Favorite food to cook when you go camping?

Annamarie3404

What do you like to cook when you're camping? Do you bring food with you, or do you catch (fish), clean cook and eat? We bring veggies with us, just in case we don't catch anything. There's something about cooking over a campfire that's unlike anything else.

We typically camp in primitive areas. There is no cell phone service or stores within a 30-40 mile radius. It's the way we like it

Gallowmere1984

All the hot dogs, canned salmon, and dry sausage that I can fit.

Annamarie3404

We try to go fishing and catch something. The first time we went to do this, we forgot knives....so, no fish. All of are gear is already set up, we just have to load up and go. For breakfast, we also bring some fruit and nuts with us. We're thinking about getting a teardrop camper to tow along so we don't have to tent camp. It's a lot easier sleeping off the ground. Plus, some of them have stoves and such for cooking...just in case it rains or something.

Need2Exerc1se

If we can drive to the campsite we usually take brats, pork chops or steaks, canned beans, potatoes, eggs and a pineapple. Other than that we eat what we catch or food that doesn't need cooked.

If we have to hike in we generally stick to dried beans, rice and jerky.

callumwalker1995

Grizzly bear

Chef_Barbell

I always wanted to do something like this. Being a true city girl, I never went camping or fishing. Definitely on my to-do list.

CattOfTheGarage

Crazy canned nonsense. We don't often eat crazy canned nonsense, so it's a camping treat. We've just discovered canned chicken korma is a lot better than you'd think. Plus bacon and sausages, there has to be at least one fry up. And I recently made a meat and potato picnic pie for the first night so that we don't need to cook while getting pitched, it made such a difference that I'll definitely do it again.

I love camping.

peleroja

We bring food and are emphatically not interested in fishing.

What kind of food depends on if it's hike-in or out of the car, as well as what our plans are and how long we'll be out. If we're doing long hiking days and lots of elevation gain, I bring much more calorie-dense stuff than if we're just sitting around the campfire. If we're close to the car and I can bring a cooler, the menu gets a lot more expansive.

My finest camping meal was probably pizza from scratch though - I brought the flour, yeast, etc for the dough and let it rise in a tub for the afternoon, then we grilled it over the fire with the toppings I brought. We also tried to grill cinnamon buns over the fire once but that was less successful, burnt outside and raw inside no matter what.

Annamarie3404

Chef_Barbell wrote: »

I always wanted to do something like this. Being a true city girl, I never went camping or fishing. Definitely on my to-do list.

I understand . I'm from the country, so I grew up doing this. It's just the older I get, the less inclined I am to sleep on the ground

tcunbeliever

eggs for omelettes in a bag...you mix your toppings and eggs in a quart freezer bag and stick it in boiling water for a few minutes to cook it...you can cook about 6 in a good size pot all at once...

for biscuits or cinnamon buns, you either have to flip them when the bottom is cooked or put them in something with a lid and put coals on top so it cooks from both sides...

Annamarie3404

peleroja wrote: »

We bring food and are emphatically not interested in fishing.

What kind of food depends on if it's hike-in or out of the car, as well as what our plans are and how long we'll be out. If we're doing long hiking days and lots of elevation gain, I bring much more calorie-dense stuff than if we're just sitting around the campfire. If we're close to the car and I can bring a cooler, the menu gets a lot more expansive.

My finest camping meal was probably pizza from scratch though - I brought the flour, yeast, etc for the dough and let it rise in a tub for the afternoon, then we grilled it over the fire with the toppings I brought. We also tried to grill cinnamon buns over the fire once but that was less successful, burnt outside and raw inside no matter what.

That sounds AWESOME. We'll have to try making pizza sometime.

BettyEtte

We camp with a motorcycle popup tent camper. Have one big cooler that fit's on the tongue of the trailer. We freeze milk, tea, water, & steaks to keep cooler cold. First night we have said steaks, tomato biscuits (Grands), & maybe canned green beans. Subsequent nights we have to find a store, which gets interesting in remote places. Breakfast is usually oatmeal or cereal. We eat out for lunch, while touring the countryside.