Sample Competition Meal & Shopping Planning
Sharing accommodation with other athletes
Throughout your career, you will often find yourself sharing accommodation with other athletes. While in the past, you might have had assistance with cooking and shopping while in these environments, it’s inevitable you will more often be required to mange this aspect yourself. Here are some tips to do this;
- It is a good idea to meet with your room mates to discuss how you would like to approach food and shopping. Each of you can take a moment to discuss the types of foods you like to have during a competition week
SAMPLE COMPETITION MEAL & SHOPPING PLANNING
Breakfast Foods
Lunch Foods
Main Meals
Snacks & Game Snacks
Drinks
Other Items
- Build up a bank of meals and snacks which you feel confident in preparing and ideally require minimal ingredients, equipment and preparation. Here’s some easy, tasty meal ideas suitable for competition weeks.
Easy One Pan Stir-fry
Start with an onion, add your meat of choice and brown it, frozen veg, stir through sauce. Serve with pre-cooked rice or hokkein noddles (just run through hot water and drain and throw them in!!
Easy One Pan Thai Curry
Start with an onion, add your meat and brown it, add a heaped tablespoon of curry paste (depending how hot you like it – more if you like it hot), add a tin of carnation light coconut cream/milk, add your thai stir-fry veg. Serve with rice noodles, which just need to be soaked in hot water until soft and mixed through.
Magic Mince
start by making up your usual batch of bolognaise mince, before you add the pasta sauce and tinned tomatoes, grate or dice some veggies into your pot of browned mince – e.g. some diced onion, capsicum, mushrooms, zucchini (can use the prep set go or fresh). You can even throw a handful or two of baby spinach in, it just wilts down and you won’t notice it.
Depending on how much veg you add, you might need a little more pasta sauce than usual.
Once you have finished the bolognaise portion of half of it into containers to use later.
Now with the half that’s left in the pot – add a tin of lentils and a taco seasoning sachet and a tin of corn and stir. Serve with salad and rice, or wrap it up in a burrito
One pot of mince – many meals!
Hot or Cold Chicken/Tuna Pesto Pasta
Start with shredded BBQ chicken or Tinned Tuna (you can also buy chicken breast or thighs and stir-fry in diced chunks or strips. Boil some of your favourite pasta shapes. Add a jar of basil or tomato pesto. If you want to add some other tasty extras, you can pop in olives or diced feta or roasted capsicum strips.