What are some easy camping meal ideas?

What are some ideas for camping food?

• We are going camping this weekend for 4th of July. We will be in a camper so we'll have stove, oven, grill, microwave. Any good food ideas that's not too much of a pain to ...show more

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  Anything you can cook at home you can cook at camp. Bread, cakes, stews, soups, Indian, Chinese, French, anything ...even casseroles in an oven. The oven is a biscuit tin if you like. Quite a common and easy solution. Nice over a slow burning heap of cinders but a camping stove will do it. Bit pricey on fuel though. You can bake potatoes round a heap of cinders too wrapped in foil. And meat and fish. Does great for that. Or dig a pit for them and build the fire over it. Cover the foil-wrapped goodies with an inch or two of earth first to get an even heat. Pit oven. Good for pheasant, partridge, big briskets, leg of lamb, shoulder,etc You can serve a three course meal on silver trays if you take some silver trays. Silver service gourmet dining anyone? Gourmet meals are easy outdoors. Camp near a trout stream so you can cool the wine in it. Nice for catching dinner too. And you can cook three lots at once if you take a couple of disposable barbeques. They pack inside the biscuit tin and you don't have to barbeque things on them. Boil stuff, use a frying pan, or your biscuit tin oven. Bake bread or a cake in it, roast beef, lamb, fish, rice pudding, souffles (stand it the other way up for that...souffles rise). Fresh apple pie or banana loaf. Use half what's provided to burn if you want. Empty half of it out and use it later. Bacon and French omelettes for breakfast with camp bread, and a sweet and sour fish for lunch freshly cooked. Put the roast in the oven so it's cooking while you go for a walk. Very good for camping is a wok...do a stir fry or steam fish or vegetables in it on a trivet. Fierce heat from a camp stove is better for stir fries than an electric cooker at home...get the heat up the side. Get the wok hot all over, not just the base. Tumble stuff around and everywhere it touches the wok cooks it. Light airy fried rice...not stodgy stuff cooked on the wok base instead of flying all over a very hot wok. And done in half the time. At home I use a big petrol stove outside for stir fries....proper stuff then. The electric stove is rubbish for it. Done in seconds..extreme wok from an expert... hot . . . LINKS OK NOW See how quick this egg browns...30 seconds. Hot wok...light and fluffy then like a French omelette. Plenty of space to work in and the shape helps too. http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/food-and-drink/7249188-frying-an-egg-in-a-wok.php?id=7249188 . . . . It's just the same on the top of Ben Macdui or Mt St Helen cooked on a camp stove turned up to full power...no difference. Heather baked trout is very nice if you're near a trout stream in the mountains. Or use another leaf if there's no heather with fresh light green tips Run your fingers along the heather stems to clean the leaves off. Just the tips but you soon get a tray full. Lay the trout over the bed of freshly picked heather tips on a tray and seal it with foil so you don't lose any juices. They keep the heather soft then. When cooked remove the trout and keep them warm in the oven while you prepare the sauce. Add the water from the veg and thicken the juices and softly roasted heather tops the quick way with cornflour or properly as a roux sauce....butter and flour required for that but worth the trouble. Do the same for loin chops or a small shoulder of lamb or a brisket but large briskets are best done overnight in the pit oven. Whisky poured over the heather works wonders.(no e for Scotch Whisky ) Just take a few herbs and spices in small pots for the exotic things and for flavoring soups and casseroles. Dutch ovens are excellent at camp for pasta bakes, pot roasts, fish baked on a trivet, anything. You can get very fresh eating on boats or fishing by the sea or in a lake or stream. Catch it cook it and eat it. Fresh fish that. Example....on the rocks http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100403032754AAjs5GL . . . .OK Or you could live on sandwiches and baked beans..but what a bore... Bon Appetit