First and foremost planning your food intake, I'm starting to learn, is THE MOST IMPORTANT part of your program for gaining strength and also looking good, forget any programs workouts or training principles if it aint fueled correctly its junk. With that in mind this entry is about the ACTION I took to prepare my food for the comming fortnight. Those actions ofcourse were cooking!

MidMA Balls

Mid-Morning and Mid-Afternoon meals are generally hard to get right for me. I normally skip them, because lets face it around 10:45 am and 3pm who has time to do anything let alone pay attention to whats going in their gob. The best I can normally do is a protein bar, which is CRAP considering they cost 5 bucks a pop, taste like butt and aren't actually that good for you. This is where MidMA Balls come in. Their an awesome treat and heres how to make em.

Ingredients (Makes 8 Serves)

• ¾ cup protein powder
• ¾ cup quick oats
• ½ cup diced raw cashews
• 2 tblsp coconut
• 1 tblsp 100% peanut butter
• water to bind

Instructions

Throw the protein, oats, cashews and peanut butter in a mixing bowl. Mash it with your hands, thats right your hands gives you a chance to moisturise your caluses. Add small amounts of water until you get a firm but sticky bound together glob of mixture. Once mixed pull pieces off and roll it into balls. Use the coconut to seal the mixture and dry it a little. Now all needs doing is place them on a plate and put it all in the fridge.

Why?

So MidMa snacks make sense because they keep your metabolism up. and generally they are close to workout times, so whatever carbs you take in should be thrown down as fuel.

These balls (2 per sitting) are good midMA meals because:

• Their tasty
• 31% Protein (Milk, Nuts)
• 26% Carbs (Complex Carbs from Oats)
• 37% Fat (Good Fats mostly, the little coconut on them the better)
• Make you feel full.
• At 20grams per ball the meal is 180Cals and 7G of protein
• Per feeding the cost is 50 cents!!!

Lunch Time THAI

My Pad Thai special, I love this at lunch cause its good tasting, easy to prepare, keeps well and isn't full of garbage. The way I generally prepare lunch for a fortnight is on a Sunday night, I double the recipe and cook both a meat and a chicken set which means I don't have to do it again for another fortnight.

Ingredients (Makes 5 serves)

• 600g chicken breast OR 600g beef steak rump, trimmed and cut into strips
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 bag bean shoots
• 1/2 bag pad thai rice noodles
• 2 chillis sliced
• 2 lg shallots (6 small ones) sliced
• 1 Tablespoon peanut butter
• Teaspoon sesame oil
• Teaspoon olive oil
• 1/2 Teaspoon fish sauce
• 1/2 tablespoon soy sauce
• lemon or lime to taste

Kris Thai Raw: Raw Kris Thai ingredients. Clean healthy foods.

Instructions

First, heat your wok, its gotta sizzle, splash in some olive oil and place your beef or chicken strips in. Cook the strips and as your going throw in the fish sauce, soy and peanut butter. As the meat is cooking boil your rice noodles up according to the packet. Cook till brown then pour out into a container so you can start the eggs and veggies. Crack 3 eggs into the wok and scramble, once cooked pour in your veggies add some sesame oil. Once its browned mix in your rice noodles and then mix in your meat.

Lastly and the thing that makes Pad Thai is lime juice, squeeze a fair amount (half a lemon or lime) on as your dish is just about ready to be taken off the heat.

Once cooked seperate it into containers and freeze away. Voila instant reheatable lunch, Under 5 Bucks that tastes like it should be 15.

Why?

Everybody enjoys a good lunch, but how do you get something tasty, cheap and good for your health... I know alot of people think the answer is sumo salad. Sorry it aint. Make something at home, like this and its just as easy to have at lunch as normal takeout.

Why KThai, because:

• Tastes sensational
• Its easy to cook (Hint Try beef first)
• Taking an hour to prepare 10 meals is efficient, easy and gets it out of the way
• 61% Protein
• 19% Fat
• 20% Carbs
• Each serving should be about 400 Calories