Best/favourite snacks for on the bike

[Paul Palombo]

im setting of for a longish tour of the Netherlands in a week or so

i just wondered what everybodys preferences or experiences with snack food to eat on the bike ?

i suffered from the dreaded bonk a few times on long runs and have read its a good idea to eat at least once every hour as well as keep hydrated (which i am better at).

does anybody have any tips/routenes/popular foods ?

i wil probabaly be using a small top bar bag (usually carry a banana)

 

[Saskia]

Raisins by the handful. In the Netherlands: licorice (Hollandse drops).

 

[vernon]

Jelly babies.

 

[srw]

Bombay mix
Roasted corn snacks
Rice crackers

All reasonably easily available from Holland & Barrett, and make a change from all the sweet junk you normally eat on a bike. Dry martini optional.

 

[Spinney]

Flapjacks...

 

[Big Nick]

Strawberry jam sarnies

 

[Dayvo]

Snickers make for a good, cheap, energy snack (chocolate and nuts) and can be found almost anywhere where sweets are sold.

Otherwise keep a small box of mixed nuts and broken-up pieces of chocolate and eat by the handful, close at hand in your bar bag.

Plenty of water during the ride and chocolate milk is a good recovery drink at the end of the day's ride.

 

[steveindenmark]

Nuts and raisins.

But I eat anything anyway.

Steve

 

[Darryl]

School bars (but only in an emergency)

 

[Blue Hills]

Snickers make for a good, cheap, energy snack (chocolate and nuts) and can be found almost anywhere where sweets are sold.

Am afraid I can't really agree with that Davy. There's a lot of nutritionally useless stuff in chocolate, particularly British chocolate. And there's not actually that many nuts in a snickers bar - a squirel would turn their noses up at the haul. If you like such things though (I must admit I do rather like snickers) I'd pop down to Aldi and stock up - they do knock-offs of snickers, mars bars, twixs that to my surprise (I turned my nose up at them for years) are surprising good and a fraction of the price.

 

[Dayvo]

Am afraid I can't really agree with that Davy.

Fair comment, Blue Hills.

I and my cycling mate ate 3-4 Snickers a day over a six-week period on a journey through an autumnal Europe to Gibraltar, and still managed to lose 9 kilos.

On a similar (solo) trip in Australia, I didn't any eat chocolate during the day (it was too hot) and didn't lose any weight at all (draw your own conclusions, but maybe it was too much fruit cake).

 

[snorri]

im setting of for a longish tour of the Netherlands in a week or so
i just wondered what everybodys preferences or experiences with snack food to eat on the bike ?

It would be a sin to tour in the Netherlands without visiting as many of the wonderful cake shops as possible.

 

[Dayvo]

It would be a sin to tour in the Netherlands without visiting as many of the wonderful cake COFFEE shops as possible.

Wot you really meant, eh!

 

[Pale Rider]

As an old roadie once said to me: "You can go a long way on a Mars bar and a banana."

 

[alans]

I favour these....
Twix bar
malt loaf
Eccles cake

all of which fit nicely in a top bar bag (http://www.topeak.com/products/bags/TriBag_raincover)

& of course your banana.

wrt to hydration on the bike I use.....
1x bidon with Munn tabs in plain water.
&
1x bidon plain water only

When stopped for eating/resting I drink black coffee(no sugar) or Diet Coke,or both, for the caffeine boost.