Nutrition on the road - What, How and Why?

You could wrap your sandwiches in rice paper and eat the lot though!

Date bars. (fast)

Dates
Apricots
sultanas
honey
almonds
pumkin seeds

warm in microwave so it will blend. Blend together. in fridge overnight. Cut up into squares and wrap in baking paper Leave for a week to go more solid.

or

Oat bars (slow)

oats
peanut butter
honey/cocunut oil
almonds
whey - if protein wanted
pumpkin seeds

mix together in a bowel, scoop out and roll into a ball, leave to go solid over night.

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Mix and match for personal preference.

Rice paper is brittle and would not protect you from eating pocket or bag junk.
It's great as a baking aid though.

I keep them in a sandwich bag. Pull put bag easily and then get one from bag.
It just stops them sticking together in the bag.

I stick rice paper to my mushed up dried fruit squares (to keep them from sticking to each-other and to keep sticky off my hands) and line my top tube bag with greaseproof paper to keep the sticky off that.

I eat mushed up rice and raisins out of a ziplock bag like a scum. i don't however toss it on the ground after. I don't see sandwich bags I just see gels. Probably because sandwiches take on too much water when these fucks are in the swim portion of their bike rides.

Have to second jelly babies, so much nicer than gels :)

What's with Bassetts covering their jelly babies with white sugary crap?

Waitrose do proper jube like sweets in bags. Can't remember what they called though - they look like a bag of wine gums but aren't hard like wine gums. Maybe soft something or other.

What's with Bassetts covering their jelly babies with white sugary crap?

You're wrong about everything except this. They didn't always have that sugary bollocks on jelly babies but ever since they started slathering it onto them they've made a previously amazing sweet completely inedible.

If only those jelly snakes had an alternative version with a crunchy jelly baby like shell (and no sugar crap dusted on) they would be the perfect sweet.

The 'white stuff' is starch. Trays full of starch have a mould lowered onto them, pushing little baby-shaped impressions into the starch. The ascorbic acid and gelatine mix is poured into said baby-shaped impressions then cooled.

I worked making jellie babies for 6 months in 2001. I was 17 and saving to travel. It was a weird job and had elements of Pantone Blues about it for sure.

Just looked here:
http://www.hammernutrition.com/products/perpetuem.pp.html

It contains electrolytes but no fructose.

^ this. Although 90g is too much for me. It depends on your body weight (amongst other things) as to how much carbs you can deal with, 90g is the highest I've figure I've heard. I'm sure hippy needs a hoisin crispy duck every 15mins.

Bananas take some beating, try them. Fructose and not too much fibre plus potassium, cheap and in biodegradable packaging too :-)

Date bars. (fast)

Dates
Apricots
sultanas
honey
almonds
pumkin seeds

warm in microwave so it will blend. Blend together. in fridge overnight. Cut up into squares and wrap in baking paper Leave for a week to go more solid.

or

Oat bars (slow)

oats
peanut butter
honey/cocunut oil
almonds
whey - if protein wanted
pumpkin seeds

mix together in a bowel, scoop out and roll into a ball, leave to go solid over night.

--

Mix and match for personal preference.

I stick rice paper to my mushed up dried fruit squares (to keep them from sticking to each-other and to keep sticky off my hands) and line my top tube bag with greaseproof paper to keep the sticky off that.

Thanks chaps!

Might be my fave thread so far. Ah! The inner workings of peanut butter and working in the jelly bean factory... Keep it coming.

^^ How many did you eat?

You're right about everything.
ftfy

mix together in a bowel, scoop out and roll into a ball, leave to go solid over night.
Eeeewwwww. Really? I don't know about this health food I really don't.

I had a couple of pints (of scottish ale) and a fairly large 'cottage pie' mid ride. I almost puked on the last half and I missed the tdf recap. It was still worth it.

a fairly large 'cottage pie'
Why the quotation marks? Euph?

urbandictionary

That certainly explains the nausea.

These sound interesting (i.e., good), I like that you can mod them to have whatever dry fruit and nuts / seeds you have in stock - doesn't the warm honey cause carnage in the blender though?

Date bars. (fast)

Dates
Apricots
sultanas
honey
almonds
pumkin seeds

warm in microwave so it will blend. Blend together. in fridge overnight. Cut up into squares and wrap in baking paper Leave for a week to go more solid.

Why the quotation marks? Euph?

I guess because I had known that dish as a "shepherd's pie" but they say no sheep no shepherd. They would know, I guess.

Shepherd's pie sounds like it fulfils euph duties better.

lamb vs. beef innit

The eternal battle.

These sound interesting (i.e., good), I like that you can mod them to have whatever dry fruit and nuts / seeds you have in stock - doesn't the warm honey cause carnage in the blender though?

Sorry. Warm the dates and other dried fruit so it mixes. No need to warm honey. Just pour into blender.

You can make batches, in order to no overload the food processor*.

*I meant food processor!! I use a magimix so it can handle it.

I rarely have done it previously, but always knew it worked.... as soon as you start to feel even remotely bonky, get a cold can of coke and chug it. Works miracles.

Even though there's not much caffeine in a can (and I drink a fair bit of coffee so am probably quite tolerant to it), I felt pretty wired for the couple of hours til I got home.

Coke does most definitely work. It's the caffeine, the sugars n all the other chemical shit. While touring I usually had 2 water bottles with just water (or one with some added squeezed lemon and salt) and a 0.5L bottle of coke in my bar bag. So good on hot climby days.