Pre Ride and Race Food (Non- Diet)

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Been reading alot of threads about diets of people who are dieting and want to lose weight posting about what to eat.

I was wondering firstly what are good foods to eat pre- training ride (roughly only 50km). I always vary my lunch so i cant tell what makes feel good or bad. I get extemely hungry if i dont eat pre-ride, and sometime eat wrong foods and feel sick because of it.

Futhermore, what would be a good pre-race diet of similar distance, providing it differs from training diet.