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I'm making an adapted Nigella Lawson recipe, of all things. If you google her condensed milk flapjacks you'll see the starting point... I add extra sugar, dried fruits, and even more seeds - I use sesame, poppy, pumpkin and sunflower. Really tasty, and cheap to make if you buy all the stuff in a Lidl or Aldi.
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Jam sandwiches
Cake
Chocolate bars
Coffee
Bacon sarnies mit sauce
Fruit pastilleshave all been used by me during rides to good effect and aren't special 'fuels'.
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Big fan of fig rolls, but find you have to drink a lot more to help wash 'em down. Maybe there's posh ones that aren't quite as dry, but I will never be a person that buys premium fig rolls.
I'm now converted to new potatoes as on the road fuel. With or without a bit of cheese on them. Tastes better than a gel and costs fuck all, much like milk.
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Slight change of direction but on similar theme to milk vs protein shake etc....
Am trying to eat less 'science food', especially energy bars, and relying on more normal stuff. Still eat energy bars, but not so much, and I use gels still.
Food-wise, its mostly home made rice cakes, Soreen, and bananas so far. Have just invested in some fig rolls but am yet to use them, and am probably gonna try dates too.
What other 'normal' foods do people go with? And if anyone is already on fig rolls and dry fruit, how are they working out? Fig rolls stack up well nutritionally from an inspection of the packet.