On the ride snacks?

FODCADEMON

Recently I've been taking cereal bars onto the trail with me is this the right thing to be eating?

supersonic

They often are perfect foods.

Consider also bananas, fig rolls and malt cake. Plenty of water too.

CraigXXL

Homemade flapjack and bananas.

switchback18

supersonic wrote:

They often are perfect foods.

Consider also bananas, fig rolls and malt cake. Plenty of water too.

Some uni did a study into this a few years back & reckoned fig rolls were as good as energy bars. Sorry that's vague, just remember reading it in a bike mag, don't remember which uni or anything.

Also, seeing as energy drinks/foods are expensive, if you're making your own you can buy fructose (fruit sugar) from most supermarkets. It releases it's energy slower than sucrose (normal sugar) making it better for excercise as it doesn't causes an insulin backlash.
Fructose is about twice as sweet as normal sugar so I guess use 1/2 as much.

sampras38

switchback18 wrote:

supersonic wrote:

They often are perfect foods.

Consider also bananas, fig rolls and malt cake. Plenty of water too.

Some uni did a study into this a few years back & reckoned fig rolls were as good as energy bars. Sorry that's vague, just remember reading it in a bike mag, don't remember which uni or anything.

Also, seeing as energy drinks/foods are expensive, if you're making your own you can buy fructose (fruit sugar) from most supermarkets. It releases it's energy slower than sucrose (normal sugar) making it better for excercise as it doesn't causes an insulin backlash.
Fructose is about twice as sweet as normal sugar so I guess use 1/2 as much.

Nothing secret about the benefits of fig rolls and they're brilliant.

Roughly 12g of carbs per roll and very low fat, and what I like about them is they are small and easy to eat on the move.

.blitz

Bananas, fig rolls, eccles cakes, malt loaf, dried fruit, Snickers bars, Haribo...I feel hungry already.

Ghengis

Mixed nuts and dried fruit. For added goodness the ones with choc chips in are pretty good.

Soreen malt loaf has also been a long standing favourite with the guys I ride with.

Oh also a bag of jelly babies just tops it off.

Off for a rde now just so I can eat some goodies

jools182

those bastards at Jacobs have changed Fig Rolls

there is hardly any fig in them any more

Teflon Dave

Good old bananas and cerial bars, can't beat them, my old riding partner (wide ass williams) swore by a pocket full of freeze dried bananas.

counterculture

wine gums and fig rolls, tesco's own brand fig rolls are awesome.

The Northern Monkey

my trail food is usually 2x bananas.

jonnyc2420

asda mixed nuts raisins, a nana and haribo.....

Briggo

Snickers, fig rolls and Betty's fat rascals for me.

(I certainly dont pay £15 for 4 of the fat rascals, the missus makes them)

wavey1490

you can beat a good brecky before you go out too, but has to be fig rolls and jelly babies

also I tend to put 1/4 fill my bottle with redbull then top it up with psp mix, so am still getting some sugar every time I take a sip

switchback18

A new discovery is Tesco dried mango. Great stuff, nicer than fresh I think.

PamPen25

After reading this post, you narf get a hankering for some fig rolls......not had 'em in years!!! :twisted:

jools182

not worth bothering with now

I'm well pissed off

PamPen25

I'll get some shop own branded ones. Mmmmmmmmmm

supersonic

I used to get Netto ones lol. About 26p per pack.

roblade

PamPen25 wrote:

After reading this post, you narf get a hankering for some fig rolls......not had 'em in years!!! :twisted:

Pen pen i was just thinking exactly the same thing LOL come pay day me thinks me going to be buying a couple of packs

ROB

lesz42

counterculture wrote:

wine gums and fig rolls, tesco's own brand fig rolls are awesome.

Tesco's own are brill! 35P too!

Thomas544

I came across a new company, Wild Trail, which uses popped corn intead of puffed rice in their bars with nuts, seeds and fruit etc- delicious!

santacrews

Fig rolls too for me !

I also discovered that JACOB's Have gone down the Pan !

Sainsburys OR Tesco "Own" branded ones are packed full of fig !

I also take a stick of Liquirice The Panda ones from Holland & Barret etc ! Not sure why it just tastes like it does something good !

Oh and the occasional MARS Bar ! in case its really taking more effort than it should !

taz3611

Asda's own brand malt loaf, squashed until flat. Fits well in a jersey pocket

MattJWL

CraigXXL wrote:

Homemade flapjack and bananas.

+1 for the home made flapjack.
approx 500g oats (or 350g oats + 150g fruity muesli)
200g butter
80g sugar
2-3 large spoonfuls golden syrup
ginger (powder, or cubes of candied ginger)
ground nutmeg
cinnamon

you can add eg. dried apricots, hazelnuts - or whatever your heart desires

Melt butter, sugar & syrup in pan.
Mix in spices, then add oats (or oat & muesli mix) and stir well

Tip into a large baking tray about 2-3cm deep (or one inch if you're over the pond), and smooth it down so that it's flat

Put in an oven pre-heated to around 170 centigrade for 15-20 minutes (until just starting to go golden)

Remove from oven, then after a couple of minutes, slice into portions. Don't try to remove just yet.

Let it cool, then remove from the tray.
Delicious, and great for long rides. Take a couple of slices on a 2 hour ride. One day I'll experiment with a fructose version too.