GORP Food

1 cup salted peanuts or dried roasted peanuts
1 cup raisins

Mix in a Zip lock bag and eat on the trail.

1 cup Chex's cereal, rice, corn, wheat or mixed
1 cup M&M;'s
1 cup salted peanuts (or dried roasted peanuts)
1 cup raisins

Mix in a Zip lock bag and eat on the trail.

1 cup mixed nuts (or dried roasted mixed nuts)
1 cup dried Fruit Bits
1 cup M&Ms;
1 cup roasted sunflower kernels

Mix in a large Zip lock bag and eat on the trail.

1 cup salted peanuts (or dried roasted peanuts)
1 cup raisins
1 cup M&M;'s

Mix in a Zip lock bag and eat on the trail.

2 1/2 cups low-fat granola
1 cup dried pears
1/2 cup M&M;'s

Mix in a Zip lock bag and eat on the trail.

1 cup salted peanuts (or dried roasted peanuts)
1 cup raisins
1 cup roasted sunflower kernels
1 cup M&M;'s

Mix in a large Zip lock bag and eat on the trail.

1/2 cup mixed nuts
1/2 cup Macadamia nuts
1 cup dried Fruit Bits
1 cup M&M;'s
1 cup roasted sunflower kernels

Mix in a large Zip lock bag and eat on the trail.

1 cup pitted dates, prunes, raisins or other dried fruit
4 cups old-fashioned oatmeal
1 cup pine nuts or walnuts
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup wheat germ
1/3 cup sesame seeds
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup oil

Snip fruit into small pieces and set aside. Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl. In a sauce pan, stir together honey and oil and heat to boil. Pour over dry ingredients, and mix.

Spread onto two 10"x15" baking sheets. Bake 25 minutes at 325^o F, stirring occasionally. Add fruit once the granola is cool.

1/3 cup each raisins, apples, apricots, dates and coconut.
1/2 cup sesame seeds,
1/3 cup walnuts
2 cups peanuts.

For the glue, use 1 cup chocolate chips, 1/3 cup honey and 1/2 cup peanut butter.

Make sure the Scouts don't pack food in the same place as their socks and underwear. Food and patrol cooking gear go in the top of the pack, and personal gear in the bottom and the side pockets. Reserve one side pocket for trail munchies: nuts, dried fruits, smarties, hard candies and chocolate bars. Each Scout should have his own bagful to ration out to himself so that it lasts the duration of the trip. Our favorite is GORP balls; chopped dehydrated fruits and nuts"glued" together with honey, peanut butter and melted chocolate chips and rolled in icing sugar.

Nothing re-charges the body and encourages tired hikers faster than a quick snack on the trail. Try these "energy balls".

Mix together
1 cup chopped dates
1/2 cup peanut butter,
1 3/4 cups chopped figs, and
1 cup chopped apricots.

Roll into balls. Recipe should make about 33 servings, each weighing 0.9 oz.
(Calories per serving: 72; shelf life: 14 days.)

1 cup dry cereal (Cheerio's, Chex, etc.)
1 cup peanuts or soy nuts
1 handful pretzel sticks
1 cup raisins
optional, handful of dried fruit

1 big box Pepperidge farm cheese fish crackers or 1 box Chex Mix,
1 @1 lb. bag M&M;'s
1/2 LB raisins
1 jar Planter's Dry Roasted Peanuts

Mix in a 2 gallon zip lock bag. Serves one troop.

1 pkg semi sweet morsels
1 cup Peanut Butter
1 stick margarine
1 box Crispex cereal
1 lb Powdered sugar

Melt semi sweet morsels, peanut butter and margarine over low heat. stir in cereal until well coated. Place powdered sugar in grocery sack and then put"the mixture" into the bag and shake until well coated. The chow that is, not you.

1 cup Pretzels
1 cup Chex Mix
1 cup nuts
1 cup M&M;'s

Mix and eat and share with your buddies

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