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Delicious Camping Recipes

After a day in the fresh air, your appetite is pinning the ravenous meter, you’re starving but not quite ready for some bland re-hydrated food. Camping recipes can help you slap together a delicious meal and really liven up your camping experience.

Roasting weenies and marshmallows over an open flame is fun and tasty, but that gets boring after a day or two. Make your trip more enjoyable by having a few simple recipes on hand.

Obviously, you're probably not going to be cooking up any seven course meals, but there are many simple recipes that are delicious when cooked over a campfire.

Camping recipes make the process of going camping easier. If your camping trips are anything like my old family trips, there is a lot of hectic running around, buying things at the last minute, throwing them into a cooler and running off. Which works... don't get me wrong, it's just that having an idea of what you're going to eat before you go will make life easier for you.

There are unique challenges in preparing meals out of doors without modern appliances. Cooking over an open fire is very different than putting something into an electric oven. Recipes for camping must be adaptable to temperature variations and require minimal cooking gadgets. You cannot bring a food processor into the woods!

Cooking over the camp fire is one of the best parts of camping. Anyone can bring some tin foil and wrap whatever they are going to eat in it, then cook it over the coals. That's pretty simple and fun, too.

Camping recipes just add to the fun of camping. Kids always love the tradition of making s'mores and roasting hot dogs over fire while gathering around to tell campfire stories.

A collection of tasty, easy to prepare meals can even include foods found in the woods such as fish and berries. Having a knowledge of how to identify and prepare these wild foods is something every camper ought to know.

So before you go camping again, check out the camping recipes here on this site. Take a look around on the internet, or go through a couple of cookbooks and find two or three simple recipes, and try them over the campfire. It might be a little challenging. You may have a few burnt spots here and there, but I promise you it's well worth the trouble!

Camping Recipe categories:

Beverages
Breakfast Ideas
Great Desserts
Dutch Oven
Foil Cooking
Great Grill Recipes
Great Main Dishes
Snack Ideas
Soups
Vegetables

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Totally Scrumptious Apple Dessert
Campfire Recipe Not rated yet
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*1 granny smith (or spy) apple cored and wrapped in tinfoil
*handful butterscotch ...

Hershey Kiss Not rated yet
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Top with desired amount of the following:

1 potatoe cut up ,some canned mushrooms,...

Dutch Oven Thanksgiving dinner '07 Not rated yet
This was my family Thanksgiving meal in 2007.

1 standing rib roast (choose size according to number of campers and money)
1-2 tsp oil
3-4 good-sized ...

Campfire apple dumplings for 2 Not rated yet
2 baking apples
2 tsp. marg.
2 tsp. brown sugar
4 unwrapped caramels
foil

Core each apple but leave whole. Slice just enough apple off the bottom ...