Slow release food stuffs are OK but Honeybun, Dextrose tablets can be a life saver. If when hiking my blood sugar went low the tablets fizz as I munch them, without I would still be stuck on the hill
and many professional atheletes use them as well as energy drinks and bars when training. Watch le Tour or le Veulta and the proes are eating regularly. DH bought packets of energy drinks from le Tour - they were thrown as samples from the advertising floats ............ there are sugars and sugars ......... and professional companies now make up bars scientifically rather than adding sugars ............ the idea being that one tears into the packets with ones teeth
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Dried fruits saved my Life. Being able to munch when I couldn't eat anything else due to intense anxiety helped me stop focussing on 'I MUST eat' going over and over in my brain ....... I NEVER want to feel *that* ill again but it doesn't take long for it to happen
. I still have safe foods and still can't fancy porridge ............
Finding a coping strategy and not worrying about what is in the grub kept me alive. I had a friend who swore by plain crisps and flat 'coke'
so it is an individual choice.