I'm a little sick of only eating sweet stuff for energy food. Anyone have any recipes for home made, savoury trail food?
Recipe must be do-able for a man who once tried to cook pasta in a pan without adding any water.

powerbar do a peanut pretzel bar thats kindy salty and not overly sweet. Got bits of pretzel in and stuff. Well tasty.

Foxyrider's got some reccomendations

Home made egg and bacon trail sushi as eaten yesterday, not sure how much energy it gave but it was very nice 😉

Savoury flapjack – loads on recipes on the wen, but mine includes

Porridge oats
Carrot
Onion
Cheese
dash of milk
an egg

Lovely

Macaroni pies.

Mozarella rolls.

Make your own flapjacks that aren't as sweet.

I asked this about 12 months ago and got told to take a sandwich. Malt loaf isn't savoury but it's not sickly IMO. Sausage rolls?

I still think there's a market for a cheese based/flavoured energy bar, much better than liver.

Ritz Bitz are ace trail food, but unfortunately not available over here 🙁

Pasties, THE original energy food.

If you CAN cook pasta, cold pasta salad with chicken, tuna, Spam or whatever other protein works for you can be good. Or even with vegetables (I know, I know, but it can work…)
Potato salad is good, and is available ready-made, ready packed. Can be messy if the tub explodes in your camelbak in a crash.

Ham sammich

LIVER!

Yeah, Torq need to sort that Cheddar Energy Bar. They could have a whole cheese series. Stilton, Yarg, Morbier…

kp dry roasted peanuts full of good stuff

Marmite ceral bars / flap-jacks?

Just bought a box of marmite bars, not tried them yet nor have any idea on how 'sports nutrition' they are.

I tried marmite porage for breakfast once. Vile.

Here in Western Liguria, Italy, there is a pie called Torta verde (green tart) it has a very thin pastry loaded with rice, riccota cheese, zuchini and other greens and held together with egg… lovely and very high carb content!!

I will ask the old dear next door for a recipe

Ciao

I'm sure I had a salted peanut flavour energy bar not so long ago at Dalby. Chilli Slice is the way forward though.

I find the small pots of ready to eat cous cous or lentils are good, get them in Sainsbury or Waitrose. One of those and a couple of sandwiches works for me.

Only use energy bars when I really really have to.

Kev

Salted cashews or peanuts.
Fig rolls.

Sliced Cumberland sausage mixed with grainy mustard in pitta breads does the work for me.

Peanut butter (crunchy whole earth) & marmite butties on preferably thick brown bread……yummm

Quiche?

Seems like what you're looking for here is essentially 'party food.' Sausage rolls, pork pies etc. (Sod all use to me as a vegemetarian, mind)

I'm terribly intrigued by the idea of Marmite flapjacks. That's going to go one of two ways…!

Cougar, Linda McCartney sausage rolls are vegan, as are Jus Rol pastry and Sosmix if you want to make your own.

Yeah, this is true. I knew this, I just can't have been paying attention when I wrote that (-: That said, I'm not convinced that the concept of a porkless pie particularly appeals to me…!

Honey and mustard sausages FTW

I bought a porkless pie from H&B once.
I ate the pastry and gave the "filling" to my dog.

Scotch egg?

I like the sushi idea tho.. May give that a go 🙂
I reckon someone needs to make a tuna based energy bar with a parsley sauce liquid centre 🙂

A whopping big slice of Westmorland pie (cumbrian sausage meat, cheese and pickle filling, plenty of jelly) from Tebay services, the best savoury mid ride snack ever!
They also do some very nice posh individual pies.

If I'm not going passed Tebay then some sort of pasty, pie or scotch egg.

Not quite answering the question, but on longer rides I do find that my stomach is happiest with a combination of sweet/savoury, so these days I take along a trail mix consisting of…

a selection of nuts
raisins
fruit flakes/pieces (yoghurt coated if you like)
M&Ms

Every time you take a handful, you're getting a bit of sweet, a bit of savoury, a bit of salt, and copious calories. Yummy.

Salted nuts and M&Ms?!

chocolate M&Ms 🙂

I asked this about 12 months ago and got told to take a sandwich.

Sounds like sensible advice.

People have been extracting energy from food long before the "energy food" marketing machine starting "educating" us that we couldn't possibly get the aminolithoelectroproteiolytes required for riding our bikes round for a bit by just, you know, having something to eat.

Jeez Buzz Killington…