OK, we’re talking dietary fats here. We all know the endurance athletes need plenty of healthy fats in our daily intake. I tend to eat lots of natural peanut butter and natural almond butter. So there’s fish. Being on the run i don’t get to cook very often and fish is a tad on the expensive side. So what else are you guys eating to get your fats?
FATS are my SPECIALTY! mmmm…
Ruffles, Taco Bell, Wendy’s, Krispy Kremes/Tim Hortons, Cookies, Cheese, More cheese, Brie, Nacho cheese, Gouda, Butter on anything, Ice cream, and last, but DEFINITELY not least, KFC.
Or, if you are one of those “healthy - o’s”: I always keep a bag of fresh almonds handy. You can also purchase the “healthy fats” at a health food store, and just add them to a smoothie if you are on the go (it only alters the taste slightly). Keep lots of olives around, too.
Avocados! God’s most perfect food. Almonds. Stinky cheese. Cook with Canola oil.
On the bad fat but regularly consumed in moderation side its Dark Chocolate (Ghiradelli, Scharffenberger (sp?), or anything French) and Ben & Jerry’s. Yeah baby.
I like the Organic Food Bar, there are different versions (Vegan, Omega-3, Active Greens, etc.) The really do taste good. 14 g Pro, 10 g healthy fats, no refined sugar, no trans fatty acids, all organic, 300 calories.
www.organicfoodbar.com I buy them at Whole Foods or sometime Trader Joe’s or the Vitamin Shoppe. Expect to pay 22-25ish for a box of 12. Brad Kearns also has these on his website, www.bradventures.com as well as a couple other options.
flax seed. the actual seed, not the supplemet. cheap. they have a nutty taste that i find yummy. apparently you can toss them in a coffee grinder but i like them straight outtathebag. They are great mixed into oatmeal (which i eat cold with milk and splenda)
If they’re are not ground they pass through undigested. By the preground meal. Coffee choppers (with the whirling blade) don’t work, because the seeds are so tough. The true grinders may work?
Even some saturated fats are important, just limit them (to superpremium ice cream?). The saturated fats in fish and chocolate are beneficial. The trans-fats like you find in most processed food and most peanut butters are just plain bad.
it took me long enough to find the seeds (SuperTarget of all places) - where would i find the pre-ground meal? does the pre-ground meal taste as good?
Barlean’s flax oil and extra-virgin olive oil daily (about 2tbs each), these go well with salads or drizzled on tomato dishes. Don’t cook with the flax oil or it loses it’s nutritional value. I also eat some fish oil (in salmon) once or twice a week.
Also a little natural almond butter or sesame butter (tahini) daily. I try to minimize consumption of peanut butter because of concerns about aflotoxins (sp?),carcinogenic compounds in peanut mold.
I try to keep the fat intake under 20% of total calories with no "partially-hydrogenated or trans fats in my diet.
Did a doctor just tell me that the fats in Ben and Jerry’s and chocolate are good for me? Have I died and gone to Heavan?
Does anyone remember that Woody Allen movie “Sleeper”? He gets frozen in the 70s and wakes up in the future. He asks for some food, wheat germ, and other 70s macrobiotic stuff. His new friends look at him and tell him that he is way out of touch, research has shown the things like lard and beef are really good for you.
The whole Atkins craze reminds me of this. Too funny. Do you know that beef prices have doubled and it’s all because of that diet? I’m a little pissed cause I stuck by steak and hamburger through all the various fads and now I gotta pay more because of all these johnny-come-latelys.
Bob’s Red Mill. Whole Foods or Trader Joes have it.
I was just kidding. But frankly, if I’m going to have saturated fat, I’d rather have something I really like. A little of just about anything is OK, just watch out for excesses of potentially harmful things, eg. aflotoxin in peanut butter, nitrosamines in mushrooms, saturated fats, excesses of fat-soluble vitamins…
I think I remember Greg Lemond chiding the other cyclists for being so restrictive in their diets.
What’s the story on nitrosamines in mushrooms? Are they in all mushrooms? Fresh vs. canned? I couldn’t find too much on the web about it.
Richard
Any, as far as I know. In one area of China they have a ridculously high incidence of cancer of the esophagus, purportedly because they eat peanuts and mushroomsall of the time. Every so often they have to swallow the bottle brush looking things that are pulled up and smeared on a slide like a Pap smear to screen for cancer. Fun!!??
PS. Just moderate everything.
Hemp seed oil - no it’s not a joke. It is more balanced w6 to w3 ratio than flax seed oil.
pizza at least 2 slices 4x/week.
I grew up on the coast and my idea of seafood is to go down to my backyard and pull a big redfish out of the bay. So I sit down to dinner that my lovely wife has prepared for me, and it is frozen tilapia from WalMart! I decided to taste it before hiring the divorce lawyer and it turns out that it is not bad. She grills it, and I think that is the key. Anyway, it is very cheap and pretty quick and easy to throw something frozen onto the grill.
I cook with coconut oil. Extra virgin olive oil, sunflower, sesame, or hemp oil on salads and soups (after cooking). To grind flax seeds you can just use a grinding bowl.
How do you justify eating coconut oil? I’m sure it tastes great but I thought coconut and palm kernal oil were the two most saturated vegetable oils you could use.
Richard