Easy and Good Healthy Camping Food

For those who want to go camping and still eat good meals, here is my easy camp food tip. Double up on your meals the week prior to your camp trip!

Eating healthy food while camping

Before I get into the food I make at home to bring with, I should mention that when we go camping, I use that “time off” to cook, and to cook well. Precisely because on a camp trip I have more time than I would at home, meaning I can spend the time necessary to cook a good meal. I usually use this time to experiment and use what I have to come up with good meals.

I have even missed having certain ingredients and been forced to come up with other alternatives that tasted even better than the original item would have! This is how I discovered that steak warmed in whiskey with shredded cheese and milk, plus wild mushrooms added at the end, make one of our favourite dishes to date!

easy camping food woman cooking steak leftovers

Duplicate what you eat at home

Still, I would like to enjoy the trip as much as possible and not spend the entirety cooking and doing dishes. That’s why I double up on my meals the week before we go and have already “made-ahead” staples to cook with.

My Favourite Kitchen Appliances

Repurpose food for good camping meals

The week before we left, I made three staple meat dinners that would lend well to have extra of for our trip.

While I made chicken one night, I doubled and cooked another whole chicken. I did the same for our evening dinner of instant pot roast beef, and another night when we had steak. Each night we made dinner for ourselves as we usually would, and then I stored the additional meat in a sealed container in the fridge. With a pieces of extra streak, an entire extra roast and whole chicken, we were set up for the best camp food trip!

Shredding meat for sandwiches

The day before we left, I added the roast beef and steak pieces to our Cuisinart Food Processor. I love this machine! This gave me loads of extra meat primarily for sandwiches, but also for any night we may not want to cook dinner.

hand scraping meat out of food processor bowl

Camping food ideas

With my now already-ready cooked meat, I can use them in various dishes and quick sandwiches. For example

shredded chicken with potato hash browns
minced steak on a sandwich with swish chard leaves and gouda cheese
roast beef minced into garlic onion rice noodles
chicken and pesto with rice noodles
steak and soft cooked eggs
chicken and pesto on sourdough bread slices
steak in a whiskey/cheese white sauce with garlic and shiitake mushrooms
roast beef minced with potato hash browns
roast beef minced with seasoned rice

Once I get started, I just can’t stop. Each meal is a decadent experience where I test new combinations of things I may normally be too much of a hurry to spend time on.

Watch me cooking our Make Ahead Camp Meals

Good food books for inspirations

The books I am about the recommend aren’t necessarily camping books. I found that regularly flipping through food books and gaining cooking inspiration has widened my cooking imagination to the point where I am more willing to take risks.

Right now, the books that are inspiring me are: