When you are preparing meals on your camping trip, you can use foods that you already prepare at home for camping meals. Camping is about relaxing and being in the great outdoors, so focus on meals that are easy to prepare and don’t require a great amount of cleanup afterwards.
We usually cook some of the same meals on our camping trips as we have at home. The meals are basic enough that they can be jazzed-up to make them a little different if we want too.
If we are away for a 2 or 3 days, we work out how many breakfasts, lunch and dinners we will be away for, then plan what we will have for each meal so then we can plan what we need to take and how much. Then we take extra tin & packet food as spares.
If we are away longer we do the same planning but it maybe for a week, then stock up supplies wherever we can. Some butchers will vacuum seal or Kryovac your meat so that it is sealed packages and won’t ooze and the meat will keep for about a month as long as it is keep refrigerated, it’s well worth doing.
1. Pancake mix, butter and syrup or honey are a camping favourite, can be for breakfast or sweets. Very easy to prepare and cook over a fire or on a gas cooker.
2. Hamburgers are easy, cook burgers on campfire or gas cooker, toast the buns a little add an egg, cheese, lettuce, sauce etc. steak sandwiches are great too.
3. Eggs, sausages, bacon on toast seem better when they’re cooked over a fire or a gas stove, can be used for any meal. Potatoes can be baked in foil and cooked in the coals of the camp fire.
4. Pasta dishes great for lunches and a quick dinner, It is quick and easy to prepare.
5. Snack food bars are very handy and they travel well, so they make great snacks if you are going for a walk or drive anytime.
6. At night time if you have a campfire marshmallows are great fun to cook on a stick.
7. Cereal and milk are an easy breakfast, also cooking toast on the coals of the campfire is great, tastes so much different to pop up toast at home. Hot milo, coffee etc. is very warming on a cool morning.
8. Take milk, water, juice (the small juice boxes are convenient when camping & travelling) or cordial, soft drink as refreshments for adults & kids.
9. Chips, crackers and dip are good for a pre dinner sit down and relax, Beer & wine also recommended.
10. Take the basics foods like cheese, butter, veges, fruit, bread, onions, variety of sauces, eggs etc. and add them to your other meals when required.
Do you have any other camping cooking or food suggestions?
