You’ll love this one. It’s my favorite camping recipe.

• 12 cans of beer.

My buddy made this one day while camping. He brought a cast iron Dutch oven and a tripod with some chain. Set the tripod up over the camp fire. Chopped some potatoes onion carrots celery garlic and cube some chuck. Browned the chuck in the Dutch oven and then threw in the veggies. Added some water salt and pepper, raised the pot and let stew for a few hours. 15 minutes before pulling the stew he popped open a tube of pre-made biscuits and threw them on top of the stew, put the lid back on and pulled some coals from the fire and put them on top of the Dutch oven. Campfire beef stew and biscuits.

I’m a big fan of foil packs. Protein veggies seasoning garlic and butter in a folded foil pack. Place a grate over the fire and toss the foil packs on, flip after a few minutes then pull and eat.

We call them “turtles”.

Ingredients:

• Hamburger patty
• Salt/pepper
• Onion
• Diced potato
• Butter

Prep:

Put the burger patty on a sheet of aluminum foil, salt/pepper to taste, and throw the onion slices, butter, and diced potatoes on and around it. Fold the rest of the foil around it to seal it up. Toss it on the hot coals of the campfire for about an hour. Eat right out of the foil.

These aren’t part of the “turtles”, but we also usually wrap an ear of corn in foil with some butter, salt, and pepper and throw it on the coals alongside them.

This is to be made before camping / hiking, not during, but:

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Ingredients

180g butter
60g brown sugar
4 tablespoons maple syrup

250g porridge oats
50g mixed nuts
150g dried cranberries (or raisins)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

200g dark cooking chocolate

Steps

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C

2. Melt the butter in a saucepan with the sugar and maple syrup.

3. Once melted into an homogenous liquid, add the oats, nuts, cranberries, and cinnamon. Mix well until everything has an even coating.

4. Spread onto a baking tray and bake in the oven for 15m.

5. Remove from the oven to cool.

6. Once cooled, melt the chocolate and spread on top.

7. Allow to cool and restrain yourself from consuming until out in the hills.

For the sake of simplicity I often don’t bother melting the chocolate on top, and just take it separately.

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Tortillas

Avocado diced Tomato diced Onion half diced Lemon squirt Salt Pepper

Bunch of beer

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I do 90% of my camping with my kids’ Scout Troop so cast iron dutch oven meals are always high on my list. There are so many choices and some great flavorful options. We do a good chicken pot pie in a dutch oven with american biscuits (like the beef stew mentioned previously). And, of course, any sort of fruit cobbler in a dutch oven will always be a winner.

Foil packs are really great because kids (and adults) can do a choose-your-own-adventure. Want lots of veggies, you got it. Want zero veggies, you got it as well. As long as you have moisture and heat, you can get a tasty meal.

One perennial favourite is an improvised Palak paneer with cauliflower and cottage cheese. Wholly unpractical on the other hand (500 g fresh spinach per person) but handy otherwise (needs a long time on low heat, perfect for Trangia).

Spinach down as fine as you can get it. Oil, butter, garlic, chili in deep pan with lid. Get hot, add spinach, simmer until smooth. Add curry, mix, add rest, enjoy.