plainpat

Cook pasta at home,al dente. At campsite,make a cheese sause using milk,butter,flour & shredded cheese.When cheese is melted,add pasta & simmer on low till hot & yummy.Dried /canned milk works.

Boil potatoes at home & use them as a base for a one skillet meal, adding onion, diced peppers & eggs.

Buy a rotisserie chicken & pick meat off the bone....use in all kinds of dishes or yummy sandwiches.Add to a pot of pasta & cr of chicken soup,thinned with milk.Serve it like ch parmesan.

Check out the rice a roni recipe on here....you can also do the same with ch flavored rice or boxed pasta.

Grilled cheese & tomato,grilled chicken & tomato with parmesan.

A recipe site to try

http://www.thecampingsource.com/camp...gory_list.aspx

waladopa

Here's one I like....

Campfire Hash

1 cup diced green pepper-approx. 1 pepper
1 1/4 cups diced onions - about 3 medium
4 slices bacon, chopped
3 tablespoons butter
1 1/3 pounds ground beef
1/2 cup catsup
3/4 cup water
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
3 cups chopped cooked potatoes-aprox. 4 potatoes
Saute green pepper, onions, and bacon in butter in a
skillet until transparent. Add meat and continue to
cook until lightly brown. Combine catsup, water,
and seasonings and add to meat mixture. Then add
potatoes and cook until liquid is nearly evaporated,
about 15 minutes, turning occasionally.
Makes 4 hearty servings.

MOpalka

I am a girl scout leader and one of our favorites is the one pot chicken and noodles. My girls even like it at home. canned chicken, egg noodles, canned mixed veggies, cream of chicken soup. boil your noodles. drain them and add the chicken, soup and veggies to the noodle pot. mix well. serve.

Ellen

DOG

1 lb ground beef
1 large onion, chopped
2 cans Franco American Spaghetti with tomato sauce
salt and pepper

Brown the meat and onion, add spaghetti, chopped off as it leaves the can. Simmer for about 15 minutes.

This is surprisingly good.

PMHBickford

Make chili with canned beans

kathyd

At our house this is called bachelor spaghetti. My husband made it when he first moved out 'cause you could come home in the evening pull burger from freezer, cook it before it was thawed then eat it right from the pan. Tada...no extra dirty dishes! And it doesn't taste anything like what you'd expect.
Try the KOA web site. They have a section of recipes.

thimblebug6000

Thank you so much everyone... added foil to our list. We have a small pick-up - we won't be adding an oven to our pile any time soon. Heading out to do a grocery shop soon, will look down the aisles for some "interesting" canned items mentioned.

Ramona Byrd

We used to camp a lot, and DH was a Boy Scout Master. He found the boys were delighted to cook their food in hot ashes. He had them clean fish, etc, season it, wrap it in the biggest leaves they could find (he was a nurseryman so knew what was edible) then wrapped it in thick mud and put it under the ashes in a pit. Then they could talk a while till dinner was ready, soup from scratch on the fire signaled the underground stuff was ready. The main reason was to teach them wilderness survival.
Of course the old favorite was S'Mores, and pancakes rich with dried fruit and maple syrup and butter will always be remembered. Real perked coffee, the odor is lovely.

Kids also love the sun ovens, which are bright tin pieces that reflect the sun onto food. We even did a rather good job putting cookie dough in pans on the dashboard of the car sitting in the sun!!!! You'd be surprised at how hot a car can get in the sun.
The cookies took far longer to bake...but boys will eat anything when tired and hungry, especially if THEY have done the cooking!!

booklady

Great memories! Yours and mine!

sassey

One year we took a camping trip on Motorcyles space was very liimited and money was tight.I canned some meat before hand and I also made some meals that could be froze and as they thowed out that was what we cooked that day I remember making swiss steak, meatloaf and ect I even cooked and froze my spaghett sauce this all helped cut down on cooking time