I always associate long car trips with junk food. In fact I find it really hard to be in a car for longer than an hour without snacking, or craving some kind of junk food. I think one of the reasons is that it was one of the few times we got proper junk food when I was a child. My mom never kept chocolate bars, chips or fizzy drinks in the house unless it was a special occasion like a birthday party. We still got dessert after supper, but it was more likely to be ice cream or a homemade apple pie or rhubarb crumble. Commercial junk food we only got on long car journeys, probably to keep us quiet!
I thought I did OK on Saturday to stick to my seeds and fruit for a morning snack on the way down, and to only have a crème egg once I realized lunch would be awhile. Unfortunately, as we were driving back in the afternoon yesterday I was feeling very tired and coming down with a cold. Instinct kicked in and before I knew it I had eaten an entire bag of toffee popcorn and had a crème egg (600 calories all told) in less than an hour. This despite having a big breakfast and lunch, and having several healthier snacks in the car already.
No doubt this is what put the calorie count up so high, though I was already having a rather high fat day. I started with a traditional full English breakfast, where the eggs and mushrooms are fried in some kind of grease and the bacon is fatty. I followed this up with a traditional pub Sunday roast, which included a large portion of roasted potatoes which were so crispy on the outside they had to have been coated in oil. Not to mention the crème brulee I had for dessert!
Unfotunately this is a very typical diet for me when I am travelling. A small blessing that we don’t go on as many holidays as I would like!
The Score:
| Calories: | Protein: | Carbs: | Fat: | Alcohol: | Fibre: |
| 2566.90 | 112.03g | 310.80g | 95.82g | 0 | 27.53g |
| 17.5% | 48.5% | 34% | | ||
| Calories burned through exercise: | 250 | | |||
What I ate:
| Time | Item | Amount |
| 09:00 | Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate | 1 each |
| Cold water | 75mL | |
| Fried eggs | 2 eggs | |
| Baked beans | about 200g | |
| Mushrooms | 4 large | |
| in butter | about 5g | |
| Gilled tomato | 2 halves | |
| Back bacon | 3 medallions | |
| Orange juice | 150mL | |
| Black Tea with milk and sugar | 2 cups | |
| 10:30 | Gentle swim - 30 min | |
| 12:15 | Turkey breast | 2 slices |
| Crispy roasted potatoes | about 1.5 cups | |
| Carrots | about 1/2 cup | |
| Cabbage | about 1/2 cup | |
| with butter | about 5g | |
| Cranberry sauce | 1 tbsp | |
| Apple sauce | 1 tbsp | |
| Crème brulée | 1/2 cup | |
| Black Tea with milk and sugar | 1 cup | |
| 16:00 | Butterkist toffee popcorn | 100g |
| Cadbury Creme Egg | 1 egg | |
| Glaceau vitamin water, defence | 500mL | |
| 17:45 | Camomile tea | 300mL |
| 19:15 | Lemon and ginger tea with honey | 250mL |
| 20:15 | Homemade chilli | 290g |
Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.
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