Campfire Cooking and Camping Menu Tips & Guides
Campfire cooking is usually one of the main attractions of an outdoor camping trip that everyone enjoys, except perhaps, the person responsible for making the camp menus, shopping for the camp food, and then figuring out what camping cookware and equipment to bring.
But it doesn’t have to be that hard. Just a little planning, along with some of these tips and guides can make the task of being the camp cook or quartermaster a lot easier.
Campfire and Camp Cooking Tips and Guides:
• Everything tastes better when it’s cooked in the great outdoors, and everyone enjoys kicking back with a delicious camp meal. Especially if it is a campfire cooking recipe.
• How to Plan Camping Meals and Menus
Before you can plan your camp meals and menu you need to answer some questions that will determine what type of camping meals and camp food you want to consider. These basic steps will get you started:
• Camp Food Serving and Portion Sizes
How much food per person… This Servings and Portions Chart is a modified version of the one in the Boy Scouts Handbook. *typical portions – you can adjust these based on your knowledge of campers appetites.
• Camp Meals – How to Pack Smart
Carrying heavy boxes and coolers of food for your camp meals into and out of camp is one of the least fun jobs of the whole camping trip. These camp cooking tips will show you how to save time, weight and bulk, and get out of the camp kitchen sooner.
• Camping Menus - Complete Ready-to-go Packages
From simple no muss – no fuss campfire recipes to the creations of camp chefs, these complete camp meal menu packages will give you all you need for your camping trip. Complete lists for cookware and equipment; chuck box supplies; camp food groceries list for one to six campers; recipes and prep instructions
• How to Make Cowboy Coffee
Just mention cowboy coffee and most people get mental pictures of cowboys or campers hunched down around a campfire with an old-time fire-blackened coffee pot bubbling over, (or in), the the dancing flames. Each waiting for a delicious cup of camp coffee made the real old-fashioned way.
• How to Make Hobo Campfire Breadsticks
The Hobo Campfire Breadsticks – another fun and easy camping recipe that kids can make themselves, with just a little adult supervision. And this one is so easy the kids will want to do it on every camping trip.
**This is a great campfire treat recipe for camping with kids.
• How to Make Hobo Baggie Omelets
The Hobo Baggie Omelets – another fun and easy camping recipe that kids can make themselves, with just a little adult supervision. And this one is so easy the kids will want to do it on every camping trip.
**This is a great campfire treat recipe for camping with kids.
• Camping and Campfire Cookware – What do you need
There are two kinds of camp cooks; ones that do it because it’s their turn, and ones that do it because they enjoy it as much as any other part of outdoor camping. But regardless of which one you are, your collection of camping cookware has to start with the basics.With just these basic items you can prepare most of the camp foods used in the majority of camping meal menus.
• Gus’ Campfire Cookware for Camping
Gus’ Camping Cookware for a “Normal” Camp-out. Most of the information at Camping with Gus is geared to new or almost-new campers. Several have asked me what I take on a normal camping trip. So here goes. **Note: This is my basic pack-out list. Other items would be added for special meals or camp locations that require extra gear.
• Best Camping Stove Starter Set-Up
If you are new to camping, deciding what camping equipment you need for cooking, just to get started, can be a little overwhelming. This list of “starter” gear will equip you with the basics you need for your start to camp cooking.
Here are some handy resources and pieces of camp gear you mind be interested in:
A campfire cooking grill is one of the handiest, (and least expensive), pieces of camping gear you can have. And it doesn’t have to be a 30-pound cast iron monster either.
A folding grill grate like the pictured Coleman model works great, isn’t too heavy, and takes up very little space. Even when your camp site fire-ring has a grill you will still find yourself using this one too!
Campfire Cooking Grills
Check out these samples of camping cookware and camping tools available on Amazon. 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.
More camping resources:
Related Topics:
How to Pick a Campfire Cooking Grill
Campfire Cooking Checklist
How to Pick the Best Camping Stove
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