Fifty Plus (50+) - I'm sick of breakfast bars!

Can we do a quick review of foods you take along on longer rides? Things that will fit in a small saddlebag or jersey pocket? I'm getting so sick of breakfast bars!

fig bars, jellybeans, powerbars, credit card.

double whopper w/ cheese.

Snickers bars and then of course raiding bakery shops along the way.

Bananas.

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You just have to get ones that will fit in the handy dandy banana guard.

Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Take a little Sterno stove and hope you encounter road kill along the way.

Clif bars--especiallly like the carrot cake flavor!!

Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Is that a half eat'n roll of life-savers........

Grandmas Cookies, bananas, money

However, after a good real oatmeal breakfast, I am good for 2-3+ hours without anything.

I have never taken or eaten food of any sort on a bike. If I did, it would have peanut butter involved somewhere, I love that stuff. I will stop and get something though. Monday night it was a hostess apple pie washed down with a Monster. Talk about a sugar rush!

Cliff bars, and Nature Valley granola bars. You can get 12 granola bar packages (two bars per package) in a variety box at the grocery for $5.00. Pretty reasonable.

I only take gels with me when I ride. Easy to take and pretty instant energy. Eating anything bigger takes longer to digest and get into my system than I will be on the bike. I generally don't ride more than 3.5-4hrs at a stretch. GU Expresso Love is my favorite.

Lara Bars (dried fruit and nuts), along with at least one bottle of energy protein drink. That and knowing the location of bike friendly reataurants and snack bars along the route.

Dried fruits with nuts and graham crackers lately. I never bring any food with me on most of my rides. Since covering more distances lately and no restaurant or stores on the trails, I will try energy bars when supplies run out.

Cliff bars, and Nature Valley granola bars. You can get 12 granola bar packages (two bars per package) in a variety box at the grocery for $5.00. Pretty reasonable.+1 on Nature Valley granola bars, but they've got to be the crunchy ones. The non-crunchy ones are too much like candy bars, too sweet, and sticky messy into the bargain. Publix runs two-for-one specials on the NVGB quite often, which saves a bunch of money.

Also: peanut butter & honey on whole wheat bread (cut into quarters for easy transport), fig newtons or their whole grain equivalent, and Murray's ginger snaps.

Fig Newtons, granola bars, Sport Beans, bananas, various energy bars, gels, trail mix, dried apricots, peanut butter and honey sammiches, Snickers...

Lara Bars (dried fruit and nuts), along with at least one bottle of energy protein drink. That and knowing the location of bike friendly reataurants and snack bars along the route.
+1 on Larabars--and you can get them at Costco for less than a buck each. Personally, I like the apple pie/cherry/chocolate coconut assortment better than the 3 varieties of chocolate one, but to each his/her own.

Besides breakfast bars, I sometimes take PBJ sandwich, bananna, M&M's regular or peanut, Moon Pies or fig bars. Usually, on longer rides I'll use different combinations of the above. In a pinch I fill one water bottle with Pepsi, RC or Coke just for the sugar hit.

When you're in a fast food place, pick up (steal) some of those fruit jelly packets. I throw a few in my seatpack on really long rides. The sugar boost can sometimes get you over the hump.

Our Nepalese bike buddy sometimes brings samosas with spicy chutney for the three of us. Samosas by the bay; total decadence. Go ahead, get creative. bk

Always have a gel in the pack- in case I run out of carbs but all my local rides, up to 60 miles or so, have a cafe en route. If its a longer ride then I might find two. Depends on how I feel but One large cappuchino- Then a choice of Full breakfast/ Pie/ Gateaux/ Doughnuts/ Cake/ A bun or two or if I am just peckish- Scrambled egg on toast with bacon.

You need to get organised.

If I'm going on a long ride with no stores around, I use Hammer Nutrition's Perpetuem. You can mix it up to cover you for your estimated calorie burn. Otherwise, a little hammer gel and stop at stores along the way.

Always have a gel in the pack- in case I run out of carbs but all my local rides have a cafe en route. Depends on how I feel but One large cappuchino- Then a choice of Full breakfast/ Pie/ Gateaux/ Doughnuts/ Cake/ A bun or two or if I am just peckish- Scrambled egg on toast with bacon.

You need to get organised.

Just got back from a Mexico vacation w/a bunch of Brits and I never heard one mention a Gateaux.

What is a Gateaux?????????

Just got back from a Mexico vacation w/a bunch of Brits and I never heard one mention a Gateaux.

What is a Gateaux?????????
I wondered that too and figure it must go well with a Roubaix!

I wondered that too and figure it must go well with a Roubaix!

and maybe a guillotine????:rolleyes:

Our Nepalese bike buddy sometimes brings samosas with spicy chutney for the three of us. Samosas by the bay; total decadence. Go ahead, get creative. bk

I'm into wraps - there are so many variations: vegie wraps, chicken, (and my favorite) ground spiced lamb and chutney. Anything your heart desires can be rolled into a tortilla, just cut into pieces the width of your jersey pockets a little cellophane wrap and you are good to go. Heck, you are in CA can't you find those small 6oz bottles of wine, they can fit in a jersey pocket too if you are careful.

Maybe not the best idea for a scortching hot southern California day. But sure is a more favorful option than bananas and fig bars and granola.

What is a Gateaux?????????

In French it means 'cake'. The English however have managed to make yet another indigestible concoction out of perfectly good ingredients and applied to it a fancy name in an heroic effort to make it palatable. I believe it’s for dessert this evening in Hell.

pb and j sandwich with toasted bread

Just got back from a Mexico vacation w/a bunch of Brits and I never heard one mention a Gateaux.

What is a Gateaux?????????
Like a cake but with far richer- more fullfilling taste- And normally plenty of Good firm double cream.

Like a cake really but 10 times nicer.

Clif Bars, or peanut butter sandwich (organic natural-type peanut butter on whole-grain bread), sometimes gels but they're icky.

Cliff bars, especially the new nut bars.

Like a cake but with far richer- more fullfilling taste- And normally plenty of Good firm double cream.

Like a cake really but 10 times nicer.

Thanks for the info; however, I don't think I can carry enough toilet paper and I don't think there are enough trees to get me home after a dessert like that.

After watching the Brits drink on my vacation, I thought the had cast iron stomachs. Now I know!:D

I'm the guy that ate 6 pieces of cherry cream and chocolate pie, but I was in the car on business that day.

The lady at one of the local stores cooked a big pot of tom yum gai and sent a bunch home w/me. I think I can ride about 50 miles tomorrow and not worry about food.:rolleyes: What's a breakfast bar????

Talk about GOOD!!!!!

Breakfast bar? You mean something like this? How do you carry that on a bike?

Breakfast bar? You mean something like this? How do you carry that on a bike?
It goes in the BOB :D

Wally World Oats N Honey bars, packets of honey to place on the Oats N Honey bars, dried apricots, Snickers Marathon bar, lotsa Gatorade, and a banana if I can find a place for it. I eat quite a bit when I'm riding, and the aforementioned goodies do well in my alimentary tract and keep me fueled.

I tried a mid-ride hamburger and malt a few weeks back, and the results were quite underwhelming.

Breakfast consists of oats, ground flax meal, oat bran, blueberries or huckleberries, walnuts or pecans, all topped off with honey an hour or so before the ride.

Is that a half eat'n roll of life-savers........

I just got out of the pool! It's shrinkage, I tell ya, shrinkage!

usually don't have enough room for a pbj, but I almost always take almonds. A small amount gives you plenty of energy.

Apple, banana, Kashi TLC (Tasty little chewies granola bar), pear, Newtons - fig, strawberry, raspberry, PBJ, dried fruit & nuts. No cafes or quickstops on this side of the freeway - just antelope, jackrabbits, tumbleweed, lizards, quail.

To some fruity oriented trail mix I add almond M&Ms. I plan to carry some powdered drink mix to add to water bottles this year.

Breakfast bar? You mean something like this? How do you carry that on a bike?

Thats not bad but prefer the dessert section.

See, if you ride hard enough and long enough- You can not only look at this lot- You can eat them aswell.

What do you know..........another food post on the 50+ forum. We just can't seem to help ourselves can we???

For me it's stuff I can carry in my jersey pockets and eat without stopping.

Bananas-I cut the stems off so they doesn't stick in my ribs and it also makes it easier to start peeling-unless you're into eating the peels.

Lance Peanut Butter crackers. Amazing food. Salt+crackers+peanut butter-easy package to open with your teeth while you're riding. Just make sure you have plenty of fluids to wash them down. I eat two at a time--but NEVER when inhaling really hard!!!

Cliff Bars-Only on really long rides and only the Chocolate Brownies

Gu Gels-Banana only-NO Caffeine for me.

If I stop at a rest stop and they have orange slices I eat enough to where all the juice is running down my chest and stomach. The bees just love it.

I thought you ment the kind of place I could get a bloddy mary at 7 AM, OTH, I like to take pop-tarts, they are ddry, but easy to eat on a ride. The foil wrapper stink though!

My friend Keith, who is also our club president, carries tuna sandwiches on his double centuries,on which he often comes in first, so it must work. I like baked goods, especially muffins. I did the Cruisin' the Conejo century last month and 1 lady baked over 3000 cookies, many kinds of bread, muffins, etc. I was in heaven and grazed at the stops for too long. I'll probably do that ride again, or try to get her to marry/adopt me.

Can we do a quick review of foods you take along on longer rides? Things that will fit in a small saddlebag or jersey pocket? I'm getting so sick of breakfast bars!
Then get some lunch or dinner bars.

Then get some lunch or dinner bars.

If that does not work,try some nudie bars.

Just plan your ride where you can stop at a restaurant every 20 miles.

If that does not work,try some nudie bars.
Prehaps the best suggestion of the lot!

I'm surprised no one mentioned my favorite snack to take along on rides, fits well in the back pocket, too.

Payday candy bars.

No chocolate so they don't melt. Kinda sweet, kinda salty. Delicious! 6/2.50 at wally world. Tastier than clif bars and a lot cheaper.

Colleen

I'm hooked on bananas. They are a pain to carry, and don't pack the energy punch of a Clif bar, but they keep me going, are easy to find in convenience marts along the way if I run out, and they leave me just a bit hungry. I've lost more weight riding with bananas than energy bars. Today, I did 67 miles on three bananas. I almost bonked at the end, but I made it home OK.