SC - Feeding Fighters

[Sue Clemenger]

Here's a question for all you fighter-types, from someone who doesn't...
I'm purely wondering if the variety of environments in which people fight affect
what they crave/want to eat when they're fighting? As someone who normally wears
lots and lots of garb (one Elizabethan outfit can cruise 30 lbs on me), I know
how weather, humidity, etc. can affect how comfortable I am, and how much I want
to eat and drink.  My part of Artemisia is given only to "moderate extremes," if
you know what I mean...we don't have much in the way of humidity, some snow,
some hot days, some amount of altitude (3000 ft. or so--just under those "high
altitude directions on cake mixes).
- --Maire

Siegfried Heydrich wrote:

>     As a fighter, part time carpenter (in florida), and someone who takes
> his health seriously, I tried lots of different hot weather foods. What I've
> found that's just flat out organic rocket fuel are olives - ripe are good,
> brine cured are better, and oil cured are nothing short of awesome!
> Manzanilla olives are ok, but don't give you a shot of energy like the
> blacks. They're good thirst quenchers, though.
>     The oils metabolize very quickly, burn very hot,, and don't spike your
> insulin levels, so there's no crash. They contain high levels of the salts
> your body craves, and it's really easy to carry a small baggie full of them
> in your belt pouch. I've been able to fight all day on olives and gatorade
> and not get exhausted, while the guys doing the sodas and sandwiches were
> flaking out like new recruits at Paris Island.
>     If you want to vary it a bit, a nice antipasto (olives, peppers, salami,
> mozzarella, giardinera) is about the best all around hot weather nosh I've
> ever come across. And the second best is Gazpacho. Try it sometime when
> you're hot & tired.
>
>     Sieggy
>
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