Odd food request....

Khannie

I am looking for foods that fit the following bill if you please....

Low carb, low salt, low fibre, relatively quickly digested (definitely under 24 hours)

Currently I'm thinking:

eggs
greek yoghurt

Beyond that I'm at a bit of a loss. This is partly because my brain is fried.

Any ideas?

El_Dangeroso

Coconut oil, digested very very quickly (too quickly if you have too much )

Don't think mushrooms have much in the way of fibre, not sure how quicky they can be digested though but you can use 'em as a fat vehicle fried low and slow in butter.

Also cucumber, cauliflower and alfalfa sprouts are low enough in fibre I think.

All kinds of fish except smoked or cured.

Will add more as I think of them!

Sigi

Red meat is digested very quickly

Khannie

Sigi wrote: »

Red meat is digested very quickly

Really? I thought it took a while (but was digested more or less completely in the end).

edit: some googling suggests 5 hours (more reputable) - 3 days (not so reputable). I'll probably go with fish instead though. I only need a limited number of meals of this kind.

rubadub

In general the more cooked and liquid the food is the easier it will be to digest. So soups should be better, or overcooked soggy foods. The smaller the bits, or the more it is chewed the better, so mince should be digested faster than a big steak wolfed down quickly. Chewing will also stimulate stomach acid release & enzymes.

Mushrooms should always be cooked, this is a mycologist talking about them

The proteins in mushrooms can produce bad immune response reactions if they pass through the intestinal wall without being broken down properly

Which is exactly what happens when you eat raw mushrooms. Humans don't have the digestive enzymes to digest raw mushrooms, so they definitely don't get broken down properly. With most people, this is the biggest cause of nausea, because the body senses something it can't digest, so it kicks in the defense mechanism of vomiting.

This is why people will get sick taking magic mushrooms, most put it down to taking poisonous ones by mistake, them having dirt etc on them, or the drug itself. But most eat them raw, and I would guess barely cooked regular mushrooms would have the same effect.

corkcomp

my work canteen has a salad containing lots of raw mushrooms.. ive only ever got food poinsioning once in my entire life.. the only day I had some

metamorphosis

When i read rubadubs post i was having my dinner ... which had 200gms raw mushrooms in there ... smothered in peanut butter. nom

corkcomp

ULstudent wrote: »

When i read rubadubs post i was having my dinner ... which had 200gms raw mushrooms in there ... smothered in peanut butter. nom

oh dear god no, I feel ill, seriously lol:pac: sorry for dragging O/T Khannie

Khannie

In the end (so far) I have gone with:
Greek yoghurt (quite a bit)
Scrambled eggs
A mozza ball (full fat) - there is some salt in the ingredients list but it's not a salty cheese.

I'm going to have some Salmon and egg yolks for dinner.

EileenG

Before whey became cheap, a standard for old school bodybuilders was to boil chicken breasts and then liquidise them for after workouts, on the grounds that they get digested so quickly.

Of course, there's always whey....

teacosy

can i ask why you would be looking for
"Low carb, low salt, low fibre, relatively quickly digested (definitely under 24 hours)"

can i ask why you would be looking for
"Low carb, low salt, low fibre, relatively quickly digested (definitely under 24 hours)"

At a guess I'd say he has to make weight for a fight and therefore wants to avoid water retention!

Mellor

That's exactly it imo,

moving down again khannie or just bulk up since last time?

Khannie

I was making weight alright and did want to avoid water retention. Its not that I bulked up or changed weight categories. Was just trying to avoid any extra weight before the weigh in.

Weighed in bang on too.

Khannie

EileenG wrote: »

Of course, there's always whey....

forgot to say I did have a shake at one point too.