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Quite often we buy additional food on an almost daily basis. Our quest to cook something ends up in the supermarket aisle with the “must have just in case” acquisitions filling up our pantries, be it frozen vegies or tins of food. We venture home like little squirrels, adding more stuff into food storage.

Why not do something crazy and trawl through your fridge/freezer or pantry, you will be surprised what can be accomplished witha little imagination, tins of tuna, packets of pasta, frozen vegies are at the ready for some make shift food.
Best of all it enables you to use the food that is being stock plied by inactivity, otherwise all this great food goes to waste and ends up in rubbish bin.

A great way to bulk buy foods in season and to store them for future use is preserving.
Our grandparents performed this lost art form, often growing their own fruit & vegetables & creating jams, chutneys, sauces and preserved fruits from the abundance of excess fruits & vegetables.

Often families would get together for the annual tomato sauce day where a dozen crates of fresh tomatoes are pulverised to create a 12 months supply of tomato sauce.
Not only is it fun but a great way of bringing the family together with a good old fashioned lunch to help get through the day of saucing.
Similarly I remember my grandmother making fantastic chutneys and preserved apricots and plums from the lovely old trees in her garden.

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With more and more people buying bottled water, the environmental impact is massive and spending the dollars on water when our tap water in Australian cities is more than acceptable. Even if the taste of tap water may not be to your liking there are numerous inline water filters or the jug varieties that can remove any unpleasant tastes.

It’s great cooking those exotic Mediterranean or Asian dishes but unfortunately they equate to spending more $$$ on fancy ingredients that we may never use again.
Look at Shrimp Paste, you cannot buy a small amount, it takes a room in the pantry and the chances of ever using again are extremely low.
On the rare occasion we do chances are they are out of date anyway so keep it simple and don’t go crazy.
Remember this will conserve your panrty space so you can store your bulk bought legumes etc.

At recent advertisement with Nathen Deakes was endorsing how a childhood post competition meal has continued into his professional career.
From the AIS website, they recommend the immediate intake of carbohydrate (CHO) of 1g/kg Body Mass each two hours.

While there is no definitive numbers on post exercise CHO consumption, various studies also site consuming 100-200 grams to replenish glycogen storage levels.

Post exercise nutrition is especially the most important to:
-refuelling the muscles and liver of their expended energy;
-replacing the fluid and electrolytes lost in sweat;
-allowing the immune system to handle the damage and destruction caused by the exercise bout; and
-manufacturing new proteins, red blood cells and other cellular components.
So at a guessimate nathen may weigh between 60-70kgs so with a Big Mac containing 45grams of CHO, will 2- 5 Big Macs be on the menu? Add in 20 grams of Saturated fat, is this elite athlete nutrition?