How to eat healthy camping?

[Ginger]

baked beans!!!

[haleyscomet]

Rainforest - I hear you on the baked beans, they are awesome but not so awesome for our tent at least for my husbands stomach hahaha. Its a lovely way to wake up in the middle of the night hehe

[Snacks]

Ah, think of all the money you will save in ice and veges that have gone off! It is certainly a worthwhile investment
When we've gone desert camping and are stuck for fridge space we often use dehydrated veges. They are not too bad, as long as you mix them with stuff, LOL. And I prefer them to the tinned ones.
Do you take a stove? You could make a mean pasta and sauce or fried rice and mix in your tinned and/or dehydrated veg into that...
ETA: Don't know if you're pregnant or not, but IME if you take enough rum and coke or vodka & tonic you don't care too much about food and how good/bad it tastes.

[DaintreeDream]

No worries. They are just a few of the things I shove in a bag for myself when we go camping. I like to snack eat when we do.

Boiled eggs is my favorite thing at the moment, I boil 4 chuck them in the fridge still in the shell and can grab one on the run when DD has be on the go

Hope you have a great weekend. It is lovely weather for camping, wish I was going, we usually go towards Jamieson way camping, I love it.

Deanne.

[haleyscomet]

Deanne - OMG we go to Jaimeson too!!! We didnt go there this weekend, we usually go up there if we are out for about 4-5days (those are the runs to town I was referring to actually!)

This weekend was awesome (apart from it being 28C at midnight still! We ended up going to Talarook

[TheBear]

We pre-prepare and then vacuum pack veg and meat before we go camping, it lasts much longer that way and can be cooked in the vac bag if need be. This is great for late night arrivals at camp sites where you can chuck dinner in a pot of boiling water whilst you set up tents and the rest of the gear.
We have a 60 liter fridge that lives in the back of the car, which has a second battery to run the fridge all the time - you can get portable battery packs that allow you to offload the fridge and keep it running for a day or so which will give you a bit more flexibility.
We poach eggs for brekkie...in fact I've been known to knock up an eggs benedict including the muffins for a campsite breakfast...works really well, if not great for the diet.

For lunch we'll usually make sandwiches from left over meat, and fresh salad from the fridge although I'll sometimes turn leftover rice or pasta into a salad for lunch too.

[haleyscomet]

Thanks for that tip! I had never thought of vacuum bagging some of the food

[haleyscomet]

ETA: Don't know if you're pregnant or not, but IME if you take enough rum and coke or vodka & tonic you don't care too much about food and how good/bad it tastes.

HAHA yeah we tend to take veges with us, cook a bush roast (they are the BEST roasts you will ever have) and cook using cast iron pots / pans and use a bush stove. We havent had any probs cooking or eating things, its just that I am TRYING (note the word trying lol) to be healthy. We tend to eat roasts, (fish if we catch any) and veges (as long as they dont go off), lunch tends to be the issue and snacks throughout the day. We tend to eat waaaaaay too much meat and my DP says its a MUST when camping lol.

I think we best invest in a bigger fridge to take the things we want but you girls have given us a ton of ideas . Like I said before if its only a cpl days we are right its the 4 or more days we struggle, well I do, DP is more than happy with potatoes and steak in the fire lol