Tag: Bruce Tretter
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Supercharged Oatmeal – Great Training Fuel!
Here’s how to vary the flavor and supercharge oatmeal by adding protein and some fat to keep you fueled and satisfied for any kind of endurance athletic or physically demanding activity. First, though, a couple quick notes: 1. Flavor and taste – most important – are exceptionally personal. The ingredients you see below work great together…
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Microwave Cooked Oatmeal: Great Move Your Body Food!
Want fuel move your body: prep for a good ride on the bike, run, workout, or to feel fully alive to start your day? Oatmeal’s a great favorite of mine – packed with complex flavorful carbs and fiber, and both those attributes can be well enhanced if you oppose them (i.e. supplement them) with protein…
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How Learning and Adapting Applies to Cycling and Fresh 5-Ingredient Salad Dressing
It’s all about applied learning and adapting. First, regarding cycling. Since becoming the Ops Officer at VOmax (performance sportswear) and driving to and from Northampton everyday, I’ve had to adapt to splitting time between rippin’ it on the real road, which I love, and crankin’ it on the “living room bike” (trainer), which no…
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Instant Hot Cereal From Cold Cereal Picture Book Recipe + Bicycles Battling Cancer
I’m an avid lifelong cyclist dedicated to improving cycling/running safety (breitzwear.com) and enabling people to eat better (gotta-eat.com). All connected, engaging & fun! I rode the Central Massachusetts Bicycles Battling Cancer ride last June in memory of my dear ‘ol pioneering radiation
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Full-on Flavorful Variation on an Apple Pancake Theme
You have to fuel up before you can ride on. And, man, I dig that most excellent part of the cycling life! Last week I brought the apple blueberry pancake above to my good buds at VOmax, who I’ve partnered with to put out the Breitz! bright, bold & cool to wear line of cycling…
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EuroBike 2017 & Whole Grain Cereal with Fresh Fruit & Kefir Picture Recipe
Like I mentioned in the last post, I learned a lot about European cycling culture at Eurobike 2017 in Friedrichshafen, Germany last week and also had some terrifically flavorful foods. Regarding cycling culture, the Europeans are way ahead of where we are and continue to improve. Always actively improving: I love it! Here’s a German…
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Love BIG Coffee! – with Picture Book Directions
Just back from terrifically interesting, very fun HUGE Eurobike 2017 bike show in Friedrichshafen, Germany (show link has already been updated for 2018). More about this year’s show – with food – soon. But first: don’t know about you, but I dig big coffee BIG time, but this is the biggest coffee I could get in…
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Easy, Fully Flavorful Tomato, Fresh Basil and Mozzarella Cheese Salad Picture Recipe
One of my favorite summer foods is freshly picked, richly flavorful, no-kidding vine ripened tomatoes, which I always look forward to getting get straight off the field at Berberian’s Farm in Northborough, MA.
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Improvised Post Ride Lunch: Oats with Vegetables, Cheese and More
Came home darn hungry from a good hop on the bike and improvised a very quick “what’s good to go in the fridge” lunch that included the last of a bag of oats mixed with some leftover vegetable broth, tomato sauce, cooked vegetables, and grated cheese.