Nordic adaptation strategy no. 1 - fårikål!

This is not a hospitable country for hairless bipeds. You either need heavy fur or a good strategy to survive here. Norwegians have done a fairly good job of devising adaptation strategies. They, for example, invented skiing. Snow is a major hindrance to travel. But on a good trail a decent skier can manage 50Km at an average speed of more than 12Km/hour. Much faster then walking on dry ground.
Norwegians have perhaps done less brilliantly with diet adaptation. Someone famously called lutefisk the food equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. But they did invent fårikål.
Fårikål literally means lamb in cabbage. It really is that. Making it just requires cooking in the most primordial sense of the word: cut your cabbage into wedges, lay down layers of fatty-bony-cheap cuts of lamb then cabbage in a big pot, throw in a little salt and whole peppercorns with each layer. No more prep required--5 minutes max. Just leave it on a low flame.
Then go ski. Ski for 4 hours. Come back home and from well down the block the siren call of fårikål will enchant your nose. Go inside and it's almost unbearably good smelling. I had a hard time waiting the time needed to rip off my ski clothes before eating.
I think sports nutritionists have now debunked the carbo-loading theory, that you should eat a lot of spaghetti before running a marathon. I find carbo-binging roughly equivalent to sugar binging: a quickish high then a crash. Good, nutritious slow cooked fat is far better body fuel. And great comfort food after a hard cold night of ski fraught with rampaging moose danger!