Planning a camping trip anytime soon? Here’s one of our best tips: make a big batch of your favorite soup ahead of time and freeze it to take with you. This might sound like a no-brainer, but that soup has more than one role to play!
One of the challenges when we go on a trip where we’re bringing most of our food with us is keeping everything cool en route to cabin or camp site. Frozen containers of soup work just as well as ice packs, and then they become a meal one of our first days there.
What other tips do you have for meals while camping?
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I've been known to pre-mix some from-scratch pancake batter ingredients, either dry (using egg replacer) and adding milk on site, or mixing it all wet in a ziploc baggie (which can then be used in a pastry bag fashion to pour the pancakes) for our camping trips.
Since milk is a necessity for those of us camping or travelling with kids, freezing milk jugs is just as effective as the soup trick above and a technique I've used for some time.
I always do this - I freeze soups, spaghetti sauce, ziploc bags of meat in marinade. When you're camping in the woods without easy access to ice everything actually stays pretty cold and thaws out gradually.
I make ahead and freeze Chili, Taco Meat and Spaghetti Sauce to double as heat-n-serve food as well as ice blocks!
When my toddler was little, we used frozen breast milk to keep everything cold!