Nutrition on the trail

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Chocolate peanut butter bars

1 cup whole oats
1 cup almond flour
1 cup chia
2 cups whey protein chocolate
1 cup pomegranate juice
1 cup ground flax seeds
1 cup natural peanut butter
1 cup of mildly ground macadamia nuts
1/2 cup creatine monohydrate
Stir till it becomes a batter ( might need a tad of water)
Pre heat oven at lowest setting (200)
Spread Shit on cookie sheet with parchment paper into rectangle.
Bake for 20 minutes. Freeze then cut to size of power bar.

Should make about 8-10 bars.
 
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Usually a one ounce box of raisins and a six pack of Ritz crackers with peanut butter. Much less expensive than bike shop snacks and less sugar

In the winter, I will throw in some chocolate sometimes.
 
Cliff Blocks, Trail Mix, Fig Newtons on the trails.
Pre-ride which I believe is just as important, I like a hardy bowl of oatmeal, Irish steel cut oats, not instant, with blue berries, bananas and pure maple syrup.
My pre-ride meal is one to two hours before a ride.
 
I like to bring fresh fruit when I can (Rainier cherries ftw!), dried fruit or Lara bars when I can’t. Also bring pecans or other nuts as well as some fun size Snickers bars. White chocolate macadamia Clif bars are always stocked. Peanut butter and preserves on pancakes or oatmeal cranberry chocolate chip cookies make some good fuel too.

Pre ride (totally agree, as important if not more so) is cereal or oatmeal, yogurt and fruit.
 
We've been adding Medjool Dates in as a trail snack. No idea if they are really a "good" snack from a nutrition standpoint, but they're sweet and they sure taste good.

My daughter ran HS XC this year and a lot of the girls were eating honey 10-15m before the races, so that's something she is trying out.

Otherwise, standard pre-packaged stuff. Cliff Bars, gummy bears, trail-mix, protein cookies for long days etc..
 
Tuna, salmon, sardines easy peezy protein carry packs plus omega 3’s FTW. Natural peanut butter easy carry as well.

Dates, natty pb, and dark chocolate = healthy snickers
 
We've been adding Medjool Dates in as a trail snack. No idea if they are really a "good" snack from a nutrition standpoint, but they're sweet and they sure taste good.

My daughter ran HS XC this year and a lot of the girls were eating honey 10-15m before the races, so that's something she is trying out.

Otherwise, standard pre-packaged stuff. Cliff Bars, gummy bears, trail-mix, protein cookies for long days etc..

Doing outdoor?
 
We've been adding Medjool Dates in as a trail snack. No idea if they are really a "good" snack from a nutrition standpoint, but they're sweet and they sure taste good.

My daughter ran HS XC this year and a lot of the girls were eating honey 10-15m before the races, so that's something she is trying out.

Otherwise, standard pre-packaged stuff. Cliff Bars, gummy bears, trail-mix, protein cookies for long days etc..


I used to stock up on honey packets at Chick-Fil-A back when my kids were younger and loved going to see the cow. They were a great replacement for gu especially for free ninety nine.

These days the only thing I typically carry that isn't specifically marketed to cyclists is Haribo Gummies or Swedish Fish.
 
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