CAMPING Food

I like to premake kabobs, and grill them.

I've never understood camping. Work all year to support yourself and then take a week off to pretend to be homeless?????

Was like you. Went to camping, changed idea, now I love it.

We dehydrate leftovers and my son takes them backpacking on his Scout trips. He boils water and adds the dried food to it, covers and lets it sit about 15-20 minutes. He gets a variety of food, doesn't have to eat something that will make him sick (we're gluten free) and it's light weight for packing in. He carries a water filter so he can have a clean water source and it's lighter than packing in water.

If you grill/BBQ the meat then that's about as healthy as the meat is gonna get. Just don't slather it in marinade!
You can take salad veggies and the meat with you in a 12v fridge (that's a *compressor* powered fridge, not cheap plugin coolbox) or in a high end 5 day cooler with loads of ice. Just don't keep opening the lid. Open it once per day and transfer the stuff you want to a day cooler and take the extra ice out of that to put in the big cooler to try and reduce the amount of air in that cooler (air space is the enemy of keeping the stuff cold for days). You can also take regular veggies with you that way.
Add a gas or petrol powered 2 burner stove and you can make most things as you would at home.

I went around Europe the last 2 summers with that setup, but only one 3 day cooler and bought food every 2 days but I needed to buy 1-2KG of ice every day to replace the ice that melted every 24hrs in the 40degC heat. In the cold you should be ok.

And if you're gonna be walking etc and be generally active on this trip you can afford, and will need to, eat a little more than normal anyway.

Wait, why is everyone talking about food that doesn't need to be cooled on a winter camping trip? And even if it's a summer trip - since you say you have running water nearby, put everything in a mesh bag (in well-sealed containers) and dump it in the river, weighted down with a rock. That's what we always did.

To me, the ultimate camping food is poffertjes, those tiny round Dutch buckwheat pancakes, with butter and powdered sugar. My father always made them when we were hiking, impractical as that was.

It would've been his birthday today...

For breakfast I combine instant oats, some skim milk powder, a bit of brown sugar and whatever dried fruit and nuts you desire. I package it into individual servings so all you have to do is dump it into a bowl, add boiling water and stir. Delicious, light to carry, and holds you forever!

When we have to portage to camp, I like Bistro Express Rice mixed with some kind of meat. They don't have to be microwaved. Heat in a pot with a bit of water added.

have you ever used the foil pouches to make individual meal packets? and meat and vegs on a skewer are good too!

Oatmeal
Freeze dried meals like mountain house, backpackers pantry

Not much of the freeze dried stuff is good 4 u, but you'll need the calories to keep warm and active.

Fresh fish if there is fishing there. Nuts, fruit... I have to have pancakes when I am camping!!

You could bring fruit?
No cooking required and most fruit keeps pretty well as long as you don't cut it up and stuff.
Carrots can be eaten raw, or boiled, or grilled or whatever, and they keep well. All you need is a peeler, or a knife I guess.

Sorry I'm not helping all that much, I've never been camping for real, like in the woods or whatever.