Favorite Convenience Store/MiniMart Foods

[yellow]

I usually end up with...Gatorade or the equivalent. My system is so wacky these days I'm leery of eating anything other than what I bring in my pocket.

Chocolate milk before, during, or after a ride would put me in bed for a couple of days. I really miss milk, and yogurt, and ice cream....*sigh*

[Eden]

I usually end up with...Gatorade or the equivalent. My system is so wacky these days I'm leery of eating anything other than what I bring in my pocket.

Chocolate milk before, during, or after a ride would put me in bed for a couple of days. I really miss milk, and yogurt, and ice cream....*sigh*

If you can tolerate soy there is a brand of soy ice cream - Soy Delicious - up here that will make you forget ice cream was ever made with milk. Some of the flavors are a bit weird and I avoid the Cookies and Cream, but the Chocolate Velvet and the Vanilla are very good and a fairly un-guilty pleasure. It really is good - I've had other soy/rice based ice creams and they usually have a funky after taste, but this brand doesn't.

[yellow]

If you can tolerate soy there is a brand of soy ice cream - Soy Delicious

Yeah, we've had it. And it is good, for soy (we usually end up with vanilla). It's gotten a lot better in the last couple of years. But it's not BEN AND JERRY'S CHUNKY MONKEY! We also eat the soy "yogurt" which takes some getting used to.

I do like sorbet and am usually happy with that. And you can usually get individual Dreyer's Whole Fruit bars at some of the finer convenience stores in the summer.

[Hammer]

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.

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.

[bikerz]

Yeah, we've had it. And it is good, for soy (we usually end up with vanilla). It's gotten a lot better in the last couple of years. But it's not BEN AND JERRY'S CHUNKY MONKEY! We also eat the soy "yogurt" which takes some getting used to.

I do like sorbet and am usually happy with that. And you can usually get individual Dreyer's Whole Fruit bars at some of the finer convenience stores in the summer.

Hey Yellow (or anyone else!) - have you tried Tofuti-Cuties? I'm not a big ice cream fan, but these things are great little tofu-based ice cream sandwiches. They are small - about 2"x3" - but that's one thing I like about them - just enough to put a check in the box when you want something sweet, but not too much. Choc and vanilla get high marks from friends of mine, but I like coffee flavor best. You can probably find them in the same kinds of places that have big selections of soy products.

[yellow]

Hey Yellow (or anyone else!) - have you tried Tofuti-Cuties?

Well, yes, but when I saw the fat content on them, I decided that they are not allowed in the house (that is, eating 3 of them would make up my entire days' worth of fat! Yikes)! They also make these bars-on-a-stick called "monkey bars" or some such thing. Yummmmmmy, but same problem with the fat content.

HOWEVER, I'd probably splurge for one on a ride out a convenience store, but alas! Most convenience stores don't carry a lot of soy products! "Ummmm, do you have any frosted tempeh bites?"