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Good Old Raisins and Peanuts
(And So Much More!)

Contributed to GORP’s Recipes Forum by Dennis Schmitt

Granola, Oats, Raisins and Peanuts

1 cup salted peanuts or dried roasted peanuts
1 cup raisins

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


Trail Peak Trail Mix
Pilmont Training Center

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.


Mixed GORP

1 cup mixed nuts (or dried roasted mixed 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.


GORPMM
Backpacker Magazine

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.


Good-for-you-GORP
Backpacker Magazine

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.


Sunny GORP
Backpacker Magazine

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.


Mac GORP
Backpacker Magazine

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.


Tom Brokaw’s Granola GORP
Backpacker Magazine

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 bowel. 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 325o F, stirring occasionally. Add fruit once the granola is cool.


GORP

Gorp Balls
Helen Singh The Leader, April 1984

1/3 cup each raisins, apples, apricots, dates and coconut.
Add 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.

Energy Balls
The Leader, June/July 1994

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.)


Heidi’s Trail Mix
Heidi

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


SAM’s Mix
Dennis A. Schmitt

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.


People Chow
Dave Corson, ONEPOT

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.


Donny’s Mix
Donny Shaheen, Bag

1 cup Pretzels
1 cup Chex Mix
1 cup nuts
1 cup M&M’s
Mix and eat and share with your buddies


Have we missed any GORP recipes?
Tell us in the Recipes Forum.

Go to GORP Food.


7,677 posted on 05/15/2009 3:39:29 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2181392/posts?page=1 [Survival,food,garden,crafts,and more)
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To: nw_arizona_granny
Granny, you just knew those recipes would interest me, didn't you. I will be making them. Now if I can find out the shelf life of these “comfort foods.” Probably don't have to worry as they won't be around long enough to go stale. These treats are expensive to buy packaged. It's got to be less expensive to make your own, especially when my fruits and berries are in season so I can dry them. I have the most awful sweet tooth. Hubby made me a rhubarb cream cheese pie this week and I ate it all by myself in two days.
7,711 posted on 05/15/2009 4:21:46 PM PDT by upcountry miss
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