Originally Posted by
rodar y rodar
Your suggestion to count or measure more carefully makes a lot of sense. I`ve read many other suggestions to aim for X calories per hour, but how do you count them up? For foods you carry with you, I guess you can make up a fairly simple cheat sheet, but there`s no telling what you might find at controls or gas stations.
Stuff you take with you, just wrap it in 250kcal packages and eat one package per hour. I agree it is more difficult with bought stuff, but processed "real" food is usually labelled with calorie content and it's worth just learning how many calories there are in a can of coke, or a candy bar, or piece of fruit. For example, a medium-sized banana is about a half-hour's worth of carbs, or a bit less. Good source of potassium, too, fwiw. It'll all be an approximation, but absolute precision isn't required.