, you consumed 2000cal of it.......Then comes PB&J. And I do only organic PB and J, period. That is the only way to have it. Santa Cruz dark roasted, crunchy. All sorts of european jelly, fruit spreads as they do not contain any added sugar, no high fructose corn syrup in it either, organic as the mother nature intended it. I am so addicted to both that I carried two jars of PB on my vacation to Eastern Europe as they don't have it there.

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Ben and Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk.

And Guinness.

For me, sushi! I end up with so much energy and can run forever after I eat it. However, in the morning Quinoa with cinnamon or berries.

Breakfast alomst everyday for the last 10 years (Yeah you read it 10 years)
about 1/2 cup oatmeal, squirt of Maple syrup, couple of table spoons of wheat germ.

Late night snack Banana with peanut butter.
Heaven absolute heaven

Post    Raisin Bran Cereal    Dry or mixed with a WW yogert!

Nice

Together?!

These are the staples of my life eat them EVERYDAY!!!!!

Myoplex lite bars (choc crisp)
Erin Baker's cookies (almost all flavors or delicious)
Peanut butter/honey/whole grain bread
Bananas
Nuts

Pasta, pasta, and more pasta. Rice is also good.

When I'm training over 12 hours per week, nothing will suffice except piles and piles of carbs.

Froot Loops...breakfast, lunch, dinner, snaclk dessert, doesn't matter...tastey, and "an excellent source of Vitamin C (and now calcium)"

Bacon!

THANK GOODNESS. I was going to mention that bacon was the best food ever.
Of course, you can only have like 2 or 3 slices before dying, but it si yummy.

I'm surprised how many people list a grain/grain based product as their choice for the perfect athletes food.  I thought that all of the feel good attitude towards whole wheat breads, pasta, rice, wraps, etc, was dropped by the wayside when it was realized that these 'foods' were the basis of a diet that causes chronic inflammation, heart disease, cancer, gastric distress, and diabetes...among other things. 

To expand on this, I think many athletes here should do some research on food production, to include processed pacakged foods, meats and produce. Up until the last 100 years, even 50, there wasn't a such thing as our mega stores and endless supply of food. Our bodies aren't designed for this and it's killing us (obiesty, health problems listed above). Even "athletes" like ourselves do not need this mass produced food to be successful. Most of us on this site are not at the level we like to think we're at and can thrive on a reduced volume of real, whole foods. Our bodies can get the required carbs fir this lifestyle without having to eat junk. Hunter gatherers survived on foods from the earth and meats. 100 years ago people didn't eat cereal for breakfast. Most countries do not have the supermarkets we do. They do not have the obiesty rates we do. Some good reading to consider: The Primal Blueprint, Good Calories Bad Calories, www.marksdailyapple.comjust food for thought.