Need help for camping rookies! *Updated to include our "trip report"!*

[pjlla]

Originally posted by ckmommy
One of my favorite camping foods are bisquits on a stick. You would need to make a fire in the morning for this. Buy refrigerated bisquits cut each in quarters. Take one quarter in wrap around marshmallow stick from night before. Roast in fire. Take off stick and place in melted butter, then roll in a mixture of sugar and cinnamon. Yummy!!

We're going to have that for bkfst Sat. morning with our eggs! I'm blowing the diet out of the water this weekend!...........P

 

[pjlla]

Originally posted by Pooh_Friend#1
Don't forget some newspapers, or other type of paper to help start the fire.

I rough it all the time in the summer and if you are up to the challenge what we do for a fun snack is tie one of the stove popcorn things onto a big stick and we shake it and make popcorn over the fire. It takes a lot of work, but it is so much fun. You have to tie the popcorn onto the stick with a metal tie so it doesn't burn in the fire. Everytime we go we have to make a challenge to complete. We have done some very weird things with food that you never thought was possible over a fire!!!

It took some thinking, but I believe I finally figured out what you mean..... Jiffy Pop??.............P

 

[Lezah]

Don't forget the easiest and simplest food in the world for camping too! My favourite too. Baked potatoes wrapped in foil cooked in the coals of the fire. YUMMMY!!

 

[Ronda93]

Be sure your tent footprint/tarp does not extend beyond the edges of the tent. You'll want it to let rain water pass under the tent. I was part of a 300 tent city two years ago and roughly one quarter of the tents ended up sitting in a saucer of water after a hard rain.

This sounds like such a cool trip.

 

[pjlla]

Thanks to all of the terrific help I got here, we had a GREAT time! We left home about 5pm on Friday under less than ideal circumstances (DD and I were mad at each other!), but we talked on the short drive to the campground and all was fine by the time we arrived. We had found out about a large event happening across the street from our originally planned campground, so we had a last minute change of venue. We ended up at a local commercial campground instead of the State Park we had originally planned.

We were able to have our choice of sites, because it was a slow weekend for camping. We were the only tent campers there! We had a pretty good spot not too close to anyone else. We had some trouble putting up the tent (new one and I didn't practice at home!), but it did go up eventually and we got a fire started for supper. We had foil packets for dinner with chicken and veggies and had foil packet apple crisp (an experiment) for dessert. We were so hungry it tasted great! Nothing got burned. We took a walk and then sat up until about 10pm around the fire just talking. The bugs were not too bad. We burned these incense-like citronella sticks and they seemed to work well.

We slept great and got up and built another fire for bkfst. We had scrambled eggs and "broomstick bears" with butter and cinnamon/sugar and cocoa and coffee. The bears were a bit of a challenge not to burn, but they tasted great. We had discovered, after arriving at the campground, that they have an indoor heated pool, so we made a quick trip home for the swimsuits. On the way back to camp we stopped at the Piscataquoag river to fish. Didn't catch any fish, but DD caught a frog with her hands and it was a pretty place. Then we made a fire again, had hotdogs cooked on a stick for lunch. Then we went swiming for about an hour or so. Then we got dressed and took a long walk around the campgrounds again and took some pictures. After that we had a snack and played cards and talked to the chipmunks who had found our trailmix!! (We of course immediately named them Chip and Dale!) We got the rainfly on the tent because rain was predicted for during the night into the morning. We also packed up any extra items into the car, so that we didn't have to do so much packing in the rain in the morning. Then we made Pie Iron Pizzas for supper. It was a recipe I got from that Chuck Wagon Diner website.... thanks to whoever provided the link. THEY WERE TERRIFIC! Of course, cooking on an open fire, we quickly got used to eating EVERYTHING with a bit of ash on it. We took another walk, read for a while, and then had s'mores. Retired again about 10pm after reading for a bit.

Sunday morning we awoke to overcast skies, but NO RAIN!! So we changed our plans to have hot breakfast (toasted bagels and cocoa) along with our yogurt! We sat around the fire until about 11am (very cool weather all weekend) and then DD wanted to swim again. When we left the pool an hour later it had started to sprinkle. We hurried back to camp to take down the tent and pack everything up. But the sprinkles stopped, so after we had packed up everything except our chairs and food, we built up the fire again for lunch!! DD wanted another chance to do the "hot dog on a stick" thing. Then we each had one more s'more. We stayed at camp until about 2pm. Then we stopped at a local fishing hole on the way home and fished for about 90 minutes. We returned home tired, dirty, and smelly, but we had a great time.

THANKS SO MUCH for everyone's help and support. It really helped. ...........................P

OH, BTW, DD's quote of the weekend..."Camping without s'mores would be like Walt Disney World without the Magic Kingdom." (So I know I'm doing something right!).........P

 

[sha_lyn]

Then we made Pie Iron Pizzas for supper. It was a recipe I got from that Chuck Wagon Diner website.... thanks to whoever provided the link. THEY WERE TERRIFIC!

You are very welcome. Now I want to go camping to try out the recipes LOL.... only thing is we have all our weekends booked until end of July.

Sounds like a great trip. There is a private campground about 1 1/2 hr from here that has a pool and hottub. I'm seriously thining abotu a trip there in aug. DH likes it because they have a nice bathhouse and country store onsite. Personally I'ds be just as happy on the hiking/primitive sites at the state parks.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Sounds like you had a great weekend!!! My parents belong to a private campground which I basically grew up at (22 years). My campground has a store, 2 fishing ponds, a pool and 2 hot tubs, playground, 3 sets of bathrooms, an ampitheatre, game house, club house all with full hookups. I would tell my friends that I was going camping until I really found out that what I did was not camping....more like RVing!! Now I like to do both, but I really prefer roughing it and sleeping in a tent and backpacking. I am so glad you and your DD had fun and shared some great memories.

With all the high fire danger I don't think I will make it roughing this year because I will not go unless I can have a campfire..just like your daughter said ..."Camping without s'mores would be like Walt Disney World without the Magic Kingdom." plus I don't like it to get dark without the light and the warmth of the fire.

 

[disykat]

S'mores work over a hibatchi! We camped last year with no fires allowed and that's what everyone did. I have a feeling it will be the same this year unless we get a lot more rain!