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Permalink Reply by Joseph on January 30, 2013 at 2:19pm

Great activity to bond with kids!

I love cooking at home and at camp.  I ave a 6 year old.  He is helping more and more.

I give him jobs to do and let him do as much as he wants.  Usually I end up "finishing" but he is into it.

breakfast

Obviously pancakes.  Mix.  Bring eggs and some canola/vegetable oil for the batter and for the griddle.  A cast-iron griddle or fry pan makes life better.  Especially with the concentrated heat of a Coleman stove, thin cheap pans, non-stick or otherwise, are very prone to burn foods.

Frogs in a hole.  The old camping classic.  Slice of bread, cut hole with edge of last nights empty soup or bean can, lay on hot greased pan, drop egg into the "hole".  cook, flip.

Dinner

We like spaghetti and meatballs 9or sausage).  Meatballs for kids can simple be ground burger or turkey-burger rolled into a ball.  They don't like all the garlic and oregano and everything else in a normal meatball.  So kiddo can roll up some meatballs- you can "finish up" any that have no resemblance to a sphere.  Spaghetti needs no instructions.

I like what my dad used to call "goulash"..  But this camp version is not real goulash.  big fry pan. Brown up some hamburger.  Set aside.   slice potatoes pretty thin (maybe 1/8"), start cooking in fry pan with plenty of oil, add one sliced onion, a bit of fresh garlic chopped if you want, maybe some sliced peppers, salt, add the cooked hamburger.  Medium heat.  or medium low.  Keep cover on; helps cook faster.  Keep scraping the bottom with the flipper and turn over the cooked stuff and let the uncooked stuff hit the bottom.  Scrape and flip, scrape and flip.  done when potatoes are done...maybe 35 minutes.

those are my sure bets.

Have fun!  don't forget the s'mores stuff!

Permalink Reply by Nick Kosiek on January 31, 2013 at 10:05am

Joseph,

  Thanks for the ideas.  I will definitely incorporate these into our next outing in a few weeks.  S'mores are definitely on the list all ready.  We look forward to trying these out.

Permalink Reply by Robbie on February 5, 2013 at 2:04pm

Campfire chili dogs are great if your daughter is in to spicier food. They're relatively easy to put together -- basically just hot dogs with some extras -- and very tasty. And for breakfast there are some surprisingly tasty variations you can put on oatmeal (peanut butter and banana for instance) that most kids will like and which are very easy to put together.

Permalink Reply by Paul_of_TX on February 5, 2013 at 2:54pm

One item that my family loves when camping is the pie iron. We bring along pizza sauce with some cheese and peperoni and make hot melty pizza sandwiches. Even your regular meat and cheese sandwich taste better toasted with the cheese melted. For breakfast I sometimes scramble up a raw egg and put that into the pie iron then cook it in the fire; just be careful not to spill any egg out the side. Then I take that egg and make a breakfast sandwich. We have not done this but I have talked to others that take pie filling and make dessert type sandwiches with pie irons. Prep work and clean up are easy with the pie iron and the kids can help out and actually be the one who does the cooking. It's easier than cooking a hotdog over a fire.

Permalink Reply by Brian Splash on February 7, 2013 at 6:24am

When I go camping I have the luxury of an ice box so I can take in fresh veg and make salads to accompany all the meat .
Two of my faves are couscous ( kids should find this easy to make ) add sliced chillis peas and spring onion . Another is corn on the cob cooked on the grill when cooked cut the corn off the cob add spring onion , sliced chilli .

Permalink Reply by Rafal Szpiczakowski on April 6, 2013 at 10:06pm

Hi well she is only five, so she will have particular taste and favourite foods. Ask her what she would like to eat at camping, and/or what she likes at home. Use your observasion skills at home to see what she likes at home, and try to match it on small scale on camping trips. There are alot of food for camping so you would find something that's long lasting and easy to cook, especially for her needs. Also there are a lot of sites for cooking on budget, and/or kids. Some big supermarkets would or should have some magazines for free, on how to cook quick and easy meals for young kids. Ask around what kids like, and start doing it at home in the backyard like camping. So if anything gose wrong you can learn from it. Thank you

Permalink Reply by Carl M on May 27, 2013 at 4:07am

Don't forget some hotdogs and sticks and a can of pork & beans and cook both in an open fire. Just one of those simple camping things kids like.