(swing music)
- My shirt is slightly Eastery,
I didn't plan that, but I'll take it.
(swoosh)
Shake 'em all.
(swoosh)
(swing music)
And there we have delicious sustenance for a marathon swim.
There's nothing spectacularly about it,
it's overnight oats with poached eggs on top.
It's a Gwen Jorgensen special.
I'm gonna spend a little bit of time catching up on comments
on the YouTube channel.
Thank you for everyone who does that,
it makes it very fulfilling to keep going on this.
A little bit of editing on the vlog.
Big ginormous swim and you know what?
I know that a lot of people
are gonna want the recipe for that.
Later today, I've gotta make a whole bunch of these,
that I'll stash at the office.
I'll tell ya how to make it.
So delicious! (clapping)
Mmmmm.
(swing music)
This will be the first long, long, long weekend swim
that I use the FINIS Duo, bone conducting mp3 player
that I tried out this week and it worked okay.
So hopefully, that gets me through the entire
couple hours here today
and makes it go by a little bit quicker.
That would be sweet.
Staring at a black line for two hours is no picnic.
That mental strain of staring at the black line
and doing a long swim in the pool,
is probably just as draining on levels of fatigue,
as the actual swim.
(swing music)
And exactly three minutes later,
(horn beeping) I'm there.
(swing music)
So that meal I made this morning
is my go to when I know I have a really big workout.
That was my number one breakfast that I would have,
planning for the last marathon swim that I trained for.
In the morning, as I started doing
the two to four and a half hour swims,
and now today, we did that two hour,
one minute, one second swim,
so I knew that I needed a really big breakfast,
so I pulled it out of retirement in full force.
That said, I use that breakfast of overnight oats,
three times a week and I stash it at the office.
I've gotta make my stash of overnight oats for office,
here, right now, so I figured I might as well
put that together and show y'all
what my go to big breakfast is
when I need a big, key bunch of carbs in me.
Get yourself some jars.
We use the old almond butter tins.
Get yourself some oatmeal.
We use Bob's Red Mill, Organic Old Fashioned Rolled Oats,
which are, are these gluten free
or are they just low gluten?
I think they're gluten free.
Kim thinks they're gluten free.
I take about a half of cup,
during really big swims, like this morning,
I'll do about 2/3 of a cup.
However much oatmeal you put in,
that's how much water you also need to put in,
and then you also need another cup of liquid.
Could just be water, but to hardy it up,
you use whatever milk we got.
Help milk, almond milk, sometimes coconut milk,
mix and match it.
Oh, I forgot to say at the start,
welcome to another edition of Shirt Taren Eats.
Now, we should do a cooking YouTube channel show.
Music track for this, cue that now.
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If anything, you want to err on the side
of a little bit too much liquid.
So like, a half a cup of oats,
a cup and a bit of liquid
because the oats are gonna soak it up.
And then, I start adding all kinds of seeds
and seed like objects.
Go with about of tablespoon of flax
for some healthy fats.
Tablespoon of hemp hearts for some good protein.
Hey, settle down.
A tablespoon of chia seeds for delicious chia-y goodness.
Is chia a superfood?
- There's some debate about it.
- Debate about it being a superfood
or just being good in general?
- Because it becomes gel like,
there's conjecture that it actually steals the nutrients.
- I don't know if you heard that
but there's some conjecture that chia steals
the good things in the other foods,
'cause it's like gel and it sucks it up.
Use chia sparingly, with caution.
Frozen berries, good antioxidants in there.
We all know that I hate oxidants.
Some raisins, macadamia nuts,
walnuts, vegan protein powder
because even though we're endurance athletes
and we live and die by our carbs,
we do need some protein.
A little bit of coconut oil for some good fats.
A little bit of natural peanut butter
because peanut butter is the glue
that holds my body together.
I stole that from Instragram
because I saw it last night.
And then a little bit of natural honey
from a honey guy.
These jars of honey are actually
from the bees in his front yard.
He's got wild flowers growing there
and he makes honey out of it, it's awesome.
Then here's where it goes from a slurry of ingredients
to a delicious snack.
Cover it up, shake 'em all,
so the oats can get all throughout the middle and then bam.
You let it sit overnight or over several nights, like I do.
By the end of the week,
there will be a five night overnight oats
waiting for me at the office.
This is gonna be nice and smooth and creamy
and you can just microwave it
and you got delicious overnight oats.
- Did you know that most people
eat overnight oats cold right?
- Well, most people eating overnight oats cold
are missing out.
- That's how they're meant to be.
- That's how they're meant to be eaten?
- Yup.
- Gross, whoever all of you that are eating
cold overnight oats, why?
Now where this gets into jacking it up a little bit
in mornings like today,
where I really needed a lot of calories
to get me through that swim.
I'll increase all of the ingredients by just a little bit,
just to get the calories up a little bit
and then what I also added was two poached eggs.
Now, I know that before I've mentioned
that we eat a lot of vegan meals.
I will reiterate, I won't hold myself
or even claim to be even in the realm
of the amazing standard that vegans set for themselves.
I would say that we eat many, many vegan meals,
but I'm not a vegan,
hence the eggs this morning.
I find that the eggs make it really, really hardy
and also settles my stomach a lot.
So, the egg energy, I find, helps give you a really
sustained burst of energy,
whereas this typically burns off in,
I find, about an hour or two, an hour and a half,
until I start getting hungry again.
This morning, I ate the oats at 6:30
and then didn't eat again
until I had the first break in the pool around 9:30
and I didn't really have hunger pains throughout that.
So, that's the fat, that's the eggs,
that's all the hardy stuff combining with the carbs
to make it a really long lasting energy.
But that's rare, I might have the eggs in there
a few times a year.
If you are interested in this recipe,
I will put a link in the description below
to triathlontaren.com/oats
and the recipe will be there
and you can also download a little card onto your phone.
Also, what Kim and I are talking about
is because she has had to feed this machine
for so many years, she's got a really good collection
of gluten free snacks, vegan meals,
all kinds of good stuff
that fuels the neverending pit that is my mouth
and I think that in the website redo
that we're working on,
we're gonna upload a lot of the recipes there.
Hit the like button if you're a big fan of that idea.
Otherwise, that's it.
It's Easter dinner, I'm gonna go feed my face.
What's Easter dinner?
- Ham, meatballs, cabbage rolls, salad, mashed potatoes.
- Like I say, I'm not vegan.
When we have family events
or we go out for a nice meal,
it kinda goes away.
And that concludes another day of
Shirt Taren Eats in the kitchen.