Easy Camping Recipes

Easy Recipes for Camping

We've easy camping recipes online for you to make your camping vacation a breeze. And we've kept the recipes simple so you can enjoy the camping experience, and not be fixated on the task of cooking and preparing food.

The real secret is keeping the recipes simple. KISS, they say, and it works here too. You just keep the breakfast and the mid-day meal light and simple.

Lunch can be a sandwich or a salad, with everyone serving themselves. Even the kids will enjoy this. Chunks of salami, olives and cheese are real easy; or cheese and tomato. Just keep it simple and enjoying yourself. That's what you should go camping for. Not to play nursemaid to the others!

Save the real cooking (if you want to be bothered at all) for the evening meal. That's the main meal of the day, and it's served early. And everyone can have a hot mug of chocolate or cocoa and maybe a piece of fruit just before turning into bed.

One clever way of cooking without tears is to use a electric slow cooker, like a Crock Pot. In the old days this would be a done in a pit fire, like the Hawaiians and Polynesians use today. The fish, meat and vegetables are wrapped in banana leaves and buried in a pit among hot stones from a fire made hours before. The feast takes about four hours to cook and cannot get burned.

You can accomplish the same thing by throwing meat chunks and peeled chopped vegetables into the electric slow cooker. (On my own cooker, the low setting takes 8 hours, the high setting takes 8 hours.) Leave it on all day while you're out enjoying yourself. Then when you return to camp, there's a fantastic hot stew waiting for you.

Some people will throw on a pot of rice or pasta immediately they get back to camp. The pasta takes about 15 minutes of boiling, the rice can be done in about half an hour if you're steaming it (like in a rice cooker) or (close to one full hour if it's brown rice). This really 'bumps up' the volume of the food so you can feed a lot more people.

If you're camping somewhere without electricity, that's where you can use a cast iron Dutch Oven. Build a fire pit, line it with stones (which hold the heat), burn a fire in the pit for several hours until there are just hot ashes. Scoop a space for the Dutch Oven and bury the pot in the hole and cover with the hot ashes. Leave it to cook real slow for about half the day!

New stuff is kinda scary at first, so you should practice. Once you've cooked this way a few times you'll be a confident camp cook, and the last thing you need worry about is free online recipes. You'll have some great ones in your head, forever.