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Don't forget protein at breakfast time, I always find having protein to start the day keeps me feeling more energetic throughout.
When me and a couple of friends were touring France last year we would get camp packed up, get hydrated on the unlimited supply of campsite water, then ride between 10-20 miles before stopping for breakfast at either a super market or cafe... You don't really need to carry much at all, there are super markets/petrol stations/cafés literally all over the place...
To me you're way over thinking it, just make sure if it's hot you have plenty of water (at one point on the trip I was carrying 2 x 850ml bottles mixture of gatorade and water in cages and a 2 litre bottle of water in my jersey pocket) and some sweets/trail bars for emergency energy and you should be fine. If you can see from the map you won't be near civilisation for a long time maybe rethink strategy...
I have a suspicion though you're planning a very different approach to us, we carried bare essentials only so no cooking equipment... We did meet some Swedish girls carrying fully loaded panniers with cooking equipment and pantry stocks, we were jealous of their ability to cook, not of having to drag that weight around though.