what do you consider the best meal to cook when camping

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Sadly this is my first real camping trip and i want to know whats good food to cook on a fire
 
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For simplicity and no pans needed, I love foil dinners. It's quick to prep at home beforehand too. Cube up some steak, add potatoes, carrots, onion and seasoning then wrap it up in foil. Nestle it into the hot coals, flip it a few times, takes about 15-20 minutes.
 
If you're in an area where you can catch them fresh, trout are the best camp food I can think of. I would go camping to eat trout if I hated camping.

Apart from that, cooking in foil is good. That makes a good, quick, tasty meal.

Also recommended is to take some good jerky along for snacks along the trail. Nothing beats jerky for that, in my opinion.
 
Smores!

Seriously, i like fresh caught trout too. For the absolute easiest good hot meal, Mountain House freeze dried food.
 
When I'm car camping, I take a Lodge Dutch oven and cook Cornish Game Hens with carrots and red potatoes. I also do scones and pineapple upside down cake in same.

Get a small dutch oven and start experimenting. Start simple, a chuck roast and gravy mix with a shovel full of coals on top and let it cook for a few hours.

Look for the book Roughing it Made Easy. Lot's of copies in the used book stores.
 
Two small fillet mignon, bacon wrapped and grilled in a site-made willow grilling basket, two yellow squash, two small potatoes and an onion wrapped in foil and baked in the coals. All washed down with a glass of red wine, or chilled spring water, whatever your preference. Sourdough toast on the side if you like. Hot campfire tea with tupelo honey afterwards. The honey is good on the toast as well.

Codger
 
Hi,

First off, better late than never!:D

What to cook depends much on how you are camping. A 15 mile hike over hill and dale will make for a different packing of food and cooking gear than say, a camper with a 'fridge and stove and oven.

If you are just going to a camp site and tent camping, then you can cook almost anything you want. And since you will most likely have your vehicle there, how much and what kind of gear isn't of too large a concern. A cooler with ice will keep fresh foods for a couple of days as long as ice is replenished. A gas camp stove will function and cook much as the stove in your house. For pots and pans, I always bring a 8" cast-iron fry pan, and my 10 quart dutch oven. And a 12 quart pot for washing dishes and stuff. Oh, and don't forget the coffee pot! With this I can prepare anything from eggs and bacon to biscuits and pies.

For a hiking camp, everything must get smaller and lighter. Because everything must be carried, it gets to be pretty specialized. There some excellent hiking setups for camp stove and pots and pans that are very small and light. A search should provide some very good ideas. And much of the food you will carry and eat will be of the freeze dried type and will taste pretty much like cardboard.

What to cook over, stove or wood fire? Personally, give me my Coleman white gas stove!! It's faster, better and far less hassle to turn out good meals on.

Still, everyone wants to cook over fire while camping. So first, you don't cook over flames. Too hot and too hard to control and it makes food taste bad. Cook over coals! Bring a bag of briquet's if you must, but coals are what you want to cook over. This is where cast iron pans and dutch ovens with the little legs shine, (if you are serious about open fire cooking, then owning several of these dutch ovens is mandatory). As I said, with these, any menu is possible.

I'm not going make a menu for you, but eggs and bacon are a must for me. And a box/sack of Bisquik for making everything from biscuits to pancakes is a necessity too. A small bottle of cooking oil and perhaps some powdered milk. Your favorite seasons go without saying. For meats, bring what you like and can keep without spoilage. Hotdogs, steaks, roasts, chops, chicken, or fish. It will all taste better cooked outside!

dalee
 
Oodles of noodles (Ramen Noodles) or chicken covered with Montreal Steak Seasoning cooked slowly over the fire with a long handled metal grilling basket. That chicken brings in the bears.
 
Anything, really if you have cold storage and the option for open flame cooking.

Breakfast-bacon, eggs, sausage
Lunch- throw down some burgers or chicken quarters seasoned to taste
Dinner-fish is always good if you can get it fresh
 
My favorite is a whole chicken on a stick suspended 2 feet above the flames.

True story: When I was a kid a bunch of us boys would go for a couple days to a bluff down by a creek about 3 miles behind our houses.One slightly shady young guy would steal a few chickens to take along.We would just keep them alive tied to a tree untill we needed them.It really saved on ice.
 
K-Dog said:
chicken covered with Montreal Steak Seasoning cooked slowly over the fire with a long handled metal grilling basket.
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Those long handled grilling baskets are the bomb, I've got a couple of them. I like my chicken with "Open Pit" barbecue sauce, complemented by corn in the husk and red potatoes wrapped in foil cooked right on the coals.
 
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