Have You Missed Out On Camping Food?
January 29, 2008
I did an awful thing to my son, I never took him camping. My husband and I traveled all over the country in our travel trailer. We stayed in Arizona, Southern California or Florida in the winter. We visited upstate New York in the fall, the Smoky Mountains in the summer. Just wherever we got the urge to go. But once Tony was born, we sold the travel trailer and settled down outside the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and never went camping again. So he never got to have camping food experience like I did.
I feel sorry for people who have never experienced waking up in a campground, going out starting a fire and sitting around cooking and eating breakfast outdoors. So, as a consequence of not ever doing those things, my son thinks he wouldn’t like it. My feeling is that he is missing out on some great experiences. He thinks the tent is too small, the ground is too hard, there are bugs everywhere, you can’t take a shower in the middle of the woods, bla bla bla. The list goes on forever. But instead of doing that, I address the finer aspects of wilderness life. There’s the fresh clean air, the moon and stars above, the peace and quiet, the solitude and of course the tasty camping food. Need I say more?
One of my favorite parts of camping out as a kid was the food. But that was back in the day when I didn’t do the cooking. Check this out; hamburgers and hotdogs roasted over a campfire, soft drinks in a cooler, and marshmallows turning into charcoal over the fire. Now that’s what I call camping food. My father even showed us a way to take it to the next level. First you build a good hot campfire. Wait until some of the wood burns down and you have a good red-hot bed of coals to work with. Then you prepare the meal. Dice up potatoes, carrots, onions, and steak. Place a heap of it, mixed together, inside a fairly large piece of aluminum foil. Wrap it up really well and make certain there are no holes. Now place that wrapped meal into the bed of coals. You’ll want to use a set of tongs to do this, and especially to take it out. Let it cook for a good thirty minutes and then check its progress. If it’s not quite done to your liking, stick it back for as long as you see fit. This makes for one outstanding meal, and some of the best camping food I’ve ever tasted.
Don’t knock Mother Nature until you’ve relaxed a bit in her vast serenity. The great outdoors is the ideal place to get away from it all, because you really can get away from it all. Take a camping trip with your family this summer, and really learn more about one another. Without the distractions of TVs, PCs, cell phones and IPods. Oh, and be sure to take along plenty of great camping food. That’s the best part! Camping food is just one aspect of the whole camping experience and even though it is called ‘roughing it’ I can’t imagine a nicer way to spend a vacation.
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