Home-brew power goop:
- 7 and 1/3 Tablespoons of Honey
- 3/4 teaspoons of Blackstrap Molasses
- 1/10 teaspoons (just shy of 1/8 tsp) of table salt
Be sure to mix everything together well, and it should make enough to fill a 5 serving GU flask.
This recipe works nicely. You may see some bubbles on the surface of this stuff, but that is just a natural occurrence of the molasses. One thing really nice is that neither honey nor molasses needs to be refrigerated, so you can keep it in your pocket all day, and even use it the following week. I probably wouldn’t go much past a week, but it should still be good.
The nutritional content approximates 25g carbs, 45mg sodium, 35mg potassium, with plenty of vitamins and minerals that you wouldn’t get with the store bought stuff. Another nice thing about the honey recipe is that it is all natural. Honey comes from bees that get nectar from flowers. Maybe you’ve passed a honeybee hive on a trail, and just maybe there was a bee in there making the honey that you are going to use on your next ride! Ok, that’s a stretch. Molasses is not actually any part of the four-legged mammal, but is refined from sugar cane. As Homer Simpson would say: “Mmmmm, suuuugggarrrrrr.” Salt comes usually from salt mines, but you could always buy “sea-salt” and use that. I suppose “sea salt” comes from the sea, but with truth in advertising at the current lows, who really knows.
My experiment did not end at just the plain ol’ goop. It was still raining out, so I thought back to something I read somewhere about a 4 to 1 carb to protein ratio. I guess that is supposed to be a good thing (Thanks Martha Stewart), so I made a recipe for that too.
Honey goop with a protein kick:
- 6 Tablespoons of Honey
- 5/8 teaspoons of Blackstrap Molasses
- 6 and 3/8 teaspoons of Soy Protein Isolate
- 1/16 teaspoons of salt
- 1-3 Tablespoons of water
Mix everything together in a cup, add water as needed to develop a nice ‘goopable’ consistency. Makes 5 servings.
Recipe courtesy of Derek Nolek http://www.dirtragmag.com
