Easy and Delicious Camping Meal and Recipe Ideas
Isn’t cooking on the open fire one of the best parts of camping? Here are 10 of our favorite camping recipes—from campfire meals in foil to Dutch oven recipes. Some of these recipes are great for the outdoor patio campfire, too. Go beyond the hot dog!
10 Great Camping Recipes
1. Campfire Fish Recipe
Cook fish over the campfire in foil or leaf packets for an easy, tasty meal. (Best for smelt or other small fish.)
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2. Baby Back Ribs With Coffee Spice Rub
These ribs are made with a unique coffee rub mixture that features a hint of cocoa.
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3. Beer Can Chicken With Memphis Rub
Beer Can Chicken may look a little startling, but grilling a chicken upright over an open can of beer results in the moistest, most succulent, and most flavorful chicken you’ve ever tasted.
4. Grilled Corn, Latin Style
Grilled Corn is so easy. The creamy chili-lime sauce brings out the crunchy, grilled flavor.
5. Hobo Packs
Hobo Packs are great for camping and just a fun way to cook (with little clean-up!). Cooking in foil combines the freshness of steaming with the intense flavor of grilling, since the high heat caramelizes the food on the bottom of the pack.
6. Grilled Summer Vegetables
This camping favorite works well with any live fire or can just as easily go into a hot oven.
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7. Grilled French Onion
Grilled onion is an easy, delicious recipe for the campfire or just grilling outdoors. Always a big hit!
8. S’more Crackers and Combinations
S’mores are a campfire favorite! Here’s a recipe for homemade graham crackers and fun s’more combinations!
9. Make-Ahead Banana Bread
This banana bread wasn’t made on a campfire, but it’s a tasty camp food to bring along. Eat for a quick breakfast with peanut butter!
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10. Cherry Pineapple Dump Cake
Campfire dump cake is one of our favorite camping desserts.
What’s your favorite camping food or recipe? Share in the comments below!
Sarah Perreault
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Two of our favourite recipes for campfire cookout’s are pizza pie irons and for dessert we like to do cherry or apple pies in the pie irons. You take your pie irons and grease them thoroughly. Butter both pieces of bread and put the butter side out against the iron. Then you put in your favourite pizza toppings, slide the second piece of bread over the toppings in the iron with the buttered side facing out and then close them up and stick them in the coals. Be sure to check every minute because they don’t take long to cook. For the pies you start with buttered bread. I like to dip the buttered sides of the bread in a little white sugar and then place butter side out against the irons. Put in your favourite pie filling and close the irons. Cook the pies in the coals for a couple minutes making sure to turn them often and open to check they are not burning. The sugar makes for a nice crispy crust on the outside of the pie. Be careful when eating as the middles are very hot. Enjoy
1 cup self rising flour, 1cup sugar, 1 cup any fruit to be found (wild huckleberries best!), 1cup water/milk/powdered milk. Prepare for good pile of hot coals, grease or pam dutch oven, after heating it up to slightly smoking, dump in ingredients and whisk with lots of air just until mixed, some clumps are ok, cover, stick in the coals, when pleasing smells start cover the lid with live coals and only check that the top crust is browning up. Get out of the way when presented to the hungry trail crew hands.
