So what is your favorite energy shot/bar/gummy

[ridinshockgun]

Dried mango is awesome

[ridinshockgun]

Peanut butter bacon toast sandwiches

+ banana and honey!

[LesterSmoove]

purchased on amazon, individually wrapped daelmans stroopwafels (the ones they give you on united flights) are significantly cheaper per waffle than honey stingers and roughly equivalent in macronutrients.

there is nothing worse than trying to eat a solidly frozen honey stinger or stroopwafel on a ski tour though.

[joetron]

I’m a clif products guy. They sponsored us years ago and I fell in love then. Still think they are the best.

Meanwhile we call dried apricots “nature’s clif block.” Essentially the same thing. Nice for a change.


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You’ve gotta start using “spancer/ed” or we’re all gonna start judging you more than we already do


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[Boissal]

I'm very partial to the chocolate and coffee flavored Gus. They taste better to me than all other flavors which seem very artificial with the exception of salted watermelon. They also work well when it's hot while all the others taste like cooked asshole after baking for 2 hours in my back pocket.
Cliff blocks work well if you can tolerate the flavors, as mentioned above they have a no-fuss packaging and come in the right size.
I mourn the demise of ProBar bites which were the ideal size and texture. Lara bars are close but most of the others feel like a combination of saw dust and desiccated fruit.

There's a lot of info out there on making your own gels/blocks using maltodextrin as a base or any number of more natural options. The main benefit I see would be controlling flavor and packaging size but it's not a rabbit hole I've fallen in. Yet.

[Norseman]

mmm, cooked asshole

[grskier]

-peanut butter banana flavor clif bars
-salted watermelon shot blocks (margarita 2nd choice, strawberry 3rd. Haven't tried some of the new ones like ginger ale)
pro-tip: cut shot block sleeves in half ahead of time so you have two pre-opened 3 packs.
-pb sandwich for the longer days

This and the waffles mentioned.

[joetron]

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Oooh those are good too.

Oddly enough, the Skratch chews wreck my belly if I eat more than 2 at a time


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[mtnjam]

mmm, cooked asshole

hotdogs?

[adrenalated]

there is nothing worse than trying to eat a solidly frozen honey stinger or stroopwafel on a ski tour though.

Put them in your pants





pocket. In your pants pocket (or an inside pocket of your jacket or upper layers) keeps them warm enough to not freeze.

[snowaddict91]

My favorite is the margarita shot blocks.

I eat a mix of those, honey stinger gummies and waffles, and shot blocks depending on what I'm in the mood for. Regular grocery store gummies/bars mixed in too.

[rudy]

I'll 5th the Stinger waffles. Cinnamon is the preferred flavor but agreed they get expensive but so damn tasty.

[Norseman]

Anyone make their own bars? I've made a few batches with mixed results. Good ones were like a kickass freshass Larabar. Less good experiments went over the fence to the neighbor dogs.

Blend pitted dates, mix in nuts, chocolate, dried fruit, coffee grounds, protein powder, roadkill, whatever.

Easy and way fuckn cheaper than buying a wrapped preserved cooked asshole.

[snowaddict91]

Anyone make their own bars? I've made a few batches with mixed results. Good ones were like a kickass freshass Larabar. Less good experiments went over the fence to the neighbor dogs.

Blend pitted dates, mix in nuts, chocolate, dried fruit, coffee grounds, protein powder, roadkill, whatever.

Easy and way fuckn cheaper than buying a wrapped preserved cooked asshole.

We've made protein bites with oats, chocolate, peanut butter, and maybe a few other ingredients that were pretty good and super dense. Similar to these:
https://chefsavvy.com/5-ingredient-p...-energy-bites/

[toast2266]

For all you guys eating Honey Stinger Waffles and Clif Blocks, a question:

What's more expensive, your annual trail snack budget, or your bike?

Are you guys spending like $5-8 per ride on conveniently packaged sugar?

[bagtagley]

Anyone make their own bars? I've made a few batches with mixed results. Good ones were like a kickass freshass Larabar. Less good experiments went over the fence to the neighbor dogs.

Blend pitted dates, mix in nuts, chocolate, dried fruit, coffee grounds, protein powder, roadkill, whatever.

Easy and way fuckn cheaper than buying a wrapped preserved cooked asshole.

Nice, good call on the coffee grounds.

My go-to recipe was dates, dried blueberries, cacao nibs and/or dark chocolate, shredded coconut, almonds, and a little coconut oil to make em less sticky. Good shit, but I’m lazy.

[PNWbrit]

Put them in your pants





pocket. In your pants pocket

Mmmmm breakfast.

[EWG]

For all you guys eating Honey Stinger Waffles and Clif Blocks, a question:

What's more expensive, your annual trail snack budget, or your bike?

Are you guys spending like $5-8 per ride on conveniently packaged sugar?

18 packs of clif blok on amazon for $30. 6 cubes per pack. Total of 108 cubes. I eat two per serving. That's 54 servings per $30. I only eat 1 or max 2 servings (rare) per event/ride, so that's like 50 cents each time. And I only eat them to stave off bonking or cramps, so it's more of a rescue thing for me if I'm getting close to the edge - far from every ride, game, etc.

So I'm like $25 per year or less for bloks.

[snowday]

Stopped spending all sorts of money on that stuff few years ago and now just take some fig newtons or a pb&j and all is good.

[Andeh]

For all you guys eating Honey Stinger Waffles and Clif Blocks, a question:

What's more expensive, your annual trail snack budget, or your bike?

Are you guys spending like $5-8 per ride on conveniently packaged sugar?

Most of my rides I eat nothing. I eat like 1 or 2 blocks when my rides go significantly more than 2 hours. I only bother with bars when I'm looking at a 3-4+ hour ride.

[grskier]

For all you guys eating Honey Stinger Waffles and Clif Blocks, a question:

What's more expensive, your annual trail snack budget, or your bike?

Are you guys spending like $5-8 per ride on conveniently packaged sugar?

This is just for rides over 1.5-2 hours for me usually.

Oh and Iceman’s family Os make it into the quiver too.


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[toast2266]

Apparently I just eat a lot. There's no way one or two clif blocks will do it for me, even on a relatively short ride.

On a 2-3 hour ride, I'd easily go through a full thing of clif blocks, plus a couple granola bars. Paying for fancy snacks just isn't really viable for me.

[panchosdad]

Shot blocks for shorter rides, pb&j for when it starts getting real.

[jamal]

I only use the shot blocks and gels for races or maybe harder, longer rides in the summer, our wed worlds road ride, when I'm doing a big workout that's going to take long enough to need some calories. Anyway, don't go through a lot of them, or gels, because of the price. 2 hours or less I may or may not eat a bar or something. When you buy a box at walmart the larabars or clif bars are less than a dollar each which is what I'll eat most of the time. Although that's still a lot more than a slice of bread with peanut butter on it.

All day on the mtb in the summer I'll usually bring a couple bars, pb sandwich, bag of haribo, and maybe a pack of shot blocks or a gel if I have some around.