camp food?

[bubbleprincessmom]

Getting ready to go camping (in a tent trailer) and am brain dead as to what to feed the gang for the week. Who else to turn to ? You good folks. So what do you cook/eat when you go camping? We'll have a charcoal BBQ as well as the propane stove inside the trailer. Need a weeks worth of menus come on DISers I'm counting on you!!

 

[Chattyaholic]

Oh gosh, don't sweat over "menus" for the week, camping is vacation for goodness sakes!!

That said, we LOVE camping but I don't worry much about the food. Hot dogs (cooked over the campfire on sticks) and hamburgers (cooked on the portable grill at the picnic table) are a staple for us. Bring along the ketchup, mustard, relish, chopped onion, lettuce, mayo, etc. and you're all set. Add a bag of potato chips (or make potato salad and macaroni salad before you leave home), cookies, that's it.

Another easy thing is pudgy pies. They sell pudgy (sandwich) makers in the camping section at most stores (Wal-Mart, K-Mart) and you just butter two slices of bread and put them in the pie maker (butter side next to the metal) and add whatever you like. We used to make (when the kids camped with us) pizza pies and just used jar sauce, shredded mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, ham, anything you like on your pizza will do. DH liked Reuben ones made with corned beef and saurkraut. Or just plain ham and cheese. Dessert ones were good too, made with canned pie filling and then sprinkle powedered sugar on them, or drizzle white frosting) when done. You just make those in the campfire, very easy and quick and everybody makes their own (that's half the fun!)

Breakfast? We usually do eggs, bacon, toast and juice/coffee inside the camper, but DH has been known to cook it outside over the fire too. Or we just have doughnuts and coffee, or breakfast bars, if we don't want to "mess with a real breakfast."

Sometimes DH cooks steaks or boneless chicken breasts on the grill outdoors too (I do baked potatoes at home, then we just re-heat them in the campfire).

Good luck, I'm sure others will come up with some good ideas for you too. Have FUN camping

 

[PenskeSth1]

I bring a crock pot and put ribs in cook on low, by the time we got back to the camper added a little barbecue sauce let cook a few minutes longer and they fall apart. Yummy

 

[tigercat]

When we went camping with all the kids I used to do a lot of cooking at home. They don't really like hot dogs or hamburgers that well. I would make up Speggetti sauce and make up noodles then freeze them in boil in the bags. I would also make up hungarian goulash and noodles, sheppards pie and mashed potatos, stew, and a few other things. They would be frozen in bags that would fit our "freezer". They would then be placed in our cooler in the order that I wanted them. The cooler would be placed in a rubbermaid tote that was lined with 2 car blankets. Ice would be put on top and then the lid was put on the tote. We would have great meals for 2 weeks and all I needed was boiling water.
tigercat

 

[Pop Daddy]

go pick up a pizza

 

[browneyes]

On the rare occassions I've gone camping, I bring hotdogs to cook over the camp fire, a big skillet and a bunch of potatoes to fry up, spam, eggs, and lots of junk food. Oh, and marshmallows.

 

[aunties]

We keep our camping food pretty simple. Nothing like a good steak cooked over the fire and a salad. We also bring home-made spaghetti sauce, frozen. Makes a great ice pack in the cooler. When it finally defrosts, then we have spaghetti that night. One thing we always have for breakfast is scambled eggs and hot dogs. I hate eggs, I hate hot dogs, but I love them cooked together. I know - doesn't make sense! We just saute ot dog slices a bit and then add the egg mixture. And the most important camping food - some'mores! Enjoy your trip!

 

[Big V]

Here's some good camp recipe's:
http://www.chuckwagondiner.com/pieiron.html

 

[sharbear]

We just got back from a cottage and these are some of the things that I did. I cooked a pork loin with bar-be-que sauce in the crock pot. Poured some of the excess liquid out and shredded the pork, and froze the pork for shredded pork sandwiches. I also browned some hamburger and 1/2 made sloppy joes and the other 1/2 taco meat.

For the cook (me!) I found it easier the more things I did at home and the less I did there. I don't mind cooking at home but I want to be on vacation too. I also made twice baked potatoes, You could wrap them in foil and put over the coals to heat up. I have also sliced up potatoes and cooked them in a foil packet. When they are almost done, I spinkle them with cheese and bacon. Yum! I've also made tortilla roll ups. Just mix cream cheese and sour cream with taco seasoning mix, spread on tortilla's sprinkle with black olives and roll. Refrigerate and cut into slices. They are fun to eat while supper is cooking.

Just remember to have fun and don't let cooking take over your day.

 

[ttfn3]

Smores!! Roast marshmallows over the fire - grab a hersey bar and make a sandwich between 2 graham crackers.

Since we're from up north, we make chili before we leave and then reheat it over the fire. Yummy!!

I also second make it simple. We often take chicken breasts and cook them over the fire with some barbecue sauce. OH - and take some foil and layer potatoes, onions, butter, cut up carrots (you can add other veggies if you like). wrap the pack and place it over a grill over the fire. Yummy.

And don't forget a good bottle of wine!

 

[ckmommy]

I LOVE camping!!! The smell of the fire...the sky at night....the FOOD!!!!!

We use the campfire for most dinners. We bought a tripod to cook our meals on. A tripod is a stand the has three leg tht straddle the fing of the fire pit. A grill grate is hooked on the center of this. It is the perfect camping cooker. We do chicken, hambgers, use a pan to do our eggs on this etc.

Favorites:

1) Hobo Dinner. Cut up (at home before you leave) onions, peppers, celery, mushrooms, potatos, any other veggie that you like. Place the veggies in aluminum foil add pieces of uncooked hamburger (mini meat ball sized --1 in. pieces??), top with salt pepper and a pat or two of butter (to prevent sticking). fold foil to make a little bag, put in fire or on tripod for 15 min??? Turn often!

2) Donuts on a stick. Use package of refridgerated bisquits (not Grands or Jumbo size). Cut each bisquit in fouths. Using your marshmallow roasting stick, take one piece of your bisquit, rap around the stick streaching it and making it stick . Put in fire until golden brown, turnig often! When roasted, dip in butter then in a cinn. and sugar mix! YUM!!!

3) S'mores

4) Puggy Pies!

Have Fun!!!

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

<font color=navy>Since I'm the main cook when we go camping, I like to make things simple for me. * I make spaghetti ahead of time and freeze it. It stays firm when you reheat it when you go camping. * Make taco meat & freeze - I usually add potatoes diced very small to the taco meat. I also use ready-made taco shells (just for camping - or nachos if the tortillas break up. * I get skirt steak or flap meat, cut it up in small pieces & then cook it, adding salsa for 'carne asada' and freeze it. * hamburgers * hot dogs * chorizo & eggs ... yum