Camping food with child who doesn't like pasta FFS, need ideas please.

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half term camping with family and friends, one child won't eat pasta what meal ideas can you come up with?

Jacket potatoes, cooked on fire?
Barbeque?
Erm....

Curry with rice
Sausage casserole with rice
Chile con Carne with rice
Chicken casserole with rice
Beef stroganoff with rice
Pork stroganoff with rice

Other things with rice

Or all of the above with cows cous

No

Wtf

Cous cous

fry up - bacon, sausage, eggs etc
salad with pitta pockets
jacket potatoes

would help t know what cooking methods you have available?

Jacket potatoes, sausages & beans (Cauldron Lincoln vege ones won't go off so easily without a frigde & taste great) - Cauldron style cooked(large pan over metal grid suspended on metal tripod) stews, rissoto - broth etc with good chunky bread - which can also be cooked on a fire, or fire pit - pizza can be cooked over an open fire too, with a suspended metal grid & a couple of stone floor tiles

Most veg can be baked in foil in the outer edges a fire, or on grill, corn cob, courgettes, carrots, squash, sweet potato etc all work well - enjoy your camping trip :)

Ok will get a jumbo size bag of rice, like the idea of true camp fire on a tripod as well.
But honestly what child doesn't eat pasta? Tempted to try the "eat if your hungry, nothing if your not" but not my dc and that's a whole new thread.

Rice takes so much longer to cook though. Couscous is great because it's fast. You could try instant mash if you could bear it. Instant polenta? What about noodles? Are they still pasta?

Agree with rice taking too long - (bar risotto rice) & thinking on it further, tripods good, but an easier way of turning your fire into a stove, is with 4/6 breeze blocks either side & a wire rack, such as an old oven shelf suspended between the 2 piles - 2 racks even better

Got to admit though - if it were me cooking for everyone & 1 person - child or not was a fussy eater - they'd get a sausage in a hotdog roll, whilst everyone else got what I wanted to cook - perhaps you are being too nice

No it doesn't. Rice takes maybe 5mins longer to cook than pasta.

Bring to the boil, lid on, turn off gas. Put tea towel over pan, rice ready in 15min (using 2:3 method).

DS didn't like pasta for ages, he's just started to like it now, if it's in a sauce.

I don't really like plain pasta TBH because growing up my mum used to use those Perfect Pasta stock cubes which you can't get any more. Half a chicken or vegetable stock cube in the water is almost the same - you could try cooking it like that, see if he likes it better?