Emergency Food Bars

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kmclye

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Outside the US, I have generally been able to get quite easily dense food bars made up of dried fruit and grains, about the size of a Mars bar, which were usually called muesli bars. They were easily found in supermarkets and pharmacies. I use them as emergency food rations when travelling, whether on planes, trains, automobiles, or foot.

Here, granola bars seem to be few and far between. I can't even find them in health food stores and the few that I have found have been too light and too sweet. I haven't attempted the soya or power bars because they don't sound like they have fibre. Chocolate melts and so doesn't work and anyway also doesn't have fibre.

Am I looking in the wrong aisle in the supermarket? Can anyone suggest a place to look or a website I can order proper heavy grain bars from? Or am I going to have to resort to baking my own fruit flapjacks?
 
I think there are some companies that put out pemmican bars, maybe even a company with the rights to that name. They are pretty solid. I've seen them at some of the so-called military surplus stores, as well as certain outdoor stores like REI, EMS, etc.

Serious climbers sometimes make their own high energy bars and I've seen recipes in climbing magazines and even Outside Magazine. I'll look through some issues and see if I can find a few recipes.
 
kmclye,
I don't know which bars you have tried, but the closest I have had to what you seem to want, is a Cliff bar. They are readily available at about $1.49, are dense, and seem to have some fiber. They come in various "flavors--say cranberry as the fruit as opposed to apricot, etc. I have seen them in supermarkets and running stores.

They might have been at the end of the candy aisle, with the cartons (say 12" x 4" x 4") open so you could pick which ones you wanted. They were not with the close boxed "granola, etc. bars. In that section you might find the "new" Nature Valley Chewey Fruit Trail Mix bar, but I do not think that meets your expressed criteria. Much cheaper though.
 
If you are still looking for recipes next week (it is almost knock off time on Friday here) then I will send you the recipe for the flapjacks that we had at Outward Bound when I was down there.

I am surprised that you can't get museli bars in the USA...you can't avoid them here in NZ!!

Warm cheers, cold beers! :D

Cho
 
Thanks so very much, everyone! The prolithic website sells Clif bars too and a rather interesting selection of other food bars. And yes, the fact that that one doesn't trip over ordinary muesli bars here was a bit of a surprise. But one does nothing if not adapt....
 
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