best food to take camping?
Posted: April 13th, 2011 | Author: Mitch | Filed under: Camping Recipes | Tags: camping, hotdogs, open fire, potatoes, pots, whole time | 7 Comments »going camping for 4 days and don’t want to have to survive off of hotdogs the whole time. Won’t have pots or pans, just an open fire. If I throw a thing of potatoes into foil and in the fire, will that work or will they be burned to a crisp?
make a pouch with the foil. add some salt and pepper and if you have it cheese. toss it in the fire. the foil will get pretty black but the potatoes will be pretty good. leave it in there for like 10 minutes or so.
If you do the whole foil deal add some hamburger meat with the potatos and some onions and it makes a great meal. If you like add some carrots two. You can also bake apples in tinfoil with cinnamon and sugar the same way. that makes a great campfire dessert. (By the way it’s called a hobo meal.)
Yes, you can cook potoatoes in foil, but they need to be sliced thin. You can also add other things that can be packed at room temperature and have a camping pantry. Save all the packets (mayo, mustard, ketchup, hot sauce, soy sauce, margarine, honey, syrup) you get from fast food to liven things up and stay shelf-safe. Thinly sliced onions, parmesan cheese (the powdery kind), precooked bacon, canned ham or spam, vienna sausages, salt, pepper, garlic/onion salt, margarine and hot sauce can all be added to poatotes or made into meals on their own.
If you have a cooler you can pack lunch meats, cheese, cream cheese, eggs (raw and hard-cooked), and milk to make quick/easy meals. Pack bagels or tortillas for sandwiches. They stand up to squishing much better than normal bread. Pack a can of Pringles to go along with sandwiches. Raw eggs can be cooked with potoatoes and ham/spam in foil over coals for breakfast. Hard cooked eggs make good sandwiches or snacks. Splurge and buy those little boxes of cereal that turn into their own bowls. If you have a kettle to boil water in bring instant oatmeal and cup of noodles. Don’t forget canned foods and a manual can opener. You can heat up any of the following in foil: baked beans, canned tamales, chili, ravioli, spaghetti-os, and other pre-made canned meals. Other canned goods are fine to eat on their own like fruit and vegetables. Juices are another thing you can pack in cans, plastic bottles, or boxes to go along with meals.
raman noodles
If you don’t have any pots and pans AT LEAST take a fold out grill top that you can put over the fire. That way, you can bring foil and cook about anything you like. You can cook steaks on the fold out grill, or chicken or pork chops. Vegetables go in the foil…just bring a bit of seasoning salt or seasoning shakes that you can buy and sprinkle over for extra flavour. You can also cook potatoes (chopped up) that way, to avoid the burn. I wouldn’r recommend tossing the potatoes into the fire in foil (although I’ve done it, the foil doesn’t always protect the whole potato and you could end up going hungry). Another way is to pre-bake the potatoes before you leave and simply heat up in the foil…that way it won’t take four hours to cook!
Brown some hamburger meat before you leave and store in foil or ziploc bag. For the meal add some spaghetti sauce or sloppy joe sauce with the meat in foil wrap tightly and heat on hot coals until heated to your satisfaction, serve on the bread of your choice.
This tip for camping and more can be found at http://www.fabulousfoods.com/school/cstips/Camping_and_Outdoor_Cooking_Tips/
go to the army surplus and get some MRE’s you’d be surprised how far they’ve come since K-Rations…