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Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Dec 22nd, 2011
Being a Washington State native I grew up on Liberty Orchard’s Aplets and Cotlets – and their extensive candy collection. I love the mix of gummy candy and chopped nuts. Yum! This week we had samples of a newer line, The Orchard Bar, show up for review. Imagine if I had my favorite fruit and [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Dec 4th, 2011
I happen to be a longtime fan of Lunabars (and as always noted – guys you can eat them. You won’t be any less manly.) So I was pretty excited to see this in my post office box yesterday morning: Yum! A Chocolate Peppermint Stick bar and ooh….a matching all natural lipbalm. Lets just say [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Jul 26th, 2011
Two lines of snack/energy bars made locally in Washington State, by Fairlight Bakery, are the Zac Omega Bars and Zac Attack Snack Bars. The Omega bars are in the 250-ish calorie range (some more than others) and come in 5 varieties to choose from: The bars are hefty, moist and with my favorite..lots of filling: [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Jun 22nd, 2011
Got that craving for summer night treats? You know what I am talking about! S’mores! All wrapped up in an easy to not and non-sticky mouth sensation The Luna S’Mores bar is perfect for tossing into one’s snack bag. And it has everything we need (guys, you can eat these bars. You won’t turn into [...]
Posted in Other, Trail Cooking on Jun 6th, 2011
My trainer at the gym last week handed me an old yellowed page – from the February 1999 issue of Backpacker Magazine. It was pages 33 and 34 and had recipes for making your own energy/trail bars. Times have changed since 1999 it was very apparent…. After all, how often does one see recipes for [...]
Posted in No Cook Recipes, Trail Cooking on May 26th, 2011
If you follow my personal blog you might have noticed that I am incorporating more and more raw meals into our at home diet. It is fun, tasty and healthy. Obviously not everything I make can translate into trail meals but there some that have – and been very good – and “energy” or “granola” [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on May 3rd, 2011
We received samples recently from Health Warrior, a small company founded by two athletic guys, who are spreading the love of chia seeds. And not those chia seeds (Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia!), rather the edible and good for you version. Yes, there is more to do with Chia Seeds than grow a Chia Scooby Doo. They are a [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Apr 25th, 2011
Picking up my mail while dropping off the weekend’s orders (seems we had a lot of peeps out there who want cozies!) and what do I spy in my box? One of the now gluten free Luna Protein bars in Cookie Dough. Yum! The same tasty bar, just now made with a few tiny changes [...]
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