Puffed Rice and Muesli Bars, survival food for hikers, doable in any campervan kitchen

February 26, 2020

We are pretty committed cyclists to the casual observer and we never travel without our bikes but honestly, at this time of the year, we don’t get a great deal of cycling done.

We love cycling and it is our most frequently practiced form of exercise but we must admit to being somewhat fair-weather cyclists and the French winter can throw some pretty undesirable conditions at us. We are not keen on cycling when it’s really cold (i.e. when your ears might snap off if you go too fast), raining, snowing or too windy so our default, secondary form of exercise is hill walking which we do in pretty much all weathers.

We are surrounded by hills and trees here at the edge of the Foret d’Othe and can walk for hours without seeing another human being. We have been lost a few times in the huge forest and in days gone by we would have taken Kendal Mint Cake (traditional British, emergency mountain food) with us on our hikes but my modern take on emergency nutrition is this recipe for “Puffed Rice and Muesli Bars”. They keep for weeks and make for a tasty treat if you have been out walking a little longer than you intended. If you don’t finish up using them as emergency rations on your hike, they go really nicely with a cuppa back in your motorhome too.