If actually traveling and don't plan on stopping at restaurants and stuff, we almost always do sandwiches in the truck when traveling. Lunch meat, sliced tomato, even peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, Little Debbies, chips, keep driving and keep on going.
When we arrive at the campsite, we seldom like to fix elaborate means that first night. So, we've simplified: Pasta Sides, Hotdogs, canned soup, and the left over lunch meat.
There is still no substitute for our first official campout of the new year, or new camping season (Usually in late March or early April). We have a tradition. The first night after arriving we have a celebratory wine and cheese meal, with some kind of luxury crackers (not your run of the mill salteins) . We make it very elegant, use good wine glasses, and get a nice cheese. It's been our tradition or 30 years now.
The first morning of the new camping season, we have another tradition. For breakfast, I fix T-bone steak (2 of them), Eggs, and Hashbrowns. We've done this also for the last 30 years also. No shortcuts, though. I shred the hashbrowns myself.
There are untold numerous ways to prepare simple, non-complicated fast meals for camping... including frozen TV dinners, and don't forget the old standby -- Ramon Noodles!