One thing I learned is that Snickers bars are available almost everywhere, including foreign. Chocolate coated peanuts are wonderful. We did eat a lot less often when touring that we do when sport riding. The article is good info. We tended to ride in thoroughly civilized places with towns every so often. We'd buy the evening and next day's lunch and snacks at a store and carry it in a very light day pack to our camping site. We tried not to carry much food at all. We often ate in restaurants. A friend of ours toured on the altoplano: