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I get this problem too... I take lunch with me to work but I find myself buying even more on my lunch break!
I'm not entirely sure on it's nutritional content, but peanut butter is absolutely loaded with energy. I eat it on toast after some cereal every morning before I ride to work, and it makes a massively noticeable difference in my post-ride munchies.
As long as you eat high energy food that is particularly low in saturated fat, as well as being low in unsaturated fat too, you should be ok.
Try taking a jam sandwich on granary bread too, for half way into your ride. I read in cycling weekly that after an hour or so of cycling your salt levels drop a lot due to perspiration, and the granary bread helps bump it back up and the jam bumps your blood sugar levels up too, giving you a nice energy boost. Avoid the butter if you really want to watch the calories/fat!
Just come to mind actually, that peanut butter is low in saturated fat, which is bad. So it should be ok. I'm a skinny sod and live off the stuff, and cycle only 8 miles a day :P