Camping Food That Tastes Great And Is Easy To Cook

Camping might mean a bad night's sleep to some, but it doesn't have to mean bad food too. Sometimes food tastes best after a day in the great outdoors, that is unless it was bad food to begin with. Great food doesn't have to be prepared in a kitchen. The experienced camper can find simple foods that taste delicious, travel well, and require little to no time to prepare. Here's what Wisconsin campers recommend.
Let's start with dinner on the first night out. Whether by car, canoe, or foot, the first day of any camping trip is usually busy with travel. Upon arrival, tents must be pitched and supplies unpacked. The first night's camping dinner should be the easiest one to prepare. On this night, Wisconsinites often pull out the pre-cooked bratwursts. Bratwursts and wieners typically don't squash when transported in a backpack. Wrapped in bread or a bun, they don't require utensils to eat. A little mustard is a great compliment, but a sausage that tastes great to begin with can do without condiments.
Camping doesn't mean campers have to do without healthy vegetables. Campers just need veggies that don't need cooking. Pickled asparagus, green beans, mushrooms and Brussels sprouts provide low-carb, green nutrition and taste delicious. For easy, light-weight transport, seal the pickled vegetables into a Ziploc bag then insert this bag into a larger, Ziploc bag. Seal the outer bag with lots of air to serve as a cushion for the inner bag of veggies, - the method is akin to bubble-wrapping your side-dish. The light-weight bags can then be easily stuffed into a pack or cooler.
For dessert, pack cookies. No utensils needed to deliver great flavor and fun. Extra-special, decorated cookies will bring a smile to any reluctant campers in the group. Packed in tins, cookies will stay fresh, dry, and intact.
For breakfast, Wisconsin campers either go fast and light with high-energy breakfast bars, or do it up right with pancakes, Canadian bacon, and thick-sliced, applewood-smoked bacon cooked in a skillet over a campfire or on a Coleman stove. As long as grumpy-to-rise campers can get gourmet coffee with their breakfast, they won't be too particular about the rest of the menu.
Now, camping recommendations for the trail. Trail-mix is the obvious choice for the hiker or paddler. Nuts and dried fruit pack well and provide quick energy. Plus, neither squish nor leak like fresh fruit and they don't crumble like chips. Of course, they're also healthy. For easy lunches or late-afternoon snacks, break out some summer sausage and crackers. Summer sausage made from elk, venison, and buffalo is the leanest meat snack available. They're high-protein, low-carb food with great flavor. They pack well and only require a pocket-knife for slicing. Since summer sausages are cured meats, they are not as temperature sensitive as other meats and therefore can last a few days on the trail.
Just remember, great food makes happy memories. Even vacations on which everything goes wrong will be remembered with good humor and laughter if everyone ate terrific food along the way.