What are your Simple and cheap camping recipes?

[The Raven]

Talking about cold food.

I have some MRE style meal heaters (just add water), they worked a treat and get surprisingly hot real fast.

I'll look up the brand name as they are in Australia (MealSpec from memory). Found somewhere selling them....(just the first link I found)...http://www.cadetshop.com.au/flameless-r ... eater.html

There's also a good 'ration' mob in NZ, but they tend to pack more for organisations rather than sell to Joe Public. Their meals aren't bad either!

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Any good camp feed MUST include Baked Beans

[Camel]

Any good camp feed MUST include Baked Beans

Yes, yes, yes, plain old beans in tomato sauce, and not those crappy ones in ham sauce. My preference is for SPC, don't like Heinz much as they make you fart.

[LoneRider]

Any good camp feed MUST include Baked Beans

don't like Heinz much as they make you fart.

i thought old people just smelt that way naturally ?

[bigfellascott]

Any good camp feed MUST include Baked Beans

Bloody oath, ya gotta have something to help warm the fart sack up with hey.

[Camel]

Any good camp feed MUST include Baked Beans

don't like Heinz much as they make you fart.

i thought old people just smelt that way naturally ?

Children.

[curan]

Just about anything tastes good when ya pissed! I must confess I don't mind most foods cold (pissed or not)

Guilty as charged!

[bigfellascott]

Just about anything tastes good when ya pissed! I must confess I don't mind most foods cold (pissed or not)

Guilty as charged!

[curan]

Not so much a recipe, as a "cheat".

You can thicken almost any soup or broth into a stew with instant mash potato. I worked this out years ago when I heard about boiling down spuds to put the starch into stew. Instant mash is much quicker and easier.

Home truth time: I'm a bit lazy as a camp cook when camping solo, so this a real quick method to turn a can of "thick and chunky" soup into a stick to the ribs stew. if you use the beef soup, diced bacon goes well in it too. This is about as quick and easy as it gets. And it cooks in a billy or a frypan. If I want to flash it up for company, a beer damper works well on the side!

[curan]

Oh, and I've never had it cold, but it is a good hot feed on a gutsful of turps! Hard to stuff up, too!

[bigfellascott]

Not so much a recipe, as a "cheat".

You can thicken almost any soup or broth into a stew with instant mash potato. I worked this out years ago when I heard about boiling down spuds to put the starch into stew. Instant mash is much quicker and easier.

Home truth time: I'm a bit lazy as a camp cook when camping solo, so this a real quick method to turn a can of "thick and chunky" soup into a stick to the ribs stew. if you use the beef soup, diced bacon goes well in it too. This is about as quick and easy as it gets. And it cooks in a billy or a frypan. If I want to flash it up for company, a beer damper works well on the side!

Some good little tips there mate, thanks for sharing. That instant mash isn't too bad if you add a good amount of butter to make it creamy.

[bigfellascott]

Another thing you can do is do a cook up before you go camping and put em in those vac pack type things, freeze em and just warm em up in a pot of hot water for a bit, a good feed that doesn't really require much to turn into a good meal out bush.

[curan]

Well, I do have another recipe, but it was more for impressing the sheilas.........

Lemonade Scones

You get a can of lemonade (any lemonade, sprite, homebrand, doesn't matter, but I've never tried it with diet lemonade). Warm or cold makes no difference.
Mix the lemonade with enough self raising flour to make a scone dough (about a cup and a half).
Preheat a camp oven and line it with aluminium foil either greased or sprayed with oil. You want the oven warm but not red hot.
Cut the dough into scone rounds about 2 inches in diameter and 5/8 inch thick.
Stack them into the camp oven. If you need to double stack, put a bit of foil greased both sides in between.
Lid goes on the over, coals on the lid, give it a half an hour, check, continue as needed. And then get into the scones. They're good hot with butter.

If you try this at home, use a medium oven temp.
The scones are good the same day, but don't keep as well as scones made the traditional way.
But don't worry, there probably won't be any to keep!

[bigfellascott]

They go alright the ol Lemonade Scones, we made a batch of scones at the last Lue event, bloody things went down a treat with with jam and whipped cream! it was like watching seagulls fighting over a chip!

[bigfellascott]

Cooked up a heap of Spag Bolognese and Chow Mein for the upcoming Lue trip, packed it all in chinese containers and into the freezer, just a simple heat and eat after that, also got to do a Chicken Indian Curry (Rogan Josh) which will also get the same freezer treatment, just a matter of doing some saffron rice and heat and eat after that.

Got 3 bags of green prawn meat ready to go for the Chilli Garlic Prawns (I make that there) doesn't take more than 10mins from start to finish so no great effort/time to knock that yummy dish up, also got all the ingredients to make about 20 of our famous Lue Pizzas.