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what are the best types of food to bring camping? i wil not have access to a friidge, we are truly “roughin” i
Bywe are going camping this friday night to sunday.. 2 days, 2 nights basically. we will be at a basic campsite with no electricity or running water. what is the best type of food to bring with us? we wont be fishing for our food, i need a list of good, tasty things to eat that wont perish over the 2 days we will be there. thanks!
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April 15th, 2010 at 7:49 am
protean bars are good
cans of juice and pop
chips
trail mix
water bottles
i am sure u have a cooler.
so hot dogs and if u have a little stove hamburgers.
April 15th, 2010 at 8:46 am
steak, chicken, hot dogs eggs, bacon, milk, orange juice, lunch meat cheese etc all will be ok In a ice chest.
April 15th, 2010 at 9:38 am
How about canned foods? veggies, soups, raviolis, etc
If you’re taking a cooler or two, you could bring any meat you want, just freeze it first and put it in the cooler. It’ll keep for the weekend if you keep it iced down. Sandwich meats keep easily in a cooler too. Eggs, bacon, ground meat, sausage, just whatever you might like to eat. You don’t have to go the granola and twigs route just to be able to keep stuff without a refrigerator. If the stuff(except the eggs) is frozen when you put it in the cooler and iced down, you will be fine.
Bring gallong jugs of water to use for cooking.
You can bring along dry staples too. Think about pancake mix, ramen noodles, instant potato flakes, even instant rice.
Bring along some ziplock bags and you can even save your left overs in the cooler. You can go back to them for snacks and such. Just put them in foil and heat over some coals. You can do just like at home, but you just have to simplify it a little.
Oh yeah, bring foil and a pot and a big spoon and a long fork or tongs. We keep all our cooking stuff in one of those plastic storage containers, but for a weekend you can do just as well with a cardboard box.
Just because you’re “roughting it” doesn’t mean you can’t eat good. We camp quite a bit and we usually eat better when we’re camping than we do at home. I must admit, though, my wife is quite resourceful. Give her a pot and some fire and there will be something good to eat.
Have yourselves a large time.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:02 am
ditto to less_nrg – we usually eat WAY better at camp than at home!
Camping out of the car, we’ve made tri-tip roasts with rosemary baby red potatoes, carrots, and onions. Some nights we bake fresh chocolate chip cookies or a pineapple upside down cake in the Dutch Oven. We’ve grilled steaks, and whipped up entire Mexican fiestas with carne asada over the grill, mexican rice, beans, tortillas, etc.
You can pick up a used cast iron skillet at most Goodwill stores – preseasoned and ready to use. They are great over the fire if you don’t have a stove. You can make bacon and egg feasts for breakfast, you can make a great citrus marinated salmon filet in there for dinner too!
Spend $30.00 or more on a good sized cooler, and pack it up. You’re food (yes even raw meat) will keep just fine. Two days is nothing. If you’re in an extremely hot climate, buy a 1/2 pound of dry ice. Keep it wrapped up in the paper it comes in and place it in the bottom of the cooler. Cover that with about an inch of regular ice. Add food, drinks, etc. and more ice. The dry ice will keep your regular ice from melting as fast. Your meats will stay fresh, and your drinks will be super cold. You can take any normal food you like to eat with you to camp. It’s really not difficult.
If you’re really trying to keep the fresh food to a minimum, or if you’re backpacking, just shop the interior aisles of your grocery store. All those instant Lipton Noodle mixes are easy to cook at camp, and you can get dry mixes for chili and hearty soups too. Just add water, a can of tomatos sauce, etc. and they’re pretty good.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:48 am
S’MORES of course! fruit/granola bars, make sun tea while you are there, bottled water, which you can boil in a pan over the fire to make mac&cheese, noodles(lipton or ramen), soups. chips, dried trail mix, peanuts, little cereal boxes(eat with or without milk) meat&pita pockets for sandwiches (in a cooler, you’d probably have to eat that the first day, maybe not though), popcorn that you pop over a fire, melons(probably another first day thing), hot dogs&brats over the fire, burgers if you wanna get a little fancy. Hmm that is all i can think of right now…
April 15th, 2010 at 10:55 am
some canned foods and a bunch of boxes of your favorite cereal..we always bring lots of honey nut cherios and cinamon toast crunch…great snacks!