[pct-l] Fw: Re: Non-Cooked Food - Share Your Recipes!

[linsey]

I use a sealer all the time, but rarely in vacuum sealer mode.  Since I like to send resupply boxes, I feel like I can send myself all my favorite stuff:  refills of 100% natural Burt Bee's sunscreen, unscented hand sanitizer, just the right amount of oilive--I seal tons of stuff like this without vacuum.  However everything I've tried to "vacuum seal" ended up with holes in the packaging eventually just from normal jostling...somehow many foodstuffs seem to have sharp corners when vacuum sealed and it just doesn't hold up for me.

--- On Tue, 2/8/11, John Casterline <tnx4asking at gmail.com> wrote:

From: John Casterline <tnx4asking at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Fw: Re: Non-Cooked Food - Share Your Recipes!
To: "linsey" <mowoggirl at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 6:40 PM

Have u tried vacuum sealing ?


On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:00 PM, linsey <mowoggirl at yahoo.com> wrote:



--- On Tue, 2/8/11, linsey <mowoggirl at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: linsey <mowoggirl at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l]  Non-Cooked Food - Share Your Recipes!
To: "giniajim" <jplynch at crosslink.net>

Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 5:58 PM

They keep fine for a couple/few weeks, at home I keep them frozen then they go into a resupply box and do fine thru the mail and then some.  Recently I ate some that had been sitting out thawed for about four months, part of that time in the fridge, and they tasted somewhat stale but didn't make me sick.  I've also eaten them after being frozen over a year and they were okay but not as good as say 6 months frozen or fresh...


--- On Tue, 2/8/11, giniajim <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:

From: giniajim <jplynch at crosslink.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l]  Non-Cooked Food - Share Your Recipes!

To: "linsey" <mowoggirl at yahoo.com>, pct-l at backcountry.net, pacificcresttrail2011 at gmail.com, pcronshaw at cox.net

Date:
 Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 5:45 PM








How do these keep, especially during hot weather
hiking? 
 

 ----- Original Message -----
 From:
 linsey

 To: pct-l at backcountry.net ; pacificcresttrail2011 at gmail.com

 ; pcronshaw at cox.net
 Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 8:39
 PM
 Subject: [pct-l] Non-Cooked Food - Share
 Your Recipes!

These homemade bars obviously need to be made in advance, but

 once on the trail they are no-cook.  I've made nearly 1000 of them and
 haven't gotten sick of them yet.  When hiking I eat five a day. 


Cereal Bars: my recipe is an evolution of the High Energy Cereal Bar

 recipe from "A Fork in the Trail" by Laurie March although enough changes in
 quantities, technique, and ingredients have been made that I feel okay about
 passing out this recipe.

1/4 cup honey

1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4+
 raw unsalted peanut or almond butter
2 1/2 cups healthy cereal such as
 Trader Joe's All Bran or any by Heritage Farms: crushed if flaked. Look for
 cereals with the fewest ingredients.

1/2 cup chopped dried fruit of
 choice
1/2 cup chopped nuts or seeds
1/3 cup unsweetened carob
 chips
1/2 teaspoon salt

Lightly oil an eight inch square
 pan.

Combine cereal, chopped dried fruit, chopped nuts, unsweetened

 carob chips, and salt--set aside.

In a large pot over medium low heat,
 combine honey and brown sugar and stir until it just bubbles. (Too long or too
 much heat results in a brittle bar.)

Remove from heat and stir in nut

 butter, quickly.

Add cereal/dry ingredients and mix thoroughly until
 chips are melted and incorporated. I use a wooden spatula for this vigorous
 stirring.

Press firmly into oiled pan, finishing with the oiled bottom

 of a mixing cup to really flatten the bars uniformly.

Chill briefly (15
 minutes in the freezer), turn out onto cutting board and let come to room
 temperature before cutting into 10 bars.

Wrap individual bars in 6 inch

 square unbleached waxed tissue, the kind the bakery's use to grab
 cookies--available at restaurant supply stores. Encase in freezer bag and
 store in the freezer until needed for hiking and/or resupply boxes.




Some of my favorite combinations are blueberries or sour cherries
 with almonds and almond butter, Heritage Farms Mesa Sunrise cereal or other
 corn based flakes with peanut butter and walnuts and cranberries. Sunflower

 seeds because they're so inexpensive. The important thing is to mix it
 up.

I've used chocolate chips instead of carob, but vastly prefer
 carob: it is high fiber but spendy. Actually many different chips would work

 but some contain hydrogenated fat.

Incidentally, the spent waxed
 tissue makes excellent TP (carry out, don't bury) or emergency firestarter.
 White bleached waxed tissue tends to stick to the bars (but is more absorbent

 as TP), brown unbleached tissue works
 better.



     

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