Easy Camping Recipes

Camping can be a fun family activity, and it's not hard to find easy camping recipes. Although you may quickly grow sick of hot dogs and smores. The following recipes for camping are very easy, and can even get the kids involved. Just remeber to keep a close eye on your kids when cooking over an open fire - accident can happen very easily!

Open Fire Recipes for Camping

CHEESY TOMATOES
6 slices of sharp cheese
2 lg. tomatoes
Paprika

Slice each tomato into 3 slices. Top each slice with a slice of cheese, sprinkle lightly with paprika. Broil, bake or place over fire until cheese melts, somewhat and browns. Use a piece of foil under each tomato slice. Serve on foil wrap to catch any cheese that might melt and run over tomato. You can use several versions of this recipe to make your own recipes for camping!

EGG IN A HOLE
Butter
Bread
Eggs

Butter bread lightly on both sides, place bread on flat object; I use butter bowl lid. Cut hole in center of bread with small glass or cup. Place piece of bread with hole in it on frying pan. Break open egg, put in the hole of the bread. Break egg yellow. Cook on medium heat until lightly brown or however you prefer your eggs, and toast. One of our favorite recipes for camping!

BROWN BEARS
1 c. sugar
1 tbsp. cinnamon
1 stick butter, softened
2-3 cans refrigerator biscuits

Mix sugar, cinnamon and butter together until well blended. Take the biscuits and roll in hands to form long snake like pieces. Butter hands first to prevent sticking. Wrap the snake like dough around a stick in a coil fashion. Cook over an open fire until cooked (should appear brown). Roll the cooked dough in the cinnamon mix and put some inside the hole the stick was in. One of the most kid-friendly and easy camping recipes.

BANANA SPLITS
Bananas
Marshmallows (miniatures)
Chocolate chips (mini-chips)

Slice bananas lengthwise in skins. Place the marshmallows and chocolate chips in the slit. Wrap the creation in foil and place on a charcoal fire until the chips and marshmallows melt. Use other ingredients and make your own kid-friendly recipes for camping.

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Dutch Oven Recipes for Camping

CAMP FIRE PIZZA
1 1/2 lbs. ground beef
1 pkg. pizza mix (complete with sauce)
1/2 lb. cheese, grated
Olives, sliced

Brown beef in open skillet and set aside to remain warm. Mix pizza dough as directed and divide into 8 equal portions. Form these portions into crust pieces about the size of doughnuts but of size enough to allow placing all 8 crusts into two Dutch ovens. Place the ground beef and cheese on the crusts; pour tomato sauce from pizza mix on each crust; then add sliced olives on top. Bake as directed, or about 25 to 30 minutes. Serves 8. Variations: Use sausage instead of beef or place chopped pieces of pimento or parsley on top of sauce.

COBBLER
1 (18.25 oz.) box yellow cake mix
2 (21 oz.) cans cherry, peach, blueberry or apple pie filling
1 stick margarine
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
2 tsp. ground nutmeg

Line Dutch oven with aluminum foil. Pour pie filling of your choice in the Dutch oven, spread evenly. Pour in yellow cake mix. Spread evenly. Cut 1/4 inch patties of margarine and place evenly along the top. Sprinkle cinnamon on top. Sprinkle nutmeg on top. Put about 23 charcoals on top of the Dutch oven and about 7 charcoals on the bottom. Cook 30 to 40 minutes or until cake mix is golden brown. Checking it about every 10 to 15 minutes.

DUTCH OVEN BISCUITS
3 c. flour
6 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
6 tbsp. cooking oil
1 c. milk

Mix all ingredients. Roll on flat, floured surface; cut out and place in bottom of Dutch oven. Cover with lid and bake about 15 minutes. Makes about 30 biscuits, and can be used with other easy camping recipes.

DUTCH OVEN POPCORN
Margarine
Popcorn
Salt

Melt 1 stick of margarine in Dutch oven. Cover most of bottom of the oven with one layer of popcorn. Place lid on the oven, and bake until the sounds indicate all the corn has popped; during the popping time, you should lift the oven by the bale and rotate the oven to better stir the whole batch of corn. Pour popped corn into a paper bag, pour additional melted margarine and salt for desired taste. Shake the bag to distribute salt. Serve while warm. One of the best snacks in our list of recipes for camping!

FRITO PIE
8 oz. bag of Frito's
2 cans Armour Chili
8 oz. pkg. shredded cheese

In Dutch oven, layer Fritos, chili and cheese. Cover. Place in hole and surround with charcoal. Let cook approximately 30 minutes. To cook in regular oven, put in casserole dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

BAKED APPLES
4 apples
1 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon

Core apples and peel about 1/3 down. Place apple on a square of foil. Mix cinnamon and sugar. Place in center of of apple. Bring foil up around sides and twist top. Cook slowly in Dutch oven or on coals for 45 to 60 minutes. Apples make great recipes for camping especially when there is an apple tree near by.

CAMPERS' STEW
Put in a Dutch oven size pan: 1 can corned beef, broken up
1 onion, diced
4 carrots, diced
4 potatoes, diced
Any leftover vegetables from previous meals

Combine and add enough water to cook the vegetables. This makes easy camping recipes when your fresh meat is used up and there isn't a store handy.

FISH-IN-FOIL
Fish fillets, one per person

--FOR EACH SERVING:--
2 tbsp. chopped carrots
1 thin slice of lemon
1 tsp. dried parsley

Using a sheet of heavy duty aluminum foil, place a fillet on foil with other ingredients on fillet. Bring foil edges together and seal the foil edges by folding them twice. Make a separate foil package for each person. Bake foil in Dutch oven or reflector oven for about 20 minutes or until fish meat flakes well. You may want to limit an oven to three or four foil packs and use an additional oven for other foil packages.

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Other Recipes for Camping

The following recipes for camping have been submitted by our visitors.

Recipes for Camping by Anita DeFrank
http://www.mommyshelperonline.com

Bread Pie
This recipe will require a pie iron. (A necessity for all easy camping recipes!)

Bread
Butter
Favoite Pie Filling

Butter one side of each slice of bread. Place a slice of bread (buttered side down) on one side of the pie iron. Top with pie filling and top with other slice of bread, butter side up. Cook your pie in the coals flipping them after a few moments. Check frequently until both sides are golden brown.
(Sprinkle apple pies with cinnamon.)

Bread Pizza
This recipe will require a pie iron.

Bread
Butter
Pizza Sauce
Mozzarella Cheese
Any favorite pizza toppings

Butter one side of each slice of bread. Place a slice of bread (buttered side down) on one side of the pie iron. Top with pizza ingredients and top with other slice of bread, butter side up. Cook your pizza in the coals flipping them after a few moments. Check frequently until both sides are golden brown.

Puppy Chow-Chow Mix
This is a great recipe to make beforehand to take along.

1 Cup Peanut Butter
1/4 Cup Butter
1 Cup Chocolate Chips
1 Cup Marshmallow Miniatures
8 Cups Corn Chex
2 Cups Powdered Sugar

Melt the peanut butter, butter and chocolate chips together. Pour over the cereal and marshmallows in a large bowl and stir well. Pour the cereal and marshmallow mix into a large paper bag and then add the powdered sugar. Shake the bag to coat the mixture thoroughly.

Split the chow-chow evenly into ziplock baggies for individual servings

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