The best keep awake food....

[TiG]

Well what else is there to do when your two incompitent engineers still haven't finished upgrading their part of the system at 2am.......

But have the most immensely thick belguim waffle, sugar and calorie horrific topped with chocolate sauce

I'm now wide awake for the next 30mins at least, maybe i might get to do my bit of upgrade then.....

Wouldn't be so bad but i started work at 8:15 yesterday morning....

Feels like it might be 8:15 this morning by the time i'm finished here at this rate.

At least hexus is here to keep me amused.

TiG

[dave87]

extra strong mints and Caffeine is how I stay awake. Mmm sugar...

[tigerboyce]

not alot, a chocolate bar or two and usually drink squash or a coke.


I usually stay awake untill around 3/4am every night so i guess im just used to it now. Im always awake doing something or other, mostly listening to music or working on something or other

[bigblue]

Try eating a live crab, no cutlery. Bet that'd keep you awake.

*edit* nah, it maybe wouldn't, just googled it out of sheer boredom and there's footage of people doing it. Crikey. I therefore retract that suggestion. Humble apologies.

OK, eat a live king cobra. I'm not even going near that Google place this time...

[Hunain]

I just drink coffee, if not coffee then coke, mints do the job somewhat but now im used to it, im up watching movies at night

[Hunain]

Oh yeah, try this, take a coke can or bottle, take huge sips fast! try to finish it asap, I love the throat burn and gas churn and then my tummy says URN ...and yeah, im awake too

[Prime]

24 - the official energy drink!!!!!!!!!
keeps you going for hours with the secret ingredient which was later revealed to be: PAIN!!!!!!

[CMC]

[chicken]

Waffles again, but slightly different:


Waffles Butter Toffee from Real Food Direct
(they tend to be in a lot of supermarkets now too)

They're pretty flat, filled with immensely sugary buttery toffee and slightly larger than a normal mug so you can sit them over your tea/coffee to melt slightly before eating them


Another thing that works for me without going down the sugar/caffine route is ice cold water, go as if to drink it but don't open your mouth. Let it sit on your top lip for a while before drinking some... Don't know why but I find this really sharpens me up if I'm tired!

[RECOiL™]

You want slow releasing sugary foods..

if you have quick high foods/drink, yes you will be awake but the high will rapidly wear off leaving you feel like you need more asap.

Try pasta, bananas, toast with honey- mix the sugars with slow releasing carbs to sustain a consistant throughput of energey.

be warned, sleep depreivation is immensly damaging to the body and mind.

[MadduckUK]

have to get them shipped from canada now, which is a ball ache. and there not as good as the older style ones

do for me though

[kalniel]

Don't they just constrict your blood vessels and raise blood pressure? Not my idea of fun for staying awake.

For me it's coffee plus sugar+carbohydrates. All the cheap chocolate crisp type things that I normally can't stand become mouth-watering past 2am.

[MadduckUK]

Don't they just constrict your blood vessels and raise blood pressure? Not my idea of fun for staying awake.

For me it's coffee plus sugar+carbohydrates. All the cheap chocolate crisp type things that I normally can't stand become mouth-watering past 2am.

sugar is bad, caffeine is bad.. i see no difference, its not as if i sit there thinking "oh my god my blood pressure is rising!"

[Hunain]

I prefer caffeine over sugar though

[sammyc]

Try eating a live crab, no cutlery. Bet that'd keep you awake.

you have actually made a vegetarian laugh. respect.
& thanks for the humble apologies.

odd mix of pyschological types on this thread... a few mr. sensibles out there. *adjusts glasses, strokes beard..* very interesting.

[Jay]

Pasta, brown rice etc will keep you going.