If you’ve got a big camping trip coming up, I’ve got a round up of the best camper cooking recipes and campfire cooking equipment! In fact, it is the ultimate list of camping food whether you are cooking in a campervan or RV or are planning some old-fashioned campsite cooking over the campfire! I’ve teamed up with some of the best food bloggers to bring you camping breakfast food, dutch oven recipes, griddle recipes, slow cooker recipes for camping, non perishable camping food, foil dinners on the campfire, and other ideas for cooking for campers. You will want to save this camping list of recipes!
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Campfire Cooking Equipment for Our Camper Cooking Recipes
In order to get your cooking plans organized and ready to go, you need to make sure your camping cooking station is in order. This list of campfire cooking equipment is recommended by friends and even some readers who are quite the savvy masters at cooking on a campfire, campervan cooking, and RV cooking.
These campfire cooking equipment and campervan cooking tools are great with the campsite cooking and camper cooking recipes linked below, in general.
Grill for Campfire Cooking
- If you are checking out campfire cooking grills, check out this super simple and affordable metal campfire grill for cooking over coals. Note it is not recommended for cooking the food directly on top. Therefore, you need to use foil packs, cast iron pans, etc.
- This swivel campfire cooking grill offers great flexibility. It can stake in the ground wherever you want. The dual sides allow for cooking different things at the same time. Or you can actively cook on one side while the other side serves as a warming plate.
- Another flexible grill choice is this dual grill and skillet campfire grill. The skillet can be used as an actual griddle or simply as a warming tray. These trays also swivel out so you can flip food without your hand being directly over the fire.
Camping Grates for Cooking the Best Food for Camping
- These camping grates are perfect for tossing on foil pack meals and for cast iron camp cooking. It is not recommended that you place the meat or veggies directly on these grates.
Campfire Cooking Pots for Camper Cooking Recipes
- This 8-Quart Dutch oven has excellent reviews!
- If you are interested in a campfire cooking pots set, check out this 7-piece heavy duty cast iron pot set for campfires. It includes a dutch oven, a reversible griddle, a storage box, and more.
Campfire Tripod for Campsite Cooking
- This portable campfire tripod has excellent reviews and is perfect for holding your dutch oven for dutch oven or your other campfire cooking pots.
More Campfire Cooking Tools to Go with Our Camping Food Ideas
No doubt, cooking for campers can range from very simple camp fire cooking gear and recipes to more sophisticated campfire cooking pots, campfire cooking grills, and other campfire cooking tools.
- We love using grilling baskets for grilling vegetables and shrimp.
- A lot of people won’t mess with campfire fires or grill heat without a good pair of grill gloves.
- This little grilling set up comes with a grill rotisserie attachment.
- Don’t forget the telescopic campfire skewers!
- This s’mores caddy is perfect if you are serious about your s’mores!
- If keeping your grill grates clean on your charcoal, gas or propane grill or even your firepit, these grill mesh mats might be for you!
- Don’t forget the pie iron! It is perfect for some of the yummy recipes listed below!
More Tools for Camper Cooking Recipes
- This 7-piece set of griddle tools comes with spatulas, scrapers, and squirt bottles for making the best food for camping on your griddle. griddle accessories include a scraper. If you are a Blackstone griddle person, you might like this Blackstone griddle accessories kit.
- Another great set of griddle accessories is this dome cover and heavy duty burger press. The dome is used for melting purposes and the press can also be used to flatten bacon on the griddle.
- This Insta Pot Slow Cooker Duo is also a slow cooker, rice cooker, and more! For making some of the camping food recipes below, I recommend this. You can make both the slow cooker recipes and the insta pot recipes!
- These pre-cut pieces of foil sheets are so handy when making foil pack dinners or lining a dutch oven!
If you need more ideas on great camping accessories on Amazon for RV life, visit my huge list of gifts for RV owners!
The Best Camper Cooking Recipes Ideas for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Dessert
This collection of camping food ideas are perfect for planning your camping breakfast, lunch, dinner, and campfire dessert menus on your next camping trip! These camper food recipes can be easily made with your favorite campfire cooking tools and campfire cooking equipment.
Breakfast Foods for Camping
These recipes of breakfast foods for camping will start your day off right! You can even prep some of these camping recipes for breakfast ahead of time and just toss them on the grill.
This French toast foil packet from Little Sunny Kitchen is both a camping breakfast and a foil pack meal.
Fluxing Well has an easy skillet breakfast for camping that feeds a crowd!
Strength and Sunshine features both gluten-free grilled French toast and gluten-free French toast skewers. This grill breakfast can be used on a grill or grill pan. It is also a gluten-free French toast. Add them to your list of gluten-free camping recipes!
What kid or adult wouldn't be giddy over this giant cinnamon roll in dutch oven idea! The best part is that it uses canned cinnamon rolls!
The best thing about these Ziplock omelets is the instant customization of each omelet. Your entire family can have an omelet made with their preferred toppings with no extra time involved!
This dutch oven frittata is one of those easy yet impressive camping recipes for breakfast!
These campfire breakfast burritos from Julie Measures should please any camper! Hearty and simple, they make a perfect
Make Flavor Mosaic's spiced up breakfast potatoes for camping by using your electric skillet! You could also use a cast iron to add to your collection of cast iron skillet for camping recipes!
This delicious spicy English Muffin Breakfast sandwich can be cooked and heated on your electric griddle or electric skillet.
For those in search of keto camping food or vegan camping food ideas, these healthy pancakes might be just for you!
Not only are these vegan breakfast cookies also perfect for snacking, but you can add this recipe to your list of vegan camping foods! Notice Cooking Journey Blog recommends keeping these healthy cookies refrigerated unless you are going to eat them the next day. Therefore, it is a make ahead camping food, but it will need refrigeration.
Make Ahead Camping Food Ideas - No Refrigeration Camper Cooking Recipes
If you need food to take camping without a fridge, this next list of make ahead camping food ideas - no refrigeration necessary - is for you!
The great thing about this Chunky Monkey Granola is it can be made at home before your trip. Granola is the perfect food to take camping without fridge access.
Kristy at On My Kids Plate offers suggestions for using her cranberry maple granola as cereal, in tortillas with peanut butter, and as a trail mix among other ideas. This is a perfect no perishable camping food that can be used in versatile ways.
Not only can Wholly Tasteful's banana strawberry muffins be made up to five days ahead, but they are also healthy. They are free of refined sugar. And you can add this to your gluten free food for camping list.
Maybe you are looking for gluten and dairy free snacks. Make this gluten-free Muddy Buddies recipe ahead of your trip!
Broken Oven Baking Company has some amazing-sounding brownie bites that would travel perfectly on your camping trip!
If carefully packaged, these make-ahead gluten-free granola bars from Plant Based on a Budget can last for up to a few weeks...making them a great no fridge camping food option.
Camping Griddle Recipes
These camping griddle recipes are great for using on your Blackstone Griddle, your fold-away griddle, or your griddle pan! You will find dinner griddle recipes, lunch griddle recipes, and breakfast griddle recipes here.
(Note some camp griddle recipes have been added into other categories on this list because they fall into multiple categories.)
This griddle burger recipe from Home Fresh Ideas will be helpful for camping dinners or lunches!
These griddle cakes by Savory Experiments have flexibility when it comes to flavors and toppings.
This griddle stir fry would be a welcome camp griddle dinner!
Camping Pie Iron Recipes
So many camping food ideas can come to fruition with a pie iron! Check this list for some interesting pie iron recipes for camping!
(Note some camping pie iron recipes have been placed in other lists because they fall into multiple categories.)
This pie iron recipe for campfire muffins is genius and easy!
If your kids love pizza, try this camping pizza recipe in the form of a sandwich!
Peter's Food Adventures has two fun recipes for pie iron pie recipes for camping dessert! Check out his caramel chocolate pie campfire recipe and his lemon meringue pie iron dessert!
Camping Dutch Oven Recipes
These camping dutch oven recipes will come together easily! We've got dutch oven vegetables recipes, dutch oven stews, and other dutch oven dinners. We even have some dutch oven dessert recipes for camping.
These dutch oven ribs by Organically Addison will add some heartiness to your camping dinner!
This Dutch Oven Pizza with Peaches & Honey Recipe Will Blow Your Mind
Campfire pizza in the dutch oven? Yes. You can have this peach and honey campfire pizza dutch oven style.
Whip up a batch of this rustic dutch oven bread on your next camping trip either in an RV oven or in your dutch oven.
Campfire Stew - 4 Ways {Instant Pot, Slow Cooker, Oven, Campfire}
Recipes from a Pantry has a delicious campfire stew that can be made via multiple methods - campfire dutch oven, RV oven, instant pot, or slow cooker.
If you are looking for dutch oven vegetables recipes, these stuffed green peppers are probably for you!
This dutch oven chicken and vegetables meal from Let's Camp S'more looks plenty hearty!
This Indian style Zucchini curry allows for variations and can also be made in an Insta Pot.
This squash and chicken dutch oven casserole will hit the spot on a cool camping night!
This campfire chili by Quiche My Grits can be prepared in a cast iron dutch oven over the campfire, on the stovetop in a dutch oven, and also in the Insta Pot.
Camping Grill Recipes
These camping grill recipes can be used with the different types of camp grills out there. Be sure to check the individual recipes for tips for different types of grills and methods.
Nachos at camp? Yes, please! Let's Camp S'more brings another great camping recipe idea with these grilled nachos!
Add this grilled pineapple as an option for healthy camping food ideas!
Ole Blue Dog has a camping food idea with grilled brats and sauerkraut in hoagie buns.
We can't have a section on camping food ideas for the grill and not include grilled chicken breast!
This grilled skirt steak by Craving California might need to be on your list for camping grill ideas.
It doesn't get much more simple than this bacon wrapped asparagus on the grill!
How amazing does this bbq pork tenderloin from Baking Beauty look?
Corn on the cob on the grill is match made in Heaven! Check out this easy method from Amanda's Cookin'.
If you want something a bit different for your camping grill food, these grilled turkey kababs look amazing!
Nourish Plate has some gorgeous veggie kabobs that appeal as a grilling side dish or as a main camping foods for vegetarians.
Crock Pot Camping Recipes
If you are a lover of using crock pot camping recipes (slow cooker camping recipes), this list is for you!
The Magical Slow Cooker's slow cooker potatoes recipe makes for a hearty side slow cooker camping recipe.
This Crockpot bbq pork recipe is so simple, making it the perfect option for your food for camping list!
Another great idea for your Crock Pot camping recipes is this crock pot chicken recipe from Crock Pots and Flip Flops.
Happy Kitchen has a great-looking vegan chili. Add it to your list if you are searching for vegan camping food.
The Magical Slow Cooker is full of great slow cooker recipes for camping. Check out this adaptable baked beans and hot dogs all-in-one meal!
This slow cooker chicken spinach lasagna may require a few more ingredients than some of the others, but it might be worthy it on a chilly camping night!
Comfort food on the campground? Yes, please! This slow cooker mac and cheese from Crock Pots and Flip Flops would make a hearty side dish or main camping meal.
Try this recipe by Sula and Spice if you are looking for slow cooker vegetarian baked beans as one of your camping foods.
Foil Dinners on the Campfire
Does it really get much better than foil dinners on the campfire? It is such a euphoric feeling when you open those tin foil dinner packets and see that caramelized, smokey goodness on the inside! Some people refer to foil packet recipes campfire style as hobo foil dinners.
How delicious to these foil pack red potatoes look? It makes the perfect camping side dish.
These grilled sweet potatoes in foil make for another great foil pack side dish for camping!
Sweet potatoes are also a character in this bbq chicken hobo dinner by Savory Experiments.
This foil pack sausage and potatoes meal is sure to be hearty enough to carry you through your camping adventures!
If you want to fancy up your campfire foil pack dinner a bit, try out this antipasto foil dinner.
These pork chop foil packets should be part of every camper's camping food list!
Here's another version of sausage and potatoes foil dinners because we can't get enough potatoes and sausage meals!
For another foil packet side dish, try these broccoli foil packs.
These sausage foil packets with corn look so amazing! Add this to your food list for camping.
This chicken pineapple foil packets will bring some zest to your campfire tin foil dinner.
Make garlic chicken potato foil dinners on the campfire!
Grilled Italian Sausage & Veggie Foil Packets - Healthy Dinner Recipe
Another idea for foil dinners on the campfire is this foil packet with sausage and veggies.
Make Kim and Kalee's steak and potato foil packs ahead of time!
The Forked Spoon tempts the taste buds with these cajun shrimp foil packs!
Grilled salmon in foil packets on the campfire might be the meal you want for your next camping trip!
Here is another potato foil pack. This one, from Call Me PMC, yields loaded potatoes grilled or made in the oven.
Stacey from The Soccer Mom Blog offers two ways to prepare her cajun shrimp foil packets - grill or oven.
Easy Camping Desserts
These easy camping desserts will add a sweet touch to follow up your camping dinners.
Surely, you will find these peanut butter cup s'mores a crowd pleaser on your next camping trip!
This dutch oven dessert is one that should make anyone happy.
Monday is Meatloaf has a tangy insta pot dessert for you with this Instant Pot peach crisp!
Another camping dessert recipe with peaches is this one from Fit Meal Ideas. Grill some tasty peaches up and dress them up with a few staple ingredients.
Toss these campfire apple pie packets on the campfire for a delicious campfire dessert!
If you are looking for Keto camping desserts, check these Keto s'mores bites from Keto Focus!
To make s'mores in pan form, try these grilled s'mores nachos from Let's Camp S'more. What fun!
Recipes from a Pantry has a tasty campfire dessert using bananas and a few staple ingredients! This grilled dessert recipe can also be tweaked to use with an air fryer.
I hope you enjoyed this camping food list! These camping food ideas are great for RV camping, tent camping, cabin camping, or whatever your preferred method is! Thanks to all of my blog buddies in the blogosphere who submitted a recipe for the round up!
Do you have any other camper cooking recipes you would suggest for this list?
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