Camping food need not be dull. Here are a few quick and easy recipes you can try when you go on your next camping trip:
Camper’s Pizza
Butter a side of the bread of your choice and toast the bread slightly on each side. Afterwards, top the buttered side with pizza sauce, cheese, pepperoni, and other pizza toppings of your choice. You may toast the bread again together with the toppings if you want.
Easy Bean Soup
Combine baked beans, tomato soup, a pack of dried onion soup mix and water into a pot, allow to boil and leave to simmer for a few minutes.
Simple Beef Stew
Season beef with onion and garlic and allow to brown. Afterwards, add canned vegetable soup to the mixture and allow to simmer until properly heated. This stew is best served with bread or baked potatoes.
Outdoor French Toast
Dip your choice of bread slices into a mixture of milk, eggs, and flour. After dipping, place the bread slices over a heated grill and allow to brown.
Here are some tips when you cook on camp:
1. Pack the food you plan to bring in the proportions in which they will be cooked or served. That way, you won’t have to be bothered by measuring the right amount of this and that ingredient once you’re in camp.
2. Make sure to place the items in your cooler in individual watertight bags and containers.
3. Avoid attracting animals to your camp by keeping properly storing your food, preferably above ground level.
4. Make camp cooking a group activity! If you’re camping with your friends or family, make sure that you get everyone to participate in the preparation of meals. It’s a great way to bond and it makes life easier for the assigned “chef” as well.
5. Find a use for all leftover ingredients. For instance, on your last day of camp, use the leftover meats and other ingredients to make a grand omelet for breakfast.
6. Bring a lot of ziplock bags. They come in handy when you need to store all kinds of food.
7. When cooking on a pot, make sure to always put the lid on, as it will allow the food to cook faster and it will also protect your food from insects.
Remember that when cooking while camping, you can get simple recipes that are easy to prepare but do not sacrifice taste and flavor – all it takes is a little enthusiasm and a great love for the outdoors.
Start Your Camping Trip Right: Make a Camping Reservation
You’ve been planning this camping trip for months. Everything’s set, you’re all packed and ready to camp, but when you reach the camp site, you realize that you weren’t able to make a reservation. Suddenly, all the planning and preparation seem to go down the drain, as your camping trip seems doomed.
Camping is supposed to be a wonderful way to experience the great outdoors, and problems such as this shouldn’t get in the way of you camp experience. Here are some tips on camping reservation that you need to know before you set off for that much-awaited camping trip:
1. When booking a reservation, have a couple of dates in mind. The weekend in which you have planned your trip might be fully-booked, so it is best to have back-up dates just in case. That way, you also do not get discouraged upon discovering that your trip won’t be able to push through on your desired dates.
2. Make a reservation as soon as you can. Especially during peak camping seasons, camp sites will be packed and you will need to reserve early to ensure that you gain a slot. You can usually make a reservation as early as eleven months before your camping trip. If you are planning to move between spots in a camp site during your trip, each spot or location usually requires a reservation.
3. After you’ve made the reservation, make sure to contact your camp site again to confirm the reservation, especially if you made the reservation many months prior to the date of your camping trip. That way, you are sure that there hasn’t been any mix-up and you still have your reservation.
4. Many camp sites now offer reservations forms that you can get online, making it easier for you to get in touch with the camp site administration to make a reservation. Surf through the internet to find a downloadable form along with some specific useful information about your camp site of choice.
5. Didn’t make a reservation? In case you weren’t able to reserve a slot for your trip or the place where you plan to camp does not allow reservations, the best thing you can do is to arrive at the camp site early, as such places that do not allow reservations usually follow a first-come, first-serve rule.
People often see making reservations as the “necessary hassle” that must be done before going to on any trip. But with the advent of the internet, reserving a spot for your camping trip has been made much easier, so you need not worry.
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