Homemade Survival Bar

3 C. cereal (oatmeal, or wheat flakes)

1/4 tsp. salt
3 T. honey
2 1/2 C. powdered milk
1 C. sugar [Photo]
1/2 C. Knox Gelatin (a Kosher "Jello")
1/4 C. water
add raisins if you like

Place all dry ingredients except Jello in a bowl.

Bring water, honey, and Jello to a boil. Add to dry ingredients. Mix well.
Add water a little at a time until mixture is just moist enough to mold.
Place in a small square dish and dry in the oven under very low heat.
Wrap and store.

This will make 2 bars, each containing approx. 1000 calories or enough food for one
day. These will store for a long time if they are cooked until quite dry, and are
excellent for emergency packs, etc. Eat dry, or cooked in about 3/4 C. water.
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Just for fun, the web page author did a nutritional analysis of the above recipe's
contents using rolled oats and powdered milk fortified with vitamin A. He found
this to indeed be a very nutritious bar. One bar contains only half of the
nutrients of the whole recipe and therefore you may wish to set aside two bars per
day to get the following:

NUTRIENT PERCENT RDA

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Food energy 74%
Protein 135%
Total lipid (fat) 12%
Carbohydrate, by diff. 93%
Total saturated fat 8%
Cholesterol 10%
Sodium 441%
Total dietary fiber 60%
Vitamin A 121% (If Vit A fortified powdered milk is used.)
Ascorbic acid 16%
Thiamin 154%
Riboflavin 191%
Niacin 16%
Vitamin B6 38%
Folacin 113%
Vitamin B12 114%
Potassium 177%
Calcium 218%
Phosphorus 308%
Magnesium 116%
Iron 80%
Zinc 90%
Pantothenic acid 75%
Copper 55%
Manganese 212%
Linoleic acid (18:2/n6) 122%
Linolenic acid(18:3/n3) 9%
Histidine 234%
Isoleucine 491%
Leucine 615%
Lysine 610%
Methionine+Cystine 396%
Phenylalanine+Tyrosine 630%
Threonine 563%
Tryptophan 503%
Valine 488%

Probably the biggest problem is the low vitamin C. However, in a pinch, a person
could live a long time off these bars alone. They are also a bit short in the
calorie department, but are excellent in protein, over half of the B vitamins, and
excellent in the minerals category. These bars, no doubt, nutritionally beat many
of the expensive bars you can purchase from the different companies, and properly
sealed would probably last as long.
Al

Copyright 1993 by Peggy Layton and Vicki Tate These recipes may be freely used for
non-profit purposes as long as the book source and author remain intact. Express
permission of the author, Vicki Tate, must be received for commercial profit.

Updated: 28 Nov 96