Keepin' It Simple Camping Foods?

Okay, easy stuff, but car camping. Rice is good, repackages nicely into nalgenes and cooks easy. Spills in your container don't make a mess and it doesn't attract vermin. I like egg beaters over eggs, they transport well and taste okay to good, especially with cheese and a little hot sauce, especially tiger sauce. For cheese, velveeta is cheese like and very temperature tolerant. I usually grab a small steak or two, or pork tenderloin, freezing in serving sizes., usually ready to eat day 2. Otherwise just store it under the ice in the cooler. Bag 'o Salad is the best thing to ever happen to camp salad. Usually an italian dressing which can double as oil for the pan for the meat, or again tiger sauce as dressing. Leftovers for lunch, or canned sardines or other fish with a citrus fruit or apple... Bread is always a pita and needs mayo or mustard, both single purpose item in this scheme, thus to be avoided. This menu is pretty flexible and simple and will hold you till you gotta go back to town for more ice and whisky. Reload. Have a good diner meal on the way home.
 
What? No zwieback and rye crisp?
 
Precooked chicken - easily makes tacos or salads. Precooked ground hamburger - tacos, or add to packaged gravy and serve over mashed potatoes. Precooked a sausage and rice/beans mixture, freeze in servings then simply reheat. Make biscuits at home cook/freeze and reheat, or cut them out and freeze raw. Place frozen on small pan or cast iron skillet on bbq to cook, will need to flip to keep from burning. Precooked frozen breakfast sausage (Costco or Jimmy Dean from regular grocery) heat and brown stuff in biscuit or English muffin. Hot pastrami and cheese sandwiches. Easy to heat pastrami on bbq (on skillet or griddle) - fast and easy.
 
I always bring flour tortillas camping.
Guy Gregory said:
Okay, easy stuff, but car camping. Rice is good, repackages nicely into nalgenes and cooks easy. Spills in your container don't make a mess and it doesn't attract vermin. I like egg beaters over eggs, they transport well and taste okay to good, especially with cheese and a little hot sauce, especially tiger sauce. For cheese, velveeta is cheese like and very temperature tolerant. I usually grab a small steak or two, or pork tenderloin, freezing in serving sizes., usually ready to eat day 2. Otherwise just store it under the ice in the cooler. Bag 'o Salad is the best thing to ever happen to camp salad. Usually an italian dressing which can double as oil for the pan for the meat, or again tiger sauce as dressing. Leftovers for lunch, or canned sardines or other fish with a citrus fruit or apple... Bread is always a pita and needs mayo or mustard, both single purpose item in this scheme, thus to be avoided. This menu is pretty flexible and simple and will hold you till you gotta go back to town for more ice and whisky. Reload. Have a good diner meal on the way home.
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You post made me curious about tiger sauce so I picked some up at QFC today. It's good!
 
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Hobbyranch said:
I’m a fan of making burritos, regular and breakfast, before my trip. Very easy to heat up via grill or campfire.
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This. I pre-make breakfast burritos, ensuring they are not very thick. Wrap them in foil (I double wrap them) and spray the foil with olive oil so the tortillas don’t stick. Six minutes per side crisps up the burrito and the inside is nice and warm.
 
I invested in a freeze dryer last year. Expensive, but man does it work great. I can cook almost any meal and throw in the dryer. 24 hours later, a light meal, easily stored in mylar bags with an oxygen absorber..... meals ready to eat with a little water. Gourmet meals on trail! Scallops and pasta, shrimp and grits, salmon patties, stuffed mushrooms, grilled tri-tip with green beans, egg scrambles, bananas, pineapple, you name it. I control the ingredients for my wife's anti-inflammatory diet, and avoid the $14 freeze dried meals you buy in the camping stores. Highly recommended if you spend time in the backcountry, camping off of the motorcycle, or just need a meal in a hurry. Shelf stable for 25 years too! Just because you're camping doesn't mean you shouldn't eat well!
 
NukeLDO said:
I invested in a freeze dryer last year. Expensive, but man does it work great. I can cook almost any meal and throw in the dryer. 24 hours later, a light meal, easily stored in mylar bags with an oxygen absorber..... meals ready to eat with a little water. Gourmet meals on trail! Scallops and pasta, shrimp and grits, salmon patties, stuffed mushrooms, grilled tri-tip with green beans, egg scrambles, bananas, pineapple, you name it. I control the ingredients for my wife's anti-inflammatory diet, and avoid the $14 freeze dried meals you buy in the camping stores. Highly recommended if you spend time in the backcountry, camping off of the motorcycle, or just need a meal in a hurry. Shelf stable for 25 years too! Just because you're camping doesn't mean you shouldn't eat well!
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can you recommend a model/brand??
 
I bought a HarvestRight freezer. You can buy direct or from Home Depot. Blue Alpine is another brand to consider. I ended up with the medium sized one, which is 5 drying trays. The small seemed too small, and the large, too large. I tend to cook full meals for 4-6, eat one that evening, and then freeze dry the rest.
Beware, because they work by drawing a vacuum on the food chamber, these things are much heavier than they look.
 
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