The Athlete Gourmet Every Day
Thus far, I’ve been focusing on the best recovery foods or pre-event foods, but if you are an athlete, your diet matters pretty much every day. While you might not be needing as many carbs on the average day as you would before a triathlon, you still need a healthy meal packed with vitamins and minerals to keep your body healthy.
Chances are you work out anywhere from three to six days a week and your meals on these week days are just as important as your special event meals. With summer settling in nicely, I’ve been enjoying making huge summer veggie salads that are just as good after a morning workout as they are leading into an evening workout (as long as you leave yourself enough time to digest before heading out to the gym).
The salads I have been making take full advantage of the wide array of vegetables I’ve been getting in our CSA box or picking up at the farmers’ market, and you can vary what goes in them depending on what you have available.
I usually oven roast a couple of the veggies and toss them warm into the salad, but if you’re short on time, you can roast the vegetables in the evening while you’re preparing dinner, toss them with a bit of olive oil and wrap them up or put them in a airtight container in the fridge so that they’re ready the next couple of days around lunchtime.
