One of the best parts about camping is the food! Really! You won’t believe how good a hot dog tastes when you’re in the middle of the woods and you just spent 30 minutes building up a perfect fire to cook it on. Or how delicious hot chocolate tastes when you’re shivering in the morning. There’s something very rewarding about building a fire and cooking a meal on it. If it doesn’t burn, it tastes like the best thing in the world and bragging about your cooking/lack of ash that ended up in the meal is totally acceptable and encouraged!

When we camp we have certain meals that we eat a lot:
Car camping dinners: ground beef/potatoes/carrots/onions tin foil dinner, white fish/potatoes/spinach tin foil dinners, chili dogs, stews,
Backpacking dinners: pasta roni, freeze dried meals (hit or miss)
Desserts: peach cobblers, baked bananas stuffed with chocolate chips/mini mashmallows, s’mores, baked apples with cinnamon/sugar/butter
Breakfast: egg and sausage scrambles, pancakes and sausage, oatmeal
Hiking/ backpacking lunch: tuna packets and wheat thins

I’d love to hear what you like to eat and cook over a fire, any favorites?

And a couple other photos from our Trinity Alps camping trip:

Our own private fireworks show and amazingly the tent didn’t catch on fire! Success!