Easy camping recipes

I agree with dumdum - nothing better than chilli con carne. My recipe is slightly different - mince, onion, green pepper, kidney beans, chilli powder (NOT seasoning) and the magic ingredient of Condensed tomato soup. Can cook in advance and reheat (though the chilli will be more intense if pre-cooked).

My children loved 'Harbour Stew', so called because my DH used to do long distance sailing, and on their last night would use up any tins left in their food store! I used to sling tins of meatballs, baked beans, new potatoes, spaghetti hoops, soup etc into a saucepan and simply reheat. Very yummy!

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i went camping in a motor home with my now ex husband and children years ago. children were 1 and 4.
i decided i wasn't going to spend hours cooking and we all ate what was put in front of us which was handy.
i took a tin of m&s chunky steak, tins of peas and carrots and also a tin of baby new potatoes. added all these together and then cooked a suet crust pastry lid separately. went down a storm.
i was also a believer in instant mashed potato - used with "extras" it was a tasty ingredient. a tin of m&s minced steak topped with instant mash and accompanied by peas and carrots were lapped up too.
but i discovered something which they used to ask for when we were home for years after - a cheese and potato pie.
i fried onions in butter [bear with me here], melted grated cheese in milk and then used the milky cheese mixture to make the instant mash [had to add some water too] and then stirred in the buttery onions. topped with extra cheese and put under the grill until brown and accompanied by either sausages or fried eggs [or in the husband's case both] they made a tasty filling dish.
i also had a tin of m&s chicken in white sauce but what i did with that i just don't remember now [this is over 40 years ago!!] but i expect it went down very well.
before my daughter and 2 grandaughters moved in with me i very often made the same meals for quickness as i can't stand for very long to cook the "proper" thing.
hope you have a wonderful camping trip and that it doesn't rain!! it was different in a motor caravan - if it rained then we just drove somewhere else.

Hi have you tried a bbq grill mat price is about £3.25 and my son loves it fried eggs vegetables bacon. Google it. So while your kettle boils you can be cooking brekkie on the bbq

Tins were our main standby..a favourite meal was a tin of mince ( not veggies then) mixed with a tin of new potatoes, and carrots, peas, sweet corn.. no preparation and just one pan to wash. Just don't forget the tin opener!

You can do a stir fry easily. You can buy a pack of cooked chicken, a pack of stir fry veg, a jar or sachet of sauce and a pack of ready cooked noodles.

Cut potatoes into small cubes and put on to boil, when they are half-done add mince, onions, finely chopped and boil until cooked through. Or boil potatoes first and then make all the rest in a frying pan, including the cooked potatoes.

Please, if you make sausage and mash in advance and freeze it, make sure to eat it the first evening, as sausages can go off and give a very nasty and quite dangerous tummy upset!

When we self-catered- camping or caravan we would take tins of curry/chilli and boil in the bag rice; corned beef, mash and beans or, as we discussed on here awhile ago, tins of Fray Bentos meat pie. As much as we enjoyed them on holiday we never had them at home.

Ha ha annesixty and lupatria, what a blast from the past! We used to camp and later caravan, and we always took those M+S tins of chunky chicken, minced steak, steak chunks, and the curries too. The kids loved them, especially the chunky chicken in white sauce. We also took tins of peas, carrots etc, and tins of potatoes and even the packet mash, think it was called Smash. We also did barbecues and we did the barbecued bananas with chocolatBe someone mentioned. Yes, happy days indeed