Include Homemade Energy Bar Recipes in Your Survival Kit
- Take healthy, high nutrition snacks along whenever you go into the wilderness.
to save yourself. Food, like your survival knife, is one of the Ten Essentials, and should be included, in some form, in your survival kit.
There are essentially three categories of wilderness cooking. My hard-core foodie friends in the Central Oregon Dutch
Oven Society represent one extreme. Their idea of a good time is to take their Dutch ovens Lodge Logic 8-Quart Camp Dutch Oven
and related gear, find a beautiful spot outdoors and cook meals that would please a gourmet.
At the other extreme is the hunter or backpacker. When I’m doing either of those activities, all I want is fuel. Taste is secondary to calories. Meal Ready to Eat (MRE), 12 Pack Case, Ration
When it comes to backpacking or survival food, most of us want to be somewhere in the middle. We want
high-calorie, good-tasting food that doesn’t weight much. Cost and long shelf life is also a consideration. There are many excellent commercial energy bars, Clifbar Builders Protein Bar – 12 Pack
Even if you don’t go camping or backpacking (If that’s the case, you have my sympathy!) tasty energy bars, with a good shelf life, are great additions to your prepper supplies. Good taste and variety in survival food can be very important in survival situations. Anything you’re forced by circumstances to eat day-after-day will get really boring. Small children may refuse to eat at all unless the food tastes good. Short of force-feeding the kids, there may be no other way to get them to eat. Clif Bar Clif Kid Z Bar – Box of 18
Here are some homemade energy bar recipes that are full of good ingredients and will help supply that needed energy
boost. Wrap the bars individually and make extras for tucking into school backpacks, survival kits and daypacks.
Basic Energy Bars
1 egg
1/2 cup brown sugar
l tsp. vanilla extract
l cup granola
1/2 cup raisins (or any chopped dried fruit)
1/2 cup chopped hazelnuts (or your favorite nut)
1 1.69-oz. pkg. M&M’s chocolate candies (or you can substitute carob chips)
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Generously butter or oil an 8- x 8-inch square pan (preferably nonstick). Crack the egg into a medium-sized bowl. Add the sugar and vanilla extract and mix thoroughly. Stir in the granola, raisins, hazelnuts and M&M’s and mix until combined. The M&M’s can be replaced with carob chips, which will cut down on the sugar content.
Transfer to the pan and distribute evenly over the bottom, pressing firmly with your hands. Bake for 25 minutes. Cool and cut into bars or squares. Serves 8 to 12.
The trick here is to let the homemade energy bar cool! Getting those “hungry peddlers” in your home to wait long enough might be a chore! Your chances are better if these are made when they’re not around, but only if you can resist the temptation yourself.
Emergency Ration Recipe
By: various survival sites
- 3 cups rolled oats, barley, or wheat
- 2 1/2 cups nonfat milk powder
- 1/2 package Jell-O powder, citrus
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoon honey
- 3 tablespoon water
- 1 cup apricots
- 3/4 cup almonds
- 3/4 cup walnuts
- Mix fruit and nuts with:
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 cup wheat germ
- 2/3 cup flour
- 2 tablespoons oil
Add: Enough liquid (2 to 4 tablespoons juice) to form thick batter.
- 1/2 cup chopped dates
- 1/2 cup figs (stemmed)
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/4 cup wheat germ
- 5 tablespoons nonfat dry milk powder
- 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
I was listening to the show when you asked the question, so I already know the answer. I started thinking about cookies. We use eggs in cookies, but don’t worry about keeping them at room temperature. I guess that the thing that we all associate with eggs going bad is mayonnaise, but mayonnaise uses raw eggs. Thanks for asking her.
I asked Jan LaBaron of Healthy Harvest that question on the radio show Friday night. Her answer was that if the eggs were cooked there probably wouldn’t be a problem. You can listen to the show and get the full answer: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/doctorprepper/2011/02/26/survival-common-sense-radio-02-25-2011
I’m suspicious of all recipes for trail food that use eggs. I’m not convinced that eggs should be in food that may be stored at room temperature for a long time. I do want to try the Hudson Bay bread and some of the hardtack recipes. I also want to make some Logan bread. I made some years ago and was quite happy with it. I will grind all of the nuts that I use, because the chunks don’t sit so well with my digestive system any more. I’ve got a big bag of ground walnuts in the freezer that goes on my oatmeal with the flaxseed meal each morning.
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