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Eating for skiing.

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Skiing burns up a lot of energy. I find I really need a good breakfast before I get out there to keep me going, and to keep me from getting hungry too fast. Oatmeal usually does the trick. Or sometimes a couple scrambled eggs and toast.

What does it for you? Or are you one of those who doesn't have breakfast at all :eek: ?
 
Breakfast is a must. We might stop about 11:00 am and grab a quick snack or soup. Ski through the lunch hour as the lines are shorter and grab lunch after 1. Depends are if I'm teaching. If that lunch is on the run usually between lessons.
 
This is a topic of great interest to me -- I definitely have to have breakfast and, like Skidiva, something solid like Oatmeal works very well. It needs to be something that will carry me through to lunch.
Like Jilly, I try to have lunch, if possible, at a non-peak time because lift and lunch lines are shorter. What I have for lunch seems to have a big impact on how I feel in the afternoon. Soup is a good choice for me because its filling enough but not too filling.
 
For breakfast we usually each have a big bowl of cereal, sometimes I might have oatmeal instead, and usually a banana. At 10:00 (ish) we'll stop for brunch and have fruit (oranges in the winter always hit the spot and keep their form in the pocket), sandwich (smooshed from pocket, hopefully not frozen), granola bar (warm this up in hands in order to not chip a tooth). At 2:00 we'll break for linner, another granola bar, maybe chip in together for a bowl of soup or something warm. Gatorade. On the ride home from the mountain we're usually starving, will usually eat another sandwich at the house/hotel and then dinner at around 7-8.

I eat alot, but by spreading it out I feel a bit better and I get the added bonus of being able to enjoy lunch-empty runs and not having to fight for a seat with Lodgemom and her angry pack of prepubescant racerzzz.

K.
 
On a ski vacation, my meals are something like this: for breakfast I usually eat one or two hard boiled eggs, a banana, and a bowl of oatmeal. And yogurt. If there's no oatmeal, I'll eat a bagel. I'll have a granola bar for "lunch" and depending on the ski area, carry water with me. Then when the lifts close, I eat probably another granola bar while walking back to the car and then about everything that's in sight for the next 5 hours. It's kind of ridiculous.



FWIW, my normal breakfast when I'm not skiing is an egg, a banana, and a yogurt parfait thing with sliced strawberries and some granola. So on ski days, I increase the amount of carbs.
 
Drinking for Skiing - Being Hydrated Enough

I have a tendency not to drink enough water in general. My husband usually consumes a gatorade before he starts skiing in the morning. I started doing this last season and was amazed how at much better I felt (although bathroom breaks can be a pain...). I also carry a camelback with me but have to admit I don't really use it that much. If I'm really thirsty though, I'm glad it's there.
 
I usually just eat a banana and a granola bar in the car in the middle of a 3+ hour drive to the hill. Not ideal, but it's okay.

On multi-day ski trips I bring cereal. I usually stay in motels that include a "free" continental breakfast, but the offerings are usually just danishes & donuts, stuff I don't eat often.

I also bring all my lunches. My H won a mini cold-hot fridge in a raffle. It's so cute and handy! It plugs into the car cigarette lighter as well as into A/C. It lets me bring along perishables.
 
We make sure we have a hot breakfast, with plenty of protein, even if it's an egg sandwich in the car. We usually bring sandwiches for lunch, and try to eat them before the crowds head in for lunch, so we can enjoy the shorter liftlines for a while. I also carry almonds or raisins to snack on, and water, because I find I get really thirsty when I'm skiing.
 
Oatmeal, sliced banana with a drizzle of honey. Warming, filling without making you feel sluggish.

Although I must admit a big Denny's breakfast is our guilty indulgence, we don't have Denny's here down under, and my husband is totally in love with it. He just raves about what good value it is as he is scoffing down the pancakes, bacon, eggs... etc.
 
It depends on whether I'm hitting the resort or touring.

Either way, breakfast is oatmeal with raisins and a plate of scrambled eggs. It sits well in the tummy and seems to get me through the first 3 hours or so (resort). I usually pack a Clif bar or something to eat at about 11:00. I fell in love with these peanut butter cracker sandwich packs from Costco last year. You get salt, carbs, protein, and fat and they don't freeze or fall apart. My hubby and I usually only ski until 2:00 or so at the resort, so most times it's a pint at the lodge and home for dinner. My husband's also a big fan of candy bars.

On touring days, I try to have tons of power snacks like PB crackers, GU shots, trail mix, candy, and my life-saving black bean burritos wrapped in foil in my pack. On longer days, I like to take the Jet Boil and cook up some ramen noodles with tuna just to have something hot and recharge our batteries for the second half of the day.

Not a Gatorade drinker. It's fine for after skiing, but I tried drinking it on a tour last season and my stomach cramped up so bad I almost threw up. I just think there's too much sugar in it. Water for me, and I always carry a water bottle in my pack instead of a camelbak. I had a camelbak bladder explosion disaster two years ago, and believe me nothing is fun about half a gallon of water going down your back when it's 10 degrees outside. Plus, my straw ALWAYS freezes, no matter what I've tried.
 
tradygirl, were you drinking GAde with your Gu shots? I have read on several cycling forums that doing so can cause cramping, and that you're supposed to take your Gu with water because of this. I forget the reason, but something about the amount of simple/complex carbs in the different sources and how they can mess your stomach up.
 
You know, I wasn't doing GU that day, but I think the problem was that I wasn't drinking water. I drank exclusively Gatorade all morning, with a Clif bar and a few snacks. I probably needed to drink some straight up water so my stomach wouldn't get so overwhelmed with carbs.

Good point.
 
I love oatmeal!
With butterscotch chips!
Mmmmmmmm!
 
Mmmm oatmeal. I like mine with a little butter and brown sugar.

Oatmeal, homemade plain yogurt, fruit, bread and cheese, tea, and an english muffin with nutbutter and butter. I'm a bottomless pit.

As far as food in the pocket goes, I like larabars (cashew cookie flavored) and kashi's cruncy roasted almond bars a lot, and I pretty much always ski with an apple.

Non pocketable snack- soy crisps with cashew butter and a glass of vanilla soymilk. I love it for after riding. Especially when followed by some ice cream :smile:
 
Ah, nowhere does breakfast like America! I'm not much of a breakfaster normally but it's a must for days on the mountain - Oatmeal and raisins or Huevos Rancheros (my absolute favourite) in the US, or baguettes with cheese (Goats cheese with figgy conserve for preference) and pain au chocolat in France. Lots of milky coffee, either way.

The best breakfast ever, I thought, was First Tracks at Whistler - if you've never done this....you get up at about 5 am to get the lift up at 6.30 ish, and then you have a huuuuge buffet breakfast laid out at the top - big skillets, eggs, yogurt, fruit, coffee etc etc.

You eat and watch the sun come up while they do the avalanche control and finish the grooming, and they put a big rope all the way round the lodge. When they are done, they drop the rope and off you all go! On a powder day, it's really magic - fresh tracks all the way down :smile:

Breakfast of champions!
 
Sounds like a great breakfast and a fun experience..thanks for the recommendation chaletlaforet!
 
chaletlaforet said:
The best breakfast ever, I thought, was First Tracks at Whistler - if you've never done this....you get up at about 5 am to get the lift up at 6.30 ish, and then you have a huuuuge buffet breakfast laid out at the top - big skillets, eggs, yogurt, fruit, coffee etc etc.

You eat and watch the sun come up while they do the avalanche control and finish the grooming, and they put a big rope all the way round the lodge. When they are done, they drop the rope and off you all go! On a powder day, it's really magic - fresh tracks all the way down :smile:

Breakfast of champions!
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OMG - You have no idea how much this idea excites me!
Pics?
 
Oh it really is! I *can* imagine how much it excites you though :D if it's anything like how much it excited us!

Weirdly, they don't seem to publicise it much - but once you're up there, you have the mountain empty for quite a while before the lifts open again for everyone else, and you can ride the top lifts all you want.

We did it loads of times because we were very kindly given some free tickets by the manager of the GLC bar. I must try and find the pics, I'm sure we have some.

Here's some that I liked on Flickr - not mine, but still:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/_phin/452938090/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/zombies/396978506/
Big version of that last one (lovely)
https://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=396978506&size=l

Full details of how it works here:
https://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/todo/events/detail/freshtracks.htm

The reason you have to be up at 5am sometimes is that if there's been a big dump overnight, you can bet everyone in the village will be wanting to get up there, and they only let 650 go up. We only just made it a couple of times:p It's such a long ride up though, you can just sleep on the lift. I hope some of you get to do it this season!
 
This is amazing!
Like................foreplay!
396978506_acaee63323_b.jpg
 
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