If you could build just one meal to prep you for the moments when you need to be at your absolute best—fighting off a colony of giant bats; base-jumping from the top of Sanda Day O’Connor’s refrigerator; going to lunch with the mother-in-law–you’d do worse than to heed this advice from HealthBolt. Advocating B vitamins, fatty acids, neurotransmitter precursors, and glucose for the brain and, well, easily-digestible foods for the rest of the body, they offer some general examples as well as a sample menu for ultimate thinking and punching power.
* 4oz. salmon steak
* Sweet potato fries (Baked.)
* A spinach/reomaine salad with almonds and sunflower kernels
* Olive oil vinagrette
* Banana
* Water
* A Handful of blueberries on (full fat) yogurt for dessert
The Meal You Should Eat When You Need to Be Ready For Absolutely Anything [HealthBolt]
My “Eating for Performance” meal is…
* 1/4 lb. brisket
* 1/4 turkey
* half a link of jalapeno sausage
* cream of corn or potato salad
* serving of nana-puddin
* 32 oz. of Dr. Pepper
If that meal don’t get you stoked to conquer the world, then nothing will.
Yech.
I’ll stick with my Mountain Dew…
Spinach is E. Coli fodder, salmon is expensive, and I don’t enjoy blueberries at any time. We need a breakdown on the components and some civilized substitutions to make this work.
Spiney, the article contains a breakdown of what that meal contains, specifically so you can make you’re own substitutions. And as far as spinach being e-coli fodder (3 people total died in the scare.) you’ve got a better chance of getting killed by a terrorist or winning the lottery than getting e-coli from spinach.
“civilized” substitutions:
Throw out the spinach and just have the romaine. (sissy)
Any sort of berries will do, but you’ll have to eat more of them to get the same amount of flavanoids and anti-oxidents in a handful of blueberries. They’re the most potent of all the berries in this regard.
If you don’t want salmon, again, any fish will do provided it was not farm-raised. (tuna, mahi mahi, swordfish)
You should also drink a liter of oil. Maybe eat a Powerbar too.