Easy Camping Recipes, Including Grilled Peanut Butter Sandwiches and Burger Bowls

Camping is popular summer activity and time around the campfire is an important part of the fun. Cooking meals the primitive way doesn’t have to be difficult and the foods prepared don’t have to be limited. Read ahead for easy camping recipes.

Easy Camping Recipes for Breakfast

Oatmeal
Ingredients:
Individual packets of instant oatmeal
water
(If you have a cooler, butter or milk makes the oatmeal much creamier)

Instructions:
Heat the water in a pot or pan and add the oatmeal. Stir until the oatmeal is the desired texture.

Eggs
Ingredients:
Eggs
Milk or water
salt and pepper

Instructions:
Crack eggs into a pot or pan. Add about a tablespoon of milk or water for every egg used. Add salt and pepper to taste. Scramble and cook until the desired consistency is reached.

Biscuits on a stick
Ingredients:
Canned biscuits
Stick

Instructions:
Roll biscuits out flat with your hands and wrap around a stick. Hold over the campfire until done. If you have butter, put it in the whole left by the stick.

Easy Camping Recipes for Lunch and Dinner

Easy Beef Stew
Ingredients:
1-2 pounds stew meat
1 bag of frozen stew vegetables
1 pouch of McCormick stew seasoning
1/2 stick of butter
meat marinade of choice
heavy duty foil

Instructions:
Marinate meat in an airtight container. Cut foil in large piece to make pouch. Put frozen veggies, meat and some marinade on foil. Sprinkle season package on mixture and add the butter on top. Fold foil into pouch and put it on top of fire or grill for about 60-90 minutes.

Burger Bowls
Ingredients:
ground beef
barbecue sauce
onions, finely chopped
potatoes, finely chopped
carrots, finely chopped
salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions:
On a large piece of foil put a shaped ground beef patty. Make a well, or bowl shape, in the middle. Spoon 1 tablespoon of barbecue sauce into the well. Add in vegetables, salt and pepper. Wrap up and cook until the vegetables are desired tenderness.

Grilled Peanut Butter Sandwiches
Ingredients:
Peanut butter
bread
Butter

Instructions:
Spread peanut butter on one piece of bread and put another slice on top to make a sandwich. Butter the outsides and cook on skillet till golden brown. Flip and do same to other side.

Pizza Sandwiches
Ingredients:
1 loaf of bread
1 jar of pizza sauce
1 package of pizza blend cheese
butter

Instructions:
Heat a skillet over the fire. Spread butter on 2 slices of bread. Spoon pizza sauce on unbuttered sides, sprinkle with the cheese and put the bread together. Place in skillet and brown both sides.

Easy Camping Recipes for Dessert

Applesauce Gingerbread Cake
Ingredients:
1 14 oz. can of applesauce
1 package of gingerbread cake mix

Instructions:
Pour applesauce in bottom of a cast iron skillet. Pour dry cake mix over applesauce. Cover and cook until moisture from applesauce has steamed the cake. Let cool but serve while still warm.

Donut Holes
Ingredients:
canned biscuits
cinnamon
butter
sugar
Instructions:
Cut each biscuits into three pieces and roll the pieces into balls. Stick the balls onto a skewer and brown them over hot coals until they are thoroughly done. (about seven minutes). Roll the balls in butter and then a mixture of sugar and cinnamon.

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