Ooh - how about a Tour de Cheesecake? Yummmm. Definitely a loaded tour idea - gotta work that off. Think of the endless flavors and varieties! My friend/training buddy makes a wonderful chocolate/orange one. And a pumpkin one. Puts most restaurant cheesecake I've ever had to shame.

My Mom is 100% Polish. She makes the cheese pierogis. Cheese filled, boiled, then fry up some bread cubes in butter, slather sour cream on the hot "ears", sprinkle with the hot bread cubes, and pork out! Ooh - I've got to tell her I want pierogis for my birthday dinner this year. Only 5 months to go! I need to make a list of recipes I must get (and learn to make). Mom was horrified the one time she experienced one of those frozen "Mrs. T's", or whatever they are. I don't thinks she's familiar with the potato ones, to begin with.

Redrhodie: I think it would be possible. You could always carry dehydrated food. More bulk than weight. And oatmeal, dried fruit, etc. Just need an occasional grocery store for odds & ends. Not that I've done it (yet), but if you can backpack without a store or diner for many, many miles, you can carry the same stuff on your bike. I've spend a week backpacking, and I've spent a week canoing - it shouldn't be that much different, except probably easier than backpacking. The canoe portages are killers, too (I tend to pack too much stuff, and the people I was with - experienced family of campers - brought tons of heavy stuff - like a jar of peanut butter ). It definitely would be more fun to not carry food, but it is possible.