Easy Camping Recipes and Food Storage Advice

By Robert Smith

When it comes to easy camping recipes, trail mix is one of the easiest. You can choose ingredients that suit your own taste buds. Throw them in a bowl. Toss them around a little bit. Put them in a sandwich or Ziploc bag and you're ready to go. But, if you are hiking or doing something else that requires sustained energy, you need to select the right ingredients.

Some foods provide quick energy, because of a spike in blood glucose. Others take longer to digest and provide "sustained energy". To get the best of both worlds, you want some from each group in your trail mix. Some foods actually provide both.

Dried fruit (avocados, raisins, berries, dates) provide quick energy because of the fructose content and sustained energy because of the fiber. Candies like M&Ms provide only quick energy and can cause a "crash". One of the best choices is a mix that contains dried fruit, nuts and Cheerios.

If you want easy camping recipes that require no fire, you need to bring the ingredients from home or prepare them at home. Anything requiring refrigeration will not work for a backpacker. If you are traveling by canoe or car, then you have room for a cooler, but regardless of how you are camping remember to never store food in your tent. Hang it high in a tree or store it in your vehicle. When bears and other wild animals attack tents, it is because of the food that is in them.

If you are able to carry it with you, you can make anything in the wilderness that you can make at home, as long as you have a fire and a grill. One of the easy camping recipes, enjoyed by many scout troops is "dinner in tin foil".

The simplest ingredients are frozen hamburger patties, butter or margarine, potatoes and onions. Potatoes don't need to be peeled, but they do need to be sliced, as do the onions. You simply put the ingredients together and wrap them in aluminum foil. Throw them on the grill and turn them occasionally. You don't have to worry about anything burning and you can just open the pouch to check for doneness.

Because of the popularity of cooking in foil, you can buy ready made aluminum foil cooking bags and fill them with anything that you like. How much easier could it get? When you love to camp, you learn that there are dozens of easy camping recipes and everything seems to taste better in the great outdoors.

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