Originally Posted by
DeadGrandpa
I think I tend to carry too much food.
What we tend to do is to stop at a grocery store at lunch.
There we pick up the fixings for a nice lunch (buns/rolls, raw veggies, cold meats, cheese, yogurt, fruit, orange juice, maybe a small cake of some sort ... it varies with where we are).
We also select something for dinner that night (maybe frozen or canned meat, a packet of pasta or rice, half-dozen eggs, a selection of fresh veg and fruit ... whatever we feel like).
We also select something for breakfast the next morning (I'm not a breakfast eater so that will vary depending on what I think I might be able to stomach before 10 am and what is available in the shop).
We also select some cycling goodies (fruit, maybe a package of cookies or a small cake).
And if necessary we top up the stuff we always carry (coffee, powdered milk, sugar, cheese, crackers, oriental noodles)
We eat our lunch, and then cycle the rest of the day carrying dinner, breakfast, snacks and the basics.
Around dinner time we arrive at our destination. If the shops are still open, we might top up what we bought for dinner. For example, if it has been a hot day, we might get some ice cream. Or maybe we'll get another yogurt.
We'll have breakfast in the morning ... and when we finish that, we're down to the basics (coffee, powdered milk, sugar, cheese, crackers, oriental noodles) which we carry till lunch, when we add dinner and breakfast. So we don't carry much weight in food for at least half the day, nor do we carry multiple days of food.
Oh, and ... we have been known to stop at fresh fruit and veg markets to pick up some snacks along the way. Or ice cream shops. Or bakeries.
