Snacks Before System!!

The Butcher · July 20, 2016, 03:45:01 PM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;909033Question is, how do we handle the junk food hangover? After 33 years I still don't have a solution.

Rehydration, long-chain unsaturated fats (olive oil, avocado), a nice, fresh salad, and ending the day with a bit of exercise have been working for me.

Ronin · July 20, 2016, 08:21:08 PM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;909033Question is, how do we handle the junk food hangover? After 33 years I still don't have a solution.

Are you not a personal trainer or some such thing? Shouldn't you know a way?

Seriously this,

Quote from: Spinachcat;909058Better quality food.

Not unlike liqiour, better whisky, equals a better next day. And this,

Quote from: The Butcher;909131Rehydration, long-chain unsaturated fats (olive oil, avocado), a nice, fresh salad, and ending the day with a bit of exercise have been working for me.

Kyle Aaron · July 20, 2016, 09:10:00 PM

Quote from: Ronin;909184Are you not a personal trainer or some such thing? Shouldn't you know a way?

Yes: don't eat crap in the first place.

But this is not compatible with gaming. One of the reasons I only game once a week!

AsenRG · July 21, 2016, 04:15:26 PM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;909200Yes: don't eat crap in the first place.

But this is not compatible with gaming. One of the reasons I only game once a week!

I find meatballs with chilly sauce, followed by pancakes, go extremely well with gaming.

Spinachcat · July 22, 2016, 02:54:57 AM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;909200But this is not compatible with gaming. One of the reasons I only game once a week!

Does your crew really eat crap? Or does crap have a different definition for a personal trainer? Also, I wonder if Aussie "junk food" is a different breed of chow compared to USA "junk food"?

Even just talking chips (crisps), there is the bag o' potato powder dropped in cheap oil versus spending a couple extra bucks (or not) and buying real potatoes done in quality oil.

I'm a spoiled brat because we have Trader Joes in Los Angeles (I believe they're Aldi's in Europe) and I can get great quality "junk food" by spending the same I'd spend for megacorp shit in a bag.

Kyle Aaron · July 22, 2016, 08:58:39 AM

No, I mean by "junk food" what anyone would: generally, food where the packet is more colourful than the contents.

Your ordinary old crisps and chocky bikkies and all that.

Bedrockbrendan · July 22, 2016, 01:22:04 PM

These days, for me, snacks are the least important thing. They used to be huge. I'd regularly go to a local Italian bakery or donut shot before each game, sometimes I'd make huge pots of pasta. But now, it is bring your own snacks (and usually just 1 or 2 players will bring a small packet of something to keep their energy up during the game). I find this works about ten times better. I never realized how much time we wasted on food (also how much needless mess and grease it produced). For me, this approach works better. We don't set up snacks before hand and we don't order food during the game (which really slowed things down for us).

crkrueger · July 22, 2016, 01:39:51 PM

...and thus the Brendan Heresy begat the Cheetoist Schism.

tenbones · July 22, 2016, 03:42:25 PM

Quote from: Krimson;909094Last time we were shopping for gaming food I realized for $10 I could buy a roast chicken or ham. I think we got both. Why would someone even consider junk food when meat is available and easy to obtain?

This is definitely me. I eat ketogenically - which generally repulses most of my cohorts. But if you put a bunch of good meat and green-leafies on the table next a cheesecake or cookies, I'll do the meat and greens every time out of habit.

Bedrockbrendan · July 22, 2016, 04:04:22 PM

Quote from: Spinachcat;909452I'm a spoiled brat because we have Trader Joes in Los Angeles (I believe they're Aldi's in Europe) and I can get great quality "junk food" by spending the same I'd spend for megacorp shit in a bag.

LA is very different from the rest of the country I think in terms of food and fitness. Where I live, it was generally stuff like like donuts, doritos, potato chips for snacks at games; pizza, roast beef and subs (or maybe Chinese food) for meals if people wanted lunch.

Ravenswing · July 22, 2016, 06:11:47 PM

Quote from: Krimson;909094Last time we were shopping for gaming food I realized for $10 I could buy a roast chicken or ham. I think we got both. Why would someone even consider junk food when meat is available and easy to obtain?

We started cooking for two reasons: (a) we were poor, and realized that feeding everyone a good meal cost my wife and I half of what just we two spent on the biweekly sub run, and (b) well ...

One of my players is a lifelong diabetic (as in dialysis when he was a teenager). About ten years ago, he was outright dying, he'd moved back home, he couldn't work any more, and my game was the very last non-medical reason he left the house. He'd get a sub or some such, and promptly throw up. Him also being my oldest friend, the next time his parents called to tell me he couldn't make a session because he was in the hospital, I asked them what I could feed him that he'd keep down. That's what started us cooking good meals.

(No, not to worry, he had a double transplant, and made a brilliant turnaround -- much more energetic, no longer dying, able to work again, it's all good. Thank God.)

And I hear what Brendan says, but look. I game with old friends. The only player I've known less than 25 years I've known for nineteen, and I'm married to her. A 45 minute meal break is not wasted air: we talk, discuss our weeks, mention the funny thing we saw, commiserate over the storm that knocked the neighbor's tree over Andrew's shed, hear Dave break us up in laughter over his latest outrageous quip. It's all good, and we all enjoy our friends.

Then it's back to deal with screaming indigs in the frontier jungle. Work, work, work, I'm swamped!

crkrueger · July 22, 2016, 07:01:35 PM

Quote from: tenbones;909515I eat ketogenically

Atkins like for weight or full blown epileptic therapy if you don't mind the question?

Bedrockbrendan · July 22, 2016, 07:02:06 PM

Quote from: Ravenswing;909530

And I hear what Brendan says, but look. I game with old friends. The only player I've known less than 25 years I've known for nineteen, and I'm married to her. A 45 minute meal break is not wasted air: we talk, discuss our weeks, mention the funny thing we saw, commiserate over the storm that knocked the neighbor's tree over Andrew's shed, hear Dave break us up in laughter over his latest outrageous quip. It's all good, and we all enjoy our friends.

I am not recommending people do things my way. Just stating how we do things and why doing it this way works for us. I don't imagine it would work well for all groups. I still do game among friends, but to us food is just not as important as other things now (like gaming and conversation, etc). Also it is way easier for me on the clean up side. There are other reasons as well. To be clear though, I wasn't launching an anti-snack manifesto.

AsenRG · July 24, 2016, 04:31:06 AM

Quote from: CRKrueger;909537Atkins like for weight or full blown epileptic therapy if you don't mind the question?

Huh, I didn't even know ketogenic diet might be used for controlling epileptic seizures until I googled it because of your post. Thanks for that, I learned something new today:).

And I think for the next session I'm going to do a roasted chicken, because this thread is its own kind of inspiring;).

kosmos1214 · July 26, 2016, 06:01:09 PM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;909033Question is, how do we handle the junk food hangover? After 33 years I still don't have a solution.

Interesting i never knew such a thing existed.