What foods do you crave whilst cycling

[Katherine]

On a particularly long ride that I have consumed lots of sweet snacks and drink, I really crave a packet of crisps and have often gone out of my way to find some. Not practical to carry in your jersey pocket!

 

[Drago]

Doner kebab.

 

[Bazzer]

No cravings here either. Have to remind myself to eat on a ride as I don't particularly enjoy it, whether on the bike or at a cafe. Seems to take about half an hour after riding before I can eat with pleasure. The exception is small sugars such as jelly babies/beans when tired.

 

[wonderloaf]

Eggs in any form ... fried, scrambled, omelette, etc with toast. Together with a flat white coffee = bliss.

 

[Fab Foodie]

This thread reminds me of being on tour as a younger person, in the 80s. My mate and I had, as usual, miscalculated, mis-routed and generally over-reached ourselves and were struggling to get to the next town for food and drink. We were in Wales and passed through some small villages with no open shops.

We decided that the most welcome sight around the next bend would be a crashed Mr Kipling lorry, with its contents strewn across the road. Somewhere in a box I have a photo of the pile of empty Mr Kipling cake boxes left after our light snack that day when we did eventually find a shop.

Sounds like an exceedingly lucky find....

 

[HarryTheDog]

Whilst on the ride ,another one who goes for anything jammed to the gunnel's with sugar . I especially crave Dolly Mixtures the family packs, I can down the whole bag in less than 20 seconds.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I don't normally get cravings on a long ride. When I was working and commuting I would have to cycle past a chip shop on the ride home and the smell would have me craving chips even though I'm not supposed to eat them.

 

[GuyBoden]

An all day breakfast or some pork pies has got me home on many occasions, but yesterday it was two large hot sausage rolls from the bakery.

 

[MichaelW2]

On very long tours I develope a craving for meat pies which is odd because I fon't normally eat them.

 

[FishFright]

In summer it's beer , Wadworth 6x, and in the colder month's its a sausage and egg bap.

 

[Fonze]

Anything that has chocolate involved ..

 

[Alan O]

Sausage butties for me, which is why they're my staple food when out cycling - I eat one every hour or so, with the occasional Mars or Snickers in between.

One thing I can't do is keep up with the volume of high-carb stuff that folks are supposed to need when out on a ride. When I did a 100m earlier this year, I calculated roughly how many kcals I'd need and carried about that amount in oaty and sugary stuff (together with a pack of sausage butties). But I ate less than half of it during the ride - I just couldn't force it all down.

And that reinforces my old conviction that I should just eat what I like, little and often.

 

[jay clock]

I did Ironman Austria in July and drove 30 minutes at 1am to find a Maccy D for Big Mac, Filet o Fish, Chips and milkshake

 

[derrick]

Beer.

 

[Globalti]

A generous portion of scrambled eggs with bacon on wholemeal toast with lots of butter; just about the most balanced meal an athlete could eat. I was able to indulge this fantasy recently at the cafe in Airton and for the remaining 30 miles of the ride I went like a train.