Or else everything (both pro and con) about Power Bar Gel Blasts has pretty much said at this point? :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by jobob
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Or else everything (both pro and con) about Power Bar Gel Blasts has pretty much said at this point? :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by jobob
I dunno, I think an in depth study with the help of a biochemist would help.......:pQuote:
Originally Posted by jobob
I'm on the "I can't eat gummie bear/sharkie type stuff" team, so I guess I won't be trying these delicacies. Now, give me a Payday, or a Luna Nutz over Chocolate........:cool:
Is there a way to carry and ingest chocolate in some form on a 3 hour ride over 80 or 90 degrees?Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
There's a chocolate LaraBar. It seems pretty solid. And it's fair trade, even!
Power bar makes a good chocolate gel that is like frosting. One of my teammates is a big chocolate Gu fan.
Mmmm..Chocolate GU..mmmm...
LaraBars..mmmmmm..
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Originally Posted by OakLeaf
We use to love Larabars - until Thom got violently :eek: ill from one. That's part of the risk of things that don't get processed I guess.
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Yikes ok I guess I'm not going to try them then!Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
Hmmm....maybe some chocolate covered espresso beans wouldn't melt? Probably just wishful thinking...
Sure. Take them. Then try to figure out what to do with the gooey, messy wrapper after . . . .
Figure out what to do with a piece of waxed paper? Um....throw it away of course....it's totally biodegradable. (Unless it's fairly clean or you can easily rinse it off, in which case put it in in the paper recycles.)Quote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate
Or, use a piece of tin foil and then rinse the chocolate off at home and recycle it.
Or if there's room in your saddlebag, use a really small plastic tub snack container that you can re-use over and over again.
I like peanut M & Ms and a Red Bull.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
Jo, do you look at what I buy on my permanent receipts?
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I know you do some long hot rides- do peanut M&M's hold up in the heat ok? I do like them!Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
I keep them in my Bento box or in one of my bags and they do fine. I think it's that "Melts in your mouth, not in your hand," candy coating.
I wonder what sorts of nasty ingredients M & Ms have.
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Well here it is:Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
http://www.sugarstand.com/sc/sc0057-...ut-xxl-bag.htm
Yes they do have some non-healthy ingredients, especially the fake colors. But the substantial amount of chocolate and nuts in them are at least more real than just a sugar/gelatin combo. And m&ms are more earth-friendly packaged (in a giant bag rather than individual plastic foil packets), they're cheap, and they don't disguise themselves as a hi-tech sports wonder food and charge a fortune for basically just textured sugar.
That's a good idea, thanks! I think I may start carrying some peanut m&ms on long rides. Good to know they don't just melt into liquid in the heat. I like chocolate.
I love chocolate, but I cannot eat it when riding. It always upsets my stomach...always. Ick.
My favorite cycling 'real food' are PB filled pretzels. They handle heat well, they don't upset my stomach, they have a nice salty-sweet goodness and you can buy them in bulk at many stores. As long as I eat them before I'm seriously glycogen depleated, they work great!
Well, there you go. Something you can feel good about on all counts.
I don't buy them in a giant bag. It would be too easy to eat them when I am not riding. They are one of those things I buy mid - ride when I need to get a receipt - along with Red Bulls.
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Petroleum-based waxed paper thrown out with each use. Any biodegradable coating better be made with food by-product or its not enviromentally friendly either.
Use of precious non-renewable water that's been treated and transported to your tap to re-use an item. It takes a ton of water (plus soap) to wash the goo off plastic wrap.
Sometimes you can only choose the lesser evil.
I love Nectar bars when I'm riding.
http://www.clifbar.com/food/products_nectar/
And the wrappers can be recycled.
http://www.clifbar.com/soul/sustainability/
Hmmm... i didn't think of that. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
I don't wash goo off plastic wrap with soap, I agree that it negates most of the re-use benefits. I hardly use plastic wrap at all anymore. I try to use plastic bags many times, as I also do with pieces of tin foil. But I admit I do use 'non-renewable water that's been treated and transported to my tap' for cooking, washing myself, drinking, flushing, and cleaning.Quote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate
Here's an example of non petroleum based waxed paper:
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/items...al_Waxed_Paper
Check your food co-op or health food store. :)
And then there is the electricity we're using to be on the internet. :D
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Then some of us work from home and don't even burn up a bicycle tire to commute. :D
We have a friend who lectures us constantly on not washing every single jar so it can go into the recycling. Here in Central Oregon, all glass must be stored at the recycling collection site and then transported long distance to be recycled. He just cannot lift his eyes to the big picture of water use and transportation as part of the cost to the environment. A beer bottle that needs a tsp of water to rinse goes into the bin. A peanut butter jar? No. The fish need that water.
Some of us are on vacation... I do feel guilty about the number of showers I take some days though. I shower after I run or ride in the morning. Then if I'm meeting with the trainer in the afternoon, I shower after my session with her. Don't even suggest Navy showers... hot water makes my sore muscles happy.
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Yeah. And the carbon dioxide we pollute the earth with when we exhale!Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
We should just kill ourselves, or eat ourselves. (Soylent green, like they do with cows?)
Well, as most people here have as well I'm sure, I've made an effort to make lots of small choices and changes, it can add up. I've found many wasteful or environmentally bad things that I used to do just automatically without thinking about it, out of longstanding habit, and I've tried to do them better. :o
My carbon dioxide is good for my indoor plants.
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I feel guilty too - but not that guilty:D I sweat when I ride. A lot. So, if I'm running errands by bike, etc. there will be a shower after the ride. If we walk (or do another ride), I shower again. I do try to keep them short....Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
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Originally Posted by bmccasland
I'm kinda partial to Jelly Belly Energizer Beans, but if I don't have those I'm also a big fan of dried fruit, raisins, cherries, berries.
Let's all stop breathing for 10 seconds & see what that does..
Lisa-let's just say not all of us live as if we're trying to be the little house on the prairie family :rolleyes:
Actually..since i am rather flatulent, i'd like one of the flatulence collection mechanisms a farm somewhere in the UK now has on all it's cows
I amazed myself yesterday. I went out for my run, and when I came back the plumber was in our motel room fixing the tub leak we'd told the front desk about. This is an older property, so he had to turn the water off to the ENTIRE COMPLEX to work on our room :rolleyes: We had about 20 minutes to get dressed and get to where we needed to be, and I couldn't even wash my face. The housekeepers let me use a room they were cleaning, to change in. And y'know what? it was fine. I felt really gross for about the first hour, then I got over it. I don't eat much animal products and I sweat heavily, so (I'm saying this myself, but I've heard it from others too) I don't really smell.Quote:
Originally Posted by CA_in_NC
So I'm going to try to be better in the future about taking two showers in the same day - now that I know I can do it and not rot from within :rolleyes:
Not all of us live in the thirsty West. Some of us have plentiful, untreated ground water. Granted it still takes electricity to run the pump (and at 300 feet, a hand pump is out of the question), but in comparison it's a small usage. And when you're washing your plastic bags in the same load as your other hand-wash dishes, there's some extra rinse water but no extra soap or wash water.Quote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate
I put my potentially gooey stuff in plastic bags. Afterwards, I have something to put the gooey stuff in when I stuff it in my pockets with the rest of my stuff. So my stuff doesn't get gooey.
And back to the topic, powerbar shots are great. I had one yesterday and FLEW through my ride. For lactic acid buildup, though, you can't beat Cytomax.
Making choices towards less unhealthy junk in foods and less plastics and waste that pollute the planet has little to do with being a "Little House on the Prairie family".Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
Just to bring this every so slightly back on topic ;) , while we were away in bend after the Death Ride, we received our big Power bar shipment with some new products we're testing for our team for next year (and yes, we got a couple of big boxes of the Gel blasts, because Pine Sol and all I like them! And isn't that what reallly counts? :) ).
So..... for pre-ride/lunch, I am eating a PB Energize Fruit Smoothie bar, which in addition to a bunch of vitamins and minerals also has a lot of fruit in it and is pretty tasty. I have some PB Hydration in the bottle and will be using the standby PB Endurance drink for the ride I am about to go on. When I come back, I'll try the new PB Recovery bar which looks pretty good. (And then I'll have a lovely recovery drink from the Deschutes brewery stash.)
I've also got a pretty snazzy new kit! :D This is the first year ever their clothing has been at all appealing. So I'll wear that on my ride....
In the interest of full disclosure, we are sponsored by PB as TNT coaches and receive a large allotment of product every year - but the only reason I put the Gel Blast recommendation up was because I actually liked the product and it's new. I don't recommend stuff I don't like - and I certainly don't recommend stuff just because we're sponsored. We get a lot of product from them, for which I am very very grateful because it offsets the costs of providing SAG food to our Death Ride team every year.
For those so inclined, MP's pine sol pops are on sale at Chainlove.