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Why don’t you see Pro’s eating bananas?

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  • April 7, 2013 at 10:34 am #18429
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    Just wondering! Too difficult to peel? Slippy skins a danger to the peloton?

    And what real food do you like to eat on the bike? Soreen for me. Difficult to chew in winter and I must like quite the plonker biting huge chunks off the full loaf as I cycle, but it’s tasty and does the job nicely. Especially when it sticks to the teeth!

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  • March 26, 2014 at 4:04 am #726759
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    chokofingrz

    I love taking yellow bendy
    I love taking yellow bendy potassium-rich fruits out to eat on my rides, but it just doesn’t seem worth the risk these days. Each one is a potential banana-skin.

    March 26, 2014 at 12:15 am #726757
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    Quince

    I’ve been making a… thing
    I’ve been making a… thing composed of apple juice-soaked dates, walnuts and sultanas, whizzed up with cocoa power; they’re based on Nakd bars, but less exorbitantly expensive and cringily ‘life-styley’. They taste a bit like chocolate truffles, but I’m having a hard time encouraging them to be solid. I’ve cooked the mixture with oats before, but doing late always obliterates their taste and sweetness to an extent I can’t make sense of.

    I’m interested in trying out Onigiri (Japanese rice balls) for something more savoury (Japanese food tends to be good at savoury), but they’re too much of an exotic product to be economically viable, so I’d like to learn how to make them. They’re just (strangely delicious) rice with a bit of punchier stuff in the middle, so it can’t be that hard. I ate little else when I was in Japan, and they’re an excellent source of quick energy. Like a rice sandwich.

    March 25, 2014 at 10:30 pm #726755
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    matthewn5

    Chocolate coated hard nougat,
    Chocolate coated hard nougat, has milk, almonds, chocolate and sugar. Get a big long bar and chop it into manageable chunks. Absolutely delicious!

    But mostly I don’t eat much, just zero cal electrolyte drinks and carry a couple of bars that I don’t mostly eat, a gel in case a big hill suddenly appears at the end that I often need, and a protein recovery something to eat on the train home.

    March 25, 2014 at 7:14 pm #726753
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    bashthebox

    How long to rice cakes last
    How long to rice cakes last for then? I’m always a bit wary of old rice; it’s a haven for bacteria.

    March 25, 2014 at 5:28 pm #726751
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    S13SFC

    Mince pies. Stock up on the
    Mince pies. Stock up on the top end ones just after xmas and whack them in the feezer.

    My Mrs goes an awesome “bike cake” as well which combined with a couple of bananas always keeps me going.

    Gels are there for the last hard miles if required.

    March 25, 2014 at 2:41 pm #726749
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    glynr36

    Feedzone portables is my god
    Feedzone portables is my god send.
    Gels/bars/drink mixes give me the gut rot in the hour (all since I did LEJOG in 2012 and did 9 straight days using them when needed, not living on them).
    The rice cakes are the best, tried the original egg & bacon ones, then found out about the books, bought them and the stuff in there is awesome.
    If you already have a well equipped kitchen you probably have most of the stuff needed, I had to buy some cup measures and a few more baking trays.

    Converted many mates to ‘real food’ on the bike now with them trying what ever I made for that weeks ride, and it’s super cheap.
    10 rice cakes (which are the similar nutritional numbers to most bars) cost me around £3 to make, 10 bars? £15ish?

    March 25, 2014 at 2:10 pm #726747
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    spin sugar

    I have always struggled with
    I have always struggled with energy gels and other concentrated products. They just don’t sit well with me so I have spent quite a lot of time looking at this and have been trying various “proper” (for want of a better word) food items. The guys who did the original Feed Zone book now have one out called Feed Zone Portables which is very good and you’ll recognise a lot of stuff in there that the pros use. It is US based and so all the measurements are in cups etc but once you have the tools it’s all relatively straightforward. It has multiple rice cake recipes, pie recipes and baked egg recipes. I would definitely recommend it. Takes a bit of time stocking up but otherwise not too bad in terms of prep. I also love Kate Percy’s Go Faster Food – that mostly deals with meal time but there are recipes towards the back that can be adapted to portables. For a quick sweet fix I can also recommend Fruit Peelers (think most supermarkets have them now) – individually wrapped and in sticks, easy to slip into a jersey pocket and still not quite as sickly as gels.

    March 25, 2014 at 2:06 pm #726745
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    bashthebox

    Yes! I’ve just got onto jelly
    Yes! I’ve just got onto jelly babies too. Lidl ones are dirt cheap. I was munching the sour jelly worms from the natural confectionary company before that, but my local sainos stopped stocking them. Bugger.

    Other things – zipvit bars, kinetica cola gels. Sometimes a wrap on long rides. Occasionally I pull my finger out and make some flapjacks.

    March 25, 2014 at 1:57 pm #726743
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    mooleur

    JELLY BABIES!!!!!!!!!
    JELLY BABIES!!!!!!!!!

    March 25, 2014 at 1:44 pm #726741
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    gthornton101

    Definitely the soreen malt
    Definitely the soreen malt loaf for me, pre-sliced of course.

    For longer rides I also like the bitesize flapjack pieces a certain orange Supermarket does, put in a sandwich bag and in jersey pocket!

    March 25, 2014 at 9:44 am #726739
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    WashoutWheeler

    I think the OP may have been
    I think the OP may have been making humorous reference to rule 16 regards the yellow jersey bananas also have yellow jerseys?

    April 19, 2013 at 11:58 am #726737
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    joemmo

    if you’re after a savoury
    if you’re after a savoury boost then try new potatoes. Skinned, boiled and dried then add some salt and a little olive oil – a little bit of grated cheese can be nice as well – wrap them in foil and they make a good snack. Easy to digest and can counteract all that sickly sugary stuff.

    April 19, 2013 at 11:27 am #726735
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    pdows47

    I’ve not heard anything about
    I’ve not heard anything about banana skins not breaking down, I’d have thought that any fruit waste (apple cores, orange peels etc.) would all break down just as well. When I go out I take some home made flapjacks (banana and chocolate with sunflower seeds) and for really long ones, some fruit, normally banana, or a satsuma for something different, but they do need you to stop to eat them. I always have a gel as well, just in case I make a right dogs dinner of eating (excuse the pun) and end up bonking.

    April 19, 2013 at 10:13 am #726733
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    andylul

    I’ve been buying sun-dried
    I’ve been buying sun-dried bananas from H&B – same banana-y taste, zero packaging.

    Someone also told me that they were told on the DIVA Ride that in the UK, banana skins don’t break down at the road side (which was ironic, because she was broken down at the road side)

    Can anyone prove or dispel this potential myth?

    April 18, 2013 at 2:56 pm #726731
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    KirinChris

    @sm 20-30 mins in a medium
    @sm 20-30 mins in a medium oven should do it.

    They’re yummy, easy to digest, and the banana-bacon-maple combo is great, as anyone who has had the full US Diner experience will know.

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