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Submitted by jjmtacoma on Sat, 08/13/2011 - 9:02am

RL will require my presence for a few days, so I won't be able to post any recipes.

Kathryn had a great idea to do a "camping recipe" post where we could share recipes for cookouts or camping.

Hopefully there are campers/hikers who can help out because when I go camping I bring things like instant oatmeal, bagels with cream cheese and hot dogs cooked over the fire on sticks. I usually bring bags of cut up and easy to snack on fruit and vegetables too.

I have seen dump cake made in a camping style dutch oven (they have legs that allow them to stand on coals) over a campfire and it was so good...

For hiking we put instant milk powder and cereal in baggies. Then when it is time to eat, add water and shake it in the bag. This stuff is nasty and really should only be eaten if you are starving after walking all day with all your worldly goods strapped to your back while being bitten by mosquitos and horseflies. Oh yes, you should also have feet covered in blisters and a sunburn in the places you couldn't reach with sunscreen.

Then it tastes OK.

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Submitted by Kathryn on

"Then it tastes OK." It still reminds me too much of baby yak, and invites the same response now as then. I'd vote straight up dry cereal first.

But yes to camping out food favorites. And other asst odds and ends. Like coating the outside of pots going over the campfire with dishwashing soap. And then watching all the burned stuff just peel off clean when they cool. Everyone on clean up duty loved this one.

Anyone else remember oranges with peppermint sticks stuck in them as straws?

And going wayyyyyyyyyy back to the early girl scout days, two weeks in the summer on the Rock River in Northern Illinois: making sit-upons and doing simple knots in them for practice for whatever the hell badge that was. Damn I'm old.

I will contribute campfire banana boats.

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