2 part question – what breakfast & what do I bring to cook it while camping?
by admin on Saturday, September 18th, 2010 | 8 Comments
I’m drawing a blank on what to make for breakfast during our camping trip.
Do I bring dairy?? Will it spoil quickly? How do you keep your food from spoiling if your ice melts in your cooler??
What sort of things should I bring to cook in? I’d have a pot, & probably a frying pan…more needed?
I hate to be really boring, but on my trips alone, I just eat oatmeal. Oatmeal lasts 86.5 years and water is usually found in abundance (where I am, anyway).
Bring a pot (which, when empty, you put your fuel canister in) and a dish to eat out of and some utensils. The stove can be something really neat and lightweight, like these: http://www.rei.com/category/4500028
Don’t bring dairy. You can by Mountain House food, for example, but they’re really really high in sodium and other chemicals. Yummy for dinner maybe once, but I wouldn’t eat them morning, noon, and night.
Go to your local REI or camping/sports store and figure out everything you need. If it’s your first camping trip, just go for a single night somewhere fun.
I like to take canned potatoes and canned corned beef. The potatoes are easy to slice and cook fast. The corned beef is added at the end its a kicked up version of corned beef hash. You only need a skillet and some cooking oil.
A Coleman Extreme cooler keeps food and ice cold for a long time. They claim 5 days – it’s more like 3 or 4 days depending on how much frozen stuff I put in the cooler and how many times the cooler gets opened by people.
If you don’t have an Extreme and don’t want to buy one for your trip, I would freeze as much as your food as possible. Those juice boxes and juice bags make good ice packs and then you can drink them when they defrost. A lot of campgrounds have stores or there are local grocery stores nearby where you can buy ice or milk or whatever you need.
I do bacon and eggs a lot while camping. You can freeze the bacon to keep it fresh longer and if the eggs get a little warm they’re okay as long as you cook them completely.
Anything you bring make sure it’s in a cooler on ice.
When ice melts in your cooler-get more ice.
You can cook anything while camping, just like at home.
Have fun.
* 1 bag shredded hash brown
* 6 eggs
* 1 lb sausage or ham, cooked
* 1 medium onion, chopped
* 2 cups shredded sharp cheese
* seasoning salt and pepper
* red, yellow, or green peppers, optional
Preparation:
Take an aluminum foil cooking bag sprayed with pam, sprinkle with seasoning salt and put some pats of butter in the foil bag. Open a bag of hash browns, beat eggs, chop onions, pour all ingredients into the bag of hash browns, and mix by squeezing. Then pour the mixture into the foil cooking bag and spread out. Add some salt and pepper, more seasoning salt, and a bit more butter on top of the hash brown mixture. Place the aluminum cooking bag on a preheated grill (medium heat) and turn the bag every five minutes. The bag will start to puff and you can open it to check for doneness.
Servings: 6
Bring LOTS of foil and a skillet and a pot plus some Storage food containers and a cooler
it varies by how long I’m going to be out. and what I can take or how I am transporting it. Hiking is different than car camping etc.
But for a car trip to the campground, I bring a large ice chest full of ice and pack stuff in it. I pre freeze anything that can be frozen IE steaks etc, to help them last longer.
I bring eggs and bacon, or fresh chorizo to mix in the eggs for breakfast on day 1-3, and I bring bisquick to make biscuits or stick bread. longer trips I add in cereal, oatmeal etc that last longer and if more than 3 days, I add powdered milk to use when regular milk may not last. Sometimes I bring a dutch oven, other times a pan and one pot. other times a single pot. When alone and hiking, I have even used a large #10 can to cook in. I also use Military MRE’s and freeze dried foods. You can also pre cook some foods, and place them in the ice chest so they only need to be heated to serve.
use your imagination, it is sometimes surprising what you end up with. I have an old style percolating coffee pot I usually bring, but when limited for space/weight, I bring instant coffee and powdered creamer, tea bags, pre measured hot chocolate etc and heat it up in a stainless steel canteen cup. A quick trip to REI or other outdoors shops will reveal a lot of camping food and ideas for you like canned bacon etc. I always get a kick out of guys who hunt with me when we stop for a trail side lunch and they pull out mushy sandwhiches and canteen water. I use a small folding stove and fuel tablets to heat up some tea or hot cocoa, and while that is heating, I pull out the steak I pre cooked and then froze (it’s thawed by lunch time) or baked ham etc done the same way, and heat it up and chow down. follow that with some canned peaches in heavy syrup and you have a lunch fit for a king
have fun
You can bring dairy, meats, etc. as long as you keep it cold. A good cooler will keep food good for days. Also make sure you set your cooler in a shady spot and out of the sun if possible. Place any cheeses or meats in a zip lock baggie so as the ice melts the water can’t get into your food and spoil it.
Some things I like to make while camping are:
Sausage-Freeze before you place in cooler
Bacon-Freeze before placed in cooler
Eggs-Buy plastic egg case so they wont brake
Pancakes
Cereal
Granola Bars
French Toast
Cooking Supplies:
2 Skillets
2 Pots
Cooking Utensils
Pot Holder
Cooking Spray
You can bring dairy–yes. No it won’t spoil quickly and should keep for at least 36 hrs in a cooler if you don’t keep opening it up. We always go get another sack of ice each day if we are close to a store and we generally are—lots of campgrounds have a store and have ice to sell. A pot and pan is basically all we ever take; sometimes a crock pot if you have electric available.
For breakfast you can have fruit and cereal, coffee and rolls, bacon, eggs,and toast. Whatever you wish. have fun and be safe.