My friend and I are goin camping this weekend and will be gone 3 days. Does anyone have any easy, cheap, and veggie friendly food ideas?
i was wondering the same thing. i want to go campin sometime soon, and i'm a vegan and have no idea what i'll eat.
I will assume you are cooking with an open fire. Take your favorite veggies slice them thin Then take 2 sheets of foil, on 1 put your veggies in the center, season to taste, Put some butter on before and after the veggies to help prevent scortching. Fold the first sheet around the veggies a couple of times folding the ends down to the veggies. You want this to be a nice flat tight bundle to make it easier to turn. With the second repeat the process making sure the folds are on the opposite sides this time.If you like meat you can add sausage or hamburger to this to. If you want corn on the cob you will need to soak the corn with the husk still on for a few hours. wrap in foil.(single sheet wrapped around 4 or 5 times.) Once this is on the fire keep turning it often.
My wife and I will be car camping in CO for the 1st week in aug. We were shopping at a large asian grocery and we found vegetarian Indian entrees that come in a foil pouch (which is sold in a cardboard carton). Just heat the foil pouch in hot water and serve on rice. Dont eat the pouch! Remember, everything tastes better when you are far from 'civilization'. Enjoy your trip.
if you're really adventuress try to read up on or ask around for info about local foilage and what you can eat I like to go out into the bush with just dried goods and a bit of oil and spices and have a go at err au naturelle, of course I eat fish aswell so I guess that's a no no for ya
pasta is great to bring camping. instead of lugging a jar of sauce along, though, just season it with oil or butter, parmesan cheese (not a soft, fatty cheese - spoils too easily) and spices. you can also mix up all the dry ingredients for bannock (bread-on-a-stick) or pancakes in one bag, write the amounts of water/milk/oil to be added on the bag, and pack the wet ingredients separately in plastic squeeze bottles to be mixed in when needed. careful with milk, though. it's best to bring dried milk. potatoes, yams, apples, corn, carrots, onions, and various roots can be wrapped in tin foil and baked in the coals after the fire's gone out. lentils travel well and cook quickly. 1 part red lentils to 2 parts water, i think. hummus, falafel and tabbouleh mix are fantastic on a camping trip - just add hot water and spices and maybe some onion and serve. they're cheap and filling and light and they travel well. freeze-dried meal packages are easy to find, and many are vegetarian. you can get curries, beans'n'rice, soups, pastas, that kinda thing. they're actually quite tasty, last years, and they're perfect for travelling, but they tend to be expensive. also, if you're lucky enough to own a dehydrator, you can dehydrate just about anything to make it travelling food. pasta sauce, soups, vegetables, fruit, fruit leather, and tofu jerky can all be made this way. just put the pasta sauce and soups into a little boiling water to cook them. mushrooms dry and rehydrate well, and can be made into great soups and other dishes. if you don't have a dehydrator, it's possible to dry things in the sun or in the oven, but i don't know how to do it. and of course, there's always trail mix and granola bars. good luck!
oh, and for a shorter camping trip (2 nights, or 1 night if it's really hot) you can bring fresh milk if you freeze it solid. it stays fresh a lot longer, and it keeps everything else cold.
-Pasta is excellent -And for breakfast muesli with Full Cream Milk Powder (you only need to get water) -dried fruits and nuts (if you get hungry between the meals)
oh, a very important tip: always PLAN YOUR MENU! know what you're going to make for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day of your trip. that way you have a better idea of how much of everything you should pack, and you won't find yourself 2 days into your trip with nothing left but useless odds and ends that you couldn't make a meal with. harvest foodworks is a company that makes great freeze-dried camp food that's usually vegan. look for their stuff in camping stores. pricey, but good. and it lasts forever. i'm going on a 3-day hiking trip soon and i'm just figuring out the menu. i've decided to make lentil soup for dinner one night. this is the basic recipe i've worked out in my head: 2/3 pot of water 1 1/2 cups red lentils 1 small can tomato paste 1 medium onion, chopped 2 carrots, chopped lots of garlic, minced basil sautee carrots and onion until tender. add half of the garlic, sautee 1 minute, and stir in tomato paste. then gradually add water, stirring constantly, until water fills 2/3 of the pot. add lentils, the rest of the garlic, and basil. cover and cook until lentils are done. i think it'll be pretty good!
nut butter (no refrigerator). my friends have be known to cook just about anything that we have cooked at home (stove/over/etc).
We always just get a few packages of that Lipton stuff... it's called like Pasta Sides or Asian Sides or whatever... anyway, it comes in a bag, and all you do is add water and a little milk. It makes a whole bunch and you can easily make a meal of it, and they're always like 5 for $3 at Kroger... they're pretty good, too.
Yeah, they're everywhere here. I don't go very often... everyone that works there is really weird. Plus, I have kind of a grocery store phobia....
hehe....i know the only one around here was about 45 minutes away.....and i'm not sure if they are even open anymore.....i always got a weird vibe going in there..... your grocery store phobia intriques me.....i have a phobia of big box stores in general.....walmart freaks me out to no end...
we take a frying pan and make quesadillas with corn tortillas and cheese, or vegan cheese if you dont eat dairy... they are pretty good.
