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Best Camping Food Ideas for Kids and Families

The best camping food ideas are quick and easy recipes to make after setting up camp. If you’re wondering what are good meals for camping (especially if you’re camping with kids!), we’ve got you covered with fun outdoor recipe ideas, easy campfire food, and even best make ahead meals for camping!

Best Camping Food Ideas for Kids and Families

BEST CAMPING FOOD IDEAS

People stress out about good camping meals, but you don’t need fancy camping meals to make yummy camp recipes! 

(Remember, almost everything tastes good when you’re fresh of the grid and enjoying nature!)

Instead, try these campfire food recipes, especially when you have hungry little ones to feed!

 
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Easy Camping Meals for Family

Try these best easy camping food ideas:

  • Walking Tacos
  • Dutch Oven Chili
  • Campfire Nachos
  • Grilled Pineapple
  • Campfire Chicken and Vegetable Kabobs
  • Breakfast Burritos
  • Campfire Dessert Cones
  • Spaghetti In a Hotdog Bun
  • Campfire Roasted Hot Dogs
  • Grilled Corn on the Cob
  • Mason Jar Meals
  • Skillet Bread
  • Johnny Cakes (Hoe Cakes)
  • Dutch Oven Mac n Cheese
  • Foil BBQ Chicken and Vegetables Pack
  • Campfire French Toast or Pancakes
  • Dutch Oven Apple Pie
  • S’mores

 

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What is the best food to take camping?

What are good snacks for camping?

  • Peanut Butter (or nut butter substitutes)
  • Dehydrated Foods (just add water)
  • Popcorn
  • Jerky
  • Trail Mix
  • Bars
  • Nuts
  • Eggs
  • Muffins (can be toasted right on the campfire!)
  • Potatoes (foil wrap them and place them in the fire or fry them)
  • Beans
  • Cheese
  • Tortillas
  • Instant Mac and Cheese
  • Ramen
  • Instant Coffee Packs
  • Tea Bags
  • Flavored Drink Packets

 

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BEST CAMPING FOOD IDEAS FOR FAMILY

Try these ideas for easy camping meals for large groups or for small family campfire food!

List of Camping Food Ideas

Check out these fun camping with kids food ideas. Quick and easy camp snacks and camp meals!

Dill Pickle Party Mix

This is a fun twist on the traditional Chex Mix recipe and an alternative to trail mix. Great make ahead recipe for camping food that needs no refrigeration and no cooking!

Easy Egg Salad Recipe

This classic egg salad recipe works as one of your make ahead camping meals great for breakfast, lunch or dinner camp meals. Great to eat alone or even as a tortilla roll up. Be sure to store it in your cooler!

Easy Cherry Crumble

This is a baked dessert, but it's good camping food ideas for making in a dutch oven over the camp fire, too!

Corn Casserole

This corn casserole recipe in the crockpot is easy at home, but you can transition it to a camping recipe side dish and make it in your dutch oven over the fire.

Black Bean and Corn Salad

SUPER EASY no cook camping recipe! Some people like to eat this black bean and corn salad alone, but we like to eat it with tortilla chips or pita chips like a black bean and corn salsa. Great for camping food ideas for vegetarians or camping food that doesn't need refrigeration, too!

Spaghetti In A Hot Dog Bun

Spaghetti in a hot dog bun is an easy pasta recipe kids love and easy to eat during camp. It's easy for camping food ideas for large groups because it's spaghetti and toasted hot dog buns - that's it!

Ham and Cheese Sliders

These ham and cheese sliders recipe are usually baked in the oven. But, again, this is an easy recipe to adapt for easy dutch oven campfire recipes.

Fried Biscuits

Fried biscuits are fun camping recipe (and easy recipe)! You can eat them for breakfast, as a dinner roll, or even shake them in cinnamon sugar as a camping dessert recipe.

Southern Green Beans and Potatoes

Throw these in your dutch oven, put on the campfire and play some games until this green beans and potatoes recipe is done. They are good dinner campfire meals or a side dish.

Fresh Fruit Salad in a Waffle Cone

One of my favorite camping dessert or camping treat. Prepare the fruit salad before and store it in the cooler until ready to spoon it into the waffle cones. Quick and easy recipe or camping snacks for hungry kids!

Strawberry Infused Water

Camping in the summer can be hot! This infused strawberry water is the perfect summer drink for kids and helps your kids get hydrated!

Sweet Sun Tea

Sun tea is fun to make on a camping trip because you add the tea to water and let the sun do the rest. Be sure to read through the notes to understand the possible dangers of sun tea before making this camping drink recipe!

Best Scrambled Eggs Recipe

Scrambled eggs are an easy breakfast (add a tortilla and transform it to a breakfast burrito) or as easy camping food ideas for lunch and dinner.

Homemade Pico de Gallo

This pico de gallo made from scratch is easy to throw together at the last minute or even as a make ahead camping recipe. Great to eat with tortillas, tortilla chips, with sandwich wraps, or even with your eggs as camping food ideas breakfast.

Dirt Pudding

I love this for kids food ideas while camping! Make ahead dirt pudding in pint jars, store them in the cooler, and then add the gummy worms when you arrive. Fun for camping themed food ideas!

Pumpkin Cornbread

Want to kick things up a notch in your campfire dutch oven? Surprise everyone with this sweet but savory cornbread with butter and honey. Great for camping breakfasts or camp dinner sides.

White Bean Chicken Chili

This is another crockpot recipe that can easily be adapted to campfire cooking. If you're wondering what are good meals for camping or one pot meals for camping, this is it!

Sweet Potato Soup

This recipe for crock pot sweet potatoes soup is a family favorite and great makes camping food ideas on a budget (especially cooking for a large crowd)! Throw it in the dutch oven and play a few camping games while it cooks! Tastes great with a side dish of the pumpkin skillet corn bread.

Creamy Campfire Hot Chocolate

Even in the summer, some camping nights can be chilly. Bring along the ingredients to make this homemade hot chocolate that everyone will love.

Snickers Salad with Apples

Need kid friendly camping food ideas or camping food ideas without fire? This make ahead recipe is light, cool, and refreshing! Be sure to keep it in the cooler!

Campfire Smores Recipe

What list of camping food ideas and recipes would be complete without a smore recipe?

 

ALSO CHECK OUT: How To Camp As A Family Guide (Even If You Hate Camping with Kids)

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About The Author

Jacqueline Wilson loves kids activities, crafts for kids, and cooking with books with her daughter Ella - including creating cooking with kids recipes and making real food fun! She is also an educator, mom, wife, homeschool super freak, #1 Bestselling Author, and Parent Busters podcaster.

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