Tailor your meals to your body’s need for fuel and feel better throughout the day.
Breakfast
Start the day off right with food rich in slow-burning, high fiber carbohydrates. These long-lasting foods are digested slowly, giving you a steady stream of energy throughout the morning. Quinoa, whole grain oats and granola with powdered milk are all great breakfast foods.
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Make Healthy Unsaturated Fats 30%-40% of your Trail Diet
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Mid-Day Snack
If you’re beginning to feel sluggish or know you have a challenging set of rapids or a climb ahead, munch on something high in simple sugars about an hour before you’ll need an extra boost of energy. Chocolate, dried fruit (raisins, mangos, etc.) and honey will all give your muscles a shot of easily accessible glucose.
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Hi Fiber, Complex Carbs Should Make Up 50% of Your Trail Diet
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Pre-Dinner Snack
Snack on fast-burning carbs like dried berries, rice cakes or crackers while your setting up camp to help your body get ready for tomorrow’s hike. The enzymes that transfer glucose to tired muscles are most active within 30 minutes of a tough workout so eat up!
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Protein Should Make Up 20% of Your Trail Diet
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Dinner
Your muscles are aching and you have another long hike ahead of you tomorrow so make sure you eat a meal high in complex carbs, protein and antioxidants. The carbs will build up your glycogen stores, protein rebuilds stressed muscles, and antioxidants fight free radicals. Vegetables (fresh or dried), brown rice, beef jerky and whole-grain foods are all good choices to work into your evening meal.
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*The above information is meant as a guide and should not be strictly adhered to.
Copyright: August 2008. All rights reserved. Packit Gourmet, LLC
