Low Carb Camping

TerriP

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Anyone here have any recipes or ideas for maintaining my low carb eating while we camp? We will go on our very first camping trip week after next and I'm trying to plan ahead so I stay on my eating plan. We have a fifth wheel so I'll have both a stove and an oven to use...plus I'd love to cook over the campfire. OH! Plus we'll have a little Webber grill I could use.

Any "camping" recipes out there I shouldn't leave home without??? :p ;)
 
It seems to me that camping out is one of the easiest ways to stick with low carb eating. Hmmm, are you asking for treat recipes? Is that the issue? Make yourself a cheese cake and take it with you.

What is it that your family eats while camping that you love? You need a plan for that, we need to come up with a good alternative for you.

I'm so proud of you for planning ahead. Excellent! You are a terrific WISHer, Terri :)
 
We have gone camping recently several times- with both me and DH low-carbing (Atkins).

For US- this is what we take/cook (we're not on induction anymore):
LC Atkins bread with meats (unprocessed things like turkey, chicken that we cut up in slices ourselves) and mayo for sandwiches.
LC Atkins ketchup (and mayo) for DH to make his favorite dressing thousand island and I like it on scrambled eggs also. (again this is one of the few LC items I can have that doesn't stall my weightloss)
Lettuce and cheese for salads (and DH eats cheese with other meals also)- tomato and onions for DH's salad also.. plus he eats those with other meals also.
I bring my Kraft Ceasar vinaigrette dressing for salads
We bring frozen veggies such as green beans, broccoli, spinach and okra for meals while there- usually with some type of meat we've cooked on the grill.
Broccoli I sometimes make with cheese and heavy cream either to have a cheese sauce on the broccoli OR to make broccoli/cheese soup.
We take hamburger meat (for burgers with either O'solo rolls or the Atkins LC bread), steaks for the grill, and chicken for the grill also.
We take eggs (to be either fried, scrambled, whatever) and bacon for breakfast- and sometimes sausage links either for breakfast or to cook on the grill also.
Oh and some other things for snacks- like LC Atkins crunchers (chips), LC dip we got off Atkins website store also, Diet Rite or other splenda based diet drinks.
And lotsa water. :)

Oh and I bring Atkins Morning Start breakfast bars because so far that is the only "sweet" or "chocolate" thing I can have that doesn't stall me if I have occasionally. I usually use it to replace a meal like breakfast though- say we get up early to go fishing and getting everyone ready I don't have time to cook something for breakfast or just don't feel like it. I don't have it as an extra snack though. DH will have one for his breakfast also if it's one of the mornings he gets to sneak off alone early in the morning to go fishing from the boat. That way he doesn't wake everyone in the camper up that early by cooking breakfast.

We eat really good when camping- all that cooking on the grill! Mmmmmmm- with a few LC items we don't normally eat but it keeps us from eating things "off plan" (not legal foods on Atkins- atleast not yet). Since we're past induction- we sometimes have nuts (not me-but DH likes them) as a snack also or take heavy cream & strawberries (& splenda and vanilla extract) and make whipped cream with strawberries for dessert. There are also some SF candies/chocolates you could take for dessert also.

Have fun! :)
 
BBB, you are doing great! You've lost more than 60 pounds and inches, WOW!
 

We just went camping the first week of July.There is not really too much I can add to what has been already written but I did take some SF Jello for afternoon snacks as well as little ind. servings of peanuts.
 
WOW, BBB...you're a lifesaver (sugar free, of course!). :p Lots of wonderful ideas ~ Thank you SO much!!

Kath, I was thinking of Smores in particular...watching my family munch away on those in front of the fire is going to be VERY challenging for me. Maybe I should just take a blindfold so I don't have to watch!! :p

Thanks so much for the ideas. I really do appreciate all of your help!

mum4jenn, SF jello is a *must* for me. Thanks for the reminder. That might even be a good snack (with some whipped cream) when the gang is eating smores!
 
You're welcome- I'm glad to help in whatever small ways I can. ;)

Oh yes, definitely have to have some sort of snack when it comes time to making smores (or even just roasting marshmallows). My kids like to do that every night every time we go camping- and I have to honestly say those were the only times I thought about cheating. LOL
But don't do it! Marshmallows are nothing but sugar basically! I just kept reminding myself of that so I could keep from having them AND have a treat- usually pumpkin (forgot to mention you can bring the lowest carb pumpkin in a can you can find- that's legal even on induction! Yes, pumpkin is on the list! :) ) or strawberries with homemade whipped cream on top. DH (since I don't like peanut butter anyway) would sometimes also have some LC peanut butter. You gotta be prepared with SOMETHING- or you might give in to the smores!!!
LOL

Boy, I used to love smores- but we didn't go camping before as much as we have been lately- since we bought the travel trailer! Just my luck.... now I can't have smores and we're making them more often. LOL

(Thanks NativeTxn- you've done awesome yourself!!!!)
 


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