Camping - what are your favorite food items to bring?

Almonds/mixed nuts - delicious if you plan on roasting them in the fire, and make a good snack.

Oatmeal Ingredients - package them separately so they're pre-portioned. I like to use the oats, dried fruit like cranberries, nuts, and brown sugar.

If you want something filling, make a hearty vegetable soup that you know will keep and just heat it up when you're hungry.

Tea/instant coffee. Canned soup/chilli/beans, buns, and cheese make for easy lunch. For dinner hotdogs and campfire baked potatoes. For breakfast bacon/Turkey bacon and eggs with fried leftover potatoes from the night before.
Bring some snackable veggies like baby carrots, sugar snap peas, and celery sticks. I'd try to go easy on the junk food snacks but probably bring a small pack of cheesies and some trail mix. I'd usually go with a zillion marshmallows, but now I'd maybe do banana boats instead.
Jiffy pop popcorn is super fun over a fire.
That might not be the healthiest list. Lol. I need to go camping.

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I also like to cook meat/veggies in foil packets over a fire. The last time I went camping, I added strips of steak, some diced potatoes, sliced onions, and sliced green peppers together, seasoned with some salt & pepper and maybe a bit of olive oil if you have it. Wrap it all up in foil and cook over your campfire (we had a cast iron grill thing to put over it) for 20 minutes or so.

Fish works well for this, also, if you go fishing. I would do the potatoes separate from fish, as the cooking times will be different and you don't want to overcook your fish.

Peeps are awesome roasted over a campfire, also (thanks @Kruggeri for introducing me to this awesomeness), and they make great S'Mores.

weiners

I like string cheese, fresh fruit (apples and oranges travel well and don't need to stay in the cooler), canned chicken, eggs for the first day or so (they will keep okay in the cooler), oatmeal.

For dinner my absolute favorite is "camper's pizza." Get a small (8") Boboli crust (thin crust has fewer calories). Spray regular frying pan with nonstick spray and place Boboli inside. Smear with Boboli (or other) pizza sauce. Top with canned chicken, a jar of marinated artichoke hearts, fresh tomatoes, olives, cheese, and any other toppings you want. Put a lid on the frying pan, place on your camping stove and turn the heat on very, very low. Let it sit (do not peek!) for about 10 minutes. The cheese should be melted and the crust will be crisp. Slide onto a plate and enjoy! One small Boboli is usually enough for two people.

I love just about anything I can make with two pieces of bread in a hobo-pie iron...

http://www.rei.com/product/752497/camp-chef-cooking-iron

Though, I do also love cooking in a cast iron dutch oven with coals from the fire. Breakfast strata is a favorite with my campers. I also like long-cooking options done with coals, so just about anything that can be done in a crock pot.

If I'm not camping for long, or don't have much time to cook, I vacuum pack my meals and freeze them, then re-heat them in boiling water on the camp stove (they have special vac pack bags for this). Spaghetti sauce and stew and the like work well for this. If I'm going to be on site for longer than a week, I like to cook from scratch, and can even make bread in the dutch oven.

Ziploc omelets