Originally Posted by base2

My goodness, how do you people live on so little food? [MENTION=152773]noglider[/MENTION] seems to be the only one with a substantial diet!

I read the title & was hoping to get some good info on how to get a days worth of food to work, not just a lunch. My commute is 26-30 miles one way. Bike, rack, fenders, and a pair of Ortlieb back roller classics top 50 pounds and I burn 1200-1500 calories every morning. HOW to get enough food to support that and a 8000 step a day job in a factory would be good information.

I bunjy-corded a 5 pound lunch box to the rack, but the first time I got the bus home, the first driver gave me a look I didn't understand until I watched my bike sway uncomfortably on the over taxed bus rack. The next driver asked that the lunch box be removed so he could see the road.

It was then that I realized that the lunch box defeated the easy-on/easy-off of the panniers & just unnecessarily complicated matters.

After commuting 120 miles this week, 4 days, I leave the lunch box at home and spend $15 in the cafeteria. the return bus trip home is $6:50

My set up: Full shower kit (towel, washcloth, shower shoes, deoderant, work shoes, and a days clothes) in 1 pannier, and cycling gear in the other (cycling shoes, coat, rain coat, rain pants, neoprene shoe covers, gloves, computers, lights, keys, lock, & helmet) in the other. Due to work environment, it all has to go both ways.

Frame bag with repair kit, phone, wallet, and security credential for the gate.

HOW to get 3000 reasonably healthy calories back and forth that's both bus & bike friendly...now that would be good information.