Talk to me about your favorite camping menus

[Nottigermum]

We are going camping on a budget this weekend and I want to cook things other than BBQs! We have a small one-pot camping stove, so the obvious baked beans on toast will probably be an option, but I'd like to cook something a bit more interesting, do you have any favorites? Thanks!

Fry up an onion and a pound of mince chuck in a couple of tins of sliced carrots add a jar of casserole sauce simmer for a bit and serve with buttered crusty bread -perfect for a chillier day

Omelettes, pasta and pesto?

Packets of meatballs and jar of sauce was my camping triumph this year!

cook rice , put aside, cook sausages chopped up into pieces . When sausages are cooked add to rice with tin of chopped tomatoes and heat
Pancakes are also easy if you have a good nonstick pan , with nutella nd banannas.....
Tortillas with a bit of mince , chilli sauce and salad and cheese.

We decided this year we need to get camping cooking sorted.

Our triumphs on our recent week away were canned hotdogs in french baguettes, and I managed to get enough heat into the water in a small camping kettle to cook some pasta. The pasta only half fed three small children though as the camping kettle was small!

I'm thinking some kind of Cadac BBQ thing that we can also use at home is the way to go, but it's big so that would mean strapping one of the kids to the roof.

I did buy a camping cooking book and I'm certain that NONE of the recipes were actually field tested.

Marking place for inspiration...

Tinned chilli and easy cook rice - cook rice & cover whilst you heat the chilli up - best hit of this past trip :)

Filled pasta - cook and then stir in the sauce - serve with bread/salad.

We've tried the disposable bbq's but can never get enough heat to cook much on them :(

Fry garlic, onion, peppers, tomatoes and other veg in olive oil.

Set aside and soak cous cous for a few short minutes.

Mix in with the veg and a good squeeze of lemon juice.

Flaked tinned fish adds a dollop of protein.

Chop veggies (garlic, carrot, celery, potato and anything else you have) add water, chicken stock, boil up, add fresh herbs and browned sausages or cubed fish. Voila healthy stew.

Alternatively make a Thai curry paste at home and then add coconut milk and chicken or fish for a lovely curry.

BBQ'd field mushrooms filled with garlic and goat cheese makes a nice aternative to a meat BBQ too.

I am really lazy when camping and just heat up tins. Tesco do canned minced beef which I mixed with chopped toms and boiled spaghetti - not a bad spag bog.
The Tesco mild chicken curry was also really rather good - bought some naan and natural yog, boiled some rice and then heated that up - was really nice.
Does feel a bit like cheating but then I am on holiday too and a few canned meals is not going to kill anybody!

Lots of tinned meals aren't bad these days.

We had lots of bbqs on our camping trip but with fish.

wrap fish (trout is our favourite) in foil. Spread corriander past and jarred chopped garlic on top first. Stick on bbq with quartered red, green and yellow peppers. Put a couple of small onions on in their skins to chop once cooked, and a few corn on cobs. Serve with rice, pasta or bread.

oh, and carrots halved long ways, smothered in olive oil and stuck on bbq tast very sweet.

Chuck in some chicken pieces and veg: pots, carrots, leeks, that kind of thing, and boil away to make chicken broth. Yummy.

At home I marinade chicken strips in a teriyaki sauce then freeze it in the marinade: once defrosted at site, this can either be BBQ'd or cooked in a pan. Serve with boiled new potatoes and a side salad.

I make a stew/curry at home and freeze it and cook it on Day 2 of the camping trip. I also freeze a pack of bacon and 1pt of milk.

We do tuna pasta with a tomato based jar sauce and sprinkle cheese on the top.

Fajitas are cooked in one pan, or you could cook some chicken and add to wraps with salad.

You could do a chinese style stir fry with ready to wok noodles, chicken, stir fry veg and a jar sauce. Serve with prawn crackers.