Pool Club Food!!!

It’s no wonder that pool players often find it difficult to keep off the weight. It’s easy to see why!!!

Being a dancer, I appreciate the need to keep my vitamins and minerals actively under control and my weight / height ratio balanced correctly. However, I am sat here having to eat cheese burger (and a greasy one at that) and chips because there aint much else.

Admittedly, at certain times at this particular club, you can get the most gorgeous curry - of which I partook of yesterday - a chicken tikka masala with plain rice and naan bread. It even tasted healthy!

Why can’t pool clubs provide a healthy option for their clientele? You know, salad wraps, the odd pasta dishes, some quite easy dishes to establish in a simple kitchen. I’ve made a simple but tasty pasta bolognaise whilst camping at a music festival on a gas stove and one pan.

A player’s body and mind would be a much better place if fed with fresh vegetables and smoothies, rather than sugar filled lager and fat dripping fry ups. Some matches go on for 2 1/2 hours and you can visably see the sugar levels drain and the body fighting to find some extra energy at about an hour into the match. When the tv lights are on them, many find it difficult to cope as their bodies sweat glads over react to the overheating. Surely this doesn’t help to having a clear mind?

As I write, the burger that I am munching on drips with fat, making me feel quite ucky (if that’s a real word). I can feel the spots breaking out over my “T” zone as I preach about healthy eating and clarity of thought.

But seriously, what is it about “easy food”? I can’t see how having to fry (all with different cooking times) a variety of fat soaking foods is easier than wrapping together a selection of salad items with perhaps some interestingly marinaded meat. The carbohydrates in fatty foods burn off so much quicker than those of fresh foods, and natural sugars will replace the glucose in the blood for much longer, aiding concentration.

So come on lads and lasses, lets bully the clubs into providing us with better food and a healthier lifestyle. I hate to think what the average life span is of some of these guys, but I know that my grandad, now 93 would have had a better innings!