A big reason lots of my friends don’t want to go camping is because they don’t want to eat horribly bland freeze-dried meals or tasteless porridge for the weekend.  Having done a lot of camping in the past few years, here are my recommendations for tasty food items & the best order to eat them so that they keep for your trip.  All of these are easily packable for your camping trip.

First Day Items

1. Frozen Steak – By the time you spend your first day they will have dethawed but will still be cold
2. Hard Boiled Eggs – Great source of protein for your first lunch!
3. Chocolate – Wait, how’d this get on the list? Okay it’s not healthy and it probably won’t last long in hot weather but chocolate is a perfect treat after a tough hike

Second Day Items

4. Apples – They might get bruised if you’re lugging them around for more than a few days but are a nice healthy snack to have for a few days
5. Whole Wheat Wraps with Peanut Butter (pre-made) – the protein in the peanut butter will fill you up long enough to get some hiking in!
6. Sweet Potatoes / Potatoes – perfect fire food and they are sturdy enough

Items for the rest of your trip

7. Instant Oatmeal – Packs light, packaging doubles as kindling and they’ve got tons of flavours so you aren’t resigned to bland porridge for your camp trip. Campers rejoice!
8. Dried Fruit – Packs light and satisfies your sweet tooth
9. Quinoa – Full of protein, packs light, can be made over the fire and keeps you full
10. Pasta – the perfect camping food, sturdy, keeps well in hot weather and can be made over the fire

Steak, Onion and Sweet Potatoe made on over the fire

Camp Food Haul!