what food can i bring on school camping, must make our own dinner and brek and lunch?
by admin on Sunday, March 13th, 2011 | 3 Comments
Your Question
what food items can you bring on a camping trip for four days?
I can only use a stove (gas) and need to avoid meat, dairy and nut products. This is a school camp and i have to hike with my food stuff and clothes. (i will hike 13 k everyday)
my ideas are
Dinner:
tomatoe soup (can)
pasta (packet)
rice (i will add soya sauce)
oats
pumkin mash
snacks:
a lunch bar of some sort
chocolates
candy
lunch:
in a normal day, i never eat lunch so i can pass this
breakfast:
tomatoe soup
oats
left over pasta/rice
tinned beans
lots of oranges, tangellos, passionfruit
eggs????????????
instant coffee!
MRE’s Meals Ready to Eat, the military uses them.
i would bring some flour tortillas. because they provide the carbs you will need for all that hiking.. and some prepackaged tuna or other fishes (not the kind in the can, because that may get heavy, but the kind in a packet)
dried sausage or beef jerky!
some peanut butter. ( you can use flour tortillas to spread)
do you know how to make a “baked potato” out of lays chips and very hot water and a mayo packet?
(just crush up a bag of lays sour cream and onion chips and pour some very hot water into the bag. then roll the bag up and let it “bake” for a few minuets! rip open the bag and add some mayo! tastes JUST like baked potato!)
you can use the ramen noodle and mix in some eggs! (but you do realize eggs is dairy?)
make sure not to forget some salt and hot sauce and mayo packets, sugar, and powdered creamer
and some nacho cheese packets if you can find them
Try for one dish meals, things that only use one pot for cooking. Stew or soup is good, get the heartiest one you can find with lots of vegetables in it. Pea soup is very filling if you like it. Pasta is not good, while camping, unless it’s one of those pasta and sauce in a package things, because it takes too long to boil the water and depending on your stove it can be hard to keep it boiling and then you have the water draining problem. Rice is much better, because it needs much less heat and you don’t have to drain it. Mix 1/3 barley with 2/3 rice for extra nutrition. They can cook together just like you cook rice. Leftovers will go in the next day’s soup. Take some vegetable bouillon cubes, they can jazz up rice very nicely.
Tinned beans are very good, and they’re good with some tinned tomatoes added. Get some whole wheat bread (or rolls) that doesn’t squash easily to go with the soup or stew, or take some whole grain crackers like Triscuits in a plastic box. If you want to thicken a soup, you can add a bit of instant mashed potato. If you can’t take butter, take olive oil. You can add a bit to eggs or soup, or dip bread in it. Take more than one kind of soup. By the 3rd day you’ll be really sick of tomato soup twice a day.
If you can find a soup that’s dried, that will reduce the weight you have to carry. Keep canned goods to a minimum because they’re heavy. I’m assuming that water will be available.
Oatmeal makes a good breakfast, very filling. You can get dried eggs at most camping supply stores, but they don’t taste all that great. Take some seasoning for them, like dried onion, pepper, salt. And they stick to the pan and are hard to clean up unless it’s a non-stick pan. Fresh eggs are a packing problem, but they sell egg containers in any camping department like at Wal-mart. You do not want broken eggs in your pack. You might need to buy medium eggs so they’ll fit. I’ve had large eggs not fit in the box. Leftover rice mixed with scrambled eggs would be a good breakfast. Eggs will keep a few days without refrigeration unless it’s really warm out.
Don’t take any fruit that will squash. Oranges are probably the best, apples are okay but should be wrapped so they don’t bruise. Almost everything else is too fragile and might come out of your pack as mush. Dried fruit is very good–raisins, apricots, all of it. Sun dried tomatoes can be great for adding a little flavour to rice.
Leftovers are a problem when hiking. If they have any liquid in them, you must keep them in screw top containers or they will leak, and test the containers before you leave home. They’re not all leak-proof if they tip. Snap top containers won’t cut it for carrying liquids in a pack. Take some empty ziploc bags, they’ll come in handy.
Don’t skip lunch even if you usually do. Eat something at the lunch break even if you’re not hungry. Hiking 13k while wearing a backpack needs you to keep your blood sugar up. You need your strength for this.
Sit down with a piece of paper and write down a list with every single meal and snack on it, and make a list of what you’ll eat at every meal and how much at each meal. That will help you to bring enough but not too much, and it will help you know what seasonings to bring. Some kind of tea would be good. Get a couple of herbal ones that you like.