[pct-l] trail snacks

[patti kulesz]

ugh that sounds nasty! 

this guy I hiked with in 09, Tuna Helper, gave me this recipe for my book...600 
calories per bar! and sooooooo delicious!

The DRY
4-5 cups rolled oats
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup sun flower seeds
1/3 cup ground flax
1 cup wheat germ
8 scoops protein powder (chocolate or vanilla) (use the scoop that comes with 
the protein powder)
1/2 tablespoon salt
 
The WET
2 cups peanut butter (your choice crunchy/creamy)
2 cups honey
2 cups chocolate/chocolate chips
 
Melt the wet together and pour/mix into the dry. A kitchen aid will save you a 
TON of work and your hands form becoming sore. If you don't have a kitchen aid, 
kneading the ingredients together with your hands is the best way. Once evenly 
mixed, spread onto/into a cookie pan and roll flat. Lining the pan with wax or 
parchment paper makes life a little easier, but isn't necessary.
 
This should yield ~20 big bars (5 1/4" x 2" x 3/4" - Fits well in a quart zip 
lock) at about 600 calories and 23g of Protein per bar.
 
Notes*
    0. The faster you knead the mix together the better. Take to long the and 
wet ingredients cool off and start to cement your mix!
    0a. If using a Kitchen Aid, the time to stop the mixing is when the machine 
starts to have a hard time in mixing the ingredients (it'll stat to kinda of 
whine)
    1. The key to making them into bars is the wet to dry ratio. Thus one may 
exchange ingredients as long as the ratio stays pretty similar. I'd suggest 
keeping the wet as is and experimenting with the dry ingredients. If the mix it 
to dry, add more wet and vise verse.
    2. 8 scoops of protein powder equates to a lot to my size bar and will give 
you gas. Use the protein powder according to your needs.
    3. Other DRY things I used in my bars were: Quinoa flakes, powdered milk and 
goji berries. I think rice crispys would be a good addition, yet haven't tried 
them yet.
    4. One can leave the chocolate chips whole and add them with the dry, 
however if the bar heats up, they tend to melt out of the bars and make a mess.
    5. When the bars heat up, the natural oils do seep out. It only becomes a 
problem if you don't have them in a zip lock.
    6. I used wax/parchment paper to separate bars in my pack. This kept them 
from fusing into a large brick when warm.
     
Sugar Moma  

 




________________________________
From: John Abela <pacificcresttrail2011 at gmail.com>
To: Nikii Murtaugh <boundforadventure at gmail.com>
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 7:53:40 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] trail snacks

I think I will just stick with my blah tasting Pemmican Carob Bars.


On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Nikii Murtaugh
<boundforadventure at gmail.com> wrote:
> At Costco last week, I saw some rather large bags of dog snacks.  I wondered
> if anyone had tried them - even though the packages say "Not for human
> consumption."
>
> One was Chicken Jerky $14.49
> The other Chicken and Sweet Potato $11.69
>
> They were made by Kingdom Pets, and the Jerky had the following ingredients:
> Chicken, vegetable glycerine, salt.
>
> What do you think?  It seems to me I remember reading about a couple who ate
> pig ears (dog snack) on the trail.
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