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Seven Summits Bars

¼ C. margarine
1 C. crushed graham crackers or cereal
1 C. shredded coconut
2 C. baking chips, (chocolate, butterscotch, white chocolate, etc.)
1 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
¾ C. rolled oats
1 C. chopped nuts (your choice)

Melt margarine on the bottom of a 9 x 13 baking pan. Layer on remaining ingredients in the order given. Bake at 350o F for 20 minutes. After removing from oven, gently press the nuts and oats into the hot mixture. Cool and cut into bars. A 2 x 3 inch bar contains approximately 275 calories. Freeze until ready to eat.

Note: DARK chocolate contains the highest amount of theobromine, a compound related to caffeine that has been documented to help improve blood flow and cold tolerance. Look specifically for dark chocolate chips if you don't mind the bitter flavor. There is certainly enough sugar in this recipe to offset the bitter!

Some other thoughts:

Make sure your cheese and salami are already in small portions because they WILL freeze. Freeze dried and packaged foods (i.e. Ramen) have no fats in them. Add fats to these dishes using butter or olive oil. Because of the high caloric needs induced by the cold environment, it is important to enhance the caloric value of foods in any way you can. Add butter to rice, potatoes and hot cereal. Add calories to hot cereals using brown sugar, maple syrup, brown rice syrup, corn syrup, honey, blackstrap molasses. Sugar and corn syrup are “fast acting” sugars, the remaining sweeteners are slower to enter the bloodstream. Blackstrap molasses and brown rice syrup have the added benefit of extra nutrients.

Nut butters are highly nutritious, high in fats, and good sources of concentrated calories. They can be mixed into hot cereal, spread on crackers, and used as ingredients in dinners. Cold temperatures will make nut butters thicker and harder to spread, but it takes fairly extreme low temperatures for them to freeze.

MNS