Does anyone make their own energy gels?
Thinking about doing so, melting/mixing honey, dark chocolate and coffee with some sea salt is about my only recipe idea so far, so looking for suggestions as to what might work.
Also looking for suggestions for some soft flasks that are suitable and easy to clean.
That does sound yummy ! I have been experimenting with cluster dextrin in my water bottles
Re energy gel pouches - Kendall mint cake people make refillable ones so they will probably work
Stuff banana in back pocket/bag move around abit.
Squeeze resultant mush into face.
Watch humour incident with discarded wrapper
Thinking about doing so, melting/mixing honey, dark chocolate and coffee with some sea salt
That doesn't sound very much like an energy "gel" to me !
It also sounds a tad messy even when at just body temperature.
My go-to energy boost/recovery drink is full fat cow's milk. It has everything you need plus it's easy, cheap, and the cow does all the work.
Buy 250g of Tesco's fruit-tastic jelly babies for £1.10.
Open bag and place in jersey pocket just before ride you know will be 2+ hours long and include some threshold+ efforts.
Melt jelly babies in mouth every 5-10mins, individually or in handfuls.
By the way on holiday I needed gels and couldn't find any so I settled on apples and pears baby food pouches. Taste great and were in a format that made them easy to consume when running. The sugar was mainly fructose so lower gi value then glucose
Back in the day, we used to refer to them as ‘jiz’. Making your own couldn’t be easier 😀
Maltodexdrin, few scoops. Add water, pinch of salt and dash of favourite squash. Mix, put in pouch, I bought some hi five ones, good lids but a bit small but the lids fit on some other Amazon pouches...all good. You can add fructose too if you want to maximise gut uptake, I don't bother. Best thing is I consume these whereas gels I dislike the waste wrapping so tend to just carry for a once or twice a year emergency
What about a squeezey honey pot from the supermarket?
Insert into face, squeeze, eat, back in back pocket