snacks? - General running - Runner's World

canary girl

28/10/2002 at 17:06

I work in an office during the day and due to the fact I start work at 11am, I don't have lunch till 3pm and find myself having to snack to bring me up to my lunch. Just wondered if anybody had any ideas on healthy and benefical snacks for running? Eating pretzals at the moment but all that salt can't be good for me!

Parky

28/10/2002 at 17:08

I'm really into Frusli bars - very tasty - or how about some malt loaf (there was another thread somewhere on the site about how good malt loaf is). I usually have one about an hour - hour and half before I go for my lunchtime training session

Ratbag

pirate

28/10/2002 at 17:11

I always eat fruit.

hard to go wrong with that really...

Gavo

28/10/2002 at 17:24

Jaffa cakes are good - low fat, vague fruit content & fulfil the need that some people have for chocolate. I also recommend bagels though not if you have to answer the phone all the time.

Caz

28/10/2002 at 17:28

Katie, I do the pretzel thing and I don't worry about the salt as I never add it to anything I make. Although it's probably lurking in everything else.

But then I'm a self-confessed pretzel addict.

Redhead

28/10/2002 at 17:35

Try dried fruit (can be easier than fresh in an office situation) or malt loaf.

Buney

28/10/2002 at 17:46

what time do you have breakfast?- could you shift your mealtimes around so - breakfast is later' then 3pm lunch is not so late?

i have shifted my eating around a bit and sometimes have my breakfast type food as a early lunch - a bowl of cereal with some milk might not be too difficult at 12ish?

Moe

28/10/2002 at 17:55

I'm into cereal bars like Parky have you tried the new Alpen ones, they are tasty, ideal for snacking and I carried some with me on a recent off road trail run.

Dangly Spice

28/10/2002 at 19:44

I liked the new Alpen cereal bars until i read the ingredients and worked out how much sugar was in them! I usually snack on a box of raisins kept in a handy old margarine tub on the side in the kitchen next to the biccie barrel so there's no excuses! Also lots of fruit (mostly bananas).
I have recently, through an accident in the kitchen, discovered sugar puff sandwiches which are quite tasty and filling.
(OK OK i know i'm a bit weird!)

XFR Bear

28/10/2002 at 20:06

Dried fruit - apricots, bananas etc.

Banana and peanut butter sandwich is one of my favourites - particularly on the way home from work - it's enough to keep me going for a couple of hours if I want to run straightaway - might work for you too. Plenty of carbs.

Liked yoghurt covered flapjacks too until I saw the article in a running mag saying how many calories and grammes of fat they had - equivalent to about 18 jaffa cakes or something!

Sutts

28/10/2002 at 20:57

My snacks include Dried Fruit (apricots & Prunes), High Five energy Bars, Jelly Babies (low fat !!!)all are all good but best of all BANANAS

Psi

28/10/2002 at 21:25

Flapjacks are one of the most deceptive "healthy" foods ever - all that fat!

My favourite snacks are hard to define as I tend to eat little but often as opposed to square meals. Therefore almost every meal I have is kind of a snack. However I am very fond of apples, pots of yoghurt, toast, and (it had to come..) the dreaded chocolate.

Fortunately for me, my favourite crisps - Squares - are relatively low in fat, so the bag or so I eat per day isn't a major impact on my health.

Hewey

28/10/2002 at 21:29

You can't beat bananas. I live on them!

Remind me to get a life....

Plodding Hippo

28/10/2002 at 22:13

Stop talking about crisps, does EVERYONE know im not eating them at the mo!!

the man mandelson couldn't silence

28/10/2002 at 22:32

before you are tempted to eat these so called 'healthy' snack bars read the packet. Many of them are loaded with fat, salt and sugar.
Malt Loaf with jam on it and banana all made into a sandwich

XFR Bear

28/10/2002 at 22:52

Malt loaf at two for 59p in Safeways this week for all you malt loaf fans!

Andy Oliver

29/10/2002 at 00:54

Bananas are a real fave for me!

Sob, living in the u.s. at the moment where there is NO malt loaf, sob... no doubt I'll put on 1 stone when I get back from eating malt loaf!!

Bagels are good I reckon, low in fat and tasty.

Oh and cake&cookies every so often too...

Mungus

29/10/2002 at 08:04

What about cheesy snack-a-jacks? They're like little rice cakes but they're quite tasty (they come in sweet and savoury flavours). Low fat, low cal, filling, and a bag lasts a while too.

ultra meerkat

29/10/2002 at 12:32

Fig rolls...I love them, but apparently the England football team snacked on them during the world cup, much good it did them. Dried bananas are yummy too.

victoria Allen

29/10/2002 at 12:48

Tesco sells organic Fruitus bars - no added sugar, just rolled oats and apple/sultana/apricots and they are gorgeous and really really low fat etc.

Otherwise my GNC card gets a hammering on energy and protein bars.. i find i can always justify something if it has added nutritional value!