Any suggestions for food while camping??
Going camping for three days, need advice on food to bring...any good recipes also welcome. Thanx.
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17 Comments:
i am so jealous. i love to wrap summer squash in foil with butter garlic and s&p. carrots and potatoes the same way. a ham wrapped in foil and thrown on the fire then torn into chunks and eaten with the veggies. we love linguica and egg sandwiches on the grill. if you can cook it at home you can cook it camping. ever cook a cupcake in a can. just need your fav frosting and your good to go. disposable pans are a big help when done just throw away. can i go. i'll do all the cooking. i love collecting wood.
dearrie at 7:31AM on 12/20/08
Camping and outdoor stores have special containers to carry eggs in by the dozen. Cast iron is best for such a trip ... one decent skillet and a small dutch oven is all you need. For recipes, look here for a slew of them, including some intended for that dutch oven. (You can also use this page to filter the other page by meal type and age group.)
LunaPierCook at 8:47AM on 12/20/08
just figure out all the meals you plan to eat there, add 2 and then figure out the snacks (with kids you need snacks) I usually have a ton of dried veg and some dried meat that i put together in my dutch oven and it makes a wonderful stew after it's simmered all day. It just depends on what kind of cooking you want to do, and the restrictions of the area if any. Have fun! I envy you, wish I could go.
huneybumper at 9:01AM on 12/20/08
Last time I went camping, I brought bags of prepped veggies and meats along with a bag of bamboo skewers. The kielbasa and pineapple were the biggest hit, but I also had zucchini, onion, mushrooms, and ham. I had some tupperwares of teriyaki, peanut sauce, and mustard, but we didn't reall y need them - after a busy day outdoors you've never tasted anything as good as grilled kielbasa.
sobriquet at 9:52AM on 12/20/08
cowboy ribeye steak and potatoes wrapped in foil and thrown in the coals...what are you cooking on???? a propane stove, a grill or a pit?
pooch at 9:56AM on 12/20/08
pit AND grill :) these all sound so good, i'm excited
ssultan23 at 10:40AM on 12/20/08
You can cook nearly anything on a grill. If you don't want to babysit your food, you could make individual foil packet dinners and put on the coals or grill. I like fish, thinly sliced potatoes & onions, tomato (canned diced would work in the winter) and any vegetable you want that cooks quickly. If you have pre-made rice, you could put a portion of that instead of the potatoes. Also good with beef (ground or sliced thin). Makes its own gravy. I think of them as girl scout meals. There's something about breakfast food cooked over a campfire that stimulates the appetite and the senses more than the fanciest restaurant meal. Have a great time!!!
PerkyMac at 10:50AM on 12/20/08
Cast iron is the way to go for sure. Camp stoves are also good so you can boil water in the morning (=coffee, tea, poached eggs!). My favorite camp breakfast: coffee, cereal (milk, yogurt, granola, berries), poached egg on horseradish cheddar, deli ham, and a slice of bread. Yum. Take a roll or two of paper towels. Lunch, sandwiches. Dinner: anything. from hamburgers in the cast iron, baked potatoes wrapped in foil tossed on coals, to lamb chops that marinated in a ziploc in the cooler since you leave the house. yum.
You can also foil/coal a few potatoes, toss them in the cooler, and do them up like home fries the next morning. Scramble some eggs in and heat up a burrito and you've got breakfast burritos.
I prefer to do stuff that includes very little clean up (see fave. camping breakfast above) so that the scrubbing and crap part of cooking is minimzed.
joyyy at 10:53AM on 12/20/08
Our classics are steak and potatoes (chunked up with onions, with butter and herbs and garlic), tacos or burritos, and strawberry wheat pancakes in the morning (fuel for hikes!). Baking in a dutch oven is always fun too-even if you just want to throw a mix in there :)
Grace at 11:59AM on 12/20/08
It is a good idea (if you have the room), to have two to three coolers. Prepackage all meat into individual servings,ie; pat out hamburgers, put wax paper in between each patty, then store all of them in a gallon ziploc. Same with chops, steak, etc. That way the cooler is open for a very very short period of time. Just reach in and grab one bag. Have a meat cooler, a cooler for other things that you may need to get into a little more often and then a drink cooler that will be opened up a lot. This ensures that the very perishable food does not go bad by being in a cooler that is opened up constantly. I hope that you have a wonderful and safe time.
floridagirl at 12:27PM on 12/20/08
Oh yeah, and prep as many things ahead of time as possible. If it will be a relatively short trip, most vegetables could be cut up before leaving your home.
floridagirl at 12:29PM on 12/20/08
Bring stuff for s'mores.
wunami at 2:04PM on 12/20/08
PORK LOIN!! Cooked over an open fire, with roast potatoes, is the best meal EVER
embolini9 at 2:25PM on 12/20/08
Wow! I'm in awe of the ambition of everyone in this thread! When I went camping, there was cold cereal and evaporated milk (eaten from the small wax paper in the box), pb, hot dogs, store-bought cookies, s'mores, and some wild blueberries we picked from a field.
I was going to add that maybe a spare box of protein bars might be good to take 'just in case' setting up camp is a problem, but maybe I'm overly paranoid.
HeartofGlass at 5:34PM on 12/20/08
don't forget hot dogs and long sticks over a fire. oh my god. i wanna go.
dearrie at 5:44PM on 12/20/08
Chili is always a favorite when we camp. Make it there, or make it ahead of time and reheat. Bagels and cream cheese are great to have on hand in case of inclimate weather. And we always have foil wrapped potatoes cooked in the coals with pit grilled steak and chicken. Lucky you-- we love camping but it's a tad to snowy and cold here to do now.
dhorst at 7:07AM on 12/22/08
I like to bring along a lot of crackers, peanut butter, granola, cheese, and usually we would bring a couple of big white/yellow onions wrapped in foil and throw in the fire along with potatoes, corn on the cob (also wrapped in foil and throen into the fire), some steaks, beef jerky, all sorts of nuts, chips, cookies, beef sticks, smoked salmon and lots of booze.
pjracz10 at 11:29PM on 12/22/08