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I like to have a nice long lunch and think its important to have a reasonable amount of food while skiing for energy, concentration, etc. However, I was speaking to someone at work the other day (who is going to St Anton on Saturday for a week) - she and her husband can ski all day on just a mars bar each!! Personally, I would need to be carried off the mountain - not enough for me!!.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Tins of ambrosia rice pudding with nutmeg and sultanas....yummy...but don't let them freeze!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I agree, large lunch in mountain restaurant. All part of the skiing experience as well for me.
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weissbier.. its a meal in a glass 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Lunch at 12, Pasta or the likes. then get back out on nice quiet pistes, while everyone else is having lunch.
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I do like to stop for a bite to eat, but always regret that steaming bowl of pasta as it plays havoc with my indigestion all afternoon !
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Start the day with Brunch no need to stop for lunch 
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I need my slow release carbohydrate.
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eatings cheating 
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Like Spyderman, I prefer either an early or a late stop. (or sometimes a stop at 11.30 for a quick bite, and then a second stop at 2.30)
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Stop when your body tells you to stop. I can't work out people who ski on a double expresso and a beer either.
If there isn't a restuarant you better have eats/drinks in the bag, mini-mars bars are a godsend
Last edited by snowHeads are a friendly bunch. on Thu 8-02-07 11:28; edited 1 time in total
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Three square meals for me. It's one of the points of hours of outdoor exercise. 
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I like to eat on the chairlift/in the gondola, that way I don't waste any time and I am forced to eat small amounts at a time, meaning my body isn't busy digesting large amounts of food when it should be concentrating on working my muscles. Ofcourse, if it starts to rain a mountain restaurant is invaluable!
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You know it makes sense.
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I tried eating while skiing but lost most of my super sized big mac in the moguls.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I used to ski from lift opening to being thrown of the piste - as I've got older and now have a family, I do tend to have lunch, coffee and finish earlier to go sledging with the kids!
Still have a long day to myself once in holiday
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I like to have a decent sized lunch, but cake O'clock is the highlight of the day for me!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Big breakfast, Nutrigrain cake bars for lifts (don't freeze, crumble when squished and have carbs as well as sugar), beer when the lifts shut (and repeat...), the a nice big chalet spread before retiring or more beer.
I've never come home lighter from a ski holiday yet!
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Definitely a good lunch at a mountain restaurant for me. There's nothing like sitting outside overlooking the slopes whilst tucking into a good goulash
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Our wonderful chalet host would prepare a breakfast of porridge (slow-release carbs), bacon & eggs, croissants, baguette for us to fill up on before we left for the day. Then we tended to stop at 11 for hot choc, and then either at 12ish or 2ish for tartiflette/omelette or similar (which 2 of us shared, because a) it kept the cost down and b) the portions were huge), then back for cake (as Kramer says!).
I can highly recommend the early/late lunch option as a way of getting emptier pistes to yourselves from 1-2.
The only thing I carried with me was a bottle of water. And as kermit says, stopping for lunch is all part of the skiing holiday experience. We were such a varied bunch in terms of ability that the only chance we got to see each other during the day was at a lunch spot.
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As anyone who's skiied with me will attest, eating isn't one of my strong points. Last week I think I ate on alternate days. 
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FenlandSkier, I seem to be doing that at home right now. loosing loads of weight, but may need to ramp up for skiing.
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Doesn't anyone else out there make sandwiches? Half a baguette stuffed with ham and cheese (the smellier the better!), and find a nice sunny spot to eat it. Also lengths of baguette fit nicely in a rucksack, and are actually improved by being a bit squashed.
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When we have the kids along, a plate of chips at mid-day is essential to prevent mid-afternoon tantrums. Unfortunately I can't be in such close proximity to food without at least a Gulasch Soupe or I'll have a mid-lunchtime tantrum.
Otherwise, I tend to just go with the flow - a ski-lunch is also a rather pleasant social event, often pulling together disparate elements of the group to catch up on the morning's news.
If I'm skiing alone or with one of my 'harder-core' ski-buddies, lunch is all too often made up of whatever we can swipe from the breakfast table - it's all the better when u get a chalet host who's sympathetic to the cause: sausage and egg sandwichs for lunch then
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Must have Lunch, need it to soak up all that liquid, come beer o'clock.
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When you're paying American lift ticket prices, a hearty breakfast and then sandwiches and energy bars on the lift is standard operating procedure. Either that or scarfing down a soup and sandwich at the cafeteria in 15 minutes.
Let's say I've spent $70 on a lift ticket. The most I'm going to ski is 7 hours (9-4), and that's probably pushing it, too. That's $10 per hour. If I spend an hour eating, my meal hasn't cost me $10-$15, it's actually cost me $20-$25.
Euro lift prices make a nice lunch and weissbier a lot more appealing, though.
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I'm with new ski addict, make some sandwiches out of stuff from the supermarket (or even better pilfered from the breakfast buffet if in a hotel) and then sit in a nice sunny spot and eat it. We avoid mountain restaurant lunches unless the weather is bad due to a) the cost and b) why eat when you can ski? Like to save the serious eating / drinking for later in the day!
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| Spyderman wrote: |
| Must have Lunch, need it to soak up all that liquid, come beer o'clock. |
Why not use it to soak up the beer you have with your lunch?
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You know it makes sense.
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when I started skiing I was skint - mars bars, bottle of water and whatever I could scrounge from breakfast
now - proper sit down lunch with beer or wine an espresso and perhaps a little grapa is deinitely part of the experience
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I always take a packed baguette or two for the bubbles or slow lifts, but if I see a good restau or am knackered/it's closed in/there's a particularly nice view I am a sucker for pushing the boat out and having a splurge - I just find it hard to move afterwards and there is an increased risk of snowballing.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Wear The Fox Hat,
Don't drink Alcohol and ski. Save the beers for later.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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If you ride all day, that takes thousands of calories. The body needs fuel.
A good 30-min lunch at a mountain restaurant is always enjoyable. Especially when getting zapped.
I steer clear of packed lunches. They are a bit pikey and rarely taste good.
But the odd Snickers hidden in a sidepocket, for a cheeky snack, is a bonus.
Beer dehydrates and makes skiing unpleasant.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I steer clear of packed lunches. They are a bit pikey and rarely taste good.
But the odd Snickers hidden in a sidepocket, for a cheeky snack, is a bonus.
Beer dehydrates and makes skiing unpleasant.
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Snickers yes - always pack a power-turd
You clearly need to address your culinary skills though if you can't make a decent sarnie!
And I agree, beer for the uninitiated is a no-no, only true men should attempt it 
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In Chamonix last week we were truly astonished to see a group of English blokes on the table next to us at breakfast frantically making sandwiches to take out with them for the day. The bread and contents originated from the buffet provided by our hotel.
They had a production line going that Honda would have been proud of.
By all means eat as much as you like from the buffet, but don't go and nick as much as you can carry for lunch.
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I need a decent meal at lunchtime like a plate of chips and possibly desert. I need a big breakfast and a big evening meal, but in France it's hard cos I'm vegetarian and end up libing off chips, cheese tomato and salad. If I don't get enough food I get a heache, then all sicky and faint.
Last time I was skiing (PSB, L2A) a mars bar saved me from fainting from lack of carbohydrate/sugar. Mars bar courtesy of lampbus.
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| bladeskier wrote: |
In Chamonix last week we were truly astonished to see a group of English blokes on the table next to us at breakfast frantically making sandwiches to take out with them for the day. The bread and contents originated from the buffet provided by our hotel.
They had a production line going that Honda would have been proud of.
By all means eat as much as you like from the buffet, but don't go and nick as much as you can carry for lunch. |
I always ask the hotel personel first, but they've never had a problem with me making a sandwich or two and filling up my thermos with coffee. That's at small places, though. At a large hotel I'd probably just go for it.
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As I get older, my digestion disagrees with me more and more in the mornings so I don't like to eat anything before about 11am. I concur with JT that mini Mars bars are a godsend. I must admit, though I do like to have a lunch break (doesn't have to be large - plate of chips will do even), just enough to get through to beer/cake o'clock (delete as applicable)
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