Camping recipes

[jennymanara]

Help I need some ideas for very very easy camping recipes using a maximum of two gas burners and having no fridge to store things in. I am going to take a frozen chilli to have the first night, and make a salad with nice bread for the second night. But after that I am totally stuck. I have googled ideas but it is the lack of a fridge that is really making things hard. Any ideas?

Pasta with jarred sauce/ pesto/ a tin of Heinz cream of tomato (much improved with cheese, that will last in cool box- in fact if you have a-cool box- bacon , Parmesan and eggs - carbonara one night, and frittata / omelette the next)

Onions, potatoes and carrots last well and can be grated for rostis- again served with a slice of bacon if you have it.

www.myfussyeater.com/spicy-tomato-mackerel-rice/ this tinned makerel and rice would work just fine and uses fairly well lasting veg

You can make fish cakes with tinned mackerel and ready mash, or a passable pasta puttanesca

Tortellini and pesto. Broccoli lasts 2 or 3 days in a cool box.

Are you staying on a campsite with a shop or reception? IME, most have a freezer to refreeze ice packs. Just take twice as many as you need for your cool box, and swap them every day, and buy a pint of milk daily.

Calzone- use wraps, tomato puree, then fill with stuff from tins (tuna/sweetcorn), fresh (mushrooms), preserved meat (salami) and cheese. Fry in a little oil, turning once. Cheese is the only thing which you will need to buy fresh, but should survive a day or two in the cool box.

Tinned curry and stir fry a pack of microwave rice. Omelette with chopped tinned ham, cheese and tomato with baked beans on the side. Serve with some french bread.
Tinned potatoes are lovely chopped up and fried.
Take apples, bananas, crisps etc for snacks.
4 packs of super noodles and a bag of frozen birds eye mixed veg with sliced hotdogs/chopped ham is actually really nice.
Cut up 4 flavoresome apples, fry in butter gently for five mins then add brown sugar, cook until it goes all caramelly and several with tinned custard and crumbled digestive biscuit.
Stir fry a bag of stir fry veg, add 2 pouches of microwave rice and fry all together for 5 mins. Really nice with sweet chilli sauce and bag of prawn crackers.
If you're using UHT milk the semi skimmed seems to be the best flavour wise for cereal and hot drinks.

Take a disposable bbq and do sausages and Smash, Burgers etc.

Camp Carbonara:

Boil pasta on one ring. Whilst that’s cooking, fry finely chopped onions in the fat from a packet of bacon lardons with a splash of oil or a bit of butter until soft on the other ring. Stir in frozen peas (you can put these in a box from the freezer and use them as an ‘ice pack’ to help keep the lardons cool), a splash of white wine if you can be bothered, and a packet of Philadelphia cheese (other brands of soft cheese are available). Stir in the drained pasta and scoff. Yum.

I would take something prepare for the first night (chilled) and the second night (frozen). After that:

Pasta and pesto
Hotdogs out of a jar
Beans on toast
Bacon sandwiches
Stir fry noodle and veg

I ALWAYS make carbonara on the first night - bacon will be ok in the car for a day plus eggs, pasta and a clove of garlic. Keep the chilli/spag bol frozen for the second night - remove it from the freezer as late as possible then wrap tightly in a big towel, should be ok for day 2.

Noodles, tinned hotdogs & tinned sweetcorn. Fast & easy!

Take an ice box, we've done 4 day festivals & kept food fresh. Fill the bottom with frozen bacon, sausages, burgers and pack it tightly with ice with no air gaps.

I agree about keeping the frozen stuff for day 2. I've done meatballs in the past and spent forever on day 1 trying to hack part a massive frozen lump.

Take a look at some Deliciously Ella recipes, particularly ‘Black and kidney bean chilli’, ‘Lentil bolognese’, ‘Herbed lentil bowl’ and ‘Easy pasta arrabbiata’. They all use tins/packets that keep well, and just a few fresh ingredients you could take with you. A risotto would be easy to do as well.

Dhal and rice

Camp bestival by chance? If so there's a farmers market, pricey but good food (well was 3 years ago).

Pesto and pasta need no fridge, spaghetti, chopped tomatoes, onion, garlic, anchovies and dried Italian herbs. Old school corned beef hash?

We cheated, bought a ton of junk like crisps, Aldi pain au chocolate, haribo, pot noodles, canned drinks, Capri sun etc and have them £10 per day to spend on a whatever they wanted but they were teens.

Ooo, just thought, in the Indian aisle there's shelf stable curry, the paneer one is nice

curry: potatoes, boiled, in other pan fry onion chopped and curry spices that you normally use. (will keep a couple of days) also couple of cloves of garlic chopped add part cooked potatoes and tin of chopped tomatoes, tinned carrots, tinned chick peas and tinned peas.

can do lentil bolognaise with tinned veg as well.