Camping Recipes

Okay so this week on the blog I will be talking about what to eat while camping. Eating while camping is tricky. You first have to figure out how long you will be camping and how many meals to bring. This post will focus on an overnight trip which requires 2-3 meals (lunch and dinner for the first day and breakfast for the next morning.) Next you have to figure out what kinds of foods you can cook with the resources you have at your campsite. Usually this means what can you cook over a coal fire with a grill top, but sometimes camping spots will have a barbecue grill as well. If you would like to broaden the types of meals you can cook I would recommend investing in a camping stove, like this one that we have. I would also recommend buying some cast iron pots or pans, that can easily cook over open fires. You also have to consider if you have room in your ice chest for foods that need to be kept cold.

If you need some ideas about what to cook while camping then fear not, because I have some pretty good recipes. We usually will buy subway sandwiches on our drive to the campsite, and eat them for lunch after we set up. Then we pack food to cook for dinner and breakfast. If you need help creating a packing list of food, or are looking to make our recipes here is our list.

Shopping List

• Bag of chips
• Gatorade
• Water
• Fajita meat
• Velveeta cheese
• Rotel
• Tortillas
• Biscuits
• Powdered Sugar
• Dessert (usually we bring brownies)
• Vegetable Oil
• Thongs
• Stirring Spoon
• Disposable Cups/Plates/Utensils
• Aluminum Baking Pans (3)
• Knife

Camping Beef Fajitas 

Firstly I want to say that if you prefer chicken over beef, you could certainly do chicken fajitas instead. When we cook this meal, or anytime we eat Mexican food really, I like to have queso. So the first thing we do is cut up some Velveeta cheese and dump that and a can of rotel into one of the baking pans. We put this on the fire, and stir occasionally. Then we start cooking the meat. We buy pre-seasoned fajita meat from HEB, so all we have to do is put it directly on the fire when were ready to cook it. Once the meat and the queso cook thoroughly (remember cooking while camping takes more patience) we heat up tortillas over the fire in another baking pan. Usually we will bring out a bag of Tostitos and start dipping them in the queso before the meat is ready. Then, once it is all cooked thoroughly we serve the fajitas. You can bring any kind of veggies and cook them over the fire as well, we just didn’t want any. You can also bring pico de gallo or any other topping you might like, again we just chose not to. When it is all cooked, it looks like this.

Camping Donuts

For breakfast the next morning we love to make donuts over our camping stove. They are delicious and so easy. First you pour about 2 inches of vegetable oil in your cast iron skillet, and heat it up. Next get out biscuit dough and cut holes in the middle of each individual biscuit with the cap of the vegetable oil. Next place the dough into the oil and wait for it to fry! Then once they are nice and cooked, dip them in powdered sugar and enjoy!