Comments on: The Energy Bar Wrapper Manifesto

By: Living, Learning, Eating

Living, Learning, Eating — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:59:09 +0000

If you like energy bars, you *have* to try YouBars (I posted a review here: http://livinglearningeating.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/youbar-product-review/ ). They’re delicious, have really few (and healthy!) ingredients and are soooo filling. I’m *stuffed.*

By: April Review

April Review — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:21:33 +0000

[...] Fatty’s energy bar wrapper manifesto. [...]

By: Josh Rubin

Josh Rubin — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:26:53 +0000

Repackage in zip-lock bags. With practice, you can open with either hand. I need to press against my chin or bars to do it.

I mostly eat whatever is available at general stores: raw pop-tarts, raisin bread, jelly beans. When I showed up with a piece of coffee cake in my jersey pocket, they yelled at me for being unhealthy.

By: MattC

MattC — Mon, 02 May 2011 16:03:27 +0000

Another great post on a very real topic Fatty! And quite amazingly enough, just this very weekend I tried your friend Brad’s CR333 (CarboRocket Half-Evil) for my very first time. For those who don’t know what it is, well…it’s liquid food (or Rocket-fuel as I will be calling it from now on). I did a 44mi 5600′ 5+ hour mtb ride on Sat, and my entire food intake consisted of a banana @ mile 28 (only cuz my tiny brain kept yelling at me that I NEED to eat something, so I finally broke down just to shut it up). I admit I wasn’t keen on the taste at first (when I mixed it on my counter I mean) but out on the trail it had morphed into something I liked very much…maybe it needs to age some? In fact, I had to be careful NOT to slurp it down too quickly (I use a 3 liter camelback). I surely won’t use this for short rides (less than 3 hours or so)…but for long rides, this stuff rules! NO FOOD! NO WRAPPERS! No more sticky fingers, goop on my grips, or carrying 5lbs of food w/ me stuffed into every nook and cranny that I can! And I typically bonk (or nearly bonk) on all long events cuz I just can’t force myself to eat enough. This stuff is the solution! You simply drink your calories and just keep on going!

And on a side note: Brad, if you see this, I think it’s totally wicked-cool that when I opened the 4lb can, SUPRISE! It’s jam-packed to the very top! UNBELIEVABLE!! Every other can of anything I’ve ever open (I’m especially talking to YOU Cytomax) is 1/3 or more down from the top. Not yours! I’ll be buying more, you can count on that!

(As per Fatty’s usual disclaimer: I’m just some guy nobody’s ever heard of. Never met Brad nor anybody else in his ‘company’ (if there is such a thing) and most likely never will. I’m getting nothing for this…it’s just my 2 cents worth on a product that really works like it’s advertised (to me anyway), and wanted to share my find w/ other cycling folk. This got kind’a long..sorry Fatty!

By: Ferde

Ferde — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:58:41 +0000

Might be time for a dentist appt

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:19:13 +0000

Just got my June 2011 Bicycling and Fatty & The Runner are front and center in the photo of the start of the King Ridge Gran Fondo.!

By: Linda

Linda — Sun, 01 May 2011 23:19:02 +0000

I preopen all my snacks and strategically place them in the leg band of my shorts….lined up like little soldiers. This works especially well with hot tamales, swedish fish and everlasting gobstoppers.

By: Mike Roadie

Mike Roadie — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:23:30 +0000

Thus the beauty of the PB & Honey sandwich in an easy to open Gald zip top bag…..unless you drop said bag down the side of a hill, which I did in Hawaii a few years ago!

By: Jim B

Jim B — Sun, 01 May 2011 06:13:23 +0000

Franky said, “As for the shot blocks, it would be nice to have some kind of device available to push them up, like a PEZ dispenser…”

Nah, it is easy. (1) tear open the top and slide it open side up into a jersey pocket before your ride. (2) when you want a shot block, take out the package and pinch the two top cubes; if as you get to lower cubes, you will have to pinch at the base of the top cube a few times to work it to the opening; when the cube is near the top, put it up to your mouth make one final pinch. (3) enjoy those 33 calories.

By: Rumpled

Rumpled — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:52:02 +0000

Once opened, a bar should not be attached to the rest of the wrapper with superglue. Early Powerbars were the worst at this. I think they tried to solve this problem by adding talcum powder between the two.
This lowered the eatability quotient of those bars to well below zero.