[Closed] Alternatives to Power and Clif bars, what's your ride snack favourite?

rice krispie squares and jelly babies.

Eccles cakes and Jelly Snakes!

+1 for eccles cakes, also crisps for salt.

9 bars

Salted peanuts and a packet of hartleys jelly.

Cheap and effective. Works just fine on long rides.

another 9 bars fan, nutty variety does it for me 😀

Nature Valley granola bars.

re. replacing salt. I saw a paper which suggested that you don't lose enough salt through sweating to warrant replacing them, but what happens is people drink too much, thus diluting the salts and making them less effective... i think.

Just good old flapjack for me, but those Pecan Pies look immense!

Soreen malt loaf, flattened and compressed to take up less room.

home made flapjacks for me or sometimes buy some, but i had 2 really good rides at the weekend fueled on cinamon bagels! worked real well for test valley tour and stw swinley ride this weekend

Rice Crispie Squares for me. And haribo. Coeliac disease means no oats or wheat, and having some awareness of flavour and texture means no 9 Bars. "mmm, you can really taste the hemp"

Mule Bars, flapjacks and sausage rolls. Not all at once, mind you!

Those elevenses golden oat bars, nom nom nom

Haribo tangfastic. Nothing beats fizzy cola bottles.

There's a weird vegan baker who sells cakes on Hebden Bridge market who makes a snack bar consisting of squidgy chocolate, peanut butter and rice crispies and is unexpectedly tasty and efficacious.

Am taken by the idea of Eccles cakes. Must remember to get some.

Jelly babies or bloody great sarnies.

Soreen malt loaf, flattened and compressed to take up less room.

Phew, I'm not the only that does that then!

fig rolls - nom

The nearest Cafe...

kep pollrn balls are really nice especially the coffee ones, and quite easy to make your own

scotch eggs, haribo, snickers, cake, soil and twigs

Sainsburys Raisin & Oatmeal cookies - normally 5 decent size cookies for £1. Bargain 🙂

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Houns, I once got very, very, very drunk on Wye stuff at the Saracen's in SY. Awesome beers!

Ringo, have you got a recipe for those?

another malt loaf vote here
though any abuse/compression is accidental

also Lidl chocolate raisins mixed in with plain raisins

Having recently developed a taste for beer/lager i have to say CFH that Wye do not do a bad drop at all

Tunnocks.
Or apricot torq bars.

Malt loaf, dolly mixture or fig rolls. Sometimes all three if I'm lucky!

Never do a big ride without sausage butties in my pack. Make them while the sausages are warm so all the butter melts into the bread, does the job a treat.

Jelly babies, jelly beans and chocolate brownies have all come in handy at various times too.

Houns, if you like that etc...

Try some Hop Back Summer Lighting. Top ale!

Nature valley bars and Florida nuggets for me.

Shere drop is a nice pint.

Will do, thanks

Soreen malt loaf, flattened and compressed to take up less room.

+1

Sometimes a cheese straw from the mid-ride stop off place for a bit of extra savoury suntinence. 😀

Jelly babies - almost pure glucose.

I've used maltloaf, currently use jaffa cakes.

Have known of people using:
Malt loaf and marmite. 😯
Rocky road.
Banana and bacon toasties.

Traidcraft Geo bars are my current favourite - £1 for a pack of 5 at Tesco at the moment.

Plus a few Haribo from a tub I keep in the cupboard and transfer to a little bag pre ride.

Pretty much anything with some form of sugar in it.

Folk who swear by rip-off Power Bars etc need their heads examined.

Forget snacks, my post ride drink... 9% of loveliness!

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A nice sandwich and a bit of flapjack or fruitcake... and a 'nana

White rolls with honey. Granola bars. Those fig & cashew bars from Tesco. I also like Jelly babies, although the insulin crash from those is just horrendous so I tend to only eat them when I know I have enough to get me to the end of the ride. Take 3 every 15 mins and they work wonders....until you run out.

Houns, I once got very, very, very drunk on Wye stuff at the Saracen's in SY. Awesome beers!

Be very wary of Butty Bach, slips down very easily, then you slip down just as easily!!! 😳

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