dopey question - what do you cook?

[Cappuccino]

cos I can remember boil-in-the-bag sausages from my single camping days and I don't want to go there

and dh is planning some sumptuous feast so we need to work out an inbetween option

Take a disposable barbie - then you can have sausages, burgers, or salmon in foil parcels, plus you can bbq peppers, courgettes, mushrooms, sweetcorn in foil, even asparagus. have with bread - total meal. Use barbie to toast marshmallows or do bananas and choc in foil for pudding.

On a double camping cooker you can make pasta and sauce, fry sausages/bacon/chicken, or make couscous, omelettes, eggy bread, stir fry veg, or stir fry meat & noodles.

Well I rule out any hope of being healthy - have taken fruit with us before and lugged it back again at the end of the trip so camping time is "easy cookin'" time rather than a balanced menu

I usually get something out the freezer before we go - like a bolognese or a chilli - anything you can just add pasta or rice too.

One meal has to be: sausage, bacon, beans and scrambled eggs - don't know why, it has just become a tradition.

Jar on the hob sauces work quite well - sweet and sour chicken is easy to do if you get pre-cubed chicken - it's the food prep that's hard in a cramped space.

BBQ food is nice and easy although tbh, mostly we just use the stove & grill.

We have a folding camper with a gas oven, so while it wouldn't be good enough to do a roast - it's easy to reheat things like pizza or oven chips.

Takeout on the arrival day makes life less stressful too

We cook basic food. Pasta with pesto and salad, or rice and stir fry. Or veggie sausages and eggs and beans (veggie ones are good even if you're not veggie, if you don't have a fridge they are easier to store).

We take stuff straight from the freezer, that way it stays cold for the first 24 hours quite easily.

Cappuccino - I just came here to post EXACTLY the same question. We are off on our first camping trip next weekend (only 2 nights but I'm stressing about everything).
Just decided with dh that we will do a spag bolognaise on first night as I can prepare sauce before we go and just do spaghetti. I am planning beans/egg/bacon Saturday morning. After that, I am not sure!!

we always have corned beef hash with baked beans once during a camping trip

For first camping trip and only two nights I would DEFINITELY do first night a takeaway.

Much easier, much less stressful and you can bet your life that pitching the tent will take twice as long as you expected... then waiting for the little teeny tiny stove to heat up your dinner is often the last straw and everyone gets very tetchy (not that I've had personal experience or anything ).

Then you only have to plan one meal.

Breakfasts we take a big tupperware container of cereal the kids aren't normally "allowed" (Frosties and Ricicles in this case for our weekend ), orange juice, cups of tea and usually find a bakery or onsite shop for "brunch" (usually half hour after "breakfast") of croissants and/or pain au chocolat.

Lunch - get a load of rolls and have a picnic of cheese & pickle (or something equally easy to make without much pre-prep), crisps and cereal bars/dried fruit or something while you're out and about. Or if weather is shite we usually just find the nearest Little Chef