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
- Frozen Steak – By the time you spend your first day they will have dethawed but will still be cold
- Hard Boiled Eggs – Great source of protein for your first lunch!
- 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
- 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
- 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!
- Sweet Potatoes / Potatoes – perfect fire food and they are sturdy enough
Items for the rest of your trip
- 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!
- Dried Fruit – Packs light and satisfies your sweet tooth
- Quinoa – Full of protein, packs light, can be made over the fire and keeps you full
- 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!
I’d pack some Capri-Sun and some home-cooked re-heatables to eat while set-out camping.
Casserole, and cutlets are good food items to pack if you’re planning on heating bread by the fireside.
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Great suggestions! Re-heatables are great for the first few days of a camping trip so you get to have some of the comforts of home until you really have to rough it!
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