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Best post workout snack/drink?

nis75p06
nis75p06 Posts: 114
edited January 1 in Fitness and Exercise
I will be picking up my niece from her cross country team practices and ferrying her to riding lessons twice a week. She won't get a chance for dinner until after her riding lessons, say about 8. And her lunch at school is about noon. So she is usually starving after cross country practice already. I need to feed her something in the car (10 minutes ride) that will be good for her - and since I will be coming from my office, what I need is something I can pick up at a convenience store so I can grab her a couple of bottles of cold water too to have while she rides - these are not sitting on the pony walking around the ring riding - she's a highly competitive jumper and dressage rider, so she works hard during her riding lessons.

She's super skinny, super petite, and reasonably atheletic (upper 1/4 of her team in terms of speed over 2 miles), so not interested in necessarily limiting calories.

I didn't think of this ahead of time today and the only thing I had in my car was a couple packs of "probably stale" peanut butter crackers. Which the poor child inhaled anyway.

Is that Muscle Milk stuff really good? Or those Odwala Protein smoothies? Or what else would be good to help her both recover from practice and tide her over until dinner??

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  • myfitnessval
    myfitnessval Posts: 687 Member
    i love muscle milk! some people dont like it because they are expecting actual milk but for me it gets the job done with as little cals as possible and just tastes like healthy chocolate milk lol
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    My sons football coach used to tell them to drink just regular chocolate milk, it's about the same as muscle milk. I've made some homemade protein bars from some of the recipes I got off here and tweaked a bit, that are really good too. Easy to make and no baking involved.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    gatorade.

    or chocolate milk.
  • Mamapengu
    Mamapengu Posts: 250
    chocolate milk, and/or a PB&J is an easy place to start. protein, carbs, and fat in a good mix.
    I've got runners in my family too, just picked one up from cross country and dropped him off at the next activity.
  • n0ob
    n0ob Posts: 2,390 Member
    I just eat a meal. Usually canned fish and a can of veggies.
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    I started drinking chocolate milk after my workouts, especially when I know it's going to be awhile before I get an actual meal. The trainer for our local hockey team always requested chocolate milk for the players (I was on the booster club board for a season - we were always making sure the guys had their chocolate milk!), and I figured if it was good for them for a boost between periods of play, it might be good for me too! Plus I read that a lot of people here drink it as well.

    The pb&j sandwich is a good idea too!
  • Mighty_Rabite
    Mighty_Rabite Posts: 581 Member
    Some days this week I have done the following:

    24oz blender bottle
    8oz skim milk
    2 servings of your preferred protein powder
    1 serving of Fage Greek yogurt (2% or 0%, your choice, and I use plain)
    2 packets of Truvia/Stevia

    Mix that all together.. it's like a creamy shake.. I use Body Fortress so depending on the Greek yogurt I use, my shake will contain 450-500 calories and 78-80g protein.
  • DawnEH612
    DawnEH612 Posts: 574 Member
    Given she has just worked out really hard she will likely need an easy to digest protein source such as a small muscle milk or regular/chocolate milk. But I also suggest she actually EAT something with some fat to help sustain her through her riding. I would try something like nuts or nut butter and fruits, like a banana or apple and maybe a multigrain bagel or slice of whole wheat bread. Justin's makes great honey peanut butter, almond butter, cashew burr, chocolate hazelnut butter and in single serve sizes The convenience stores around me have hard boiled eggs, sandwiches, cottage cheese, Greek yogurts... Maybe yours do, too?

    Perhaps I can make another suggestion, that she eat something during or before her last class at school before she heads to her cross country. She can keep something in her locker like Luna or Luna protein bars, Kind bars, Larabars, kashi bars, etc. she can eat them as she is heading to class or perhaps ask permission from the teacher to eat one midway during class so she has additional fuel to get her through cross country. If she's famished by the time you see her, her body has used most of her glycogen stores... You don't want her getting to that point...
  • sjohnny
    sjohnny Posts: 56,142 Member
    Given she has just worked out really hard she will likely need an easy to digest protein source such as a small muscle milk or regular/chocolate milk. But I also suggest she actually EAT something with some fat to help sustain her through her riding. I would try something like nuts or nut butter and fruits, like a banana or apple and maybe a multigrain bagel or slice of whole wheat bread. Justin's makes great honey peanut butter, almond butter, cashew burr, chocolate hazelnut butter and in single serve sizes The convenience stores around me have hard boiled eggs, sandwiches, cottage cheese, Greek yogurts... Maybe yours do, too?

    Perhaps I can make another suggestion, that she eat something during or before her last class at school before she heads to her cross country. She can keep something in her locker like Luna or Luna protein bars, Kind bars, Larabars, kashi bars, etc. she can eat them as she is heading to class or perhaps ask permission from the teacher to eat one midway during class so she has additional fuel to get her through cross country. If she's famished by the time you see her, her body has used most of her glycogen stores... You don't want her getting to that point...

    This sounds about right to me. If she's going from about noon to about 8:00 without eating and doing two tough workouts during that time period then I would think she needs to actually needs to eat something during that time. A peanut butter sandwich and some chocolate milk would be a good start.
  • waldo56
    waldo56 Posts: 1,861 Member
    Chocolate milk
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    Given she has just worked out really hard she will likely need an easy to digest protein source such as a small muscle milk or regular/chocolate milk. But I also suggest she actually EAT something with some fat to help sustain her through her riding. I would try something like nuts or nut butter and fruits, like a banana or apple and maybe a multigrain bagel or slice of whole wheat bread. Justin's makes great honey peanut butter, almond butter, cashew burr, chocolate hazelnut butter and in single serve sizes The convenience stores around me have hard boiled eggs, sandwiches, cottage cheese, Greek yogurts... Maybe yours do, too?

    Perhaps I can make another suggestion, that she eat something during or before her last class at school before she heads to her cross country. She can keep something in her locker like Luna or Luna protein bars, Kind bars, Larabars, kashi bars, etc. she can eat them as she is heading to class or perhaps ask permission from the teacher to eat one midway during class so she has additional fuel to get her through cross country. If she's famished by the time you see her, her body has used most of her glycogen stores... You don't want her getting to that point...

    This sounds about right to me. If she's going from about noon to about 8:00 without eating and doing two tough workouts during that time period then I would think she needs to actually needs to eat something during that time. A peanut butter sandwich and some chocolate milk would be a good start.

    +1
  • Angiesolomon
    Angiesolomon Posts: 144 Member
    Fruit, apple or banana for sugar after a workout.
  • semperfit1823
    semperfit1823 Posts: 153
    Given she has just worked out really hard she will likely need an easy to digest protein source such as a small muscle milk or regular/chocolate milk. But I also suggest she actually EAT something with some fat to help sustain her through her riding. I would try something like nuts or nut butter and fruits, like a banana or apple and maybe a multigrain bagel or slice of whole wheat bread. Justin's makes great honey peanut butter, almond butter, cashew burr, chocolate hazelnut butter and in single serve sizes The convenience stores around me have hard boiled eggs, sandwiches, cottage cheese, Greek yogurts... Maybe yours do, too?

    Perhaps I can make another suggestion, that she eat something during or before her last class at school before she heads to her cross country. She can keep something in her locker like Luna or Luna protein bars, Kind bars, Larabars, kashi bars, etc. she can eat them as she is heading to class or perhaps ask permission from the teacher to eat one midway during class so she has additional fuel to get her through cross country. If she's famished by the time you see her, her body has used most of her glycogen stores... You don't want her getting to that point...

    yep.
  • Xaspar
    Xaspar Posts: 726 Member
    Chocolate milk and a fistful of mixed unsalted nuts!
  • nis75p06
    nis75p06 Posts: 114
    I brought the kiddo chocolate milk and a protein brownie thingy. I didn't get any complaints about taste and she looked much perkier after her riding lesson this time than last time! Thanks for the suggestions, especially the chocolate milk!
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