I don’t think I have met a runner yet that isn’t slightly obsessed with food. I have even known a few manorexic male runners that could go on forever about restraint of calorie intake. We all know we [run] what we eat. So after two successful runs this week, I am back to shrewd food choices.
I recently signed up for the Hungry Girl newsletter and I am amazed at some of the great information/recipes that she offers her readers. She sends out daily e-mails with reviews on food products and posts recipes using easy store bought items made healthy! You can also follow her on Facebook and Twitter. She has appeared on Rachel Ray making low-fat onion rings with Fiber One cereal that boast a calorie/fat count one third less than usual. Hungry Girl has two books including her recent one which is 200 recipe under 200 calories. She really makes it easy for not only the time management challenged, but also those of us without much culinary imagination (that’s me!).
There are also incredible food blogs out there that give you step by step tutorials on making some great meals. If your “before a long run oatmeal” is getting you down, try Kath Eats / tribute to oatmeal…banana whipped and toffee…yum. Smitten Kitchen has the most amazing recipes including this one of Jim Lahey’s Pizza Bianco–a heavenly way to take in the necessary carbs and find a little piece on earth (with a good salad and a glass of red wine).
Whenever I view the Iowa Girl Eats blog it makes me so hungry. It is a photographic feast. She is a runner and has this Green Monster smoothie that makes for a great training meal. My daughter and I have become hooked on Bakerella. Which, by the way, is filled with treats for when you are up to the 20 milers:) This blog will make you drool.
Anyone else have a food blog worth sharing with the class?
