Real-Food Recipes for Cyclists
Find delicious, easy-to-prepare, real food recipes to help your performance on and off the bike. Each recipe includes ingredient lists, simple instructions, and baker’s tips and tricks to make baking in the kitchen a joy. New recipes are added every other week. Subscribe to the Bakin’ Biker’s Sampler Club get new recipes + nutrition resources.
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5 Nutrition and Wellness Tips for The Cycling Offseason
The cycling offseason presents a unique opportunity to refine your nutrition strategy, address any deficiencies, and prepare your body for the challenges ahead. By focusing on whole foods, balancing your macronutrients, exploring new recipes, and supporting your body's recovery, you'll be well-positioned to maintain your fitness and well-being and hit the ground running when training resumes.
Cashew Oat Milk + Warming Golden Milk
This Cashew Oat Milk is crafted with 4 simple ingredients: cashews, oats, sea salt, and water. You can take your Cashew Oat Milk to the next level by making Warming Golden Milk. Just add sliced ginger, turmeric, and cinnamon to your milk, heat it over the stovetop, and in five minutes, you’ll have a warming, anti-inflammatory drink ready to enjoy.
Bread Omelet Recovery Sandwich
French toast meets grilled cheese in this Bread Omelet Recovery Sandwich. This recipe is a fun and unique way to quickly construct a breakfast sandwich. It’s filling and satisfying, yet light on the stomach, and can be made in just 10 minutes. Customize the fillings to your liking and recover from you ride like a pro!
Blackberry + Pistachio Coconut Milk Muesli
Made with muesli, coconut milk, blackberries, pistachio, and refreshing mint, this is a great pre-ride breakfast 3-4 hours before a ride. You can also snack on this as a post-ride recovery snack or meal.
Muesli Berry Dessert Cups
A fun snack or dessert that takes minimal work, yet looks like a decadent treat. Make a batch of these Muesli Berry Cups for the week, fill, and top them when you're ready to eat or serve them all up for a celebration or get-together.
🇮🇹 Italian Fruit + Ricotta Toast 🍞
A super easy breakfast, snack, or even dessert that can be made in under 10 minutes. Creamy ricotta is paired with ciabatta toast, fresh berries, and a drizzle of honey for a satisfying bite.
Quick Packed Lunch for Cyclists: Apple, Nut Butter, and Date Sandwich
Your new favorite way to sandwich. Featuring a soft, chewy, and crispy combo of apple, dates, and nut butter wedged between two whole-grain pieces of bread. Made to keep you full and power you through your next long-haul ride.
Puffed Rice Cakes with Maple Balsamic Strawberries, Goat Cheese, and Basil
A quick, easy snack featuring puffed rice cakes and strawberries roasted over the stove in a maple balsamic glaze. Eat as a busy morning breakfast, a snack between meals, or a pre or post-ride snack.
Tart Cherry and Banana Post-Ride Smoothie
This delicious post-ride smoothie recipe is made with tart cherries, bananas, and almond flavorings. Tart cherries provide potassium and anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties to help with recovery and sleep. Bananas provide an extra boost of carbs while yogurt and almond butter provide protein - all to help refuel depleted muscles.
Chocolate Quinoa Breakfast Bowl (or mug!)
Chocolate and quinoa pair up in this easy-to-make dish that can be eaten for breakfast or as a post-ride meal.
Chocolate Muesli Date Shake
Using a Chocolate Muesli Bircher Recipe for this shake provides the ideal base for what you need when it comes to recovery: Carbs and protein. Adding in the banana and dates provides another layer of carbs while cinnamon contains anti-inflammatory properties, which can help ease swelling.
Rice Pudding with Cinnamon Sugar Syrup
This is a quick and healthy breakfast or recovery meal recipe you can make on the stovetop in as little as ten 10 minutes. Choose your desired toppings and drizzle on top with cinnamon sugar syrup for a satisfying sweet snack.
10 Indoor Cycling Nutrition and Hydration Tips
With the rise of technologies like Zwift, Rouvy and TrainerRoad, many of us have been churning out our miles on the indoor trainer. But are you getting the best out of each session with your nutrition and hydration? This blog features 10 indoor cycling tips to help dial in your nutrition, hydration, and recovery to make the most of your indoor training.
One-Pot Blueberry and Banana Coconut Quinoa Porridge
I was inspired to recreate this recipe after visiting Cool River Coffee in Breckenridge for breakfast after a cool and crisp morning spent nordic skiing. Quinoa is a great alternative to oatmeal for a hot, toasty breakfast. In this recipe, the quinoa is boiled with coconut milk and served with two kinds of fruits and seeds for a sweet, filling start to your morning.
5 Cozy Recipe Ideas For Cyclists During the Off-Season
The nutritional offseason gives us a period of time to slow down, get back in the kitchen, and incorporate more whole foods, veggies and fruits back into our diets. This post gives you 5 recipe ideas to help kick-start your nutritional offseason. It's filled with whole food recipe ideas to get your body and mind ready for the upcoming season.
Blueberry and Banana Superboost Muffins
These muffins offer a convenient source of carbs that's perfect for a pre-or post-ride snack to give you an extra boost. They're packed full of fruits and are sweetened with maple syrup and apple juice instead of refined sugar. In addition, almond meal, brown rice flour and whole-grain oats replace nutrient-stripped white flour. These are one of my go-to muffins—nourishing and sweetly satisfying for an easy grab-n-bike snack.
Snickers Birthday + Recovery Tart
This is a crossover between a tart and brittle, using the comforting flavors from a Snickers bar. But instead of eating a recovery snack with processed ingredients and bad fats, this recipe has turned plant-based without any refined sugars. A healthy blend of carbs, fats and protein makes this a well-rounded snack to enjoy, whether it’s your birthday or not.
Baked Raspberry Skillet Oatmeal With Chocolate Tahini Frosting
Oatmeal is an easy, versatile meal that can be served in a variety of ways. Here I use a cast-iron skillet to make basked raspberry superfood oatmeal topped with a yummy chocolate tahini frosting. This recipe is quick n’ easy and can be enjoyed for a pre-ride, post-ride or evening meal.