I love tent camping. Will you have a little portable stovetop/grill? If so, some of my favorites are:

Pot of chili - make at home and bring in large pot. Heat up on camp stove.
Burgers over the fire or on camp grill
Breakfast - bring a breakfast bread or muffins, juice, fruit
Lunch - PBJ or hot dogs or sausages

Anonymous wrote:I really like the bagged dinners they have at REI - you just add boiled water. I have had the pad thai ones and they are pretty good. They aren't cheap but they are super easy (as long as you have a way to boil water).

These are definitely easy but they're really intended for backpackers trying to reduce the weight of their backpack.

If you have a car, hot dogs etc are fine.

I would go out to dinner one night and roast hot dogs or chicken sausages the other night.

Something like this https://backpackerspantry.com/products/pad-thai

I really like the bagged dinners they have at REI - you just add boiled water. I have had the pad thai ones and they are pretty good. They aren't cheap but they are super easy (as long as you have a way to boil water).

Anonymous wrote:Tent camping is the worst. - uncomfortable, humid, buggy, gross porta johns, birds chirp loudly at 445am. Kinda boring to boot.

Are kids involved op?

Which question are you responding to?

I would avoid anything that needs to be kept cold. Coolers are a pain.

See if the campground has a camp store and how well-stocked it is. It might have things like milk and eggs.

Also, if you like cute little farmstands, maybe you’ll see some of those on the way.

You can get small packages of things like shelf-stable cheese or mayonnaise here: https://www.minimus.biz/condiments.aspx

For milk, look in a big grocery story for the kind of small, shelf-stable cartons of milk that kids pack for lunch.

For breakfast, some combination of peanut butter, Nutella and Minimus condiments on good bread with tea to drink.

For the lunch, tuna with Minimus mayonnaise plus some onion on good bread.

For one dinner, summer sausage with potatoes and zucchini.

For another dinner, shelf-stable packages pepperoni or turkey pepperoni with baked beans, or something like African peanut soup:https://peanut-institute.com/recipes/12137/

I would do hot dogs over fire one night and individual foil pack meals the next night. Sandwiches for lunch or Mac n cheese from box. Bring a couple pieces of fruit per person and stuff for s’mores. Pack some shelf stable snacks like nuts and yogurt raisins you can leave in car to fill it out. Just don’t overbuy but if you have to throw out some leftover Mac and cheese it’s not the end of the world.