what is a good snack to take with you when riding .....

Balance Gold bars.

some sort of gel and some sort of sports drink

From your avatar, it should be obvious!

Pb&j

Clif bar. No melted fake chocolate mess.

clif bars, nuts, dried fruit, pbj, granola, i love bananas too but they tend to get squished

Too much sweets! I like ham and cheese sandwiches to balance all the clif, goo, etc.

A variety of energy bars.

Also oatmeal cookies and those little packets of salted almonds.

+1 for Clif bars, they are not as dense and gummy like Powerbars, and they actually taste good. Try the chocolate chip ones. Also, Gu gels are good, try the plain or vanilla ones.

I find most bars to be too sweet for my taste so I make my own granola bars. I like this cause I can adjust the sugar level to my taste and add the fruit and nuts I want.

My new favorite: Snickers Marathon energy bars. Also Fig Newtons.

What you see a lot of in this forum: fruits and nuts!

pizza and burritos

Double Whopper with extra big fries.

oatmeal raisin power-bars, gu, banannas are nice but they tend to become disgusting bags of protoplasm in the heat...

peanutbutter and jelly/honey. bagels...

Enervit bars have become a fav of mine as of late. Clif Bars are good. The Snicker's Marathon Bars are great, but messy because of the milk chocolate. I also carry some peanuts and/or beef jerky on longer rides.

Ive been doing Fig Newtons for over 35 years.

candy--redline and epovar

I usally take some sort of granolla bar, a banana, and if I got money for enery gu bars I take those as well.

Beer in a cooler, waiting for you at the finish...

Just kidding

I make a whole wheat bread, cut a slice then cut in half and lay on the peanut butter. Other than that some powerbar of some kind. Clif is best.

Bring 10 bucks and try the Burger King drive thru with your bike

Gels mostly, I love chocolate - but those bars and heat just don't mix...
I'm with machka - salted nuts are good too...

-simplyred

Panini!

bananas