Happy Monday everyone.
So I'll post this update with more details in another post but we've switched shows and I am just under 11 weeks out from the stage! That means 11 more weeks of prep and reduced calories.. actually 13.. but again that's another post. So last week I messed with my meal times.. It was a horrible idea! I was saving carbs for post workout (I had been carb loading in the morning previously). So I stretched out the time between my meals earlier in the day and there were a few days were I was STARVING between meals.
One day I ate a handful of giant mints.. which turned out to be about 30g of carbs total! yikes! So I decided to look around for some alternatives for snacking between meals. (besides gum which also has sugars and piece after piece can add up during the day)
So I had seen a few posts about BCAA gummies. So I looked into them a little more. I really had no idea they had no added sugar and it was just gelatin which is protein. I used watermelon flavored BCAA powder and they are yummy! They were pretty easy to make too. I have plastic molds so I dusted them with cornstarch but still had to fight a bit to get the gummies out. I think I will use silicone next time as I think it's a little easier. I don't have small silicone molds but I think I can just dice up the gummies into pieces once they have set. So here's the recipe
Ingredients:
1 scoop BCAAs ( I used watermelon Rescue)
1 scoop BCAAs ( I used watermelon Rescue)
1/2 cup water
3 envelopes unflavored gelatin (3 tablespoons)
Procedures:
Mix the above ingredients together and let sit a few minutes
Heat mixture until gelatin is dissolved.
Pour into molds
Freeze for 20 minutes
This made a lot of gummies. I didn't do a macro breakdown per gummy cause they weren't the same size (because my molds were different) but for the entire recipe the macros are:
Fat: Zero
Carbs: Zero
Protein: 24g
