Breakfast - Car Camping - Rice Cakes with Sunflower Butter

Here is another easy one! We have it listed as a car camping recipe, but some variation may be possible for short backpacking trips. This can be summed up in a photo, but let's look at it anyway just to be consistent ;)

Rice Cakes
Sunflower Seed Butter
Fruit

I often eat this for breakfast at home, but it would be super easy to make at the campsite. This would be easy to take on a hike and eat for a snack. It could even substitute for a lunch on a rainy day when you don't want to stand outside cooking.

Variations? Change the fruit or the kind of butter.
My friend suggests almond butter. Thanks Corinne!

Snacks and Grab-ables

Please be sure to check that each of the products you select are gluten-free.

We hope that you'll contribute to this list of Gluten-Free Snacks and Grab-ables over time :)

Celery with Peanut Butter
Popcorn
Jerky (Beef, Turkey, Salmon, etc)
Energy Bars (Larabar, Honey Stinger)
Nuts & Dried Fruit
Hard Boiled Eggs
Cheddar Cheese Wedges
Fresh Sliced Jicama
Carrots or other Veggies
Crispy Rice Bar *
Granola Bars **
GF Pretzels
GF cookies ***
Cheese Sticks
Fruit
Cold GF pancakes
Rice Chips
Potato Chips
Tortilla Chips
GF Brownies
Banana chips
Nuts
Yogurts
Single serving apple sauce packs
Pudding packs
cupcakes ****
Meringues *****

* Envirokids makes a good Rice Bar
** Look for recipe in this blog
*** We make peanut butter cookies. We also like Pamela's Chocolate Chip. Trader Joe's has GF Ginger Snaps
**** We buy GF cake mix and make individual cupcakes
***** We buy ours at Trader Joe's, but we've seen them elsewhere


Thanks Kim & Katie for contributing ;)
Please post your snacks and opinions. Thanks!

Snack - Car Camping, Backpacking - Chocolate Crispy Treats

Recipe is from cooks.com We use mostly chocolate krispies, but we mix in some plain ones, maybe one or two cups, just for the look and to make the chocolate a little more mild. We think it tastes better ;-)

1/4 cup butter
10 ounces marshmallows
6 cups GF crispy cereal (Rice Krispies contain barley malt)
1. Melt butter in large saucepan over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat.
2. Add cereal. Stir until well coated.
3. Using buttered spatula or waxed paper, press mixture evenly into buttered 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan. Cut into squares when cool.
Yield: 24 squares, 2 x 2 inches.Note: Use fresh marshmallows for best results.

The boxes of cereal in the photo are the ones that we used for the treats in the first photo. The last I checked, Rice Krispies and Cocoa Krispies are not gluten-free. Cocoa Pebbles might be gluten-free, but you should check the ingredients before deciding to use them.

Snack - Backpacking/Car Camping - Granola Bars

Blueberry-Banana Peanut Butter Bars
from A Fork in the Trail, by Laurie Ann March (Wilderness Press, 2008)

1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup peanut butter
2 cups high-energy cereal made of strong flakes, crushed
1/2 cup dried blueberries
1/3 cup slivered almonds
1/4 cup dried banana chips
1/3 cup white chocolate chips

"Break the banana chips into small pieces and set aside. Heat the honey and brown sugar in a large pot and simmer for 1 minute. (Boiling too long will make the bars brittle.) Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the peanut butter. Add the remaining ingredients and combine well.
Coat the bottom and sides of an 8-inch square pan with vegetable oil. Scoop the mixture into the pan and pack down evenly. Freeze for 30 minutes. Transfer the pan contents to a cutting board. Allow to return to room temperature and then cut into 10 bars. Wrap bars in waxed paper and store in zip-top bags. The bars will keep in the freezer for three months. "

I make these and they are yummy! I use Trader Joe's Gluten Free Granola.
I modify the recipe a bit, using more nuts and more peanut butter, and dark choco chips instead of white choco, plus I used less choco chips than the recipe calls for because they were a little bit too prone to melt.