What foods shoudl I take camping?

Question

My boyfriend and I are going tenting this summer. I am having trouble coming up with ideas for food to take with us. At the most, we will have cooking utensils and a mini fridge plugged into his truck. At the least, cooking untensils and a cooler. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try taking easy to make things like hot dogs and other things that you can easily cook over a fire. If that's not what you like simple sandwhiches always do fine. There's all sorts of ideas you can use to make food while camping. Just make them simple and easy to clean up after wards.....bad things happen when you leave food messes out in the woods...trust me.

Answer 2

Take whatever you like to eat! Camping doesn't mean you can't cook, it just means cooking may take a bit longer. You can make an oven out of a cardboard box, aluminum foil and a coat hanger (http://www.buckskin.org/Resources/Outdoor/Files/boxoven.pdf) and then you can make chicken parm, brownies, baked mac & cheese, cookies, etc. Your boyfriend will also probably think you're a genius when you hand him a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie in the middle of the woods, which def. scores points!

You can boil water so you can make oatmeal, pasta, veggies, rice, beans, etc. You can fry in a pan so you can make bacon, eggs, ham steaks, Spam, scrapple, pancakes, French toast, etc. The only thing you might not be able to make are waffles ( =

You can amke ice cream in a coffee can, another cool and fun camping activity that takes 2 people. You need a coffee can with a good lid, a smaller one with a lid, milk, sugar, salt, vanilla and ice plus flavor if you want syrup. Check out the method here: (http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/coffeecn.html)

Your best bet is to take food with multiple uses if you don't want to take a LOT of food. Ground beef makes meatballs, tacos, meatloaf, stirfry, chili, etc. Bread makes toast, french toast, hot dog buns, hamburger buns, sandwiches, etc. Milk is always good to have in a small quantity in the bottom of the cooler under all the ice so it stays fresh. Don['t forget the essentials like butter, syrup, condiments and drink mix to avoid boring meals!

Anything you can prepare ahead of time is good too. Marinate some steaks and store them in the cool to throw on the fire. Take some potatoes wrapped in foil and hide them in the hot coal. Viola, you've got steak and baked potatoes! Don't forget veggies and fruit in the cooler too!

Good luck, you'll be fine and have fun!

Answer 3

I am camping this weekend and am bringing a small charcoil grill. With this I can cook hamburgers, brats, hot dogs, beans and potatoes in tin foil. If you don't have a charcoil grill, small gas grills will do. Another good tip for keeping your coolers clean is to freeze large plastic bottles with water and it keeps cold for a long time and no water in the bottom of the cooler. Other foods I tend to bring are candy bars, granola bars, chips and other snacks you prefer. Camping seems to always make people extra hungry. Make sure you are well stocked if there are no restaurants nearby.

Answer 4

Can goods are good because they are easy to store. Chile, pork and beans can be eaten directly from the can because they were cooked in processing. If you purchase Miricle Whip or something like it, get it in mulitiple small containers because these products spoil easy and could make you extreanly ill.
If you plan on camping where Bears are a possibility, Check with Park or Forest Rangers about your food storage needs. remenber they can smell that Granolla Bar in your Back Pack that is still in the wrapper.
Remember to dipose of trash properly.

Answer 5

Make hamburger patties and freeze them with a piece of wax or saran paper between so you can break them apart: you can put these from frozen to grill. Take an onion, sack of potatoes and baby carrots. You can snack on the carrots; but you can also put them into heavy duty tin foil with chopped potatoes--wash don't peel-- and chopped onion, a splash of water, seal the foil, and toss them on the grill with those hamburger patties (20-30 minutes depending on how small you chop the potatoes). Instant oatmeal for breakfast and all you need is boiled water which you will probably have for your coffee.
Freeze water in leftover butter or cool whip containers as ice for your cooler: when melted you can reboil it for wash water.
AND if you want to bake a little. . . . make an oven: get a heavy cardboard box (small hole on bottom of one side, and top of opposite side), 4 empty soup cans and a grate (like a cookie cooling rack). Start 10-15 pieces of charcoal in a 2 pound coffee can, when lit, pour them into a metal pie tin and place on bottom of the box which has been lined (inside) with heavy duty foil. Put the 4 soup cans in the corners to hold up the cookie cooling rack. In a round cake pan or a tube type pan, put pats of butter, brown sugar and cinnamon (mix the sugar and cinnamon at home in a small container). Cut and place Pillsbury refrigerator biscuits over the butter/sugar/cinnamon mixture and bake in your covered box for 20-30 minutes. (A beer case box with the flip cover works best!) Have fun camping!

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Sorry, but this is a repeat answer to a question that has been asked several times in the past week or so.

Here is a great website with 100's of camping recipies!

Source(s):

http://www.camprecipes.com/

Answer 8

Take a fishing pole, then you can cook fish. Hotdogs or german sausages are easy to cook. Rice for your fish. Hamburgers. Bacon, eggs, and hashbrowns for breakfast. And what ever else you like, have fun, i love camping. Oh yeah, don't forget the smores, Hersheys chocolate, Grahm crackers, and marshmellows, yummy!!!!

Answer 9

Just a tip... freeze those 2 litre plastic bottles well in advance, but put freshie, cool-aid, tang or such like. When most of the ice has melted you can drink the cool juice.

Answer 10

Take gummi bears. I bought a one pound bag on my camping trip. It is a great snack. Also granola bars are good.