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+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 ๐
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 [u]and [/u][s]sandwich.[/s]
Nutella [s]and marmalade[/s] sandwich.
FTFY
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)
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 ๐
Home made malt loaf (containing dates, figs and raisins), coconut oil in stead of butter.. with Nutella and jam filling.

