camping food?

[Bob]

i'm going camping this weekend, and we need to bring our own food. we'll have a camp stove, but no refrigerator. what kind of food do people bring camping? i've never been before

preferably something that won't give me the runs

[DipDipDive]

Hot dogs, rice and beans, apples, urrnges, summer sausage (delicious cooked over the fire omgz), jerky, trail mix, hummus/pita, beer.

You're bringing a cooler obviously, yes? Freeze the hot dogs the day before you leave. They'll stay longer and will keep the other shit cool. (y)

[Bob]

oh yeah - the campsite has a no open fire and no alcohol policy. lame as balls, but it's on an island and i love being near water so fair trade i guess

at least they have toilets. compost toilets, but toilets

[Fern]

FUCK THAT NIGGA.

rice krispy treats are the ultimate camping foods. pbj as well

[paul jones]

spam

[jabumbo]

i was a fan of the cup-o-noodle and pbj combo for breakfast when i last was camping.


another good one was tossing potatoes into the coals of the fire. they took forever, but only because our fire was pretty weak...

[HEIRESS]

If you are able to reload on ice everyday you can pretty much bring any goddamn thing you want in your cooler.

I usually make a huge pasta salad or potatoe salad for a weekend camping trip (I normally don't put eggs in the potatoe salad if I know it's going to be in a sometimes not that cold cooler)

we also bring a big pot and boil water for corn on the cob (does your camp-stove have just a grill or does it have a separate burner as well?)

I also marinate steaks for the day one big meal and then after that it's usually burgers or smokies (especially if they are cheese filled!)

can of pork and beans will compliment anything nicely.

like DDD said, summer sausage or any type of kielbasa is the best when cooked on a camp stove.

chips and salsa is always a good one to bring along.

I always bring a jar of dill pickles and olives. just cause.

I always bring the fixins for a greek salad as well (I just make the dressing at home before we leave)

for breakfast we are partial to yogurt with fresh fruit and granola on top. It's just easier than putting together a meal of eggs and bacon etc etc. I also find cooking something as greasy as bacon a bitch to clean up afterwards when camping with just a cold water source. I like cleanup to be as quick and easy as possible/I do not want to be sleeping in a tent when we've accidentally spilled bacon fat within a 10 foot radius.

we also like bringing along lots of assorted fruit for snacking purposes.

a couple bags of Miss Vickie's chips are always a welcome addition as well.

the the key to super-rad camping culinary skills is making/preparing as much as you can before you leave so you bring along less stuff/minimize the hassle.

The one thing I need to try out next time (but it's tough here because campfires are usually banned by mid-july in british columbia due to forest fires) is to make bannock on a stick.
http://www.michaelsmeanderings.com/2008/12/recipe-bannock-on-stick.html

oh fuck, now I'm day-dreaming about fresh piping hot bannock with blackberry jam smothered on it. :(

[YoungRemy]

seeds and nuts and trail mix

[MC Moot]

spaghetti and chili are classics and of course hot dogs and smores...but it depends if I'm hiking in or or lot camping...if it's back country I usually do dehydrated mre's,oatmeal,trail mix,beans,fruit (tinned and fresh),jerky,cheese,sausage,crackers,granola bars and cognac...also potatoe packs which consist of a tater cut in half,stuffed with peppers and onion,olivie oil,s n' p...wrapped in tin foil,throw on fires edge,roll over with your fire stick every once in awhile...when we go in a group (3 or more) everyone cooks a complete meal for each other,taking turns each night like...

[Laver1969]

seeds and nuts and trail mix

I love mustard seeds. Mustard Seed comes from two large shrubs, Brassica juncea (brown mustard) and Brassica hirta (white mustard), native to Asia. Both plants produce bright yellow flowers that contain small round seeds; brown mustard is more pungent than white.

[Helvete]

MREs. They come with chemical heaters and you can get pretty good menus.

[YoungRemy]

I love mustard seeds. Mustard Seed comes from two large shrubs, Brassica juncea (brown mustard) and Brassica hirta (white mustard), native to Asia. Both plants produce bright yellow flowers that contain small round seeds; brown mustard is more pungent than white.

What famous conqueror sent his opponent a sack of mustard seeds for intimidation?

Answer: Alexander the Great.

Darius, King of Persia, sent Alexander a bag of sesame seeds, meant to suggest the number of Darius’ troops. Alexander, in return, sent Darius a bag of mustard seeds, not only more numerous because of their smaller size, but also more potent and fiery than sesame.

[pshabi]

Holy shit, this just reminded me of something fantastic. A family I went camping with as a kid would make this. They had some type of skillet they used. Not sure if it was over the fire or if it was electric or some shit.

Anyway. You take a small round cookie cutter and cut out the center of a piece of bread. You butter both sides lightly, like if you were going to make grilled cheese. They would through the bread on the griddle and begin toasting it and then crack an egg into the center of the toast where they cut the hole out. The egg fried up right inside the toast and it was pretty damn tasty. Handy too.

Edit: Dis dat shit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_in_the_basket

[Laver1969]

What famous conqueror sent his opponent a sack of mustard seeds for intimidation?

Answer: Alexander the Great.

Darius, King of Persia, sent Alexander a bag of sesame seeds, meant to suggest the number of Darius’ troops. Alexander, in return, sent Darius a bag of mustard seeds, not only more numerous because of their smaller size, but also more potent and fiery than sesame.

Oh yes!!! I am familiar with Darius, the King of Persia. The mention of Persia brings up the topic of Persian Rugs. The art of Persian carpet weaving existed in Iran in ancient times, according to evidences and in the opinion of scientists. An example of such evidences is the 2500-year-old Pazyryk carpet dating back to 500 B.C., during the Achaemenid period.

The first documented evidence on the existence of Persian carpets came from Chinese texts dating back to the Sassanid period (224 - 641 CE).

This art underwent many changes in various eras of the Iranian history to an extent that it passed an upward trend before the Islamic era until the Mongols invasion of Iran. After the invasion, the art began to grow again during the reign of the Mongol dynasties of Timurid and Ilkhanid.