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Survival food is sustenance that can be made easily during a survival or emergency situation using mainly simple, long-term storage food items, cooked outdoors, using off-the-grid methods.
Hiking can burn up energy, and this recipe can help restore it!
These breakfast bars can easily double as energy bars for a quick snack on a hike or any kind
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of outing. Just make the night before, place in plastic sandwich bags, and eat one whenever you find your energy dropping!
The freeze dried fruits could also be substituted with fresh berries if such were available. In fact, this would make a great outing: Go pick some wild blueberries or raspberries, or whatever is in season, and include them in a batch of breakfast bars!
Marionberry or Raspberry Breakfast Bars
2 c marionberries or raspberries, freeze dried
2-1/2 TBS cornstarch
1 Tbs lemon juice
1 c white enriched flour
1 c whole wheat flour
2 c quick oats
1 c brown sugar
1-1/4 tsp baking powder
2 TSP butter or margarine
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1 tsp cinnamon
1 c butter ( used canned butter or make from your own butter powder)
Set oven temperature at 400 degrees. Spray a 9x13x2 inch baking pan with vegetable cooking oil. In medium bowl, add berries and cover with 3 cups of boiling water, and let stand for about 5 minutes. Drain, and reserve liquid from the berries. Add additional water if necessary to make one cup of liquid.
Combine reserved juice with cornstarch and lemon juice. Put into a a small pan and cook over low heat until thickened, gently stir in berries, remove from heat and set aside. In a separate mixing bowl, combine flour, oats, brown sugar, baking powder, salt and spices. Cut in butter until crumbly. Press 2/3 of the mixture into greased pan. Bake 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool slightly; spread berries over this crust. Crumble remaining flour/oat mixture over berry layer and press lightly. Bake 20-25 minutes more until lightly browned. Cool in pan and cut into 24 bars.
For more survival recipes and cooking tips, check out these blogs: Survival Pantry, and Survival Recipes and Off-Grid Cooking
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