What food do I take for two adults, 5 kids (5-15) going two weeks camping?

Question

We will be camping at a lake, where we can drive to. So no hiking involved. We will take our boat and hope to catch some trout, but no guarantees. Closest little settlement for food and petrol will be one hour away. Because of summer holidays, hunting is not allowed.

Answer 1

Get a five or six day cooler and go to the store two or three times to refill it with ice and food and you can eat whatever you eat at home or cowboy food or BBQ or Dutch Oven or canned food or anything. Your cooler becomes your freezer, while your trunk becomes your pantry. No bears to worry about in the lands of petrol.

Answer 2

Hello,,sit down and make a list of 1 weeks worth of food, you will need to make that 1 hour journey next week sometime to the store. You cannot imagine how much food you'll need to pack, and keep fresh too. Using dehydrated foods requires the packing of fresh water, and I'd say buy the 5 gallon containers. You will need at least 4 of these each week. You could consider the "rationing of water" , say one 6 pack of 20 oz.water ea. day per person. Do the math and then think of how much room you'll need. Don't count on kids maintaining good understanding of rationing, so you'll need more than you know!Remember sweets attract bees and rodents, take care of your trash containers, raccoons know how to get into everything on the ground. Fresh eggs,bacon, hamburger, hotdogs, lunch meats, butter,need to be kept frozen at first and used soon when thawed. Separated foods will keep these items colder if you don't open them up too much. ICE and lots of it, will be needed too. Consider the breakfast foods first, ?poptarts(yeck)but kid food, cereals, bread for toast & sandwiches, chips are salty and will increase the consumption of water, but with kids!!,,Hope this gives you some insight to the great planning expected to have a enjoyable outing, remember sit everybody down and plan!!Have fun and catch some big ones!!

Answer 3

Cereal, fruit, oatmeal for breakfast - maybe some yogurt or toast with jam? Of course coffee, and juice is always nice.

Sandwiches for lunch - you can pack sliced deli meats in the cooler, along with sliced cheeses, vegetables & fruit.

A couple of the dinners may be pre-made. A week before the trip, make a pot of stew or chili or hearty soup. Let it cool and put it into heavy plastic zip lock bags and freeze them. In the cooler at camp they'll defrost slowly, and you can reheat them in a pot over the stove / fire.

Also, spaghetti is easy at camp - just boil noodles and add some store bought sauce. Don't forget the colander! You can heat up / toast garlic bread too.

In case you catch some fish, pick up some Shore Lunch http://www.shorelunch.com/products_breading.cfm breading, bring along plenty of veggie oil, and a cast iron frying pan. Nothing like fresh caught fish!

Many fresh vegetables are great for camping, you won't need to refrigerate them! Potatoes can be wrapped in aluminum foil and placed in the coals of the fire for delicious baked potatoes. You can make a foil veggie pouch - thick sliced carrots, chunks of onion, slices of zucchini squash can be put into a large sheet of foil with olive oil/butter and herbs . Seal it up and cook it over the fire. Makes a great side dish for the fish you catch!

You can do hamburger foil pouches too. There are a lot of recipes online that are fun for kids to help with. What we call pudgie pies or pie irons in the U.S. (jaffle irons in Australia) are fun for kids too. You can put a wide variety of fillings in them, and each of the kids can make their own. http://pieiron.com/designs.htm

Answer 4

Potatoes, beans [canned] snack foods, flour, sugar, salt,
just make a menu for each day, allow extra food in exchange for the fish, [never catch them when you plan on it ]
or buy the meals ready to eat, ,and don,t forget the first aid kit,

Answer 5

That's a crew to feed! You'll get real hungry being outside all day. bring as much as you can haul with you.