Favorite Camping Foods, Healthy & Unhealthy?

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MyOwnSunshine
MyOwnSunshine Posts: 1,312 Member
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As a spin-off of the camping thread, what are your favorite foods when camping? My husband likes to cook on the camp stove and grill, I love to cook on the campfire.

What are your favorite breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks to take and make while camping?

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  • NS81
    NS81 Posts: 192 Member
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    I like to make foil packets of veggies with olive oil and rosemary... We do a lot of fish... My kids think it's a huge treat to make jiffy pop popcorn when we camp lol

    We cook a bit of everything over the fire! :smile: Your favs?
  • ShannonMpls
    ShannonMpls Posts: 1,936 Member
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    We do camp nachos, jambalaya, battered and fried cod (we do that on a cookstove, not a campfire, because I've heard that oil + open flames don't mix), sausages and grilled veggies. Sometimes if it's going to be cool we do chili.

    For breakfast: breakfast burritos, pancakes and scrambled eggs, foil wraps with hash browns, egg, sausage, cheese, beans, onion, salsa.

    Lunches are usually something we can pack and take on hikes - pb&j, pita with hummus and veggies, fruit, carrot sticks, chips.

    Dessert: s'mores bars!

    But the most important part of camping is beer.
  • jaenders06
    jaenders06 Posts: 63 Member
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    Mountain pies or mountain pie pizzas are the BEST. If you don't know what they are google it. They're absolutely incredible. I've also made foil wrapped potatoes and personal meatloafs on the fire. The foil packets are great because you can do so much with them.
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,065 Member
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  • iplayoutside19
    iplayoutside19 Posts: 2,304 Member
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    Pretty much the same stuff we cook at home. Breakfast Burritos are probably my favorite.

    In the past 9 months I've got into Dutch Oven cooking, and cast iron over an open fire cooking.

    This website I have found to be pretty fun: http://www.dutchovendude.com/

    Right now my favorite is Dutch Oven Pizza with pepperoni.

    Camping trips are active enough I don't put much consideration into calories when camp cooking. Usually we need everything we can get.
  • PennyM140
    PennyM140 Posts: 423 Member
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    S'mores! These are an absolute must!


    Any thing else else is something easy because I don't want to spend all my time cooking. Usually burgers/hotdogs for dinner, sandwiches for lunch, bacon and eggs for breakfast.
  • frannieshack
    frannieshack Posts: 327 Member
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    Campfire Biscuits, mold some foil around the end of a stick and coat with some cooking oil. Take one of the canned biscuits and mold it around the end of the stick and roast on the fire until done. Take biscuit off the stick and fill the middle with your favorite jam, pb, or anything else. Yummy!
  • Linli_Anne
    Linli_Anne Posts: 1,360 Member
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    Breakfasts
    - bacon and eggs
    - cereal
    - pancakes

    Lunch we rarely eat while camping, because we are usually at the beach/off exploring etc. So, it's whatever is packable like cold cut sandwiches, cheese and crackers, carrots, snap peas, granola bars etc.

    We do lots of foil pack stuff for dinners
    - chicken with beans, rice, peppers, corn, salsa and cheese.
    - peppers, onions, mushrooms, cubed potatoes, sausage
    - Bacon Cheddar Broccoli Potatoes (<<<This is my favourite)
    - Sirloin strips, BBQ sauce, onion, potato coins served with corn on the cob
    - Teriyaki or maple salmon with peas and rice

    We also like to make smores, spider dogs and jiffy pop.

    Also - camp stove coffee is the BEST
  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
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    Beer, beer, burgers, steaks. marshmallow.
  • nickylee76
    nickylee76 Posts: 629 Member
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    We use our dutch ovens a lot and make any thing from chili to fruit cobblers in them or breakfast casseroles. Super yummy. Foil packets are great but my all time favorite camping treat is s'mores made with peanut butter cups instead of Hershey bars....
  • mimismommy11
    mimismommy11 Posts: 80 Member
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    Campfire cones are fun. You take one of those small sugar cones you usually use for ice cream and fill it with your toppings of choice. Marshmallows, chocolate chips, banana, peanut butter, berries, coconut, whatever. Wrap it up in foil and stick it on the campfire grate. You can make them as healthy or unhealthy as you want.

    Breakfast burritos with some pan fried potatoes, sausage, and eggs are really good. Otherwise my dad always makes biscuits and gravy one morning and we usually do pancakes another morning.

    Lunch is simple, hot dogs or sandwiches. Sometimes taco salad.

    Dinner we almost always grill, usually pork or beef burgers, chicken, bratwurst.
  • MyOwnSunshine
    MyOwnSunshine Posts: 1,312 Member
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    My favorite is steak cooked over the open fire, with fried potatoes and onions cooked in a cast iron skillet on the campfire. My husband's favorite is chili burgers, and my daughter's is the classic hot dogs roasted on sticks.

    Lunch is usually sandwiches, and watermelon is always good when you're camping.

    I'm going to make omelettes on the griddle that we bought for our grill/campstove, and we'll probably have pancakes at least once. Maybe breakfast quesadillas one morning.

    I love smores, but no one else in my family does (how can you not love smores?) -- more for me! I will have to try them with peanut butter cups.

    I like the ideas for campfire biscuits and dutch oven pizza -- I'm going to have to try those! The foil breakfast packets sound really good. I'm also hoping we catch a few fish, because they are amazing cooked over a campfire, too.

    It sounds like I need to experiment with foil packets and dutch oven cooking.

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