Favorite Convenience Store/MiniMart Foods

[MomOnBike]

I learned here about Fig Newtons. Good stuff, Maynard.

I'm also fond of orange juice and salted nuts.

I just may start buying chocolate milk, but it seems a bit heavy on the stomach for the middle of the day.

[Deanna]

I try to pick out something that at least looks like a healthy snack, but I almost always end up with a beef stick or jerky. I think I like the saltiness.

[Veronica]

I try to pick out something that at least looks like a healthy snack, but I almost always end up with a beef stick or jerky. I think I like the saltiness.

Snickers have nuts. That makes them healthy. Hot dogs have... mystery meat. That makes them... really gross when I think about it.

V.

[CyclaSutra]

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!

[bcipam]

I always just want an ice cold Coca Cola. Not Pepsi, Not RC. COKE! And maybe some pretzels or peanut butter crackers. I like the sugar from the drink and the food to be salty.

[Nanci]

Chocolate milk and Twinkies- I have died and gone to heaven! I aim to test out Twinkies tomorrow! And here I thought there would never be an excuse to eat them ever again in my life...

Nanci

[Eden]

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!

OK I'll accept that eating a twinkie would be better than starving to death, but when given the choice of a whole convenience store full of of other tasty and potentially less heart attack inducing snacks - why choose the one that is a tube of hydrogenated oil???
That stuff is really really bad for you.

[Barb]

Fig newtons all the way. They have saved me from bonk many times!

[maillotpois]

V8!!! Salt and who knows what but it is very satisfying!

The twinkie idea sounds fantastic.

Where I ride (very rural bohemian western Marin), I generally run into small bakeries and not convenience stores. I used to get sticky buns and scones, but I have started trying whatever the soup of the day is (specifically at Bovine Bakery). I find soup is a fantastic pick me up, especially when the weather has been so cold. Last week in my 120 miler, the soup was red pepper corn chowder. Yum!!