Easy Camping Recipes

You're planning a family camping trip. You choose a destination, get the camping gear out of the garage, pack the required equipment, organize the kids and off you go to the country.

You arrive at your destination more or less on time, unpack the equipment, relax, and with a calm smile on your face you say "aaah, finally... I've waited for this moment for so long, and here we are at last!"

And indeed, taking a vacation always brings a big smile to your face; But just a minute, haven't you forgotten something? Someone needs to prepare the food!

Yes, it's already obvious to you that here there is no dining room and no waiters to serve you dinner. Well you have chosen camping trip in the country, not a hotel, after all. Therefore between the trips, the activities and the kids, you will also have to prepare the food.

And I say, recruit the kids! not only to lighten the load but for the experience of the preparation.

A large part of the camping trip experience is based around the preparation of food under field conditions. So in addition to your regular recipes, get equipped with easy camping recipes for the kids, and allow them to take part in the preparation of food that you normally don't make at home.

Would you like some ideas for easy camping recipes? Here are a few that always go down well with the kids.

Easy camping recipes especially for kids

Barbequed corn

• Soak the cobs of corn in water with the skins on.
• Place the unpeeled corn on the barbeque until it's well done.
• Remove, peel, sprinkle salt and eat.

• Roast the eggplants on the barbeque.
• When the eggplants are well done, remove and peel.
• Mash the eggplants using a fork.
• Season with salt, black pepper, lemon and crushed garlic.

• Cut strips of different colored peppers (red, orange, green), eggplant, zucchinis and onions.
• Roast the vegetables on the barbeque.
• Remove the vegetables and season with olive oil, salt, pepper, crushed garlic and vinegar.

• Boil pasta shapes
• Cut up different colored peppers into cubes.
• Cut up black olives into halves.
• Mix the pasta with the peppers and olives.
• Season with olive oil, a little salt and ground black pepper.

• Cover the apple or pear with butter and sugar.
• Wrap the fruit in aluminum wrap and place on the barbeque.
• When the fruit softens, remove it from the barbeque, unwrap the aluminum wrap, allow to cool and eat.

Preparation of pita bread in the field is one of the most favorite activities for kids of all ages. The pita bread is baked on a saage, which is a special utensil for baking pita bread. It is made out of tin and is shaped like dome. The saage is placed on stones which are arranged around the burning coals.

• Pour into a bowl one kilo of flour and a little salt. Gradually, add water and kneed.
• The dough should be smooth but not too soft.
• Make small balls out of the dough (around 10-12)
• Flatten the balls and stretch using your hands until the dough is very thin. (If it is too thick it will not bake on the inside) Try to make sure that the dough is an even width. If it rips a little it doesn't matter.
• Place the dough on the saage, and bake on both sides.
• Remove the pita bread when it is dry on both sides.
• You can spread any kind of spread that you like to eat on the pita bread, although it's important to add that even without spread the pita bread is delicious.

Upgrading the pita bread

Pita bread with Zaatar

• After you have opened the dough spread a little olive oil and zaatar on it, and only then place the dough on the saage. The zaatar gives the pita bread a special flavor, and it comes out really delicious.
• You can also eat it with cream cheese or with labane and then it's a real delicacy!

Pizza from pita bread

• Prepare pizza sauce - mix tomato puree, salt, black pepper, oregano, crushed garlic and water in a bowl.
• Spread the dough with the sauce, sprinkle grated cheese extra toppings if you like them (olives, mushrooms, onions, etc.), and place the pita bread onto the saage. When the cheese has melted and the dough has hardened the pizza is ready to be eaten.