Camp Meals - Planning Your Menu

 

Planning your camp meals...

Before you can plan your camp meals and menu you need to answer some questions:

1. How much cooking do you want to do?
2. Are your camp cooking options limited by the campsite?
3. How much time for cooking/eating does your activities itinerary  allow? 
4. Will camp meals be a big part of your camping trip, or just a necessity wedged in-between camping activities?
5. What age group will you be cooking for?
6. How will you be cooking; campfire or grill or stove, or a combination?
7. What kind of camp cookware will you have?

A typical camping trip meal plan might include:

• An easy dinner, (or lunch and dinner), on arrival day; hot dogs on sticks or tin-foil meals
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner for each full camping day
• A light breakfast, (or maybe lunch too), on departure day
• Snacks/fruit for in-between meal munching

Arrival day meal:
Arrival day is a hectic time, getting everything unpacked, set-up and organized, so unless you specifically  want a big first meal, the best plan is for a light and/or easy-to-cook first meal. 

Camping tip: Always get your camp set-up before anyone gets to eat! It's a great motivator. (one camping dad even required camp set-up before any bathroom breaks)

If your first meal will be lunch, consider:

• sandwiches or cold-cuts with fruit and chips (can be pre-packed)
• roasting hot dogs over the campfire, (or boil them on a camp stove), with chips

If your first meal will be dinner, consider:

• roasting hot dogs over the campfire, (or boil them on a camp stove), with chips
• tin-foil meals in the campfire coals (pre-made at home)
• burgers, (fried or grilled), and a cold salad, (pasta or potato), chips

First Full Camping Day: *modify for each following day based on camping agenda and for variety.

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Notes and discussions:
You can see discussions and tips about camp meals and cooking uses in this Campfire Cooking Tips post. And here is a campfire cooking checklist.

Here are a few pieces of camp gear that can be especially helpful with your camp meals and cookware needs.

 

This is one of the most useful totes you can find to help  keep camp meal related stuff, like plates, cups, utensils, and other camp kitchen and camp cooking gear organized. It is big enough to do the job, but not so big as a back-breaking plastic tote. Plus, its soft-side design makes it easier to cram into that last available spot between the other camping gear.

Coleman Camp Tote

Here are some samples of other camp meal and campfire cooking gear you can find on Amazon that you can use with your cast iron camping recipes. Just like the soft-side tote, once you have one of these camp tools you will wonder how you ever did without it. Especially when you see how inexpensive they are when you buy them online.

Camp Dining Sets

Campfire Utensils

Camp Cook Utensils

Related Topics:
Camp Meals and Cooking - Pack Smart - Save Time and Weight





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