Energy food

Fixedwheelnut Short rides carb/protein mix drink is usually enough, longer rides up to 300km fig rolls, jelly babies, wine gums, malt loaf, energy bars or gels.
I carry my snacks in a little top tube bag for easy access and avoids a sticky mess in your jersey pockets. see link below.

300km plus all that sugary carb stuff can play havoc with your digestion and you should be burning more fat by then anyway, you start needing normal savoury food aswell, sarnies BLTs, or a proper meal in a cafe, I have a penchant for Bacon Bagguettes, a pint of milk or a yogurt drink helps ease any acidity caused by the high energy stuff aswell.
I usually keep one bottle with plain water in to swig on after eating on the move.

Wiggle Tri bag link

After rides when I get home I drink as much water as I can and have a bowl of cereal.

BLIMEY, and for rides over 300km he says....I don't mind saying it, I am in awe of you mate

I like the idea of barley suger and dried fruit

hippy Since arriving home at 2pm mine was: 5 chicken fajitas, half tin refried beans, four/five pints various soft drink, bowl of icecream, half pack after dinner mints, 3/4 loaf of stilton bread, some garibaldi biscuits, some lollies, cheese and ham sandwich, glass apple juice (not necessarily in that order)

thats more calories than I eat in a week

didn't read most of this but i'll give my opinion.

-i tried bananas, chocolate, mars bars, snickers....taste good but won't do much

-big ups to the cliff bars, had one and a half last night and they sorted me out well, and they taste nice.

-isotonic gel....it's like drinking tropical flavour vomit! and dunno how much of an isotonic it really is as i still had toi drink about 4 pints of water when i got home. The fact that it was warm probably didn't help but i'm gonna keep myself away from that stuff.

the-smiling-buddha [quote]hippy Since arriving home at 2pm mine was: 5 chicken fajitas, half tin refried beans, four/five pints various soft drink, bowl of icecream, half pack after dinner mints, 3/4 loaf of stilton bread, some garibaldi biscuits, some lollies, cheese and ham sandwich, glass apple juice (not necessarily in that order)

thats more calories than I eat in a week[/quote]

I'm guessing I weigh more than you, ride more than you or ride harder than you. One or more of the above must be true ;)

scott not scot [quote]hippy I gave my gf the last After Dinner Mint.
It fscking hurt man, I'm so bitter about that.. ;)

hehehe....i think i would of done my usual trick....sneeze on it....then offer it to her.....ya got the whole thing for sure then![/quote]

Nah, I was actually being generous for a change. She cooked dinner so I gotta be kinda nice ya know..

hippy [quote]the-smiling-buddha [quote]hippy Since arriving home at 2pm mine was: 5 chicken fajitas, half tin refried beans, four/five pints various soft drink, bowl of icecream, half pack after dinner mints, 3/4 loaf of stilton bread, some garibaldi biscuits, some lollies, cheese and ham sandwich, glass apple juice (not necessarily in that order)

thats more calories than I eat in a week[/quote]

I'm guessing I weigh more than you, ride more than you or ride harder than you. One or more of the above must be true ;)[/quote]

I'll let you into a secret its called 'middle age' at a certain age you have stop eating all that shite and start eating rabbit food otherwise you end up looking like this

haha.. I plan on being dead before middle-age. That's why I'm livin' it up now.

i saw a thing a few years ago on the tour de france coverage about what they eat...in the morning before they set off they had a big bowl of pasta, and they ate jam/maramalade sarnies on the road! strange, but true.

hippy haha.. I plan on being dead before middle-age. That's why I'm livin' it up now.

me and all, but just as middle age approached, I ended up in rehab

& to cut a long story short thats why I now eat dried fruits and live the life of the-smiling-buddha

Not done rehab yet but had the 'you might've died/you might still die' thing and it just made me more hedonistic than I was.
I have to say though that it's kinda relative, ie. I'm a big fscking square so being more hedonistic for me is like having two sugars in coffee instead of one :)
(I have no sugar in coffee actually)
That's not a photo of you above is it?

wot that fat bloke, nah, I don't look nothing like that

I have only got to lose 3 kilos and I'll be down to my abs

Bastard. If I lost hmm.. 20kg I'd have visible abs. I'd also be a fscking slow cyclist and probably be in hospital on a drip feed..

I'll let you into another little secret, its easier to lose the first twenty than the last three, night night 'ippy geezer

I know that.. I told ya.. I could sh1t that weight off hehehe :D

hippy Since arriving home at 2pm mine was: 5 chicken fajitas, half tin refried beans, four/five pints various soft drink, bowl of icecream, half pack after dinner mints, 3/4 loaf of stilton bread, some garibaldi biscuits, some lollies, cheese and ham sandwich, glass apple juice (not necessarily in that order)

:O bloody hell hippy!

How many miles are you riding home?

That's not after a commute, that's after a club run of around 120k at the end of which I was feeling fairly sh1te.
I didn't have to eat all that but it's easier than storing it for the next day :)

I generally eat pretty healthily. In between meals I'll eat bread with olive oil, fruit and raw veg like cucumber. Not too much fruit though, it does give you the shits when eaten in large amounts.

I've been a fan or the energy providing wonder of bananas since well before I got back into cycling. They keep your breath fresh too.

Generally I eat carbs at lunch, and do before long rides, then veg in the evening. A little meat with both, but only about 4 nights a week in the evening. I love meat but not in large amounts on a daily basis - it's not great on your bowels. That said, my diet only really affects my energy levels and perhaps my long term susceptability to heart disease. I'm a skinny fucker and my diet seems to have no relation whatsoever to my weight.

I do have a glaring exception to the healthy eating though. I have a strong penchant for these:

My breakfast..

So having avidly read all of the above I am about to embark on a two hour ride and I am presently eating a peanut butter and dried banana sandwich I have a few boiled sweets in my bag just in case I bonk & I have chicken breast and salad for when I get home although I probably spin by the 'japanese' on the way home for take-away noodles - you know just in case ...;)

Is it any wonder I'm an alcoholic fat cnut.. give my colleague £10 to buy me a "chicken club sandwich or chicken avocado.. etc"

On my desk now is: The requested sandwich, a family size block of Fruit&Nut Cadburys chocolate, 10pk orange KitKat, 2x Soreen Malt Loaves, 5pk of Cadbury Flake an apple and... a 6-pack of Heineken!!!!

you greedy fat fkuc :P
and where's my flite????

You call me a greedy fat fsck and then expect a saddle.. haha I'm gonna burn it and send you the film of it on fire..
Like I said, I just asked for a fscking sandwich!

nooooooooooooooo!!!! i was only joking....
he obviously knows you too well ;^)

True. The beer was a nice touch.
I'm still gonna burn the Flite. Just for a laugh you understand, nothing sinister.
Don't think about buying one off ebay either coz I'm gonna outbid you on them all.. and burn them too.
See it soon on YouTube!