Favorite Convenience Store/MiniMart Foods
The Chocolate Milk thread just now made me think of this. What are your favorite convenience store foods that you like to eat on long rides?
Mine has to be those Hostess Fruit Pies. The Apple ones have 480 calories (67 carbs, 3 protein, 22 fat) and I would have to say that the one I had at mile 130 of the Seattle to Portland saved my bacon bigtime! It was horribly junky :o but hey, it was tasty, it didn't upset my stomach, and it worked!
Twinkies, the wonder food
My nutritionist (LOL) turned me onto Twinkies. They're one of the healthiest convenience store snacks, if what you need is energy:
Calories each 150
Calories from Fat 41 (27%)
Calories from Carbohydrate 108 (71%)
Calories from Protein 4 (3%)
Her strategy is, anything can be a health food. If you were starving on a desert island, a Snickers could save your life.
That being said, I'd never RELY on convenince store food rather than my solid PB&J and Cytomax, but sometimes sugar is your friend. And I HAVE done the convenience-store-supported 110 hilly miles. Twinkies halfway, here I come!
Green Tea and Misc Things
I'm not lactose intolerant, but I saw a pint of Soy Dream stuff, green tea flavor in our local Hy Vee. I was intrigued, so I bought it. I like that stuff.
Doesn't having nuts mess with your digestive system? I ate a Salted Nut Roll before a volleyball practice in high school... ouch!!! But, I suppose that cycling isn't quite the same as running around a gymnasium. I've been paranoid ever since. :D
I like granola bars... I'll bring the cheap sunbelt ones along, not as high in nutritional content, I don't think... but I like the chocolate chip ones when I'm out riding. But I don't usually go far enough yet. I just started riding last summer.
I like the Strawberry flavor Power Bar, Harvest... but I don't see them around very often. I work for a local Public Broadcasting station, during a shoot we had to be up and out of the hotel early enough and didn't stop for breakfast except at a gas station. The Harvest bars have enough substance that it stuck with me for the day until we got to go to lunch again. I had it with some milk. Yum. And somedays I'm hungry all of the time.
I wish that I could find those bars... they're even hard to find online.