what are your top camping meals?

[Rockingrobin69]

were going camping on wednesday.....with a gas stove, wok etc...

what are your easiest and tastiest meals made whilst camping?

That reminds me, M&S tinned chicken curry is great in a weird kind of retro way. I assume they still sell it (it's been a while )

Wyrd. I must confess that I didn't eat meat in my late teens and 20s though, I grew up on a farm eating things that had had a lovely life out of my window. After I left home I lived on beans and chickpeas because I couldn't afford the sort of meat I was used to .... even now I only eat it a couple of times a week (three at most) and buy local from a butcher who rears it all on his family farm. Told you I had issues.

Yep, risotto is fab, warming and lovely and you get to sit down and drink wine, win win. We cook on a Heat pal stove (which is also a tent heater) a really gentle heat which is great for risotto.

You can buy little sistema dressing pots, I use them to mix the herbs I need for whatever I have printed off recipe wise.

I treat us to those shake and pour pancake bottles for breakfast.

Our 'camping roast' goes down well. We get a cooked chicken that I slice up and put in a pan, make up some bisto and add it to pan and simmer, in another pan get either tinned potatoes and veg or I but a bag of prepped veg and new potatoes, slice potatoes and add all to one pot and simmer for 10 mins (we usually add veg after potatoes.
Ready flavoured cous cous always goes down well also with bbq food.

Calzone pizza is our favourite camping meal (from the Cool Camping cookbook). Get a pack of ciabatta bread mix and prepare. Roll into several pizza bases (an empty wine bottle is a perfect rolling pin) and put onto a large piece of double folded foil. Make a tomato-based sauce on the camping stove and spread onto pizza bases leaving space around the edges to seal and then add other stuff like ham,olives, mushrooms, cheese etc. Fold in half and seal as well as you can with your fingers, wrap in foil and then chuck in straight onto hot coals. Turn it regularly for about 15-20mins and then enjoy. It is sooooo good!

Aside from that, BBQs, jacket potatoes (wrapped in foil and chucked on the coals) and any one pot meal. Breakfast is a treat as well...eggs and bacon, eggy bread, pancakes, porridge, beans on toast.

Google 'egg in a bag' - great for a quick breakfast and fun for the kids to do.

However the culinary highlight of DS's camping trip was eating a mini box of cereal with the milk poured straight into the bag rather than using a bowl (it saved washing up).

Anything tastes better eaten outdoors - even simple stuff like pasta and pesto, chilli (made at home and defrosted) or fresh crusty bread with ham, cheese, olives, pickles etc.

Blu I am drooling over your wrap-quesadillas :o

OP, Coleman do a cool box that keeps cool for 5 days (you have to pre-cool it with ice though) has worked well for us throughout last summer, also doubles as an extra seat! Get some decent large ice packs, with the blue liquid in, they last at least three times as long as the ordinary ones.

We don't want to take any kind of stove, because DD i totally out of control at the moment....

I think it is possible there will be a communal campfire though....so I am thinking baked potato/sweet potato...we don't have any pots pans that could be used with a fire though.

that was for blu sorry

Not sure if it has already been said, but pancakes for breakfast - yummy! We also used to make lots of curries.

Fair enough, IceBeing. In that case I would take packs of brioche rolls for breakfast, a jar of mayo, Tin of sweet corn and of tuna , and wraps for lunch , take good quality thick foil for potatoes in the fire and have with grated cheese wt

Also you can roast bananas in foil in the fire either with chocolate in a slit, or with brown sugar . And make a parcel of foil for cut up veg such as couchette, tomato, aubergine, red onion , garlic, herbs, slug if olive oil, and carefully roast the sealed parcel in the embers. All cooking within the fire has to be in the charcoaly embers, not flame, otherwise you will need to head for the chip shop....
Chipolatas in toasting forks, but some will end up in the fire .

Courgette. Phone posting!

Thanks blu some great ideas there!

Great ideas thanks!
Just to say about the boil in the bag egg thing - ziploc say on the website that you shouldn't boil anything in their bags due to chemicals being released so I would guess other generic plastic bags are the same.
Lakeland sell boil-a-bags which are specifically made for the purpose :)

Icebeing, if you have a travel kettle (either electric if you have an electric pitch or a car adapter one) you can do instant noodles (just place in boiling water) mixed with ham or cooked chicken, tinned sweetcorn , raw peppers or tomatoes etc with a sprinkle of soy sauce.

I can report the M & S tinned chill is perfectly edible though is quite pricey at £2.50 for a tin, - I used 2 tins for 3 of us, which was obviously more than ample.

I also did the microwave rice in the pan with water, and you could just open a bag of tortillas instead/as well

I have recently discovered "Look what we found" sachet meals. As a dedicated food snob I was sceptical, but needed something light and nutritious as I was carrying all my kit with me.
It wasn't as good as I would make myself but was perfectly enjoyable. Was just under £3 a pouch though so not exactly a cheap option

Drooling at all these suggestions.
My contribution is a 1 pot biryani. Chuck in spuds and carrots too. I take the ainsley Harriet rice.