Your Best Camping Food! Whatcha cooking?

[upnover]

I wanted to start this to see what everyone has cooking when they go camping. We all have are own take on what to take.

My List of Must haves and easy camp cooking.

1. PB&J - All day long (some times with Honey!)
2. Pre-Made Burritos. I wrap them up in tinfoil put in Ziplock bag. Then slow cook them by the fire, Turn every 5min. Any Burrito will work, even T-bell. (Easy breakfast)
3. Oat meal with a big scoop of Peanut butter in it. It's good, filling and warm. (Hot water and a cup)
4. Bratwurst 0r Hot-Dog's with or without Bun. Only need a stick to cook.
5. The BIG Pre-made Hoagie's sandwich at the grocery store. They can feed a family of 4 for two days.
6. Fried Chicken that is at the grocery store. Warm or cold.

I hate to use dishes or pots/pans when camping. No doing Dishes in the woods. lol

Whatcha you cooking?:thumb:

[Brody]

We are kinda the same way when it comes to camp foods: keep it simple and enjoy the outdoors.

When LaDawn and I camp, it is a simple to cook meat dish, maybe some potatoes that we prenuked and can just toss in the coals for a final cook. Burritos work well, as does corn on the cob.. Ditto with a stew. We do a double foil baggy for the stew and coal cook it. Breakfast is also simple.

When my buddies and I camp and climb, providing that we are car camping and not humping food in on our backs, we go big on the carbs and big on the protein. Since most of the time we climb all day with just a coffee boost in the AM and maybe a couple of Power Bar rat food things during the day, we burn through a mess of calories during the day and tend to load up on noodles, rice, and protein, again all easy to fix stuff.

We aren't real big on hanging around a campfire eating all day. I love seeing those people, usually hanging around a smoking campfire, usually too big (and sometimes in the middle of a baking hot day, too...), pounding beers and eating....plus hanging close to the road eating everyone elses road dust and giving you the 'erDUH' look when you drive by them.

[Trailrat99XJ]

Beer and hot dogs! Oh, and lot's of Tylenol to kill the headache caused from the fumes coming from the five gallon gas can I used to start our large fire.....;)

[Tom]

Pizza from scratch in a covered fry pan when backpacking.

[BlackRubi]

Breakfast is usually eggs and bacon cooked on the lid from the dutch oven.
Lunch and dinner vary, but is usually something cooked in the dutch oven or whatever I catch in the river. Trout straight from the river, cleaned, and onto the fire taste different than those that I bring home. Not sure why, but they do.

[xaza]

SMORES, SMORES AND MORE SMORES! :D
and maybe some burgers, dogs and munchie food

[WDoG]

Guys guys ya'll are missing out!

"Foil Burgers"
1lb of burger meat
Potatoes
onions
Carrots
Garlic salt
Pepper
Lea & Pearons

Chop it all up and add together in foil. Make sure to wrap multiple time with foil to prevent burning. Season to taste. Then put it in the hot coals of the fire you are already enjoying. Let sit and make sure to rotate/flip.

Cut open foil when done and eat! This is some camp food!

Also, Pork madalions and wine sauce. But that's a family secret. Ive done camp cheesecake too.

Now I know what you're thinking. "that's not camp food" but it is! My family has perfected the art of tent camping with style.

[Brad]

-butter poached salmon-Costco, we just drop the filets and butter in HD foil and cook it on a grate over the fire. Make a side of rice to go with it!
-Filet of beef wrapped in bacon-Costco has them flash frozen, we let them thaw on our way. Usually ready the second night. Grill them over the fire with the same baked potato trick Pete uses!
-Bacon and eggs per render the bacon in the oven, heat back up in the skillet pan fry the eggs
-instant oatmeal, easy to boil water and keeps us filled up
-smoked chicken salad sandwiches, pre smoke chicken at home, shred the meat and add chipotle mayo, celery, salt and pepper. Amazing.
-of course the usual hamburgers and brats. We may get fancy and pick up the brats from whole foods. Their pork brats are excellent.

[WDoG]

^^^ this is what I'm talking about!

[Brad]

The way I see it, if I am relaxing I am eating well! :thumb:

[Java]

Guys guys ya'll are missing out!

"Foil Burgers"
1lb of burger meat
Potatoes
onions
Carrots
Garlic salt
Pepper
Lea & Pearons

Chop it all up and add together in foil. Make sure to wrap multiple time with foil to prevent burning. Season to taste. Then put it in the hot coals of the fire you are already enjoying. Let sit and make sure to rotate/flip.

Cut open foil when done and eat! This is some camp food!


I learned these in the Boy Scouts (it's in the handbook!!), they are awesome! And no clean up. I like to make baked potatos like that too and save a few for eggs and potatos in the morning. We have a sandwich press with long handles that makes grilled cheese (or any sandwich) in the shape of sea shells, you hold it over the fire and turn it. I like to soak a cedar board in water for a day or two, then wrap it in some wet paper towels and ziploc it and bring it along, you can put it directly on the coals and cook fish on it. I bring Peanut butter, yogurt, bananas, apples, hard boiled eggs, nuts, stuff that can go in the back pack. The first night camping is usually skirt steak with red peppers and pineapple in hoisin sauce, I marinate it in a big bag for a day before we go. Hoisin sauce is the stuff they put on chinese spare ribs, it is the best grilling sauce ever, IMO!! Sweet potato goes great with it.

[MelloYello]

:rolleyes:Soooo... Brad, Winston, and Kyle, when are we going camping. Yum! :thumb::lmao:

[Pathrat]

Bagels and cream cheese in the am: portable and the cream cheese container does not get squished in the cooler. If we are living it up, it is eggs and cheese in a tortilla. Lunch? After years of bringing lunch food, like sammiches, and having everyone eat jerky and trail food, trail food is now lunch. Dinners can include ravioli from the grocery store's refrigerated section and some pesto. Hot dogs and beans are staples. The best camping dinner is heading into town for a beer and burger. :cool:

[Brad]

We love hoisin sauce! We use it on potstickers! :thumb:

[WDoG]

:rolleyes:Soooo... Brad, Winston, and Kyle, when are we going camping. Yum! :thumb::lmao:

No joke. Iron chef "camp edition" haha
Mouth is watering just thinking of all this goodness.

Brad: I could eat potstickers till I burst.

[transplant87]

i like doing biscuits and gravy with sausage in the morning
hamburgers with beans
and leftovers for dinner lol

[Brody]

For a quick and dirty dinner, especially if you are planning to arrive at camp at dusk or after dark and still need to eat dinner, we grab one of the pre cooked broasted chickens from the grocery store. Wrap it up (in a couple of bags) when it is still hot, wrap a coat or two around it and grab some deli junk to go along with it. It is still hot when you arrive and good to go.

[glacierpaul]

honey smoked salmon(great all 3 meals!- 4breakfast- on creamcheese ladened bagles), homemade beef jerky (standard road trip food), then we mix it up and do what ever sounds good. Having a travel trailer allows us more options for sure. Everything all have mentioned is great! The new find is Dark Chocolate Granola Bars, man are these good!!

[Andrew]

We try to keep stuff simple. For quick breakfasts we just do bagels and cream cheese or oatmeal or cereal. If we have more time, then eggs and sausage scramble with onions and mushrooms and cheese. Everything is pre-cut at home like onion and all so we don't have to bother with that.

Lunches is usually a sandwich and some chips and stuff.

For dinner we do various things - lot of foil pack stuff. I will cut up portions of chicken or beef and put it in plastic bags marinating with some teriyaki or whatever other sauce I want. Those just go into a foil pack and cook in the fire. Usually cut in smaller pieces, cooks faster than just a whole chicken breast.

We'll get those frozen vegetable packages that typically steam in the bag in the microwave and put those in foil packs - there is enough water frozen in the veggies that they steam good in the foil packs.

May do burgers or even a steak if we want - I have a grill I bring that goes over the fire.

If you have a dutch oven this works nice for a dessert:

Take your favorite fruit - apple, peach, apricot, pear, etc. and cut some up to cover the bottom of the dutch oven. Put some brown sugar and cinnamon on top of that. Then take a yellow cake mix and just pour that over the top of everything. Then take a stick of butter and cut into pieces and drop evenly around the top of that. Cook it until it's done over the coals. I usually use charcoal and make sure you put some on the top of the lid as well.

[Java]

Take your favorite fruit - apple, peach, apricot, pear, etc. and cut some up to cover the bottom of the dutch oven. Put some brown sugar and cinnamon on top of that. Then take a yellow cake mix and just pour that over the top of everything. Then take a stick of butter and cut into pieces and drop evenly around the top of that. Cook it until it's done over the coals. I usually use charcoal and make sure you put some on the top of the lid as well.

damn. Even though it's not a competition, I think we have a winner!

[Brad]

Brad aka Dirtclaude made cobbler like this in Moab last year. It was so good I wanted to marry him! :D

We are planning on getting a Dutch oven for this very reason. :thumb:

[BlackRubi]

I love my Dutch oven.

Another good one is using veggies and beef that I have dehydrated, throwing that in the Dutch oven with some seasoning of your choice, adding some water or beef broth (or bullion) and setting it next to the fire with some coals on the lid. Start this just after breakfast and just let it cook until lunch. It absorbs the water, so you have to use a fairly decent amount of water to compensate, but it makes an awesome beef stew. Plus, if you are already having to pack the weight of the Dutch oven, the dehydrated veggies and stuff offset a bit of that weight and space.

[Flyer]

Awesome recipes.....

[Brody]

Quote Originally Posted by Andrew View Post
Take your favorite fruit - apple, peach, apricot, pear, etc. and cut some up to cover the bottom of the dutch oven. Put some brown sugar and cinnamon on top of that. Then take a yellow cake mix and just pour that over the top of everything. Then take a stick of butter and cut into pieces and drop evenly around the top of that. Cook it until it's done over the coals. I usually use charcoal and make sure you put some on the top of the lid as well.
damn. Even though it's not a competition, I think we have a winner!

Oh hell yeah! I could live off of peach cobbler....with the occasional cup of coffee and a twizzler or two..

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[Chris]

Getting ready to head off soon and could use some more ideas!