Outdoor & Camp Cooking
Tips, Ideas and Recipes
When preparing healthy cooking recipes for camp cooking, try packing these fruits and vegetables.
Some of them do not need refrigeration and most will keep for a few days (in their original skin).
| VEGETABLES |
FRUITS |
| bell peppers |
apples |
| onions |
oranges |
| avoocados |
pears |
| tomatoes |
melons |
| zucchini |
kiwi |
| eggplant |
grapefruit |
| mushrooms |
bananas |
| potatoes |
|
| corn |
|
| cucumbers |
|
If you want to go super light weight, there are many dehydrated fruit and vegetable options.
Many camp cooks like Just Tomatoes - a line of unique dried fruits and vegetables carefully selected and combined. They make great snacks and terrific ingredients for culinary treats. No Salt, No Sulfur, No Fat, No Sweeteners, No Preservatives - It’s the next best thing to eating out of your garden.
Recipes
Check back soon for some easy and fun healthy cooking recipes, camp cooking recipes, and outdoors cooking recipes.
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Outdoor Cooking Accessories &
Camp Cooking Equipment
Outdoor cooking accessories are essential to making your cooking experience hassle free, fast and easy.
Making pasta for spaghetti? You must have the light weight Collapsible 3 qt. Colander
!
Try some of these recommended outdoor cooking products and essentials when you are camper/car camping, backyard grilling or backcountry camp cooking.

Camp cooking in the Boundary Waters
Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA)
Canoe Camping Book
Written by expert Mark Scriver, this essential guide to canoe camping helps make your canoe trips fun and comfortable. Includes planning a smooth trip, choosing the right equipment, how to pack your gear efficiently, setting up camp, cooking with fire, stoves and ovens, and organizing and preparing meals.
Sierra Trading Post
$16.95
Collapsible 3 qt. Colander
Use 2/3 less storage space than standard bowls. Each has a rigid upper and lower rim with durable rubber sides -- expands for use and then collapses to store. Dishwasher-safe.
Camping World
$11.10
Open Road Cookbook

Along with over 200 recipes are Joanna's survival tips for cooks on the move, including the best brands for healthy eating, ways to prepare foods before you leave home, food transport for picnics and potlucks, pre-trip grocery shopping and more.
Camping World
$16.66
Rambler Grill

Ground auger design allows for easy setup - no stake to drive in the ground! Large 222 sq. in. cooking grate holds up to 15 hamburgers. Adjustable height regulates the cooking temperature for perfect grilling. Folds easily for transport in included carry bag.
Camping World
$44.44