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I've been a big fan of Cliff Bars as trail food when I spend the day in the mountains. Nothing else I've tried had the staying power of them. Most trail bars that I've tried don't provide enough calores and tend to have alot of sugar. Which means you can get an insulin spike and not much sustaining energy.
But now I've found something else. For me, I'll use these new ones because I've developed a sensitivity to soy products. Otherwise I'd still be eating them.
They are the Off The Farm trailbars. They come in three different flavors and they provide about 220 calores each. They even taste better the Cliff Bars. The bad news is they are expensive, about $27 per dozen......
BTW, I don't get an insulin spike that other trail bars give me when I eat Nature Valley Fruit & Nut Bars. Might be because they use High Maltose Corn Syrup as their sugar source. I understand this is true of some of such corn syrup products. E

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Where can you find them?


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I wish I could find a "true" energy bar. Cliff bars just don't quite get it for me. I still eat them, but don't particularly "like" them. They also seem heavy for backpacking. Grab two a day for four days and you have some significant weight there. On a cold morning you can't even bite them unless you put it in your pocket for a while first, or your bag and I already sleep with my IsoButane canister!

Go to a typical outdoor store and the selection of "energy" bars is overwhelming. I wouldn't know where to start.

I use the GU gels, which are fine for energy but it's not like actually eating a snack.


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Clif is building a huge factory here so its probably all we'll see on the shelves when it opens.


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I've started making my own based on this recipe:

http://honest-food.net/2014/01/02/homemade-energy-bar-recipe/

I'm sure they don't weigh less, and I know they probably cost the same or more than other options, but I like the taste and having the option of altering the ingredients as I choose. Mine end up saltier than sweet.



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Originally Posted by snubbie


Go to a typical outdoor store and the selection of "energy" bars is overwhelming. I wouldn't know where to start.


Grab one of everything, and eat them for lunch/etc. (Preferably when you are within 50 yards of a toilet). It is really nice to learn that something doesn't work for you while you are in civilization. Take notes.

Do the same at walmart. (I mean buy a bunch of bars, not try a bunch of bars and use their toilet).

In any case, I much prefer to have a variety, rather than a whole case of one kind of thing.

I pretty much hate cliff bars. Something about them tastes like chemicals to me. I end up with a mix of nature valley (rock hard "crunchy" bars and the other ones), Kind bars, superfood "meal" bars (ha!), snickers, protein bars, a couple power bars, etc.

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I am a big fan of "Balance Bars." They are not overly sweet and have a fair amount of protein. I can eat one to replace a meal. They hold me over very well and I don't get a sugar rush. They are not lightweight, but for a quick meal on the run, they are about the best I have tried. All of the others, including Cliff Bars, are too sweet for my taste.

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While making bars at home from hand picked ingredients is the best option, albeit, the most labor intensive option as well, Pro Bar has some good products out there. A "meal replacement" bar with 350+ calories, a protein bar and an energy bar. Some of the marketing states organic, whole grain, etc., etc. Gets high marks and good reviews from lots of Amazon customers.

I suppose just another option to store bought bars but seems better than the ones filled with sugar and no substance.

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+1 on Probars. Take a little foil packet of almond butter to spread on them and you have a 600 calorie package the size of a hockey puck.



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The average person will burn over 500 calories per hour carrying a pack while hiking the hills. A bar with only around 220 doesn't cut it.


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That's true but it doesn't tell the whole story. And that is the fact that most of us carry plenty of fat to help us deal with that level of activity. One pound of fat has about 3500 calores.
So what you need is to keep your blood sugar level up and slow down to allow you to breath well enough to use those fat reserves.
I plan about three of the above bars plus some Nature Valley bars for a day in the mountains. That's about 660 calores from the Off the Farm Bars and another 400 or so from the NV bars. That, with the meals I eat in camp or at home, I get by well enough. E

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Fat burn is for when one goes into survival mode and you will be weakened in the process. It is not for immediate energy needs during a hard hunt.

You can reduce your amount of fat with a long term diet and exercise program, but relying on body fat to get you thru a hard day will leave you drained.


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Originally Posted by battue
The average person will burn over 500 calories per hour carrying a pack while hiking the hills. A bar with only around 220 doesn't cut it.


I kind of settled on 5-6 bars a day, with overflow coming from a couple 3/4lb bags of jerkey and a ziplock of trail mix for lunch (everything between breakfast and dinner). 3 packets of instant oatmeal for breakfast, and a Mountain House for dinner. I still lost 14 lbs this year sheep hunting, but haven't found a way around that yet.

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Working like you are, you practically can't eat too much and a couple bars, regular meals and fat stores wouldn't allow you to do what you do. You need energy right now and you have to eat it to get it.


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Originally Posted by cwh2
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Go to a typical outdoor store and the selection of "energy" bars is overwhelming. I wouldn't know where to start.


Grab one of everything, and eat them for lunch/etc. (Preferably when you are within 50 yards of a toilet).

Do the same at walmart. (I mean buy a bunch of bars, not try a bunch of bars and use their toilet).



I hope never to have to use a Walmart toilet.

Frankly, I rarely ever eat anything that is a gutbomb and causes that reaction in me, at least not that quickly. I did try Fiber One bars once. Man, I could have filled the Hindenburg with the gas.


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Agreed. I took nut packs from costco at 330 calories a pack. Also some pemmican bars at 440 a bar.

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Snickers or Reece's Peanutbutter Cups are my energy bars wink

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No, Battue. That's not what I said. I said one's fat stores help with added calores as to how many calores one burns in a day. I've also stated, several times, that consumption or use of fat for energy depends on sufficent oxygen and the presence of glucose, blood sugar, in one's body. The body burns fat all of the time, not just when one is in "survival mode."
"Survival mode" that you describe sounds alot like starvation posture. That occurs when the body runs out of glucose and has to consume one's muscle tissue after converting it to glucose.
Odviously that needs to be avoided. E

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I make my own. Not sure the amounts, but here's what's in them:

Oatmeal (maybe around 2 cups)
Chia seeds
Apple Sauce
Dried Cranberries
Dried Apricots
Walnuts
Scoop of Vanilla Protein Powder
Coconut oil (about 1/4 cup; warm it until its liquid)
cinnamon and/or nutmeg if the mood strikes


I grind the dry and dried ingredients in a blender. Dump it all in a bowl and add the coconut oil. Then add applesauce and mix by hand until it holds it's own shape. Put in a muffin tin and bake at 350. My wife calls them "power pucks"

One of these and a smoothie will hold you until lunch. Not that you'll have a smoothie while hunting, but you get the point. Cheap to make too....

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That'll make a turd!!!.......sounds good, I may have to try that recipe.



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