Four O'clock Pre-Game Dinner
Before a 7 p.m. basketball game
- Any of the carbo-loading dinners or brunch suggestions
- Cheese ravioli, tomato sauce, peas, fruit salad, sugar cookie
- Grilled chicken (small portion) with baked potato/low fat sour cream, steamed carrots, bread, blueberry cobbler, low fat milk (or milk alternatives: lactose-free milk, soy milk)
- Turkey sub with lettuce, tomato, low fat mayonnaise, baked potato chips, vanilla yogurt and oatmeal-raisin cookie
- Wonton soup, stir-fried chicken with veggies, steamed rice, lo mein noodles, pineapple chunks, fortune cookie
Grab 'n' Go Snack
100 to 300 non-perishable calories within the hour pre-exercise, stored in your desk or gym bag
- Nature Valley Granola Bar
- Quaker Chewy Bar
- Nutri-Grain Cereal Bar
- Fig Newtons
- Teddy Grahams
- Graham crackers
- Nilla Wafers
- Animal crackers
- Hard or soft pretzels
- Cinnamon raisin bagel
- Snack-box raisins
- Trail mix
Energy Bar Options to Fit Assorted Dietary Preferences
Good tasting, all-natural ingredients:
- Zing Bar
- Clif Nectar Bar
- Lara Bar
- Perfect 10 Bar
- Odwalla Ba
- KIND Bar
- NRG-Bar
- PowerBar Harvest
Gluten-free bars:
- Bora Bora Bars
- Lara Bars
- PURE Bar,
- First Endurance Bar
- Hammer Bar
- Wings of Nature Bar
- Zing Bar
Nut-free:
- Metaballs
- AllerEnergy Bar (www.peanutfreeplanet.com)
Raw:
- Raw Revolution Bar
- PURE bar
Vegan:
- Pure Fit
- Lara Bar
- Hammer Bar
- Vega Whole Food Raw Energy Bar
- Clif Builder's Bar
- Perfect 10
- ReNew Life Organic Energy Bar
Yummy organic options by entrepreneurs who will appreciate your support:
- NRG-Bar (www.NRG-Bar.com; developed by an Ironman triathlete),
- Olympic bar (www.OlympicGranola.com; developed by a dad with eight kids),
- ZingBar (www.zingbar.com; developed by two dietitians who believe food should taste great)