Online calculators predict that Kevin burns about 1,600 calories as a baseline each day. Moderate bicycling for 3-6 hours per day requires approximately 2,000-4,000 additional calories. So for 21 of the last 22 days, Kevin has needed 3,600 – 5,600 calories. In Tour de France jelly donut units, that’s as many as 22.4 jelly donuts. Tour de France elite cyclists at racing pace burn about 30 jelly donut units per day.
https://www.insidescience.org/news/tour-de-france-terms-jelly-donuts
Kevin prefers to power his rides with Snickers, Clif Blocks (gummy like energy candy), and Gatorade. At the beginning of our trip, we had stocked ~52 Snickers bars and a jam-packed plastic bin of assorted energy bars, granola bars, fig bars, and nuts (thank you, Lauren!) Though I added another 10 Snickers and ~20 Clif Blocks along the way, the bin contents are dwindling. Meanwhile Kevin has lost ~10 pounds.
Suzi’s baseline calories needed to breathe each day is also about 1,600. Surprisingly, driving does burn additional calories, so on days without a hike or bike ride, Suzi manages to burn an extra 200-500 calories. If Suzi chose to eat only jelly donuts, she would require 7-8 jelly donuts each day.
Cycling with Kevin & Suzi 
Suddenly I’m craving donuts.
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What is the maple bar unit conversion?
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Excellent question. Google says a jelly donut has 270 and a maple bar 310. Obviously it’s not a NASA level of precision.
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I feel like you might be missing out on an important caloric source…beer, or wine if you prefer.
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Kevin is a near teetotaler, with the rare exception of an IPA or glass of red wine. His usual ice cream consumption is way down, partly due to the trailer freezer not keeping it very hard. So the current substitute is cinnamon rolls, when he’s not on the bike.
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In mango units, Suzi could probably eat 70 per day. And Kevin would need lots of bathroom breaks.
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As a matter of fact, I scored honey mangoes at Costco in Bismark, so I’m having one a day in a yogurt parfait. Kevin is still consuming mass quantities of oranges and grapefruit. For now I won’t let him eat all the grapes because we’re about to get our grandneice, Elizabeth, and I want grapes for her. Also the only cherries around are from California for $8 per pound. I have yet to consume a jelly donut, though I would choose a devil’s food donut over jelly anyway.
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I love the conversions!!!!
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Suzi are you able to bake in your trailer? I bet fresh baked cinnamon rolls or maple bars would be a big hit.
Andrea
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I’ve done a little baking, but mostly buy lots of cinnamon rolls etc to keep him going. My days are remarkably full, what with moving camp, keeping stocked and clean, figuring out where we’ll be sleeping, giving him support along the road on the bad days, and keeping life at home from falling apart. Oh, and I try to exercise as many days as I can.
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