Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
Hey zoom-zoom, the reason why I ate cookie after the hike, was that I won a scratch n'win card that entitled me to a free bag ....of Christie cookies. We didn't know the neighbourhood to find shops/place to eat. So took transit and got off to use my freebie card at the sponsoring grocery store near home. I had to make good use of that cookie bag! Better to have that 1 cookie in moments of near desperation just after exercise, instead of 4 hrs. later ....because I really was desperate.

Before the winter snowy hike, I had a breakfast of cornflakes with milk, fruit, etc. No, I don't eat bacon or an egg often at all for breakfast. I never thought hiking on primarily a FLAT route would induce this type of hunger on a very cold winter day.
Yeah, if I ate a breakfast of pure carbs with minimal fat and/or protein I'd be one hot, desperate, cranky, shaky, nauseous mess (my family has several stories of me "going postal" when hunger hit fast and hard). YMMV, but there are few people who don't at some point run into issues after a light breakfast of high glycemic foods followed by extended activity.