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Healthy Vegetarian Camping Food | Smokin Hot Mom. ...happy in a raspberry patch in New Brunswick, Canada I am just settling back from a 10 day camping trip with my family and dear friends. We journeyed by car through New Hampshire, Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Quebec, camping all the way. We saw some spectacular spots! One of our favorites was Tadoussac (Quebec), where our campsite overlooked the spectacular, wide mouth of the St. I love camping, I hadn’t done more than a 3 day camping trip before this journey – we don’t even own a camping stove – but this trip turned me into a committed fan. I love being outside so much, sleeping in nature and cooking healthy food at the campfire.

One of the many things I appreciate about camping is that I can make healthy meals for my family no matter where we are. Here are 4 things that I learned on this camping trip in regards to food: Wherever we went, I asked when and where the local farmer’s market was taking place. Simply … Use a double layer of foil so it doesn't burn. Yum! 25 Tips For Making Camping Easier & More Fun! This is one of those posts that really has no rhyme or reason to it….other than it interested me! Maybe it’s the fact that my nephew Nate just bought a camper, or maybe it’s just that time of year, but for some reason I’ve had camping on the brain and I’ve seen a few very cool ideas recently that I thought if I WERE to go camping…I would probably take advantage of!

:-) We actually don’t do much camping…but we love being outdoors and having bonfires in the backyard. Maybe we just need to take it to the next level. I think some of these ideas might just help us do that! Tacos in a Bag - Camping With Gus A quick camp meal with almost no clean-up, but lots of novelty, that your kids will be talking about long after the camping trip is over. Reading Lamp - Flickr.com A simple system that is easy on the eyes. Campfire Cones - Kids Activities Blog These “S’more Cones” are yummy and super easy to make!

Solar-Powered Lights - Field and Stream Camping Scavenger Hunt - The Creative Homemaker. Healthy Vegetarian Camping Food | Smokin Hot Mom. InnerChildFun. For a FUN time, here’s how to make sponge bombs! Begin by cutting up ordinary household sponges into thirds, and wrapping an “ouchless” hair elastic around them…. Tip — Here is a quick video tutorial to demo how QUICK & easy these are to make! Grab a friend and a couple of buckets — each person kneels in front of a bucket filled to the top with water. The object of the game is to hurl the sponge bombs into each other’s buckets! You WILL get wet!!! Whoever gets the most in the other person’s bucket WINS!! Gather up all the sponge bombs and play again (and again)! This is a great way to beat the heat without using up a lot of water, and sponge bombs can be used and re-used all Summer long.

Have fun!! Free Printable Want more fun craft ideas and activities?? Camping Dinner Recipes. I’ve talked to no less than five friends in the last two days who swear they hate camping. The bugs. The beds. The lack of decent mealtime eats. Well, we can’t help you with bugs and beds, but we sure can help with the food! We’ve rounded up 10 incredible camping dinners — most cooked in an easy-to-prep, easy-to-clean-up foil pack — that may just change the way you feel about camping. Of course, we can’t do much about those suffocating sleeping bags, but when you eat in style, somehow sleeping out in the wild just isn’t so bad.

You won’t believe how simple these little foil packs are to make–or how easy they are to eat riiiiight up! Toss together a few burritos, wrap them in foil, and toss them on the campfire or grill for a filling, super easy camping dinner idea. You don’t have to ditch the flavorful eats when you’re kicking it in the wilderness! This simple dinner idea isn’t just easy, it’s fun! Kids will go gaga over this clever recipe for “Sloppy Hot Dogs.” Goin’ fishing? Previous. 41 Camping Hacks That Are Borderline Genius | Gardengal Bevy. Camping Checklist, Preparing for Camping. 4.2K Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 39 Google+ 26 Reddit 0 StumbleUpon 4.1K LinkedIn 0 Email -- 4.2K Flares × I love camping! Ever since I was a little girl my family held a week long family camp out with my mom’s sisters and their families. It was always my favorite time of the year.

Now I’m grown with kids of my own, and thankfully my family still goes camping once a year, and I get to join them with my own little family! Many may not know but a lot goes into preparing for a week long camping trip in the mountains of Wyoming and Idaho. Sometimes I can be a little OCD, so I usually organize my camping checklist to ensure I don’t miss anything. Camping Checklist-Shelter: Tents- you want to be sure you have a shelter which can withstand wind and rain. Camping Checklist-Bedding: Sleeping bags for each family memberpillowsExtra blankets (it always gets extremely cold in the mountains, our mountains is normal to be around 15 degrees at night even in the summer)air mattress/sleeping padsair pump.

101 Camping Tips & Ideas. By Becca Don’t you just LOVE Summer? The kids are out of school, the days are longer, and nights are warmer. It’s our chance to get away from the hustle and bustle of our busy lives and appreciate our time together, making memories in the beautiful outdoors. What better way to do just that, than with a Family Camping Trip?! Yep, it’s camping season again and, just for you, we’ve rounded up… Go ahead and pin it right now. Without further ado, I present to you… The Ultimate Guide to Family Camping Where should we begin? Camping Recipes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. And how about some campfire snacks and meals… 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Okay, now that I’ve shared my very favorite recipes, how about some… Camping Recipe Round-ups?

26. 25 Delicious Camping Recipes by Six Sisters’ Stuff– Our good friends over at Six Sisters’ Stuff shared 25 delicious camping recipes! 27. 28. Pretty sure that’s more camping recipes than you’ll ever need! Camping Organization 31. 32. A Campfire Cooking Primer. View gallery Enlarge Credit: Tara Donne If you hear "campfire cooking" and believe the best you can muster are warmed-up franks n' beans, or, on an ambitious day, weenies-on-a-stick, think again.

The truth is, once you know the basics, campfire cooking is limited only to your culinary imagination. A quick tutorial on building a blaze and a sturdy cast iron skillet are all you need to begin reaping the smoky rewards of open-fire cuisine. In Our Campfire Cooking Primer: Next: A Fire-Building Mise en Place » Illustration: wollypear A Fire-Building Mise en Place Just as choosing the highest-quality ingredients for a recipe can make all the difference, so too, can the best campfires depend upon the kinds of materials you choose.

Three Types of Fires and their uses: Now that you've collected all your materials, it's time to get the blaze going. Photo: Tara Donne Tending the Flame for Cooking See A Campfire Cookout Menu » Sarah Huck and Jaimee Young are campfire cooking experts. Camping Dinner Recipes. 35+ Camping Tips, Tricks & Treats. Summer holidays are just around the corner and if you have a camping trip or two on your agenda, you might just find a new trick or two in this bunch! I’ve put together a list of projects and ideas to help around the campsite, a list of must-have home remedies (for poison ivy, mosquito bites, etc.), plus a bunch of fun ideas for cooking you might want to try this year…and don’t miss the old-timer’s fishing weather poem and dependable rope knot examples at the bottom of the page.

Lots here and I’ll be adding more goodies to this page as I find them so you may want to bookmark it for future reference. Enjoy! To start things off, here’s a recipe for removing mildew from tents: Step 1: Mix 1/2 cup of Lysol in 1 gallon of hot water. Step 2: Mix 1 cup salt and 1 cup concentrated lemon juice in 1 gallon of hot water. Although visible stains won’t be removed, it does kill the mildew. General Maintenance Suggestion: Remember, after use your tent should be thoroughly aired-out before being stored.