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Camping is a great time to enjoy the outdoors, and spend time with friends and family. Once camp is set up, one of the first things everyone wants to do is to get out to explore and engage in outdoor activities. Cooking large, complex…
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Dried food is an excellent option for camping. It can provide lightweight and easily snacked on options as well as more complicated cooked meals. It also allows backpackers to bring a more nutritionally complex menu than they might oth…
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Cooking food on a camp-out can be loads of fun. It can also take loads of gear, preparation and clean-up if you take a gourmet trip. Sometimes it's nice to keep it simple. Here's a list of easy foods to take along for camping when you…
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Food is one of the most important things to pack for a camping trip. You don't want to go to the store when you could be having fun outdoors, so pack what you need--but no more. The food on this list is probably either in your kitchen…
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Dehydrated foods, such as fruits and vegetables, have most of the moisture removed from them using heated, dry air to create a low moisture environment. Dehydrated foods are useful for camping and hiking because they are lighter and l…
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Organizing camping food can be tough. To get the most from your food on the trail, balance your caloric intake with the energy it takes to carry the load. Most hikers find dehydrated and condensed foods make the highest calorie-to-weig…
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That a bar of chocolate tucked into your pack will last almost forever. The boost of fat and sugar energy is handy to have in an emergency or on a chilly night; but there are many other nonperishable foods well suited to a camper's nee…
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Successful camping trips require three key things: food, shelter and water. Of these three, food tops the list as far as making a trip really memorable and fun. Food is important fuel for campers planning to hike, fish or otherwise exp…
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The longer your camping trip, the shorter the list of appropriate foods. If you're going camping only for a day or so, you can bring nearly anything you might want to eat. For longer trips, however, you need to bring food that is eas…
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Preparing food after a long day of hiking or playing in the woods never sounds like fun. Having some ready-to-eat foods on hand can help you out, providing a convenient way to ingest those necessary calories without a huge effort or ti…
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Gluten is a protein found in wheat, spelt, rye and other cereal grains. It gives bread its doughiness and is often used as a food additive. Campers who suffer from celiacs disease cannot eat gluten and must exercise care in finding glu…
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Many people think that even a car-camping trip necessitates reliance on processed, pre-packaged foods. This kind of food is convenient and easy to prepare, but it is hardly the only option or even the best one. A variety of tasty, nutr…
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One of the advantages of camping is that you can eat as expensively or as cheaply as you desire. Planning your camping meals is much like planning your weekly meals at home. The only difference is you will be eating them in the woods a…
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There is something about food prepared outdoors that makes it taste better. Even the common hotdog can taste as good as an expensive cut of meat when grilled at a campsite. Creating a camping menu that includes what and how much food y…
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Though methane gas has become outmoded in recent years as a camp stove fuel in favor of more efficient and refined fuels (such as methanol, propane and butane), the gas used to be a common cooking fuel for backpacking chefs for a numbe…
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