Backpacking Tent Camping | Camping Recipes

Backpacking Tent Camping - Camping Recipes

When you are backpacking tent camping what you eat corresponds directly with your energy level. That is a good thing for the health-conscious and you may be surprised to know that camping recipes can be as healthy and even healthier than most meals you would prepare at home. For the most part, backpacking tent camping recipes are only limited to the imagination. Although, the best foods to carry are dried ready-to-eat foods (protein bars and trail snacks) to eat while you are hiking. Backpacking tent camping isn't just about covering ground, it's about the natural world, enjoying and communing with nature. Camping recipes and campers' cookware can be really simple and still produce nutritious and satisfying meals. A 16 oz. tin cup and fire is all you need to boil water and make a small nutritious meal. Carrying two tin cups will give you even more recipe options. It is best to have two cups that fit together in a way that one can be a cover for the other.

Easy Camping Recipes

• Chicken and rice with vegetables.

Use a vegetable dried soup mix don't follow the recipe on the package, use all, 1/3 or 1/2 of the package according to your tastes (and how hungry you are). Put it in your cup with a hand full of rice and cover it with twice as much water and boil it down slowly, it will easily burn if you cook it too fast. When the water is almost gone. Add a 5 oz. can of chicken (juice and all), boil it one more time, take it off the fire and let it stand until all the water and juices soak in.

• Hobo Stew

(Use any meat fish or fowl you have)

You'll need a piece of tin foil about 12 x 14 inches, use more if you need to, one potato cut in bite-size chunks, A vegetable cut in bite-size chunks, and one serving of meat or fresh fish, if you caught any. Put everything in the center of the tin foil, the way you wrap it is important it needs to be steam tight. Pick the foil up by the corners so that a loose fold (don't crease it) runs across the short way cradling all the ingredients. Now fold down and tuck about a 1/2" of the foil at the top to close it, and fold and crease again at least 3 times. Put it down, fold and tuck the ends the same way so that you end up with a closed envelope that has all the ingredients inside. If you are not sure that it's steam tight, use more foil and wrap the whole thing again. OK now you are ready to cook but don't put it right in the campfire, medium-hot coals raked to the side work the best. The cooking time will vary at least a half-hour is usually good, leave it on as long as you like. It won't burn if it is wrapped steam tight.

• Hot Cocoa and Peanut Butter

I use Swiss Miss cocoa and Peter Pan creamy with honey. A teaspoon full of peanut butter in hot cocoa is a simple way to add some protein when you backpacking and it is delicious.

Cooking on a campfire is nothing like cooking at home and most kitchen recipes won't work when you are backpacking tent camping. It is much better to be creative and make your own recipes. The most common problem is being in a hurry and cooking too fast on fire too hot. Another thing I want to mention is when you are backpacking tent camping, you don't want leftovers. It is better to make two small meals with no leftovers to carry and it's even worse to leave a bread crumb trail that a hungry bear will follow. More information about Bears, pepper spray, and loud horns in another post. Please leave your comments on the Backpacking Tent Camping Blog. Thanks enjoy these Camping Recipes and share one of yours with a comment on this post.