Best Road Food While Touring
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Always bring plenty of freeze dried meals with me, as I do while backpacking, but canned tuna, tofu, if kept in cool water will last a long time, peanut butter, oatmeal, dried fruit, and low-carb bars.
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Query: Why does a cyclist carry low-carb ANYTHING on tour?
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Bread, rice, noodles/pasta and red wine.
Bread: Buns, sandwiches, flat bread etc ...
Rice: one pan recipie normally, cook rice add lots of other stuff to taste.
Noodles/Pasta: noodles added to stir fried meat or veges, or spaghetti with sauce added.
Red wine: goes with anything/everything ... heck even on it's own ...shiraz/grenache esp!
Bread: Buns, sandwiches, flat bread etc ...
Rice: one pan recipie normally, cook rice add lots of other stuff to taste.
Noodles/Pasta: noodles added to stir fried meat or veges, or spaghetti with sauce added.
Red wine: goes with anything/everything ... heck even on it's own ...shiraz/grenache esp!
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Bannock (a quick bread that you can add anything to), rice, ramen & most anything with meat.
On that subject, there's a microbrewery in Chilton, WI that's worth a visit. It's name escapes me at the moment, however...
Chilton is just a stones' throw from here, I'll look it up for ya when I get some time.
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On that subject, there's a microbrewery in Chilton, WI that's worth a visit. It's name escapes me at the moment, however...
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I always liked finding the all you can eat pacakes, I would find them in the countryside, in my neck of the woods. I would eat them until I could barely move. It was great sutffing myself for $3.
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For me it's always chicken fried steak sandwiches. I don't know why, but after a half-day in the saddle with 40-50 miles under your belt, there's nothing better than stopping at one of those small town american diners and having a chicken friend steak sandwich...with fries.
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i don't hate cooking with a stove, but it would be less hassle (don't have to wash the pot, cleaning the stove, no need to carry fuel, etc) if i can tour without one so i wonder will eat only dry meat and nothing else be enough?
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Originally Posted by Schumius
i don't hate cooking with a stove, but it would be less hassle (don't have to wash the pot, cleaning the stove, no need to carry fuel, etc) if i can tour without one so i wonder will eat only dry meat and nothing else be enough?
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Originally Posted by Schumius
i don't hate cooking with a stove, but it would be less hassle (don't have to wash the pot, cleaning the stove, no need to carry fuel, etc) if i can tour without one so i wonder will eat only dry meat and nothing else be enough?
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Originally Posted by Rogerinchrist
Chilton is just a stones' throw from here, I'll look it up for ya when I get some time.
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Originally Posted by halfbiked
Yeah, I grew up in those parts. Elkhart Lake, specifically. I believe the brewery is Rowland's Calumet Brewery. But could be mistaken. Heck, it might be gone by now - I haven't been through Chilton in 4 or 5 years.
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Originally Posted by DocF
How about the official red neck lunch--a can of Vienna sausages, a Coke, and a Moon pie.
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Originally Posted by Shifty
Food is the fuel that keeps you riding, depending on how far, and hard you ride you'll burn fuel. Dry meat alone won't work very well. You'll need breads, fruits and veggies also. Pita, chipati or crackers are easy to carry and good. Fresh and dried fruits help the body and spirit, and all kinds of durable veggies are easy to carry and eat along the way without cooking.
Lack of proper vitamins can lead to all kinds of other issues that wouldn't be good in the long run also. A balanced diet, especially during heavy exercise, is far more important than convenience.
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DO NOT eat too much dried fruit!!!
I did a week long mountain bike trip several years ago and carried lots of dried fruit. It's great stuff! But one of the unfortunate side effects is that dried fruit is often treated with sulfur compounds to preserve it. "What goes in, has to come out." Digested sulfur makes hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen sulfide releases in pit toliets can make for some eye-watering experiences
I did a week long mountain bike trip several years ago and carried lots of dried fruit. It's great stuff! But one of the unfortunate side effects is that dried fruit is often treated with sulfur compounds to preserve it. "What goes in, has to come out." Digested sulfur makes hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen sulfide releases in pit toliets can make for some eye-watering experiences
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I live in NJ and usually head out to stanton to get their muffins.they offer they usual- blueberry cranberry and the like.THEY ALSO HAVE CHO./CHOC. CHIP ones that are to die for.they also offer all muffins with or without cream cheese baked in the muffin!!!!!!!!!!!!!