camping food ideas

djenks_2

Hi, I'm off camping next weekend with 2 small children but I have no idea what food to take with us.

We'll have a small camping stove and I was going to get a couple of disposable barbecues.

All ideas / suggestions on what to take would be much appreciated :-)

Thanks

YORKSHIRELASS

If we are going away for the weekend I make a spag bol or chilli in advance, cool it and take it with me in an ice cream container. Then all you need to do is heat it up, cook some pasta and throw the lot together when you get there. By the time you have got the tent up, beds sorted and everything where it needs to be you wont feel like cooking. Not very OS but the ice cream container can go in the bin so you dont even need to wash it up.

Then Saturday night is usually a bbq if the weather allows.

Bacon butties for breakfast are a must. Plenty of snacks too and maybe something to make a sandwich for lunch.

The kids will probably be a lot less fussy about what they eat when they are camping. Just novelty value I guess.

How are you going to keep things cold? You might need a few icepacks and a cool box, some camp sites will freeze them. You might want to get a permanent marker and write your name on the icepacks so you know they are yours.

meritaten

ok - large pot and a frying pan meals coming up!

Chicken Casserole
1 cooked chicken
1 can condensed chicken soup
large cup of peas or whatever green veg like French beans you have. or miss them out!
small red pepper chopped finely
about half a packet of rice (I mean the dried one not the microwave one)
chicken stock cube
water.
Mix the chicken peas pepper and rice with the can of soup and add water until its just to the top of chicken and veg. crumble in the stock cube and cook gently until the rice is tender. you can use condensed mushroom soup instead.

Corned beef hash (OHs version)
tin of corned beef, cubed roughly
tin of potatoes drained and chopped into pieces
tin of carrots chopped up if large.
1 onion chopped
stock cube
oil for frying
Eggs (optional)

Fry the onion gently in the pan until nice and soft and just turning colour. add the potatoes and warm them through, add the carrots and warm them through. sprinkle over the stock cube (you can add salt and pepper or Worcestershire sauce if you like).
if you want eggs then make holes in the mix in the pan and drop an egg in each. cook until the eggs are just 'set'. Don't stir at this stage or it turns in a corned beef omelet

Stuffed Roast peppers

One pepper per person
a pack of flavoured couscous (mediteranean or tomato works well)
1 small red onion, chopped finely
small jar sundried tomatoes , drained and chopped (keep the oil to dress salad with)
some mushrooms, chopped
2 cloves of garlic crushed
pesto sauce

make up couscous. fry the onion garlic tomato and mushrooms in a little oil. add the pesto sauce and warm through. combine with the couscous. chop 'lids' off the peppers and scoop out the seeds. fill with the couscous mixture. put the lids back on and wrap in foil. cook on the BBQ for about 20 -30 mins (while your sausages and burgers or steaks cook?)



oh and you can make a hearty stew with a can each of Stewing steak, peas, carrots and Tomatoes. just combine all the cans in your big pot and season. served with lovely crusty bread its surprisingly good!

michelle2008

Will you have a fridge? If not my favourite camping meal was always marks chunky chicken (comes in a tin) and boil in the bag rice!! Boring but yummmmmy

djenks_2

michelle2008 wrote: »

Will you have a fridge? If not my favourite camping meal was always marks chunky chicken (comes in a tin) and boil in the bag rice!! Boring but yummmmmy

Unfortunately no :-( it's our first camping trip so we're keeping it to the basics.

Your chicken and rice sounds lovely.

djenks_2

meritaten wrote: »

ok - large pot and a frying pan meals coming up!

Chicken Casserole
1 cooked chicken
1 can condensed chicken soup
large cup of peas or whatever green veg like French beans you have. or miss them out!
small red pepper chopped finely
about half a packet of rice (I mean the dried one not the microwave one)
chicken stock cube
water.
Mix the chicken peas pepper and rice with the can of soup and add water until its just to the top of chicken and veg. crumble in the stock cube and cook gently until the rice is tender. you can use condensed mushroom soup instead.

Corned beef hash (OHs version)
tin of corned beef, cubed roughly
tin of potatoes drained and chopped into pieces
tin of carrots chopped up if large.
1 onion chopped
stock cube
oil for frying
Eggs (optional)

Fry the onion gently in the pan until nice and soft and just turning colour. add the potatoes and warm them through, add the carrots and warm them through. sprinkle over the stock cube (you can add salt and pepper or Worcestershire sauce if you like).
if you want eggs then make holes in the mix in the pan and drop an egg in each. cook until the eggs are just 'set'. Don't stir at this stage or it turns in a corned beef omelet

Stuffed Roast peppers

One pepper per person
a pack of flavoured couscous (mediteranean or tomato works well)
1 small red onion, chopped finely
small jar sundried tomatoes , drained and chopped (keep the oil to dress salad with)
some mushrooms, chopped
2 cloves of garlic crushed
pesto sauce

make up couscous. fry the onion garlic tomato and mushrooms in a little oil. add the pesto sauce and warm through. combine with the couscous. chop 'lids' off the peppers and scoop out the seeds. fill with the couscous mixture. put the lids back on and wrap in foil. cook on the BBQ for about 20 -30 mins (while your sausages and burgers or steaks cook?)



oh and you can make a hearty stew with a can each of Stewing steak, peas, carrots and Tomatoes. just combine all the cans in your big pot and season. served with lovely crusty bread its surprisingly good!

Thanks, how long would these take on a little camping stove?

ciderwithrosie_2

michelle2008 wrote: »

Will you have a fridge? If not my favourite camping meal was always marks chunky chicken (comes in a tin) and boil in the bag rice!! Boring but yummmmmy

Nice with a can of sweetcorn added to the chicken. We often used to eat stuff like this in the girl guides.


A tub of 'Smash' comes in handy too - hot dog sausages/tinned bacon grill, beans and mash is good hearty food.

JIL

One tin of creamed mushrooms or condensed mushroom soup, one small tin sweetcorn, 1 tin tuna, mixed together and warmed through and added to cooked pasta.
My mum used to make us , bacon, sausage and beans and would then buy a bag of chips for us to have on the side with bread and butter. Yum
Have a lovely holiday.

themarsbargirl

I'd keep it to tinned food you can just heat through for speed. The hash will take 5-10mins on the stove cooking. It's getting cold so I'd suggest Instant porridge for breakfast, rolls with potted meat for lunch, tinned meals e.g. spagetti hoops, spag bol, mac cheese, casserole,curry, chilli etc for dinner, tins of soup for supper and plenty of hot chocolate to warm you through. dried fruit for snacks.

To keep milk cool pop it in a pot with a lil cold water and drape a damp cloth over it.

themarsbargirl

At guide camp my favourite dessert was martian pudding-pink angel delight with marshmallows in and butterscotch angel delight with cut up mars bars stirred through.

Mint1955

Dried pasta cooked up and add a jar of bolognaise sauce add chopped tinned frankfurters and heat

Tinned chilli and rice

Tinned curry and rice

Sausages in chunks of French stick

Tinned Soup and crusty bread

Ice box with a frozen meal in for second night and a bottle of frozen water will keep you going cool box wise for the first 24 hours

Ice packs defrost far too fast

Packets of cheap biscuits for when the kids need topping up

Flap jack is filling

Toast for breakfast or sachets of ready break