Camping Food Sugestapies – By Jenny Groom

Dinners

Spanish Rice

Ingredients 2. Rehydrate onions, peppers, and

- Rice salsa in potable water
- Dehydrated salsa 3. Add water to powdered eggs
- Powdered Egg 4. Once rice has cooked stir in
- Dehydrated peppers rehydrated items, eggs, and
- Dehydrated onions spices
- Spices (you choose) 5. Cook until all ingredients are
warm
Methods
1. Cook rice 1:2, rice to water
ratio

Coconut Sweet Potato Curry

Ingredients 2. Add small amounts of water to

- Dehydrated sweet potatoes rehydrate the coconut milk
- Curry powder 3. Cook rice at 1:2, rice tot water
- Cumin ratio
- Coconut milk 4. Cut up garlic
- Dehydrated onion 5. Fry garlic, onions and spices in
- Garlic cooking oil until onions are
- Rice translucent and soft
6. Add sweet potatoes and
Methods coconut milk and bring to a boil
1. Place sweet potatoes and 7. Let simmer for 10-15mins
onions in water to rehydrate 8. Serve on rice

Burritos

Ingredients Methods
- TVP 1. Place beans, and chick peas in
- Dehydrated green peppers water to rehydrate the night
- Tortillas before
- Onions 2. Rehydrate onions 30mins before
- Garlic starting dinner – could use this
- Dehydrated refried beans time to make bread
- Spices 3. Cook onions and chopped garlic
- Dehydrated salsa with spices
4. Add in rehydrated beans, chick 5. Cook until it’s done
peas and TVP 6. Eat with shredded cheese on top

Lazy Perogies

Ingredients Methods
- Penne noodles 1. Rehydrate Beans the night before
- Instant potato powder 2. Rehydrate onions (takes 30ish
- Cheese minutes)
- Instant cheese powder (optional) 3. Cook beans
- Milk powder (optional) 4. Cook pasta
- Beans (optional) 5. Add boiling water to instant
- Dehydrated onions (optional) potato powder
- Dehydrated peppers (optional) 6. Add cheese
7. Mix it all together

Stir Fry

Ingredients
- Rice/rice noodles Methods
- Dehydrated onions 1. Rehydrate all the dehydrated
- Dehydrated peppers things (as directed above)
- Dehydrated broccoli 2. Chop garlic
- Dehydrated parsnips 3. Mix them all together in a pot and
- Garlic fry them with oil, spices and soya
- Soya sauce sauce
- Cooking oil

Shepherds Pile

Ingredients 2. Add in TVP to water and cook

- Instant potato powder until has the consistency of meet
- TVP filling (spice accordingly)
- Water 3. Boil water and add in instant
- Dehydrate onions potato powder
- Chopped carrots 4. Fry rehydrated vegetables (spice
- Chopped celery accordingly)
5. Serve with TVP mix base, then
Methods vegetable mix, followed by
1. Put onion aside to rehydrate cook mashed potatoes on top
carrots and celery with spices,

Chili

Ingredients - Dried lentils

- Dehydrated beans - Dehydrated chick peas
- Chili powder 1. Start rehydrate beans, lentils, and
- Dehydrated onions chick peas the night before
- Dehydrated tomato sauce 2. Rehydrate the onions and
- TVP parsnips starting 30mins before
- Water 3. Cook beans, lentils, chick peas,
- Dehydrated Parsnips onions, and fresh celery with oil
- Fresh celery and chilly powder
- Cooking oil 4. Add in tomato sauce, water and
TVP
Methods 5. Cook until everything is cooked
and seems like chili

Squeeze Cheese - Mac and Cheese

Ingredients Methods
- Macaroni 1. Cook pasta
- Cheese 2. Squeeze up cheese
- Margarine 3. Add in cheese, bacon bits and
- Bacon bits (optional) margarine
4. Mix it all together

Nachos

Ingredients Methods
- Grated cheese 1. Make quick bread dough
- Cooking oil 2. Rehydrate salsa by slowly adding
- Quick bread dough (see bread water
section) 3. Roll out quick bread into thin
- Dehydrated Salsa circles and cut into triangles
- Other dehydrated vegetables 4. Deep fry triangles until golden
(optional) brown
o Onions 5. Dab off extra cooking oil
o Parsnips 6. Place grated cheese vegetables
o Peppers and rehydrated salsa on top of
o Broccolis homemade nacho chips

Other Stuff

Cinnamon roll ups

Ingredients - Water
- Quick bread (see bread section) - Margarine
- Cinnamon
- Brown sugar Methods
- Raisins 1. Roll Bread flat
 2. Mix Brown sugar, cinnamon, 4. Roll up into a tube and slice
raisins and margarine together into 1-2inch section
to form spread 5. Lay flat and bake in the dutch
3. Spread across rolled out bread oven

Popcorn

Ingredients 2. Cover cornels in cooking oil until

- Popcorn cornels just covered
- Cooking oil 3. Place cover on pop
4. Swill pot of heat until popcorn pop
Methods 5. Make sure pot is heated even to
1. Place popcorn cornels in a pot avoid burning

Potato wedges

Ingredients Methods
- Dehydrated or fresh potatoes or 1. Rehydrate potatoes or sweet
sweet potatoes potatoes (if dehydrated)
- Salt 2. Dry off rehydrated sweet potatoes
- Pepper and season with salt, pepper and
- Cooking oil cooking oil
- Ketchup 3. Fry in a pot until crispy on the
outside

Milk

Ingredients Methods
- Milk powder 1. Add 3 table spoons of milk
- Water powder to one cup of water

Breads

Quick Bread

Ingredients 1. Build large fire that will be

- Flour later used to preheat dutch
- Sugar oven
- Baking powder 2. Place sugar, baking poweder,
- Salt salt, cooking oil and water in a
- Cooking oil large bowl
- Water 3. Set oven into coals in order to
preheat
Methods
 4. Add flour and knead until 7. Rotate oven lid and oven 90° in
dough has the consistency of opposite directions every
bread dough 15mins checking on bread
5. Oil preheated oven with a small every 30(ish) minutes
amount of cooking oil to 8. Make sure to keep hot coals
prevent sticking on/under dutch over to
6. Place dough in preheated oven maintain oven temperature

Yeast Bread

Ingredients 13. Place dough in a large plastic

- Flour bag and fill the remainder of
- Sugar the bag with air
- Yeast 14. Place dough in a warm place
- Salt and allow to rise for 30min
- Cooking oil 15. Set oven into coals in order to
- Water preheat
16. Oil preheated oven with a small
Methods amount of cooking oil to
9. Build large fire that will be prevent sticking
later used to preheat dutch 17. Once dough has risen place
oven dough in preheated oven
10. Place sugar, yeast, salt, cooking 18. Rotate oven lid and oven 90° in
oil and water in a small bowl opposite directions every
11. Let yeast mixture stand in a 15mins checking on bread
warm place until frothy every 30(ish) minutes
12. Once frothy place yeast 19. Make sure to keep hot coals
mixture in larger pot then add on/under dutch over to
flour and knead until dough maintain oven temperature
has the consistency of bread
dough

Fancy Bread

Cheesy bread – Add in a cup of cheese to your bread mix

Apple Cinnamon bread – add in rehydrated apples, cinnamon and brown sugar to
make a mean desert loaf

Future avenues of camping food type investigation

- Roasted apples - Brownies

- Cheesecake - Cookies

*note that any dehydrated veggies can be replace with the normal vegetable.
Frankly the non-dehydrated versions are better.