Let Them Eat GORP
- Ruby McConnell
- Apr 7, 2021
- 1 min read
One of my goals for A Girl’s Guide to the Wild was to create activities that could be completed successfully with as little help or expense from parents as possible. While those kinds of activities serve as great breaks for parents, they also teach a kind of self-reliance and problem solving that kids need in order to thrive.
GORP is a great food to practice things like gathering ingredients, measurement, storage, and cleanup. And it can be as healthy or sweet as you want, making it a solid staple in the pantry or outside.
GORP: Isn't that recipe a bit heavy on sugar? Nearly impossible to find any dried cranberries without 5 to 6 times as much added sugar as the natural sugars in cranberries. And the M&Ms are very heavy sugar and little of the natural ingredients of chocolate. GORP is a largely unnatural food for anyone going out in nature.
GORP: Isn't that recipe a bit heavy on sugar? Nearly impossible to find any dried cranberries without 5 to 6 times as much added sugar as the natural sugars in cranberries. And the M&Ms are very heavy sugar and little of the natural ingredients of chocolate. GORP is a largely unnatural food for anyone going out in nature.