Originally Posted by Menel

I second Larabars, smaller, more compact. Survive in heat well, don't melt and get weird. Very simple ingredients. They are just fruit and nut put through a foot processor and probably pasteurized or something.

Seriously the banana and cashew flavors have only 3-4 ingredients each. You read the list on a Clif bar and it'll make your head spin.

I combine those with NUUN tablets in my water bottles and survive perfectly well. Almost 7 hours pedaling time over 120Mi on the bike this past Sunday.