Best Meals While Boondocking

Steaks and potatoes grilled carrots for color. If you have a couple dogs named soap and water no problem with the dishes.

I do most of our cooking on our Coleman camp grill outside, and most of the time use paper plates.

One favorite meal is, I brown up some kielbasa (I use turkey because beef gets pretty greasy) and red bell pepper and onions, then dump them onto a plate, then use the pan, without cleaning it, and throw in frozen diced potato hashbrowns (not the shredded) and cook those up. I season with steak seasoning since that's my all purpose seasoning I keep in the camper. Then, combine everything together, top with some shredded cheese if you like, and eat! My husband likes to have a couple runny eggs on top too. We do this for breakfast/lunch (we eat breakfast late, like 11am), but it'd be good anytime!

I'm also a big fan of foil packet meals. If you prep ahead and use paper plates, no dishes at all!

Another thing if there's a group, is I buy premarinated meats either from Costco or from the deli counter, and grill those up along with some kind of grilled veggie (zucchini, asparagus, mini sweet peppers, whatever), and then some pre-made, either store bought or homemade, pasta or potato salad. Again, very little dishes.

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We use our pie irons a lot when we camp, but we don't boondock. Use spray to keep the items from sticking. Use the bread of your choice, flatten it out an then add the insides. Top with another piece of flattened bread, and close up, heat over the campfire. The insides we do are: pizza pockets (pizza sauce, cheese pepperoni), manwich sandwiches (make the meat at home and freeze) add cheese, chicken pot pies (using non-condensed or drained creamy chicken soups) and others that I can't think of at this moment. We let the crust of the bread hang over the sides and the heat over the fire.

I also do pizzas on the fire grate. Place a pizza stone on the grate and then we use the Chef Boyardee pizza kits with extra toppings.

We also do lots of soups, frozen bagged meals, and many rotisserie chickens from Sam's, Walmart or other grocery store.

These are easy, quick and not expensive meals.

Oh I forgot, we also do quesadillas a lot. You can prep everything ahead of time, just have to actually build them when you want to eat. We often use rotisserie chicken for the meat.

This on a paper plate.....

We make these in the campfire. You can prepare them at home and freeze them for later consumption:

The ingredients are to prepare one meal. Just multiply to get the total quanity.

1/4# Sirloin cut into 1" cubes
1 potato cut into bite size pieces
3/4 cup sliced carrots
1/4 cup chopped celery
1/4 cup sliced mushrooms
1/4 onion, chopped
1 clove of minced garlic
A dash of salt and pepper.
2 Tbs butter or margarine cut into small pieces

Mix the ingredients together. Place on a sheet of aluminum foil and seal into a tight package. Wrap the package in another layer of aluminum foil. Place into refrigerator for no more than two days, or place in a plastic bag if you're going to freeze it.

If you froze the packets, place them in the refrigerator 24 hours before you cook them so they are thawed. Light a campfire or prepare some charcoal until you have a good bed of coals. Place each foil packet on the coals for 12-15 minutes. Flip and cook another 12-15 minutes. Remove from the fire with tongs, place on a paper plate, unwrap and enjoy camper's stew.

Jim

I can't think of any meals besides spaghetti and boiled vegetables that use much water.

We never use water to cook while boondocking it.

But if the question is about washing after the meal, we usually start out with the "easy" meals like burgers & hot dogs on the briquets, and chips. Paper plates and soda and beer cans. Not much to wash.

2oldman wrote:
I can't think of any meals besides spaghetti and boiled vegetables that use much water.

I took the question to mean more, what meals don't involve a lot of dishes to make? Multiple separate cooking pans, different utensils, etc.