You should do a poll on how much time is spent cooking and doing dishes to eat healthy. The recipe doesnt matter as much unless its a fast one. Nobody has time to cook cause they're all out riding thier bikes after work. This is the major cyclist struggle
For the energy drink I just mix sugar with water (4 tbsp/bottle), add a pinch of salt and enough lemon juice to make it drinkable. Also a pinch of ginger. For food I opt for oat cakes, cheese sandwiches or a banana + a motivational snack. I'll give rice cakes a try next time.
I couldn't cook rice to save my life either until a friend from the Philippines told me to cover the rice in the pot with water such that the water level touches the second knuckle on your index finger when you put it in the pot and touch the rice. Cook it covered on no more than medium heat and remove once done. It works for any volume you're cooking. Who knew?
2:1 water to rice ratio and if you have a pressure cooker like an instant Pot just hit the rice button and when done immediate release pressure and add oreo and cream cheese..perfect every time! I find Japanese sushi rice works perfectly! Enjoy!
Well, Eddy B, the Polish cycling coach in the '80s, recommended cream cheese, ham, and fruit preservatives sandwich segments for refueling mid flight. Warmed in a plastic sandwich bag in a jersey pocket, they're absolutely heavenly. All the flavors are enhanced to stimulate the digestive system for maximum effect. Chase it down with pure water. The fruit preserves kick in immediately. The bread kicks in next, then the cream cheese, then the ham protein. Protein helps recoveries on the ride. When lazy or unprepared, and on the edge of bonk, nothing like a fizzy Coca Cola Classic or a Snickers candy bar. Imagine European pastry would shine brightly at mile 40. Americans seldom have that choice.
Great point about candy bars. Personally I love a Bounty as a mid ride snack. A lot of this DIY food is disgusting and impractical tbh. Eating rice cakes and pb and j sandwiches on a bike sounds miserable to me.
very inspirational! must try some of these concepts during this season. Tried the gravel/trailmix several times on the bike and during hikes. Now I just take the m&m's and nuts seperately, as i constantly find myself picking for the m&m's anyway. Generally i go for sweet snacks (mars, snickers and the like) and then a savoury lunch og post ride meal depending on the length of the ride.
8:08 is essential. Easy to open on the bike. I wrapped up my rice cakes in strong foil, and... Well, here's the unpleasant story: 60km in, needing a bite to eat, and I have this rice cake left. I'm dreaming of it. Cannot wait. Eventually get onto a nice easy road and take it out. I start unwrapping it with one hand and my teeth. It's a bit of a struggle but I'm making progress. It takes a while. But I think I'm in. And then I feel a bit of a sting on my lip. I ignore it. Lift the rice cake to my mouth. And it is red, pretty much all over. It's covered in blood. I put my hand to my lip. Blood all over my hand. Now I can taste it and feel it on my chin. The rice cake is ruined. I was so hungry I still considered eating it, but it was just not an option. So now I'm bonking and I have an open wound depositing blood into my mouth as I ride. Moral of the story is: don't use the fortified foil with its crazily sharp edges, and maybe just open with your hands!
I make my own energy drink for long rides/workouts. A simple syrup solution with added salt, mixed with mostly water, some juice and fresh squeezed real lemons or limes. Works great, I call it my bonk water.
Aldi malt loaf, 59p last time I bought some, better than soreen (imo) and Aldi peanut butter (£3.99 for 1kg, find peanut butter cheaper anywhere else and let me know)
Thanks for the tasty treat ideas! It would be nice to know the # of carbs per serving too. I love a good pancake mix with nuts and cranberries for those all day rides.
I make a sort of home made “ferrero rocher” of dates, roasted hazelnuts & pecans, & a little dark chocolate. I toast the nuts in an air fryer for 7 min, put the pitted dates and chocolate chips in a high powered blender, and top it with the toasted nuts. The nuts melt the chocolate and you can blend it to a medium chunk, then spoon it out into a bag & shape bite size pieces with your hands. I leave some hazelnuts whole to put into the middle for a satisfying crunch. I call them 🦄💩 because they look like 💩 but they taste magical :)
@CycleQ if you find yourself in San Francisco you can have some of mine, but I encourage you to make some of your own and ask questions if you feel stuck along the way :)
I've always been too lazy (or intimidated) to prepare any snacks of my own but ClifBars (White Chocolate Macadamia Nut and Oatmeal Raisin Walnut) are my go to carry on snack and not too pricey when on sale. For liquid nutrition I mix the following. Crazy Water No. 4 Beet Juice Powder Maple Syrup or Agave Nectar Matcha or Raw Cacao Powder Ginger Pumpkin Pie Spice (Walmart) Cayenne Pepper Elete CitriLyte Occasionally, on gravel rides like Grava Del Fuego, I'll take advantage of the free beers along the course. Carb load with Karbach was the slogan in 2022!
this video is one of my favourites of the channel, also presented by Manon so it's great. The video brought me a laugh at times, seeing how british cuisine can be at times. (not particularly healthy I'd say but for a cyclist yup it's nice)
Instead of the usual fruit jams in my peanut butter panini I've taken to using home made Chilli Jam I find it less sickly than the fruit jams. Works well on Cheese scones too!
My rice cakes never go well (they don't hold together) and they only last a day or 2 in the fridge. I make a simple flapjack with oats, honey and peanut butter and sometimes add dried majool dates. They last weeks even out of the fridge. The only downside is the higher fiber than rice cakes but I'm not doing multi day stage races!
Hi Guys, I just had a Granfondo yesterday (126km/1500m) and I had to give it up near the end. I really tried fuelling well. The first 60 of the ride was epic, but up to 70 it was okay, but then I felt part the "fuel" is still in my stomach and now it had a lot of air inside. At around 80 or so, it was really hard to drink or eat anything, I had a gel (that was probably not tolerated well by by stomach). Then shortly after I had a bonk, then all I could do is ride on minimum effort for another 20km, fighting with the urge to throw up. At around 100, I encountered an about 120m steep climb that I could hardly do by then. I ate something and drank, then rode on, but it was a nightmare. At around 107 I was done. I was so tired and fighting with the urge to vomit, that I couldn't even ride in first gear on the flats. I then had to abandon the race, having only 19km left. I might have chosen a ride too hard for myself or fuelling might have went wrong. Or both. But I think the real problem was the stomach issue, and because of this, I felt pain and could not add more energy to my body. Do you have any ideas? I watched about all your videos, multiple times and tried to do all you suggested. I even had vegan ricecakes based on your recepie, that was the best think I ate! :) BTW, I was eating 4 rice cakes, 2 energy bars, 2 bananas, 2 musli bars and a gel. I had about 1 liter of water and about 1.5 liters of energy/electrolites sports drink. Some answers in the comments would be great, but if the solution would be made into a video or a part of a video, I'd love to see it. Thank you so much. :)
homemade protein balls based around semi hydrated oats, mixed with blended dried fruits (dates, sultanas), nuts, seeds (hemp,chia,flax) bound together with peanut butter and rolled in raw cacao. If my wife hasn’t eaten them from the fridge before my ride, i wrap them in edible wrapping so they don’t stick together and no chance of adding to the roadside litter issue.
I'm a simple creature. I'll twist some plastic wrap around dried apricots and dates. You know the end of Ferris Bulher's Day Off? The gummy bears? Like that! Also, you can do this with Gummy bears. Toss them in sea salt if you dare.
You could have used a stronger emphasis on your drink. I'm pretty sure there's more than some measly carbs in there. Most beginners don't realize how dangerous it can be to lose to much salt through sweat, especially if you ride all da on a very warm summer day. I've not managed to land myself in hospital from cycling but from hiking. They told me that my blood sugar levels were low, which I knew because it was so hot I had trouble eating but I had 4 litres of fluid. Nevertheless, the told me I was very dehydrated. I had lost to much salt so my body couldn't keep the water in and I was very low on potassium to which is very dangerous as you need that for your heart and muscles to function properly. In the end they hooked me up on two infusion bags and gave me a shot of something very salty to drink. And told me to eat peaches, tomatoes, several types of fish, red meat, bananas, potatos (or chips) and to drink Aquarius (an easily obtained Spanish isomatte). I was doing the Camino de Santiago (in Catalunya) then and had limited foods available so it eventually came down to pre-packaged salads, tomatoes, peaches, bananas, potato chips and Aquarius. Having a low blood sugar for a few hours is less dangerous than losing to much salt and water. If you entirely run out of energy stop at the next chance, get yourself something to eat. But recovering from that took me a whole day. Also, do not underestimate the importance of vitamins. In all your recipes the come somewhat short.
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I like to use waxed paper to wrap my snacks. A bit better for the environment, I think (and reusable). PB&J on whole wheat. Yum. Homemade Eatmore bars, pretty much pure sugar with some oats.
When it comes to the metric increments, I have charts for them. However, when it comes to the British monetary scale, it goes way over my head. I operate with the American dollar.
For the rice cakes, how many grams do you make for each serving, 50 grams per bar? I have no experience eating while riding, I usually just eat fruits and oatmeal before a ride, so I wanted to try prepping meals to eat while riding as well.
Please could you say exactly what setting you use on rice cooker. I keep messing mine up even though I’m using the same rice cooker as Nigel! How am I managing this?!?
@@notmyrealname6272 in The Plant-Based Cyclist book by Nigel, the rice cakes with same amount of water and rice as this recipe, he suggests about 20 pieces. Unsure how much the ziplock bag contained of the mix here, it definitely wasn't all of it, maybe half?
A good thick slice of a granary bread with seeds on it (the speedier the better), a good slather of salted butter, whack in a banana and a few sultanas, fold over and squish together. Perfect snack.
I'm plant-based and nut-free. I usually make oat/rice squares with some jam or frozen fruit, I microwave some small yukon gold potatoes and add salt and pepper or have a bagel with a bit of jam. I dislike gels so I will bring thin fruit leathers to use the same way as gels and they taste good - I pre-cut the wrappers so they are easy to open with one hand- if I don't use some that ride I place them in a reusable zipper bag for the next ride so they don't get dry. Fig bars can be pretty tasty too 😋
I saw these rice cakes in another GCN video and the chef mentioned a cream cheese substitute. Does anyone remember what that was (assuming it's available in the States)???
Yes, that was when Conor went to see Nigel and they cooked a few of the recipes - you can watch here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oVN7iLCoyyc.html
You can't go wrong with some mini pork pies 🤤 post ride would have to be 3 eggs scrambled on toast with half a tin of beans and a little grated cheese, an intestinal time bomb but so good!
