You just have to remember the night before! This is something I do regularly, but it's just as easy to do it while camping. Camping Menu 2nd Day Breakfast: Soaked Steel Cut Oats w/ Berries + Eggs + Baconĭid you know that oats contain phytic acid, which prevents your body from absorbing some of the nutrients in the oats? Soaking the oats help to break down or neutralize the phytic acid so those nutrients can become available. I buy ours from a local baker occasionally for a treat like this.)īONUS: Barely any cleanup! So you can just relax by the fire for the rest of the evening. (I don't have a sourdough starter yet, but if you do, here's a nice recipe you could use to make your own bread. Serve with a slice of sourdough bread slathered in butter. Cover with a lid and cook on your camp stove or over the fire until completely thawed and warmed through. Pack it at the top of your cooler, then take it out right when you get to your site so it can begin to thaw.īy the time you are set up, it will have thawed enough to pop out of the container into a pot. Store half of it in the freezer in a freezer-safe container.
Sometime a week or two before your trip, make this soup for dinner and double it. Then you have to set everything up (quickly, if there's a threat of rain!) and then cook a meal?! You are definitely capable, but it's probably not what you'd rather be doing after a long day. Usually, it's been quite the journey to get there, with all the planning, preparing and packing. Having a ready made meal for the day you arrive at camp is just the best. MOST campsites have a fire pit with a partial grill on top. We use a Coleman cookstove for some of our cooking, but all of these meals can be campfire meals if you don't have one. This meal plan is designed for a regular weekend camping trip, where you arrive on a Friday night and go home Sunday afternoon. So the moral of the story is, have an easy meal prepared for your arrival because you never know what's going to happen!Īnd having a meal plan for the whole trip always makes for a smoother camping experience, no matter what adventures come your way! (especially since the tarp we put under the tent was basically a sieve!) It subsided pretty quickly and when we had gotten most of the water to drain from the site (an hour or so later), my husband went inside to check it. Then I stood there, holding the tarp up, as the water flowed, hoping and praying that by some miracle the tent would remain dry. I jumped in there to grab my bag, handed it to my husband and then lifted the tarp that was under our tent, almost seconds before the water would have started flowing over it. We have a vestibule on the front of the tent, where I had (obviously without thinking) placed my bag of clothes temporarily when unpacking. There was a river of water coming down the road, down the driveway of our site and going RIGHT UNDERNEATH OUR TENT. My husband went around to the front of the tent and quickly yelled for me. Soon the water was pooling in our kitchen area, then near one corner of our tent, so we started digging a trench to pull the water away. I was confident we would be totally protected if it rained.Īs soon as we were wrapping up eating, it started to rain, just very gently for a little while.Īs we were cleaning up from the meal, it started to POUR, so we hung out under our tarp and waited. I planned for soup on our arrival day and it was the perfect, quick supper for after setting up.
The meal plan in this post was the one I created and used for this trip. We got to the site around 4 pm, set up our tent and our cooking area with tarps over both since there was a little bit of rain in the forecast. I love camping!! But it's not all sunshine and daisies.Ībout one week ago we started our most recent camping trip.
Print out the free menu plan and food packing list, and you'll be set! This post contains affiliate links, which means I make a small commission at no extra cost to you. A healthy and simple weekend camping meal plan designed for a 3-day trip.