Spin: Camping food?

[Can'tTurnLeft]

What foods do you take with you camping? What do you prep before hand? How do you cook etc...

I would like to have a small propane grill and stove to cook on.

I can't think of a thing to eat besides hot dogs!

[MamaGoose]

[Aisling]

So far, these are our wins:

-PB muffins with chocolate chips on top (a la paleo nut butter variations)
-sweet potatoes and corn on the cob pre-wrapped in aluminum foil (toss 'em in the coals and let them roast)
-jerky
-apples and PB
-canned soup


I need more ideas...my family is starting to revolt, and I find hot dogs revolting.

[Elora]

Grill veggies. Foil packs.

Pre-make salads and keep in a cooler. pasta/macaroni, egg, antipasta, caprese, chicken, fruit, tuna, potato

Hard boiled eggs keep well in a cooler.

We put cast iron skillets on the grill and cook anything. Egg/egg sandwiches for breakfast (I need bread not that I have a toaster, but grilled bread with fried egg in the middle works for me)

We keep packs of meat (chicken and burgers mostly...the guys eat brats but gag me) in a cooler with eggs and ice.

man I miss camping

[Apple-Saucy]

Breakfasts: Eggs. Precook your bacon and store in zip lock bags. Precook pancakes or waffles and store in zip lock bags. Re-heat them on a cast iron pan or griddle morning of. Oatmeal cooked over the fire.

Lunches and Dinners: Pasta salads dressed with oil and vinegar with lots of veggies, Shrimps over the campfire (use a grill cage), Grilled chicken (you can parboil that at home and just finish it up at the camp)

Sides and snacks: Potatoes, corn on the cob, chopped up veggies wrapped in foil and thrown on the coals to cook. Nacho packets...make a pouch out of foil toss in a serving of chips and some shredded cheese put it in the coals for 5-10 minutes depending on how hot the coals are fish it out eat contents.

Desserts: Fire pie....you'll need a dutch oven or other shallowish covered dish that is heat/fire proof. Make a pie put it in the dutch oven put the oven in the fire cover it with hot coals. S'mores.

[twoplustwo]

In addition to already mentioned items - two of our popular camping foods are:

Zucchini bread for breakfast.

I always bring a thing of chicken burrito mix - so we just heat it up & do burritos.

[StoryOfGrace]

STEAK AND EGGS!!!!!!





Sorry, that's my favorite part about camping...the food. Steak and eggs for breakfast. Chips. Things we don't usually get around here.


Subbing, be back when DS is sleeping.

[HindsFeet]

Lots of stuff! Breakfast is often pancakes or eggs and sausage/bacon. We've done breakfast burritos before as well. Lunch/dinner is almost anything that suits your fancy - spaghetti is easy, as are things like chili or frito pie. Hamburgers, hot dogs, sloppy joes and the like are always popular, and sandwiches are easy. Tacos, burritos etc. are easy too. Last time around dh and the kids make pepperoni pizza bites by taking crescent roll dough pieces and wrapping them around a slice of pepperoni and some cheese, and then cooking them over the fire on their hot dog sticks. They had pizza sauce to dip in afterwards.

If you've got electric hookup, you can also do a lot of crockpot cooking. If you take the disposable liners, cleanup is super easy.

And dutch oven cooking opens up a lot of other options as well.

What does your family normally like to eat? If you give ideas, I can help you figure out what could be adapted to campout cooking easily.

Oh, and I do as much prep beforehand as possible. Eg. pancakes: I mix up the dry ingredients in a ziplock bag, put the wet ingredients in a mason or plastic jar, and then just pour the dry into the wet and shake to mix when it's time to cook.

[crunchymum]

Oh my, I love making food while camping. I usually have to toss out any illusions of healthy food, though, more or less.

We do a lot of packets. Hobo dinners, chicken Parmesan packets, banana rein sugar french toast packets. We do kabobs a lot, too. And campfire cinnamon rolls where you wrap refrigerator crescents on a stick, cook them, and roll them in butter and cinnamon sugar.


Chili is good... Baked apples... Man, IMO everything tastes better 'cause you're "roughing it".

[MamaGoose]

There were a few ideas over here - http://gentlechristianmothers.com/co...d.php?t=444295

[melliethepooh]

My best camping recipe:
Bottle of italian dressing, sliced tomatoes and onions, can of mandarin oranges; marinade chicken in this in a ziploc bag. Freeze before packing it in your cooler. Then you either foil pack it in the coals, or cook on a cast iron skillet. Wins every time.
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[mamaKristin]

While camping, we eat a lot like we do at home. We've got a propane stove, and a bbq grill thing that comes with us. I pre-portion all our spices into tiny reusable containers, or ziplock bags (like pancake mix). I freeze water in gallon sized milk jugs, and keep one of our coolers for super cold food (like frozen meats) and one for cooler/nonfrozen foods/beverages.

Generally we have butter chicken, chill, steak and potatoes, pasta for suppers. Lunches are often when I'll make sandwiches in our bush pie maker in the campfire. Pizza sandwiches, grilled cheese...I'll also use the pie maker for dessert at night. Yum.

Breakfasts are oatmeal, pancakes, bacon and eggs. I'll often have bacon and eggs the morning after we've had potatoes, so I'll have extras to turn into hash browns. I really plan out our food when we camp, so I'm using leftovers for subsequent meals so less cooking required.

Oh, and we start the day with coffee and hot chocolate every morning. The kids love getting hot chocolate for breakfast, and it warms us all up on chilly mornings - even hot mornings feel chilly when we're eating outside.

[crunchymum]

Originally Posted by gardenfreshmama

The most important part of camping is waking up and having a french press to make coffee in. (or for dh to make coffee in and bring to you in your sleeping bag!)

Mmmmm... Even better is bringing a carafe or cold brew concentrate. Nothing better than a GOOD cup of coffee in the middle of camping!

Is a bush pie maker like a pudgie pie maker? I never thought to do grilled cheese, YUM!!!!

[sprout]

subbing...b/c now I so wanna go camping!!!

[mamaKristin]

Bush pie maker is probably the same thing as a pudgy pie maker. Ours are metal pieces that fit together, and lock, and we place them in/on the campfire. We make savoury sandwiches, sweet pies, pizza, everything with them. I wanted to get the cast iron ones, but they were much heavier and pricer. I didn't mind paying more, but we tow a pop up trailer with a mini-van, and I try to keep our packing light as possible.

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Oh, and I confess to packing instant Starbucks packets while camping on occasion. I'm a huge coffee snob, but when we're without easy water access, it takes much less water to boil up for instant packets, as opposed to cleaning up our camp coffee pot.