Recipe Emergency Food Bar

  

There are all sorts of recipes for survival bars on the internet, and I have sampled several commercial bars, and while they work – I have wanted to try to sample ones I can CIY (Cook It Yourself) – After much research, I found this recipe from Food Storage and Survival http://foodstorageandsurvival.com/make-your-own-homemade-survival-bars/

Ingredients:

• 2 cups oats
• 2 1/2 cups powdered milk
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 TB honey
• 1 3 oz package jello (orange or lemon because of the high sugar content – anything else makes it very sweet – I also suspect it gives a little vitamin C)
• 3 TB water

Procedure:

• Mix the oats, powdered milk, and sugar together in a bowl
• In a medium pan mix water, jello and honey.
• Bring to a rolling boil.
• Add jello mixture to dry ingredients.
• Mix well. (If the dough is too dry, add a small amount of water a teaspoon at a time. It needs to have a low water content for storage, but it is very thick and dense, and needs water to stick together.)
• Shape dough into a loaf about the size of a brick.
• Place on a cookie sheet (with parchment paper) and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Alternatively, you may want to just dry in the oven at low heat because of the sugar content.
• Cool
• Wrap in aluminum foil to store.

If you dry it to lower than 10% moisture, you may vacyum seal it, but if there is moisture in the loaf, you may be growing botulism.

I am told this loaf will keep indefinitely and each loaf meets the daily caloric needs for one adult (approx 2000 calories).

[NOTE from Suzanne:  I think I will try these and dry them in my Nesco dehydrator and then vacuum seal.]