what kind of FOOD do you make when you are camping?

Question

i need some neat ideas and SIMPLE RECIPES, Thanks. and what is it with all the cast iron pots and pans at camp supply stores, i love CAST IRON, but what are the benefits, and how should i care for it

other than smores, last time i had those when i was younger, i threw up allover my uncle, which i don't feel bad about, but i realy don't want to throw up again, its gross

Answer 1

We do a lot of "grill" things when camping. Burgers, dogs, steaks, or chops. My kids love roasting the dogs and putting them on buns theirselves. My family also HAS to have "fried biscuits" at least one morning when camping. THey are not the most healthy things in the world but very good...Canned biscuits (cheapest kind not the "grands") smushed flat fried in bacon grease.
Here is a great website for "campfood" especially if you have kids.
Hope it helps.
Beth

http://www.chuckwagondiner.com/categories.php?id=10

Answer 2

Cast iron pots add traces of iron to the food that you cook in them. But for carrying along on a hiking expedition, they're kind of heavy. Most people, even big blokes like me, prefer to keep the weight in the backpack to a minimum, so we dangle those thin aluminum pots from our pack straps.

But a lot of the time, when I go off on a few days hike, I don't take any pots at all. I just load up some winter wheat in my water bottles and let them soak while I travel. I drink off the water, then I unscrew the lid and eat the wheat from the bottom. If it's been in there for 48 hours, it's probably sprouted, and sprouted wheat is good health food.

When I do cook on the trail, I usually make bean soup with some rice. If you put the beans in a thermos bottle, then boil the water (over your little camp stove) and then pour the water into the thermos, the thermos will retain the heat and cook the beans. This saves your camp stove fuel so that you can hike further without refilling the little fuel cylinder.

A hint on bean soup: the most important things to use in flavoring are salt, red pepper, and cumin. You can add other spices and ingredients, but those three things are absolutely necessary for good bean soup.

Answer 3

We just do hot dogs for lunch and dinner and s'mores for desert. We bring cereal in the little boxes for breakfast. I know - not great nutrition - but the kids love to do the cooking and there are no dishes at all.

Cast iron is a pain. You can't use soap to clean it. You have to scrub it with pieces of foil. Can you say "no fun at all".

Keep it simple. Only stuff that involves do dishes and can be cooked on a stick or eaten out of the package.

Answer 4

This is a good site for care and recipes for cast iron cooking.
http://southernfood.about.com/od/recipes_southern/a/aa092100.htm

I personally like using a cast iron skillet to fry fish in with onions and green bell peppers, olive oil, butter, salt and pepper. You can put corn meal or plain flour on the fish after tapping dry with a paper towel.

In a cast iron dutch oven you can brown stew meat, or venison if you prefer, with butter. Sprinkle with flour, salt and pepper.
Then add onion, potatoes, celery, carrots cut up into large chunks. Add water or beef stock if you have and let simmer for an hour. A few drops of Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce or curry can add the spicy kick you desire.

The trouble with cast iron is it takes a long time to heat up to temperature but that is also it's quality because it takes a while for it to cool down. So constant temperature can be obtained and you can bake in a covered dutch oven.

Just wipe clean with a paper towel and clean with warm soapy water. Dry and add vegetable oil-soaked paper towel to resurface the cast iron.

Answer 5

You can never go wrong with smores and jiffy pop. Also I am not sure where you are from but in Indiana it has been like 100 degrees and very humid. Me and my family have an RV and we camp alot. And on hot humid days I would suggest snack foods and cold meat sandwiches. Good Luck. And I hope you have a great time camping.
I hope this helped you out

Answer 6

Circus baked potatoes.Before you leave home make a meatloaf like mixture of ground beef,chopped onions, one egg,beaten,b.b.q. sauce,salt and pepper.Put in your cooler and when ready for dinner,scrub russet potatoes and dry.Rub with oil.Bore a hole length wise through the potato.Fill with meat mixture and plug holes with bits of potato.Wrap each potato in double strength foil.Put on the grill,hot coals and turn about every 10 minutes for an hour.Also.instead of the meat mixture,you can insert a hot dog and cook the same way.All the juices of the meat go into the baked potao and taste great.Be careful when un-wrapping and let cool for 10 minutes before eating so that all the juices are loved by the potato and so that you don't burn the roof of your mouth,ouch....

Answer 7

Smores and jiffy pop are good snacks. Sour Kraut and weenies is always good in a cast iron pot. Don't wash cast iron with soap, that is a BIG no no. I hope I helped.
~Kaitlin~

Answer 8

stuff that can be easily made and disposed off. ie little incredients.
breakfast - go with breakfast bars, pop tarts, oatmeal bars, etc
lunch - crackers, bring pb&j, some cheese, summer sausage
dinner - mac&cheese (get the one that includes the cheese package, not the powder), rice mixes, dinty moore beef stew, pasta with cheese.
snack - beef jerky, nuts, raisins.

the case iron is easy to clean.

Answer 9

I love those cast irons. We take 2 slices of bread, butter both sides and put pie filling on it. Oh, oh, now I made myself so hungry for that.

Answer 10

Take one large can of pinto beans. one large can of red beans. one large onion sauteed. one whole keibasa cut into bite size pieces. mix together and simmer for 30 minutes. Throw in some stewed tomatos too. Filling and gasous too.