Best camping dinners

What are the best ideas for camping dinners? There’s a huge range of options— everything from picking up a Subway sandwich on the road to grazing on yummy snacks to cooking tin foil packets over the fire to preparing gourmet dinners on a stove. It all depends on your level of motivation! Below are some ideas for different types of camping dinners to suit different styles.

No-cook camping dinners

• Pick up a sandwich along the way
• Cheese/nut/olive/cracker/bread/dried fruit/meat board
• Sandwiches with slices of cheese, turkey, and apple
• Tuna salad sandwiches, or tuna salad with crackers
• Pre-packaged salads
• Hummus with veggies and either crackers or pita
• Chips served with salsa, guacamole, and bean dip

Easy-to-cook camping dinners

• Mac-n-cheese from a box, with or without tuna (tuna packets are easier than cans)
• Couscous or precooked rice with Tasty Bite Indian packets
• Tuna couscous bowl
• Fried rice
• Bubble and squeak
• Backpacking-type packets of freeze-dried food – try the Good-to-Go line

Campfire and grill dinners

• Kabobs, like any of these 15 recipes
• Campfire pizza
• Campfire foil packets, such as these 11 options or these 30 options
• Burgers or veggie burgers, like this recipe for apple cheddar burgers with caramelized onions
• Campfire paella
• Camping pasta: Bring pre-cooked pasta in your cooler. Combine with pasta sauce and olive oil and place into a tin foil packet along with cheese and basil. Heat over the fire until warm! 
• Campfire hot dogs: Roll crescent dough around hot dogs. Place each hot dog on a skewer and cook over fire until dough is golden.
• Camping quesadillas
• Peanut butter beans

Camping dinners for foodies

• Grilled chicken and veggies with Indian simmer sauce
• Campfire nachos
• Grilled vegetable fajitas with black beans
• Fancy one-pot mac-n-cheese
• Refried bean burritos
• Seared cod
• Also check out the wealth of recipes at Fresh Off the Grid