Foods that are Fun for Camping
Cooking can be the biggest part of the fun you have while out camping. Your appetite will absolutely open up once you are in the great outdoors. Whether you have hiked all day or are enjoying the campfire by evening, you will embrace a roaring appetite as big as your campfire.
Camping foods need to be simple, however. They should also be easy to pack and store fairly well under camping conditions. Make sure to buy camping food that is fun for everyone to partake in cooking. It becomes a chore if only one person does the cooking while others sit around waiting to chow down.
If you are really creative and careful, you can even figure out how to cook that fish you just caught right on the grill.
The number one staple of camping food is probably chili. It is so easy to make, inexpensive and just about everybody loves a hearty chili. Chili is also great to warm you up and fill you up. Eat a hearty bowl of chili by the campfire by night and you will be ready to hike, hunt, and fish all day the next day. Chili gives you fuel for thought and fuel for activity, as well.
The good old hot dog. The hot dog is classic to camping because it is easily kept in a cooler without the worry of too much refrigeration necessary. In addition, everyone from kids to seniors adores a good old-fashioned hot dog cooked either on the grill or on a skewer over the campfire.
Do not forget breakfast foods on your camping stove. Scrambled eggs, pancakes, and sausages are all easily cooked and hearty ways to start your day. Boiling water on your camping stove for oatmeal and adding things like nuts, raisins, and cranberries is a great energy booster that will fill you up all day.
Your latest catch can be a delicious meal. Trout is typically a favorite of campers and once caught is easily grilled over an open fire, your barbeque, or on your camping stove. Of course, you can make hamburgers, sausages, and steaks just like you would at home if you have brought your barbeque, but typically meats need to be eaten right away for optimal safety. The same goes with chicken. Chicken breasts that have been marinated and sliced thin are better alternatives than too much meat.
Last but not least, the beloved s’more. Get those graham crackers, chocolate bars, and marshmallows ready for the absolute favorite treat known to camping. There probably isn’t a single person who does not adore a good s’more or two, or maybe even three.
All great ideas, especially the smores!
Those are classics, and classics are that way for a reason….they are good! We also added a few things for our convenience for the many times we don’t want to take the time to cook/clean or just want to get started on our day quickly…..granola bars and protein drinks.
We’re going camping at Disney next year and this is such an informative post. I’ve never gone camping so I can use this.
I love the camping foods. Great to bring lots of stable snacks like Jerky.
Great ideas for camping food. I haven’t been camping in YEARS!
Hot dogs and marshmallows are great camping food
this is awesome. thank you
I love going camping, and the best part is that you get to make sundae smores in foil wrap my one cousin did that it was so delish!
I love camping and grilling out. Now tell me how to avoid the mosquitoes without smoking myself with chemicals. I hate using bug spray as well.
Don’t forget foil packets filled with meat and veggies are great with very little clean up.
Grew up camping. Lots of great options available.
Hot dogs are pretty gross.
I love camping, it is something that I have done ever since I was a baby! These are great food suggestions, thanks for sharing! My husband loves making breakfast on the campfire. 🙂
There is nothing better than bacon and eggs cooked over a campfire!
We love foil packets on the grill too, they are easy and tasty.
We love to go camping and these are the perfect foods for doing so.
Food always tastes better when camping. These are the choices that I would make for a summer camp out.
Nothing like a hotdog cooked over a bonfire.
One of favourite things about camping is the foods that we eat while camping.
now that what i call camping!love it
now that what i call camping!love it
We love foil packet cooking when we go camping.
My husband really wants to go camping, so I guess I am going to have to get the snacks ready.
HOT DOGS ARE GREAT FOR CAMPING ARE EATING AT HOME.
I guess this is a great list of food to take camping, my nieces would know they go a lot. As for me I think of Motel 6 for me when I hear the word lets go camping 🙂
Scrambled eggs, pancakes, and sausages would be fun to make on a camping trip. Of course s’mores would make me happy also!
Burgers and hotdogs
Bringing marinated chicken is such a fab idea and love the s’mores!
Love this one, I was raised up camping in my family, so much fun, great food, There are so many different foods you can cook on a grill, beef, pork, etc and also with all our new tech, you can cook bisquits on a grill, never heard of it. Just get your grill to the right temp, for example 400, put you bisquits in pan and put them to the side of your grill , not on coals, close the lid and watch them bake . yummy
S’mores are basically a necessity for camping. This makes me want to go soon we haven’t done that in years!
I love camping and that picture you have posted looks so relaxing. I love to bring a lot of fruit with me camping because you can make many things with them with the smores and chocolate and a campfire sundae.
Hot dogs are a must for camping foods in our family. Incidentally, we stayed in a glamping place that looked just like this!
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Great ideas! Hot dogs are so quick and easy and so delicious.
I liked camp food so much when I was a kid that I still eat it all the time even when I’m not camping….
The most important foods are the ingredients for smores. Also, the good ol’ pb&j will always be a staple at my campsite.
I love all of these great ideas for can!ping food.
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These sound like great foods for camping!
Great food for camping. Love s’mores!
Any kind of Jerky or Slim Jims also work well camping
My family and I love going camping. The picture you posted is why we love going…just so relaxing! I do agree a big part is the yummy foods too!
I have not been camping in years and I guess it is time to plan a camping trip. I miss it!
Good ideas!
Great idea. Thank you for the information.
I’ve never been camping, maybe one day
Can’t get the s’mores, lol. I like beans by the campfire. Thanks for sharing!