Camping Out Ideas

ideas for camping food?

we're going camping memorial weekend and i would like some suggestions for camping food. something besides normal boring stuff like hot dogs and hamburgers...those are too easy and lame

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1. Just about anything can be cooked over a fire. Perhaps a stew of some sort in a cast iron pot, or grill steaks or pork chops and potatoes like you would at home. Anything you can cook on your grill at home, you can cook over a campfire so poll the attendees and see what folks would desire. The easier you make it, the more time the cook can enjoy their weekend and less time preparing and cleaning up at mealtime. Enjoy! ☺
2. corn on the cob, baked beans, spaghetti which can be boiled in a pot of water set on the grill, steaks, baked potatoes,pork chops,bacon and eggs. The list is endless. Be creative. Anything you can make on a stove indoors you can make with the right utensils on the grill or open fire. It will just take longer.
3. oh come on, you guys will be so drunk you won't care or even know what you are eating!
4. When I go camping I like to mix it up a little. For breakfast I will often make camp fire donuts with powder sugar or a nice pizza. Depending on where I am camping also means a great deal. If I am driving to my camp site I can carry more than if I am packing it in on my back. If I drive I bring my dutch oven(cast iron and heavy). Then its on. We are talking buiscits, chili, apple pie, pizza, cake... anything you can imagine. Now I don't carry a gas grill. I use an open wood fire for all my cooking while camping. Use your imagination. I have done things like stuffed chicken breast, quail, rabbit and even different fish if I camp by a lake and have any luck. For sides I would look to canned or fresh. Nothing frozen unless you have a cooler and are only camping for a short period of time. This web site has some great recipes... give them a once over, and no matter what just remember to have fun with your cooking. http://www.koa.com/recipes/campfirecooking.htm
5. Put some hamburger, potatoes, carrots, and spices in aluminum foil then throw in in the coals of the fire. Let it cook for about 30 minutes. Good to go.
6. Get some sour cream and onion chips with some dip, man, some beef jerky, some peanut butter. Get some Häagen-Dazs ice cream bars, a whole lot, make sure chocolate, gotta have chocolate, man. Some popcorn, red popcorn, graham crackers, graham crackers with marshmallows, the little marshmallows and little chocolate bars and we can make s'mores, man. Also, celery, grape jelly, Cap'n Crunch with the little Crunch berries, pizzas. We need two big pizzas, man, everything on 'em, with water, whole lotta water, and Funyons.
7. Put some coffee in your used sock heat up some water poor it into boot add sock let stand over night. YeeHaa cowboy coffee. Black snake soup with wild onions and garlic. MMM - GOOD Enjoy your camp out I will be caving / camping that weekend to Happy Caving Carroll You can always rename your meals - Eggs , Owl Eyes - Bacon , Buzzard strips ETC.
8. best to bring foods that don't need refrigeration, unless you have an RV or lots of ice. Potato chips, pop, bread/sandwiches, also don't forget things for "camp" snacks like graham crackers, chocolate bars and marshmallows for "S'mores", and bananas, tiny marshmallows and chocolate chips for "banana boats". Bring hot dogs to roast over the fire, and roasting forks. Bring a few gallons of bottled water. Don't forget to bring all utensils and plates you may need and frying pans. Bring eggs so you can have scrambled eggs over the fire for breakfast. Fruits also make a good snack, and don't require refrigeration. Bring canned beans or chili to cook over the fire for dinner. Never cook the food IN the can - the tin/aluminum will leech into the food and poison you.
9. How far do you have to carry it? Will you have a cooler? Shish kebabs are easy to make up ahead of time either on the little skewers if you have a grill, or cut into big chunks and assembled on peeled thin sticks at your camp. The ingredients can also easily be wrapped up in foil and cooked over/in the coals of a campfire. Corn on the cob roasted either wrapped in the leaves, open, or wrapped in foil. Bisquick mix for making bread twists you can grill on a stick or bake up in a mess kit. Apples roasted on a stick or baked in foil are good. Baked potatoes are good. Steaks (either big juicy ones or think minute steaks) are pretty easy. How about sausages like bratwurst or kielbasa? My favorite as a kid was a couple of cans of vegetable soup and some crumbled hamburg cooked up in a big pot, served with some bread (French or Italian is good) and some butter. Anything you can skewer with stick or wrap in foil should work. Don't forget things like butter, salt, pepper, other spices/sauces, paper towels, utensils, etc. Check out some Boy Scout or Girl Scout websites for specific recipes.
10. Steak, beef stew, chicken? Pancakes for breakfast?
11. On my last camping trip we brought some ham steaks and they were delicious!! They are already cooked so all you have to do is heat them up in a pan on the fire. We ate them with some corn on the cob and baked beans. Simply AWESOME!! If you have a cooler and ice you can also put together before you leave the makings for chicken fijitas, throw them in a cast iron skillet over the fire, put the tortillas in some aluminum foil to with just a small bit of water to get them warm. Yum-O!!!