How To Do This? Camping And Need Help

[macocha]

This will be our first trip camping after having the diagnosis of celiac. Usually we like quick treats, but will have to pre-make a lot of those.

what are essential items you would make or take. We tent camp, so coolers are it for us and storing cold-items.

thanks

[Juliebove]

This will be our first trip camping after having the diagnosis of celiac. Usually we like quick treats, but will have to pre-make a lot of those.

what are essential items you would make or take. We tent camp, so coolers are it for us and storing cold-items.

thanks

I haven't been camping for many years but I think food would only keep for a few hours in a cooler unless you had some way of replacing the ice. I would try to bring as much as possible that doesn't require refrigeration. Like MRE's or canned beans (and other veg) and rice. Maybe some canned meat.

[tarnalberry]

If you're car camping (not backpacking), you can get a day or two out of a lot of ice in a well packed cooler kept in the shade. It also means you can bring plenty of canned goods and make meals out of those. Think canned veggies and meat (like tuna). Fresh fruit may be just fine, depending on where you're going and how long you're out.

[macocha]

we are going to the coast of Oregon. Cooler with ice and stuff will keep things pretty well cold, and we will replace ice over and over. That isn't my issue so much as for snack ideas that I can pre-make and take. I have only started the celiac journey so don't have a lot of ideas yet. we love to camp and do so every year, but just not with the quick eating ideas we have in the past.

it is probably a simple thing and I am just complicating matters...lol

[Khara33]

We recently went camping by the Guadalupe. We took some camping stoves and made fajitas with corn tortillas. Later that night we roasted marshmallows, and the next morning we had little smokies for breakfast, and then hot dogs for lunch. (We warmed our gluten-free bread on the stove.) We also packed things like fruit, breakfast bars-gluten-free of course, chips and salsa, and other non-perishables. We also took eggs to cook for breakfast. We kept everything in a cooler, but we did have to make one trip for ice. Hope that helps give you some ideas.

[mushroom]

Hard-boiled eggs (in the shell) are good keepers and are a good standby for sandwich filling, protein for salads, mashed and added to tuna salad. Popcorn would be fun to try over a camp fire. A bag of meatballs would make a good snacky type lunch food. Make up some bruschetta-type toast rounds and keep in a plastic bag, and you can pile all sorts of stuff on those. I also love snacking on garlic croutons - always use my old bread for those. TJ's pre-cooked spicy chicken sausages take very little time to heat up in a pan and are good cut up for snacks too - don't even need mustard. Oven fries to just heat in a skillet - everyone loves fries.

[Dixiebell]

Chex cereals have snack recipes on their boxes. Chocolate, cinnamon and honey nut flavors. Fruity Pebbles marshmallow bars(not very healthy, but tasty.) My husband and I like freeze dried fruit. My 9 yr old likes Enviro Kids chocolate crispy rice bars. The snack packs of fruit would be good. If you can have nuts those would be good too, we love cashews. You could also pre-pop the popcorn or cooking it over the fire would be fun.

[GlutenFreeManna]

For snacks:

Trail mix (can make your own with mixed nuts, raisins/craisin and M&M's)

Popcorn (Is Jiffy Pop gluten-free? If so get a few of those and try making it over the fire)

Dried fruit

Chips (Lays Stax or Fritos come to mind)

Apples and banana (get somewhat green ones, they will ripen fast)

Marshmallows to roast over the fire

Rice cakes

Peanut butter and jelly (can make PB&J rice cakes)

carrot sticks

Tortilla chips and salsa (could also do nachos as a meal)

Watermelon or other sliced melon (cut in advance and keep in cooler)

Hummus (dip carrot stick or tortilla chips or other veggies)

For meals:

Pancakes from gluten-free pancake mix (If you have a camp stove you can make these easily)

Bacon and eggs (also easy to do on a camp stove or tripod cooker over the fire)

Potatoes (you can wrap in foil and make baked potatoes in coals)

Hot dogs (to roast over the fire, make sure gluten free)

Potato salad (make in advance, the kind without mayo and it will keep for a few days in the cooler)

Spring rolls (get rice paper wrappers and wrap up favorite veggies with sauce, these can be made in advance and will keep for a few days in the cooler)

Corn on the cob (wrap in foil and cook in coals)

Tuna