Hi!
I was out on a long ride today during quite hot weather and during the last hour or so I couldn’t stomach any more sugary snacks and was really craving for some salty instead (I had electrolytes in bottles so think salt balance was okay).
Does anyone have some suggestions for good, salty snacks that you can keep in pockets even during hot weather? 
My salty go-to snacks: individually wrapped string cheeses, Slim Jim-style meat sticks (there a ton of brands), and salted peanuts (I eat them with the shell on, which I realize is controversial, but it’s easier and saltier that way). If you have room to pack it, I have also really enjoyed a nice can of V8/any brand of tomato juice from time to time.
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Combos, beef jerky.
They pack tight.
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For longer rides (like 4-5 hours) I started bringing peanut butter sandwiches on top of the usual sugar treats. It would really hit the spot
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The Clif chews with extra salt are my go to. Watermelon and Margarita flavors.
I’m also a big fan of peanut butter filled pretzels. I just put them in a snack size ziplock.
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Lookup recipes for onigiri, kimbap, or follow the modern day peloton equivalent here:
The latter has more ingredients to hold extra fillings in them. I’ve made them sweet or salty before.
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I will pack ham and cheese sandwiches, but I eat them earlier on in the ride. It makes the sweet stuff more tolerable later on. I also dabbled in little boiled potatoes rolled in some salt and parmesan cheese, those will last quite a while packed away.
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If you go the traditional rice route (not the modern peloton version), grab a mould. Maybe the musubi (rectangle) mould for jersey pocket efficiency.
Buy once, cry once:
I wouldn’t carry spam musubi with me, but you can customise however you like.
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+1 Salted potatoes are great on the bike, and heat isn’t an issue.
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Ditto
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Dots pretzels
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I use boiled (small) salad potatoes, cut into bite-size pieces, sprayed with sunflower oil cooking spray (“Fry Light”) and then rolled in sea salt flakes. Wrap up 3 or 4 pieces in a square of baking foil, and carry a few of these bundles.
NB the bit of sunflower oil spray helps the salt flakes to stick, and the combo gives the potatoes the taste of British chip shop chips - yum!
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Salt & Vinegar chips are my go-to-snack when I need that hit of salt on a ride….
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Lays OG. Open smallest hole in bag possible, crunch to powder, roll into log shape, enjoy.
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Sounds like a strain of weed.
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Possibly unpopular, but salted licorice. (I guess it’s ‘technically’ a sweet but not really the dominant flavour I get, especially after a bunch of sugary bike nutrition.)
Oddly good mixed with pretzels, but I’m weird.
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Okay, this is wild.
Do you eat the shells or you spit-rocket the shell like sunflower seeds?
Another +1 for salty baby potatoes. If it’s from a gas station, then plain baked lays or snack sized Pringles. Crunchy and salty, but with the downside of them f*ing up the roof of your mouth for the rest of your ride.
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I eat the shells when I go to a baseball game and get a bag of peanuts. Not for every single one, but for a decent amount of them.
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When I was a kid I didn’t like the taste of peanuts and peanut butter but I would eat peanut shells at baseball games because they are just salty and don’t really have the flavor of peanuts.
Don’t worry, when I was about 40 my kids got me eating peanut m&ms and now there is a jar of peanut butter on my counter that I will regularly eat a big spoonful of.
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This … seems like it would not work for me. But to each their own.
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