Originally Posted by
DrIsotope
If I'm hungry I eat, If I'm not I don't. So the same philosophy transfers over to the 250kcal/hr thing-- I have never planned out how much I'm going to intake per hour in advance. Hungry, eat, not hungry, don't. Sometimes, chocolate milk.
Yeah, this is pretty much what most of us do.
But on rides over the metric century length, I do find it beneficial to pay a bit more attention to how many calories I'm eating and when.
I don't, however, get too hung up on exactly what I'm eating. It might be a banana, a granola bar, an ice cream, a chicken sandwich ... or whatever.