Comments on: HealthIER Camping Food: 7 Tips for Taking Real Food With You

By: Debra

Debra — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:29:06 +0000

We do a Father's Day trip every year with friends. We have started to meal plan before we go and share the cooking and prepping. This year we are going easy on the first night and picking up delicious pizza n town outside the campsite. The dads make breakfast which is usually burritos prepped at home. Maybe some extra eggs and sausage. The girls are on our own for lunch since the guys take off on a hike. We have walking tacos planned this year. Taco meat and toppings go right into snack size bags of Doritos. Eat with a fork. Saturday dinner will be brats and peppers and onions, made by the dads again. Sunday morning is any leftovers we have along with eggs. We'll be making salsa, pasta salad, guacamole, granola and any other fun recipes we fun in the next month for snacks and condiments. Then the kids will make campfire cones and stuffed marshamellows for dessert Friday and Saturday. You people who do weeklong camping are my heros. I've had enough after 2.5 days!!!!

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By: Stacy @Stacy Makes Cents

Stacy @Stacy Makes Cents — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:43:44 +0000

Great tip! Thanks a bunch!

By: Cid

Cid — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:13:06 +0000

Instead of a crock pot...freeze in bags then drop the bag into a pot of boiling water to heat. Our Boy Scouts do this. Or just make fresh beef stew or chili in a dutch oven using charcoal. Dutch oven cooking with coals in about the easiest way to make a meal. Including breakfast, Mountain Man hash in a dutch oven is a filling breakfast...and will make for less snacking and smaller lunch portions.

By: Stacy @Stacy Makes Cents

Stacy @Stacy Makes Cents — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:28:02 +0000

I know, right? I pulled that picture from Flickr. Here is something similar from Coleman: http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Cast-Iron-Non-Stick-Griddle/dp/B001TSC7OY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357648055&sr=8-1&keywords=griddle+for+camping

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:59:36 +0000

Where can I get that Grill/Griddle?? That thing looks awesome

By: Stacy @Stacy Makes Cents

Stacy @Stacy Makes Cents — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:36:17 +0000

I haven't heard anything about that - but it probably varies from brand to brand.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:11:19 +0000

I recently read that most brands of parchment paper have BPA for the heat resistant coating. I haven't seen it written about in the real food blogs I follow, though. I wonder if anyone here has heard anything about that?

By: Stacy @Stacy Makes Cents

Stacy @Stacy Makes Cents — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:45:38 +0000

My friend Brandy uses the dehydrating method. :-) They love it!
I have boiled Ziplocs before when we make Ziploc omelets. Just have to make sure there is NO air in them.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:58:28 +0000

I just got home from a two week camping trip with no electricity and very few open fires to cook on. We had limited space in our vehicle to pack food for our family of 7 plus friends, so dehydrated meals worked perfectly for us. There are quite a few meals that dehydrate well after you cook them, like taco meat with beans, corn, and peppers ; stroganoff, shredded BBQ chicken, and cooked macaroni and ground beef. (Try Googling backpacking chef) Basically you spread them out on dehydrater sheets and let them dry at about 150 degrees for about 4 hours. Then measure it and put in Ziploc bags and pack them. When its time to eat them, you add equal parts of boiling water, let sit for ten minutes and its done! We make them in Mylar ziptop bags or you can make it in a cook pot that you boil the water in,
or I've heard Ziploc freezer bags work (but I'm not sure about boiling water in plastic? ).