Frugal camping recipes...........or food?
By jolenegreen
@jolenegreen (1209)
United States
7 responses
@julieandpico (73)
• United States
4 Jun 07
It depends on whether you are car camping or backpacking. I'm going to guess car camping. Essentially, anything you'd eat at home works well.
Breakfast: Oatmeal is good - I usually buy the Maybo instant in a box for camping. Pancakes from a just add water mix. Regular cereal and milk.
Lunch: Sandwiches, soup, mac and cheese, hotdogs
Dinner: hot dogs, burgers, hobo stew and other packet meals (veggies and meat or tofu wrapped in foil and cooked in the coals of the fire or on a grill)
Pie irons are a great investment for a family. They are like the electric sandwich makers only made for a campfire or grill. You butter 2 slices of bread on both sides and put filling in between and toast over the grill. You can do fried egg sandwiches (cooking the egg while toasting), pizza (cheese, tomato sauce, and misc toppings), hot sandwiches, beans and cheese, pretty much anything... For dessert you can put in jam or pie filling and make pies.
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@jolenegreen (1209)
• United States
5 Jun 07
Thanks for the response! Greta ideas! I LOVE things in the foil packets but how do I know how long to cook them? I am familiar with the pie irons they are great. YUM! I love Pizza ones, LOL
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@julieandpico (73)
• United States
5 Jun 07
How long you cook packet meals depends on how hot it is where you are cooking them. But if you go to the Reynolds Wrap website site, they have a whole bunch of recipes for packet cooking in the oven and on the grill. I just sort of adapt the time from there.
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@warriorsdaughter (791)
• United States
4 Jun 07
We do alot of rough camping in the summer time. Sleep in tents, no electricity items, no gas items, etc...You can cook pretty much anything you do at home it just takes a tad longer depending on what it is. Cast iron skillets work the best for camping. We have complete 4-5 course meals there. Bacon, eggs, hashbrowns, toast. Steak, baked potaotes, roasted corn, fruit, dessert.
Some items, like baked potatoes and corn on the cob you can wrap in tin foil and toss close to the fire.
I did a search for you and found one site that had some really good ideas to help you out.
http://www.adventuresportsonline.com/recipe.htm
Good Luck and hope you find what your looking for! ;) Can't wait til we start going this summer!
@warriorsdaughter (791)
• United States
5 Jun 07
Your very welcome! I can't wait til we go this summer, but it has been flooding here so we are waiting for things to dry up some.
I am in Kansas. We don't do State Parks because it costs you to enter the gate then again to camp. So you basically have to pay double. The camp areas are all open with no privacy and very close together. Plus way to many rules!!
We go to Harvey County West Park about 30 min. from us. It is a small low-income type camp area with swimming pond. Costs us $8.00/night to camp. Then they have a fairly nice sized area for fishing and non-engine type boats. I like the idea of no engined boats! They have a swinging type bridge that goes over the fishing part to a nature trail that seems to last forever. It goes completely around the lake area. They are set up for RV's/campers who need electricity $15/night which are in a small area themselves. The other camp areas to rough it are spread out and full of trees and privacy. Each site has its own picnic table and firepit with a liftup/down grill cover to cook on. They keep a supply of firewood cut for you for free and take as much as you need or you can go and find your own and cut it. State parks here come around and sell it too you, you can't just find your own. They also have a bait/grocery shop right on site in case you need anymore supplies.
They have a main bathroom with toilets and shower. Plus an outside rinse off shower for when you get out of the pond. It is just a nice place that we enjoy going to and affordable, plus close to home if bad weather approaches, someone got hurt, or we forgot something and needed it badly that the bait shop didn't have.
You won't find any snooty rich people there, even the ones in campers/RV's. They are so old of ones and some are even makeshift type from buses...lol Alot of nice and friendly people!! The kind of people I like!
They also have an East Park which would be about an hour from us and that one is even a larger lake, but they are engine boat equipped. We don't care for that one...lol
You should come down sometime and we could go camping together....lol Where are you from and where do you camp at?
We talked about going to Colorado this July when hubby has his vacation and go camping in the moutains, but it doesn't look like we can afford the trip with the cost of gas these days. Looking like we will be at Harvey again, but for a week straight which we have never camped for a week. Always just 3 days/2 nights due to his work schedule. I am so looking forward to the peace and quiet! No ringing phones, TV's, that sort of stuff...lol
I sure hope you guys have fun...it might seem like a lot of work at first with packing everything, but once you get a system going and keep some things separate for camping only then it will be easier on you the next time.
The black tool chest we use, I keep all blankets, pillows, paper goods, camp gear, etc...in it. When we come home from camping I wash the stuff and put it back in there for next time. We have a list of the stuff we have on hand and what we will need for the next trip. It is so much easier that way....
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@jolenegreen (1209)
• United States
5 Jun 07
Thank you for the link I really appreciate it! What state are you from and where do u go camping? Mostly at state parks? Do u go to places with a land of water so the kids can enjoy swimming? Im glad I founf someone with children my age that enjoys to camp, LOL...Im excited! HEHE
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
4 Jun 07
I would suggest making your own trail mix, which costs less than the store made mixes. Each person can have what they prefer to eat, so less is thrown out. Some items I put in the bags are Corn Chex, Cheerios, raisins, dried banana chips, pretzels, chocolate chips, and any other fruit I'm planning to dry. Many people put in nuts, but my family is allergic.
@jolenegreen (1209)
• United States
5 Jun 07
Thank you....great idea!!! This would be greta for when we go on hikes, Or actually we could make some of this to take to the lake for the kids when we go swimming. Everythime they swim they get REALLY hungry...lol. So I am always packing a cooler of this and that.
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@KrisNY (7590)
• United States
5 Jun 07
I love to camp- We always take way too much food- We always take- corn on the cob, salt potatoes, everyone makes a salad- (potato, macaroni, pasta) chips, meat... most of this you can buy pretty cheap- Check farm markets for the potatoes and corn. salads are pretty inexpensive- we always take fruit too- but that gets up there- We have 4 families that go each year and we always shop together and split the bill by 4- It usually costs each of us $40ish for the whole trip- breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks for 3 days-
@jolenegreen (1209)
• United States
5 Jun 07
Thanks for responding...Im sending you a message. I noticed that we live close by, LOL
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@twilight021 (2059)
• United States
4 Jun 07
My boyfriend went on a camping trip recently and we had to get him food that was affordable, and portable as he was goiing to be hiking/camping for 2 days. I'm not sure what type of camping you are doing or what resources you have, but when I camp I find that things you can make with biling water are the easiest and in maost cases are very affordable.
When I camp I bring things like Ramen Noodles, "Easy Mac"-this is mac and cheese that you can make with just hot water, and instant mashed potatoes. Canned meats are also good, like canned ham or hash. I also like bringing those packets of tuna. They are especially good mixed in with the mac and cheese. These items are also very affordable.
@eden32 (3973)
• United States
4 Jun 07
Depending on what you have for equipment, just about anything you can make at home you can make camping. I take a cast iron dutch oven, which you can do any thing you'd do in an oven in- but it does take some experimenting to know how long to cook things in it.
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@jolenegreen (1209)
• United States
5 Jun 07
Never heard of a cast iron dutch oven? But I am looking for more recipes that we wouldnt make at home, u know? Thanks for the comment though
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