What foods while camping out of truck / tent

I hear ya'!

 

the woman likes making pizza and pad thai. super filling and delicious!

 

I dont do a lot of high end cooking while camping, because of my UL backpacking days. But im about to change that. That being said. Mountain House meals are pretty freaking good. Everyone should have a bucket of them in their kit. They keep forever and you dont have to have plates, just add hot, water wait 10 and eatem outta the bag. Ive tried pretty much all of the freeze dried on the market, Mountain House are best to me.

 

So here's one for you guys. Me and my girlfriend do a lot of backpacking as well as camping. This means we need to pack high calorie foods that are also light and with no need for refrigeration. To add to the complexity she's also celiac. We spend our winters dehydrating as much as we can. Broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, potatoes slices, shredded yams, pasta sauce, hummus, carrots, peppers, you name it we have probably tried to find a way to do it. The bags below feed 4 people each and weigh under 2lbs a bag.
It takes a lot of work for us to do this but it is ridiculously cheep in the end (we buy products when there on sale.) If I remember correctly those bags cost under 3$ each in the end. We also pack corn tortillas for the yam burritos, rip em up and eat a spoonful witha bite or tortilla.

 

Fajitas in a bag. Prep the meat and veggies at home, then throw them in a pan over the fire. Tortillas keep the mess to a minimum, and just wipe the pan with a paper towel (and toss in the fire when done).

 

I dig it. we don't dehydrate, but we do package things together like that. we're usually camping in the winter so spoilage is unlikely for anything. yall are making some good stuff!

 

LOVE the suggestions in here!

Couple things I like to do. First, I like to marinade chicken or beef and then freeze it in a zip loc bag. It acts as ice for everything else in the cooler. I also like to freeze an unopened gallon of water. A solid gallon of water takes a LONG time to melt. Even over the course of a week in a cooler. Best part? When it does melt, you now have a gallon of clean drinking water. I also like to throw a little dry ice in the cooler. Reason being is it will end up having ice freeze all around it and it will help stabilize the cooler for a lot longer. This should only be done if you plan on freezing just about everything and it will take a LONG time to reach your destination or it's VERY hot outside.

I've been looking at those Anova Sous Vide cookers with intent for quite some time now. I have the towing package which means I have that outlet in the bed. I'm thinking it would be possible to upgrade the inverter to a 1000watt unit and then use the outlet in the bed for an electric skillet or a sous vide device. Truth be told, if I could power an electric skillet in the bed of the truck; I wouldn't need anything else. It would be a done deal. Hell, a freaking crock pot would make fucking legendary meals when out on the trail. *runs off to calculate the amperage of a crock pot*

 

We always bring up some potatoes and whatever meat we have. Along with dogs or steaks. THis time we did potatoes, brats and onions. Beans on the side.

 

depends what resources we have (a grill at the campsite, for example), but usually:
-beer
-burgers
-hot dogs
-chicken
-oodles of BBQ sauce
-beer
-eggs (for mornings, is we have a propane stove)
-various veggies, precut to cook easily
-beer
-bacon
-beer

On top of that, I remember to keep a healthy supply of beer.

 

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I don't like spending time in the morning with heat so breakfast is always dry for me. Lunches are often on a trail or a quick roadside stop so those are always sandwiches. I try to get tasty deli meat fresh sliced and a good cheese to keep things a bit more gourmet. Bags of pre-sliced apples in stores are extra easy of course but do take a bit of cooler space. Naturally you can slice your own fruit at home too.

For dinners everything is by pan for me but I don't want grease. So hot dogs are an obvious choice that is fast, easy and cleans up with a damp paper towel on a non-stick pan. Of course hot dogs work great over a campfire if you have one. Quesadillas are another great choice easy pan cook choice. Use a tiny bit of butter or olive oil in the pan to make them a bit crispy and then just add preshredded cheese, seasoning (I like oregano) and a meat of your choice if you choose. Grilled ham and cheese sandwiches are another tasty treat for dinner with no-fuss no-muss prep and clean up. If you bring a "sandwich iron" you can even do your grilled ham and cheese over the camp fire.

Pre-prep stuff can sure work great too but these days I have to fly to my truck and then provision at the grocery store in a few hours before heading into the wilderness so no prep opportunities for me!

 

Whiskey
nothing else is needed

 

Crock pot would be awesome, but instead we use the Dutch oven, very simular. Just need a bag of charcoal briquettes.

 

I always grill

 

Camped a lot in the scouts when I was a kid. We did a lot of hobo pies (pizza or fruit pie filling), foil dinners, walking tacos, Pillsbury biscuits on a stick with cinnamon and sugar, smores, Mexican pizzas (same idea as hobo pies but use a couple black office butterfly clips to hold 2x 9" aluminum pie pans together with tortillas, sauce, pepperoni, & cheese). We also froze a lot of drinks (like Capri suns) and used them as ice packs, then drank them when they thawed.

Now a days, we don't go anywhere without the dutch oven with beer chili and biscuits on top. You can also stack them on top of each other and wrap them in aluminum foil to let them cook stew and such all day and not use as much charcoal. You can make just about anything in them that you could do in a regular oven. We really like pineapple upside down with 7up angel food cake and crushed pineapple inside. We would also skip a regular lunch and have chips and salsa or such to cut down on the time spent cooking and cleaning.

Pinterest can be a lot of help these days when it comes to packing smart.

 

My typical camping meals consist of a mix of...


Breakfast -

- Precooked frozen sausage. Heat on a pan on a stove or foil packets over coals.

- Scrambled eggs. Mixed up at home and put in a jar. cook on stove in pan

- Frozen hash browns. Cook on stove or foil packs.

- Canned biscuits. Make at home, throw in zip lock, heat up in foil.

- Canned corn beef hash - Easy and fast. Tastes like dog food though.

- Coffee bags (like tea bags, but coffee) - takes about 3 minutes on the Jet Boil. Each bag makes 2 cups.


Lunch -

- Sandwiches. Good lunch meat, cheese, bread, mustard. Bonus points for saving the lunch meat containers, put your sammich in it then toss it in your fishing pack. Keeps it from getting crushed.


Dinner -

- Pre-made chili. Make it at home. Store it in 1 qt jars. Freeze accordingly. Doubles as ice packs. Just remember to defrost it the day you plan on cooking it.

- Pre-made stew. See above.

- Foil pack trout. Catch trout. Clean. Stuff with onions and butter. Wrap in foil and cook on hot coals.

- Baked potatoes. Wrap in foil, throw in fire.

- Baked beans. Heat can in fire or on stove

- Veggy foil packs. Assorted veggies and butter in foil pack. Cook on hot coals.

- Biscuits. See above.


Snacks -

- Pringles. Super easy to store, wont crush.

- Beef jerky. Who doesnt like jerky?

- Granola bars. Lots of peanut butter chocolate granola bars.

- Tuna fish packets. Easy to pack

- PBR. Can be drank ice cold or piss warm

- Scotch. Cant have a good cigar without good Scotch.

Just because Im camping, doesnt mean Im not gonna eat well.

I have a tote dedicated to my "camp kitchen" with everything I need to cook everything mentioned above.

 

Don't Forget The Beer!!!

 

I ran a crockpot off mine the other day as a test. The crock was already hot, I just plugged it in and set on high during my 10 minute drive to a buddies for dinner.

 

Breakfast is the best. Eggs. Bacon. Taters and English muffins. I do it all on propane.

 

Ideally, I'd like to run something like this off the outlet in the bed at some point. I'd need about 1000watts so it means a larger inverter is needed. The idea here is it's a non-stick pan with a heating element inside it. Cooks up chicken, steaks, chili, salmon, you name it. We bought one when we lived in an apartment and didn't have a grill. We cooked EVERYTHING in there. When you're done, you can just wipe it out since it's non-stick. I think this would be killer for a bunch of reasons.

1. It means I don't have to carry fire wood or charcoal.
2. It means even if there's a burn ban during the summer, you can still eat like a king.
3. Easy cleanup and you don't have to make a fire and immediately put it out for breakfast in the morning.
4. Won't make your clothes smell like campfire for the rest of the trip.
5. Heats up in 3 minutes.

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