We’ve been hard at work on our next CLIFCast Podcast, and the topic of discussion is menu planning. I was actually shocked to find out that most of my Clif Bar coworkers head to the grocery store to load up without a plan or even a list.

Maybe it’s just because I am one of those working full-time moms – the type that can’t remember anything and hates facing the daunting question of “What’s for dinner?” unprepared. But this dietitian loves having a plan and a list!

This past Sunday morning I was busy practicing what I preach, planning the week’s worth of meals ahead of time, making a list, going grocery shopping and doing as much soux chef-type prep as I could muscle. 

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The CLIFCast Podcast is back! Episode 6 is now live on iTunes and available to stream below. And this time it’s all about Protein.

Protein is the building blocks of muscle. Without it, you can’t get all the amazing benefits from your workout because protein helps tissues recover and rebuild. But what exactly is protein? What are the different foods we can eat to get it into our body, and is it something we crave? Here we will learn the differences between plant-based proteins and animal-based proteins, when to eat, what protein snacks to have, and we may even shatter some protein myths.

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The CLIFCast Podcast is back with Episode 5: Energy, now live on iTunes, and available to stream below. Ricardo returns to help you learn about exactly what energy is (is it the same as calories?), how it feels in your body and what the best foods are for it.

Our in-house Clif Bar runners share nuggets of their experience while our nutritionist, Tara, grounds us with a heap of well-researched facts about the benefits of fat, the best vegetables to eat for energy and why caffeine can increase your performance. Do the benefits of caffeine go beyond an increased sense of energy? Get the answers to these questions and more in this week’s podcast.

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Episode 4 of CLIFCast is now live on iTunes, and available to stream below. In this episode, Race Day, Ricardo talks all about what to do on the day of a race. He explores what foods and drinks might be best for your half or full marathon, or other long distance race. What should you eat the night before a race, the morning of, or mere minutes before the starting gun goes off? Learn about eating and drinking on and off course, on and around your big day.

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Episode 3 of CLIFCast is now live on iTunes, and available to stream below. In this episode, your main man Ricardo talks all about hydration.

Whether running a 5-mile loop or a 100-mile Ultra – dehydration happens. But if you know what to drink and when, you can diminish the chances of depleting your body of its greatest and most important resource: water. In this episode, we explore the effects of water and electrolytes in our body, the dangers of sodium loss, and the best way to replenish all of them.

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