what is the best to take with you to eat mid ride, i find i need to top up reserves about 15 miles into a ride (or maybe i should be doing so earlier?)as i'm aiming for all day 30-40 mile rides mainly offroad but energy bars/gels just mess with my digestive system so i need an alternative, this is for general rising and mincing about, not for a race situation so stopping and scoffing is definately on the cards rather than eating on the go
what do you eat?
Flapjacks / cereal bars for long lasting energy, jelly babies for short acting
Flapjack is good. Have you tried SIS powder in your drink? It's very good but makes you fart a lot later in the day. (It's pure carbohydrate)
Carefully choose your route so that it goes past as many apple trees as possible.
Obviously only really works well between September and December. But stolen apples are truly delicious.
I once found some passion fruit in August; they're pretty good.
Whats wrong with just bog standard food at regular intervals
take a jam and peanut butter sandwich and some fruit
flapjacks are good but a bit stodgy
jam and peanut butter on the same bread? *voms*
The staff usually set up the picnic for me. If I'm roughing it the string quartet stay at home!
malt loaf
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flapjacks are good but a bit stodgy
jam and peanut butter on the same bread? *voms*
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Try cereal bars then - tracker or lidls do some decent ones or those kellogs breakfast bar things
fig rolls!
+1 for Malt Loaf
Cheap, full of carbs, low fat, and doesn't matter if it gets bashed about in your pack. 
My riding is built on malt loaf. There are some nice variants too if you can get hold of them.
But it can be tough to digest when knackered so take some gels too.
flapjacks are good but a bit stodgyhave you tried peterpoddys recipe? add raisins and chopped up glace cheeries too, lovely, not very stodgy at all.
Bananas, bit fragile tho.
Pies!
Stella
+1 for jam and peanut butter,dont knock it till you try it.......
haribos and jelly babies are a good sugar kick too
I usually have malt loaf, bananas and eat natural bars. I don't find proper food works well for me during a ride i.e cafe stop for lunch, so if i opt for say a sandwich, then i'll need coffee/cake/chocolate for an instant hit.
Malt loaf with marmite on it, much nicer than it sounds
jelly babies
fig rolls
Kelloggs Elevenses bars
Jam sarnies
dried fruit
Malt loaf with marmite on it, much nicer than it soundsI love marmite but that still sounds mingin
"Malt loaf with marmite"
Yeah that works great, but I can't cope with the flavour 
Home-made flapjacks (with things like peanut butter/chocolate/nuts/seeds) are the best IME. Do a search for recipes on here - there are a fair few. On a good day they give me 40-60 mins of energy. Most other foods/bars/gels give me 20-30, e.g.
bananas
malt load
sandwiches
And jelly babies rock - better IMO than all those expensive/fancy energy drops etc.
Peanut M&Ms
Any sandwiches with a bit of 'moistness' to the in case you're getting dehydrated (I usually slice tomatoes into mine, but you gotta learn to love squashed, soggy bread)
Sesame Snaps - sesame seeds, sugar & glucose syrup. 550 calories per 100g
Chug a can/bottle of coke if you're near civilisation (I can't be bothered to carry 1/2 kg with me, but always buy a bottle if we have a shop stop).
Spacemonkey - gotta get me some of that Malt Load. Sounds calorific.
Flapjacks for me, Chocolate Orange flavour
Wine gums for a quick pick up!
Got a Mule bar to try on this weekends reliability...
Mrs M's home made flapjacks are the best, but failing that default is always Kellogs Nutrigrains, now called Elevenses. Either the oat bake or raisin bake. Look at the nutritonal info and it's about the same as a Go Bar at about 1/5th of the price. Tasty too
are Nina's recipes still on Mleh TJ?
i might try malt loaf with marmalade as an experiment (hate marmite)
I get on with the Clif Shot gel cube thingys far better than a gel. cheaper too (one pack is equiv to a couple gels) orange flavour, all the way..
Pork Pies.
Normal food works if you are planning on stopping to eat it.
Bombay-mix FTW!
My picnic always consists of an egg and cress sandwich. Protein and carbs and it's easy to digest too.
Standby is Blackfriars flapjacks, available from Holland and Barrett for around 75p. Substantial and available in lots of different varieties.
Perhaps a few dried apricots too.
My picnic always consists of an egg and cress sandwich
not what i'd want in a warm camelbak 
Placcy bag of Mumbai mix and/or mixed fruit'n'nuts in the jersey pocket for dipping into, banana and jam sarnies for stopping and eating.
A typical Jelly Baby (or other generic industrial confectionary product) is basically a 1/2 teaspoon of sugar plus some gunk from a cows foot with some food colourings/flavours for the charm - so about 20 'empty' calories plus some chemicals 
probably work well as placebo snacks though........
not what i'd want in a warm camelbak
If it's a hot day, I use a little ice pack. Simples!
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