Your favorite camping meals

[Roy]

We love to pick up a couple of nice cheeses, some salami, prosciutto, olives, rosemary and some crackers or a nice lump of bread to tear at. Simple, no prep, and no cleanup.

Cold Spam sandwiches (I love Spam, it lasts forever with no cooling, & they sell spam in those single serve foil packages now), prefect for sodium replacement after a long hot day.

Also, throw some grape tomatoes and small mozzarella balls into a ziplock with some olive oil, salt, basil, pepper, & vinegar. No cook, no prep, and you can eat it right out of the bag.

 

[Corey]

Also, throw some grape tomatoes and small mozzarella balls into a ziplock with some olive oil, salt, basil, pepper, & vinegar. No cook, no prep, and you can eat it right out of the bag.

I just recently yesteryear got turned onto these little tomatoes (hence why I use them on kabobs now instead of regular tomatoes) and your idea with the ziplock sounds like a good idea for a quick lunch while camping along with some type of crackers.
I like the Wheat Thins Flatbread variety.
http://www.amazon.com/Nabisco-Wheat-Thins-Flatbread-Tuscan/dp/B002ZJMSKO

 

[XJCamper]

Can't forget pancakes for breakfast. (I have young kids) You just buy on of those pancake mixes in one of the plastic jug containers and when you get to camp all you have to do is add water and shake. Very low maintenence even if you are backpacking.

 

[The Adam Blaster]

From way back in my scouting days as a young lad, the last night of camping we would make chili with pretty much everything that was left over in the cooler.
Obviously our Scout Master would have set aside ground beef, cans of beans etc. for this meal, but we would throw in any canned or fresh veggies that we happened to have left over as well.
There's a lot of great things about chili - it's fairly cheap to make if you want to go that way, or you could cube some decent quality steaks to fancy-it-up, it serves a lot of people, you can add shredded cheese, crackers, tortilla chips, toast or bread as additions to it. If you make it too spicy, add sour cream.
You could also prepare it all at home, freeze it in tupperware and use it to keep other stuff cold in the cooler and then warm it up later in the trip.

I've taken the tradition of making chili on the last night with me on almost every camping trip I've been on. It's a great meal, and a great way to say goodbye to the wonderful trip we've just been on.

 

[Frank]

I cant believe no one has mentioned ho-bo dinners.

Take a burger patty, sliced carrots, sliced green pepers...pretty much any veggie or potato your heart desires...Ive even tossed in a tomato...toss all of that (with your favorite seasonings) into a piece of foil. Wrap all of that up so its good and sealed and toss it on some coals or any source of heat. Ive also put a few slices of bacon and cheese into the mix. These are great if your going to be out for the day. You can make them up ahead of time, put them into the cooler, and get them out when your ready to cook them.

Image from flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jstephenconn/3095558656/sizes/z/in/photostream/

 

[Bigjerm]

Kabobs are my favorite while car camping! It can be a little messy though putting them together with the meat still in marinade. I would pre assemble them because the stick would be dry and burn easier.

Breakfast... Oh man! I only eat this while camping so it's like a treat. It sounds gross but trust me it's awesome (I thought it would be gross too at first). Toasted bagel, cream cheese, and pepperonis...


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[Corey]

I cant believe no one has mentioned ho-bo dinners.

Take a burger patty, sliced carrots, sliced green pepers...pretty much any veggie or potato your heart desires...

We did that in Boy Scouts all the time, but never corn on the cob.
Always tasted good.
Kind of like a shish kabobs without the sticks

 

[Errant]

I picked up a new barbecue Friday (Amazon dropped it off for me ) as I was in need of a new one, and I saw a nice Weber Go Anywhere gas grill posted over at fjcruiserforums site, so I ordered it and a hose to convert it over to one of my bigger tanks.
Push button ignition too baby

I bring that same BBQ on trips where open fire isn't allowed. I've only used it a few times, but am very pleased with it. Heat distribution is awesome for such a little grill.

 

[BIGGUY]

A couple of my favorite camp meals were actually pretty simple. We would fry up some fresh trout and fried potatoes and onions for dinner one night. For breakfast we would wake up and go pick some huckleberries and make pancakes.

 

[Frank]

We did that in Boy Scouts all the time, but never corn on the cob.
Always tasted good.
Kind of like a shish kabobs without the sticks

Did ya ever do "scout soup"? Everyone (usually more than about 10 people) brings a can of soup, something non-cream...i.e. cream of corn, cream of mushroom, etc...anyways you toss all of that into one pot, stir it up and have at it after about 45min?
Always great. :chef:

 

[bstory]

among our favorites

Recently tried a lentil salad based on Trader Joe's precooked and vacuum packed lentils (still need refrig). The lentils are packed in a salad dressing. Just open package, mix in a bunch of scallions cut up, chopped walnuts, and I add a bit of celery and lemon juice.

All these things are good keepers and we can eat this for days on the road so long as it is kept cool in our Engel. Makes a large bowl-full.

Another version of legume salad is to drain and rinse a couple of cans of black beans, mix with a container of salsa, maybe add some cooked corn, chopped scallions or onions, celery and whatever else is handy. Keeps for over a week in fridge. Both of these are palate cleansers to go with the heavier stuff - mostly meat it seems.

Also old standby camping foods: canned minced clams, garlic and parsley make clam sauce for spaghetti; canned corned beef hash with eggs; frozen tamales - keep for days even after they start thawing in fridge; marinated meats in vacuum bags from our favorite butcher - they also keep for days - a week at least - if you start out with frozen bags; hot dogs (I thought this was one of the four camping food groups along with some sort of gorp, canned spam or hash, and beer); lots of almonds, peanuts, hard cheeses, canned tuna. Veggies that travel well include celery, carrots, potatoes, onions. They can be added to lots of things or enjoyed on their own. I have gone several days with all of these without refrigeration.

 

[Zelix]

The yakitori looks dang good!!! What kind of cuts of meat do you use?
Simple 1 or 2 course meals are best for me. Its quicker and less of a clean up.
It's usually only me and my little brother on weekend trips in my Jeep.

Keep them coming guys. This will be a good thread for other people to read too for idea's.
Jeff

I used chuck roast and chicken thighs in that picture. I go for whats on sale. :ylsmoke:

 

[Boz]

I cant believe no one has mentioned ho-bo dinners.

Take a burger patty, sliced carrots, sliced green pepers...pretty much any veggie or potato your heart desires...Ive even tossed in a tomato...toss all of that (with your favorite seasonings) into a piece of foil. Wrap all of that up so its good and sealed and toss it on some coals or any source of heat. Ive also put a few slices of bacon and cheese into the mix. These are great if your going to be out for the day. You can make them up ahead of time, put them into the cooler, and get them out when your ready to cook them.

Mmmm, love hobo meals. I either cut up a sirloin or use precut sirloin tips for stew and add bell peppers, potatoes and onions with some garlic salt and pepper. Ive even been known to make em at the house on my fire pit, not just camping lol.

Im going to have to remember some of these though, there's some delicious sounding meals in this thread.

 

[Chris2000XJ]

A popular one among my camping friends is to squeeze spicy sausage out of the casings and brown it in a pan. Add eggs and scramble, and then finish it off with fresh poco de gallo after the eggs are done.

It's delicious.

Aside from that I'm a big fan of premixing all my dishes into quart size hefty slider bags so that all I have to do is pour em into the skillet. I do chicken and veggie stirfry quite often that way.

Edit: also, jalapeño cheddar dogs with a crescent roll out of the tube wrapped around it and cooked over the campfire with a stick makes a killer campfire snack.

 

[sixbennetts]

Buy boneless, skinless chicken breast when they're on sale cheap. Slice them longways so they're a little bigger around than a big tube of toothpaste. Slide your teriyaki bamboo skewer through it longways. Lay them in a big gallon Ziplock until it's about half full. Dump in half a bottle of cheap Italian dressing, work it around and marinated overnight. Then toss the bag in the freezer.

Once you have a few bags, camp. The oil doesn't really freeze so you can break off one at a time and thaw then cook over the fire.

You can lay it in buttered sourdough, pita, a tortilla, add some peppers, onions, anything.