Home drink/gel recipes??

Hi all,

Googled this, but no cigar...

Saw a big bag of maltodextrin in the supermarket last week, and my mind
started wondering: can I save bucketloads of $$$ by making my own
sports-drink/Gu???

I don't tend to drink sports-drink - mainly because I operate on a
tight budget and can't afford it (school fees, uniforms,
blah-de-blah-de-blah). So - does anyone have a recipe (using exact
quantities) to make, say, 1 litre of sports/electrolyte mix using
water, maltodextrin, and whatever??

As for home-made gu/gel... I have been using good ole' jelly snakes,
freebie gu samples, and my fellow riders generosity (thanks Tam!). Is
it worth trying to make my own - or maybe making a strong version of
the above recipe for the 2nd drink bottle on longer rides?? Or just
stick to the snakes if I'm gonna be a skinflint cheapie *******??

Hey - this would be a PERFECT segment for "Tastes of Le Tour"!! My wife
knows when the Tour coverage has started because she can hear me
yelling "Fsck of you Gate *******!!" from the other end of the
house...!!

For the record - I also have three cartons (yes, cartons) of the
Snickers Marathon choc/peanut butter bars that I got for 30 cents EACH
(per bar) when Crazy Clarks were having a sale. Woohoo!! Just gotta do
enough rides between now and next March before they run out of date...

Thanks in advance,
Absent Husband

Absent Husband Wrote:

My wife knows when the Tour coverage has started because she can hea
me yelling "Fsck of you Gate *******!!" from the other end of the
house...!!



RAFLMAO

F"partial to snickers"Dutc

--
flyingdutch

I hear fertiliser and diesel provide an awesome energy burst. Mayb
give it a try

LotteBu

P.S. That's me in my new avatar

--
LotteBum

Sauerkraut and bacon flavoured goo! mmmmm

Tastes of Le Tour for sure

Jimbo

Hi all,

Googled this, but no cigar...

Saw a big bag of maltodextrin in the supermarket last week, and my mind
started wondering: can I save bucketloads of $$$ by making my own
sports-drink/Gu???

I don't tend to drink sports-drink - mainly because I operate on a
tight budget and can't afford it (school fees, uniforms,
blah-de-blah-de-blah). So - does anyone have a recipe (using exact
quantities) to make, say, 1 litre of sports/electrolyte mix using
water, maltodextrin, and whatever??

As for home-made gu/gel... I have been using good ole' jelly snakes,
freebie gu samples, and my fellow riders generosity (thanks Tam!). Is
it worth trying to make my own - or maybe making a strong version of
the above recipe for the 2nd drink bottle on longer rides?? Or just
stick to the snakes if I'm gonna be a skinflint cheapie *******??

Hey - this would be a PERFECT segment for "Tastes of Le Tour"!! My wife
knows when the Tour coverage has started because she can hear me
yelling "Fsck of you Gate *******!!" from the other end of the
house...!!

For the record - I also have three cartons (yes, cartons) of the
Snickers Marathon choc/peanut butter bars that I got for 30 cents EACH
(per bar) when Crazy Clarks were having a sale. Woohoo!! Just gotta do
enough rides between now and next March before they run out of date...

Thanks in advance,
Absent Husband

Absent Husband wrote:
Hi all,

Googled this, but no cigar...

Saw a big bag of maltodextrin in the supermarket last week, and my mind
started wondering: can I save bucketloads of $$$ by making my own
sports-drink/Gu???

I don't tend to drink sports-drink - mainly because I operate on a
tight budget and can't afford it (school fees, uniforms,
blah-de-blah-de-blah). So - does anyone have a recipe (using exact
quantities) to make, say, 1 litre of sports/electrolyte mix using
water, maltodextrin, and whatever??

As for home-made gu/gel... I have been using good ole' jelly snakes,
freebie gu samples, and my fellow riders generosity (thanks Tam!). Is
it worth trying to make my own - or maybe making a strong version of
the above recipe for the 2nd drink bottle on longer rides?? Or just
stick to the snakes if I'm gonna be a skinflint cheapie *******??

Hey - this would be a PERFECT segment for "Tastes of Le Tour"!! My wife
knows when the Tour coverage has started because she can hear me
yelling "Fsck of you Gate *******!!" from the other end of the
house...!!

For the record - I also have three cartons (yes, cartons) of the
Snickers Marathon choc/peanut butter bars that I got for 30 cents EACH
(per bar) when Crazy Clarks were having a sale. Woohoo!! Just gotta do
enough rides between now and next March before they run out of date...

Thanks in advance,
Absent Husband


I came across this one, never tried it so cannot offer any opinion

http://www.exile.org/gu/gu.html

Marathon bars at $0.30, what a bargain! I have relegated myself
el-cheapo museli bars, had 5 on a 3.5hour cold & windy ride yesterday,
while I was dreaming for one of those thermos bidons full of hot drink.

jh

Absent Husband Wrote:
Hi all

Googled this, but no cigar..

Saw a big bag of maltodextrin in the supermarket last week, and my min
started wondering: can I save bucketloads of $$$ by making my ow
sports-drink/Gu??

I don't tend to drink sports-drink - mainly because I operate on
tight budget and can't afford it (school fees, uniforms
blah-de-blah-de-blah). So - does anyone have a recipe (using exac
quantities) to make, say, 1 litre of sports/electrolyte mix usin
water, maltodextrin, and whatever?

As for home-made gu/gel... I have been using good ole' jelly snakes
freebie gu samples, and my fellow riders generosity (thanks Tam!). I
it worth trying to make my own - or maybe making a strong version o
the above recipe for the 2nd drink bottle on longer rides?? Or jus
stick to the snakes if I'm gonna be a skinflint cheapie *******?

Hey - this would be a PERFECT segment for "Tastes of Le Tour"!! My wif
knows when the Tour coverage has started because she can hear m
yelling "Fsck of you Gate *******!!" from the other end of th
house...!

For the record - I also have three cartons (yes, cartons) of th
Snickers Marathon choc/peanut butter bars that I got for 30 cents EAC
(per bar) when Crazy Clarks were having a sale. Woohoo!! Just gotta d
enough rides between now and next March before they run out of date..

Thanks in advance
Absent Husband
This can be found on www.coolrunning.com.au, I believe it was take
from another source, IronmanOz, it is one suggested recipe, never go
around to trying it myself, just laziness, keep picking up the 1
packs, be interested to know how you go though if you do get around t
making some.

GU+ recipe

You need
- Polyjoule or Polycose powder (aka Maltodextrin) (found at your loca
chemist, mine is ChemMart)
- Gastrolyte sachets (ChemMart again)
- Red cordial (Cottee's works for me, choose your own flavour)
- water
- mixing bowl
- fork/whisk to mix it
- squeeze tube (or similar) for the gel

Mix about 1.5 cups of polycose/polyjoule, 1 sachet of gastrolyte, an
lastly add a generous amount of red cordial (enough to turn the powde
into a gel, maybe 1/2 to 1 cup). Mix the ingredients for a minute o
so. Depending on the consistency of the gel required, add small amoun
of water (no more than 1/2 cup) to get a 'runnier' gel.

Gu+ will probably be cloudy when freshly whisked. Importantly, let th
gel settle overnight in the fridge in the bowl (with glad wrap over th
top) to allow the polycose/polyjoule to dissolve fully. It will tur
from a cloudy liquid to a more transparent red consistency.

Decant into squeezy tube before use

--
MikeyO

JH wrote:
Absent Husband wrote:

Hi all,

Googled this, but no cigar...

Saw a big bag of maltodextrin in the supermarket last week, and my mind
started wondering: can I save bucketloads of $$$ by making my own
sports-drink/Gu???

snip

Found another: http://www.alpinedave.com/make_gu.html

I like "Gin (optional..." and the idea of "Bailey's Irish cream GU, and
Grand Marnier GU" maybe for an after ride fix only.

jh

Absent Husband Wrote:
Hi all,

Googled this, but no cigar...

Saw a big bag of maltodextrin in the supermarket last week, and m
mind
started wondering: can I save bucketloads of $$$ by making my own
sports-drink/Gu???

I don't tend to drink sports-drink - mainly because I operate on a
tight budget and can't afford it (school fees, uniforms,
blah-de-blah-de-blah). So - does anyone have a recipe (using exact
quantities) to make, say, 1 litre of sports/electrolyte mix using
water, maltodextrin, and whatever??

As for home-made gu/gel... I have been using good ole' jelly snakes,
freebie gu samples, and my fellow riders generosity (thanks Tam!). Is
it worth trying to make my own - or maybe making a strong version of
the above recipe for the 2nd drink bottle on longer rides?? Or just
stick to the snakes if I'm gonna be a skinflint cheapie *******??

Hey - this would be a PERFECT segment for "Tastes of Le Tour"!! M
wife
knows when the Tour coverage has started because she can hear me
yelling "Fsck of you Gate *******!!" from the other end of the
house...!!

For the record - I also have three cartons (yes, cartons) of the
Snickers Marathon choc/peanut butter bars that I got for 30 cents EACH
(per bar) when Crazy Clarks were having a sale. Woohoo!! Just gotta do
enough rides between now and next March before they run out of date...

Thanks in advance,
Absent Husband
6-7 % carb. I'd suggest maltodextrin and some simple sugars.
One way of doing this would be to, dilute orange juice 1-1, the O
orange juice seems to be around 8% carbs, then add 30 grams md pe
liter of fluid, and you have 7 % carb fluid. You might wanna add pinc
of salt too. I find that sportsdrinks that are high in simple sugar
are too sweet to drink when you are really pushing it, maltodextri
keeps it much more drinkable.
Not sure how water with maltodextrin in it tastes? Maybe ver
drinkable. Anyway, you get something that is as good as the ready mixe
stuff you buy. Not many powders would offer more than that either
think

--
Claes

On 10 Jul 2005 21:30:03 -0700, "Absent Husband"
wrote:

Hi all,

Googled this, but no cigar...

Saw a big bag of maltodextrin in the supermarket last week, and my mind
started wondering: can I save bucketloads of $$$ by making my own
sports-drink/Gu???

I don't tend to drink sports-drink - mainly because I operate on a
tight budget and can't afford it (school fees, uniforms,
blah-de-blah-de-blah). So - does anyone have a recipe (using exact
quantities) to make, say, 1 litre of sports/electrolyte mix using
water, maltodextrin, and whatever??

As for home-made gu/gel... I have been using good ole' jelly snakes,
freebie gu samples, and my fellow riders generosity (thanks Tam!). Is
it worth trying to make my own - or maybe making a strong version of
the above recipe for the 2nd drink bottle on longer rides?? Or just
stick to the snakes if I'm gonna be a skinflint cheapie *******??

Snakes are good, and I also use c4p which is made up from
staminade power (unfortunatly not glucose anymore :-/) and
protein powder as follows :

http://www.aboc.com.au/perl/tips.pl?p=c4p


It's not a gel, but I find that it's a better idea to mix sugar
with water anyway, or you can't digest it. You could make it
really thick if you wanted to though ... I don't know if it
works out cheaper or more expensive than
buying sugars and mixing them yourself and all the
other goodies ... but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than
buying spankerade from a servo en-route!

"Absent Husband" wrote in message
oups.com...
Hi all,

Googled this, but no cigar...

Saw a big bag of maltodextrin in the supermarket last week, and my mind
started wondering: can I save bucketloads of $$$ by making my own
sports-drink/Gu???

I don't tend to drink sports-drink - mainly because I operate on a
tight budget and can't afford it (school fees, uniforms,
blah-de-blah-de-blah). So - does anyone have a recipe (using exact
quantities) to make, say, 1 litre of sports/electrolyte mix using
water, maltodextrin, and whatever??

As for home-made gu/gel... I have been using good ole' jelly snakes,
freebie gu samples, and my fellow riders generosity (thanks Tam!). Is
it worth trying to make my own - or maybe making a strong version of
the above recipe for the 2nd drink bottle on longer rides?? Or just
stick to the snakes if I'm gonna be a skinflint cheapie *******??

Hey - this would be a PERFECT segment for "Tastes of Le Tour"!! My wife
knows when the Tour coverage has started because she can hear me
yelling "Fsck of you Gate *******!!" from the other end of the
house...!!

For the record - I also have three cartons (yes, cartons) of the
Snickers Marathon choc/peanut butter bars that I got for 30 cents EACH
(per bar) when Crazy Clarks were having a sale. Woohoo!! Just gotta do
enough rides between now and next March before they run out of date...

Thanks in advance,
Absent Husband


Try these:

http://www.cptips.com/gelown.htm
http://www.dirtragmag.com/web/articl...egory=web_only


Energy Bars:

http://www.bushbeans.com/recipes/sho...slt&srch=quick
(it even has a delicious picture)
http://www.bicyclesource.com/body/nu...n/energy-bars/
http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/n.../aa062403a.htm