Camping recipes are not always very hard to make but there are cases when just grilled meat is no longer to your satisfaction and the hunger calls for something…different.

Foil wrapped cooking is not exactly new but we have to admit it is something very handy, requires very little cooking gear, doesn’t take a very long time to clean after it and it has the advantage of being prepared with nothing but the camp fire you use to grill and make smores.

Using foil cooking you can prepare meat, vegetables and desserts with very little fuss and nothing but a foil cooking tray.

The meat is easy to make by simply marinating it and placing it inside the tray along with the veggies you plan to use for garnish. Cover with foil and let it cook smoothly at the camp fire. You will have a complete meal in a short time.

If you are a vegan, cooking just veggies with a drop of seasoning and a bit of Caesar dressing can be done exactly the same.

You can cook mushrooms filled with cheese using the same method or grill fleshy fruit like peaches with nothing but a drop of cinnamon and honey.

There are a number of recipes for making fish, but there are basic spices a person should usually have on a camping trip.

First is pepper, black pepper is a good spice and is great with fish; however, if no one minds a little tartness in their fish lemon pepper is also very good. Lemon and most sea foods go together just like shrimp and lemon.

Salt is also another handy thing to take on a camping trip as it can easily take the blandness right out of a food. Other seasonings that are good are cayenne pepper to give the fish a little heat and enliven the taste of it.

If opting not to use lemon pepper, either a sprinkling of lemon or lime juice will give the tartness to the fish.

Butter is also handy to have around because not only is it delicious with almost everything, but a little smear of it on the fish will give it a great grill taste and smell.

The best thing to do is take along the spices most commonly used at home, the ones everyone loves and mix and match to suit the tastes of those who are going to enjoy this delicious meal.

This simple to cook and delicious dessert requires only two ingredients: a pineapple and some jerked honey rum glaze. Quarter the pineapple with the skin intact.

Remove the core of the pineapple and grill them on low-medium coals. Brush them with the rum glaze as they cook. Cook till slightly charred on both the sides. This should take about 5-10 minutes on each side. Serve the pineapple pieces hot with the remaining glaze drizzled over it. On your next camping trip try this exotic Char Grilled Pineapple with Jerked Honey Rum Glaze.

You can try this simple recipe at home too on your barbeque. Add a delicious cold twist by serving it with delightful vanilla ice-cream. Drizzle the glaze over the ice-cream. You will be heaped with plenty of praise for a lovely dish that you took very little pain over.

Well, the best things in the world are simple; this yummy pineapple dessert proves it beyond doubt.

Choose some tasty and good deli meats as well as some fresh-sliced cheeses of your choice.

You will quickly find that deli meats and freshly sliced cheeses from your local grocery deli section make for an extraordinary meal while still maintaining the ‘roughing it’ feel of the camp ground and nature.

Make sure to buy only premium quality meat. Buying premium quality meat is important both to your satisfaction and also because premium quality meats will stay fresher longer and will be more resilient to the refrigerator to the freezer to the cooler to the camp site routine it goes through.

Buying premium quality deli meats and cheeses will also ensure you have the least fillers and preservatives you can get in a deli meat or cheese.

With deli meats and cheeses you can experiment with the standard deli sandwich, an open faced sandwich, and you can even heat up the meat and cheeses for a melt.

Not only does it give family a chance to enjoy the great outdoors, it allows them to spend time together.

Camping is not for everyone and people will have their own ideas about how much “stuff” to bring with them.

Some will want to bring everything but the proverbial kitchen sink, while others will only take the absolute bare minimum.

One aspect of camping that can either be a lot of fun or can be a huge headache is cooking. Approach it with the right attitude and everyone involved should have a great time.

There are some essentials that will make campsite cooking easier. Aluminum foil is invaluable when camping. A skillet can also be helpful. Of course, it will also depend on if someone is backpacking or not. Here are some camping recipes that are quick, easy, and very tasty.

Breakfast Burritos

Considered the most important meal of the day, breakfast will give the body the necessary energy to get through the morning. If there is access to a frying pan, breakfast burritos are easy to make and can serve several people quickly.

Ingredients

8 eggs, beaten

1-8 oz bag of shredded cheddar cheese

½ medium onion, minced

½ pound of bulk sausage

8 flour tortillas

Preparation

Cook the sausage until no longer pink, stirring frequently to avoid sticking. While the sausage is cooking, wrap the tortillas in aluminum foil and place on rack above fire.  Watch carefully; it doesn’t take long to warm the tortillas.

Carefully drain all but a small amount of grease from the pan. Add eggs and onion. Cook until the eggs are no long runny. Remove from heat.

Build the tortilla by placing a spoonful of the egg and sausage mixture in the middle of a tortilla. Top with cheese.

Roll up the tortilla and enjoy.  (Hint:  Keep extra packets of taco sauce from Mexican fast food restaurants. They don’t take up much room and can add a lot of flavor to the burritos.)

Baked Fish and Vegetables

This is a great recipe to use for cooking the day’s catch.  Simply clean the fish as you wish, and then grab your aluminum foil.

Ingredients

2 fish fillets

3 potatoes, peeled and cut into one-inch chunks

½ of a thinly sliced onion

½ of an onion cut into chunks and separated

1 green pepper, cleaned and cut into chunks

2 tbs of butter

Lemon juice

Salt and pepper to taste

Directions

Pull off three pieces of foil.  If it’s not heavy duty aluminum foil, then fold it in half before use. Place one fish fillet in two pieces of foil. Add one tablespoon of butter on top.

Add a very small quantity (1/2 tsp) of lemon juice on top of the fish and a couple of the slices of onion. Wrap in foil and place on grill.  While the fish are cooking, place the potatoes, pepper, chunked onion and some salt and pepper in the other foil packet.

Wrap and place on the grill above the campfire [Campfire Cooking]. Check the fish often. It’s done when it is white and flaky.  The vegetables will cook quickly and can burn to the foil, so be sure to keep an eye on them as well.

When both are done, remove from heat and place on plate. Clean up is a breeze.  (Hint:  prepare the vegetables at home and place in zip lock bags to save time.)

A Final Thought

Many people have campfire recipes that have been passed down for generations.  Keep the cooking simple and remember that everything seems to taste best outside!

With a few simple ingredients and equipment, there are a variety of dishes you can prepare from breakfast to lunch and sweet snacks too.

Your family will appreciate the tasty fare you cook up seemingly miraculously while you are roughing it.

Breakfast: The Most Important Meal of Your Day

In the morning you need energy when you are on a camping trip and the quickest way to get it is to eat a good breakfast. Here is a palate pleasing recipe that doesn’t include eggs, bacon, oatmeal or burnt toast.

If your gang loves Mexican food you can fry up a yummy “Build Your Own Breakfast Burrito.”

All you need to prepare this culinary delight is a campfire or stove with a frying pan, a spatula and some tin foil.

Ingredients

• 4-6 eggs
• 1 jar or can of potatoes
• Butter
• Grated cheese
• Salsa
• Tortillas

If you have only one frying pan, slice or dice the potatoes and fry them first in butter. Next scramble the eggs and season to taste. Warm the tortillas over your campfire or stove wrapped in tin foil.

with buffet style put out the eggs, grated cheese, salsa and tortillas. Call your hungry gang in for a satisfying breakfast they build themselves.

Lunch or Dinner

A simple yet delicious lunch or dinner that will have your kids begging you to make it over and over is “Coffee Can Stew.”

The equipment you will need to prepare this fun dish is only empty coffee cans and aluminum foil.

Ingredients

• ½ lb bacon, cut into pieces
• Stew meat and/or sausage chopped
• A variety of diced vegetables, a frozen blend will do fine
• Canned potatoes if desired
• Seasonings to taste
• Water

Place bacon at the coffee can’s bottom so that the rest of the ingredients won’t stick. Layer the spices, meat and vegetables until the coffee can is almost ¾ full. Add about 1 to 1 ½ cups of water. Cover each coffee can with tin foil tightly.

Place the cans in the hot coals of the campfire. Leave to simmer for about one hour. Don’t peek! Use care when taking the cans out of the coals as they will be extremely hot. Carefully peel the tin foil off the cans, stir with a spoon, dig in and enjoy!

From savory soups to one pot meals, a Dutch oven can help you concoct camp fare that will tickle your taste buds!

Dutch Oven Chowder

It’s almost given that fishing will be one of the activities that you will indulge in on your camping trip.

Sautéed fillets are tasty, but a basic Dutch oven Fish Chowder is even better. The only equipment you will need is your Dutch oven.

Ingredients

• 2 ounces bacon, diced and cooked
• 2 sliced onions
• 1 can of evaporated milk (13 ounces)
• 1 can of jarred or canned potatoes or fresh if you prefer, diced
• 6 fish fillets cut into 1” chunks
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 TBSP butter
• water

Use bacon grease to sauté the onions and potatoes until they are browned. Adding one quart of water to the potatoes and onions, bring to boil and simmer for at least ten minutes.

Add the fish fillet and continue simmering for 5 to 7 minutes or until cooked through. Finally add the evaporated milk and salt and pepper to taste. Stir well. Just before serving the Chowder, add the butter. Serve with oyster crackers for a savory meal.

Tasty Dutch Oven Treats

This is sure to hit the spot when cravings for sweets come calling. Apple Torte will make the perfect ending to any meal and in order to prepare, it needs only a paring knife, frying pan and of course, your Dutch oven.

Ingredients

• apples
• sugar
• cinnamon
• 2 9” premade pie crusts

Peel and slice the apples using a paring knife to core. Heat butter in a hot frying pan and add apples and sugar until the apples begin to caramelize.

Watch they don’t burn adding butter on a need to basis along with the cinnamon. When the apples are caramelized, line your Dutch oven with tin toil and spoon in the apple mixture.

Overlap the two pie crusts with on top of the apples covering as much of the mixture as is possible. Place Dutch oven over twelve live charcoal briquettes and top with eighteen live coals for 30 to 45 minutes. The pie crust should be a golden brown when ready.

Keep in mind the apples will be extremely soft when they are caramelized. Use the cinnamon and sugar to your particular taste.

This recipe is sure to be a big hit!

Even though you are on camping, you still need healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Here are few easy camping meal ideas that can give you some tasty options for your meals.

Breakfast in foil

Ingredients: Aluminum foil, 6 large eggs, 1 onion, 4 potatoes, 1 slice American cheese

Take a heavy duty aluminum foil. Double it, apply butter well and form a pan shape with it. Take 6 large eggs and beat them well.

Chop onion into small pieces and make thin slices of potatoes. Now, put beaten egg, chopped onion, thin slices of potato and slice of American cheese in the foil and place it on grill over low fire and turn the foil often. If you need, you can also add seasoning to it.

Foil fries

Ingredients: Cheese or any edible oil, cut potatoes, aluminum foil

First of all spray the foil and cut potatoes liberally with cheese or edible oil. Place the potatoes in center of large piece of foil.

You can also add seasoning like Old Bay on top, if you need. Now, close the foil tightly and roast over campfire or stove for 45 minutes.

This makes easy camping meal. Even your children can make these recipes easily without your help. Similarly, there are many easy camping recipes that you can prepare at your camp site.

The birds are singing, the sun is fresh and new and the aroma of wood smoke and fresh brewed coffee permeates the air.

For many people, this is a slice of heaven on earth.

Some coffee makers are better than others when you go camping and a lot of the taste lies in the technique you use to make it.

Manual Drip Coffee Makers

Depending upon how much coffee you expect to drink and how many people are going along that will require a nice hot cup of Joe to start their day, coffeemakers for camping come in a variety of sizes.

The most common type of coffeemaker to bring along on a camping trip is a manual drip coffee pot. All you have to do is to pour water that is boiling over coffee grounds in a filter.

Coffee Cooking

Others prefer a more conventional method of preparation and use a coffee pot that sits on a portable stove for cooking or goes directly into the hot ashes of your fire in order for the water to boil.

With today’s technology, campers can find coffee pots that are automatic drip for that added convenience. These types of coffeemakers are rather large and cumbersome and are not recommended for the camper that will be hiking for miles.

The Best Coffee

When shopping for a camp coffeemaker, go to your local sporting goods store where you will find a wide variety of coffeemakers that are made specifically for hunting or camping.

The best tasting coffee comes from the manual drip type. The coffeemakers for camping are designed to withstand high heat temperatures and are usually made from fire resistant material such as stainless steel.

The manual drip camp coffeemaker looks like two coffeemakers in one. You put the water in the bottom part and the coffee sits in a filter on the top. When you see the steam coming out you merely flip the coffeemaker over so that the water strains through the coffee grounds. Then you have fresh brewed coffee for everyone.

Just because you go camping doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice your creature comforts. Coffee is an important component and having a delicious, rich cup of coffee in the morning can make all the difference to the rest of your day.

You should also plan to prepare food in an easy way.

You may not have the comforts of well reserved kitchen, so task of cooking in the camping tent may be more challenging.

You can also get many of the finest camping food essentials that come in tins and packets.

This food can be directly heated without any strain. Mostly camping food for most of us is granola, oatmeal etc.

Frozen dried camping food will be great for hiking, backpacking or for camping meals. Dried foods will be very convenient to eat and there is no need to freeze the food to avoid spoiling. Camping meal can be inexpensive, so better plan for camping meal.

Planning for camping meal:

Meals for camping should be planned to make it more enjoyable. You better prepare your meals as simple as possible. Preparing meals at campground is something very difficult, but better ask your family members to help you out and this will be very funny.

Your kids will love if you let them to modify the camp recipes. Camping dessert recipes are entertaining and trouble-free for kids to make, and the whole family can enjoy eating them.

You and your kids can enjoy the meals around campfire and your kids will really love it. You have to take all the required items for cooking at camping place and these items includes camping table and camping stove.

But, if you are interested to go for hiking or climbing the mountains, then dehydrated or frozen dried food is great for camping.

Freeze-dried food for camping:

If you are going to climb the mountains or interested in canoeing or any kind of adventure camping, then you can prefer freeze dried food. It is very light food. In extreme conditions, this food can be edible by adding water obtained from snow.

The freeze or dehydrated food can help you to reduce weight and with a modest creativeness, you can make your meals tastier and healthier. Better carry high energized camping food to increase your voyage and outdoor adventures.

You can also refer web for more easy, light-weight and more delicious camping foods. But always remember to prepare or buy safe food to have a camping without any disasters.

Keeping the food safe at camping:

If you are preparing food at camping, then better prefer neatness in preparing safe food. Plan before how to cook food and take all the equipments needed to keep your camping food safe.

While cooking proper food, safe cooking practices are must. Prefer taking the food items that can be stored at the temperature of the camping place. Better prefer fresh fruits and vegetables, bread, muffins, ketchup, Swiss, cheddar and Romano.

You can also take dried fruits, canned meat and fish, canned soups, dried soup mixes, dry rice, pastas, cereals and dehydrated foods.

If you are going for four to five days of camping, then better prefer to take drinking water along with you. Prefer safe and clean food for healthy and happy camping.