Ride snacks - real food

[BSG]

Saw peanut butter in a sachet at our local Pick n Pay today.

 

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[Coolspin]

Saw peanut butter in a sachet at our local Pick n Pay today.

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All it needs is some nice seed bread on either side then you in business, on its own hmmmm, not so much.

[porqui]

The idea was not to hit the bars !!

[kraines]

For those of you who rely on bananas for survival, do you keep it full in the peel or do you slice it and put it in a bag? 

[fanievb]

For those of you who rely on bananas for survival, do you keep it full in the peel or do you slice it and put it in a bag?

Plastic is bad for the environment.

 

A banana comes in nice natural (and biodegradable) packaging, use that rather

[Vetseun]

For those of you who rely on bananas for survival, do you keep it full in the peel or do you slice it and put it in a bag?

 

Dont panic. A banana skin is organic.

The environment welcomes it.

[kraines]

Just don't trust myself to peel it while on the bike

[Johan_Kleynhans]

Do it on a downhill. Bite the bit, spit it out and peel off a piece and bite. Put the rest away for the next downhill

[porqui]

Just don't trust myself to peel it while on the bike

 

Start peeling it from the other end to the stem much easier - thats how monkeys do it.

[Kranswurm]

Start peeling it from the other end to the stem much easier - thats how monkeys do it.

I thought thats how humans did it as well...

[cfcjim]

Dont panic. A banana skin is organic.

The environment welcomes it.

A banana skin takes about two years to decompose. It's litter, take it home.

[Jase619]

A banana skin takes about two years to decompose. It's litter, take it home.

 

How long does it take a bar or gel wrapper to decompose? And does it give any sort of nutritional value to the environment?

[Craai]

A banana skin takes about two years to decompose. It's litter, take it home.

I’ve read that too, although from personal experience I sincerely doubt that it would take a banana skin 2 years to decompose when exposed to the elements. Hell, whole bananas that my 2 year old hides in the car for daddy is black and shriveled in about a week

[porqui]

I thought thats how humans did it as well...

 

Are you calling me a monkey ??

[partydave]

I've stopped over thinking my eating habits on the bike. I used to eat a million gels, energy drinks at double the price of petrol and all kinds of crap to stay "fueled"

 

I've now started seriously upping my distance and chucked all the crap in the bin. On long training rides, I have a big bowl of cereal and black coffee before the ride and chuck a couple of cookies in my jersey pocket and 2 bottles of water. I've not felt the need for anything more than that.

 

I suppose it's fairly easy calculate the amount of fuel you need on a ride by averaging your caloric expenditure per km, but I've never been good at maths.

 

Based on a 100km ride, I burn an average of 2000 calories, 200 per 10km

Bowl of cereal = 540 calories

So I need 292 calories per 20km excluding "residual" calories

 

I (without being a food nutritionist) assume that I need only half of that in order to safely finish my ride. 2-3 Romany creams per 20km sounds like a good deal to me. Replace cookies with anything you fancy that hits that target

[herrowpreeze]

I use the Squish or equivalent pouches, and also all the usual suspects such as bananas, biltong, date bites, etc. 

 

Another interesting product which I am currently trying is this: http://www.genesisnutrition.co.za/genesis-nutritional-products-key-product-features/

At R7 per pouch, it is a pretty cheap alternative, and has a similar texture to Future Life.

 

Tom

Where do you purchase this from?