Not a lot to write about today.  I had a complete rest day ahead of my Half Marathon. I therefore focused on relaxing and loading carbohydrates.  My carbohydrate of choice this week has been rice pudding.

I haven’t had rice pudding for a very long time. Rice pudding is not something I would have thought about, but by chance, I came across a recipe for it earlier this week.  I have a couple of recipe books that focus of meals that are GERD friendly.  These books have been very useful, now I am on a GERD friendly diet. It has been two weeks since I started this diet, that I wrote about here.

This particular pudding recipe is simple, but very nutritious.  It is based on basmati rice and soy milk, with some coconut milk, Demerara sugar. It is also flavored by adding cardamom pods. Each portion gives me about 80g of carbohydrate, and I bump that up, by adding nuts and fruit.  Today I added pistachio nuts and dried apricots.

Tomorrow morning will end my ‘carb load’ period ahead of my run on Sunday.  I will be having pancakes as part of a large breakfast.  After that, I will only be having small meals. Not sure what I will eat exactly, but I’m sure I will have some more of that rice pudding.