Easy Camping Recipes
For Delicious Camping Meals

With these easy camping recipes, you'll be able to plan, pack and prepare delicious camping meals that your family will love.

What makes a good camping recipe?

It is quick and easy.

Some of the prep work can be done at home.

It uses simple, healthy ingredients.

It packs and transports easily. (Click here for hints on packing your camping food.)

It needs few pots or utensils.

It makes a delicious and satisfying meal that the whole family will enjoy.

It can be cooked over a campfire or on a camp stove.

5 piece kitchen gadget

All 5 pieces in this great kitchen set stack together in any order - a great space saving kitchen gadget for your camping trip!

You want to spend your holiday enjoying yourself, not fussing with meals - and with these easy camping recipes, you'll be able to do just that!

I am always testing new recipes for easy camping meals, so bookmark this page and check back often!

Not sure where to begin? Here's a ready-made camping menu.

Some of my favorite easy camping recipes

Breakfast

As your mother probably told you, breakfast is the most important meal of the day - and that's even more true when you are camping. You need lots of food to fuel your day's adventures!

Oatmeal is the perfect camping breakfast. It's simple, nutritious, filling - and tasty! You might be surprised to discover how easy it is to cook oatmeal from scratch. Once you've tried the real thing, you won't go back to the prepared sugary packets.

Muffins are a popular breakfast food in my family. I like to make a batch before I leave home. For a quick and easy breakfast, serve muffins with fresh fruit. Here are my favorite healthy muffin recipes.

French toast is easy to make, delicious, and hearty enough to fuel your family for a morning of camping fun. Learn how to make French toast here.

Pancakes with bacon is our favorite camping breakfast! You can use a mix, or make your own pancakes from scratch. It's much easier than you might think!

Lunch

Many of these easy camping recipes for lunch work well for supper, too.

Quinoa Salad is light but filling - the perfect meal on a hot day! It's as attractive as it is tasty. Here's the Quinoa Salad recipe I use.

Marinated Baked Tofu is one of my favorite vegetarian camping recipes. Served cold, it's a tasty finger food - perfect for picnics.

Mandarin Black Bean Salad is an attractive and healthy camping recipe. Served with a handful of crackers or a piece of pita bread, it is a complete meal. As well as being a great camping meal, it's a perfect dish to take to potluck suppers. Here's how to make it.

Here's an easy camping lunch idea: spread hummus on crackers, or use it as a sandwich spread. Here are my recipes for traditional chickpea hummus and black bean hummus.

Supper

At the end of a full day at camp, you need a filling meal - but you don't want to spend a lot of time or energy making it.

A father and son at a picnic table, eating

These easy camping recipes for tasty suppers are perfect.

I like to double these recipes and have the leftovers for the next day's lunch!

Balsamic Black Beans is easy camping food. It uses just a few ingredients and makes a meal that is pleasing both to the eye and the palate.

Pasta with Marinated Artichoke Hearts is a delicious easy camping meal. It's much fancier than just pouring a jar of pasta sauce over some cooked spaghetti, but it doesn't take much more work.

Taco Salad is one of the best camping recipes ever! Most of the prep work can be done at home. I just love being able to serve such a delicious and family-pleasing meal at camp with a minimal amount of effort!

For great camping meal ideas, you can't beat One-Pot Macaroni with Tuna and Veggies. It's just what its name implies: a colorful and nutritious meal that's easy to prepare.

Thai Coconut Chicken looks fancy, but it's very easy to make.

Wondering how to cook fish at camp? Here's the easiest recipe I know: Steamed Citrus Fish.
Another favorite with the family is my quick and easy lentil recipe.

Cooking on a Campfire

Cooking on a campfire is a wonderful camping experience. Of course, you can roast marshmallows and hot dogs on a stick over the coals. You might also want to try these classic campfire foods.

tin foil dinners cooking in the coals of a camp fire

Make Tinfoil Dinners at home, and keep them cold in your cooler. Enjoy them for supper on your first full day at camp.

A potato wrapped in foil and baked in the coals: one of my favorite thing! Here's how to make perfect Campfire Potatoes.

Dessert Recipes

A camping trip just wouldn't be complete without at least one batch of Smores. Here's how to make Smores.

Banana Boats are a bit healthier, and just as delicious. Here's an easy banana boat recipe.

So many recipes...

How to choose which ones to use on your next trip? Here is how I decide.

Now you are familiar with some of my easy camping recipes, remember to visit The Camping Family home page for even more camping advice, hacks, tips and tricks!