After the ride, the food

Thanks for that Hippy. I'm now reading all the things that could be wrong with me.

This is an ace thread. I almost look forward to the post-ride feed as much as the ride itself.

What's so good about soup then?

I tend to find chicken breast or chilli con carne, rice and broccoli after a big ride does the job in terms of stopping you eating loads of shite til the next meal and preventing your legs feel too terrible the next day.

After shorter rides it has to be the king of snacks, peanut butter and banana on toast.

^ funny you should mention the sweet, because I ate the best part of a big bag of fruit pastilles before lunch.
So it's just my body adjusting to the exercise increase ?
I have lost weight too.

It's a perfectly normal thing to happen if you start to ride more. Riding food is designed to get you fast-acting sugars. Fruit pastilles aren't 'designed' for riding but obviously contain a lot of sugar.

It's well-known among cyclists that you can get pretty sick from too many bars and gels without eating savoury in between. hippy can tell you all about continuous nutrition on a bike, and probably especially that aspect, since he's the national 24-hour TT champion.

What's so good about soup then?

Goes down easily, more easily digestible than more solid foods, and can be unbelievably tasty when you've just been having nothing but energy bars.

hippy can tell you all about continuous eating, since he's fat

ftfy

I was actually going for the 24hr eating record, I just needed to be somewhere else, hence the bike.

Crispy fried egg sandwiches made with proper butter.
Followed by a huge piece of bread pudding!

I love getting the post-ride munchies, often the day after the ride. Today has been ridiculous and I've eaten nearly everything in sight (although the ride yesterday wasn't even that long), including a lovely veg casserole, three bananas, a box of chocolate biscuits (I didn't eat the box), about half a loaf of bread's worth of slices with houmous, a tin of soup (not very good as it turns out), one Hoffman's Fried Aubergine Salad (quite a small amount, but delicious), and half a jar of cucumbers. Pure gluttony. And before anyone asks, no, I'm not pregnant.

Post what you've eaten after a long ride.

In preparation for London-Edinburgh-London in 2009 I did a one way ride up to Edinburgh with a fellow mug to do some route checking for the organiser and just get an idea of what would happen on the real thing. 3 days and ~750km all in.

We finished the last day at North Berwick (needed to go a bit further than Dalkeith in order to make a minimum of 200km for that day's DIY Audax) and got the train back in to Edinburgh (on St Patrick's Day of all days) and the City Centre Travelodge. A quick pint or two to celebrate being done and sleep.

The next morning we woke up and utterly destroyed the buffet breakfast. At the 4th or 5th time I went back to refill up my plate the duty manager started to ask questions. He stopped when we explained what we'd done over the last 3 days. "Fair play lads."

I think it's safe to say we ate (and drank) more than the price of our room (booked well in advance for much cheapness); and that's even at cost prices for the food. I'm guessing I had at least: 2 pints of orange juice, 3/4 of a loaf of sliced bread (as toast), half a pound of butter, 12 sausages, 8 eggs (scrambled), 8 rashers of bacon, two tins of baked beans, mushrooms and a couple of cheeky croissants.

A week after the ride I was 5lb lighter than before the ride.

+1 on the chocolate digestives. I'm usually hallucinating them prior to getting off the bike

Could of been hobnobs.

Post what you've eaten after a long ride.

Are you asking me to shit in a jiffy bag?

You’re weird.

I like to whip up a quick carbonara

heaven

I don't like to eat when riding but just after, a litre of milk, a fish finger sandwich (no euph), a few yogurts and maybe a cheeky ice cream is standard fare for me-if I've been riding a lot I'm just hungry all the time and try to fill up on apples and healthy stuff because if there's a big bag of kettle chips or loads of chocolate raisins then they just get inhaled and I feel like a big fat sad pie.

When touring in Italy that was supplemented by huge quantities of pizza and vino, but the glory of getting up and riding for another 8 hours justified the following night's excesses which was a weird kind of all-permissive culinary paradise.

I merge a lot of foods together.

I merge a lot of foods together.

And then just a "waffer thin mint" ?

just waffer thin...

I like to whip up a quick carbonara

heaven

This or a mixing bowl of spag Bol with extra cheese. If it's only a short ride tomato soup with ready salted crisps (for dipping) is nice

Could of been hobnobs.

I had a hobnob the other day, so disappointing. When did they make hobnobs shit?

Never?!