Recently we’ve been consuming left over parkin on rides. So much so that we’ve had to make more and it’s not even anywhere near bonfire night!
Loads of sugar/treacle/golden syrup for an instant hit and the oats give some sustained energy release, a bit like flapjack I suppose but with gingery goodness.
Also – egg sarnies, cheese and onion sarnies, pork pies etc etc etc.
My best plan is to get a load of snap down my neck before I go so I don’t have to carry as much on the ride though.
I stick a gel or energy bar in for back-up but invariably return with it still intact.

Recently ditched the hallowed malt loaf. It melts and sticks to everything 🙁

Some sandwiches and a bag of salted cashew nuts (as long as you have access to water) works well for me, gels for emergencies only.

Tortillas and tinned/smoked mackeral or tuna.
For really nice sporty food:

Nutty, moist, fruity and slightly salty.

ez energy bars are ok natural ingredients and quite cheap i get them from discount supplements

john west and princes do foil containers of tuna pasta olives and stuff, come with their own sfork

I used them when I did london to brighton

in the words of crocodile dundee………

+1 for Cornish Pasty
I refer to them as ‘performance pasties’

Also cold (from night before’s order) performance pizza. Both delicious and easily packed into the camelback

Cold tuna risotto balls wrapped in film. Much prefer rice to pasta and this seems to hit the spot for me. Add marmite to the stock for more savoury taste. Delete tuna as needed. Keep the cheese for binding.

Tell me you’ve never passed a pub ? Pint burger salty chips and go !

Cheers chaps, lots of different opinions 😉

Wholemeal pitta bread filled with chiken- tika fillets, lime pickle, watercress and radishes. I use this winter and summer, more lime pickle in the winter months !! 9 bars as a back up, peanut variety are the best. Hope this helps.

On the go:
Clif Bars
Tortilla wraps with PB or Nutella in them
Beef Jerky
Chilli Rice Crackers
Cheese Strings
Tangfastics
Jelly Babies
Proper break:
Anything from the Savouries section of a Petrol Station (ie Ginsters)

Peanut butter and banana and [s]sandwich.[/s]
Nutella and marmalade sandwich.

FTFY

wrapped in a small pack ready!

Ah, this is fresh in my mind as I’m just back from the European Adventure Racing finals, which was a 72hr non stop race including lots of biking as well as running and kayaking. I was fuelled on a variety of the following, with the aim of ingesting 250 calories per hour, heavy on carbohydrate. It was a mix of sweet and savoury stuff, as you can’t survive on just sugary crap for that long, you start getting mouth ulcers and stomach issues.

Clif Bars (lots of)
Peanut M&Ms
Clif Builder Bars (protein)
Clif Shot Blocks
Ham and cheese tortilla wraps
Clif caffeine gels (double espresso ones are rocket fuel!)
Cashew and peanut mix
mini babybels
pepperami
jelly babies
flapjack
mini pork pies
nutrigrain breakfast bars
Rego recovery drink (powder mix)
Nurishment drink
A couple of dehydrated meals, eaten in transition.

Admittedly I’m now completely fed up of all of the above, having eaten one or other of them every hour for 72 hours, but they did the trick fairly well.

Stuff that others had that I was jealous of:

chocolate (simple but effective)
mint cake
cake (one team stopped at a WI cake sale and loaded up!)
cold pizza slices
sausage roll

I get a bit sick of eating sweet stuff all day in very long events, and have used Allen Lim’s rice cakes as an alternative (more savoury than the recipe above)

[video]https://youtu.be/5UiuqIWGe_s[/video]

Another of his pro team recipes is boiled tatties, rolled in olive oil and parmesan and wrapped in foil.

I can also recommend AUDAX events if you don’t want to carry all your own food; managed to scoff 6 cooked meals in my last one!

This thread is a superb illustration of the diverse nature of STW forumites 🙂

Home made malt loaf (containing dates, figs and raisins), coconut oil in stead of butter.. with Nutella and jam filling.