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Breakfast & Rehydration
Created: 2024feb27tue
Updated: 2024nov14thu
First, my usual, hot-soak, Future Life/Morvite-boosted Oats-based fruit-and-nut breakfast. It gets me all the way to the top of George Peak without having to stop for snacks. ("Hot soak", as opposed to "cold soak". Google is your friend.) I've been having this breakfast pretty much daily for more than a decade now already, and I'm still not tired of it.
Future Life is expensive; Morvite not so much. Both of them have pretty much the same good stuff in them; Morvite just has lower concentrations of it. The Morvite stretches the Future Life to last about a month, when you add them as a booster-mix to the oats base in a ratio of oats:booster = 2:1 (the blue coffee-scoop used for the oats = the white 15ml tablespoon-scoop used for the booster in the video). Add fruit, nuts, dairy, etc. to taste. No extra sugar/salt required. It's not a heavy breakfast, but it lasts, with an apparent slow-release of energy throughout the morning.
The video has a link in the top right-hand corner to Carl de Campos' video of where he and I made a blindfolded breakfast together at his place. I make pretty much the same breakfast in both videos; only I forgot the booster-mix at home in Carl's video.
Next, is my home-made oral rehydration solution (ORS) mix based on the World Health Organisation's ORS. I take this on longer, tougher hikes when I know from experience that leg-muscle cramps might become a problem, both/either during the hike and/or afterwards.
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Add the following in an empty two-litre bottle/container:
3/4 teaspoon table salt (sodium chloride, NaCl)
1/2 teaspoon non-sodium replacement salt (potassium chloride, KCl, obtainable from health stores)
1 teaspoon baking soda (sodium hydrogen carbonate/sodium bicarbonate/bicarb of soda/NaHCO3)
4 crushed Rennies Digestif antacid tablets (calcium and magnesium carbonate, CaCO3 & MgCO3)
2 Tablespoons AND 2 teaspoons sugar (this is only half of what the WHO suggests - I don't trust sugar; other, natural sweeteners might be preferred)
1 Tablespoon apple-cider vinegar (ethanoic acid)
1 Tablespoon lemon juice (citric acid)
2 pinches cayenne pepper (good for the heart/cardiovascular system, apparently)
If the addition of the vinegar and/or lemon juice to the bicarb and Rennies do not produce some fizzing, something's wrong: possibly one or more of the chemicals is/are old/stale/expired/decomposed; probably not the vinegar, though.
Fill the container halfway with water, and shake vigorously until as much of the dry ingredients have dissolved as possible. Continue adding water, and shaking, until no solid is left at the bottom of the container anymore. Fill the container with water to the two-litre mark.
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Apparently the sodium and potassium facilitate more optimal absorption of each other, and the same for magnesium and calcium (probably because sodium and potassium are both neighbouring group-I elements in the periodic table of chemicals, very similar to each other, and the same for magnesium and calcium, both being group-II elements).
Shake before drinking. Inhale BEFORE you put your lips to the container. Inhaling cayenne pepper WILL cause a bout of coughing.
The taste is hard to describe... not unpleasant, for me at least. What I can tell you is that it is an extremely smooth and drinkable beverage. I find it hard to stop once I start. It is smoother than anything else I know -- smoother than ordinary water, smoother even than a milk-and-honey toddy before bedtime.
...And it is significantly cheaper than anything else similar that you can buy anywhere. If the rest of the world finds out, energy-drink companies will go out of business.
I absolutely love it. ...but your mileage may vary. Test it at home first, before you take it on a hike only to find out that it is completely undrinkable for you.
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