Sharkies

[shootingstar]

I guess I'll show my age

I prefer banana and fig newton. Also carry Luna bars, toasted nuts'n cranberry my fav. If I could carry a boiled red potato without a mess, I would.

As for sports drink, I've graduated to Cytomax and haven't move up to anything newer.

Just a question. Why is it that most of us are willing to pay more and look harder for natural and organic food. But when it comes to sports nutrition during a ride, we are looking at all these "synthetic" chemical concoction?? Being food supplement, I think they fall through the cracks of regulatory oversight (not that they actually protect you).

gummy bears, worms, shot blocks all gives me the hibbee-jibee's. Closest natural thing would be frut leathers but they are bit of mess to make and they don't last

And all those energy boost drinks with unpronouceable ingredients. yuck!! Mtn-Dew is bad enough... Growing up I was used to Fresca and diet coke...

or am I just being a hippie carry-over (latter-day hippie)??

I haven't graduated to any energy drink, bar (except for granola-like bars occasionally) or gel. I am willing to try a free sample. That's it.

Methinks I'm just fundamentally lazy to try this stuff. But then, I never liked carbonated drinks or soft drinks, even as a child..so for me to transition to an artificially concocted drink (even if it's good for me) just won't happen. I still have a unopened can of Mountain Dew in the fridge. I got it free last June from Bike-to-Work-Week festivities.

There is a truly a part of me that would like to make my tasting palate and stomach flexible enough that wherever I travel and whomever I visit, that my body is capable of eating a broad range of real local food /dishes made from real local produce/ingredients. I don't want to be the tourist in some rural area within and outside of North America..that needs soft drinks, gels, energy drinks,...etc. It has happened to me many times when we cycle-tour in rural areas, the paucity of certain foods. One just has to eat whatever is locally available.