Originally Posted by
Losligato
This may be disgusting... but it is what we sometimes do...
Put the leftover oatmeal from breakfast in a plastic bag. Begin adding whatever you found at the bulk foods section, salty, sweet, whatever.... raisins, figs, peanuts, Asian rice crackers, wasabi green peas, peanut butter pretzels, gummy bears, craisins, dried pineapple, puffed rice, granola...
Add a banana or two and close it with a twist tie.
This is the best part.... Begin Smashing. It brings out the inner ten-year-old in all of us. Mix it up until it becomes a deliciously disgusting gloppy mixture.
Lots of energy. Salty sweet to replace the lost sodium. Different every day.
Mixing only the dry items could keep this cleaner for your 10 year olds.
Figs & fig bars are a good idea, grapes, plums, strawberries too. One of my favorites is honey. Either straight or I've been known to mix a couple of tablespoons into a bike bottle of water. Mixed bottles are harder to for me to keep clean though.
As you get into more agricultural areas, you might be wanting to stop at the roadside produce stands to find some of these "take along goodies".
As others have said, it certainly looks as if you've got this under your control. Sounds to me like your doing a great job keeping good food going into your family's bodies.
Thanks Nancy & family for the great website too. I'm certainly going to look up some of the places that you mentioned on your sponsor page when I get up there (someday).
~Roger
PS. Somebody mentioned baked goods. Do you make biscuits along the way?