Hi All,We love to camp with another family. Many years we do Thanksgiving in the Woods together. To help make it easy for us to share in the cooking for the rest of the weekend, we usually come up with a few dinner themes. It can be as simple as Mexican or Italian which helps us bring our own recipes that will likely work well together.Wondering what other people do to plan camp cooking with 2 or more families for a weekend. I would love your thoughts and ideas.Thanks.

We would often pass off cooking and one family cook one night, the other would, on the other. And we frequently did "Pot" meals. Chili, Spagetti etc, with you being in Va, Brunswick Stew, is popular and some great local recipes are out there.

I go out with two couples. The women plan the meals weeks in advance and one insists on doing most of the cooking but they work together. I bring bacon or sausages for breakfast and usually desserts for dinner. There is always too much.

We were invited to “Thanksgiving in July” and that’s exactly what it was. 3 families made turkey & all the trimmings & had several Dutch Ovens going. (we were guests- woo hoo )

Typically what happens for us is this. The women can't agree, so they all bring all kinds of food and it winds up being a gluton-fest with all of us contributing to each meal.Midwestern thinking. "I have to bring something since that is the way I was raised".

We usually have 4-6 people on river trips. On a week long trip a different person makes dinner each night. Some people cook twice. The last night is usually the extravaganza where everyone pitches in. For breakfast and lunch we are on our own usually traveling or getting ready to travel. We will have two people make a big breakfast on two lay over days when we do not move camp.

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ppine
Explorer II
Oct 22, 2019
We usually have 4-6 people on river trips. On a week long trip a different person makes dinner each night. Some people cook twice. The last night is usually the extravaganza where everyone pitches in.

For breakfast and lunch we are on our own usually traveling or getting ready to travel. We will have two people make a big breakfast on two lay over days when we do not move camp.
DarkSkySeeker
Explorer
Oct 21, 2019
Typically what happens for us is this. The women can't agree, so they all bring all kinds of food and it winds up being a gluton-fest with all of us contributing to each meal.

Midwestern thinking. "I have to bring something since that is the way I was raised".
hokeypokey
Explorer
Oct 21, 2019
We were invited to “Thanksgiving in July” and that’s exactly what it was. 3 families made turkey & all the trimmings & had several Dutch Ovens going. (we were guests- woo hoo )
romore
Explorer II
Oct 21, 2019
I go out with two couples. The women plan the meals weeks in advance and one insists on doing most of the cooking but they work together. I bring bacon or sausages for breakfast and usually desserts for dinner. There is always too much.
wanderingaimles
Explorer
Oct 21, 2019
We would often pass off cooking and one family cook one night, the other would, on the other. And we frequently did "Pot" meals. Chili, Spagetti etc, with you being in Va, Brunswick Stew, is popular and some great local recipes are out there.

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