Let me concoct a recipe for a gift jar for you. I haven't maed this in a while, btu it should look great in a jar and is nutritionally sound. Use a pint jar. All ingredients are real and are not artivicial flavors, and can be found at bulk food stores, which makes purchasing the ingredients inexpensive. It's also a good way to make easy food for personal food storage programs.
Ingredients:
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbs. sugar
1 tbs. baking powder
1/3 cup powderd whole egg
1/3 cup powdered milk
1/2 cup dried blueberries
For camping, I'd jsut mix all of the ingredinets together in a plastic bag. Then I only had to add water and 3 tbs. cooking oil and I had perfect blueberry pancakes.
Of course, you cold mix the oil and flour together prior to placing in the jar, which would give you something akin to Bisquick. But know that the shelf life would be reduced. And you can substitue nearly any dried fruit for the blueberries, or leave out fruit altogether. If you triple everything, add cocoa powder, increase the sugar to three cups, then you's ahve a pretty decent chocolate cake mix. Or add cinamon, nutmeg, and ginger to turn it into a spice cake mix. The variations are endless.
Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North