Before my races I breakfast on black coffee and granola/ flapjack, but of late getting hold of the trays of the stuff has been increasingly difficult.
I live in a village which has its own supermarket - the one with the blue and white stripes, which is worse than useless for many reasons… The main one is it abuses the monopoly it has by removing the cheaper own brand goods after it establishes a market for them and replaces them with their premium own-brand and major brands, therefore upping the spend of people who want to buy a particular item and further line their share-holders pockets, and an item that has been for sale for years often disappears over night to make room on the shelves for the replacements above, never to be seen again.
One of the casualties of this practice has been the disappearance of the tray-bake flapjack and granola - not that it amounts to a hill of beans to anyone other than me!
Due to its disappearance, LSS has come up with the plan of making our own granola, so as of now we are in the very tasty experimental stage of getting my pre-race brekkie sorted.
I am now to be fuelled before a race by a baked mixture of:
Pumpkin seeds
Sesame seeds
Sunflower seeds
Chia seeds
Honey
Cranberries
Its just a question of getting the quantities right and the baking time sorted so it neither falls to pieces in your hands or shatters your teeth when you try to take a bite… But its damned fine eating the results every time :)
The other thing is any other ingredient can be added or taken away should we want to in the quest to achieve the perfect pre-race breakfast for my marathon madness.
Loving it so far!
Eat pies.
Drink beer.
Run far.
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