Favorite Camping Food?

My fave is a cold mediterranean tuna salad with some hearty bread or crackers. Instead of mayo, use olive oil and red wine vinegar. Mix in artichoke hearts, sun dried tomatoes, tuna, kalamata olives, red onion, cilantro (or parsley) and capers. It stays in the ice chest and can be brought out to snack on with crackers or put on a sandwich. If kids are iffy on the tuna, make up a batch of regular tuna salad for them. Great protein to keep you energetic while camping and light for beating the Summer heat!

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oooohhhhhhhhh!!!!

Pizza on the fire!!! put them on foil and go!!
Hamburgers - cheese burgers
hot dogs
S'Mores....can't camp without S'mores!!!

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My college boyfriend and I would make steak kebabs beforehand and hike them in our backpacks and then put them on this little rack that folded over a fire. Yummmm! Just cubes of steak and quartered onions and peppers and tomatoes. Then wrap potatoes (pierced with a fork) in aluminum foil to put in the coals for about 45 minutes. You can prepare it all in advance. Instant oatmeal for breakfast or Bisquick with just water and blueberries for quick pancakes in the morning. We went to school in the south, so instant grits with grated cheese with a over-easy egg on top was also one of our favorite breakfasts.

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Corn beef hash with eggs sunny side up on top, all in a skillet, brown the hash, flip it, put the eggs on top and let it cook the the whites.

REALLY good breakfast, we make occasionally even when we aren't camping.

Breakfast burritos is another good one.
And, of course, s'mores :)

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I like primitive camping (tent/sleeping bag), so I take stuff that doesn't have to be kept cold - jerky, granola/cereal bars, fruit, canned beans, bread/crackers, peanut butter

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Don't forget the graham crackers, marshmallows, and Hershey bars for s'mores : )

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Steak and baked potatoes. Start a fire, coat potatoes with oil, cover with aluminum foil, and place in the coals. Cook extra potatoes for hashbrowns in the morning.

Sandwich wraps:
Deli ham and thin sliced cheese(pack in a cooler)
package of tortillas
container Philly veggie cream cheese spread (keep in cooler)
plastic knives

Spread the philly on a tortilla, lay a slice of ham (or 2) a slice of cheese and roll it up. Yum! And no mess.

For the potluck, why not take an extra cooler full of ice with a seedless watermelon. Just rinse the outside of it and slice into quarters for the reunion. Set the quarters into those big foil serving trays with ice from the cooler all around, and stick a big knife in one quarter. Everyone can slice off their own "quarter round" slice and eat it like pizza. ;)

Fajita's... cook the chicken beforehand, cut up the onions and peppers and mix it all together in a large ziploc.Then all you have to do is heat it up and serve in wraps with cheese.

Pizza, use flour tortilla's and put your toppings on, then put on foil over the fire. They cook fast and are good!

Breakfast... buy egg beaters, easier to pack than eggs, and cook them and put on english muffins iwth cheese and ham for breakfast sandwiches.

French toast is also super easy to make while camping, again with egg beaters.

we also pack things like a box of cereal, milk, eggs, hamburger, hot dogs, chips, crackers, bread, lunch meat, and summer sausage for snacking or quick meals.