{"id":9747,"date":"2022-06-16T14:49:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wobblyride.com\/?p=9747"},"modified":"2022-09-15T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T09:00:32","slug":"best-foods-for-bicycle-touring-a-dummies-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wobblyride.com\/pl\/2022\/06\/16\/best-foods-for-bicycle-touring-a-dummies-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Best foods for bicycle touring – a dummies guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feeding yourself when travelling by bike is not easy. After hours of pedalling, your body needs plenty of calories. But the more you eat, the more food you need to carry in the panniers, especially when you travel through remote places with few shops and limited options.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been struggling a lot with eating well on bicycle tours. Sometimes I forget to eat during the ride. On other days I feel like cooking dinner is just too much. I eat a lot of simple, processed carbs but not enough protein or veggies. All those things combined make me feel weak and unenergised. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to avoid these problems and make eating on a bicycle tour simple? I have written this article to create a list of go-to products and nutrition lifehacks for my bike tours. I asked other bicycle tourists and hikers for their tricks to eat well on longer trips. I hope reading about mine and their experience will make your life easier and allow you to eat better with less effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Problem 1: Not eating enough during the ride<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After 90-120 minutes of every endurance activity, our glycogen levels drastically drop, causing fatigue and a feeling of hitting the wall. That’s why it’s crucial to snack regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I cycle, I sometimes get into a state of flow, a kind of hypnosis when nothing seems to matter except for moving forward. The constantly changing landscape and new places absorb me so much that I forget to eat and drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Set reminders<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I set reminders on my phone to drink and eat every 90 minutes (I also have alarms for putting on a new layer of sunscreen). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get a cycling snack bag<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another reason I don’t eat enough when I cycle is I find it bothersome to stop and get the food out of my panniers. Some other cycle travellers recommended putting a snack bag on my handlebar and filling it with cookies, gummi bears, nuts or candies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will allow me to have the snacks handy, so I can grab them without stopping to cycle. The snack bag should be easy to open and close with one hand. I bought a hand-crafted bag from\u00a0Baby Legs Bags\u00a0<\/a>for about 33 euros.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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