Easy 3 Ingredient No Bake Cookies

Have a sweet tooth? During a power outage, you may not be able to use your oven to make cookies. But you can use an open flame on your camping stove, or the heat from a charcoal grill to make these delectable chocolate-y, high fiber "bites".
We served these, made with the Grape Nuts, last night. I made mine with Smart Start cereal just as an experiment.

One warning. These are food storage items, but cereal has a much shorter shelf life than canned food. If you went out and bought a box of cereal today, it would expire in about 10 months. Chocolate chips also have about a 10 month shelf life (sometimes more, depends on the brand)..then they get white-ish and crumbly.

So if you purchase these, and store them away, make note on your calendar or somewhere to use up these items before the expiration date. These are packaged items...mice can eat through the cardboard and plastic packaging. The canned milk I have pictured here has a "use by" date of September 2, 2010 but I have used sweetened canned milk past its "use by" dates and it was still OK.

This recipe is better than the classic No Bake Cook recipe I have used all my life, so thank you to Chrissy Heiner for sharing this treat and this recipe with us. Last night, we heard there is another name for these "cookies" (actually, it is more like a fudge): Gorilla Poop.

Easy 3 Ingredient No Bake Cookies
(aka "Gorilla Poop")

1 (12 oz.)package chocolate chips
1 can sweetened condensed milk
2 cups Grape-Nuts cereal (or other cereal, crushed)

Melt chocolate chips. Stir in milk and Grape-Nuts.
Drop by teaspoonfuls on wax paper. Cool.