who eats "cookless" while riding?
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who eats "cookless" while riding?
this past year i decided to give a more raw edge to my life. common sense said it was the right thing to TRY. I felt the unsustainable manner in which we prepare our food (not to mention the extent to which i eat it, ouch im fat) was dumb, and that i would cook very basic foods and have a small amount per day. typically it would be in the form of nuts via trail mix, and rice. both of which do no effect the digestion of nutrients a whole lot when cooked. anyways, i felt great, was eating all day long, dropped down from 225 to 185. my sinus issues and ear problems cleared up significantly (so why the F am i eating like crap again!)
anyways, i see all this stove/cooking talk with touring, and was wondering who goes pretty much raw?. living on a variety of fruits and veggies and nuts, maybe the odd protein shake with some amino;s for that nitrogen.
oh, and a side note. i bought some time attack pedals from a liar. I need cleats for them. they are going on my cheapo commutor bike, and i refuse to pay the 40 that shops in town want for just cleats. anyone?
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anyways, i see all this stove/cooking talk with touring, and was wondering who goes pretty much raw?. living on a variety of fruits and veggies and nuts, maybe the odd protein shake with some amino;s for that nitrogen.
oh, and a side note. i bought some time attack pedals from a liar. I need cleats for them. they are going on my cheapo commutor bike, and i refuse to pay the 40 that shops in town want for just cleats. anyone?
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I like the raw idea also. But preparation of raw food is tough on the road, as odd as it sounds, no juicer, and often the washing conditions are minimal. I own several stoves, but for the bike I don't bother with them. During the good weather the stores are full of food, and the supermarkets are so completely supplied with every imaginable want, that stoveless is no hardship. I rarely eat at restaurants, but if my menu weakens I can always look at something like a cooked chicken breast at the supermarket. Other than that, I drink large amounts of water, fruit, yogurt, anything that looks as though it will keep over the time I have it in the paniers.
If I have to go through unserved areas for a long time, I try to keep my menu as natural as possible, but I may be required to carry weird stuff if weigh and volume conspire sufficiently. Then it's right out of the backpacking rulebook. A stove can really pay off if wter is easy to come by, and reconstituted foods are the most practical.
If I have to go through unserved areas for a long time, I try to keep my menu as natural as possible, but I may be required to carry weird stuff if weigh and volume conspire sufficiently. Then it's right out of the backpacking rulebook. A stove can really pay off if wter is easy to come by, and reconstituted foods are the most practical.
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I agree mostly with you all, but I also eat at restuarants, mostly to get hot evening meal, and to sample local fares. I like to travel light, but I keep protien bars/energy bars just in case. For mje it's stoveless. No cooking utensils. I drink from my bike's water bottle.
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I always carry dried fruit and nut mix with me.
raisins, sultans, mangos, bananas , just about anything I can find, mix them all together in a bag, in the back pocket.
But I too like a chicken or fish meal in a restaurant, or a pasta cooked on my stove.
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raisins, sultans, mangos, bananas , just about anything I can find, mix them all together in a bag, in the back pocket.
But I too like a chicken or fish meal in a restaurant, or a pasta cooked on my stove.
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I also tour stoveless. I normally use dried fruit as a post ride snack -- although I might get a small packet of sweets if I feel like it. Other than that I normally go with fruit, salads etc. A small cooler bag inside the pannier is a great way of allowing fruit to last a couple of days if need be. That said, I like to get to a cafe or restaurant to sample some cooked food for one meal each day, but going a couple of days between them isn't a problem.
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nice to see im not alone.
one thing that got me into raw food was the ability to have a prepareless food source. and i do not understand nor agree with trying to emulate cooked food with raw (although for my bday i had a raw apple pie made, and oh my, HEAVEN!). the body goes into a weird sate of "food love" after a few months of eating nearly all uncooked/unprepared food. you haven't tasted an apple, a banana, even a glass of water, in my opinion, until you get into this state. and the sight of some of these concauctions that companies making processed foods, just no longer have any desire.
anyways, see you guys.
and thanks.
one thing that got me into raw food was the ability to have a prepareless food source. and i do not understand nor agree with trying to emulate cooked food with raw (although for my bday i had a raw apple pie made, and oh my, HEAVEN!). the body goes into a weird sate of "food love" after a few months of eating nearly all uncooked/unprepared food. you haven't tasted an apple, a banana, even a glass of water, in my opinion, until you get into this state. and the sight of some of these concauctions that companies making processed foods, just no longer have any desire.
anyways, see you guys.
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I agree but i dont know what is a raw apple pie... what is it? I am planning to buy a light stove but i am wondering what to cook on it beside those dried enveloppe food that i had never tried. So i m still thinking of ideas of what i will do on it before i buy one. If prefer fresh food though and a warm meal at least once a day. If you like asian food you can find some dry meat, dry fruit, even some squid at their market.
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When we tour, we don't take any stove or other cooking utensils. Watching other cyclists at camp sites, it seems like the entire evening is one of preparing dinner. First boiling water, then cooking, then eating, then cleaning up. We live primarily out of grocery stores, except for the inevitable cafe and pastry at some point during the day. For dinner, we generally buy a fresh head of lettuce and a couple of tomatoes or cukes, etc at the grocery store just prior to the getting to a camp ground. We'll use the plastic bag from the grocery store as a "plate", tear up the lettuce, put on the other vegetables, and salad dressing. For breakfast and lunch, we have carry bread (always on the outlook for a good bakery), cheese, some time of sliced meat, yogurt, and lots of fresh fruit. Maybe once every two-three days we'll stop at a restaurant for lunch. If we are really ravenous for dinner, we might pick up one of those baked chickens that grocery stores now seem to carry. Although this isn't eating "raw", we find this approach works very well. One of our rear panniers is completely dedicated to food, and is usually very heavy.
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I thought the thread title was "who eats 'cookies' while riding?" for the longest time and was so confused.
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A couple of observations:
1. To cook on a bike tour, you need to know how to cook at home. I often get the feeling that people who tour and eat exclusively at cafes or "cold" simply don't want to admit they can't cook. Of course, apologies to those who *can* cook but for some unfathomable reason don't on tour.
2. The time spent preparing, cooking and cleaning up after a meal is a bit like the old (and I think forgotten) family gathering time at home. I mean... what else are you going to do after you get into camp and have set up? Lie around doing nothing? Well... that's OK, but there is a sort of community in cooking, whether at your tent, or in the campground kitchen. It gives you a chance to interact with others with similar interests, and to pick a bit of information about where you're going and where they've been.
3. What to cook? The sky is the limit! It all depends on your skills (refer item 1). There are countless recipes out there for all sorts of meals. Fresh fruit and vegetables and varieties of potted, canned, smoked or fermented meat are available where most posters are likely to tour. A few condiments and spices can make the world of difference. Really, there are only three or four basic recipes. Take a look at the pictures attached to this post. The curry is lamb made with vegetables bought much earlier in the day; the pancakes speak for themselves. All cooked on a trusty Trangia alcohol stove. I think Stokell has some samples of his culinary art stashed somewhere, too. But you do need to practice at home with your camp stove when your stomach isn't necessarily depending on your to come up with a tasty, nourishing meal reasonably efficiently.
4. I know that when people say they prefer to pick up groceries each night that they haven't really been remote cycle touring in areas such as the Canadian Rockies where shops are very few and far between and what there is stocks expensive rubbish. As in hiking/bushwalking, "remote" cycle-touring does present its challenges in planning menus and food supplies. Like any other part of cycle touring, there is a degree of planning needed.
5. Part of that planning requires you have unused room in your panniers for food.
6. I wonder sometimes, too, at the endless budgets some people have to go on tour. Good luck to you. But for me, bought food in restaurants or takeaway/fast-food joints is just so, so expensive, and it is easy to blow $15 a day just in that. And after a while, it's much the same fare and can become boring. Add another $15 to $25 a night for campground accommodation and suddenly you're up to $40 a day without any other costs. I can't afford that sort of lucre, but it's not going to stop me going on long tours where I am fully self-supported.
6. I like hot meals in the evening except in high summer. That's the way I am. Others might like cold everything. But without a stove, you can't enjoy a coffee, tea or chocolate late in the evening, or if the weather turns nasty, you can't satisfy your inner soul with a cold drink of water.
1. To cook on a bike tour, you need to know how to cook at home. I often get the feeling that people who tour and eat exclusively at cafes or "cold" simply don't want to admit they can't cook. Of course, apologies to those who *can* cook but for some unfathomable reason don't on tour.
2. The time spent preparing, cooking and cleaning up after a meal is a bit like the old (and I think forgotten) family gathering time at home. I mean... what else are you going to do after you get into camp and have set up? Lie around doing nothing? Well... that's OK, but there is a sort of community in cooking, whether at your tent, or in the campground kitchen. It gives you a chance to interact with others with similar interests, and to pick a bit of information about where you're going and where they've been.
3. What to cook? The sky is the limit! It all depends on your skills (refer item 1). There are countless recipes out there for all sorts of meals. Fresh fruit and vegetables and varieties of potted, canned, smoked or fermented meat are available where most posters are likely to tour. A few condiments and spices can make the world of difference. Really, there are only three or four basic recipes. Take a look at the pictures attached to this post. The curry is lamb made with vegetables bought much earlier in the day; the pancakes speak for themselves. All cooked on a trusty Trangia alcohol stove. I think Stokell has some samples of his culinary art stashed somewhere, too. But you do need to practice at home with your camp stove when your stomach isn't necessarily depending on your to come up with a tasty, nourishing meal reasonably efficiently.
4. I know that when people say they prefer to pick up groceries each night that they haven't really been remote cycle touring in areas such as the Canadian Rockies where shops are very few and far between and what there is stocks expensive rubbish. As in hiking/bushwalking, "remote" cycle-touring does present its challenges in planning menus and food supplies. Like any other part of cycle touring, there is a degree of planning needed.
5. Part of that planning requires you have unused room in your panniers for food.
6. I wonder sometimes, too, at the endless budgets some people have to go on tour. Good luck to you. But for me, bought food in restaurants or takeaway/fast-food joints is just so, so expensive, and it is easy to blow $15 a day just in that. And after a while, it's much the same fare and can become boring. Add another $15 to $25 a night for campground accommodation and suddenly you're up to $40 a day without any other costs. I can't afford that sort of lucre, but it's not going to stop me going on long tours where I am fully self-supported.
6. I like hot meals in the evening except in high summer. That's the way I am. Others might like cold everything. But without a stove, you can't enjoy a coffee, tea or chocolate late in the evening, or if the weather turns nasty, you can't satisfy your inner soul with a cold drink of water.
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Originally Posted by Yonipi
I agree but i dont know what is a raw apple pie... what is it? I am planning to buy a light stove but i am wondering what to cook on it beside those dried enveloppe food that i had never tried. So i m still thinking of ideas of what i will do on it before i buy one. If prefer fresh food though and a warm meal at least once a day. If you like asian food you can find some dry meat, dry fruit, even some squid at their market.
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the 10% of the time i might carry a stove would be between nov. and march and would be used only to boil up some hot water for some coffee or tea. during the winter, i might have both breakfast and dinner in a cafe. other times of the year, 1 meal. everything else is from the grocery store. once in a blue moon i might make a fire and let a can of something warm up by it. i refuse to have anything to wash up, other than a spoon or fork.
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Originally Posted by Rowan
A couple of observations:
1. To cook on a bike tour, you need to know how to cook at home. I often get the feeling that people who tour and eat exclusively at cafes or "cold" simply don't want to admit they can't cook. Of course, apologies to those who *can* cook but for some unfathomable reason don't on tour.
1. To cook on a bike tour, you need to know how to cook at home. I often get the feeling that people who tour and eat exclusively at cafes or "cold" simply don't want to admit they can't cook. Of course, apologies to those who *can* cook but for some unfathomable reason don't on tour.
Originally Posted by Rowan
2. The time spent preparing, cooking and cleaning up after a meal is a bit like the old (and I think forgotten) family gathering time at home. I mean... what else are you going to do after you get into camp and have set up? Lie around doing nothing?
Originally Posted by Rowan
Well... that's OK, but there is a sort of community in cooking, whether at your tent, or in the campground kitchen. It gives you a chance to interact with others with similar interests, and to pick a bit of information about where you're going and where they've been.
Originally Posted by Rowan
3. What to cook? The sky is the limit! It all depends on your skills (refer item 1).
Originally Posted by Rowan
6. I wonder sometimes, too, at the endless budgets some people have to go on tour. Good luck to you. But for me, bought food in restaurants or takeaway/fast-food joints is just so, so expensive, and it is easy to blow $15 a day just in that. And after a while, it's much the same fare and can become boring. Add another $15 to $25 a night for campground accommodation and suddenly you're up to $40 a day without any other costs. I can't afford that sort of lucre, but it's not going to stop me going on long tours where I am fully self-supported.
Originally Posted by Rowan
6. I like hot meals in the evening except in high summer. That's the way I am. Others might like cold everything. But without a stove, you can't enjoy a coffee, tea or chocolate late in the evening, or if the weather turns nasty, you can't satisfy your inner soul with a cold drink of water.
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Originally Posted by Rowan
A couple of observations:
1. To cook on a bike tour, you need to know how to cook at home. I often get the feeling that people who tour and eat exclusively at cafes or "cold" simply don't want to admit they can't cook. Of course, apologies to those who *can* cook but for some unfathomable reason don't on tour.
1. To cook on a bike tour, you need to know how to cook at home. I often get the feeling that people who tour and eat exclusively at cafes or "cold" simply don't want to admit they can't cook. Of course, apologies to those who *can* cook but for some unfathomable reason don't on tour.
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[QUOTE=Rowan]A couple of observations:
1. To cook on a bike tour, you need to know how to cook at home. I often get the feeling that people who tour and eat exclusively at cafes or "cold" simply don't want to admit they can't cook. Of course, apologies to those who *can* cook but for some unfathomable reason don't on tour.
Rowan - the food looks great and I agree with you completely. I'm just beginning to explore touring so I do have a question...
That stove looks HUGE as does your pan and the half gallon container of milk. How / where do you carry it all?
1. To cook on a bike tour, you need to know how to cook at home. I often get the feeling that people who tour and eat exclusively at cafes or "cold" simply don't want to admit they can't cook. Of course, apologies to those who *can* cook but for some unfathomable reason don't on tour.
Rowan - the food looks great and I agree with you completely. I'm just beginning to explore touring so I do have a question...
That stove looks HUGE as does your pan and the half gallon container of milk. How / where do you carry it all?
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such respect on this board, i love it.
and the cookie comment, pricless, i was about to get the camera out and take a picture of me riding my bike eating a cookie, but im too lazy. thanks tho./
i dont agree really with the not knowing how to cook thing. i cook alot, and good, so ive been told and i feel its warranted. but the manipulation of food for me is hobby i suppose and not a lifestyle, and perhaps that is the difference. there is also extreme pleasure in using food simply for its sutainability. i beg you, if you are in a groove of culinary excersise, go raw or non-prepared for just one month and the opposite for that matter if you are and have been raw for some time, i swear you will have a tiny apifany in terms of relocating ALL of your sense awareness's
i did the juan du fucas trail from sombrio to chin beach (about 5-6 hour hike, camp on beach over night and hike back) on vancouver island (where i was living at the time), and one of the people that came was a camp worker for youth. she loved to cook and had all the tools of the trade. ya we carried tons of weight for the food we made, a great spagetti dish with potatoes, and yes it tasted good, but it confirmed all my notions about missing the point, for me, in exploration. as dumb as it may sound, i am interesting in utilizing my visual and audio senses more while exploring. the trips in which i am concerned with my taste senses, ive found to be asbsent of a magnitude to which my other senses can explain/create a newer reality for me.
while eating raw, i noticed this aswell. it wasnt about being healthy, different, a challenge, so much as it was about experiencing life in an utterly different perspective.
and the cookie comment, pricless, i was about to get the camera out and take a picture of me riding my bike eating a cookie, but im too lazy. thanks tho./
i dont agree really with the not knowing how to cook thing. i cook alot, and good, so ive been told and i feel its warranted. but the manipulation of food for me is hobby i suppose and not a lifestyle, and perhaps that is the difference. there is also extreme pleasure in using food simply for its sutainability. i beg you, if you are in a groove of culinary excersise, go raw or non-prepared for just one month and the opposite for that matter if you are and have been raw for some time, i swear you will have a tiny apifany in terms of relocating ALL of your sense awareness's
i did the juan du fucas trail from sombrio to chin beach (about 5-6 hour hike, camp on beach over night and hike back) on vancouver island (where i was living at the time), and one of the people that came was a camp worker for youth. she loved to cook and had all the tools of the trade. ya we carried tons of weight for the food we made, a great spagetti dish with potatoes, and yes it tasted good, but it confirmed all my notions about missing the point, for me, in exploration. as dumb as it may sound, i am interesting in utilizing my visual and audio senses more while exploring. the trips in which i am concerned with my taste senses, ive found to be asbsent of a magnitude to which my other senses can explain/create a newer reality for me.
while eating raw, i noticed this aswell. it wasnt about being healthy, different, a challenge, so much as it was about experiencing life in an utterly different perspective.
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If I toured on my own, I would NOT bring any cooking equipment at all, and my cooking would be limited to heating something up in the microwave at the hostel.
Why?
I can't cook, I have no desire to cook, and I dislike everything having to do with cooking ....... and I am the first one to proudly admit all that!!
I lived on my own for 6 years, and in that time I assembled food for myself ... often raw stuff, and often microwave stuff ... and if I can do that every day for 6 years, I'm sure I could do the same thing on a tour.
Why?
I can't cook, I have no desire to cook, and I dislike everything having to do with cooking ....... and I am the first one to proudly admit all that!!
I lived on my own for 6 years, and in that time I assembled food for myself ... often raw stuff, and often microwave stuff ... and if I can do that every day for 6 years, I'm sure I could do the same thing on a tour.
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This post started out about how to eat raw or close to it and became a post about stoves! The poster is eating crap because he or she is missing key nutrients and developing cravings. A good liquid multivitamin is in order to fill in the gaps. Check out www.MetabolicWealth.com
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Originally Posted by NextLevelMentor
This post started out about how to eat raw or close to it and became a post about stoves! The poster is eating crap because he or she is missing key nutrients and developing cravings. A good liquid multivitamin is in order to fill in the gaps. Check out www.MetabolicWealth.com
i welcome all posts, whatever you feel like in terms of response to what this post has become, let yourself ring free!
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It seems rather obvious, though I haven't seen anyone mention it: Is there any problem with buying canned soups (like beef stew) or other canned goods and just eating them cold? That's my plan when I can't stop at a diner and eat.
It'd be nice to have a stove, but they're expensive, heavy, and require cooking time. It doesn't seem worth the effort for me when solo touring. If there were other people to share the load and the cooking tasks, then maybe.
It'd be nice to have a stove, but they're expensive, heavy, and require cooking time. It doesn't seem worth the effort for me when solo touring. If there were other people to share the load and the cooking tasks, then maybe.
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Great topic! Yes, my wife and I eat raw on all our tours. Actually, we eat raw all the time. We felt heathier when we gave up cooked foods, and we enjoy fresh foods more than what we ate before. So far, we have rode across the Pyrennees, Corsica, Provence, and Languedoc Rousillon on a raw diet. It is actually much easier to prepare and find food when you don't need to cook it. We just bring a large tupperware bowl to prepare our meal, and we have never had a problem finding a way to wash our produce. On our rides, we eat and burn a high fat diet that includes any of the following: avocados, nuts, tahini, olives. We'll sometimes splurge on raw goat or sheep cheese. Fresh green veggies with grated roots/ tubers like: carrots, cucumbers, celery roots, turnips, radish, etc. go great with a thick tahini and garlic onion dressing. Fresh fruits are wonderful treats. Everybody wonders how we sustain energy without a "protein" rich meat diet. In fact, we get our fuel from a plant based diet like our powerful cousins, the gorilla. I also am a Kung-Fu instuctor, that needs as much energy as I can get from my diet, and raw is the best source for me.
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I always cook on tour, if you are cooking for 1 or 2 people a meal takes no time to wack up, be it pasta, a nice curry dish. It is a pleasure to sit at the end of the day and cook a tasty meal whilst enjoying a good bottle of wine. I guess you would have to enjoy cooking to get off on it. I also enjoy grilled meats. Marinate the meat at breakfast, travell with it, pull it out at lunch. I have a alu seive. I put 3 metal skeweers through them so the seive sits 10" off the groung. I load it with sticks, light it let the wood burn off then grill the meat. Creat your own dips the whole thing takes 20 mins and cooked meats can be kept for longer time. If you do not enjoy cooking then you have to be inventive as the folks above. Where I go my trangia has to follow....
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Originally Posted by Crankypants
Great topic! Yes, my wife and I eat raw on all our tours. Actually, we eat raw all the time. We felt heathier when we gave up cooked foods, and we enjoy fresh foods more than what we ate before. So far, we have rode across the Pyrennees, Corsica, Provence, and Languedoc Rousillon on a raw diet. It is actually much easier to prepare and find food when you don't need to cook it. We just bring a large tupperware bowl to prepare our meal, and we have never had a problem finding a way to wash our produce. On our rides, we eat and burn a high fat diet that includes any of the following: avocados, nuts, tahini, olives. We'll sometimes splurge on raw goat or sheep cheese. Fresh green veggies with grated roots/ tubers like: carrots, cucumbers, celery roots, turnips, radish, etc. go great with a thick tahini and garlic onion dressing. Fresh fruits are wonderful treats. Everybody wonders how we sustain energy without a "protein" rich meat diet. In fact, we get our fuel from a plant based diet like our powerful cousins, the gorilla. I also am a Kung-Fu instuctor, that needs as much energy as I can get from my diet, and raw is the best source for me.
this thread was intented not only to feel out who is doing it, but to also promote a rawer outlook.
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I'm all for different food lifestyle choices, but anyone who goes on a raw diet should know that it has the potential to be dangerous (like everything) if you don't do it correctly. Many people assume that anything raw is better for them to eat than cooked, and this is not always the case. I know this because I was vegan for three years. Just make sure you do your homework first. And no, cooked food is not bad for you either