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Camping Cooking Tips You Must Know

For your next camping trip, you can impress your fellow campers by showing them your efficient cooking skills. Not a cook? Well it is not as hard as you think. You do not need a kitchen and the usual cooking utensils to prepare a delectable meal that you can enjoy while outdoors.
I’ve provided you 8 simple camping cooking tips below. To learn more, read on!

1. Decide what you want to prepare and measure ingredients in advance of every meal. Pack these in Ziploc bags and label appropriately. This will make it easier to stay organized as you cook.  Remember – if you are organized, you can better focus on making the meal taste good.

2. You can bring soups and stews. Just prepare ahead. Freeze these and keep in a cooler. Reheat them when it’s time to eat.

3. When cooking, cover pots. This will cook the food faster. Another reason for this is to keep insects and dirt out of your food.

4. For quick meals, use instant foods such as freeze dried noodles. They prepare fast and generally only require boiled water.

5. When cooking hamburgers and hotdogs, put holes in the middle of the buns for faster grilling. Be warned though – watch them closely so they don’t burn.

6. You can prevent marshmallows from sticking together by adding powdered sugar to the bag you store them in. The sugar forms a barrier that keeps the marshmallows separate. Further, and perhaps more important, who wouldn’t want extra sugar on their marshmallows?

7. When making egg sandwiches, cook your eggs in a canning ring. This will help give them those rounded, “professional egg sandwich” shape. Why does shape matter? For some reason, the mind associates good looking food with good tasting food.

8. Use a crock pot to save time. Prepare and start your dinner every morning before you go and do your activities. You will be delighted to see your food ready once you get back. Further, as the ingredients simmer throughout the day, the various flavors will run together, which will create an amazing blend for your taste buds.

Camping is fun. But, like most things in life, it’s even better with good food!

Maeyahn writes for state parks sites NDParks.com, where you can read her latest posts on how to choose folding camping chairs and picking camping lanterns.

Go take a family camping trip

A lot of people enjoy family camping; which can be very enjoyable, especially for kids. Family camping can help strengthen the bonds between family members; it is also a great way to relax and forget the different problems of everyday life.

The reason why you would bring your family with you on a family camping trip may vary. Some people want to be very active with their families, and the great outdoors help them do this. Other families go camping with their families to escape the different stresses and problems of everyday life. Going out in the woods with just you and a pop up tent can be a great experience.

Be sure that you check which family members are going with you on this trip. Each family member has different needs so make sure you know who is going with you on this camping trip, weeks in advance. You should also plan activities because some of your family members might get bored because they are not used to going camping. By doing this you can plan activities that everyone will enjoy and this will make your family camping trip all the more enjoyable. This goes for all other things regarding your family camping trip. Tailor your camping trip for your family because what works for other families may prove to be very boring, if your family is put in the same position. Doing this will make your family camping trip a lot more fun for you and for your family.

Choose a campsite that is big enough for you and your family and one that will provide a good level of comfort for you and your family. When planning a family camping trip let the members of your family make plans with you, or at least solicit their opinions. You do not want to do something that nobody agrees with just because your family members didn’t have any input in planning the family camping trip.

A family camping trip is a great way to teach the younger members of your family some survival skills, since there is no TV or computer of any kind in your campsite, it should be easy for you to convince them to do this if they are uncooperative.

Aside from some of the obvious hardships that come with planning a family camping trip and the stress of setting everything up once you are there, family camping trips can be fun and very rewarding. It may seem hard at first but it is very rewarding. There’s nothing like family bonding in a 3 man tent.

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