Camping/picnic meal ideas?

[KiKi Mouse]

We're leaving soon on a camping trip.
I am trying to think ahead to meals.
I am making spaghetti sauce and freezing it. I am also cooking some ground beef with taco seasoning and freezing it for soft tacos.

I am stuck there.

There's the obvious of hamburgers etc. but I am trying to think of more things.

We'll also be doing a lot of picnic lunches so I am trying to think of things other than sandwiches.

Ideas? I feel like I hit a wall.

We'll have a bbq pit, electric grill, and a hotplate so we are able to cook quite a bit. We also have two small fridges in our trailer so storage is not a big problem.

Thanks in advance

 

[golfgal]

We had our annual camping trip just a couple weeks ago and had pulled pork sandwiches, tacos/fajitas, pancakes/sausage/bacon. With what you have to cook on you can pretty much make anything. I would take some chicken breasts and marinade them in Italian dressing (easy and very good) and bring some veges to grill (zucchini, etc.).

 

[lovesmurfs]

You can bring frozen chicken breasts. I will buy them fresh, then freeze with marinade or BBQ sauce so that they marinate while they're thawing.

There are some great packet recipes online for beef and poultry. Reynolds website is one, but you can also google.

Lunches -- My family's usually okay with sandwiches -- You can use a pie iron to make griddle-type sandwiches for some variety.

Have fun!

 

[KiKi Mouse]

love the packet cooking!

 

[wdwmom2]

Lunches -- My family's usually okay with sandwiches -- You can use a pie iron to make griddle-type sandwiches for some variety.

Have fun!

Mountainpies, YUMMY!!!!!!! We make pizza ones. The pie irons can be purchased at Walmart or just about any sporting/camping store.

http://www.bukisa.com/articles/121095_mountain-pies-perfect-for-camping

 

[pweyl36]

If you have a crockpot use it, will cook all day so you can play!

 

[NeverlandClub23]

I go camping about once a month and it seems we always eat the same things .

Grilled Tuna steaks with salad and bread (usually make extra tuna steaks for sandwiches the next day)

BBQ chicken breasts with baked potatoes (or make potato salad at home and bring it) with grilled corn on the cob.

Chicken fajitas with some kind of rice. I grill the chicken breast, chop it up, toss it in the taco seasoning mix with a little water, and then take pre-chopped toppings out of the fridge (lettuce, black olives, shredded cheese) and some salsa.

Grilled chicken wings with grilled brussel sprouts, red peppers, onions, and sliced red potatoes (done in a veggie grill basket on the grill). Sooooooooo good!

We also sometimes do salmon cakes and make extras for lunch the next day with some macaroni salad.

 

[mickeylove2]

I'm not a big camper, only been a few times as an adult. Anyway, my absolute favorite meal that was cooked while camping was called Hobo Stew- basically a roast or steaks that was marinated in A-1 (I think) and a bunch of veggies all thrown together and wrapped in foil then thrown in the fire. YUMMY! Also, I have had steaks and pork chops with baked sweet potatoes and corn on the cob- fantastic. I'm all for sandwiches for lunch and cereal for breakfast then hot dogs for dinner, but the other people that I have camped with- they go all the time- are all about making awesome meals, so what the hey, they can cook and I can eat! I've had bacon eggs and pancakes for breakfast, ham steak and veggies and potatos for dinner, shoot I've even had steamed crabs once while camping! The sky is the limit with what you have to cook on.

 

[bookgirl]

Tortilla roll ups or depending on filling fold burrito style (fill with left over hot dogs or taco meat or crumbled hamburgers, pb&j, lunchmeat, salad, even prescrambled eggs with cheese and bacon or sausage for breakfast, you name it)

english muffins or pita rounds, pepporoni, cheese general pizza stuff for individual pizzas just need to be microwaved or warmed up on the grill

premade stews or chillis with crackers or cornbread frozen then heated up in a pot over the hotplate or grill

veggie sticks, fruit slices, cheese cubes, precooked summer sausage or salami cut into cubes, chips or crackers for finger food lunches

 

[mamacatnv]

Our camping menu:
The majority is cooked on an open wood fire w/the exception of the breakfast scramble and the frenchtoast & pancakes. Those items I cook using the camp stove.

Dinners:
Bacon Burgers (ground beef w/chopped raw bacon added) oh YUMMM!
Chicken - usually an assortment of legs, thighs and breasts w/bbq sauce or for me just salt and pepper
Sausages - Italian & Brats
Steak-Flank since it cooks fast and marinates well

Sides:
Green salads w/chopped raw veggies
Grilled zucchini, peppers and crook necks
Grilled asparagus and corn on the cob

Breakfast:
HashBrown Scramble - hashbrowns, sausage, green onions and eggs
French Toast w/bacon
Pancakes w/bacon

Lunches:
Cold cuts for sandwiches
Hot dogs
Cold fried chicken - from the local deli

Extras:
Macaroni salad (homemade only for camping trips )
Asian cole slaw
S'mores for dessert

 

[MBKELmom]

Yum! We're camping this w/end so these menus will come in handy. Thanks

 

[live4christp1]

One we did was make your own pizza and these were a hit with our scouts.

We used Pita bread.
Supplied a variety of toppings & pizza sauce & aluminum foil.

Need a piece of foil for each packet.

Cut pita in half and open pocket. Spread pizza sauce inside. Add in desired toppings. Wrap in foil. Then place on grill or over hot coals until heated through.


We also did a similar dessert version where we used soft taco shells. Provided peanut butter, marshmallow cream, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, sprinkles, andy other toppings you'd like. Spread desired spread on tortilla sprinkle with choices of toppings. Fold & wrap in foil. Heat over coals until warmed.

 

[live4christp1]

You could also make chili ahead of time and freeze. Then if you have a dutch oven or camp pot heat it in there.

 

[Tinijocaro]

Make pulled pork in advance and freeze.

I make a kind of taco stew. Taco meat, canned corn, canned tomatoes,
green chilis, kidney beans. Dump in a pan and heat. Eat with corn chip scoops.

Marinate chicken breasts and freeze them.

Frogmore Stew:

polish sausage
frozen corn (bird's eye)
frozen shelled shrimp
small red potatoes
1/4 cup old bay seasoning

Dump into a big pot of water, potatoes first, shrimp last. Delicious and makes great leftovers.

My thing is, prepare as mych as you can and freeze at home so there's less work to do while you are camping. Camping is hard work so try to make it easier on yourself.

I usually also make a few loaves of breakfast breads-pumpkin bread, banana bread...quick breakfast.

 

[maslex]

I know that when we visit my parents and brothers family while they're camping, my parents will make the beer can chicken, MMMMM and then my SIL made those steam in a bag veggies. These came out soooooo good. She took like 3-4 bags of veggies, dumped them into some foil with butter, olive oil, salt/pepper and garlic powder and wrapped up the foil, threw it into the fire pit and they came out sooooo yummy.

 

[CowboyCO]

Stick -- meet Mr. Hot Dog.

That's our menu...

Stick -- meet Mr Bratwurst.

Stick -- meet Mr. Kielbasa

Stick -- meet Mr. Marshmallow

 

[pixiewings71]

We are going camping this weekend, can't wait, it's been like 2 years!!! Friday night I'm doing chicken, I'm putting chicken breasts in a Ziploc and pouring in BBQ sauce, it will marinate over night and while we drive to the site and then when everyone gets there I'll wrap it in foil and cook it up. I think I'm also going to do veggies in foil packets, squash, zucchini, onion, mushrooms, etc etc and I'll add some butter, some garlic and cook them up.
Saturday night we will do tri-tip, I'll bring some pre-cooked roasted red potatoes and I'll heat them in foil over the fire and we will also have corn on the cob, the corn will be wrapped in foil and have butter and garlic added to it. MMMMMMM I might also take some choc. chips and bananas and have bananas on the grill, you add choc chips to the peeled banana and add a bit of sugar (I like brown sugar) wrap them in foil and grill 'em. We will also have S'mores, I've got graham crackers, marshmallows, Hershey's bars, Reese's pnut butter cups and York peppermint patties...yes, we do more than just chocolate in our S'mores. For bfasts we are doing eggs, pancakes, bacon and sausages. I'm also going to bring some fruit and juice for bfast.

 

[disneyfans95]

prior to leaving, mix your chicken with say salsa and taco seasoning

Then freeze and take with you for the trip.

Cook over a fire in a foil wrap..

Works well and really easy. Top with shredded cheese for last few minutes

 

[Iott Family]

If you have a crockpot use it, will cook all day so you can play!

I second this suggestion! I always bring my crockpot and make our dinner in this...I even make dessert at times using the CP.



Some of our fav CP meals at the campgrounds are ham, potato and cheese casserole, beef stew with bisquick drop bisquits cooked on touch the last 30 minutes or so, pulled pork BBQ, chili, veg. soup with cornbread mix dropped on top the last 30 minutes or so, chicken noodles, beef noodles. I know its all very heavy meals but we are always so hungry after a day spent hiking, swimming in the lake, etc!

Any sandwhich that you would cook up on griddle can be made in a pudgy pie iron over the hot for coals. You can also make yummy desserts in the pie irons!!