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Healthy Snacks

Eating a proper diet every day is important (as you hear on the TV and radio) and eating the right food before and during a competition can make a big difference to your performance on the day.

The following are good for you and should be included in your diet for race-day. As with any sport, you do sweat when you swim, so you really must drink plenty of water or dilute juice the day before and on the day. If you are swimming a 1500m this is even more important - some swimmers end the race and complain of a headache if they have not had enough to drink:

	Breakfast cereals with low fat milk
	Toast or bread and jam or honey
	Sandwiches or rolls with banana, honey or jam
	Pasta or rice with low fat sauce
	Buns and muffins
	Rice cakes or crackers with banana or jam
	Baked potato with low fat filling (avoid mayonnaise)
	Fruit - bananas, oranges, grapes, raisins
	Energy bars
	Carbohydrate drinks

(Courtesy of Flying Start )