Q: When I make rice for Allen Lim’s Rice Cake recipe, I end up with more rice cakes than I can handle. Can I freeze extra rice cakes for use another day?
Don’t Freeze Those Rice Cakes!
Tag: The Feed Zone Cookbook
Hunger and Weight Loss for Athletes
Sports physiologist Dr. Allen Lim unpacks hunger, your gut barometer, and shares a surprisingly simple tip to lose weight easily over time.
15 Favorite Autumn Recipes for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner from The Feed Zone Cookbook
Here are some favorite Feed Zone recipes that draw from traditional fall flavors. 7 of these recipes are available as samples from the book that you can download and try at home.
10 Minutes to a Real Recovery Meal: Chicken Fried Rice
Why is Chicken Fried Rice an ideal meal for after your next workout? It’s a quick and easy recipe to make. It’s savory and salty, which means it will taste heavenly after a hard workout. And it’s got an ideal mix of fast uptake carbs, proteins, and fats to refuel your body quickly for tomorrow.
Try 154 Vegetarian and Gluten-Free Recipes for Athletes!
Together, The Feed Zone Cookbook and Feed Zone Portables offer cyclists, runners, and triathletes over 150 vegetarian and 150 gluten-free recipes.
A Feed Zone Approach to High-Carb, Low-Carb, Paleo, and Everything In Between
A Feed Zone reader Tony H. asked, “For the past few months, I’ve adopted a more low-carb approach. I don’t mean a ketogenic diet, but I am limiting my carbs…Are there recipes in your cookbooks that are targeted toward low-carb athletes?”
The Feed Zone Cookbook E-book Is Now Available in More Countries
VeloPress has improved distribution of the e-book edition of The Feed Zone Cookbook to more countries. See the list.
Cyclocross Fuel: The Post-Race Recovery Meal
But what to do after you cross the finish line? Clean up and fuel up are tops on the list, not necessarily in that order. Indeed, even though most amateur cyclocross races last only 45 minutes, your body still needs food for recovery, and it needs it quickly.
Fueling for Cyclocross: The Pre-Race Feed Zone Breakfast
It’s 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning. Three hours from now you’ll be lining up at the start of a cyclocross race, readying for 45 minutes of full-throttle action. What does your body need for this mammoth, heart-pounding effort?
How to Substitute for Eggs in the Feed Zone
The Feed Zone Cookbook uses eggs quite a bit, so this poses a problem for our now eggless friends. Fortunately, chef Biju knows how to substitute for pretty much anything.
Thanksgiving Tune-Up: Get Ready for Turkey Day with a Roasted Chicken Test Run
Let’s face it: cooking for Thanksgiving can be a little stressful, especially when the in-laws are coming over. This weekend, tune-up your Thanksgiving dinner procedure with a dress rehearsal from The Feed Zone Cookbook!
Why Athletes Need a Juicer
Using a juicer improves the nutrient density of athletes’ diets by significantly increasing the quantity of fruits and vegetables they can handle without the worry of an unbearable amount of fiber load in their GI tract. Try this Beet Juice recipe!
The Reinvention of Tim Johnson
At Interbike last week, one of the VeloPress staff paid a visit to the Skratch Labs booth where Feed Zone Cookbook author Allen Lim was chatting with a bike shop retailer. He stood behind Allen, waiting to say hi, while the retailer thanked Allen for the book saying, “Your book changed my life! People ask me what I’ve done differently this year to make such a big difference in my racing, and I tell them I bought a cookbook!”
Rice Cake Wrapping Race: Allen Lim vs. Carlos at Dish Gourmet
Who’s the fastest rice cake wrapper in Boulder? Watch this showdown between author Allen Lim and Dish Gourmet’s Carlos.
How to Make and Wrap a TON of Rice Cakes
In this video from Skratch Labs, Feed Zone Cookbook co-author and cycling coach Allen Lim demonstrates how to prepare a lot of paper foil at once to speed up wrapping all those portable snacks.
The Definitive Guide to Wrapping Rice Cakes
Allen Lim presents a video guide to wrapping rice cakes.
How to Eat Healthy While Traveling: Make a Feed Zone Travel Kitchen
Pro cyclist Julian Kyer shares how he eats healthy while traveling using a mini “travel kitchen” he developed with Dr. Allen Lim.
Nut Allergies in the Feed Zone
“I’ve been playing around with some of the recipes especially for the portables, but I’m not sure what to substitute for nuts since I have a nut allergy. Instead of just skipping nuts from recipes, which really changes the amount of protein, I’d be interested to know what Biju recommends as substitutions.”