My favorite thing about planning camping meals is being super creative while using minimal ingredients AND being healthy! Over the years, I have come up with some awesome meals and some terrible meals and will share my lessons learned with you. Such as, don’t pack hard boiled eggs. It’s gross.

Also, before we get into this… Patrick and I have tried really hard to eat healthy, even while traveling/camping. It is tough, but not impossible. (When I say healthy, I mean not overly processed or full of cane sugar. I’m a sucker for dairy.) It makes planning camping meals a bit difficult.

Alrighty then! Let’s get down to it!

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BREAKFAST

Breakfast Sandwiches:

This is one of the best camping meals I have ever conjured up for a breakfast. How’d I do it? You might ask? Well, I’ll tell you.

• We bought sour dough English muffins, sugar free bacon, delicious ‘real’ cheese, eggs annnnnd that’s it.
• You toast up the muffins, grill the bacon, cut the cheese and *cook the eggs. Once it’s all ready to assemble, add the cheese and wrap in foil.
• Once you get to your camping destination, and it’s breakfast time, put the fully foiled sandwiches in the fire or on the stove and let it warm up and Walla! You have a very filling and delicious breakfast sandwich!

*We whip up about 6 eggs with salt and spice and veggies, dump them into a 6×9 inch ceramic pan and throw it in the oven at 350 degrees and check on it after 20 minutes. Cut it into 6 squares and boom. You have 6 sandwiches.

Home Made Oatmeal:

• Buy baggies, steel cut oats, cinnamon, unsweetened coconut flakes, chia seeds, ground flax seeds, hemp seeds, raisins, honey and anything else you think would be good it it. Nuts? Cocoa Powder? Dried Bananas or Apples?
• Divvy it out into baggies (or a sustainable, light weight packaging and then tell me what it is so I can buy some.)
• When breakfast rolls around, poor it into boiling water and eat! It’s delicious!

Bagels and Cream Cheese:

• Buy your favorite bagels from wherever you like and your favorite cream cheese. Super filling and calories dense. It’s good for back packing.

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LUNCH

While camping, I keep lunch fairly simple. I like to keep it refreshing, light, and calorie dense. It’s important to consider nutrients and calories while planning camping meals.

Peanut Butter & Honey with an Apple:

• Buy whole grain wheat bread, *Adams peanut butter, organic honey, and an apple.
• Assemble, wrap, and enjoy at lunch time.

*I say Adams because that is the best peanut butter in the whole world and has no added sugars.

Cheese and Crackers:

• Buy your favorite crackers. I like original triscuits. They have three ingredients and none of them are sugar. I also like Simple Mills Almond Flour Crackers, which can be purchased at Costco.
• Buy your favorite cheese. I like cheese from the deli at the grocery store.
• Buy your favorite deli meat. Again, I like meat from the deli at the grocery store.
• Pack it all up separately and eat! Maybe bring a fruit or homemade hummus and carrots to eat it with?

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DINNER

Sausage and sauteed Veggies:

• Buy your desired sausages or chorizo. Whatever you prefer. Also buy favorite veggies… we got peppers, onion, garlic, and mushrooms.
• Cook the sausage. Cook the veggies. Put them in foil. Maybe two pieces of foil to prevent leakage. Plus keep it all a plastic bag for safe keeping.
• Go camping. At dinner time, pull out the foiled meal and put in fire for a bit or if you have a stove top, unwrap it and use foil as a cooking surface. (It helps immensely with clean up).

Couscous With Veggies:

• Make sure you have two cooking pots. (Find my favorite cooking pots HERE) and utensils and also a knife. Oh and Olive oil and salt and pepper.
• Buy an onion and pepper.
• Saute veggies in one pot.
• In another pot, bring water to a boil, add couscous, and cook it.
• Add veggies and eat!

Homemade Bone Broth Ramen:

Soups are really good car camping meals.

• Remember Adam’s peanut butter? Keep the glass jars because they are great for hauling around this meal!
• Make bone broth. Go to the deli department or butcher shop and ask for beef bones. Cook bones in water over night (8-12 hours) in a crock pot. Add salt and pepper and stuff. You can even add veggies if you like!
• Buy Lotus Foods Organic Millet & Brown Rice Ramen.
• Pour broth into an Adam’s jar. Keep dry ramen separate.
• When dinner time rolls around, poor broth into pot, heat up, add noodles and eat! It’s delicious!

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SNACKS

Protein Balls: (BEST SNACK EVER!)

These protein balls are my favorite camping meals ever. They’re my favorite everything meal really. I eat them before I exercise, while doing long races/runs, for breakfast, for snacks… literally always. Here’s how I make them.

• 1 cup dry oatmeal, 2/3 cup unsweetened coconut flakes, 3/4 cup Adam’s crunchy peanut butter, 1/2 cup ground flax seed, 2 tablespoons chia seeds, a generous amount of hemp seeds, 1/3 cup honey, 1/4 cup cocoa powder, and a teaspoon of Vanilla!
• Mix it together by hand or in your Kitchen Aid.
• Once it’s all combined, do a balling test. If it doesn’t stick together, add more peanut butter.
• Roll into bite sized balls and store in an airtight Tupperware in the fridge.

Homemade Trail Mix:

• Buy almonds, cashews, peanuts, raisins, and big unsweetened coconut flakes.
• Throw them into a baggy. Boom. Healthy trail mix.

Quesadillas:

• Make a quesadilla at home.
• Wrap the quesadilla in foil. Heat it up on a rock near the fire or on a stove top. Tasty snack.

I will definitely share more recipe idea’s in the future…

But for now, it sufficeth me to share these. I hope you enjoy these foods! Because I sure do. And like I said, don’t pack hard boiled eggs as a snack. They get gross and smooshed fast.

Also, I would advice against bringing really juicy chicken that isn’t properly wrapped. We did that on a back packing trip in bear country this year and… it spilled all over my back pack. Specifically my sleeping bag. Needless to say…. I spent a night fearing I was going to get eaten by a bear.

What are your favorite camping meals? Please share in the comments!

As always, safe travels! And don’t forget to Leave No Trace!