Monday, July 30, 2012
Summer Cooking – Healthy Camping Recipes
Camping trips are a great way for the family
to spend time together relaxing in beautiful places. When you’re camping, you
don’t want to pack everything but the kitchen sink in order to have a
nutritious meal. It’s more important to enjoy yourself rather than spending all
of your time preparing and cleaning up after each meal.
You don’t have to stick with potato chips and
hot dogs to keep it easy – the best camping food is quick and healthy. If
you’re taking an RV that makes cooking a whole lot easier but you can get
creative even if your tent camping. Remember to pack a camp stove and lighter
or make sure campfires are permitted where you’re going.
Provide easy-to-snack-on fruits and veggies
like baby carrots, celery sticks, snap pea pods, grapes, bananas, oranges, and
apples. Pair them with protein rich food like nut butters (peanut, almond,
cashew) and cheese. Muffins provide good nutrition, while also being a quick
treat. You can find recipes online with oatmeal,
fruit, and nuts, rather than just a sugar-filled cake.
If you’re backpacking, the lighter the load
the better. This is a great opportunity to trade out the older MREs
(Meals Ready to Eat) from your emergency kits. They make quick meals and it
gives you a chance to update your emergency kit. Make sure you have new ones to
place immediately into your emergency kit.
Check out these simple ideas for nutritious
meals using one pot and one pan.
Breakfast:
Heat water in the pot for hot drinks like coffee, tea and cocoa. Then use the
leftover water for instant oatmeal for breakfast. Serve in large paper cups so
clean up is a breeze. Smashed banana, raisins, and chopped nuts are a welcome
addition to hot cereal.
Lunch:
Sandwiches for lunch are quick and easy. A loaf of bread, sliced meat and
cheese, small bottle of sandwich spread, lettuce and tomato won’t take up too
much room.
Dinner:
Cook pasta in your pot. Drain and cover with a can of sauce and some frozen,
pre-cooked meatballs until heated. (Cans are safer to pack than glass jars.)
You can stir fry veggies in the pan with a splash of olive oil or butter,
garlic salt and pepper.
Get creative and make whole dinners like
thick stews in your pan. Spray pan with cooking spray. Cook ground meat first.
Slice vegetables to similar sizes. Denser vegetable like carrots and potatoes
should be slightly thinner slices than quick cooking veggies like summer
squash, sweet peppers or mushrooms. Add to pan. Pour on a can of favorite
marinara sauce and cook until veggies are tender. Season it with salt and pepper.
There’s just something about camping that
makes simple foods taste so good. It reminds us that we are happier when our
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