Camping food?

[Anonymous]

DH and kids are going camping soon. I want to pack them some food to make mealtime easy and nutritious. I've never camped or packed for camping so I'm at a loss. They plan to cook over an open fire. Any suggestions beyond s'more ingredients and hot dogs would be appreciated.

[Anonymous]

If they have a pot and a grill device they can make all kinds of things. Burgers, Mac and cheese, sandwiches. Beans canned or boxed soups. Honestly if it's your thing you can still send all organic.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Really, don't focus too much on nutritious. Part of the fun of camping is getting to eat stuff you don't get to eat at home.

Having said that: marinate veggies on skewers, keep in cooler.
Baby potatoes can be wrapped in foil and cooked in the coals.
lots of stuff you can bring that doesn't need cooking: bananas, oranges, apples.
Oatmeal for breakfast. Sometimes I'll make baked oatmeal so we can just eat them if we're getting up for a hike, etc.

You should join them! Camping is fun!

[Anonymous]

I think you'll get more helpful responses if you tell us a bit about what kind of camping they're doing--car camping? Bringing a cooler? How many days?

[Anonymous]

One night of our camping trips is always cooking hot dogs on sticks over the open fire, sometimes accompanied by corn on the cob cooked in the coals or (more often) carrot/celery sticks, followed by s'mores. Easy to pack, easy to cook.
If there are leftover hot dogs, we'll sometimes cook them for breakfast to accompany pancakes (although we cook those on a camp stove)

[Anonymous]

Bringing a cooler. Three days. Car camping.

[Anonymous]

Yeah... You dont need MREs for a camping trip.

Take a cooler and a cheap cooking stove.
Breakfast - eggs, bacon, premade pancake mix, oatmeal, etc
Lunch pb&j, cold cut sandwiches, fruit
Dinner- hot dogs, hamburgers, mac&cheese, spaghetti, salad, etc

[Anonymous]

Meat and veggies wrapped in foil. Place on coals. Art of manliness site has good tips.

[Anonymous]

Put ground meat and cut up veggies in foil packets (double foil or heavy duty foil) Put in coals of fire for 20 min or so. Remove, open and eat.

[Anonymous]

Pp - when you say hamburgers, Mac and cheese, spaghetti - are these premodern at home and cooked/heated up at campsite? This is what I'm trying to understand.

[Anonymous]

Here's what we cook when camping--although, caveat, if your husband will be the one cooking, and if he has experience in cooking over a campfire, then I'd recommend that he be the one who plans the menu!

Dinners:
hamburgers with potato chips
hotdogs & corn on the cob (remove the silk but not the husk, tie up the the husk over the corn, soak for a few hours and grill over coals)
grilled chicken with pita bread & chickpea salad

Breakfasts -- you can keep this pretty simple and just do an uncooked breakfast of cereal/sandwiches, since the weather is still warm. I like to do hot food on cold mornings (also, I light my fire to make coffee anyway, so not much more trouble to cook breakfast):
bagels & cream cheese
breakfast sandwiches with egg, bacon, english muffins

lunches:
sandwiches, salads, potato chips

I also always pack a bunch of non-cook snack foods in case of a rainout. Granola bars, peanut butter, fruit, cheese sticks, trail mix.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes we make a dough out of bisquik and water then put it on the end of a stick. When it's cooked we fill it with butter and honey, peanut butter, jelly or whatever else we feel like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes we make a dough out of bisquik and water then put it on the end of a stick. When it's cooked we fill it with butter and honey, peanut butter, jelly or whatever else we feel like.

How does it stay on the end of the stick? This sounds good.

[Anonymous]

Hot dogs.