Need some camping meal ideas

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Things that don't need to be refridgerated:
 
Kraft Mac&cheese : use powdered milk and margarine
 
Tuna helper is always good. 
 
Spaghetti is also a good meal!
 
HAve fun!
 
 

Here's one that was a fav with my crew.....flatten boneless chicken breasts and lay fresh green beans, uncut, just the ends removed, and very thin strips of carrot on them, salt and pepper, add a couple pats of butter, then roll them up and wrap them in aluminum foil.  You can stick them in the freezer so that they'll stay longer before you put them on the grill.  And, canned potatoes, fried up over the fire are especially good.
 
I'd premeasure the dry ingredients for pancakes, and the wet ones separately and do pancakes a couple mornings.  You can scramble up eggs in advance and freeze those as well...then you don't have to worry about them getting broken in the cooler.  Nothing tastes as good as a toasted cheese sandwich cooked on the grill.....grab a couple cans of soup for cold evenings and do soup and sandwiches....ribs are great when you're camping cuz you don't have the mess to clean up that kids can make with them in the HOUSE.....I often BAKE potatoes right on the grill too.  Oh, another good one is grilled kilbasa (sp) which you can serve either over angel hair pasta, or one a bun with some kraut. 
 
When we tent camped, I kept meals as simple as possible and did as much as possible in advance to keep me from spending the whole trip cooking...it was MY vacation too.  I also took more than one cooler.  ONE was for food items and not to be opened by anyone BUT me, and the second for drinks.

I'm in the same boat as you Angel. We're going  camping for 5 days 4 nights. No kids, no showers, no computers!
 
Anyways... When we went last year we brought a large cooler, and made sure all the food was sealed very well. (the day before stocking up on ice, the cooler is full of really cold water) And just bought ice every two days. Our breakfasts consisted of sausages, eggs (or course), bacon. Or blue berry bagels with cream cheese. Always brought loads of snacks... chips, crackers, fruit etc. Lunch was sandwiches. PB & J, and ham and cheese.
 
Dinner was a hard one though. Finding wood on the California coast that isn't soaked is very hard. But we had a lot of hotdogs (like you'd mentioned) and chicken. Top Ramen (If you like it) is very good with eggs, and a pretty good dinner.
 
You can also bring a gallon of milk and make some of the Helper varieties. All you need for Tuna Helper is 1 cup of milk, can of tuna, and water. Do you bring veggies? I can't remember if we brought some last year or not. Is was kind of a diet of meat and bread for 4 days.
 
 

A popular meal amongst our Boy Scout troop was tacos.  They really are no more difficult to make over a camp fire than at home.  To heat the shells, just wrap them in foil and put them on the fire ring.

I once went on a backpacking trip where we brought a box of "instant" cheesecake and some powdered milk.  Mixed the milk & chesecake mix with water from the river (purified, of course). Spread the graham cracker crumbs at the bottom of a frisbee, wrapped the whole thing in a ziploc and stuck in the river (freezing cold!) to set.  Yum!  It wasn't as tasty as a real cheesecake, but the concept was fun (little kids would like it as much as we did [8D]), and cheesecake when you've been out in the wilderness for a few days is heavenly. LOL!
 
If you have access to a FoodSaver, you can make up a bunch of individual meals in advance, vacuum seal them, and then just boil them to reheat.  We use that method when we go camping or RVing sometimes.

HoboDinners are the best on a camping trip.  I even cook them at home sometimes!
 
Tin foil + meat (steak, chicken, pork, fish) + peppers (green or red) + onions + potato chunks
 
Rap you meat choice, chopped pepper, onions, and potato's in some nonstick tin foil.  Throw them in the fire.  Flip at about the 20 minute mark.  They should be ready in about 40 minutes.  Delicious!

I forgot about Hobo meals.  I guess because the Boy Scouts never made them, and my husband and son live on cereal and sandwiched when they go to paintball events.  I've done Hobo meals on the grill at home also. 

I received this at work using ziploc bags to make your omelet.  Was going to try it nect time I have house guests.   Should be easy to adapt to camping:   
 
This works great !!! Good for when all your family is together.  
The best part is that no one has to wait for their special omelet !!!

Have guests write their name on a quart-size Ziploc freezer bag with permanent marker.
Crack 2 eggs (large or extra-large) into the bag (not more than 2) shake to combine them.
Put out a variety of ingredients such as: cheeses, ham, onion, green pepper, tomato, hash browns, salsa, etc.
Each guest adds prepared ingredients of choice to their bag and shake. Make sure to get the air out of the bag and zip it up.
Place the bags into rolling, boiling water for exactly 13 minutes. You can usually cook 6-8 omelets in a large pot. For more, make another pot of boiling water.
Open the bags and the omelet will roll out easily. Be prepared for everyone to be amazed.
Nice to serve with fresh fruit and coffee cake; everyone gets involved in the process and a great conversation piece.

Bisquick makes a pre-made pancake batter (dry ingredients) called Bisquick Shake 'n Pour.  You pour water inside the bottle, return the cap and shake it up, and voila - pancakes.  Even buttermilk and blueberry varieties. 
 
For the tinfoil pouch meals, butter and seasoning go a long way.  I've heard people use cream of mushroom soup, Italian dressing, Mrs. Dash, garlic salt, soy sauce, steak sauce, etc inside the pouches. (Obviously, you need a few layers of tinfoil to keep it all in and not burnt to your food)  If you like pineapples, you can take a can of sliced pineapples and cook that with the boneless chicken breasts for a different option.
Grilled corn on the cobb is good, too.

Last year on our trip, we forgot something really important...
 
A sponge or scrubber and dish soap. We had to rinse our cooking pans with freezing cold water from the half salty tap on the camp grounds. They were so gross.
 
I find that the absolute best place to go for little camping supplies is the dollar store. You can pretty much call it all disposable after the trip, or save it for the next one. That way you don't have to bring all your kitchen supplies, salt, pepper, seasoning, spatula, stir spoons, etc.

A friend of mine tried the Ziploc omelette and said it worked really well.  I had no idea you could boil ziplocs.

Wow!! Thanks so much you guys, this is great.

That ziplock omlette sounds like a fun idea!

I just found this link: [linkhttp://www.scoutscan.com/recipes/tinfoil.html]http://www.scoutscan.com/recipes/tinfoil.html[/link]  These scouts have quite a number of interesting ideas, especially toward the middle of the page. Baking muffins in an orange peel shell?  Who knew!  Someone even describes how to create an "oven"!
"Aztec toothpicks" sound yummy, too - white flour tortilla with cream cheese, brown sugar and cinnamon all rolled up.