Campsite cooking?

[Tri Girl]

I wouldn't bring raw chicken. I would pre-cook it, then freeze it, then bring it with you. Or buy fresh every day at the grocery store. Too many things can go wrong with fresh chicken. I wouldn't even just freeze it from fresh- cook it then freeze it (then reheat in foil or over the stove for dinner).

The longest we have camped out is for 4 days and here are some of the things we enjoyed:

1. Burritos (tortillas, beans, avocado, salsa, rice). Hubs put canned chicken in his to up the protein- I don't eat meat so I was fine with just the other ingredients.

2. Pasta (easy and cheap)

3. Burgers (beef for him, vegetarian for me). We ate those on the first night so we didn't have to worry about the meat.

4. We also shared a freeze-dried Mountain House meal one night (the night we did an all-day hike). It had too much sodium for a regular meal, but I figured we lost enough on the hike and wasn't worried about it. The meal was $8 which was a bit high, but it was a meal meant for two and we shared it so it didn't seem as bad.

For lunches we just brought Cliff-bar/granola bar type stuff (and GORP, and fruit and veggies). Breakfast was cereal and milk and some fruit.


Sounds like you're going to have a BLAST!! Will you be in the mountains? We're going back to CO late next month to hike and mtn bike and I can't WAIT!!!


This site has some good foil dinner camping ideas. As does this one.