Originally Posted by deerhoof
I think im kind of kiding myself as far as what i will want to eat once im out on the trail. The past year i tried to really watch what i ate. I started caring about where and how things were processed. I guess this is my main reason for wanting to do the drop boxes. Though I am thinking now that I don't enjoy food as much as I used to, so I probably will jump at local foods along the way to balance out the rice and oatmeal.
While eating right is a good thing, you need to treat touring like you would the time from Thanksgiving to Christmas, i.e. it's not so much what you eat between Thanksgiving and Christmas but what you eat from Christmas to Thanksgiving
Touring eats up lots of calories. It is an effort to just replace what you use much less eat more than you need. I really do get tired of eating while I tour particularly since I can't eat stuff that has much fat in it as I ride. I snack during the day and then try to reload at dinner and breakfast but I usually end up losing lots of weight on tour.