Bob Graham food

[Stolly]

Okay I'm trying to finesse my Bob Graham food and drink list which, from my failures/experiments last year, I've managed to whittle down to the following:

Road stops

Flat coke - bottles
Water - bottles
Lucozade sport (just a few)
Milky tea
Fruit cocktail + rice pudding
Soup and soft buttered bread dunked
Cold pizza
Peanut butter and jam sandwiches

Carry myself

Chocolate coated raisins
Mini jaffa cakes
A couple of whispas (much easier to eat than mars bars or snickers)
Mini Pringles (salt is good)
Jelly babies (ideally just for the final leg or 2)
Sultanas

Support runners

Flat coke - a couple of bottles
Water - 2 or 3 bottles
Lucozade sport - 1 bottle
Peanut butter and jam sandwiches
Mini pringles
Bananas
Sultana cake
Cold pizza


All ideas and suggestions welcome - I'm not going until June so plenty of time

[Bob]

Don't carry anything yourself, it's what your helpers are for.

I found that as the round went on I went for softer foods, had tomato soup at Wasdale. Peanut butter might be a bit "dry".

[DrPatrickBarry]

Did I read somewhere that you should be keeping away from sweet stuff, protein is more important!

[Stolly]

On the carrying myself front Bob, I like to carry a few bits and bobs of food + plus a waterproof and gloves. No big weight and I can always pass the stuff on if necessary.

[Stolly]

Did I read somewhere that you should be keeping away from sweet stuff, protein is more important!

Too much sweet and you can feel as sick as a dog but getting any food down (and feeling sick) is preferable to not being able to eat. Cakey dry and savoury stuff and bread can easily become unchewable and unswallowable

[old un]

Custard goes down easy when you can't face owt and full of calories, the little jelly pots with fruit or the custard and fruit potd are very easy and handy to carry too

[vespa]

dried fruit especially apricots
dry roasted or salted nuts
lemon flavoured sweets from power bar better than jelly babies
tunnocks caramel wafers
lots of variety of flapjack bars
marmite and cheese
cornish pasties from keswick

[Hank]

After maybe 10 hours of my round I could kind of chew, but swallowing was beyond me; anything dry I just chomped on for what felt like hours. I consumed nothing but gels from early on leg 3 until the end, with the exception of: a bit of cheese and some Quorn ham going up Rossett Pike (I threw away the bread when my supporters weren't looking), some fruit cake at Wasdale and Honister, a cereal bar going up Red Pike and a solitary Werthers Original going up Dale Head.

Put me off gels for a bit like, but when you're struggling to get anything down you've got to get in whatever you can. Lucozade and flat coke were also good on legs 4 and 5. Usually can't stand coke but got a real craving for it.

I did eat a lot on legs 1 and 2, particularly dried fruit, nuts and chocolate, so I guess my advice would be cram in as much as you can early doors and then when your appetite goes make sure you've got lots of something you know will go down. You don't have to enjoy it, just get it in!

[Knightrunner]

My Round is scheduled for June and my thinking at the moment is to carry a small pouch with nibbles but drinks and anything else with the sherpas. My food list is:

Running:
water, some with tabs in, some not
baby bels
chicken pieces
yoghurt covered banana chips
fruit pots
Nine bars
Torq gels
jelly babies

roadside:
soup
banana + half pt of milk (walking off)

[Splatcher]

Running:
Kendal Mint Cake
Water

Roadside:
Nothing

Well, it worked for me...