Easter Bunny Homemade Trail Mix

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RABBIT DROPPINGS GORP

Kids love gross food names, like the  popular Flies on a Toilet Seat snack. So try this one on your nine-year-old. Seriously, anyone will enjoy the sensible nutrition and good taste of this dessert trail mix, so rename it if you wish.

4 cups organic raisins

1/4  tablespoons chocolate malt powder

6 cups chocolate flavor round oat cereal 

2 cups mini chocolate chips 

Put raisins in a large bag and add malt powder. Shake gently to coat sticky raisins. Add cereal and chocolate chips. Jostle to mix well and package by the cupful. Makes 12 servings of 1 cup each. 

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Gorp for Lunch On the Trail

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Many commercial trail mixes are ‘way to sweet, too salty and have too much fat. It's crucial to eat right anywhere, any time, especially if you rely on gorp when you’re backpacking, camping, hiking, climbing, traveling. or perhaps you  grab a trail mix for lunch at your desk or brown bag it for a flight. 

 Here’s a savory, “main dish” gorp. Just add a bottle of water or carton of milk. 

String Cheese Snack Gorp

3 cups string cheese in small bite-size slices

1 to 2 cups dried apricots, diced 

1 tablespoon ( or more)  mixed seasoning such as Jane's Mixed Up Salt, Mrs. Dash or McCormick's Salad Supreme

8 cups mixed square cereals (rice, wheat, corn) 

1 cup unsalted walnut halves

1 cup unsalted pecan halves

Put cheese pieces in a big bag  or bowl and sprinkle with seasoning . Mix gently to coat. Add apricot pieces and more seasoning and mix again. This keeps sticky cheese  and apricot cuts separated throughout the finished gorp.

  Add cereals, nuts and more seasoning to taste. Mix gently and package by the cupful to make a meal or by the half cup for snacking. 

 
    Canned and packaged foods are good travel insurance. Even a day trip  can turn into a longer-than-planned, hungry and even life-threatening adventure. For a book on provisioning  your camper, boat , cabin or fish camp with familiar, affordable, shelf-stable pantry foods from the supermarket see Survival Food Handbook, published by International Marine division of McGraw-Hill.   http://amzn.to/1WdYqbe

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Money-Saving Homemade Trail Mix

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Snack Healthier, Anywhere the Hungries Hit You

Fiber-rich and delicious to boot....

Brawny Breakfast Gorp

“Fig newtons”  now come in many  fruit flavors, not just fig.  Choose your favorites or use a combination of two colors such as half apple, half strawberry. Put them on a cutting board and use a sharp chef’s knife to cut each one into 9 pieces. 

4 cups diced “newton” cookies

1 cup milled hemp seed or flax seed OR

1 cup toasted sesame seeds

2 cups yogurt-covered raisins

2 cups whole pecans

2 cups whole roasted almonds

Dice cookies and put in a large plastic bag with the hemp or flax seed. Toss gently and seeds will coat the sticky edges.  Add remaining ingredients and carefully toss again.  Measure by the cup or half cup snack bags and tuck into your purse, pocket or backpack.   Keep in a cool place. Just grab a container of hot coffee or herbal tea and you’re good to go! 

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Winter Food for Winter Hikes

Molasses-in-January Gorp

There's something about molasses that gives a rock-ribbed New England tang to winter gorp. I use "lite" molasses. Use blackstrap if you dare. 

1 cup brown sugar

1 stick butter

1/4 cup lite molasses

Bring to a boil in a large saucepan  and stir in

Pinch salt

½ teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract

Caution: baking soda will cause mixture to foam up

Fold in: 

10 cups miniature pretzels

3 cups dry roasted peanuts

Continue stirring carefully over low heat until everything is well coated. Spread on sheets of parchment or waxed paper to cool and dry. Measure by the cup or half cup and seal in snack bags. Makes 13 one-cup servings.

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In time they added a 21-foot diesel Class C RV, put the sailboat in storage during hurricane season, and traveled the US by road each simmer, returning to the tropics in winter. For ten years they had no home base while traveling constantly and producing dozens of books and thousands of feature articles for newspapers and magazines. 

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Seasick? Make Ginger Trail Mix

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This blog is about homemade trail mix for all travelers ashore, afoot,  aloft and afloat. When you make customized trail mix, package it individually and keep it in a pocket or backpack, it is the ultimate travel insurance.

Ginger-for-theTummy Gorp

    Ginger settles tummies. It's also a sweet, spicy dessert treat. Bake this buttery snack  in one piece, then chop it in bite size to package in individual portions.

Nuts optional

2 cups flour
3/4 cup rolled oats
1 ½ teaspoons cream of tartar
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon ground ginger
2 sticks butter, softened
1/4 cup milk or cream

    Set the oven for 325 degrees. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl. Grease a 9 X 13-inch baking pan. Use a pastry blender to cut butter into dry ingredients until mixture is mealy. Stir in milk or cream.  Mixture will be very thick. Add another tablespoon of milk if needed. Spread it evenly in the pan. 

    Use flour-dipped fingers or the back of a spoon dipped in flour to pack it in. Bake 25 minutes or until golden. Cool 5 minutes and cut in small squares with a sawtooth knife. Then cool completely before taking squares out of the pan.
    Eat plain or dunk in ginger lemon tea. Nuts add flavor and crunch but aren't recommended  for someone who is seasick. 

 

 

See Janet Groene’s shortcut recipes and tips for camp and RV cooking at Camp And RV Cook.

Discover the Yacht Yenta Cozy Mystery Series....

People are dying in Okecoochie County FL, but nobody can guess how the deaths are related. Meet Farley Halladay, a salt-cured sailboat widow who has an online charterboat booking business, dodges a wayward sister, cares for an old Navy SEAL veteran who was her husband’s mentor and wrangles  a large circle of wacky friends. She cooks, copes and solves crimes in this unusual cozy mystery series.  Check your favorite e-book seller for all formats or go to Kindle,   https://amzn.to/3bB5XPh   

Bonus points: Throughout the books, Farley shares shortcut recipes from the days when she was a charterboat cook. 

 

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