modal day of eating

First off, I ignore the recommendations of my garmin / phone - they don’t know the weight I’m carrying on my bike, headwinds, or how hungry I am. If following them, I should eat 3000-4000kcal a day. But since I’m not a huge person, I’d rather eat slightly too much than risk eating too little, so I opt to eat plenty and often instead.

I start with a protein shake and granola for breakfast. Crunchy is the best texture, and while I started the trip with porridge, cold mushy oats in the morning were sad.

While cycling, I eat a cliff bar (white chocolate macadamia nut or crunchy peanut are the best). I’ll break it up into three or so pieces over the course of a morning so I don’t get cramps.

I stop for more significant food and a little stretch / boogie after 3ish hours; a couple of wraps (hummus and veggies if I’m lucky, more often peanut butter or guacamole), fresh fruits and peanut butter, dried fruit and nuts, and a protein bar.

While cycling I’ll have builder cliff bar (their protein focused bar), and a standard cliff bar a little later on.

Once I finish for the day, I snack on peanut butter sandwiches, marmite on bread (for the vitamin B12 and sense of home), and dunk baby carrots in peanut butter while my water heats for my Firepot meal (thank you so much for helping this trip! Delicious and vegan and so easy!) I add a tin of beans to this for extra protein and calories.

Then for pudding I have peanut butter and fruit wraps.

Before bed, I have another fruit + peanut butter sandwich or wrap, depending on if I have bread of tortillas left (with dried fruits and nuts if it’s been a long day)

Hydration wise, I drink ~4 litres of water throughout the day.

This comes to ~6000kcal. Some days more, some days less. Every day, peanut butter.