I just finished making up another batch of boat food. I've been
making it for three years now. After a couple of gastronmic
failures I came up with something which is close to uncooked fruit
cake (Christmas cake) without the candied fruit. The nuts, dates,
and raisins are chopped up in a blender so the boat food has the
consistency of meal. They can be chopped without clogging the
blender by putting some of the corn meal, rolled oats, or flour in
the blender at the same time. I use whole wheat flour. There's no
picking the nuts out of the boat food and leaving the rest because
its all copped up to the consistency of meal.

I did a nutrition analysis on a spreadsheet adding up the various
ingredients and got a complete diet if I take a daily vitamin and
mineral pill. I store the boat food in empty plastic peanut butter
jars which have been made waterproof by the addition of a closed
cell foam liner on the underside of the lid cut from a foam meat
tray. A floating plastic spoon is put in the jar to eat with. I
try to be careful not to break the plastic spoon. I take a water
bottle and a jar of the boat food with me whenever I go out for a
paddle, bike ride, to the beach, to garage sales, etc. The problem
I have now is trying to save it for outings and not eating it at
home. There's no cooking or refrigeration required. It would keep
indefinitely but it doesn't stay around very long. I wasn't keen
on the taste and texture at first but think it's great now.

The recipe is in the food section of my website. The nutrition
spreadsheet is there too but you have to drop the /top.htm to get
the index of files and scroll down to the bottom to copy the
spreadsheet files. The spreadsheet is a DOS program.

I've found the boat food to be a good cheap energy source. Try it
if you like, or experiment with something more suited to your
taste. For smaller quantities it's easy to just reduce all the
amounts proportionally.

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