2 night camping - food options

[Poseidon20]

So this will be our first time actually camping. We need to plan for 2 nights, so basically breakfast, lunch, dinner and breakfast again. I bought this bougieRV fridge thinking it had an internal battery but it doesn’t. I have a 600wh power station but I plan to use that for our fan, phones etc. and it wouldn’t power the fridge for 2 days anyways, so I’ll be returning the fridge. So what do you pack for 2 days? I have a regular cooler but don’t know how much that’ll help, at most breakfast.

Let me know what you guys do when there’s no fridge. Some simple meal ideas would be great or any other idea I’m missing. Thanks.

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[JCKJR]

You can get by for at least a couple of nights with just the cooler. Freeze some hamburger patties for a dinner, some bacon for breakfast, maybe throw some chicken in your favorite marinade and freeze that. All the frozen stuff will keep your beer nice and cold

 

[AmericanPatriot100]

We are easy. We bring fruits and snacks sandwich stuff for lunch hot dogs and fixins for dinner bacon sausage eggs and gravy for breakfast if we’re not going out very long. Haul it all in an igloo cooler. Use our reusable ice packs for the trip out and grab some ice when we get closer to keep beverages cold and maintain the temperature for the stuff that could go bad. I also bring one of my emergency food kits and MREs just in case.

 

[flick2614]

Damn these “fridge” companies have done a great job at marketing; making people think you can’t go a day without them.

a quality cooler should be more than sufficient for 2 nights. Freeze a gallon of water or go real crazy and get some dry ice. Any double walled decent option should hold ice.

Just remember like my dad always said right before I got slapped upside the head, keep the damn lid closed.

 

[ArmyRN]

Even a cheap cooler will keep stuff cool for 48 hours.

There's really nothing special about camping food. Bring what you like to eat. Do you have a camp stove? If you can use a stove at home, you can cook it while camping.

There's also plenty of freeze dried meal options too if you can boil water.

Canned foods are your friend. Egg beaters in a carton. Dehydrated hash browns. Chicken helper and a can of chicken. Corned beef hash. How healthy are you tring to be? Keep it simple. A box of cereal and a jug of milk.

I've been doing it for years with just a single burner stove and a cooler.

 

[nU7OuxIx]

Are you sure the 600wh battery won't power the fridge for 2 days? 600Wh / 12v = 50Ah. I have a 100Ah LiFePO4 battery that will power a fridge, lights, and charge phones for at least the weekend. The fan is a bit iffy depending on how large it is. You can get a cheap 100Ah battery off Amazon for about $150, but it's just the battery. I did the cooler thing for years and I love the fridge. I would see how long the fridge lasts with your battery.

For food, like the other poster said, keep it simple and bring what you eat. We usually do oatmeal, bagels, or if we want fancy, pancakes. You can buy the pancake mix in a bottle at the store and just add water. Lunches are usually sandwiches. Dinner we'll do hamburgers/hot dogs, tacos, steak. We try to avoid chicken just because I feel like steak keeps better. I'm not big on canned meats but they sure do pack and store nice. What I've seen some people do is prepare the meal ahead of time so all they have to do is warm it up when they want to eat it.

The easier the better. The last thing you want to do is spend a lot of time cleaning up after you make a meal. We've also primarily use a griddle instead of pans just because it's easier to clean.

 

[WannFly]

MRE + Something to boil water. Thats my camp food anyways.

Edit: As the previous poster mentioned, I also pre-freeze food if its just a night or two in a cheap-ass cooler. then I use a 12v food warmer that I got from amazon like 6 years ago and it works fine. It gets to 300 degrees, so technically you can cook in it too, I am just too lazy and use it as oven

 

[allikanbe]

C rations

 

[azjl#3]

First night, whatever you bring from fast food, second day sandwiches.

I have an iceco which freezes, but more often use ice in a Walmart grey bear proof cooler which last 3 to 4 days

 

[Flip]

With my camp tote, I can make coffee, eggs, hot ham & cheese sandwiches, and boiled noodles.

I know it's pathetic.

 

[Aonarch]

Basically think of people who do meal prep. For just two days, you can precut any vegetables and even precook some things.

Keep it simple. One pan type meals.

What do you have for cooking equipment?

Bring nitrile/ latex gloves to be food safe.

I use paper plates and have spray bottles of soapy water and clean water to wash up.

 

[Fishmstr]

So this will be our first time actually camping. We need to plan for 2 nights, so basically breakfast, lunch, dinner and breakfast again. I bought this bougieRV fridge thinking it had an internal battery but it doesn’t. I have a 600wh power station but I plan to use that for our fan, phones etc. and it wouldn’t power the fridge for 2 days anyways, so I’ll be returning the fridge. So what do you pack for 2 days? I have a regular cooler but don’t know how much that’ll help, at most breakfast.

Let me know what you guys do when there’s no fridge. Some simple meal ideas would be great or any other idea I’m missing. Thanks.

For breakfast we’ll do burritos. Tortilla shells, eggs, precooked bacon and some frozen hashbrowns. Lunch odds usually sandwiches and chips. Dinner burgers, and cups unless we feel fancy then we make what we call hobo stew. Take aluminum foil, put a couple lasts of potatoes, onion green pepper, seasoning burger patty, then repeat the layers on top. Wrap tight in slimming foil and through in the hot coals and cover with coals until done.

 

[Dusty Dude]

Freeze some steaks or hamburger patties, then use them the first night. Bring some fresh veggies (or canned) and some potatoes (or freeze dried mashed potatoes) to go with it. Bacon and eggs for the first breakfast, and oatmeal or pancakes for the next day. An apple cut up goes well in the oatmeal. Beef jerky, block cheese, and fruit for snacking or lunch. Peanuts, almonds, cashews, M&M’s or trail mix.

You might want to avoid rice or pasta because it burns a lot of fuel to cook.

 

[WannFly]

With my camp tote, I can make coffee, eggs, hot ham & cheese sandwiches, and boiled noodles.

I know it's pathetic.

hey man better than MRE lol.

it all boils down to focus and priorities. some people bring grill and spend hours cooking; some people live on ramen.

whatever makes you happy, do it.

 

[AZ Hella]

So this will be our first time actually camping. We need to plan for 2 nights, so basically breakfast, lunch, dinner and breakfast again. I bought this bougieRV fridge thinking it had an internal battery but it doesn’t. I have a 600wh power station but I plan to use that for our fan, phones etc. and it wouldn’t power the fridge for 2 days anyways, so I’ll be returning the fridge. So what do you pack for 2 days? I have a regular cooler but don’t know how much that’ll help, at most breakfast.

Let me know what you guys do when there’s no fridge. Some simple meal ideas would be great or any other idea I’m missing. Thanks.

600wh will have no problem powering the fridge for 2 days. You should invest in a 100w folding solar panel to top off the battery during the day. I run an Iceco fridge off a Jackery 500, the jeep charges the Jackery while in transit and the solar panel is used if parked for extended periods. there are not many fridges on the market that have internal power.

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