So, hopefully, I'm going to be posting a few recipes related to running and generally being good to your body over the next few months.
First-up: Pan-Made-Sorta-Crumble.
Dead straightforward: caramelised some old plums (four of them) and an apple in butter (good-sized knob), soft brown sugar (half a dessert-spoon full, but you could leave it out if you're feeling more wholesome than I was) and cinnamon (a teaspoon or two, but you don't need to be shy), put it with some home-made crumble-ish apple granola and yogurt. I'll post a recipe for the granola another day but you could, of course, use shop-bought (though it'll probably be more sugary) or muesli.
Advantages: oats are a great carbohydrate with low GI (obviously this serves you better if you're not using mega-sugary granola), yogurt packs in a bit of protein and the fruit content gets you two of your five a day. There's a bit of added sugar in there, but right after a big workout is when you could do to be squirting high-GI food into your body to replenish that glucose you just used up.
This took, in total, about nine minutes.
