I look forward to camping each year. Although I now camp in a Pop-up camper, when my children were little, my husband and I would take them Tent camping. Cooking over a campfire can be one of the most challenging things you will ever do. I almost always knocked one meal or the other in the fire. (My husband was always better at this than I was) Good thing I always had things wrapped in tinfoil so they were easy to get out of the coals.
About The Author: Debra Frick is a mother of 5 and a grandmother to 8 grandsons and one granddaughter. She is a published author and poetress. Recycling and saving money are her passions. She also loves crocheting and cooking. She is also a pet rescue volunteer and has many pets of her own.
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What great info! We recently started camping due to a fun family activity called Geocaching(to find out more visit Geocaching.com). It takes us all over our state & neighboring ones. So these wonderful, easy tips we'll add to our camping affairs. Thanks!
Best is to start in the fire then, try this wonderful baked potato.
Cut several slits along side of a baking potato. Go about 1/2 way down into each slit stick a thin onion slice into it with a dab of butter. After you fill each one wrap the whole potato in foil. Then roll in news paper then foil do this about 5 to 6 times then in the fire. Move lg pieces of logs and stuff over get a good spot of red hot coals and put in potatoes, cover with coals cook about 45 min to one hr. Depending on temp you can take one out and with gloved hand squeeze one and if it squishes then its done.
If you want to save on firestarters, keep your lint from your dryer's lint filter and collect some toilet paper cardboard rolls or paper towel rolls and stuff them with the lint for a fast fire starter, and economical too!
I go camping alot and these are great tips!!..another is, safty pin a fabric softner to the front of your shirt to keep bugs away and another is, you can make a private potty area by making a teepee and wrap a tarp aound it, use a pail or potty chair...keep some lestoil deluted with water to swish it clean with a toilet brush. and it also gives you a place to bath or change your clothes after swimming.
Freeze gallon water jugs to use in the cooler to keep things cold, then have drinking water as it thaws. (We sail, and have 7 gallons on board fresh water for 3 days, so any extra is welcome) K-mart and some others have box containers (in the cookware aisle) with watertight snap lids that smaller all fit into the larger - really great for keeping in it all together, but they stack really well into coolers. I have stashed 3 days of meals into the 9 containers that fit inside the larger for 2 of us. Break it down to LUNCH BREAKFAST DINNER so no one grabs the wrong thing - one container out for each meal. less reaches into the cooler.
Space is a premium for us on camping trips so we try to carry only one cooler. We save juice jugs, like for cranberry juice, and freeze water in them. They are more flexible for use in the cooler than milk jugs, as they can be laid on their side.
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